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Dave Austin
October 21, 2013 at 9:05 am in reply to: Could we have Master offset control next to Contrast and Pivot on the MC Color panel?

Can you get contrast and pivot on the MC Colour? I haven’t been able to find it…
Dave Austin
June 8, 2013 at 11:43 am in reply to: “Enable video field processing” crashes Davinci

Hi, thanks for the info. Its a Mac Pro 12 Core, 24gb ram, with a cubix expander which has one quadro 4000. I think the display gfx card is an ati 5870.
Dave Austin
June 8, 2013 at 7:17 am in reply to: “Enable video field processing” crashes Davinci

No, it’s all prores 1920×1080 hq 25fps.

I’ve now been working with it switched off and I can render interlaced prores files having selected “fcp-roundtrip” which has un-greyed the “field rendering” tick box. The results look fine with smooth interlaced motion.

All seems ok. I don’t quite get the “enable field processing” option anyway. Is it to allow key-framed events such as zoom ins to be smoother? i.e. update the zoom every field rather than frame?
Dave Austin
June 4, 2013 at 10:50 am in reply to: Keying back a colour – I’m sure I’m being dumb but…

Thanks, I managed to get it to work as I want. I don’t really get it because I thought the key channel would need to go somewhere but happy to get the result!
Dave Austin
June 4, 2013 at 10:45 am in reply to: Reference Repositioning: How the hell does this work?

I’d like to know this also. 8 out of 10 times the ref wipe doesn’t get me where I want because of framing.
Dave Austin
June 3, 2013 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Keying back a colour – I’m sure I’m being dumb but…

Thanks Rohit. But the layer mixer has only rgb inputs doesn’t it? Where does the key signal go?

I sometimes use the parallel mixer, but it is hard to tell how it combines the signals.
Dave Austin
June 3, 2013 at 6:24 am in reply to: Frame rate mistake, can I save my 70 minute grade?

Thanks everyone. I will try these suggestions out so that I know how to get out of future pickles. This time I have used my workaround of playing it out at 25fps via SDI.
Dave Austin
February 27, 2013 at 2:01 pm in reply to: How to DELIVER an interlaced proves file from a progressively shot film.

Thanks for the input everybody – turns out that the reason they didn’t like my file was because the receiving guy was expecting to actually see 50i type motion. When I explained it was shot progressively but delivered as an interlaced file he started liking my file!

It seems more straight forward in the tape world – over here everything is delivered “i” regardless of how it was shot.
Dave Austin
February 26, 2013 at 8:32 pm in reply to: How to DELIVER an interlaced proves file from a progressively shot film.

Thanks. I’m not sure why they don’t like my “conversion”. Perhaps they are looking for interlaced 50 field motion, which of course they will not see. I will let them know that the “look” is supposed to be 25 frame progressive. Since the TV broadcast chain is all interlaced – that is why it is a delivery requirement despite 25p acquisition. Also, it’s worth noting that graphics and rolling credits look smoother interlaced.
Dave Austin
February 1, 2013 at 6:35 am in reply to: Avid workflow errors

I am getting a similar error with rendered media back in Avid. I get “core consistency check error” which is making the whole workflow unusable – I wonder whether I need to do an old school workflow eg stripping all effects off and flattening to a base layer. Did you “resolve” your problem?