Jeff Kirkland
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What you’re doing is what I’d think of as the “quick and dirty” way of getting the job done. Another approach would be just replacing the painting and animating a mask around the actor as needed. If you’re determined to do it within FCPX then you could do it all by hand with a shape mask and keyframes or CoreMelt have their SliceX plugin that can help automate the process.
Going beyond FCPX that are a lot of tools specifically designed to get the job done that would make life easier… Mocha, either full version or the lite version that’s in After Effects can help automate the tracking and masking. AE also has the RotoPaint tool that should make the job relatively painless.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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The option doesn’t always show up – or it doesn’t for me anyway – and replying to your own post is the workaround.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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There’s trick to editing…. click to reply to your own post, then you’ll get an edit link under the original message. Took me a couple of years to find that.
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I’d try playing with the Hue vs Hue curve and pulling the magenta out, then use maybe a colour selection mask to isolate his skin tones and tweak from there but there’s really not a lot to work with in the original as far as correction goes.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Yeah of course… if it’s going to break, it’s on a tight deadline…
Make triple sure you’re not leaving the checkbox set for letting Resolve search for media when you’re bringing the XML in because FCPX will try to hard code that into the file.
Apart from that, not sure. The only real issue I’ve had connecting was when the original files had been set up so that clips had duplicate file names. Left to its own devices, Resolve will tend to connect to the first file it finds with the same name, whether it’s the right one or not.
It can a bit painful but Resolve’s ability to reconnect manually is pretty good so as long as the original files are well organised at the Finder level, it shouldn’t take too long to disconnect the wrong files and tell Resolve where to look for the right ones.
Sorry I can’t help more than that…
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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There’s a lot going on in there. Is there a specific frame that shows the look you’re after? Basically, that opening is really a bunch of timelapse and tilt-shift shots, plus a whole lot of clever editing.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Are you letting Resolve find the clips based on the XML or are you importing the media first? I used to have a lot of issues before a colourist friend told me to always bring the media into Resolve first, then bring in the XML. I’ve had pretty much zero linking issues since then.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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I use merge. Merge is really an extension of dissect and, according to the user guide, is the safer option as far as not breaking the package goes.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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it’ll make a huge difference when you’re slowing stuff down but I can’t see it mattering much when you’re speeding it up to get back to “normal” speed. The obvious disadvantage aside from media storage is that you’ll need way more light to shoot. As a DoP, that would be number one reason for not shooting at any higher frame rate than I had to for any specific shot.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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It’s probably a question better asked in the FCP 7 group where people actually remember how that app works but I don’t think I’d be wrong in saying you’ll have to go through and manually relink the clips. I can’t imagine any NLE having enough to go on to automatically relink media based only on file size.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland