Transfer/Blend Modes as a Resolve Feature

[Christopher Tay]

Like…everybody 🙂

I’ve been asking for it…don’t stop asking that’s all I can say 🙂

-chrispy

[Blase Theodore]

This brings up the bigger question of “what do you do with blending in a single track timeline?
Unless you’re only interested in blending an image with itself, the everyday use of blending modes is with more than 1 layer of content. And resolve does one layer.

I suppose you could bring them into an EDL as a clip with a 100% duration dissolve, and then have Davinci treat it as a constant dissolve effect, but not sure even then how that would work.

[Illya Laney]

Blase Theodore
“Unless you’re only interested in blending an image with itself,”

I was under the impression that this is how most colorists/VFX artists use blending modes. People want the same functionality as the Nattress Plugins for Color. What were you thinking of?

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[Gabriele Turchi]

i agree with alex ,

the opacity node in itself (plus dynamic available on it ) is what i am missing more in the resolve color tool .. sometimes we push a node to much and easier way to bring back is to reduce the opacity of that node …
from 100 to 0 …like photoshop , scratch etc…
g

[Rohit Gupta]

This is already available. In the Key tab, Post Mix gain I think it is called. 0% will turn OFF the effect of that node completely.

[Gabriele Turchi]

Even if the is no key involved ?
Thanks

[Blase Theodore]

I guess the question for me is what is to be gained by using a blending mode on itself?

Can someone please give an example of when you’d actually need to use it? I make HEAVY use of blending modes in multi layer content like AE, Photoshop, etc, but have never seen a need for them in grading. Is there a specific example you can reference that couldn’t be done without it, or would be slower to do without?

[Rohit Gupta]

yes

[Christopher Tay]

Actually you can get some interesting effects by blending onto itself using modes like Screen or Overlay and then varying the opacity between the two layers. I don’t have any examples to share but I’ve used it before on a different grading system which has blend modes and it was quite useful.

But if we can do both – onto itself and with a different clip – that would be really fantastic !

-chrispy

[Blase Theodore]

I don’t know. I think blending modes may operate in a different way, and thus create a mental distinction when you think about them, but I have yet to come to a result that was any different or better by using them.

I think they are a computationally sloppy way to get to the same thing. You’re making the machine process 2 copies of the image, just to get more saturated reds in the midtones, or richer shadows or something.

I am only making my case as a chance to be disproven and learn something. But this is where I stand now.