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Moving from Lustre to Davinci
I’ve used Lustre for more than 6 years, and 2 years Davinci 2K experiences before that.
Now I’m thinking about moving to Davinci Resolve as Lustre is going to be discontinued sooner or later.
Frankly speaking, I love Lustre, with it’s unique log mode grading control, it’s more film optimized.
Anyone got the same experience, I need advice from you. What’s the fastest way to enter the Resolve world? Anything I should be more care about?Btw, could anyone tell me how to do a simple one point tracking in resolve? I always fail in interactive mode in the tracker.
Thanks to anyone would like to give advice.
Mark
Senior VFX supervisor/DI supervisor/DI Colorist
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13 Replies
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Hi Mark
I am curious. What makes you think about Lustre Being Discontinued?
Regards
Bruno Munger
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Hi, Munger.
Sooner or later means 1day or 1 century, isn’t it?
Anyway, as the new lustre is integrated into flame package, I’m really concerned about it.Regards
Mark
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Hi, experience from the numbers of colorists moving to Resolve indicates a fast learning curve. “The DaVinci Resolve UI is clean and uncluttered.” “The pictorial nature of the UI makes it very easy to see where you are on every clip and every node in a quick glance.” “Its like having version 10 of the application without the bloat.” These are not my words, but those who have made switch.
Give yourself a couple of client free days, then easy into the first job. I’m pretty sure that within a week you will feel comfortable, even if you have never used a DaVinci grader before.
As for the auto tracker, try making the window smaller and then in interactive mode remove the computer selected marks to leave just the ones you want.
Peter
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[Peterson Mark] “Lustre, with it’s unique log mode grading control”
Is this still unique? I thought all grading software – Resolve, Baselight, IQ, Scratch, heck, even Color – can work in ‘log mode’.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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Baselight? Maybe
Resolve, IQ? How?
Scratch? Color? R u kidding me?
What I mean “log mode” here, is not just processing in log space, but the trackballs manipulate color in a more log/film style. If you know lustre, you know what I mean.
mark
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I’m interested.. What does that mean? Manipulating color in log style?
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Does the using style matter so much ?
It is more important what comes out from your session not how you do it ?
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Margus
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No, he’s talking about the matrix transforms that are happening in the background — not the apparent previews (how the image manipulation is presented to the colorist) that are log/lin conversions. Most operators are not aware of how complex the math actually is.
As regretful as the log/film working environment would be to lose, the barbarians have not only arrived at the gates, they are in the city. When I see posts by photographer/filmmakers posting that they would like to hear other experiences by people who have been able to make their 13″ Macbooks run COLOR so that they could work in “fullhd hdslr”, it makes me groan with despair.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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Baselight, FilmMaster and. yes, Lustre can all work with log controls. What is confusing everyone is the name of the controls. FilmMaster calls this control Brightness/Contrast, which is the more descriptive name anyway. Lack of this control is one of the reasons I’m staying away from Resolve myself. So, no, Lustre is hardly unique in this ability.
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“Unique” means not typical, not “The One and Only”.
Before lustre, there was Lift/Gamma/Gain, curves and other control methods, but nothing like this contrast/brightness thing.
Anyway, industry always going on. LIft gamma gain thing is not bad for digital camera material.My thread is looking for colorists who had similar experience transfer from lustre to davinci resolve, as for some reason I need to make this switching done in really short period, and hopefully maintain the quality I can provide to the client.(for both speed and creativity)
Anyone could help with small tricks or thing to be really care about during this transition, is really appreciated.Mark
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