[Keith Sanborn]

Why not have the translators use Jubler? You can set it up for them at the proper frame rate, and even put dummy text in for them to replace at the proper time code they can do the translations at the proper time codes then send the whole thing back to you. You can have them save as a .srt file or something else and you can open them in jubler and save as a .srt file.

[Keith Sanborn]

Thanks for your patience. I have some homework to do about Color Management in Resolve. I was a bit confused since ACES CG Linear is also a Mac Display Preferences choice.

So, ACES cct color science, is basically a kind of higher level language capable of describing many, all, or most color spaces and can act to interpret them, depending on what you put in and what you want to go out. It acts as a kind of translator.

Thanks again,

Keith

[Keith Sanborn]

Thanks for your response.

I get the point about playing to the monitor’s strengths, rather than scratching my head about its limits and weaknesses. If I understand you correctly, you are saying I should:

Set my Mac Display Preferences to A.C.E. for both the internal monitor on my laptop and my “grading” monitor, but then I lose you:

Not sure what you mean by “choose your Input/Output Transforms for your system. Grade in cct… a monitored 709-mediated session will get you far closer with a very accurately calibrated judgement screen than a poor approximation with an economy setup/emulation mode.”

In practical terms, does that mean tick the “Use Display Preferences” box in the preferences in Resolve?

And set my monitor to its calibrated Rec. 709 color space?

I’m asking something really basic here.

I very much appreciate your help.

Keith

[Keith Sanborn]

Thanks. Not in the budget.

As you can see the grading monitor is the weak link in the chain, but I’m surprised such an obvious question hasn’t been covered already. Perhaps it has. Any associated links would be helpful.

Maybe most people in this list are working in facilities where the engineers have taken care of all these little details for them. Hey engineers! anyone out there?

Keith

[Keith Sanborn]

I have just run into this same problem. The problem is, I can’t CHANGE the format settings. I’m running Premiere 12.11.1 under OSX 10.11.6. I think it has to do with recent “upgrades” to Premiere Pro CC. I have the same version of Premiere running under High Sierra and it does not show this problem. In fact, if I load the file on my other machine and export it at h264, it comes back stuck on h264 when I reopen on my laptop running 10.11.6.

Is there a plist to delete somewhere?

[Keith Sanborn]

I had the same problem on a mac. It may have to do with your OS. I am running 10.11.16 and Premiere 12.1 will definitely NOT open. Got the splash screen then nothing. It just shut down. With Media Encoder, I at least got an error message.

BTW: You downgrade by opening the creative cloud screen from the infinity sign at the top of your finder window. Then go to the app and click on the angle bracket pointed down on the right of “Upgrade.” This opens a drop-down menu: select Other Versions. You will have a choice of several going back to CS6.

I downgraded Premiere Pro and Media Encoder, even after trashing the Type file referred to elsewhere in this thread. It makes you wonder whether they even test this stuff. Opening the program is pretty basic.

Keith

[Keith Sanborn]

Yup. Pretty strange. I guess the guy at B&H was going strictly by the fact that the SW series is tagged by Benq for photo and the PD series for video.

The Benq sw271 works fine with the BMD card. I used a sonnet thunderbolt 2 card cage instead of the OWC which was out of stock. I have tested the card with Premiere. I booted up Resolve but I don’t know it well enough yet to say whether it’s working or not. Haven’t tested the i1Display Pro yet either. Will double check the delta E. The factory test specs were ridiculously good. Hope I can see those same results confirmed.

Is there anything on-line about how to set up this monitor and calibrate it that anyone can recommend? I have only previously carried out color correction on my gui display.

Keith Sanborn

[Keith Sanborn]

Has anyone successfully used this set up with Davinci Resolve:

Macbook Pro 11,5
BenQ SW271 27″ 16:9 4K IPS Monitor
OWC / Other World Computing Mercury Helios Single-Slot PCIe Thunderbolt 2 Expansion Chassis
Blackmagic Design DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K

I want to use the Black Magic card by going from display port (aka Thunderbolt 2) into the chassis then out the hdmi port of the BMD Decklink card (in the chassis) into the monitor. It comes in about $500 cheaper than the UltraStudio 4k and has rec 2020 color space to boot which the UltraStudio 4k does not. I don’t need sdi. I’m hoping to use this set-up for color correcting 2k and 4k projects via Resolve.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Keith Sanborn