[Michael Stirling]

Thanks

Probably would have taken a month to figure that out

M

[Michael Stirling]

you can pull the edge of the clip in normal edit in the conform to leave a gap
bring in in another copy of the media from the media pool in the conform page into the gap (making sure the yellow edit line is on the left side of the gap) so not ruin your conform further down the line.
use slip it to the right point with the help of the TC in conform EDL
then use normal edit to create a dissolve between the 2 parts of the clip.

Which is a bit of effort for what could just be a cut and drag end of clip but it works. Let’s hope for more edit control in v8

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

thanks for this…

i successfully got the whole r3d’s files I needed by removing the in and out points then exporting as trimmed r3d’s.

i also tried trimming and found that i only got the 1st instance of the clip in my Da Vinci timeline with others being red Xed. But apart from that the space saving is immense though it was really about unweildy Resolve projects rather than drive space for me.

Cheers,

mike

[Michael Stirling]

thanks for the reply

i’m not quite there on the method:

1) open the xml in clip finder
2) replace mov with r3d – all good and if i right click reveal in finder it points to the r3d
3) highlight all clips in list and drag to a new finder folder – this gives me a folder of full sized proxies (_F.mov) at about 20kb each rather than a folder of r3d files.

i’m guessing that it’s step 3 I’m doing wrong but I can’t see what else to do

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

not sure this is what you mean but i had a situation where i had to constantly dissolve between to grading states on multiple nodes.

just save 2 different stills of the 2 grading states you can then paste them onto keyframes which you can create globally across all parameters by pressing alt M for a dissolving and mac M for a jump to the new state.

a word of warning the 2 states must have the same number of nodes (in the same order) or it won’t work

M

[Michael Stirling]

the sliders in da vinci are pretty useless – IF the numerical values below them were to 3 decimal places i might look at them. I really ‘missed’ the track ball GUI in my early da vinci days (many of us came over from color at V7 so we can miss features of the old software – like i can miss having garage in my new house even though this house has never had a garage – i have and i miss it).

Now I don’t miss the track ball GUI and don’t look at the Da Vinci sliders (i have a control surface) and as Kevin Shaw told me when I was moaning about this very thing – Grade the picture not the GUI

M

[Michael Stirling]

WOOOHOOO!

thank you for that post – it’s been driving me crazy too

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

Gets my vote

I’m in the same workflow

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

If you want a single frame you can always export a still from the Color page (as dpx etc)

Zombies and Coloring are getting well and truly mixed up on my system having just graded 2 horror features back to back 🙂

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

Thanks for the reply Rohit

I think your suggestions of the key, the scene detect and regular marks all were interesting but ways of approaching an on-off flash. But wouldn’t have worked for me -and I think I wasn’t clear enough in my explanation of the problem – it was a fast dissolve between 2 lighting states over and over that was needed rather than a hard on off of the grade.

The shift drag to select multiple marks is a great thing to know , thanks – It’s just a pity that marks can’t be copied and pasted as this would really increase the usefulness of that feature.

Mike