[Joseph Owens]

[Mark Kozlowski] ” I have binned the database files and it rebuilds them fine just wont find the files.”

Have you tried the above strategy (once the mdb has been rebuilt) of dragging the new mdb into a new bin?

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Robert Houllahan] ” Z800 workstations that dual boot OSX Lion and Win 7″

Really? That’s a neat trick. How…..?

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[John Cox] “Does the TVM-900 provide YRGB parade?”

Yes. It was a big item for me, as I had gotten used to that from telecine days.

The “Iris” legal gamut alarms are also very useful — nothing like fixing a problem on the spot instead of hoping a chainsaw legalizer will catch it later.

The only big mistake I made initially configuring the scope was leaving out all the audio monitoring and six-way surround displays, etc. I’ve sort of made up for that with the audio monitoring in the Flanders, but still not quite the same. Unfortunately not retro-fittable, and the option costs the same as an LM-2461 anyway, so I got a good grade monitor with my audio monitoring…. 😉

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

seems like a little bit of weirdness in how the database is constructed.

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

That’s what I’m sayin’.

Presto!Digital Colourgrade is:

System One (Final Cut) is ATI5770 GUI feeding a 23″ Apple Cinema Display and an HP 15″ generic (switchable between miniDisplay and the VGA output of a VideoTek TVM-900 scope. Switchable because I used to flip back and forth to the COLOR scopes for Secondary color-picking — but I don’t do that anymore with Resolve. Main monitoring is via Decklink SDI to a Flanders LM-2461.

System Two (offline) is more or less the same, but paired with a recycled NEC MultiSync 4FG that might be older than you. No, really it might be, well, it will be close.

System Three (AVID) travels, and is in another studio across town at the moment tied to a couple of expensive LaCies and another Flanders, but when its home it feeds a Samsung SA-300 series 23″ and a….er… cheap something or other… Acer V193.

Kind of a hodgepodge, but the information they display is all the same, and I don’t use anything but SDI-fed grade monitors for judgement.

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

[Mike Most] “And in most cases, the daily correction is not likely to be used directly, it’s going to be more of a visual guide for the final colorist,”

Agreed with simpler is better, as never mind being on the same page, the same part of the library would be good.

Seems like a “chase” output as a reference might be handy, as in the Offline mode.

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

[Jeremiah Belt] ” I also wonder if I can even make the GTX 580s run on my older system. Even with the new drivers.”

In a MacPro 2,1. I highly doubt it. No Resolve config will likely tolerate not having the GUI in Slot One for starters.

I also don’t believe your vintage MacPro is eligible for upgrade to LION OS, which is required for the new nVidia drivers.

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

Noted. I don’t use the Resolve controller as I do all of my laybacks from FCP’s ETT module, as horrible as it is.

I also note that lately I don’t lose contact with the machine as often, now that I have switched from AJA Kona3 to Blackmagic Decklink Extreme3D (with a Videohub serial router).

jPo
SRW-5500 owner.

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[Joseph Owens]

[Alex Frankland] “may I use the other two mini-display ports for a second GUI monitor? I merely want to use the second for the Resolve scopes.”

You probably only need to use one of them for a second GUI monitor and that is acceptable. Use of a second monitor is probably not that big of a performance hit relative to using the software scopes, which is also a contribution to overall load. I see you’re using a Q4000 for color processing, anyway, so you likely won’t see a difference in displayed frame rate.

Buy a 15-inch cheapie, unless you want starship-flight-deck appeal. Making the waveforms bigger doesn’t improve on the available resolution, anyway.

jpo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

Well, you know, free advice for a free app. You get what you pay for, correct?

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?