[Gary Adams]

Thank you for the update. It is really useful information.

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Good question. There are several commercially available products that will do this. Resolve could do this if it fits in your workflow. XnView will do this. I think even the Linux “convert” application might but I am not an expert on this. We will check your sample frames to make sure this is the issue, of course.

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Like Christopher says, it is a good idea to send a couple of example frames to support. From the description, it sounds like the image file is “little endian” byte format. Some (not all) tools in Revival are not designed for little endian. Converting to big endian should solve the issue. This issue is on our radar.

Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hi James. While it is best to hear from actual users, I will offer to answer any questions you might have if you contact me directly. The Revival manual doesn’t describe the difference between Revival and Revival Pro but the description on the web sight might help with this. Basically, the Revival version will give you manual capability to repair dirt, dust, splices and scratches. Remember it is manual so it becomes a frame by frame process. Each of the tools are described in great detail in the manual so you can get an idea of what you can do. Revival includes the ROI Dirt and Dust, Reveal Brush, and Splice Repair sections.

Regards, Gary Adams

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Your observations are valid Arthur. Automated dirt handling in a situation of “no visible defects” is a challenge. This is where the Revival manual product does well. However, there are many more tools like stabilization, registration, deFlicker, and the like that when set correctly cause no harm whatsoever. These are very difficult to fix manually or at lease, do as well manually. If you get to IBC, please stop by.

Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

I do understand some confusion over the two models. It really is one of the most asked questions. Our website has a description similar to what I previously posted.

https://www.blackmagic-design.com/davinci/revival/

I would be happy to email a short text document with a bit more detail.

Regards, Gary Adams
garya@blackmagic-design.com

[Gary Adams]

First to answer the differences between Revival and Revival Pro.

Revival is the “manual tools only” portion of the Revival Pro product. Revival has motion compensated region of interest tools for manual repair of dirt, dust, scratches, and extreme frame damage. Also included is a powerful reveal brush with clone, offset, paint, and density matching capability. Manual splice repairs may be made using interpolated or extrapolated frame reconstruction.

Revival Pro includes this plus all of the Revival automated and specialty interactive tools including dirt, dust, grain, noise, aperture, scratch, speckle, deFlicker, stain, stabilization, RGB registration, deWarp, and grain sampling and addition. Both products have scene cut detection and EDL capability for scene cuts.

Revival and Revival Pro would work on the same Linux based hardware similar to Resolve without the extra GPUs. Revival Pro runs best with multi core processors which are allocated for automatic processing tools. A dual quad core (or better) workstation is ideal for Revival Pro. External rendering may be added which will increase the amount of work done within the same time frame.

Most dealers will want to sell turnkey packages due to the complexity of the hardware in a Linux environment. Doing this will provide a proper support system should something go wrong. I do know of some cases where customers have put together their own systems. Getting hardware support for this is a bit more difficult.

As Josh has indicated, we have not put full attention on Revival at the moment due to the importance of getting Resolve released properly. Once we do, we are hoping to simplify the installation process for Revival.

Gary

[Gary Adams]

Hello Steinthor. Sorry, I was delayed on posting this. As the emphasis has been on getting Resolve V7 ready, we have been a little late getting the Revival documentation in place. We still have not released an official equipment list for Revival. The current systems rely on dual quad core Supoermicro X7 and X8 motherboards using Nvidia Quadro FX-1700, now FX-1800 graphics. We currently support the DVS Centaurus II video I/O board. It would be best to contact the Revival supporting BMD dealer so I will pass this along to them.

Regards, Gary Adams

[Gary Adams]

Hi Park. Adding specific tools for video tape issues has long been up for consideration for Revival. To be sure, Revival’s algorithms have been specifically designed for film images, however, some tools may be repurposed for video problems. I have many customers that have reslly done an excellant job with video. Specifically, dropouts, some scratches, noise, damaged frames, flicker, stability (not intending to change camera motion though), and registration are possible. Revival does have a lossless de-interlace for purposes of repair and interlace to retain the original image. The things we all know and love about quad like velocy error, quadrature, banding, first line effect, moire, tracking, and others are a bit more difficult without specific tools. Would be happy to chat with you on this sometime. And, Revival is not currently on OS X.

Regards, Gary

[Gary Adams]

The DaVinci versions of Resolve and Revival did have the capability of sharing the Resolve database in such a way that colorists could flag frames/scenes for processing. Since the storage can also be shared, it is not necessary to move images between systems. Once the frames were repaired/processed, the colorist would immediately see the changes while preserving originals. Because the BMD version of Resolve has a new improved database structure, the current Revival temporarily has lost this functionality. When Revival development moves forward, this functionality should be restored for the better. I would say that OS X is high on the list for consideration of future development.

Gary