[Barrie Williams]

Simple
You need to check the tickbox to tell Resolve to do processing as interlaced. It’s on the main setup page I think.
Then that problem is gone.

Barrie

[Barrie Williams]

I have tangent and jlcooper.

I wasted money upgrading my jlcooper to run on DaVinci … After upgrading I found that the 3d controls are NOT MAPPED on the JLC.

So if you are doing any 3d work , you need the Tangent.

This is not the fault of tangent or JLC. Simply the mapping that DaVinci has implemented.

I flagged this up over half a year ago , and it has not been addressed so we have to presume it will remain like this.

Barrie

[Barrie Williams]

the cache is a known issue. I believe there are plans to improve it.

We desperately need a better mechanism, especially because it renders only DPX which rarely play back smoothly, whereas it would be far better that the cache renders in a user-chosen format like ProRes(HQ) which is less demanding on the disk bandwidth.

Barrie

[Barrie Williams]

This is a known bug.

It just doesn’t work yet.

Barrie

[Barrie Williams]

thanks Ola

good info…
Didn’t know that.

Barrie

[Barrie Williams]

who’s “”fault”? hmmm.

its not really a fault. Its a decision made my Blackmagic. But i won’t criticise them for it.

They want to sell the 30,000 dollar panel, and the best BUSINESS decision would be to NOT SUPPORT ANY OTHER PANELS.
i.e. To force users to buy their panel…

but they have NOT done that…they have been realistic enough to accept that their panel is not accessible to all pockets. So making the Wave, JLC, Avid panel available is a very generous gesture from Blackmagic, considering they make their own control surface.

And i am sure they will be supporting the new Wave panel, which is 3 times the price and 10 times as good as the old one. It all comes down to cost. The Wave is the cheapest panel, so it should look and feel cheaper than others. But in the dark, it lets me work in 3D at a speed that i could not do with any other 3rd party panels.

Barrie Williams
pixelfantastic, London

[Barrie Williams]

You need to make sure you have a network card installed in the jlcooper. Usb or rs232 modules will not work.

You wil need to set the ip address and port on the jlcooper and again on the prefs page of resolve. I set my port to 50000.

If connection fails at any time , it will be the port number on the jlcooper which will have spontaneously changed. Just change it back. Its set using a two button combination.

If you are doing 2d colorwork, the jlcooper is pretty nice, except there is no reset button for the rotary encoders. Don’t attempt to use it for 3D stereoscopic. All the 3d shortcuts which are mapped on the Tangent Wave panel are missing on the JLcooper. That’s not a critcism of JLC… Its DaVinci who decide what is mapped and what isn’t.

Barrie

[Barrie Williams]

This is a key we need to use up tp twenty times a minute when doing 3d.

It is an essential shortcut , but it is missing from keyboard shortcuts. Its also not mapoed on the JLCooper… So for stereoscopic, the Tangent Wave panel is the only one to buy, unless you are a lottery winner, in which case, get the Davinci panel, of course.

Barrie

[Barrie Williams]

The Ethernet interface cost one quarter of the price of complete Wave panel. Not good value in my opinion.

I was not advised to avoid installing the jlcooper software, in fact there was a lack of info available. I called BM and the jlcooper dealer. Thy were helpful. But it was clear that I was the first person in Uk asking for installation instructions with a jlcooper.
The jlcoooer port address on my system spontaneously changes, and that is where the unreliability came from.

But the main reason I recommend Wave over Jlcooper is that for 3D , the critical button mapping is missing. Compare the list of mapped functions on the BM PDF and you will see the jlcooper has about half he number of mapped functions that the Wave has.

For color grading in 2d I was happy with the jlcooper when it was working, but the lack of the rotary encoder reset functions still mean that he more expensive panel is not better to use than the cheaper one. It is better to look at.

Barrie

[Barrie Williams]

The jlcooper works only with a network connection. And the interface version is fussy depending on the revision of the jlcooper firmware. I bought the interface and after much difficulty I discovered that it works , but not as reliably as it should. And that the keyboard mapping is incomplete. For example the 3d controls are not mapped , making it impossible to use the jlcooper when doing 3D.

Putting the jlcooper aside , we plugged in the less robust looking Tangent Wave, and it has been excellent and trouble-free.

Neither panel is in the same league as the big davinvi panel, but having had both wave and jlcooper here on our Davinci, I would advise that on my personal opinion, the Tangent panel is without doubt the one to choose.