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Various speed-bumps
I’ve been making a laundry list over the last few weeks, wanted to see if anybody has solutions to these (admittedly minor) issues:
1. I usually have “switching clips selects last adjusted node” enabled but inevitably I finish a clip on a power window node. Then when I play back through the scene, it hits that clip and the power window overlay pops up on the client monitor, jarring everybody. Even if you switch the overlay off, it will pop back up the next time you play into that clip. Is there a way to toggle the powerwindow overlay so it won’t come back on when you play into a clip? Or do i have to make sure I never leave a PW node selected or make “switching clips selects first node” and be sure that a power window is never first?
2. I’ve been taking RED 4.5 4480×1920 material and scaling down to a 2048 width. Even at full res premium it creates a fuzzy black border about 2 pixels wide at frame edges. I haven’t noticed in on scaled RED media where the scaling math is more round (like 4096 to 2048). Anybody else seeing this?
3. I have 3G monitoring selected in the config tab and when I switch between timelines or projects, the decklink stops outputting video. I have to enter the OSX system preferences > Blackmagic Decklink and disable, then re-enable 3G and the video returns. Thoughts?
4. I’ll second the feature request a few threads down, it would be great if many of the values being adjusted could be displayed with more precision – especially on zoom, tilt/pan, it would be great to see the values to the hundredths, and fantastic if you could actually type a value in… funny that it looks like on the color page zoom is to the thousandths rotate is to the hundreths, but in the the format page both are to the tenths.
5. I can’t get the Slate to appear on the SDI out… only on the GUI. It would be helpful for review sessions where clients are making notes. Is that just how it works?
6. Is there a way to force a clip in the browser (that isn’t in a timeline) to play back over the SDI? So if the client says “did we have another version of that VFX shot?” I can play it back on their monitor? Or do I have to add it to the project and find it in the master session? Same thing for checking a clip on the scopes that I don’t want to bring into the project (like an export).
7. Is there really no keyboard shortcut for “disable current node”? It’s painfully slow to get to this on the wave, I have to think that Blackmagic has been so accommodating with the wave panel, multiple GPU on the Mac, PCI expansion etc, that having no “disable current node” shortcut is some kind of punishment for getting so much else…
Cheers,
KC
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kevin in regards to point #7 you can map ‘disable current node’ to a keyboard short cut via OS X.
system preferences-keyboard.j
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sorry if i cannot help but i would like to second your requests :
N4: more precise values + i would like to have the possibility to add value manually with a popup numerical pad (let say add 10 point of saturation etc…so you type 10 (instead of sliding the slider or using the panel knob …)
N6: i feel i really need to playback over the SDI of any random clip without add it to the master session and scrolling through it to find that clip … even for watching the offline out of the SDI .. or any random clip … I think an idea to solve this might be the ability to create mini timeline from a subfolder on the media pool …so create a subfolder , import the shot in it , and than create a default timeline of that ….
make sense?g
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Ah thanks, guess I never noticed it was a menu item…
KC
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Kevin can you, please, explain how to map “disable current node” to keyboard?
In menu under Nodes I have Enable/Disable Current but no shortcut assigned to that -
The Mac OS allows you to edit the keyboard shortcuts for menu bar items in a specific program – go to system preferences > keyboard > keyboard shortcuts and click “Application Shortcuts.” Then you can add shortcuts by pressing the +, selecting Davinci Resolve, and typing in the EXACT name of the menu item, like “Six Vector – Red” or “Enable/Disable Current.”
Works great for the Logitech g13…
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Thank you Kevin! I haven’t got a clue that you can do that :/
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