[Michaelmaier]

I have heard Mistika is pretty good and well used as well, and also that Pablo is considered a finishing application too as opposed to grading only. I never knew that.
I guess a poor mans finishing tool is After Effects or just your NLE, if you don’t want to go Smoke on the Mac.

About the whole re-compressing thing, I think you are misunderstanding me.
An EDL will relink to your original footage and there will be no need to export your footage from your editing software. But, you need to export it from Resolve after grading, and then export it again from your NLE after finished. Two re-compressions.

[Michaelmaier]

So Autodesk is pretty much the standard for finishing?
What are other finishing applications besides that? Avid DS maybe? Is Nucoda Film Master or Pablo any more of a finishing tool than Resolve?

Back to re-compression, can you really avoid double compression by using an EDL / XML or AAF?
I mean in the case I gave I was using AAF and it still had to be compressed twice. I think EDLs and the like avoid triple compression. But you would still need to compress at least twice till final output. Unless I’m missing something?

[Michaelmaier]

I explain. For example you bring in an AAF with DNxHD clips, you grade your clips and export them out as DNxHD (1st render). Then they are re-imported in the NLE and rendered out as DPX, H.264 or whatever format is needed (2nd render).

In this process you would have rendered 2 times. From Resolve and from the NLE. If you had done it from Resolve, you would only render one time. Straight to your deliver format. Am I wrong?

Joseph Owens said:
“Resolve is not necessarily intended to be used as a “finishing” package, as it isn’t generally regarded to be either an editing or compositing tool, both of which would be necessary to integrate the titles, layback, captions/subtitles, versioning and so on and on of a general release.”

So you pretty much have to round trip back to the NLE?
Is there a better finishing package than a NLE?

[Michaelmaier]

I normally come in via an AAF.

[Michaelmaier]

In that case, if feeding it 60i, does it still need to be a L5/1? Or will a normal L5 work?

[Michaelmaier]

So the 20L5 is actually HD? Although I’m not sure mine is a 20L5/1. I have never heard of a /1. What’s that? Do I need this specific version to work with HD 24p (23.976)?

Also, what is the main difference between a 20L4 and 20L5? Would the 20L4 also work?

Last, I know the BVM-20E1E and BVM-20F1U are probably the best CRT Sony ever made and I know somebody who has both sitting around without use who said I can have one of them, for free. Would that be better than all the others I mentioned?

Thanks.

[Michaelmaier]

Ok. I guess the moderators lost my reply to Paul Provost as it was never posted. I guess I will have to reply again.

[Michaelmaier]

Message to whoever is monitoring posts. Why does it take so long to add posts to threads once they are sent? It kind of kills the momentum of the thread.

[Michaelmaier]

I know that the best would be to buy a professional LCD such as a FSI or a Sony PVM OLED. But at the moment I can’t justify the expense. I could afford some of the Sony lower end non PVM and non OLED ones on BH’s page. But at that point it seems I may as well buy any LCD TV or computer monitor.

So I guess what I’m asking here are 2 questions.

Can I use my CRTs with HD-SDI material in 23.976p?

Or would I be better off with a Plasma or Computer LCD like many do for budget grading suites?

I would have thought that the CRTs would be better. They used to be the standard for a reason. I know we have moved on and have heard the argument that grading on a CRT may be pointless because most people will watch the final product on a LCD or Plasma. But the point of the CRT was to guarantee a standard to which everybody could adjust their equipment to. If LCD consumers don’t want to adjust their screens then be it. It was the same with CRT TVs. They were also not calibrated at home. But we still graded for a standard.

But if one of those 10 bit computer LCDs or a Plasma TV would be better than a professional Sony CRT I could try and get one. The question is which one since all 10 bit LCD panels I know such as Dreamcolor and LG W2420R are discontinued.
But I can’t go for a full professional LCD at the moment.

Thanks and sorry for the trouble.

[Michaelmaier]

Sorry, I didn’t mean I would not be doing professional work. I am.
I’m just not offering my services as a Colorist. I shoot and edit all my stuff, which is paid work. I also color correct it to make it look the best it can. I don’t charge any extra for color correction. Because I’m not talking about feature film type of color correction with multiple power windows, tracking etc. I’m talking about basic correction. It could probably be done inside a NLE, and this is where I have been color correcting all my stuff. But I want to start using Resolve so I can learn it. But it’s definitely paid work. So it’s not only practicing. I hope I was more clear now.

Thanks.