Clay Coleman
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Right you are, it is the Wacom. Tried it with an Intuos 3 and an Intuos 4. Same issue.
Ok, I’ll join the club and write to Wacom and Adobe too.
Thx
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You’re doing something basically wrong.
You should be able to:
1. go to the media tab, navigate to your media drive and see all your files.
2. Then double click on one to open it in the viewer (or right click to import and then double click to open), making sure the viewer window is set to playback at full resolution (just right click the viewer window for the list of view options).
And that’s it. Converting to ProRes will achieve other things, but will not improve the quality. If you want to edit straight away with the DSLR files, it shouild be no problem whatsoever.
Or, using the transcode approach, do the previewing, selecting and transcoding in DaVinci Resolve 9. This has a number of added advantages including being able to keep original filenames and source timecode if need be.
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You are previewing in full resolution, yes?
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Yes, I am using a Wacom and yes, it is generally very buggy in CS6 now that you mention it. I’ll try again tomorrow back at work without the Wacom and post again…
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Having similar issues. I was handed a PPro CS6 Project (90 second mixed timeline with mostly ProRes4444 and some .r3d all at 25fps) to grade and tried the following:
1. select sequence in PPro >export > edl. This works, sort of. In Resolve, the edl didn’t bring over the resizes or the numerous retimings and speed ramps the editor used rather extensively. If I had asked the editor to go back and bake in all those effects and give me the project back, it probably would have worked far better. Not very elegant, but at least I would have had my back covered that all the shots were timed and sized as the editor intended.
2. select sequence in PPro > export > fcp xml. This does not work at all well and I can’t see using it again anytime soon. The first couple of shots came over ok, but once I hit the shots with speed effects and resizes, things pretty much went haywire. In and out points were no longer accurate. Other shots froze up entirely. Not a workable method.
3. exported a QT ProRes 4444 from PPro via AME. Brought the QT over to Resolve and ran Scene Detect. Works great, but only because the entire show is hard cuts only. Still, it’s seems currently the best method as it is the only totally reliable one.
To work really well together with PPro, Resolve either has to be able to read the FCP7 xml’s better, or, PPro has to have it’s own PPro xml export function and not rely on the fcp7 route (probably not a viable alternative over the long term). At the moment the colorist has to be moderately adept at both PPro CS6 and FCP7 to troubleshoot and solve the issues.
Kinda clunky. Needs a fix.
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I like the Wave because it is pretty easy to zip through the menus on. Nowhere near as elegantly as with the DaVinci panels, but it gets you there. And, the transport wheel as mentioned is something I use a lot as well to dial in the frame I want to grade.
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One of our suites has the identical machine running the 5770 (not the 5870) and the NVidia Quadro 4000. Works great. You can also run DaVinci Resolve 8 on that configuration. A whole lot more bang for your buck than Colorista (not to demean Colorista, great tool, but Resolve will take you a lot further).
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Hi again Todd,
thanks for the info. I simply called the German customer service center and was able to get the discount, so ordered 3 seats-worth.
Nobody there understands either why the pricing overall is so different, but promised to relay that thought to the powers that be…
Meantime, thanks for your help. Looking forward to diving in.
Clay
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Hi Todd,
my FCS shop is located in Munich, Germany We want to switch to CS5.5 with three seats. Two questions/issues:
1. CS5.5 Production Premium sells for $1,649 on Amazom in the US. That’s about 1,200 Euros. The same product sells for about 2,000 Euros here (excluding VAT). That’s a big difference, especially multiplied by three. We want the US English version as sold in the US. Why is the identical item so much more expensive this side of the Atlantic??
2. The Adobe North America site is offering 50% off to FCS users who want to switch by Sept. 30. No such offer on the Adobe website here. Why not, or will they be making the same offer soon?
Best,
Clay -
Yep. I think lots of FCP7 refugees are headed this way. I’ve spent the weekend reviewing basic training over at Lynda.com and am liking everything I’m seeing. Premiere and the production suite is exactly what FCStudio should have become but didn’t. Kind of knew that for awhile now, but was hoping….
Anyway, buying in over the next days as I am setting up an expanded shop with 4 seats. I also teach digital filmmaking on the college level and will be bringing my students over too (approx 30 per semester).
Really looking forward to digging in to a vastly better experience with Adobe, and hope you guys have some patience with us battle-tested but battered users.
Best,
Clay Colemen