Bob Kimberly
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just wanted to know if those clips are actually stills….I have 2 thoughts on this…firstly, the images could be of slightly different sizes which may cause a gap, but more importantly if the media is a still or jpeg you have to remember that stills don’t have any field dominance like an actual video clip would….
I have only seen this on occasion when I was using media of different sizes or formats (eg: 720p and 1080i) pushed up against each other if the main project setting was drop frame at 30 fps. or a jpeg of a size larger than the timeline setting….(2000 x 1700 on an hd timeline)…
have you tried to convert the stills to video then import them…I found this method worked. -
i just wanted to share with you my work around for scopes…being on a budget, very very tight i might add, i looked around at how to get my scopes on a separate monitor. i had an old iPad lying around and found this great little app called duet display..it allows you to use the iPad as a second monitor and works amazingly well.
i opened up my scopes in davinci resolve and just dragged them into the iPad window that is now my second monitor..
instant video scopes without using up any space on your main monitor and didnt cost a fortune…
when you don’t have lots of cash to throw around you have to come up with creative ideas and i found this one to be a real life saver…
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are you maybe in fullscreen mode…that hides everything except the davinci interface…(workspace/layout/fullscreen)…
turn it off…i always have access to the dock providing it is turned on as a pop up… -
i eventually bought the cheaper version of neat video for fcp with the intention that i could just make the noise reduction settings there and then export from final cut….in theory it was a nice work around but not very elegant.
then i discovered this new trick…download the free version of fusion….send your clips from resolve into fusion and use the noise reduction that comes with it…then resend the clips back to davinci resolve for exporting….my new preferred work flow and i dint have to fork out for another plug in! -
the simplest and most effective way is to just switch your viewer window to display a larger size (upper right hand side expand button) or workspace/ viewer mode…
this gives you a huge area to play around in and i find it much easier than that sloppy mouse zoom… -
just got mine…3.2 i5 and i’m totally converted….even my old tower from 2 years ago struggled with more than 2 nodes but his thing just flies through media…i used to do the rendering in pro res 1920X1080 and let it run overnight but now by the time i’ve made a coffee this thing is done! never thought i’d say this but WOW……if i could just resize the windows now i would be in colorist heaven…
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trashing before thinking seems to be the norm here…i sense alot of insecurity whenever a change is near! i still can’t believe that people are upset at this….tech moves forward and you can stay put or move forward….i find it impossible to believe the earlier comments about people using g4’s with 10.4 OS. in tech terms thats over a century ago! the price of this suite is so cheap compared to buying it outright and if you factor in the cost of yearly upgrades then it still is cheaper. i wont even mention the fact that a large majority of editors are running some cracked copy of CS 5 and never paid a cent to use it….our company used to spend thousand per month on flame licenses and we never owned the software….none of the projects created on it even exist now except as old beta tapes somewhere! so just keep using the old crap until you die or hop aboard the space ship to the future. i’m sure some of these people still think that D1 is still a viable format!
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and what happens when os upgrades render your editting software unuseable or obsolete….i guess we should never upgrade the os then either or we run the risk of becoming obsolete! sounds like grasping at straws to me…..
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i don’t understand all the fuss…..in my country cs6 suite costs over $2000….if i pay 50 bucks a month it would take me 3 years to pay it off. in the past i have always done regular upgrades every year or so so it seems like very little money to pay for the latest versions of all the apps in the suite. if you figure in the cost of the software with the number of jobs you do very year then it amounts to hardly anything per job. don’t tell me that on a $1000 job you cant spend 10 bucks on having the latest version of software for your job…i initially was so against the idea of “renting” software but in retrospect it makes so much sense. as long as they don’t get greedy and start to gouge their customers. remember when it would cost thousands per month just to keep flame or henry current? come on people this is silly….i have even started to think about renting equipment…you get the latest kit that you can afford and at the end of it you just dump it off and get new stuff….no more obsolete hardware! who wants to own old machines that you can’t even sell and old software that hardly works any more! sheesh….
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first off davinci is not a compositing tool. i would love to know how you can see all those mattes in resolve! usually one layer takes precedent of the other so i can’t even imagine trying to balance all those mattes. you really should be doing that kind of work in flame or if you insist on doing it as a function of grading then you should consider the nucoda or even base light. they can handle the workflow you are trying to do. what you’re doing is trying to race a go cart around a formula one track.
