[Laco Gaal]

I’m not a Davinci Resolve expert, but if the source material is available to you, then the only way to have fades/mixes is to export an XML file from FinalCut.
After that, importing the XML into Davinci will ask for the source material, and it will build the same timeline that you saw on Final Cut.
You can grade now all clips separately, also you can render out the whole source material graded (so if later they decide to move a cut two frames forward, they will be able to do that, and the color correction will remain)

If you only have an exported mov, and you have to split it with scene detect, you won’t be able to build a two-layer timeline from it, and it is impossible to effect only one video during a fade.

[Laco Gaal]

thanks, I think I’ll take both advices.
thank you all!

[Laco Gaal]

I see, I’ll ask around, if anyone has a Hubble and Light-Space around.
Let’s say I find one, he calibrates the display, gives me a LUT. But I always heard that plasmas are drifting, and need to be calibrated often, what’s the resolution for that?

[Laco Gaal]

Rob, the display will be a Panasonic 50PF30. The GUI monitor is a Dell U2711

Jason, thanks for the link. I almost ordered the Calman i1Display Pro package a few days ago.
But the support said: “With how calibration works, its requires a client program to store calibration settings. Certainly CalMAN users have run VmWare, Parallels, etc. to run a Windows OS to calibrate their TV displays and you can calibrate your Mac display while running Windows.But when you switch to the Mac OS, the client will not be there and your calibration settings gone. If you want to calibrate your Mac, then waiting for the i1Display Pro Retail is your best option to use the XRite software that can run on the Mac OS to calibrate your Mac display. ”
What is the way solving this issue?

thank you both!

[Laco Gaal]

Rob, thanks!
I don’t think there’s anyone with an X-rite Hubble or Light-Space etc., but I’ll ask around.

Question regarding LUT in answered:)

[Laco Gaal]

I see.

Well this would be a temporary solution only – so I have the money to buy the Calman too right now:)
Anyway – if I understand it right – the BMD extreme supports HD and SD simultaneously, this would be a very nice feature for me, so I really want to upgrade in a few months.

[Laco Gaal]

thank you all, I found another answer here on creativecow, which is, that
Davinci can work with cheaper BMD cards, but they only test it with the Decklink Extreme.

So if anything goes wrong, keep in mind that Davinci isn’t made to get along with all the Decklink cards:)

Thanks for the help!

[Laco Gaal]

don’t make me feel sad, I’ve just bought a Panny 50PF30:)

[Laco Gaal]

this is the driver I use for the GTX285.

Anyway, thank you very very much for helping! I’ll send the logs in an hour.

[Laco Gaal]

Thanks for the app, it seems to be OK, measuring around 7-800Gflops.
And premiere can utilize the card for 4K r3d playback at quarter resolution.

Versions:
Mac OSX version: 10.6.8
CUDA Driver version 4.0.50
GPU Driver version: 1.6.37.0

I was ready to buy the Wave panel and the full version of Resolve, but now I’m a bit afraid – and I know the problem is on my side:(