Happy to report my mac DaVinci Resolve is up and running!!!!

[Darin Wooldridge]

Sorry everyone. I should have added BETA to the post.
So far the beta is working well and test results are very positive. I hope black magic will have a release date soon.
I am not an employee, just an everyday user of davinci products.

Darin Wooldridge
colorist / technical strategist
d.i.colorist@me.com
818-653-3918

[Robbie Carman]

Gotta agree Darin about the system so far. Just got everything installed over here and now starting bang on the system. Tonights test putting scene detection through its paces. So far very satisfied.

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[Mika Joon]

thanks guys

it’s great to hear such encouraging information.

how is it for conforming from edl?, multi layers, resizes,any motion applied, RED media, mixed media, etc

Thanks in Advance

[Robbie Carman]

I pushed pretty hard last night on EDL and scene detection. Both worked very well with EDL being the best option. However I was really really pleased with scene detection. We get a lot of shows that are in FCP as single quicktimes and normally we cut those up and send to Color but just to test it I left as a whole quicktime and did scene detection. The awesome thing about the resolve is that it will give you a graph of sorts showing you were edit points were made and the confidence of that point. You can message the edit points as needed but on a whole it did a very very good job.

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[Ola Haldor voll]

Agree on that. My experience with the Scene page is that it does (black……) magic !

[Joseph Owens]

From 8:8:8 days, scene detector worked reasonably well — it had some “tension” factors that you could modify in case the image content wasn’t a good match for the default thresholds. AS I recall, obviously it couldn’t mark dissolves or FX transitions (obviously). On the defaults, it usually got confused and started scatter-marking if there were certain types of motion in the content — cars driving by, flags snapping, that kind of stuff.

The biggest trouble I ever had with EDL import was that a certain number of times out of ten , with certain customers, the EDL I got was NDF while the tape master was Drop. Gets complicated.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Darin Wooldridge]

Update:

I’m playing 2k dpx 10 bit log frames in an hd time line, 6 nodes of color correction, input lut, 5 windows all playing @ 24fps. Window tracking at 11 fps. Wave is working well. Preconform, edl and scene detector are working as they always have on the current davinci resolve. I have seen several improvements. Render speeds not bad at all . Tested dpx, 444prores, compressed qt, h264, and mxf.

Much more to come.

Feel free to check me out on facebook @ davinci resolve colorist.

Darin Wooldridge
Freelance Colorist
818-653-3918-cell
d.i.colorist@me.com

[Mika Joon]

Hi Darin
Great feedback
Do you know if the wave panel comes with locked or assignable buttons and functions, will there be a wave plug in similar to Color’s plug in to reconfigure and re assign functions.

How does the conform tool deal with speed changes in the footage and also reframing, do such parameters carry across from FC or Avid?

Thanks again for your helpful insights on the software.

[Darin Wooldridge]

So far the panel seems locked to the assigned buttons. I believe the drivers installed with the program.
I selected wave in the preferences tab for control panel and it just worked.

Darin Wooldridge
colorist / technical strategist
d.i.colorist@me.com
818-653-3918

[Robbie Carman]

[Darin Wooldridge] “I’m playing 2k dpx 10 bit log frames in an hd time line, 6 nodes of color correction, input lut, 5 windows all playing @ 24fps. Window tracking at 11 fps”

Similar awesome performance I’m getting here. 1080p24 (23.98) ProRes 4×4 I stopped at 10 nodes (couldn’t think of anything else to do in the clip 🙂 ) couple trackers hasn’t moved off of 23.98 for playback (although like drop for tracking)

This is all with GTX 285 hoping I see and even more awesome boost with the FX4800 I have sitting here

Robbie Carman
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