[Glenn Sakatch]

As far as your video goes…..i’ve seen worse.

Honestly, i think you might be a bit picky when critiquing a youtube channel for kids, shot on a phone.

Yes your phone is possibly the issue.
What format is it shooting at?
You could try transcoding to an edit friendly format in Resolve before you start editing, but it wont increase the quality…but perhaps the usability.

Your computer specs for resolve are a bit weak, even though you are doing simple little videos…that could be part of your problem. Resolve is a bit of a hog on graphics memory, and you only have 4 gigs.
Your 16 gigs of ram is probably at the lowest point you would want as well.

What are you outputting at for youtube?
The pixelization/glitches could be your output settings, or the inconsistant frame rate that the phone is recording at.

Would i recommend buying better gear for your kids to have a Youtube channel?
No
Would the quality increase if you did
Probably.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

In those screen shots you are showing the clip that we can see on the lower track inside a fusion container. Are you trying to dissolve two fusion container clips together? If so, are you doing your edit/remove to clip A before you create the container clip? If so, this may be your problem, as the container clip will not allow you to trim out the source material, after you create the container.

For a test, try a simple clip a to b dissolve, and forget about everything else on your timeline.
(go back to the basics, and work your way out)

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

The fact that you are working at 16k is irrelevant. You could be working at 5000k, but as soon as you send to fusion from within Resolve, it will crop.

If you are trying to punch in on 16k footage without losing resolution, you should actually be working at a smaller resolution, but telling Resolve to keep original size on the source clips. That way you are looking at a 16 image in (for example) HD. This allows you to zoom out on the16k clip to frame it to fill the screen with as much of the picture as the aspect ratio will allow, as well as zooming into the clip (all the way to 100%) without losing resolution.

But your initial problem is still that you are sending clips to fusion that are clipped at the edges. You might be able to center them all in the frame, and then send to fusion…but again, working at 16k (If i’m understanding what you are trying to do) is not going to help. In the end, you are in 16k, zooming in on 16k images….not too much different than working at HD, zooming in on HD images…now working at HD, zooming in on 16k images…that is what I think you want.

Or as I said originally, launch Fusion stand alone, and load your 16k images into an HD frame, and move around and be amazed at how much you can zoom into an image without losing resolution.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Part of your problem is the fusion clip from Resolve, I believe, is stuck at the resolve frame size, so that is where your cropping is probably coming in.

If you launch stand alone Fusion, and start there, you will not have the same issue.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Are you sure you have enough material for your cross dissolve?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I would export at really high quality baked video file, and an edl or aaf for the timeline edit points,and get Avid to razor it up with the pan and scan tool. (i think its pan and scan?…haven’t done it for a while)

Never tried aaf audio out of Resolve…not sure if it works yet or not…may need to do layered wave files.

Depends on the reasoning behind the request. (what do you need avid to do afterward Resolve has had it.)

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

The other end of it is that a lot of the multiscreen we are seeing are actually just screen captures from zoom or what ever service being used, with all participants on. (most of the ones i’ve been seeing are being created by the streaming service)

But if you need to get people to send you 20 different cell phone, and laptop captures, all recorded at different frame rates, you could do it old school, although sync would probably be an issue.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

And lets not forget, most of those plugins you mention are not created by the company that they work on, they are developed by third parties…so dont blame Avid for not having a plugin developed for it. (other than it’s use of resources makes it tougher to do)

But, its not like you can’t do it in Avid. We used to do these in the early days of Avid, at AVR 3.

Takes me back to my tape online days. Plan it out, use some math and start building.
Real time playback…i would assume not, but render it out, and off you go.

You’ve inspired me…maybe i’ll make one to see how the box fares.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

You need to be enrolled at a qualified institution, with proof of enrollment. Just because you are learning it doesn’t count. You actually don’t have to be taking a film course as such, but you do need a student id.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

There are many of us who flip back and forth easily between Windows and Mac.

Avid is pretty much the same on both platforms. Yes you may have to learn to deal with command instead of control key use, but the program itself is identical.

I usually found my first day back in Mac was a bit of a “oh ya…im on Mac…can’t hit that key” but doesn’t take long to get in the groove. The a week later i’m back on Windows, going “oh ya…i’m on windows…can’t hit that key”…rinse and repeat.

I cant speak to what a big hollywood post company would prefer, but If you are just getting started, i wouldn’t worry about it. Learn the program, and go on from there. The only thing that would hold you back is if you went in for an interview and said “i only work on Windows…and I refuse to work on Mac (or vice versa) If you want the job, you will work on what ever platform they have.

Glenn