[Jonathan Bigler]

Hi Luca,

pretty long time ago yes. Sadly I don’t work in the post world anymore, so it’s been 3 years since I worked on this setup. In the end, we got remote grading to work really well. So we had the footage synced on both ends with some scheduled automated-replication on two NAS in each office. I think we had troubles to get the share projects to points to the raw footage which had different path on both ends. But remote grading was good enough for us. Meaning the director was in Oslo, looking at the screen, and the colourist in Denmark. Sending a project and linking it for a remote session went fast and smoothly.

But again, this is ages ago, so there might be great solutions for a shared database today. I tried to build my setup using mostly consumer level network products in stead for professional post server solutions. So I’m not sure my experience is that relevant today.

Good luck

[Jonathan Bigler]

How to install a shared DaVinci Resolve project server on Mac OS X Server Yosemite

OK, here is episode 2 – Installing a DaVinci Resolve project server.

I decided to install our project database on a dedicated computer, a Mac mini. The documentation has a procedure for that, but PostgresSQL didn’t seem to install properly on this Mac OS X Server Yosemite. So, here’s my workaround:

• Use Postgres.app to install pgsql, super easy: https://postgresapp.com/, the nice thing here, is that it’s installed at a user level, instead of having it run at the system level. I think that’s why it works, it avoids conflicts with existing instances of PGSQL on the system. So the config files and bins are now found in: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Postgres/var-9.4/ One comment though, this is a newer version than the one run by DaVinci by default. It doesn’t seem to be a problem so far, we’ll see.
• Install the latest pgAdmin for Mac OS X: https://www.pgadmin.org/download/macosx.php
• In phAdmin, create a new role, called “postgres” and give it all the privileges. (by default Postgres.app is using your system user as an administrator, DaVinci however is using postgres as a user by default)
• By now, if you should be able to open DaVinci locally, and create a new database on the PGSQL server.
• Last but not least, you have to allow external connexion from your network on your local database server. I found DaVinci’s documentation incomplete in that regard. But this worked for me: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/postgres-allow-remote-access-tcp-connection.html
• Now you should be able to connect to your DaVinci project server from an other DaVinci client by setting up the connexion in the database manager on the client.

Have fun 😉

[Jonathan Bigler]

OK, it might be. I should try it on an other DaVinci machine. Any tip on how it is to be solved?

We turned to After Effect for this project, and there it worked as expected.

A little surprising, since it is a pretty standard font.

[Jonathan Bigler]

Thanks Toby, that was very helpful.

So as I understand it, no need to worry about color space, Gamma is enough.

My monitor is set to 2.2, I see from Tom hardware’s link you published that the Apple displays are more around 2.4, but the Galaxy is way down to 1.8. That’s a hudge difference.

Now I’m a bit wondering, if I should go up to 2.4 on my grading monitor, or stay on 2.2 as an “in between” kind of approach.

I’ll do a couple of tests in that direction and get back to this post.

Thanks for the help!

[Jonathan Bigler]

Hi Mikee,

I run into the same issue, I had no scaling, 1080p timeline, monitor with the native resolution, nothing fancy.

I tried several fonts, same issue all over.

Then I tried to turn off the shadow effect which was there by default, and boom, smooth edges.

🙂

Annoying little bug, it’s useful with shadows. But those edges were really ugly.

[Jonathan Bigler]

Thanks Andy, I’ve been looking for that “Copy track” all over, but now I found it 🙂 thank you!

It works very well!

Tip for those that wants to use that method, use the strong value -100 instead of 100. This is because we don’t want to stabilize, but apply the same shake.

[Jonathan Bigler]

Hi Joseph,

thanks for the feedback, out of the box thinking, I like that 😉

[Joseph Owens] “Save the stabilizer track for that scene, picking your key reference point and apply that to your foreground plate.”

That’s exactly what I would like to try. Basically, all I want is to apply the camera shake to my plate, no fancy camera moves. But I don’t manage to save the stabilizer track and apply it to an other clip. Could you give me more details?

Thanks to your tip about “adding weave”, I found this tutorial.
https://www.mixinglight.com/001-R9-ShakeyCamera-DM.html

That’s pretty much the same idea, but this one works accross projects/timelines. Sadly, ColorTrace does not load the existing timeline. Copying the footage on a new timeline just for tracking defeats the purpose of simplicity… Any tip?

[Jonathan Bigler]

Hi there,

well, it seems to me that the delay of the audio is matching the delay on the video outputs (HDMI and SDI), which kind of make sense.

So eventually, what I did is to hook both the Decklink and the internal audio card to a small analog mixer. In this way, if the editor works on the station, he uses the internal output, if we use an external video monitor then we switch the audio to the Decklink.

If you’re not satisfied with the internal audio card, you could use a dedicated sound card instead.

[Jonathan Bigler]

Thanks to both of you, the G13 looks like a great complement to our Wave board. Exactly what I’ve been looking for the whole afternoon, thanks 😉

For info, I successfully used my ShuttlePro: https://retail.contourdesign.com/?/products/23 to assign memories. But it only had 4 buttons, and I didn’t need the dial. The G13 seems much better.

Thanks again!

[Jonathan Bigler]

No input ?!?