[Craig Mieritz]

Just contact Flanders directly about your application and they’ll give you good advice. Bram knows pretty much everything about monitoring and monitors.

[Craig Mieritz]

Ah, ok. I see that it seems to be not possible to copy a composite mode, say from a Power Grade. My confusion stemmed from the fact that Base Mem commands clear everything except Composite modes from a clip. The times when I thought that the Power Grade was also transferring a composite mode, the composite mode was already applied that I thought I had cleared with Base Mem. Hopefully this makes sense.

So, I guess my question really is: is there a way to apply a Composite Mode to one entire track on a multi-track timeline or from a Power Grade? I have tried:

1. Selecting all the clips on a track in the Conform Page and right clicking and adding the Composite mode

2. Create a group in the Color page for all the clips in the track and then apply a Composite mode to one of the clips in the Conform page.

3. Tried a couple of ways in the Track Node Graph to copy it over.

It’s quite possible I am overlooking something, I am pretty new to DaVinci. It would save a lot of time to if this is possible. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks-
Craig

[Craig Mieritz]

I should make a correction. I find that when I apply correction nodes including composite modes on a clip basis, the composite modes seem to only transfer sometimes. Is there something I am doing wrong? I cannot discern a pattern. Any insight is greatly appreciated!

[Craig Mieritz]

Good advice from Dave. Find out where they’re coming from and then decide what you are willing to do. Bad clients are easy to find.

[Craig Mieritz]

I’ve been using a 2011 3.4Ghz i7 with a standard eSata internal hard drive attached to a FW 800 RAID soley for Resolve training. Hopefully, the new MacPro’s are coming soon….

If you’re ok with Color’s preview speeds on a laptop then you’ll probably be happy with Resolve on an iMac for a machine that will only be used sometimes for grading (if the Ultra Studio I/O box ever comes out). The renders are pretty fast, even on an iMac. It’s pretty impressive how good of a job they did using Open CL on the new version. Also, the On the Fly proxies seem to help.

The one big caveat is that you cannot use Resolve’s noise reduction on the iMac because it requires a CUDA compliant GPU. You may also want to look at the Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID. It seems to be getting favorable reviews:

https://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/new-thunderbolt-raid-imac-lessons-learned/1444

Good luck.

Craig

[Craig Mieritz]

Clement, your link isn’t working. Any chance you could repost it?

[Craig Mieritz]

Hey, thanks to both of you for replying with your results.

Craig

[Craig Mieritz]

I’d really love to hear about the workflow that they’re using at BlackMagic and any workflow suggestions……

[Craig Mieritz]

OK, thanks again, Danny.

[Craig Mieritz]

Doh! It’s both. Resized 150% and speed is 1500%. Thanks for the quick reply, Daniel. That’s not in the manual, is there another place that would have these useful nuggets?

So the speed change is supported but I’m confused about the resizing. According to the manual (p.134), motion settings are not compatible, the everything looks just fine in the timeline. Or am I mis-interpreting what DaVinci is calling a motion setting?