[Kamil Iwanowicz]

This stuff drives me mad :/!

This is where I am:

– Resolve and VLC show the same thing (I don’t understand why)
– Quicktime shows its own thing
– Youtube and Vimeo – Chrome differs from Quicktime quite a lot, Safari is the same image as in Quicktime
– Final Cut X sees things the same way as Quicktime

So in short – FCPX, Quicktime, Youtube and Vimeo (via Safari) show the same picture, while Resolve and VLC Player show something pretty different.

I planned to take Resolve export into FCPX and there apply a grade that would match the original image from Resolve and export the final file from FCPX. But this is a shit way to do things.

Thanks for the tips about manual, it does address the issue a little bit!

The manual suggested to use Mac Color Profile option, but this makes things even worse.

Second tip was to use a custom LUT based on a DPX file. Never done it before, but this is how it went:

– using a color chart created a grade that matches what I see in Resolve vs how it looks in Quicktime after exporting
– applied the grade to the DPX file and created a LUT from that file (manual page 77)
– now when grading, the LUT is applied globally in Resolve
– during the export the LUT is turned off and what comes out of Resolve is pretty close to how it looked in Resolve

Far from perfect, but this is the closest I could get. It’s a crazy workaround and I’m sure there must be some easier and more accurate way to fix the problem.

I’ll ask at the source and see what they say.

Any thoughts ;)?

Thanks for all feedback!

[Kamil Iwanowicz]

Hi guys,

I was also fighting with flicker in one of my shots but as the shot is not easy to mask it was driving me nuts. The issue is a monitor partly hidden by person’s arm which is flickering like crazy (the monitor, not the person :P).

But just a while ago I realised that as it’s a very slow pan and almost no movement, I just slowed it down by 50% and used twixor to go back to the original lenght. Worked like a charm. Hope this will be useful for someone, it definitely saved me a lot of pain.