One example is that if you take a still with an extreme cast, it is often much easier to white balance out the cast within Lightroom than in resolve. One can try to use the channel mixer to acheive this, but my experience is that using the channel mixer via the GUI rather than the Davinci Panels is very clumsy and adjustments are much too coarse. When a shot has a significant hue cast for example a green cast do to overuse of ND filtration on an Alexa, it can be very difficult to accurately balance white using the traditional RGB Gain controls. Typical adjustment for white balance is often different than simply adjusting the RGB balance on Gain, as most colorists would do to manually white balance. It is not always better to do this by hand. White balance using a color picker is not a trivial feature. It would be really a shame if it would be faster and more efficient to log all my footage in FCP-X and do a white balance first before going into Resolve as opposed to doing all in Resolve. Or am I overlooking it? The auto color is not the same thing by the way. But here we are a full year later and with a new version of Davinci and it seems it is still not there. I remember this being requested here and also over at the Blackmagic forums by several people last year and remember Peter Chamberlain saying it would be added to the list. FCP-X and Media Composer have it and they are not even dedicated color correction tools.
But if you get something, corporate, documentary or whatever, shot with 4 different cameras at the same time and not properly white balanced, with a limited budget, auto white balance would go a long way in saving you time.
You probably wont use auto white balance in a Feature. I know you should manually white balance and should know how to do it.
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