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The first part of the demonstration illustrates the definition of splined shapes to start isolating the objects of interest. The rest is layering on key separations and it would appear rotobrush is essentially a boundary definition that is likely parented to the first shape and is still comparing and matching pixel areas.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Looks like you are already getting advice on another forum, but this is what I have learned: Smoke, for the moment, doesn’t port to Blackmagic, but it can output via AJA Kona and Thunderbolt. Unfortunately, Resolve doesn’t port to AJA, and I don’t see the point of Thunderbolt.
Blackmagic used to support Extended Desktop, but OpenGL conflicts caused them to remove that feature a couple of years ago. Mostly to end the confusion with trying to boot Apple COLOR, but that argument may have been mooted.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Yes, but you were editing with a Long-GOP codec, which was being interpolated on-the-fly, whereas you are now dealing with an intra codec where every frame is distinct. You should be able to simply close the gaps by stretching the in or out point of each clip, keeping your cut points consistent. Other posters are correct that this phenomenon usually occurs with frame-rate differences on a Final Cut timeline, but it will also occur with Long-GOP formats –XDCam is also another major offender, especially with round trip workflows with a color grade application in the middle. You should check (possibly with an original timeline QT/baked or self contained) where the frame drift actually occurs. You might find that everything is a frame advanced, for example, even if the cut points are accurate.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Seems like it borrows a lot from a planar tracking application whose name tastes like a blend of chocolate and coffee.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Eric Hansen] “a dash is probably your best best.”
Probably legal. Linux/Unix convention, for your consideration, is usually an underscore ( _ ).
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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I’ll be wandering around as well. Also the CPUG Tuesday evening, but if Apple shows their faces at that event, they will have about 30 seconds to keep me from leaving. Not that this will be of any concern to them, or anyone else, really.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Marcus Smith] ” I know that some people in the community also get a higher level of support for Resolve from the BMD support team than others.”
One possible explanation might be that they volunteer their time as Beta testers, etc.
And I do remember the hue and cry that broke out when a “Resolve Lite” forum was suggested for this website that has nothing to do with remuneration or licensing on behalf of the manufacturer.
So the “free” users get the same benefit as the licensed users…. isn’t this how “democracy” works?In business, I’ve heard that “you don’t get what you deserve- you get what you negotiate.” N’est-ce pas?
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Oliver Peters] “I want a reliable, fast workhorse that will last the next 4-5 years “
That’s ambitious.
I bought one quad G5 in 2006 that didn’t make it one year. Of course that was due to Apple’s sea-change to Intel and ramping up the OS, while completely changing their hardware/software strategy. It didn’t help that actually within that one year, I had to replace that G5 three times because of internal failures of one kind or another. Serious hangar-queen-in-the-making, like early triple-Weber Ferrari V12s.
So, notes on the Siracusa article. Saw the Viper revival special on Speed a week ago or so — interesting fight to keep the halo car, but in reality the Viper and Corvette are almost “daily drivers” compared to the really ridiculous supercars; the Veyron, MacLarens, and all the Italians. Even sensible Audi is producing a street legal LeMans car. Personally experienced a Viper 0-138 mph in a straight quarter-mile a few years back — but here is the lesson — almost the same experience in an SRT-10. That’s “trickle-down”. BTW, Jeremy Clarkson hates computers with a purple fury probably more than Akio Toyoda loves cars.
Toyota’s foray into F-1 was also mostly a failure, where they blew at least a billion for a couple of podiums and not one win. But the cachet! Out there with Ferrari — one of the most-recognized “brands” in the world, and what do they sell? Not anything you or I could buy, anything that you can get in and drive, anyway. They don’t advertise, but you have to wait for a year or so for your order to be processed…. if it is accepted, because there is a very, very long line of buyers who have already put down their cash. No, the Ferrari street cars aren’t even their “halo” cars — the Scuderia handles that item, which is not for mere mortals at all. And that is why FIAT tolerates them. I don’t think its exactly why JLo is running around Brooklyn in a Cinquecento, but.. it is the same company.
In fact, this is why Maserati has staged a form of comeback — acquired by FIAT and moved into Maranello, with its step-brothers, the Ferraris.
I have to wonder if this is Adobe’s problem — as good as their product is, it just doesn’t really have the sizzle. Not like the “I edit with AVID” kind of pedigree, whatever that might be good for. McLuhan put it, “the Medium IS the message”… not the zen koan it used to be, hey?
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Jef Huey] “I think you need to be more specific about your comment that even an uncompressed codec cycle is lossy. “
If there is any interpolation. The only time there is no quality loss in a video process is when you simply clone the file.
Might be time to go back to 2009:
https://images.apple.com/support/finalcutpro/docs/Apple-ProRes-White-Paper-July-2009.pdfPage 13 (of22) is the meat of the matter. At the end of the day, ProRes422(HQ) and its fancy big sibling 4:4:4:4 were designed to be “visually lossless”, while speeding up processing time and reducing storage and throughput demands. Usually that factor is somewhere around 10% of “Uncompressed”, while retaining much better than 99% — more like almost 100% of the multigenerational performance of what Apple calls “10-bit Uncompressed”.
As the White Paper refers to, most of the degradation artifacts that we see in final masters are the fruits of what we invented the term “GIGO” to describe in the 70s. You cannot expect 4:2:0 and 4:1:1 sourced Long-GOP to match RGB intra 4:4:4 space without a significant amount of intervention, and if your source discipline is less than perfect, matching scene levels with imaging capabilities (SNR, MTF, DOF, and so on) then either you require an actual magician or a ton of careful value placement. We all have those tools, but they do come with a price.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Nedeem Al-Astrabadi] “what’s the best way to set up the plasma as a client monitor? I’m thinking HD SDI with a splitter somewhere in there, but are there any issues with degrading the signal between the two monitors,”
If you allow your client to see both, you will find yourself in a constant negotiation between the two.
So, it will be fine if you can see both, but not if anyone else in the room can. Usually, I see the arrangement where the colorist is behind the client, who is in a “viewing area” that is somewhat cinema-like, and is the reasonable viewing distance from the larger pleasure screen. You should not think of the plasma as anything like a grading monitor, so long as it is “close” to the actual grade monitor in values. After a while you will see how it is dancing to the beat of its own drummer.As far as “splitting” the feed, you can investigate the Blackmagic HDLink device, and of course, the Decklink Extreme3D itself has a daughter card that offers simultaneous HDMI output.
I have a remote operation dedicated to a specific production that employs this arrangement. We had to wrestle that plasma to the ground and threaten it with its life to get it to behave. Shut all the “consumer” gak off first, or you will never see the truth.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.