Michaelmaier
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[Pepijn Klijs] “However, one tip to the original poster: if you are concerned about making generations, try to finish in Resolve. You can do the blanking, scaling and add your final audio track. You can also render out titles with sn alpha channel from something like after effects or motion and add them to your resolve timeline.”
Yes. I 100% agree with this. I think it would be the best option. Definitely better than going back to FCP.
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It didn’t work for me so I went back to 9.0.4.
9.1.1 would just crash at start up and I couldn’t figure what it was and couldn’t get it to work. I re-installed it hundreds of times. It would start fine but as soon as I would add a drive to my list it would crash and I would have to re-install it again to run it. Got tired of that and lost my patience. Went back to 9.0.4 and everything works fine. -
[Joseph Owens] “ProRes and DNxHD have made enormous strides, though, and 8-10 generations, which aren’t really re-compressions, really do hold up well.”
What would you consider really re-compressions or not?
[Joseph Owens] “I really do disagree with attempting to flip back and forth, though, between RGB and Y’CbCr with so-called “Uncompressed” codecs and TIFF/DPX sequential files. Its not penalty-free, considering the re-matrixing and 4:2:2 processing that necessarily have to happen.”
Totally agree here. I think once you go RGB(DPX) you should stay there.
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DNxHD runs pretty smoothly. As far as codec I think this is the best you can get specially on Windows.
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Premiere is still basically an overblown consumer program or prosumer if you prefer. A DPX workflow is a very high end approach. Nobody cutting weddings, corporate, local TV commercials, low to mid end shows or doing independent short films is likely to want to use it or have the resources to use it. Since this is the main crowd who uses Premiere (with very few exceptions) it may explain why Adobe hasn’t developed it’s DPX workflow much.
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[jake blackstone] “Look into Baselight Editions. It does pretty much all you had mentioned and does it very well I may add.”
Unfortunately it’s not available as a plug-in to any application I use.
I was surprised to find out there’s a version for Nuke. What does it do? Does it add a timeline to Nuke and real time playback? Because applications like Nuke or Eyeon Fusion need no help in color grading. They are already more powerful than any dedicated color grading software out there. They are just not laid out for that and have no real time playback. But they have all the tools to be a finishing tool apart from that. So I wonder what Baselight Editions add to the mix. Unfortunately their website doesn’t have a comparison between the full version and Editions.
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I pretty much agree, yes.
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I would. But no matter what I did I couldn’t get it to run. I installed it, uninstalled it, installed it again, it wouldn’t run. Tried starting it as administrator but still wouldn’t work. It would work the first time I started it after installing, but then as soon as I added a new drive and re-started Resolve to update the drive library it would not longer run. It would crash after I typed in my log-in password. I have the latest BM drivers and all the system requirements match.
But 9.0.4 has no problems, so I just lost my patience. -
Thanks. It makes a lot of sense.
[Joseph Owens] “That means if you haven’t figured out how to do it in 3 generations, you need to start over again, because what’s left after that is mud.”
Ha! Are you talking about the Super HIgh Band AVR-3 quad videotape days or today? 🙂
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Don’t bother with Prores on Windows. No reason really specially that DNxHD is just as good and on Windows I would say it’s actually better. The DNxHD flavor you want if this is 24fps is DNxHD 10 bit 175.
Use 5DtoRGB to do your conversions for best results. Avoid recompression at all costs. Once you finished grading in Resolve render out as a DPX sequence and master it to whatever format you need in your NLE.