[Keith Stark]

boys shoot prores, men shoot RAW……

I mostly shoot raw, you get about another stop of range from it plus the extra resolution. You can always convert to cineform with Resolve and keep the native 2400 X 1350 resolution. then you can dump the source footage id you like, I never have.

the best way to use the BMCC / pocket ( for best quality ) shoot raw, process with Resolve, edit with proxys then round trip.
there are many other benefits to using Resolve, like GPU noise reduction.

if you want to use a prores/dnx workflow, then shoot log, then you can apply something like the Captain hook LUT with Lamtri. The video mode produces wonky colors, no one uses it.

[Keith Stark]

most of the Black Magic conversations happen on bmcuser.com or on Black Magic’s main forum under cinematography.

tons of info there. I prefer BMC user, much better organized and a bit less whining.

[Keith Stark]

Why not just put a noise gate on the track? You can even automate the threshold if the noise is louder or softer in various parts of the cut. If it’s to pass on to another app, just render out a clean audio track and send that instead.

[Keith Stark]

yep, already have an indi subscription. even better news is that they will soon allow using external renderers with indi including my beloved Redshift.

[Keith Stark]

I just picked up a Houdini Indi subscription a couple months ago.
It has a steep learning curve but it’s very much worth it. If you can live with 780 you can try the free version.

explosion and smoke effects are some of it’s key uses.

They have a lot of quick startup tutorials to get you going and the results are awesome.

[Keith Stark]

Resolve > cineform.AVI

avoids all .MOV issues, and it converts really quick

[Keith Stark]

HI, first post over here as I’m usually on the Sony or BMC forums.

I’ve been shooting with my BMCC for the past few years (mostly raw) and working with footage from a 4K and other sources also.

What works for me is the following:

Load footage into resolve and export proxys in cineform.AVI ( to avoid MOV issues). you can do this at what ever resolution you like but I stick to 1080 anyway.

Edit away with Vegas. I make notes with markers or text events when ever I resize/crop or will need to stabilize later in Resolve. Resizing will not transfer, but fades and reversing will. (this is the same for Prem, it’s a limitation of Resolve)

Export using fnalcut7/resolve XML and import that back into resolve and choose to not reimport the clips. this will match it the source footage so that you will not get an extra generation loss in your final edit.

Once the timeline is loaded into Resolve there may be a number a clips that are wrong. This is due to Resolve only understanding things in terms of timecode. However, there’s a “!” icon at the bottom left of each clip, just click on it and it will let you choose between a few different clips to get the correct one. Sounds annoying but it only takes a few minutes depending.

Recreate any cropping from the Vegas edit.

color away, IMHO a few reasons to Round trip and CC in Resolve are:

1) minimum generation loss ( I do a final render out of resolve instead of vegas)
2) Resolve has superior math for CC compared to any NLE
3) If you have a full version the GPU noise reduction is priceless.
4) Optical flow for speed changes (similar to twixtor)
5) stabilization is really good, however I’ll still use AE for the hard stuff.
6) color correcting in the context of the edit.
7) LUT support

for audio I just do a master mix to wav in Vegas, fly that into resolve then mute everything else.

I did my first DCP last year and it turned out stellar.

thx