[Glenn Sakatch]

The first thing I ask is what style are you looking for.

For me it is very dependent on the type of music, and the type of edit they are looking for. Many of the concerts I’ve done have been rock shows, high energy, with 8 to 13 cameras. This would have me quoting very differently from a 5 camera orchestral concert.

I also want to know how many songs in the final program, and what kind, if any interstitial interviews etc. are going into the show.

From here I simply decide how many songs I can offline in a day, at the chosen pace of the show. As well, I would add in some time per song for changes.

If its a director I’ve worked with before, then we know how each other work, and changes become less of an issue. If its someone I haven’t worked with before, I might add a few more hours for changes.

If this is your first run at a multicam concert, you might want to start with a lower price, and a lower songs per day projection. This will allow you to work out your own workflow for multicam vs straight editing techniques.

Personally, for the shows/style I’ve done, I’m usually trying for 2.5 songs a day in the first pass. I do like to sit and watch every song through every camera lens for the main shots as part of the process. (If a camera is locked onto a drum kit, or a high wide locked off safety shot, I might skip it until I need a shot) Lets me know before I start cutting, where the problems are going to be.

The songs per day approach also helps me keep myself on a simple time budget.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

not quite the same, but I’m doing it on a PC

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I have a few systems kicking around, including an MXO2 for use with my laptop. I haven’t checked in a month or so, but back in January, it still didn’t have drivers for the 8.03 Avid release, so I had to roll my laptop back to 7.0 for that gig. I’m on a dongle, so its a pretty easy rollback, as the license just works. With a software activation, you would have to unregister, and then reregister with 7. Avid says you can still go back and forth with that type of setup.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Sounds like your box can’t handle that size of a file.

MXF is a much more Avid friendly codec.

What are your specs
What kind of drive are you trying to play back from.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

The frustrating thing about the round trip is the combination of speed effects and changing the timeline.

I find many of the fancy speed effects do come across from Avid (but have had trouble figuring out why some do not). The kicker is that those are represented in the original aaf that comes from Avid. If you change your timeline at all, as Joe says, you need to output a new aaf from Resolve…at which point all those speed effects get destroyed when going back to Avid. (I’m referring to spline tweaked changes, not basic run at 50 percent changes)

Also good luck trying to manipulate an avid created spline effect in Resolve.

About a year ago I decided ANY changes for a proper round trip, needed to be done in Avid, with a new list. It was the only way to get it to work without me having to hunt and peck for shots to relink, or manually recut into Avid.

Change 1 shot? Do it in Avid and send me a new list please.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Timo, they might all be 16x slots, but those slots have rules regarding that functionality, depending on how other slots are being used. I’m pretty sure that at least one of those slots drops to 8x if another one is being used at 16 x. Perhaps try the blackmagic config, without the other cards in place and see if that helps.

(I’m assuming you have dual CPU’s?)

Also, which of your cards is hooked up to the monitor?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

There certainly is. I’m assuming Timo that you’ve installed them based on the Resolve suggested board order in their config guide?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I too love my Flanders..but be aware the free calibration service does assume you are paying the cost of shipping. I live outside the U.S. So the shipping on my Flanders is around 3 or 4 hundred each way…that’s assuming I can do without it for a week or so.

Doesn’t take too many shipping costs like that for me to pay for one of their probe options. Really one trip back and forth and I’ve bought their basic package.

As you said, it’s quite the investment for your company. The monitor will be calibrated when you receive it. There is nothing stating you couldn’t put a probe in next years budget.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Hmmm, i just checked my system. I might have been confusing an earlier time when i had an FX4800 and the K4000.

I installed one card, installed the driver, installed the other card, and it wouldn’t show up untill I installed a second different driver.

It looks like my system, with a K4000 and two GTX770s, are all using one driver.

I have some other conflicts with my Avid DS software, so i’m on an earlier version…i’m running 310.90 (3d vision controller and 340.52 (graphics driver) In my computer management it lists driver version of 9.18.13.4052 for both.
(I hate the Nvidia number system…hard to know what you are running.)

But again, they should both show up in your computer management. Have you tried removing the GTX to see if the K4000 shows up? If the card changed slots after its initial installation, it might need to be removed and reinstalled into the new slot, without the other card in the system.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Both cards are in the machine, or is one in an expansion chasis?

I have k4000 and gtx’s, but they are in an expansion slot. All 3 show up in resolve.

Does the K4000 show up in your device manager. (You have 2 different sets of drivers installed correct?)

Glenn