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I so wish we could bury AC3. Awful codec for audio.
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I used to use a five button mouse but definitely get at least a three button mouse. So handy when grading
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I’m sure the REC709 version would have been graded at gamma 2.4 given it is the standard practice and what most home sets are calibrated to. sRGB is 2.2 .
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All I can say is if you want to finesse your node idea to change the look in Resolve to match a media player on your particular monitor, graphics card, GPU driver and OS then just put that node on the timeline not per clip as a node inside other grades which is then a pain to toggle off to output your final.
The reason the rest of us use a Decklink card with an external monitor is that creating a reliable reference is at the heart of grading. You are trying to work around a problem that will chase you every time you change something like the GPU driver or a WIN update or….
My Decklink card & external monitor have survived numerous OS and Resolve version upgrades without needing to be tweaked or compensated for for many years. The cost of doing it properly against wasting of my time is absolutely an easy one to calculate.
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Yes I remember when Cubase came out. I had pioneered digital audio location recording in 1984 and was using a combination of PCM encoders with Umatic machines and timecode locked MIDI sequencers on the Atari with samplers before 1989. I went with dSP which became Fairlight and Fairlight has been bought and integrated into Resolve. So I’m using the same systems albeit morphed by different owners.
There is a free Resolve which has Fusion integrated. So you can dip your toe for nothing and you get Fairlight which might be the successor to your Cubase system if you want to go to the next level with audio post too.
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A lot of people hung onto FCP7 because of the way it works but it has had its day and software like Resolve give you a much better experience. I used to use it to grade and the way filters worked was clunky. I was glad that Color came along but there were always issues round tripping. But in the last eight years things have moved on and modern software makes FCP7 now totally obsolete. You can export an xml and pick up your edit in Resolve or Premiere but keys and grade will need to be done. Mind you the chroma keying and grading in Resolve and Premiere blow away anything FCP7 could do.
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If your DV tapes were 4:3 anamorphic to capture a 16:9 frame, then you need to transcode to a pixel aspect that is 16:9. So 480/ 9 x 16 is 854. That’s a 16:9 square pixel aspect not 640 x 480. If you tapes were PAL then the majic number is 1024 x 576.
So many more questions about what devices you are making these files compatible for. If for modern screens, then you might want to consider an upscale to 1920 x 1080. Also if the originals are interlaced (very likely) then you might need to correctly de-interlace as you upscale. DV is lower field first.
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Simple answer is no – you cannot remove just one filter from a bunch on many clips, other than one by one within the program. If you are really tech savvy you might try exporting an XML, edit the XML to remove the attributes of a single filter and reimport the XML into FCP but that may cause other attributes or plugins to not translate.
If you were doing this in Resolve ( a much more up to date software with similar methodology to FCP7 but with vastly better performance, grading, VFX and sound), you can do it by grouping shots to add a filter via a node and enable disable the node to turn it on and off multiple clips. They also have the ability to add an effect as an adjustment layer which can be edited like a clip. Honestly, Resolve is like FCP7 thrust into the world of modern codecs and performance. Oh and it is free unless you want a few of the advanced features but free if you just want something just much better than FCP7.
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If you convert your FCP 6/7 projects to XML they can be loaded into both Premiere and Resolve. Some effects, grades and plugins will need to be redone with newer equivalents. Text generators will come through but formatting & fonts might need a tweak.
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Voxengo have a free plugin called Boogex that emulates mostly guitar speaker but it also has EQ so you can get a speaker in a room sound then EQ it. I have used it for years to create my phone or tinny headphone sounds. Once you make them you can save presets
https://www.voxengo.com/product/boogex/
All the Voxengo dynamics processors and limiters are also really excellent. I have used them on hundreds of doco mixes. Their EQ is also fantastic. And reasonably priced