[Gary Adams]

Hi Jonathon. At the point of Commit, most of the frames are in their intended location (especially when using the “link” mode), making this process as fast as possible. It is possible to re-direct the clip to a different location but it must be done prior to opening or selecting in the clip menu. Use the “OpenFS Properties” right click menu. You probably know that already but wanted to point it out. This request does make sense and will put it with our list. The Commit process tends to be complicated as it puts clips together and gets rid of temporary data. Probably best given the current architecture, to use the Export menu to send the committed clip to your intended location.

Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

I have a simple configuration guide for the HP Z800 that I could eamil if you would private email me at garya at blackmagic-design dot com. This guide assumes some Linux knowledge. It doesn’t talk about the storage as the sky is the limit on posibilities. I think Jonathan did a great job with the description.

Regards, Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Two disks generally do not provide enough spread of the image to provide any great throughput. Having more disks scripped as a single volume will help. The StorNext file system will increase the throughput as well but probably not worth the cost for two disks. If these disks are using the local file system (like ext3), make sure you have the “Enable Direct I/O” box checked in the Revival configuration widget. This will help reduce system overhead during playback and processing.

The problem with proxies in this environment is they require reading the whole file which is the issue in the first place. Writing proxies after reading each change will compromise throughput as well.

Regards, Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hello Jonathon. You are indeed right. These types of scratches are difficult to correct automatically. Frame by frame may be the only method for good results. If you have a couple of sample frames that would not compromise the copyright, you could send them to us for future development purposes.

Regards, Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hi Jonathan. I’m afraid the Wacom interface is not very user friendly. If you would send me what you would like to try via personal email, I could send back the command lines to try. My email is “garya” at blackmagic-design.com.

We are always interested in feature requests. You may offer them via a public forum as many do in this one. Or best to send requests to “davincihelp” at blackmagic-design.com. Or you may send them directly to me via personal email. I generally keep the list of feature requests for Revival.

Best Regards, Gary Adams

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hello Jonathon. Good questions. There are many things that can be adjusted on the tablet. The utility to use on the Linux command line is “xsetwacom”. You can use the “man xsetwacom” for traditional Linux manual pages. The program itself can make immediate changes, but for permanent changes, the appropriate lines would be added either to the “/etc/X11/xorg.conf” file or in a startup file like “.login”. These are advanced controls. Be careful when modifying system type files.

Regards, Gary Adams

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Thank you for your interest Henry. The manual is a bit old and needs some attention. If you wish to send me your email, I’ll send you some further information.

Regards, Gary

garya at Blackmagic…

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hello Henry. Sorry for some missing information in the manual. As you know, once any automatic dirt pass has completed, the dirt matte may be toggled on to visually see where each repair was made, allowing the user to undo any unwanted fixes or artifacts. You may save this matte with the clip using the clip menu, but as you have noticed, saving with the clip doesn’t provide any use once the clip has been committed. To make further use of the dirt matte, save the matte with the menu as you have found. After the current clip has been comitted, the new “rst” version may load the previously saved matte. Matte files are saved by default in the “data” directory. Now to make use of the dirt matte in the rst (or any subesquent version of the clip), you must associate the original or “dirty” version of the clip using the F2 Assign Original. This effectively links the current “clean” version with the original “dirty” version. You may then continue selectively undoing any unwanted fixes.

Regards, Gary Adams
Revival Product Manager

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

I did test configuring a raw disk on Revival and successfully initialized a 2TB disk. Since that manual text was written long ago (by me), it was probably talking about some of the drive configurations used at the time.

I should add a minor word of caution here. The RAW file system has some benefits, however, is limited in performance and reliability due to the nature of the raw devices. This is why we recommend the Open File System using StorNext on a RAID5 or better system. Creating a huge RAW file system has the potential of losing a huge amount of data when one disk fails.

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hello Henry. This is an interesting question which I don’t exactly know the answer at the moment. If you give me a day or so, I can try to figure it out. I’m probably the one that wrote that but your assesment may be correct. There could be systems already running in this configuration that I am not aware.

Regards, Gary Adams

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design