David Baud
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Yes I know… but most HD networks broadcast in 1080i even so most of the programming is done progressive. They usually do their own conversion from progressive to interlace before send to air… smaller stations may want programming ready to go… hence the request for your deliverable…
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“MediaOut1” node correspond to the output of the Fusion page. This is the result of your compositing work in Fusion which is transferred back to the EDIT page. Most of the time you do not want to modify this node but it needs to be the last node of your composition work, and it needs to be connected if you want your FX to appear in the EDIT page.
I would recommend you spend some time reading some of the training guide provided by BMD on their training page. I believe it will help you to understand how the Fusion page works and the nodes structure. Here is the link:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training
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Which Mac OS are you running?
With Catalina and Big Sur, Apple changed access permissions for applications. Now, more than before, you need to make sure your application (Resolve) has full access to your drives and files. You can check it under System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy
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You need to understand that when you talk about “.MOV” or “.MP4”, you are talking about the wrapper for these particular files. It does not tell you at all about what kind of codecs (COmpression / DECompression) were used for these files, how your video and audio were encoded in that file.
As an example you can create a .MOV or .MP4 file with the same codec, i.e H.264
Finally even inside of a particular codec you can have variants. In my example, H.264 refers to a standardized MPEG-4 part-10 codec (AVC or Advanced Video Coding). MPEG-4 is a very common codec and progress has been made to improve it for different type of usage.
To go back to your question, in oder to help you, we would need a lot more information about these particular files before we can make an assumption.
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In terms of quality vs compression, you best bet is with modern compression algorithms.
Without considering your playback computer, one of the best quality compression available today is within H.265 (HEVC). You did not specify your frame size, but I believe in 4K you should be able to compress your movie for less than 20GB file size.
An other common option is H.264 but compared to H.265, with similar parameters, it will double the size of your file.
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“I’d think that working in a 1080 timeline would be ideal for this, right?”
Maybe ideal for your purpose… but at least it makes sense to me?
“HOWEVER, there are times when I get an edit 80% of the way there in a 4k timeline and would rather not go through the process of converting everything to a 1080 timeline. Is this an unnecessary process?“
It depends what you mean by “converting“. In Premiere Pro you can copy the content of a timeline to another timeline with different settings. Depending if you have already applied some transforms to your footage, it may not copy the way you want it from one timeline to another, and you may have to redo your transforms after the copy…
“Will the quality degrade if I were to edit 4k footage in a 4k timeline and scale some footage to something like 200%, knowing the export will be 1080?“
Yes you will degrade the quality of your footage! This is why you want to start with your 1080 timeline settings… You always want to avoid scaling up past the resolution of your original footage… depending on the camera original footage, you may have a 5% to 10% margin if you particularly care how to scale, but in general, if you are concern about quality, it is a “no, no”
If you are not sure to understand, just check it for yourself and output 2 files with your two different configurations. Make sure to watch your tests on a screen that represent pixels for pixels your result (in your case, display your clip at 1920 x 1080 resolution). You can also do a difference matte between these 2 files in order to show only the differences.
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I would check your Blackmagic Video Desktop version against your operating system to make sure they are compatible.
Before capturing, can you hear any audio in Premiere Pro?
Next try with Blackmagic Media Express application to check your sound there. That should help you figure out if you have a configuration issue with Premiere Pro or something else.
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When you say “sharing”, do you mean between 2 different computer systems or 2 different projects on the same computer?
I believe at this point there is no easy way to export a preset and re-import it. It might be possible thru scripting. With version 17, It might be worth it to try exporting/archiving a project (.drp or .dra) and see if these custom settings are saved with a particular project?… but I doubt it… let us know…
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What do you mean by “multi track”?
Are you talking about multi camera editing? if so I would recommend you read chapter 32, p666, in order to understand how to create and edit multicam clips in Resolve 16.
After that if you have any more questions, let us know.
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I also read somewhere that Xml renders and prepares its own media files
for references, separate from the original media, but wasnt able to find
the physical location of the XML media.I don’t think this is right. Modern non-linear editing systems use XML file format in order to share editing decision list. It is equivalent to a traditional EDL but with more information than an EDL. Unfortunately because each editing system uses its own proprietary function for editing (some transitions, re-timing, some transforms, etc…) not every editing decision can be translated using an XML file. The XML file will reference to the original file or the files used in your editing timeline or sequence. An XML file will not create rendered files.
Regarding your particular issue, if you are not getting any connected files, I am wondering if it is more related to the file format from your media. Which camera (brand, model) and file format & codec is your media?
One trick you can try in Resolve, is to first import all your media used in your FCPX timeline. Then try to re-import your FCPXML file and see if it reconnects…