[Glenn Sakatch]

Can you convert avids title tool to a titler pro title…no. two totally different programs. (and companies)

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

you might have to transcode to prores for delivery, but that doesn’t mean you have to transcode to prores for the edit.

Transcode the footage to DNX, cut your piece, once its signed off on, either uprez back to camera original and color and output to Prores, or color the dnx and output to prores.

There is absolutely no need to do a double transcode before you start editing.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

original art direction helps as well.

If the girl had a bright red shirt, the boy had a bright blue shirt, and the wall behind them was pink, the effect becomes very different.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

If you are asking why the adobe premiere interface and the Davinci resolve interface don’t look exactly the same, you will probably have a lot of people asking why they should. They each use their own engines, math etc to form a picture. Load it up in Avid and will probably look different still.

(to be honest, i’m looking at your images thinking…whats wrong?)

If you are saying the levels look different on scopes from one output to the next programs input, than it usually comes down to output setting from Resolve (video vs auto vs full) to how Premiere is interpreting the footage when you bring it back in.

Are you using a proper reference monitor?
Have you tried your workflow using bars?

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Yes of course.

Turn on blanking, turn off blanking, change the amount of blanking at will.

What you render out will have it baked in, but as long as you keep your source material, and project in tact, you can always go back and change it and re render it with different settings.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Steve, once you output a show, everything is baked in. Blanking is no different. You now have a black bar on the top and bottom of your final output.

If you want to do more work on the show, or change the frame size further, you would go back into the original project, with all the original media attached…like you had never output it in the first place, turn off the blanking, do your tweaks, turn on any new blanking you wanted, and do a new output. That new output would now be baked in.

The term destructive and non-destructive usually refer to you continuing to work in the project, and whether or not corrections, or moves or what ever you have done during your process can be undone. Once you output, you are done.
If you want more than 1 formatted version, you do that all from your master project.

If you reimport your output file, and try to work on it, and tweak it, then you have lost some of your resolution, and any further changes you do could quite easily take it down even further in quality, depending on what you are doing.

Your other option is to output a full screen master and then use that for any future pan and scan versions….including a 2:35 version, or something similar.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

you can create a matte for Resolve to use as a track matte…not really how i would go about it, but it probably is possible in Resolve.

Create your white only text and import it as a matte effect, not a regular clip.
Then in your node tree, you have your video and tell that node to use a track matte, and point it to your white text effect.
You might also be able to bring it in as a regular clip, put it on track 2 with an alpha output and get the desired effect, but that would take some playing around.

It may be possible

Everyone wants Resolve to do everything, but it is still a really good color corrector, and I guess the editing is coming along…haven’t tried it for that yet.

For compositing and fx, look at fusion or after effects, or even Media Composer.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Typically i create a quicktime with timecode burn on it, and send a separate embedded aaf (audio only).

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

My advice would be to learn about fusion.
Yes resolve has some compositing capabilities, but that is not what it is built for.
Can this be done in resolve? I would assume so, but again, not as intuitive for it.

In Fusion you would track the eyes, plug that track data into the fx version of the eyes, merge the 3 items together and Render. (a bit simplistic of an explaination, but…)

In your situation, how many spiral clips are you using. It sounds like you have 1 large spiral effect on the bottom layer, and thats it? Or do you have a double spiral on layer 1 and you are hoping to track both at the same time to different eyes?

I would try putting the girl on the bottom, a spiral on both the v2 and v3 tracks.
lower their transparency and resize/position them so the first frame of the shots are all lining up how you want them.
then put the transparency back to normal.
You should be able to copy the tracking data from the left eye to V2 and the right eye to V3
You will also need to tell resolve to composite these clips onto each other. (again, this is where i would typically just say screw it, and go to fusion) In Resolve, i think you have to create alpha channels in your node tree, and export those key channels on each clip so that they show through to the lower levels. Just because you have stacks of video in resolve, doesn’t mean 1 clip shows through to the next. (unless something has changed recently)

Do a search for some basic tracking tutorials in fusion, and i think you will be off to the races.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Doing anything to your desktop is the same as doing it to you c drive. The desktop is just a folder on the C drive, and can become a junk yar very quickly if you start working that way.

For what you are going to do, your “renders” will be your final outputs…so maybe a bunch of 2,3 4 min pieces at MP4 or maybe a master file at dnxHD? Nothing too crazy. You could setup an “outputs” folder on your external drive, or your second internal drive.

Yes you could add another drive somewhere, but i don’t think you will find it that necessary.

The beauty with a PC is you can add more storage if and when you need it.

You will not be unable to work if you don’t have another drive.

Glenn