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Josh Petok
August 31, 2011 at 4:58 pm in reply to: AVID Resolve roundtrip

Here’s what I’ve been doing for a Resolve/Avid workflow. It’s still a bit bumpy, but it’s the best that I’ve come across for the types of tv shows I’ve been doing (avid fx, boris, PiP, speed fx, etc). I plan on putting this together in a tutorial soon.

For this to work correctly, be sure the checkbox for “Assist using Reel Numbers” is off.

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1. Export a textless version of your show in a format Resolve can read. Exporting in “acts” will improve the performance in Resolve as well as making it easier to deal with changes.

2. Export an EDL of V1 using either the “file 16” or “file 32” templates

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3. Add your files to the media pool and preconform from the EDL

4. Grade and render in target mode

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5. import or AMA your footage and overcut

But wait! What if the cut changes?!?! and it usually does…

1. In Avid, export the act(s) that have changes with an EDL for V1

2. Make a new project in Resolve, add the files and preconform again

3. Use the colortrace function to move all the grades from your previous project to the new project

4. color remaining clips, render, and import/AMA into Avid

This is my “beta” workflow. I’m open to hear how this could be improved.

Ideally, I’d like Resolve to work more like Film Master does, which has VERY tight integration with Avid. AFAIK, everything comes over in the AAF file: effects, boris, sapphire, you name it. That said, Film Master is significantly more expensive. The usual time/money/speed triad applies.

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August 12, 2011 at 7:02 pm in reply to: Would A SSD hard dive be better

A 40 gig SSD is only 88 bucks and would be plenty for a boot drive and several apps.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDMX040/

Here’s a link to the multi mount as well

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MM352A52MP9/

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June 15, 2011 at 5:53 pm in reply to: 5d to dpx

Check out page 93 of the manual:

You may find that clips come in a file format that DaVinci Resolve does not play natively in the timeline. The Format Conversion pop-up allows you to change the file type. Simply select the clip within the Clip Details display, right mouse click and select Format Conversion. In the new window select the Target format for the clip and ‘Start Conversion’

There is a setting for converting to DPX

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June 10, 2011 at 3:11 pm in reply to: Using Gestures in Resolve

YES! That would be awesome. Since Lion has become so gesture centric, maybe we’ll see it in V9 🙂

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June 5, 2011 at 9:04 pm in reply to: ANYONE successfully using Quadro 4000 in a mac?? Please tell me the secret!

I’m sucessfully using a quadro 4000 in an 8 core nahalem. Im on 10.6.5 and resolve 7.1. I’m not sure what the oldest os is that you can run on that machine. I think you might have better luck with 10.6.5. That was before the quadro 4000 broke.

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June 2, 2011 at 4:40 pm in reply to: Using Gestures in Resolve

I could see that. Especially with the teeny tiny apple bluetooth keyboard. I briefly checked out the X-Keys booth at NAB and I liked what I saw. It might be a good solution for you for both a tactile experience, as well as a small footprint:

https://x-keys.com/xkeys/xk24.php

BTW, you get ControllerMate free with your purchase 😉

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May 31, 2011 at 3:11 pm in reply to: Controllermate and WAVE

Very cool. Mapping the mems to the F keys makes a ton of sense to me. ControllerMate is a pretty deep program. I’m planning on making more tutorials to walk through some of the finer details.

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May 31, 2011 at 1:56 pm in reply to: Controllermate and WAVE

I haven’t noticed any noticeable lag. I’m using the 2nd USB plug in the back of the Mac Pro. When testing, I do notice stange behavior when I’ve remapped the same key a lot of times. A restart fixes the problem. You can add delays manually in controller mate. I’d just be sure you haven’t added one of those in by mistake.

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May 26, 2011 at 8:31 pm in reply to: Clip Replacement for VFX

Are you working with DPX or EXR frames? That workflow seems pretty seamless for a VFX heavy project.

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May 25, 2011 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Avid 5 – Resolve roundtrip problem

[michael stirling] “Da vinci seems to be losing reel names on the way in. In the media pool al the clips have a reel number of 001 which isn’t correct.”

Is it possible that your reel names are longer than 8 characters? I’m not sure if that’s a problem, but it’s something you might want to check.

As I look at my own MXF directory, I can see the reel name in each of the individual MXF files. You could try using the Timeline Conform Options: Assist Using Reel Numbers from the: Source clip filename. I’m not sure how your directory structure is setup, but I’m assuming you could use something like */Avid MediaFiles/MXF/%R

Then again, you could wait for Resolve 8 to ship in June 😉 From my brief experience with it. the new workflow relies on ALEs to transport metadata.

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