Joseph Owens
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[Tobias Heilmann-Schuricht] “On V2 I have the image I would like to place inside the TV set image area (PIP)”
Layering the two images is a more-or-less trivial exercise, but doing it convincingly is of course the challenge. You might be most puzzled by the challenge of matching the movement of the background plate (TV set) — which can be roughly accomplished by using the stabilization function on it, then applying (copy-and-paste) that data into the foreground element (picture you wish to insert). This isn’t really what the stabilization mode is intended to do, and there are a lot of factors that will come into play that will most likely not make this the preferred method to match the motion.
There are a number of compositing applications that are ideally suited for delivering a composite like this… Motion, AfterEffects, MochaPro, Nuke, Smoke, Shake, etc., etc. What makes the effect realistic is usually tied to trying to match the original environment of the shoot — simply pasting in the replacement video unaffected doesn’t really satisfy most audiences — you do need to mix in some optics like aberrations, reflections, and overall chromatic balance.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[John Christie] “The shots have the time code converted to 33 or 34 hour code in “
Not sure I comprehend “33 or 34 hour code”… I thought TC only went up to 23:59:59:29 or is this another thing?
[John Christie] “when I send them from Avid to Davinci via AAF, about half the clips don’t make it.”
They don’t show up in Media Pool or don’t connect in timeline? If they aren’t being imported into Resolve automatically, try to navigate directly to them using the browser — Resolve can be remarkably obtuse about recognizing media sometimes, even for the minor transgression of not having a .mov suffix. If the Resolve browser can see the original source clips, can they be imported… do they re-link, can they be force conformed…?jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Nathan Krauss] “When importing the .drp into Resolve on a different computer, the file contains only the gallery images and none of the sequence or media clips.”
When I see the project does not contain a sequence, it may mean that you are not actually looking at your imported project — you are still probably in the “untitled” default project — check your home project directory to see if there are any recent additions.
As far as media is concerned, Juan is correct that you still need to transport the source clips and probably relink to them as well.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Yes, you do have to buy them. The only other “effects” that are included with Resolve are the default “Power Grades.”
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Juan Salvo] “I’m sticking with 10.8.5 for the time being, FWIW.”
PLUS ONE.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[John Tissavary] ” anybody running Resolve 11 on a macpro 2008?”
Pretty iffy. I am finally giving up on my 3,1 8-core, basically because its the OS version that is letting me down. It was fine up to Mountain Lion, but that’s as far as she goes. The reality is that you will need something later than a MacPro 4,1 if you want to take advantage of any of the faster, stronger nVidia cards unless they are flashed for Mac — even then, some of the Mac-approved nVdia GPUs (even the Q4000) won’t run in an earlier MacPro, so be very careful with choosing the peripherals.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Eric is probably on the right track, and you may have to eliminate part of the timeline, a piece at a time, until you find the offending individual.
I did experience a General Error situation that was caused by a non-orthodox resolution on the timeline It was a few VFX clips that I had imbedded that were 853×480 ProRes422 (for my own reasons). As soon as I flipped them back to the officially blessed 720×480 / 1280×720 / 1920×1080 ‘standard’ dimensions, then all was well.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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I am in a bit of a similar situation, but not being a well-versed Media Composer editor I ran this past a colleague of mine, who agrees this is an issue. No simple solution jumps to mind, ie. deleting the .mdb file.
One of the strengths of the AVID media path approach is that it is very hierarchal and its difficult to break or lose media once it has been made part of the family — which has a second side to it, because it is also difficult to change that relationship. Where clip replacement becomes problematic, even if the re-rendered file has exactly the same basic file name — it will have a number of different metadata attributes, chief among them the creation date, which will be enough to prompt AVID MC to ignore it.
So far, we are creating bins for revised media and plugging them in one at a time, just like you are.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[John Riker] “Is it then that Resolve can’t take advantage of this and requires GPU’s for it’s work?”
That is correct. # of core processors helps with application processes, but not with image processing. There is an option to share the UI GPU resource with the dedicated additional GPUs, which in recent versions do not have to all support nVidia CUDA.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Jiggle the connectors?
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.