How to color correct bad florescent lighting in davinci resolve - easily?

I don't know.

But I need to figure it out today, and since I will need to do it again from time to time,  gonna record it here.  Or maybe someone here knows the solution.

All I know is that davinci resolve colour correction is way over powered for my skill set.  In other programs,  I put what they call an overlay and then fuss with the strength of it.  But I cannot find this option so, there has to be a way that is foolproof enough for me to figure out.

So let's go on this learning journey together.

Maybe?

this is what I'm starting with.

It's supposed to be white yarn.  I couldn't control the lighting at that location, so I did the best I could.

I suspect a better choice would have been to alter the settings on the camera as it usually has a setting for poor light.  Or to shoot in auto.  But I don't like post production in auto because it can shift quite a lot in the same shot and I hesitate to change the light settings in the camera because I forget to change them back and right now they are perfect for most of my filming.

but also, it's too late now so I need to work with what I've got.

I did what the video suggested and got this.

If I pull it over too much, the cast is really blue, so I think I'll leave it here and do the regular contrast and saturation fix.  

This fix was both easier and harder than I expected.  My computer is designed for editing but colour grading pushes the limits a lot and I really should have shut down all the programs and done a restart so that Davinci could have more 'thinking power' to work with.  There tends to be quite a bad lag in colour correcting so it's easy to over do it.  

But it was a lot easier than any other tutorial I found (most of which are half an hour long and require a good understanding of the hour-long intro video)

Here's the final video I was working on.



I'm so glad I learned how to colour correct for lighting.  It turned out just how I wanted.