Attention resolve 8 beta users.

[Danny Scotting]

Having fun with 8 so far and I’d also love to know if anyone is doing any Alpha work……..

I just received a Pro Res 4444 with an Alpha channel but as yet can’t find a way to view it as a separate element, is this possible? Or do I need a Matte supplied as well??

Also has anyone had any issues with playing back 25PsF MXF files? Mine plays for a bit then the dreaded spinning wheel of death hangs my system!

Cheers

Danny

[Sascha Haber]

Love the stabilizer ! Love the whole effortless XML import , playing with denoise and trying to make sense of the new balance grader .
Runs very stable , havnt patched my Decklink yet though.
Wonder if we will see new Wave mapped controls too, adjusting noise threshold with the pen is very difficult .

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[Margus Voll]

XML stuff just rocks.

I really like it.

Overall all seems more powerful and stable than ever.

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[Thibault Carterot]

Hi,

Do you know where we can download the beta version ?

thanks

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[Gabriele Turchi]

V8 i quantum leap ,

Hue curve make things way faster
XML already can rebuilt very complex timeline
RGB Mixer is super cool (still learning it )

Curves and Red Settings mapped on the Davinci panel are a Bless

ps:i am wondering too about 4444 and alpha (i guess only tiff are supported?)

Thanks DAVINCI team for listening

[Michael Stirling]

A good question thibault- I sometimes feel like the only person here not testing v8 beta

[David Austin]

Yeah, is it poss to download the beta? Or does anybody have an idea of release time?

[Vladimir Kucherov]

The channel mixer is awesome for black and white! And everyone coming off of color will really like their curves back. I’ve also made some nice grain in after effects on grey – bring that into Resolve in Overlay mode, and I can pretty much control the intensity by applying contrast to the layer. It’s great fun!

Sascha, how are your experiences with the de-noiser? So far I still take things back to NeatVideo for serious denoising work.

[Robbie Carman]

I’ve successfully used V8 on 14 jobs in the past month with only a few minor hiccups that have been addressed in each beta build.

The Highlights for me are.

Denoiser – takes a little finessing but is awesome. One way I’ve been using it too is as a quick skin softener. Simply put a window around someone and crank up the denoiser. Vs. qualifying and then blurring often works quicker

Stabilizer – one word – awesome!

Curves – Lum vs Sat is awesome for desaturating highlights or shadows, Hue vs Sat great for things like tweaking saturation of grass, water, skies. I’m on the big panel and I also appreciate that the new curves are available direct from the panel.

RGBl Mixer- As Vladimir said awesome for black and white looks. I’m still trying to figure it out a bit for color looks.

3D Auto Align – we’ve started to do more and more 3D projects and this feature is simply amazing. Click it it take a second and the images are aligned. Super quick.

Conform and XML – to be honest I’ve kind of forgotten about the Browse Page! With XML it can automatically add that media after you find the first clip and setup your project for you. One cool thing I’ve discovered is you don’t even have to go to the folder with the shot, you can literally just pick the drive and while it will take a while to parse it does find everything. XML out works like a charm too. The edit functions in the Conform page are also pretty awesome for reediting a section making cuts etc.

The FCP presets in the render page in FCP compatibility option are also nice add ons

The only thing (probably obvious to most) that took me a second to figure out is on multi – layer sessions you have to use unmix to see all the layers and grade them.

Peter, Rohit and the team have done an amazing job with this. It also amazes me in Beta everything has been so stable and actually works as advertised!

Robbie Carman
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[David Austin]

So can I have it too if it works?