Chris Hall
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Would love this.
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
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Concur whole-heartedly on this. Its causing me a lot of wasted time in sessions with clients asking why all our previous work isn’t showing up when we reconform or add in new clips etc. (of course everything is there, it just has to be manually selected… not so fun). Can lead to some very nerve-racking “QC” sessions if there’s last minute changes…
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA -
yeah 8.2 beta 2 only read prores files as 8 bit on windows. caused me some serious consternation. thank goodness its fixed
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA -
Kaspar, really appreciate you looking into this. Thanks a bunch for doing that. Sad to hear the results though. Going to get blackmagic support on the phone tomorrow and let them know about this. I have 3 agency projects that contained alexa material that need to be redone on a mac system now… not happy about this… but then again that’s why they call it BETA, alas. Onward.
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA -
would love to know what you find out, let us know.
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA -
Yeah I get this too on my win resolve 8.2 system (ProRes444 LogC quicktimes appears as 8 bit in the browser). I’m hoping its just a bug and its actually decoding 10bit in resolve, I haven’t noticed anything visually that would concern me as far as banding or any other “8 bit indicator”, so I’m assuming its just a broswer bin bug. Can someone from blackmagic pipe in on this though, I’m starting to feel a bit nervous all of a sudden!
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA -
I’m not sure if this is what you want, but I use a technique using a layer mixer in “add” composite mode. Basically make three nodes going into it and in each layer use the channel mixer to isolate just the red, green, and/or blue channels (lower the other channels to zero in that layer keeping only the channel at 100 that you want to control). The result should be individual control over each RGB channel via those nodes. Make sense? (the key here is the “add” blend layer, which literally adds the RGB channels together)
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA -
Ok, got it, now I understand what you want to do. You are correct, if you’re trying to key a specific part of something on track 1 and add grain only there, then my suggestion won’t work. What I would do is just use that key to generate a black and white image that you can use as a matte (just crank up the contrast until you get a black and white image out of the area you want to key, and export that as a seperate file, then add it to track 2 as a matte connected to the alpha output).
I’m sure there’s another way to do this with blend modes, but my brain doesn’t seem to be working fast enough at the moment to figure it out.
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA -
If you copy the “node” from track 1 to track 2 that has the “key” qualifier in it then you can use that node as your alpha output from track 2 (just connect that node to the alpha output, don’t make it a serial node in the affected color chain or anything). Do it all the time. Maybe I’m not understanding your question right though Roman, let me know if that’s not what you mean.
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA -
Well you can:
1)copy that “key” from track 1 as a node (still store)
2)and place that “key” node on the grain clip in track 2
3)then right click in the node tree workspace for that clip and “add alpha output”.
4)Then simply connect the key output from that node to the new alpha output tab (which will be the new additional blue tab below the blue output tab at the end of the node graph).I also have been adding film grain this way and use a quick luma key to taper off some of the grain in the highlights and deep shadows to give it a bit more of a smoother blend into these areas. Hope that was clear.
Chris Hall
Colorist – Basher Films
Pasadena, CA