[Glenn Sakatch]

The newer versions of Avid will still read and write OMF media. It is a setting in your media creation tab.

I think the problem is he doesn’t have a version of Avid to use, although he could always download the trial and go for 30 days worth of outputs.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Resolve will read your mxf files, but I think you are going to need avid for the OMF media.

Odd that you can’t install the old version. Something funky going on there.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I think Joe knows why I’m laughing.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Not at my box, but from memory…right click on your still preset and select display node.

From here you can drag any pieces of that preset over to your existing grade…and ignore any areas you don’t want.

Take the preset qualifier, and put it into a different area of your new correction, or as was mentioned, use the alpha from it.

While a lot of this in not necessarily in the “basics” of resolve, it is in a pretty routine, day to day workflow. I would highly suggest you search out some tutorials.

Ripple training
Tao of Color
CMIVFX
Udemy

are all good examples, and fairly inexpensive.

It sounds like you are ready to learn the next steps.

Glenn

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I always try avoid picking the nose area, especially when clients are around. 🙂

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

or just grab a still?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

are the power buttons on your audio tracks turned on?
Each track has a button that can turn a track on or off.

Not the mute and solo switches, but the round shaped button.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I had some bad rendering issues (only on one project), but I was constantly given screens similar to yours, as well as “dots” would appear on other rendered frames. When I say dots, I mean it kinda looked like a dead pixel, but it would only appear for a frame or two, and sometimes there would only be 1 or two dots…other times they would be all over the place.

Anyway, the only way I managed to get this thing comfortably rendered, where I thought I had it all correct was to set my render speed to 1 frame a second. This was a 2 min HD project, with plenty of nodes, but Resolve was ripping through it so fast, you couldn’t even see some of the issues until I did a playback of the renders.

By slowing it down, It forced resolve to load the frame, then render the frame.

At one point I slowed it to 5 fps, but it still glitched out at some points.

1 fps seemed to work for me. Wouldn’t want to do it for a 90 minute feature however.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I guess that depends on how serious you are about uncompressed. Mpeg4 (and H264) are about as far away from uncompressed as you can get:)

If size isn’t an issue …i don’t use premiere, so have no idea how it handles items) you may want to look towards
an uncompressed quicktime. That is about as close to uncompressed as you can get.
An animation quicktime is probably the next best thing.

Also Tiff or dpx sequences, or even DNX or ProRes HQ quicktimes will give very good results.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I have a G13 and an Avid Transport controller. I actually depend on the G13 when I work with resolve, but not so much with Avid. I have programmed some things into it for Avid, but never jumped into it head first. I already have so many shortcuts mapped in Avid, that its quicker for me to use those, where as resolve is much less mappable on a keyboard. You have to use their shortcuts.

Now if you are thinking you can totally get rid of the keyboard, then there is no way.

At some point you are going to have to type something up.

As for the ergonomics of it, I’m not sure you would gain anything from a different controller. Try changing your chair height, or using an arm rest, or get a stand up desk.

The game controllers, for the most part, sit at the same angle a keyboard does.

Glenn