DaVinci Resolve 8.1 release

[Ola Haldor voll]

It’s not all, but it saves a bit of time for whoever is doing the following part of the job.

[Toby Tomkins]

I never said that’s all you need to create DCP’s…I’ve made over a dozen, some of which features for Arts Alliance Media…but if you are in the business of making them via software you’d realise how attractive cuda-accellerated encoding of j2k image sequences would be!

So people are sticking with 10.6.7 for 8.1?

[Toby Tomkins]

I can’t find details about OS in the configuration guide, where is it Joseph?

[Omar Godinez]

No problems here with 10.7.1.

Omar Godinez
Colour Cafe, LLC
Dallas, TX

MacPro5,1 2.93GHz 12-Cores
24GB RAM
GTX-470 (x2)
FSI LM-2461W
BMD UltraScope

[Ola Haldor voll]

I’m on 10.7.1 at the moment. Will update to 10.7.2 Monday morning.

[Jacob Fenn]

A formal note of gratitude to our busy friends at Black Magic:

Thank you very much for implementing an impressive list of features we’ve been specifically requesting and for responding so quickly! I’m very excited about the future of Resolve if the appropriateness and efficiency of its updates continues this trend.

I recently downloaded the 8.1 upgrade and am already benefiting from more than one of the improvements.

Thank you!

[Jacob Fenn]

Now, after the accolades…

I still see a very small black band of several pixels around my image scaled in Resolve. This band appeared in FCP after round-tripping and having FCP scale 720p material 150% on previous versions of Resolve. In 8.1, when “use sizing info from XML'” is checked from the COLOR thumbnail, the rendered file persists with this black border of several pixels. Again, this is 720p material scaled up to 1080p in Resolve and rendered out with the sizing info from the XML applied.

Any advice?

Thanks again!

[Ola Haldor voll]

Go to the Format page. Under Output, set Source Blanking to OFF. That does the trick on my end.

[Jacob Fenn]

You are a wise man. So that did eliminate the border, but it almost looks like it’s mirroring pixels or something. See the bordering in the attached image?

The pictures show the FCP 150% scale on a corner of the image in the canvas at 400% and the Resolve scale and render with no grade applied. Resolves scale does appear superior (or at least sharper) as claimed, but what is this bordering the result of?

[Guillem Ventura]

Is there any bug to know?
I’m in the middle of grading a feature and wouldn’t really fancy seeing it gets corrupted or something…
Although I’m really missing some of the new features!!
Everyone updated yet? No problems.
Anyway:
¡Thanks BM team!

-Guillem @ Blur Producciones, Madrid.