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Monitoring RED in Davinci
Hi Guys,
When I try to take a look at the footage in 4K in my monitor (Sony BVM-L2300) I only got a tinny bit of the image, it gets zoomed in even though i tell davinci to output the image as 1080p.
the problem is if i would like to grade with the whole 4k image i can only see a bit of the image on my grading monitor, the same happens if i say it is only 2k.
But if i work with 1080p (timeline) i have the whole image, but of course not 4k anymore. Im not saying i want to grade everything at 4K but im having a feature film soon shot in 4K that will be delivered to cinemas and i need to grade at least in 2K but the image is still croped in.Does anyone have an idea why this happens?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Sebastian -
6 Replies
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You can set the timeline to 4K in the config page and that should give you all 4 of the Ks, then go to the format tab and change the output to 1920×1080 and it will scale it to fit into the monitoring. You’ll have to change output back to 2K or 4K before rendering.
I’d be curious to know your specs and performance though, as the 4K Decklink is on its way, it would be good to know where the other bottlenecks might be…
KC
prehistoricdigital.com
hardworkingpixels.com -
Hi Kevin,
That’s exactly what I did but it never fitted into monitoring. I have Macbook Two 2.93Ghz 6-Core Intel Xeon, Blackmagic ExtremeHD3+, ATTI Radeon 5770, Nvidia Quadro. so from the specs of my maschine it works ok with 4K and so on, but it just wont fit 4K into 1080p for being able to grade in 4K but see the output in 1080p monitor.
Its a bit strange.
Any other idea or solution maybe?thanks
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You have to set to 1080p in both the video monitoring section of the config tab>project tab as well as the timeline-specific format tab>output tab>output format section…
That works over here at least.
KC
prehistoricdigital.com
hardworkingpixels.com -
Yeah, what Kevin said. Basically do your work in a 1080p timeline. Then when you’re done, copy the project, and change the timeline settings to 4K and render everything out. (DaVinci will automatically adjust and scale all your power windows and PTZR adjustments to match).
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
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Ok, so actually the same thing i was doing so far.
Btw. Chris I love your blog and videos on grading… 🙂keep bringing them 😉
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How fast are your renders on that Macpro for the RED footage?
OT. Yup i love your color grading instructionals Chris
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