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First time doing Movie !!!
I am a TV commercial colorist living in TV world for last 10 years.
Finally I made my dream come true. Step into Movie world !!!
Unfortunately in my post house no one ever work for feature film before
Here is plan for this coming work. Please correct me….if I am doing anything wrong.Edit is done in other place.
I will have 4k scanned DPX.
Flame artist will do some effect.
After flame, I will be color grading it with Davinci Resolve with HD Monitor(REC709).
After grading, I will apply rgb2xyz(from Resolve) for DPX output.
I will send this LUT applied DPX to other place for DCP.Here are questions.
1. In TV commercial, we do color correction first then do flame. Should I do DI first or Flame? (which one is better?)
2. Can Resolve have 2k output?
3. If it is really really necessary I can buy Dolby monitor but I prefer not to for now, Should I buy one?
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Hi,
you can grade in rec709. should be fine.probably you dont need to convert to XYZ in final.
most of the time DPX rec709 sequence is fine to make film out and DCPs.
but this is with you and the final lab.resolve outputs 2k and 4k. in mov files or dpx, or whatever…
you can have your 4k material in a full HD sequence, and grade it,
in the end you can put your sequence in 2kI graded some movies in a rec709 hd monitor and its fine.
remember that for DCP, the gamma should be 2.6 instead 2.2 of regular rec709.
and it makes a lot of diference in dark areas.
well, in cinetal I did that way…have fun!
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Thank you. I will stay with REC 709 then….
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Just a basic tip… don’t expect to handle the entire project in one timeline, and you should probably split the project into logical “reels” of somewhere around 20 minutes each. This is economical for the DaVinci browser, and is practical in terms of a 2,000 foot mag of 35mm, in case this is destined for a filmout.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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Thanks for tip, I will have 7 or 8 timelines for the project.
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[TaeJeong Kim] ” I will have 7 or 8 timelines for the project.”
I haven’t definitively decided yet whether some of the issues I have been seeing with “Running out of Memory” and flop-crashes to the desktop are project-size related or “something else”, but definitely smaller seems to be better. So my advice actually is to create several separate projects (especially since this is your first adventure with an overall project of this size) so that you aren’t having to cope with ALL of your media loaded at the same time, every time.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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I have done quite a few long form projects with 5 timelines and hadnt had problems.
I like to quickly show clients different parts of the movie if they want to see anything particular…You just have to have only the media that youll need in the browser. I would use a folder for each timeline.
Don’t use a clip from different folders otherwise youll get those crashes pretty soon!I would grade in Rec709 Gamma 2.4 (its standard, not 2.2!!) because you can calibrate that with your current monitor.
The XYZ conversion does usually the house that makes the DCP just tell them your Settings (Rec709, 2.4 Gamma, RGB colorspace) so they will do the correct conversion to DCI P3 XYZ colorspace and Gamma 2.6.lee
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Thanks for the help.
Feel much safer now
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