Suggestion for Resolve: Opinions “Tiffen filters”

[Robert Houllahan]

I thing Resolve needs a plugin architecture like OpenFX.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
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[Robbie Carman]

would be cool but as robert points out there needs to be a plugin architecture first. That way I could use Lightspace ! Fingers crossed

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[Joseph Owens]

Good luck with these requests — unless they can be implemented in “real time”, I don’t think you will see them.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Robbie Carman]

agreed thats the issue

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[Margus Voll]

I think filter can be added later after grading ?

Specially when we keep rendering speed in mind.

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[Joseph Owens]

[Margus Voll] “I think filter can be added later after grading ?”

So what would be the point of grading? Unless its a ProMist or other specular type of filter, most cinematographers talk about adding “straw” or “coral” or similar vocabulary as part of the tint/value conversation. What the original request would be for would be a click to drop an 85 or an 80B or a Wratten #11 on top of the shot and hope it has the same effect as screwing it into a lens or dropping it into a matte box.

The reality is that these are optical devices and that’s not how color correction works in an electronic environment.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Christopher Adams]

It is true that there is a ton of real world interaction with filters. Though I still think that having a plug-in architecture for davinci that would let us us industry standard filters and plugins would be useful. It would also better compete with things like smoke and such. It may not be perfect to just say put a certian filter on but it would let us talk in terms a DP would find useful to get us a starting point. Then we can grade it without the filter or in combinaiton with it.

Just my .02
CJ

[Joseph Owens]

Smile

[Christopher Adams] “it would let us talk in terms a DP would find useful to get us a starting point.”

But you and I as professional colorists already know what these look like and can achieve them in about three strokes, which is about all the time that we had to fix filter excursions while transferring our first million feet of dailies.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Christopher Adams]

Ok maybe the filters were a bad example. But I do see a useful need for a Plug-in system in resolve. Once that can use some of the higher end plugins from say the foundry etc. Or some such.
I’d love to get some things like rolling shutter fixes or other image processing add ons.
It would let resolve be a more well rounded app. Obviously if you need more then that something like Smoke might be a better choice. Just saying..

CJ Adams

[Joseph Owens]

So the application draws nearer to being an All-in-One compositing, grading, finishing tool and then it would be Smoke and that is a different haircut as they say.

Some workflows are predicated on achieving certain kinds of results at certain stages, subject to revision at any future point in time. Too much ‘put-together’ at a critical process usually eliminates future options and usually forces a complete re-do if there are too many variables, ie., there’s too much “glow” in that shot… but its rendered in.
Regrade it if its part of the color correction process… maybe the plugin/filter isn’t available to you as a tweak at that stage.

This is fine for self-contained projects where there might only be one opinion in the room. Recipe for disaster under other circumstances where there are control/decision issues.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?