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[Paul Draper] “There is zero difference between that audio import /mixing and using AAFs”
Sorry Paul but there is a ton of difference. Your method bakes in edits, EQ, levels etc. An AAF or OMF gives me the ability to adjust all of those parameters and also to do clip based processing like denoise. It also allows me to easily split material, adjust overlaps and fade shapes which need handles. Yes Resolve has had a bug that meant handles were missing on their AAF export.
In sound post I need to make sure elements are slit to tracks that allow sub bussing of music, dialog and FX. I would never rely on an editor to get that totally right in their track assignments. Sub bussing also allows versions of stems without dips. Your method would bake in dips. The dips aslo respond differently to bus based dynamics processing unlike my mix where the dynamics processing is pre fader so that dips don’t behave erratically and can easily be routed to record tracks pre fader as well to create the undipped stems. If you delivered your tracks to me to sound edit and mix, I would be very unhappy.
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Another trick I have used is to export an xml and load that into Premiere which can then export an OMF. I’ve got an old version of CS6 but the xmls are based on the old FCP7 xml so it is unchanged over the years unlike the fcpxml.
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Are you using the Export to ProTool preset on the delivery page? It will make new media as wav files but don’t forget to set the handles. This preset makes the AAF, the new wav media with handles and a reference mxf video file plus the separate AAF composition for this new media.
If you have X2Pro, you might also try exporting from Resolve a fcpxml and see what sort of AAF X2Pro makes from that. I would be curious to hear how that goes as Resolve may not be setting tracks as roles.
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And do you have the Studio or Free version?
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I notice your RAM is 48gGB. Do you have all the RAM slots populated but perhaps have different size RAM modules. Or are they all the same size but slots are not paired? I had an issue once where taking some RAM out made performance better because of the mismatching.
Just guessing it is a RAM issue so can you try taking out some RAM to have matched paired modules. Maybe 32GB might work better.
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Love it. We are debating the need to debate. Seems like this forum is as relevant as when the debate started all those years ago. It’s opt in of course so if you think the debate is over then why are you here debating?
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DVD is PAL so make your timeline SD ProRes 720 x 576 anamorphic 25i. From memory Fields Kit reinterlace plugin might convert the 50p into 25i.
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As the Edit and Fairlight sound pages develop, Resolve will be a viable alternative edit tool to Vegas but a better grade tool. Potentially a better sound tool as well but I am a Fairlight user so I know the depth of that system. The Fairlight page is not as featured as the stand alone Fairlight yet but it is less than a year since Blackmagic started to integrate Fairlight.
Depending on the work you do and your grade requirements it may well be overkill and you are fine staying with Vegas as you are already skilled with it. I think Vegas is an underrated NLE and in many ways it is a better finish tool than most NLEs. But Resolve is a world apart in grading. Maybe look at some online tutorials to see the depth and versatility of the grading and compare to the Vegas tool set.
Part of the key to the power of both the Grade and Fairlight pages is using dedicated hardware controllers. I think the use of mouse to edit and control on screen mixers is a great limitation of all NLEs and DAWs. Having used Tangent Wave and the Fairlight Xynergi controllers for many years I fail to understand how people click and drag away all day with a mouse. So inefficient and frustrating.
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[Bill Davis] “It REALLY felt like another “here we go again” on this subject to me: Magnetic Timeline: READY-FIRE-AIM— Trackless Audio: READY-FIRE-AIM —NOW it’s “Apple has screwed up color correction in 10.4 – READY-FIRE-AIM…”
And because that is your default response, so many of us get frustrated with you because most of us are not in attack dog mode. I was beginning to wonder if you were reading what we were posting, hence my comment that you were clutching at straws. Your typical defence, which seems triggered by your default response, is frustrating and irritating when it seems you are not listening to reasoned argument and proofs. This also extends to opinion which, when it differs but is perfectly valid, also seems to trigger your default response.
We don’t all hate FCPX. And even if we don’t or can’t use it, our reasons are no less valid. Specifically they are not an attack on X which we have all seen develop into a tool that many use with precision and pleasure.
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Have a look in the inspector section on the edit page. Scroll down and lens correction is built in. Once you put it on one shot you can copy and paste attributes to multiple shots.