Dissolving between grades

[Michael Stirling]

not sure this is what you mean but i had a situation where i had to constantly dissolve between to grading states on multiple nodes.

just save 2 different stills of the 2 grading states you can then paste them onto keyframes which you can create globally across all parameters by pressing alt M for a dissolving and mac M for a jump to the new state.

a word of warning the 2 states must have the same number of nodes (in the same order) or it won’t work

M

[Adrian Brindle]

I tried this and it works well for simple grades, but for more complex grades (different shapes etc) it falls down. The system is able to dissolves between two grades on the timeline when and EDL tells it to but splitting a shot in the conform and manually adding a dissolve doesn’t seem possible. Sure I can add edits into the master session but that’s not the same as modifying a conform from edl.

[Michael Stirling]

you can pull the edge of the clip in normal edit in the conform to leave a gap
bring in in another copy of the media from the media pool in the conform page into the gap (making sure the yellow edit line is on the left side of the gap) so not ruin your conform further down the line.
use slip it to the right point with the help of the TC in conform EDL
then use normal edit to create a dissolve between the 2 parts of the clip.

Which is a bit of effort for what could just be a cut and drag end of clip but it works. Let’s hope for more edit control in v8

Mike

[Adrian Brindle]

Thanks – don’t know why it’s so difficult though. I can see some edit tools onscreen in an online video of V8 so lets hope it solves this problem

[Aurie Anden]

I understand your sentiments. It gets hellish especially when I get, for example, a minute long, one-shot kind of scene.

In the Film Master, dissolves were done in such a way that every time you make a dynamic, the system manually splits the clip into two. Much easier and cleaner way of doing things.

Resolve feature request?

cheers. 🙂