Andrew Smith
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this post is amazing!
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haha true that!!
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OFFLINE WINDOW and multiple xml’s in one project as cuts and versions come thru the pipeline grades get picked up and we can check to see cuts are frame accurate!! so awesome!
Now if we could just paste keyframe attributes selectively like you would in FCP7 for example 🙂
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just tried it but that doesn’t really work – it resets work to reset to 1.00 which i understand WILL affect the chroma because its not a y only luma adjustment. Anyways thanks for trying to help everyone i really appreciate the help!
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alt button on wave not working for me and on the element i dont even see an alt button from the video i saw patrick did at B&H.
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Not sure what you mean here joseph..i know it will effect the rgb and thats fine, i simply want to be able to zero out back to ‘1.00’ after say increasing gain to ‘1.02’.
This brings up another feature request – being able to paste attributes on keyframes and in other parts of the UI. I know i can display node graph and paste there but i want to be able to paste setting from one key frame to the next..hopefully this feature is in V9?
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I have tried that in the past when i first read about it in this forum..but alas it did not work. Also even if it does what to do on the Element?? According to the people at Tangent it is not possible because BMD wont allow for mapping at all?!
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Well mind you with a Decklink and Quadro4000 alone its not just $1K for the software obviously (its $3K+ and that’s without a control surface, a proper calibrated monitor, newer MacPro, RAM, RAID, etc etc) but the same goes for the equipment requirements on a Lustre or baselight I suppose right??
Don’t get me wrong, I think BMD is doing a good job and V9 looks like a step in the right direction, its insane that only a few years ago a high-end grading app like DaVinci was not even close to accessible like it is now. I just see the tools available in Baselight, and think about the substantial investment i have made in building my own DaVinci room, and want some of that in the system i have built for myself. I have been advising / promoting smaller shops to invest in DaVinci and I just want it to be everything it can be..wow I sound like a GoArmy commercial!
I mean well and hopefully have not pissed anyone off here, I just hope for more improvements, and really prey they are listening and striving to better compete in some ways with the competition in the high-end finishing market. I am speaking for myself at the high end of expensive commercial workflows – not davinci-light using college students grading there skate videos at home on a laptop.
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Just wanted to chime in here –
This week I was on a project where I couldn’t get a decent key of the actor’s t-shirt so i sent the shot to the Nuke compositor at the studio I was working for – I sat with this operator and watched the standard tools he had at his disposal in Nuke and was just blown away with the job he did on the key – I have to agree that programs like Nuke, Smoke, Flame..and even just regular old After Effects 😉 have much better keying tools let alone the paint, tracking and roto tools obviously.
I also had a chance to sit with a friend who uses Baselight’s various keying tools and was also super impressed with what he could do – I think DaVinci seriously needs to step up there game in a variety of areas to even remotely compete with these other finishing tools – Regardless I have made my investment in DaVinci so luckily I will continue to have AE, Nuke & Flame guys to help me out but seriously there is a TON of room for improvement in this application. I plan to learn Mocha, Nuke, etc just to be able to do some of this more precise work myself.
Just my 2 cents in the field.
ps. the NR tool in DaVinci just does NOT work (read the forums or just ask around in the industry..its laughable at best) – I use Neat Video for AE or FCP to get decent results myself but I have also seen what Nuke and Flame can do for noise reduction or adding grain etc. and its just superior all around. If I had the money I would probably move to Baselight as it seems to have a wide range of tools and way more control. I hope that BMD will really try to make DaVinci Resolve the grading application it COULD be.
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Yup been down for me all day – driving myself nuts trying different computers and connections around town!!
Needed Resolve Light for a project on a directors system today but no luck with the site.
Instead i had to go outside in the sun and play friz. then we bbq’ed burgers and had ice cream sundaes…thanks black magic 😉