• DaVinci Resolve

  First Avid / RED job using Davinci 8.1.1

  Posted by Andrew Smith on November 21, 2011 at 4:25 am

  Hello friends,

  Just in time for my first Avid job I have updated to 8.1.1 and I want to make sure to tell the editor & assistant exactly how to prep things for me to grade. Short turn around on this so no room for mistakes or hiccups really. I am new to fairly new Resolve but have a FCP / Color background and have a little xml experience with Resolve in test runs but just with FCP7. I have a few questions about this process for avid prep.

  This project is a 15 minute short film, seems to be mostly just cuts, nothing too crazy for gfx / effects as far as i could tell from the snippet i saw.

  – Shooting format: RED MX, 4.5k
  – Frame rate is 24fps

  The avid project is 1080p/23.976, all of the files are mxf files DNXHD175. They plan to prep everything tomorrow and just want to make sure to tell them exactly what they need to do in order for me to properly grade the r3d files and render back out however they want. I am coming from the FCP/Color world so please excuse my greenness here, I just dont know whether to ask them to remove dissolves, speed changes, etc and collapse to a single video track or what. I also always have fcp projects media managed with handles and prep things according to certain guidelines.

  Any info people can provide on workflow to make sure it comes to me correctly prepped and I can deliver back seamlessly.

  Thanks you.

  ps. I am curious on a side note about Resolve workflow in terms of a project that is multiple formats – like in Color you had to make everything the same flavor in a project but in Resolve how does this work?

  Andrew Smith replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Joseph Owens

  November 23, 2011 at 9:51 pm

  [andrew smith] “The avid project is 1080p/23.976, all of the files are mxf files DNXHD175.

  … what they need to do in order for me to properly grade the r3d files and render back out however they want. …

  dont know whether to ask them to remove dissolves, speed changes, etc and collapse to a single video track or what.”

  If the media has been transcoded to DNxHD, then it is no longer a RED/RDC project, its a straightforward MC/AAF/MXF workflow.

  Unless you are reconforming the project back to the RED raw source files which, if you’re starting the project *soon*, sounds ambitious.

  You don’t have to remove dissolves; Resolve will show them to you and actually preview them, (take that! COLOR). Speed changes are a little dicey– more or less same caveats apply as late versions of COLOR. For the most part its the variable speed changes that throw a wrench, and trackers go crazy.
  Resolve 8.0 started supporting multiple video tracks. You can even do some rough compositing between them to, for example, preview and grade green screens and occasionally split infinitives, if you boldly go there.

  jPo

  You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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  Andrew Smith

  November 24, 2011 at 3:31 am

  Hey Joseph

  nice to get a reply from SOMEONE 🙂

  so yes of course what i meant was that they want to conform back to the 4.5 k r3d files…any advice??

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