[Alex Frankland]

[Chris Pepperman] ” I work with the Reslove and we were able to color correct and play back in real time at half res. This way the agency could watch the spot at real time. AWESOME STUFF.”

I was experimenting with 4k Red material today and was able to grade in real time. Not in full-res of course, considering my entry-level setup. But it was still pretty damn cool to be able to grade Red Raw files in RT. DaVinci is awesome.. I’ll be working on my first project pretty soon and I’m really excited to be able to show the director grades from Raw files in RT.

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8-core MacPro, OSX 10.7.3, 16GB
RAID5 4TB,
Radeon HD 5770, Quadro 4000
DeckLink HD Extreme 3D
DaVinci Resolve+Tangent Wave

[Alex Frankland]

[Alex Vallin] “any suggestions?”

Hey Alex,

My suggestion would be to check out the Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 (https://www.tokinalens.com/products/tokina/atx116prodx-a.html). Extremely affordable and awesome if you can get your hands on it. I use it with my 7D and I find it to be great value for money.

[Alex Frankland]

[Robert Ruffo] “Much better to work with the RAW Red files – a lot of info gets thrown out in any decode.”

True, Hopefully they will provide me with Raw files.. If not, hopefully redlogfilm or RC2 ProRes 4444 will be a suitable plan-B.

Thanks Robert

[Alex Frankland]

[Chris Pepperman] “you will end up working all over the place”

Yeah, that sounds about right. With the project I’m about to grade, there will be some 5D material along with RED footage for me to grade.

Thanks Chris

[Alex Frankland]

[Toby Tomkins] “The vfx should also be able to be delivered in redlogfilm.”

Would I be better off asking the editor to give me the redlog footage to grade before sending it off to the CGI team? or should I wait for the vfx to be implemented into the footage and grade it as a whole? How should that workflow take place?

Thanks for the reply btw.

[Alex Frankland]

[Andy Winter] “you should go to the config page and change the debayer setting to half or quarter for grading withour red rocket (depends an your cpu).”

Thanks Andy, thats exactly what I was looking for.

– Alex

[Alex Frankland]

[Chris Borjis] “what did you type in the terminal to fix?”

Hey Chris,

Here were my exact instructions from BMD. After going through this procedure, everything worked fine.

Failed to open database connection

Symptom: Failed to open database connection: connection refused. Is the server running on 127.0.0.1 and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? QPSQL:Unable to connect.”

Cause: Unknown

Solution: Manually unintsall the PostgreSQL and then reinstall the Resolve app again.

Procedure:
Manual Uninstallation:

Open a terminal

1) Stop the server

sudo /sbin/SystemStarter stop postgresql-8.4

2) Remove menu shortcuts:

sudo rm -rf /Applications/PostgreSQL 8.4

3) Remove the ini file

sudo rm -rf /etc/postgres-reg.ini

4) Removing Startup Items

sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/postgresql-8.4

5) Remove the data and installed files

sudo rm -rf /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4

6) Delete the user postgres

sudo dscl . delete /users/postgres

7) Re-install Resolve

Regards

– Alex

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8-core MacPro, OSX 10.7.3, 16GB
RAID5 4TB,
Radeon HD 5770, Quadro 4000
DeckLink HD Extreme 3D
DaVinci Resolve+Tangent Wave

[Alex Frankland]

[Joseph Owens] “That’s what I’m sayin’.”

Just purchased a second Benq VW2220H (2″ smaller than my Prime GUI monitor). Everything worked out just fine 🙂

Thanks jPo

– Alex

[Alex Frankland]

[John Pale] “Might be time to give Blackmagic Support a call.
Could be hardware issue.”

I just contacted B&H customer service to explain the issue via live chat and telephone and they think the problem was caused by the firmware upgrade. They sent me an RMA slip instantly and asked me to send it back to them so they will either fix or replace it in addition to reimbursing me the shipping cost all the way from Hong Kong. Very professional of them.

– Alex

[Alex Frankland]

Thanks for the reply Jpo,

So If i were to simply purchase another cheap monitor and connect it to the Radeon 5770 via single mini display port/DVI adapter along with connecting my Benq VW2420H monitor, of which is directly connected via DVI (both cards on Radeon). All should be good and I wouldn’t really have anything to worry about? Although… getting a set-up to look like a starship-flight-deck would be pretty cool 🙂
What display setup do you have?

– Alex