Jamie Allan
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I’d be wary of supporting an unqualified system Rohit! He clearly states this is running on a PC hacked to run OSX and a GPU that isn’t qualified for use…Ive seen nothing but issues with these setups.
If you want to avoid the problems, use a qualified system 🙂
Jamie Allan
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The beta programme is closed to a number of select users worldwide, yes I admit theres alot of them on here, but this is a large community of experienced users so its not too surprising 🙂
IMO
The new version answers most, if not all, of the questions posed when V7 went live. The features we’re seeing today have been pined after by long term Linux users for years and I’m expecting new users to be just as excited as they are.
In particular – workflow with other finishing tools is brilliant, dropping new shots in and out is great, XML EDl AAF etc all work fine, rough cutting for onset is great coupled with the wide format support…
Jamie Allan
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You do have a visual representation in the levels at the bottom left of the screen, where you can also manually adjust them.
Not like Color, I know, but as that feature was never in Resolve…I don’t see how it can be ‘missed’ 🙂
The whole point of the lite version is to be limited, its not designed to be a free colour grading application so they won’t be putting in extra features just for it. It makes alot more sense when you look at it from the POV of training, DOPs, on set pre-vis and just getting an idea of the application before making an investment.
Jamie Allan
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Rendering, as far as I’m aware, is a CPU only process. You’ll see improvements where possible with the latest 12-core machines
Jamie Allan
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Initially I agreed with you Peter, and you I’m sure there will be simple HD projects that are balanced using the Lite version, but as Chris has already pointed out for me:
Client: “Can we maybe put a window on the right over there, to bring down that wall?”Colorist: “Well, we could, but I was too cheap to buy the full version of Resolve, and I’m out of nodes.”
The truth is, by the time you’re done building the rest of a real-time Resolve system, the cost of the software isn’t even that significant. The free version will be used for prepping, as an on-set DIT utility, and by do-it-yourself types. Not in grading suites. Blackmagic will probably see almost no cannibalization of the paid version
Jamie Allan
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Jamie@Jigsaw24.comJigsaw Systems Ltd. – IT & Broadcast specialists for the UK
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I think its very important to realise that you cant use the free version for professional work that requires more than 2 nodes or any of the new features, its a tool to seed the market, provide schools with an easy way to teach the software and for anyone to get used to the UI before investing
From the website:
“The free DaVinci Resolve Lite includes the same high quality processing as the full DaVinci Resolve, however it limits projects to SD and HD resolutions, two color correction nodes, a single processing GPU and a single RED rocket card. Stereoscopic 3D features, 2K, noise reduction, power mastering, remote grading and sharing projects with an external database server are features only offered in the full DaVinci Resolve and are not included in this free DaVinci Resolve Lite edition”
Blackmagic have, once again, announced a raft of products that seem both insanely cheap and ridiculously high quality at the same time. Having spent alot of time with V8 on the booth at NAB I can happily say it has answered all of the shortcomings of V7 – and they’ve achieved that in one year of development. That’s unheard of in this industry.
This update hasnt made the DaVinci systems any cheaper. The software costs the same. The hardware, wether it be a 4GPU Linux system or a 3GPU Cubix-Mac system, still costs the same. So those who’ve invested are not being shortchanged – they’re getting a complete version update for free – also unheard of.
What has changed is the quality, its gone up, certainly beyond even what I was expecting. Yeah, I kicked off with the developers and EMEA team when they told me at the reseller meeting there was a free version, but then I was told the limitations and calmed down almost instantly.
When you see the new features in action, I belive all gripes will be forgiven 😉
Jamie Allan
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As far as I’m aware .ari and .cine RAW file support was added in 7.1
Find the entire supported list here: https://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/davinci/pdf/DaVinciResolveSupportedCodecList.pdf
Jamie Allan
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Great tip Warren, nice one
Will mention that during my BVE demos next week
Hope you’re well mate
J
Jamie Allan
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Hi Helge!
I’ve found that H264 is actually quite stable in 7.1, but I would advise that you go ProRes from ingest to delivery.
Hope you’re well mate, let me know if you’ll be out at NAB
Jamie
Jamie Allan
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Jamie@Jigsaw24.comJigsaw Systems Ltd. – IT & Broadcast specialists for the UK
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Add folder and subfolders is your friend
I’ve recently conformed 2 R3D timelines from one master folder, just added the top level folder and all subfolders and it all works fine. Might take a while if you’ve got loads of media, but be patient and it’ll get it all there.
Jamie Allan
Post Production Consultant
DaVinci Specialist (Linux/Mac)
Jamie@Jigsaw24.comJigsaw Systems Ltd. – IT & Broadcast specialists for the UK
https://www.jigsaw24.com
https://www.jigsawbroadcast.com