[Blase Theodore]

Hey Rohit,

I’d like to be able to select multiple shots by command-clicking them, and add an adjustment node to them somehow.
Is this possible?

Thanks!

[Blase Theodore]

In my original post, one of my claims was that Resolve’s qualifier tool couldn’t replicate the quality of hue shift in Apple’s curve tools.

Please note that my example is one of the few cases where this is true. To be fair, Resolve’s qualifier will get the same quality or better as Color’s curve tools for almost everything.
(My example relies in a situation where a qualifier’s linear falloff fails compared to a complex shaped curve.)

So while I stand by my opinion that curves can be significantly more time efficient for many tasks, I regret implying a quality difference.

[Blase Theodore]

This has already been covered before, but yes, this would be wonderful to have.

[Blase Theodore]

You could call this a gobo, but I’m not suggesting that we turn Resolve into a compositing box. These are purely tools for color finishing.

When a client asks me to replace a bad sky, or do a day for night shot, or dress up a really boring shot, they assume I can because they’ve definitely done it before in some other studio. Probably on Scratch or Flame. My choice is to say “we can’t do that”, or do the job without these tools, and look mildly incompetent. The client only knows they can do it, not why I can’t.

At this point these features are an assumption by about 30% of my clients. But that number will rise steadily, and putting your head in the sand that it’s “not something we can do” is a strategy of denial. Content expectations are higher than ever before, and we’re paid to make stuff look its best, not to even out exposure differences.

Again, this should be a pretty simple feature to implement. If its a huge thing to do, then I’ll have to live without it.

[Blase Theodore]

There’s a better solution, thats so simple its retarded.

Dupe your sequence into a new project. Select all clips, make them independent.
Media manage, set to copy, delete unused media.

FCP will create unique clip names for every file. 30 subclips of reel1.mov become reel1-1 reel1-2, etc..

Set resolve to render source as usual. Offline and reconnect to the new graded folder.

[Blase Theodore]

To clarify, first off duplicate your sequence into a new one.
Select all the clips and make them independent. Then do a media manage, set to copy, and make sure to delete unused media.

Resolve will render each clip based on its source file name. So if you have 2 clips on your timeline that come from reel1.mov, both clips will be rendered to reel1.mov, and the 2nd will simply overwrite the first.

By setting to delete unused media, you are creating a reel1-1.mov and a reel1-2.mov for those clips within FCP.

By making clips independent before doing this, you are telling FCP that you want a single QT per clip, not a trimmed reel1.mov that contains both subclips.

[Blase Theodore]

[Clark Bierbaum] “Why not a private area within the black magic site monitored and replied to by bm employees and access for paying customers (and approved freelancers) only so we could be assured of feedback from the manufacturer and not air our “dirty laundry” in a public forum?”

Agreed. A subforum would be a shortterm solution, requesting a BM forum is definitely the longterm solution. Though it just stacks into their to do list, and may not get done during the most critical period, now.

While wiki is the pinnacle of all I believe is good about the world, I’ve seen firsthand that its not appropriate for this situation. The effort needed to actually organize and keep up with the data means it will pretty quickly fall apart and become dated. Then its just another fractured source of unconsolidated information. I believe the raw pile of info will ultimately be more useful than a wiki until we are clear of the dev stage. At which point, go wiki!

BOTTOM LINE
BM support – please let us know if an official answer forum is an option anytime in the next few weeks/months. If not, would you adopt a user-created forum as a replacement for email support?

if so-

COW Mods – please let us know if we have a plan B we can put short term on the COW.

[Blase Theodore]

Example scenario
Lets say you have an image that was balanced for daylight and then exposed to tungsten. Super yellow. If you shot it on say 5D, there’s not gonna be much info to play with…

In resolve:
You’d “balance the image” by pulling out yellow and adding blue till it looked neutral. At this point you’ve thrown away half of your image data (lets assume 411 colorspace for simplicity- The blue channel contains 1/4th of the pixel data of that green channel, and the image itself has very little blue in it. You’re throwing away the yellow green which is the strongest channel, and stretching out the blue which is the weakest) So your image starts to look like crap.
Or..
You use the qualifier to select yellow hue only, and you desat and hue shift it before grading a second layer. The result is dirty. Don’t know why but I’ve compared it.

In Color:
You’d open a secondary curve, notch the yellow and green sat down, blue magenta sat up. Then you’d nudge the oranges towards red, and the blues away from magenta. You’re not throwing away pixel data, you’re just reshaping it.

When an image is exposed too warm or too cold, the colors exhibit a non-linear hue shift. The reds might be in the right spot, and everything else may need to shift exponentially.

Also curves are super fast. I can make trees the right color green, or fix skintones, or fix a sky in a matter of seconds. Waaay faster than pulling a qualifier that doesn’t suck, and definitely cleaner to paste across many shots.

Lastly as a styling tool, they’re much faster to get a certain look.
If I wanted to get the “steely action” look, I’d desat the yellows and reds, and nudge the greens hue up towards blue, and the magenta hue down towards blue. reproducing such a style with qualifiers would be time consuming and possibly difficult across multiple shots.

[Blase Theodore]

Hmm, while I would obviously join a separate site, that might be reinventing the wheel.

Fracturing support across a number of sites might be counterproductive.
This forum has sort of become the Resolve epicenter, so staying local might be better till Davinci opens its own forum.

[Blase Theodore]

In an email, Rohit mentioned the Redicne x workflow won’t work because the rmd file is loaded when the clip is loaded into the media pool.

However he did say that you can select multiple/all clips and changes made in the RED dialogue box will apply to all of those clips.