Darin Wooldridge
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I haven’t got much time on the new panels. At first touch they did not have the heavy nice feeling I’m familiar with .. I’m still in love with the OG davinci resolve panels. They just feel better.
I’m trying to get some of my engineer friends to port the old panels to the mac version.
Just a dreamNow that being said, if i had the cash and could afford the new panels I would have them. I’m sure with time they would grow on me.. The difference between the wave panels is not even worth talking about.. No brainer. The wave helps but I can say from experience it’s not even close to using the real tools.
For my home hobby set up the wave works, barely. For a pro set up that I expect to bill at between 400 and 1000 per hour I would say you must spend the cash for the panels and the linex version.
I have been trying to get black magic to let me demo the panels to do a real review on the product and show the advantages of using the tools as they were designed to use .
No luck.I will continue to use the old resolve panels at the office and the wave, g13 and wacom at the home..
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
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A couple ways to handle this.
1st is on the config page.
This automatically scales your full range 0-1023 video to hd 64-940 legal for layoff and render. Beware the internal scopes do not represent the true output in this mode. You must run through and external scope to see the results of using this function. You also must grade with it on or off you cannot change it without trimming your list.. As you will see by looking at your display the output changes when you toggle this function.2nd is work in full range and build a lut to limit at 64_94.
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
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Rohit
I would like to add that worked really well. LOVE IT!!!
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
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Great idea Rohit,
I build 3d timelines and work in 3d all the time and didnt think about this as a way to manage each reel.
As you can imagine I have hundreds of sessions to manage during my past 5 years on the box..
I have so many projects Its very hard to sort through them.. This will really help decrease the number of sessions.Thanks,
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
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Another interesting find. If I minimize the application and hit play via the wave. I get much better real time performance. No broken audio playback when reviewing 2k dpx frames with audio in full quality 10 bit.. With the client in the room I minimize the application to help the system run better.
Maximize the application and it drops down and now audio is popping with inconsistent playback.
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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Great news!! Are you running in ofp proxy mode or 8 bit mode on your video monitoring to achieve consistent real time 2k with several nodes open.. I just ordered some Black-Caviar to give them as shot.. 🙂
I to was getting well over 800 MB/s on my home built sata to infiniband raid. I found very inconsitant throughput with high peaks and valleys. It seems I would loose real time playback when the drives cached.. I jumped to fibre and I got the real numbers 400+ mb/s same playback speeds without the slow down every time the drives cached. Another big concern. i have lost several sata drive due to drive failure.. Not a fun situation in raid 0 with clients in the bay.. .
In short the speed of your raid will go well beyond the speed of the mac resolve.
One interesting find.. I hit the same exact 2k dpx frames, set the project to sd and i can play at well over 30fps, locked green gpu all day long. Change the setting to 2k or hd and the gpu seems to run out of steam. Green to red on the gpu status bar.. 800+ mb or 400 mb and it runs the same.. No increased performance doubling the speed of the raid.. It did however run much better when I jumped to fibre and got away from the sata drives that rely heavily on the cache to get the high numbers.
As I see it no matter how fast your raid or drives you will never get the speed to do stereo 2k or even hd with the mac resolve. Linux is still the king using older and slower technology.
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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Nice.. What kind of speeds are you getting during playback?
Looks like I need to do some reading about these drives.
I’m guessing they are loaded with a cache to achieve that kind of number.
When trying to playback I’m curious if the loose performance when it caches. (fast, slow, fast, slow)
Curios about the true sustained speed of the raid. I have found huge peaks and valleys using sata. Thats what pushed me to upgrade to the 32 fibre drives I am currently using for my heavy work. They don’t relay on the cache to give me the high read right numbers.Sascha when are you going to hook up a video card so we can see what it can really do??
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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I’ve built longplay time lines along with long play edl’s. I have found the performance starts to suffer with that much material in a single time line.
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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Checking the mac now.. On the linux system I can build presets that can be applied on a shot to shot basics.. Seem the mac may be missing that function or its in the panels.
I came up with a few work arounds.
In track mode you can add marks and yes apply blanking / mattes shot to shot. .
Another easy workaround is to create a single node draw your 4×3 shape inverse and take the vaules to black.. This can be dropped on any clip that needs the matte.Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
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dwooldridge@mac.com
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input or output blanking on the resolve should do the trick.. No photochop needed.
Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
check me out at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Davinci-Resolve-Colorist/117363011609028?ref=….