Juan Salvo
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While not officially supported, I have heard that v9 does run on SL. So you could try it and see. Don’t know anything specific to changing the screen res. Sorry.
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[Craig Harris] “Use a tool like the Terenex or Smoke to do a proper conversion”
I haven’t known Smoke to be particularly well suited for FRC (frame rate conversion), Teranex is adequate. I use Snell Alchemist, which IMO is the best possibile converter in most cases.
My point is that none of those are NLEs though NLEs like FCP, Avid and even PrP now offer some form of FRC which is probably better than what Resolve might be doing, for now. Though with round trip workflow perserving the original source TC and FPS for the source clip. You could conceivably make decisions about when or how you do FRC after the color pass.
Just be sure to use the round trip/source render, not the output/timeline render to avoid burning the preview FRC resolve is doing.
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In order to avoid burning in interlacing, you need to turn on field rendering. With some formats (i.e. 486 ntsc in an HD 60i sequence) the field dominance becomes inverted. This is easily fixed by re inverting the FD using something like the “shift fields” plugin in FCP.
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[janosch simon] “the main monitor is calibrated with x-rite Eye One Display Pro and the eizo with colorbars”
Colorbars does not a calibration make. And the GUI screen is not an adequate way of judging an image. It’s certainly not intended for that purpose.
[janosch simon] “who to trust :-)”
I’m very sorry to say in your case it sounds like you can’t trust either screen. I would encourage you to have your Eizo professionally calibrated. Not with colorbars, but with a proper meter and test-patterns and the whole works, so that you’ll then be able to truly trust it as a monitor. And then grade to that, and not the GUI picture, please.Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author
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I’ve seen this behavior when I was having write issues on my media drives. Could try slowing down the render in resolve, by limiting the FPS of the render. Slow and steady wins the race. Also helps if your media volume and render volume are on separate drives.
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The behavior you are looking for doesn’t have an exact corollary in Resolve. The color UI in modifying the curves in that way is basically doing lift and gain adjustments. These are the equivalent controls in resolve.
When you move the bottom point right you are essentially lifting the image. Moving the top point left, acts as lowering the gain.
Hope that helps.
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This is the same behavior I see. However it’s what I want. If I desire to ignore the sizing in FCP i simply set ignore sizing in the XML import. If i do want to keep sizing, I DEFINITELY WANT to bake in that sizing in Resolve, as the scaler used in Resolve is far,far,far superior to that of FCP. I do not want FCP doing any scaling if I can avoid it.
And you are correct the ignore input sizing doesn’t change the behavior, as the FCP sizing info is dark metadata. And isn’t affected by those settings. Unfortunately the only way I know off to bypass this, is to set it to ignore sizing on import.
But I’d encourage you to try to do all of your scaling within Resolve. Not in FCP!
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While the new mixed frame rate mode allows you to round trip mixed frame rate sequences in their native frame rate, it doesn’t mean resolve now has teranex like frame rate conversion. Resolve is doing some interpolation to allow you to see your footage in context while you grade. You probably won’t get much in the way of truly smooth playback. But once you round trip with a source mode render back to your NLE, you NLE will once again be doing the frame rate conversion, which will look as good as your NLE allows.
Another factor in your playback issues may be your source codecs. Some codecs just perform better than others. Particularly troublesome are long gop codecs.
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The multiple GPUs in resolve only perform as fast as the slowest card in the set. The weakest link in the chain. Meaning that if you add a GTX580 in your box you’ll only see as much of a performance improvement as you would having and additional 480. No faster.
That said better to be future proofing your purchase. Get a GTX580 3GB or a GTX680 4GB (if you’re on, or want to be on 10.8) and then replace the 480’s down the line for yet another boost in performance.
Or maybe get a pretty good deal on an aftermarket 480?
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