Harris Charalambous
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[Marc Wielage] Call me crazy (and many do), but I’d love something as simple as being able to drop in a couple of points on an existing circular power window just to finesse it a little bit more without having to redraw a Power Curve from scratch. I’m all about getting it done faster.
Actually Marc, not crazy at all! Baselight does this and it’s great. Additionally I would add that I would also like the option to curve the top edge of the Gradient Power window, so it isn’t a straight edge, blends nicer on some shots and saves having to use a circular power window.
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Considering that I paid 1k for the software I would be willing to pay $500 for custom mapping of the elements panel. As far as I know and confirmed from Tangent this is not up to them but up to BM to implement the use of the tangent hub to allow custom mapping. Not hard coding the panel in resolve.
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Hey Nat, thanks for the feedback!
Film convert is a great one and worth the money for sure.
I’ve tried Saphire and its amazing, but its too much money. I’d happily loose some plugins to make the price more reasonable as I think there are plugins that I’ll probably never use. A Resolve Edition would be great but I’ve exchanged emails with Genarts about it and I don’t think Resolve users are a priority to them (longer story).
Neat, has been on my list for awhile but as you mentioned the new noise tools are pretty good and very convenient.
I need to look into beauty box again.
Thanks.
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Hey Joseph, you can kind of make windows work with the existing controls but not nearly as easily as you can with the selection options in PS. I guess I would happy enough if we could just have an option to quickly gang the windows together, so they can move together. This would also save having to copy and past tracking data too. Sure it can be done with a key mixer but it adds quite a few more steps ( great when you are combining qualifications and windows etc).
As for being able to select multiple points on a power curve well if the code doesn’t allow it then I hate to say it the code needs rewriting because its not very forward thinking especially considering the fact they just reworked the power windows in V10. You could do this in combustion way back when.
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+1 on Paul’s thoughts
Here are mine.
1. Add Flip / Flop to inspector in edit page. These are needed in the conform process when comparing to the offline. Clicking back and forth between the color page to do this is very cumbersome.
2. Add back Use Sizing from XML or add a toggle to the Edit Sizing sub menu in the Color Page. This feature was especially useful when dealing with split screen material that includes the whole image but is just scaled down as it’s final position. That way we can color the clip full screen but also see how the clip looks scaled down in its final position. Not to mention just being able to to see what sizing has been applied to a clip.
3. New Power window features in v10 are great but are still lacking the ability to Add to one another, Subtract, Intersect etc without the use of a Key Mixer. This would be a time saver.
4. Give us the ability to select multiple points on a Power Curve Window and move them together. Just like one could do in compositing applications from 15 years ago (love you BM but this is half implemented).
5. We need fixes for the tracker not working correctly when a clip has a negative retime applied. Tracker needs to track forward when at the beginning of a clip regardless of whether or not a clip is reversed or not. Currently it needs to be tracked backwards!
6. If the clips has a flip or a flop applied this should Not Invert the Power Window Controls on the panel. Try doing this in font of somebody and making a fool of yourself because your taking it in the opposite direction of where you were try to take it.
7. Related to 5 and 6, if a clip has a rotation applied to it, resolve should know that it has it and not try to align the horizon level of a Power Window to it. This inevitable makes the Power Window crooked.
8. Scroll wheel in the Edit Page should zoom the playhead not scroll the timeline up or down. No need to reinvent the wheel here. Zooming is much more useful!
9. Resolve saves the window layouts and column sorting with the session or per user.
10. Better External Matte controls. In my experience try to zoom, pan or tilt a matte doesn’t seem to work. Zooming isn’t centered etc etc.
12. Add a highlight option to Log Grading so we can see where the range is affecting the image. That being said I ultimately would love to see the range controls like they are in Baselight and Scratch. Not only allowing us to select the luminance range but also the softness in the overlap of Lift, Gamma, Gain.
13. Keyboard shortcut for Log Grading (or make this part of the paid application) not 30K panel!
14. Keyboard Shortcut for Invert Power Window (or make this part of the paid application) not 30K panel!
15. Make a decision, either give us custom 3rd party panel mapping, a cheaper BM panel or at the very least a really well thought out Factory mapping. Current Elements mapping is very poor, sorry but in its current state its like Chinese torture!
All this being said thanks for all the hard work it is much appreciated!
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OFX have been great but they slow playback down to a crawl. Nat, what other plugins have you found worthwhile?
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I’ve had an issue as well where the keyboard shortcut for split screen sometimes shows up in the menu and sometimes doesn’t. That shortcut has never worked for me!
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If Resolve could remember the state it was left in (whichever sort column I selected last) from previous sessions that would be ideal. That along with it remembering my window layout would save a few minutes every time I open the application.
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Resolve has come a long way since BMD purchased it, kudos to them!
That being said there are many things I still want from Resolve and BMD, but more than anything Third Party Mapping – specifically Element Mapping is a complete joke and needs to be fixed ASAP and I don’t mean just adding offset to the A Side, I mean truly functional mapping that makes a colorists job more pleasant and efficient not frustrating and slow.
They love giving away features in the lite version but how about some real love to the people that supported them from the get go with the full version and still do! They intentionally say nothing and do nothing when it comes to mapping but will happily answer the most basic questions on their forums. That is truly great support, but isn’t it about time this gets addressed once and for all!
Sorry to be so negative but these so called mapping improvements are just patronizing. I guess I have a problem with authority too 🙁
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It would be quite useful is resolve could have an extended vertical/horizontal blur, just like the new extended blur!