[John Michaels]

Excellent. Thank you again!

[John Michaels]

I do round trips between Avid and Resolve all the time with no problems.

To relink footage in Avid, the footage (both ungraded and graded) must belong to the same Tape. Are you doing that?

Here’s a video showing the steps:
https://vimeo.com/40560865

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[John Michaels]

Thank you for such a thorough answer! I really appreciate the time you put in to the reply, and I found it incredibly informative.

So, since he said they shot it at 1.85, do you think I would be best off just giving them 2048×1152 unmatted frames?

I’m only in contact with the producer, who is not very technically inclined. I originally asked him for a frame figuring I could just see what they’re working with and copy it (as you said with a frame and focus chart), but he didn’t really come through with that.

As for the DNxHD, I do not have to deliver that, I was just going to do it to be nice so they had something for the offline, but maybe I’ll just scrap that idea. 😉

Thanks again.

[John Michaels]

From the second section you posted:

23/04/12 09:37:26,395 com.apple.launchd: (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-8.4[53004]) getpwnam("postgres") failed

That looks like a problem with your PostgreSQL database. If you aren’t using PostgreSQL with anything else (you’d probably know if you were), try completely removing the current installation so Resolve can do a fresh one.

Try following these steps to remove the current database. I don’t have a Mac so I can’t confirm this works, but as a Linux-y person, it looks like this should do the trick.

[John Michaels]

[Daniel Dobie] “Do i need a external ultrastudio thunderbolt card to install this software or i can use it with neither of blackmagic design hardware or with any other hardware at all ? “

No, you should be able to at least install the software with your current setup. Is there anything relevant written to Console?

[John Michaels]

In the Color tab, select your clips, right-click, and choose “Batch Unlink.” That will make each clip independent despite being from the same source.

[John Michaels]

Coming out from Avid, I output to Quicktime as RGB which scales to full range, then convert to h264, webm, etc from there to produce output very similar to my reference monitor.

It is true that many of the codecs are YUV, but they seem to expect full-range input and do whatever scaling internally during compression. I could be wrong (I do find it confusing), but that is what I seem to see from the console when using ffmpeg.

[John Michaels]

Save for the “Auto Color,” you’ll need to balance your image “manually” using the lift/gamma/gain controls and referencing the waveforms. This could be a great way to learn Davinci anyway!

[John Michaels]

Attempting to calibrate your iMac’s display to REC709 is not going to work, because the video preview window in DaVinci is already showing an approximation (though still inaccurate) of what it might look like on a yuv display. The only way to get a true representation is through something like an Intensity as someone linked to in another response.

I also don’t think an iMac is going to give you a good experience, because it only has one (relatively weak) GPU. With one GPU, after a couple of nodes on a clip, the GUI gets really unresponsive. That’s something you can check right now with Resolve Lite.

I think your best option right now on a small budget is to build a PC that meets all the requirements (multiple GPUs, Intensity card, etc) for about the same price as an iMac, but much more powerful.

[John Michaels]

Bootcamp?