Quicktime rendering

[Glenn Sakatch]

are your settings set to Auto in Resolve? Try setting it to Video.

Glenn

[Ruben Contreras]

Hi Glenn,

Were do i set this and what is the difference? One thing i noticed is that when i bring back my clips from Resolve to Premier and i check the info per clip, it is labeled as Type: Video and no longer Type: MOV Is this normal?

[Glenn Sakatch]

In your delivery tab, you should see a setting for Video Data Level

Auto/Video/Data.

Leaving this in auto might not give you proper results, and I’m not sure Premiere is the best a color management, so between the two, you might be getting elevated or crushed levels, depending on the situation.

Glenn

[Ruben Contreras]

I got it to work, apparently it needs to be set to Data 4-1019 and not Auto. Video didn’t work either. Can someone shine some light as to why it needs to be set on this setting and not auto or video? Differences?

[Sascha Haber]

Well, i suggest you go and buy a book about the wonderful world of video.
For example :
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Compositing-In-Depth-Production/dp/1576104311
Or as good as
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321929667/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425581617&sr=1-1&keywords=Hurkman

The thing is, there is no right or wrong, no this or that.
Some people need video level, some need data, some deliver video and want data or the other way round.
You need to be able to spot the difference, trust your system and even more, your instincts.
Like when you get stuff from “camera people” or AVID people its 80% video level..
But then ? Does it go broadcast, or film, or web ?

Seriously, buy those , spend some time with them, and it will get clear.
For now, never trust Quicktime

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[Joseph Owens]

[Ruben Contreras] “Can someone shine some light as to why it needs to be set on this setting and not auto or video? Differences?”

Its a scaling issue. 444 in either ProRes or DnXHD appear to get ambiguously decoded by Quicktime or whatever profiling engine is in play in the NLEs — which can’t pick whether its RGB or Y’CbCr, or whether the video range is set to the graphic profile of (essentially) 0-1023 (which Resolve correctly calls 4-1019) or 64-940, which is Rec709 HD “Linear Video”… the broadcast standard of 0-100 IRE which allows for over- and under-shoots in the video waveform. That is, so you can have -20 and +120 without clipping the original.

jPo

“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.

[Ruben Contreras]

Thanks Joseph for the detailed explanation.

[Bill Ravens]

What absolutely astonishes me is that after decades of ambiguity around levels, this kind of problem persists.