[David Fusakle]

Have given up – ordered Decklink. Also X-Rite i1 Pro for calibration.

My monitor is pretty “low end” compared to professional video editing monitors. Not capable of displaying rec 709, only 95.8% sRGB. As my delivery is 90% for web I can live with it.

The question is (which I don’t know even how to ask):

Will this be a problem for Decklink that the display is not capable of rec 709 only sRGB?

So it will be basically that my GTX 1050Ti will be connected to the monitor where I can make all the adjustments in Davinci and on the other monitor which will be directly connected to Decklink I will see full screen what I’m doing in Davinci. Right? But what if I would prefer to have only one huge monitor? Then I would connect the same monitor to GTX1050TI and also Decklink and in that case the colors in Davinci Preview would be accurate?

[David Fusakle]

FINAL UPDATE:

In case someone would find this thread:

Upgraded to Win 10. Problem solved.

I really liked Win 7, but looks like Davinci and H.264 didn’t, so there was no other choice. Wish everyone best luck. Lost 3 days trying to figure it out how to make it work with Win 7. Conclusion – I was not able to make it work. Win 10 – feels a bit slower as my Win 7 felt, but looks like it’s the way to go.

[David Fusakle]

UPDATE 3:

Brought the footage to another computer with Win 10 – open footage in Windows Media Player – terrible.

[David Fusakle]

UPDATE 2:

If I upload the Motion JPG video to Vimeo the video looks good.

After I downloaded the video from Vimeo and watched in Chrome it looked good.

I thought in VLC will be also great, because Vimeo did the conversion. Opened in VLC = terrible.

Tried Windows Media Player – good.

So, I tried all my previous videos in Chrome and Windows Media Player – good.

VLC – doesn’t matter which h.264 conversion I try to play in it. Terrible.

Someone save my life ???? I have to deliver this footage, but this is like a nightmare.

[David Fusakle]

UPDATE:

After I tried to convert the footage on another PC with Windows 10 64bit the result was unfortunately the same as encoding/converting on my Win 7 64bit computer.

So NOW, now I have really no idea how to solve it…. and what causes the problem.

[David Fusakle]

Not sure I understand your question properly, but will try to answer anyway.

When I bring back the exported files – any of them – then again it looks good in Resolve. But from whichever format I try to make the QuickTime H.264 or MP4 H.264 it’s always very very bad.

I also tried to use Pavtube video converter and the result was same as in Davinci. So the problem isn’t with Davinci, but with my computer settings somewhere. Was trying to research again what can be the problem, but no luck.

[David Fusakle]

I’m using VLC, because I heard QuickTime player is not the best tool.

I exported as “Quicktime + Uncompressed” and also “QuickTime + Photo JPG”. In both cases the quality was the same or very very similar as in DavinciResolve preview.

But now the problem is when I try to convert from these two files to either MP4 H.264 or QuickTime H.264, then the delivered/exported file is again bad. Any suggestions?