Forty tutorials gave you forty starting points. Five days to build one process.

No, Studio is not required to take this course and learn from it. Some demonstrations use Studio-only tools, and for those you either watch rather than work along, or work with a watermark on screen. Learning by doing is better than watching, so that is a real cost, and it is not a complete blocker. No homework depends on a Studio feature, and nothing you are taught to do needs plugins or add-ons.

Where a demonstration uses a Studio-only tool it is framed as exactly that: here is what Studio buys you. The method you are taught always stands on its own without it, and it is taught that way on purpose, not adapted afterwards.

And separately: no plugins, no add-ons. Third party tools are shown as alternatives, never as requirements.

Then think carefully before buying. The live room is the product: the questions, the answers, the demos steered by what people ask on the day. Every participant gets a private recording of their own cohort, and it is theirs to keep, so a missed session is not lost. But a course you only ever watch back is a worse version of this course, and there is a lot of excellent free material if watching is what you want.

You get the recording of your own cohort, and the Discord community runs the whole time, so you can ask there what you missed. The days are a week apart, so there is time to catch up before the next one. The one thing that does not wait is the re-grade deadline, Wed Dec 9, 2026, 11:59 PM PST.

You should be able to find your way around DaVinci Resolve: import media, cut a timeline, move between pages. Color grading itself is taught from zero. This course assumes you have started learning grading and got stuck, not that you already grade well.

Four hours live, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM PST, one day a week for five weeks. On Grade and Mentor there are two pieces of homework on the same scene: the cold grade before the course, due Fri Nov 13, 2026, 11:59 PM PST, and the re-grade between Day 4 and Wed Dec 9, 2026, 11:59 PM PST. Both are meant to be done quickly rather than perfected. Nothing else is set between sessions.

One hour, one-on-one, with Kaur, on the Mentor seat. Use it any time after Day 5 and up to Sun Jun 13, 2027. You choose what it covers: your re-grade, your own work later on, or anything else in your grading. Book it by emailing Kaur.

Yes, on all three seats, on identical terms. The certificate is earned rather than issued for turning up.

It is 60 multiple choice questions, 60 minutes, open book and open software, and you need 85% to pass. You get three attempts, at least 24 hours apart, any time within a month of the course ending. Everything on it is taught during the course. After a failed attempt you are told which questions you got wrong, and not the right answers, so the retake still means something.

It is modelled on Blackmagic's own certification exams deliberately, so the bar is one the industry already recognizes. If you do not pass, you keep everything else: the recording, the Discord, and your handouts.

You keep the recording of your own cohort and your handouts. The Discord stays open, and it is meant to be a place people stay rather than a support channel that closes. Mentor students can book their hour any time up to Sun Jun 13, 2027. Everyone can earn a certificate from PixelTools Academy by passing the exam.

Discord is a free chat app. It is where the class lives between sessions, in the hours when the session is over and you are actually grading. You do not have to post, and plenty of people will read rather than write, but it is a designed part of the course rather than a bonus, and it is the main thing happening between one session and the next. It is on Discord rather than inside the course platform because that is where people already are and where they stay once the course is over.

You can cancel for a full refund up to Sun Nov 8, 2026, 11:59 PM PST, which is seven days before we begin and the same moment enrollment closes. You do not have to give a reason. After that the seat is no longer refundable, because the course plan is fixed when enrollment closes. Missing a session is not a refund case. Every participant gets a private recording of their own cohort and it is yours to keep, which is the answer to a clash you cannot move, though watching it back is not the same as being in the room. If the hours do not work for you at all, decide that before 8 November rather than after.

Sessions are recorded and shared with your cohort, and student work may be shown and discussed in class. You agree to that in writing when you enroll, and it is how the Day 1 patterns block and the Day 5 review work at all.

Day 1's look at the cold grades is aggregate and anonymous. Nobody is named. Day 5's re-grade review takes two or three volunteers, from an opt in when you upload. Kaur picks them before Day 5, and volunteering means your cold grade goes up next to your re-grade.

The footage itself stays private: you keep it for practice, but you may not publish it, post it, or put your graded version in a public reel. That is a written condition of receiving it.

Prices are in US dollars only. There is no euro price. Your bank converts at checkout, and Shopify shows you an approximate amount in your own currency before you pay.

You may be able to pay in installments. Go through to checkout and choose Shop Pay. If installments are available where you are, they appear there.

On Zoom. The link comes to you by email. Webcam and microphone are welcome but not required, and questions go in the Zoom chat, where Kaur answers them live.