Kevin Cannon
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I think that depends a bit on your overall workflow…
If you are rendering your final picture from within each timeline, I don’t believe there is a way to combine the rendering effort so that it only renders the material once for all timelines… Usually this isn’t a huge concern because Resolve renders relatively quickly.
If you are rendering media that will be linked to in, say, Final Cut, you could select the master session (where the clips are kind of merged already) and render all the clips in your master session, (usually in source mode with filenames etc.) then relink to the colored media in FCP… so you’d only be rendering once. This gets more complicated if you’ve used remote versions in the different timelines.
KC
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If they have a red X across them but you still see an image, it’s possible that they are actually offline but the setting is enabled for Resolve to “Show offline clips through conform gaps.” If your offline reference doesn’t have timecode burn-ins or noticeably lower resolution, it might look like the footage is actually online, when really it’s just the offline “showing through.”
Then it makes sense that dropping the shot in manually makes it online… so the issue seems to be with the EDL not linking up to those specific clips in the conform…
KC
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Tito, are you saying you’re having trouble fitting these cards?:
1. GTX 285
2. GT 120
3. Decklink HD Extreme 3D+
4. 1-slot RAID controllerThat shouldn’t be a problem, I have the that configuration without a PCI expansion. The Decklink HD Extreme 3D+ is only 1 slot high if you skip the optional HDMI backplate (or run it through the front as Christopher mentioned), but you’ll still have two SDI outputs from the back of the card.
When you need to add a Red Rocket you get into trouble, but the above shouldn’t be an issue.
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Hi Jack,
How large a screen are you looking at for your screenings? Are you finishing your movies at 1080p or something different? Are you using the projector for color-critical applications, like Resolve? And what price range?
Cheers,
KC
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If there is a “diminishing returns” situation when adding more CUDA cores (beyond 300?) has anybody has tried out the flashed 2gig version of the GTX 285 from MacVidCards? Maybe there is more value in having more memory? Especially with the Decklink 4K coming up? It’s around $400…
KC
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Hi Arthur,
What sort of price range are you looking at, what color spaces and resolution?
If it’s for the same work that you’d be doing on the Plasma, the JVC DLA-RS60 “Reference Series” is one that I looked at a quite a bit. I saw it in person at NAB in 3D and it looked very good. JVC claims is covers not only Rec. 709 but also some usable percentage of DCI and adobe RGB, is 1080p (supposedly the D-ILA chip can look a little softer than 3x DLP chips), is low noise, low heat, user-replaceable lamps. Has 1.4a HDMI connections for 3D or 30-bit color…
The thing that jumps out at me is that they seem to be pursuing a more demanding market than if this were just a home theatre projector… last month’s SpectraCal newsletter says SpectraCal is working with JVC to include a tool set specific to the RS60 inside the CALMAN software, which I would assume means better results while calibrating…
KC
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Yup, down the digital cinema rabbit hole… I know fairly little about the hardware and software involved, but my three wishes are: that the Ultrascope can gain XYZ capabilities as a software/firmware update and that Blackmagic wants to add that to bolster the Decklink 4K’s XYZ synergies. Then they add 444 XYZ over 3G SDI as a monitoring option (seems like the Decklink 4K does that). Then I figure out a way that my Flanders can rightly display the 444 XYZ 3G signal (HDLink with LUT?)
I agree that having a set-up that could be all XYZ in Resolve output, monitoring, and scopes would be the most accurate. Perhaps somebody from Blackmagic has this all worked out and will reveal the “suggested configuration” in order to sell us some Decklink 4Ks…
KC
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[Chris Hall] “I’ve sent 444 Dual Link RGB out of DaVinci with the RGBtoXYZ LUT applied on the output. My plan is to actually send XYZ out of the DaVinci in the future though as I’d rather grade in XYZ “
I’m expecting that the XYZ monitoring will be enabled in Mac Resolve at the same time the Decklink 4K is supported (8?) – The issue I’ve run into is getting my FSI monitor (which will take in DCI but only as RGB) and my Ultrascopes to play nicely in that environment. What will you be using for scopes in your all-XYZ set up?
KC
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Hey Chris,
I’ve been in the process of shopping for a projector to be able to switch between Rec. 709 and DCI with a push of a button. What I gather about the CP2210 is that it has a good number of color management tools, and that you can set up to 64 channels (presets), with each channel has an input format, data format, source and screen configs, lamp config, lens config, measured color, target color, color space, gamma, LUT-CLUT, and scan type.
The “measured color” is gathered by your calibrator with no corrections applied, to get all the variables in the lamp, screen, glass, etc, and he or she enters the observed primaries in the “Measured Color Gamut Data” file. Then you create one or more “Target Color Gamut Data” files where you would specify the exact primaries and white point you want to configure… and my understanding is when you make multiple channels, they can have the same MCGD and different TCGD files, and the projector has the image processing to hit the target space (within its gamut). I can’t tell you anything about the quality of the transforms that it does in there vs. a Davio with a 3D LUT, but I would say that your #1 option seems like it is exactly what they designed for…
Are you using DCI colors in RGB or XYZ?
KC
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Ah, good to have a friend with a movie theater… I like the idea of monitoring DCI colors in 2K and delivering DCPs… At that point I would perhaps need a server and 7.1 surround to check the packaging…
Looks like easyDCP has a lot of new versions and new features… and I do like that all these programs are creating Mac versions…
KC
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