• DaVinci Resolve

  How do you use dirt mattes?

  Posted by Henry Borchers on January 11, 2011 at 3:05 pm

  I’m working with DaVinci Revival pro 5.5.1 and I cannot figure out how to use saved dirt matts. I figured how to save and load matts but I can’t seem to make use of them. The manual doesn’t seem to tell me how to use them other than save and load them.

  Henry Borchers replied 15 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Gary Adams

  January 11, 2011 at 6:14 pm

  Hello Henry. Sorry for some missing information in the manual. As you know, once any automatic dirt pass has completed, the dirt matte may be toggled on to visually see where each repair was made, allowing the user to undo any unwanted fixes or artifacts. You may save this matte with the clip using the clip menu, but as you have noticed, saving with the clip doesn’t provide any use once the clip has been committed. To make further use of the dirt matte, save the matte with the menu as you have found. After the current clip has been comitted, the new “rst” version may load the previously saved matte. Matte files are saved by default in the “data” directory. Now to make use of the dirt matte in the rst (or any subesquent version of the clip), you must associate the original or “dirty” version of the clip using the F2 Assign Original. This effectively links the current “clean” version with the original “dirty” version. You may then continue selectively undoing any unwanted fixes.

  Regards, Gary Adams
  Revival Product Manager

  Gary Adams
  DaVinci Revival Product Manager
  Blackmagic Design
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  Henry Borchers

  January 11, 2011 at 7:29 pm

  hey, that’s really neat!
  You know. you have a really great product but you really should revise the manual. The company I’m working for bought your product for me to test during my internship there. Once I get my head around it, it’s actually a very easy to use. However, I’m having to rewrite the manual for my coworkers to understand. I have to give them step by step instructions to walk them through it.
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  Gary Adams

  January 11, 2011 at 8:07 pm

  Thank you for your interest Henry. The manual is a bit old and needs some attention. If you wish to send me your email, I’ll send you some further information.

  Regards, Gary

  garya at Blackmagic…

  Gary Adams
  DaVinci Revival Product Manager
  Blackmagic Design
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  Henry Borchers

  January 11, 2011 at 8:09 pm

  that’s be helpful! you can contact me at henry@supersens.nl

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