Fixing White Balance With Offset and Gamma in DaVinci Resolve - Gamut
When you’re grading professionally in DaVinci Resolve, white balance isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s about precision and consistency across your footage. While basic sliders like temperature and tint are a good starting point, Resolve’s Offset and Gamma wheels unlock a deeper level of control, especially when working in wide gamut color spaces or matching multiple cameras. Here’s how to technically approach white balancing using these color wheels inside Resolve. DaVinci Resolve offers several sets of color wheels—Lift, Gamma, Gain, and Offset—each targeting a different portion of the image’s luminance range. Here, we’re focusing on two: These controls become especially powerful in a node-based workflow when used before any conversion LUT or Color Space Transform (CST), allowing you to neutralize the image in its log state. Offset is best used for primary white balance corrections, particularly in log footage before any LUT or CST is applied. Because it moves all channels equally acro