Color Management DaVinci Resolve

In DaVinci Resolve there are 2 color management menus to pay attention to.

Preferences→General

Here you can choose to enable/disable Use Mac display color profiles for viewers (on Mac) and Use Windows display color management and HDR for viewers (on Windows) which equivalent to switching your monitor's ICC Profile on or off.

Enabling it means Resolve will do the necessary conversions to ensure the image displayed in Resolve’s viewer adapts to the characteristics and color space of your monitor.

This option not always yields the expected results and the conversion might not be accurate. We encourage you to run some tests and see if the images displayed in Resolve looks closer or not to what you see on other devices like smartphones, tablets and TVs with this option enabled. Based on that you can opt to keep it on or off.

Then make sure to match this same setting inside CineDream.

In Preferences/Color, make sure ICC Profile is checked if you chose to keep Display Color Management enabled in Resolve, and unchecked if you chose to keep Display Color Management disabled.

The second menu to look at is Project Settings/Color Management

Here make sure Color Science is set to DaVinci YRGB, this means you’ll be using a non-color managed workflow. This is important because all your color management will happen inside CineDream and we don’t want two different color managements, Resolve and CineDream to collide.

Then for timeline and output color space choose Rec709, gamma 2.4 for broadcast, 2.2 for web or rec709 A (gamma 1.96) for quicktime, depending on your intended delivery.

Back to CineDream, Preferences/Color menu, set the gamma accordingly.

With the color management settings matched between CineDream and Adobe Premiere Pro you can expect a 1:1 match.