[Michael Stirling]

Hi Mary

This is a very useful workflow and seems a sensible way to start all projects -having 1 folder where you know the clips are not up for consideration as automatic alternatives

Thanks!!

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

Hi

Mary’s 1st paragraph of describing a workflow of 2 offline clips – one as an offline, one in a new track in the conform (camera icon off) was my workflow – Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough about that.

The clips in the media pool were from source files NOT a rendered offline split (tape style).

It seems that adding long rendered file to the project does cause conflicts with about a 1/3 of the clips in timeline. I’d be happy if that was all it did but actually it chooses the new clip in preference to the one already there (force conformed i guess) – way too many to go through and right click and resolve manually for this to be called a workflow.

What I wanted to know is how to add media to the project without Resolve automatically considering it a replacement for shots in the timeline. Or even better to consider it as a replacement as a second choice and not just overwrite every clip it may bear some relationship to.

I think that this is now actually a feature request for a global check box for force conform.

Thanks

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

Thanks

But I didn’t add it as a ‘offline clip’ to check my conform ( i know how to do that). I wanted to slice bits out of the long ‘offline’ to grade and include in the project as the conform had various files missing for various reasons (multi angle, file format etc.) and I didn’t want to go through the FCP project tediously cross-referencing TC with Resolve

But this is all a bit of red herring to my problem which is adding new files to the media pool mid-project tends to kill the conform as Resolve overwrites loads of the clips in the timeline with 1 of these files and I don’t seem to be able to stop it force conforming onto ‘correct’ clips

The above offline example is just the way it did it this time .

M

[Michael Stirling]

thanks guys…

the right click thing wasn’t working but the config page thing sorted it – in fact as i had them in the right media pool folders just forced into onto all the clips automatically

M

[Michael Stirling]

Hi

We have more or less given up on an Avid round-trip for the next while. I tried quite a lot of experiments with an (decade+) Avid editor – we got close to getting it working with tape originated clips using render source with unique filename of the whole clip in the master session but without the whole industry suddenly going back to tape that ain’t a workflow. Anything that came through the AMA (ie tapeless media) import in Avid never worked. ALE is just a bin xfer protocol according to my Avid guy to move taking clips into legacy versions but doesn’t have timeline info so I don’t see how it can help.

I’d say at this point that waiting for BM to sort a solid workflow is the best use of your time

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

you could do this hack in track mode, giving a quicker mute whole track than going to the conform page or per clip muting

MUTE and SOLO track buttons in the color page would be nicer though

M

[Michael Stirling]

thanks 🙂

[Michael Stirling]

You can get 30 day trials of baselight and nucoda??? How?

I’d love to try them both

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

nice – tho I’ve kinda learnt to grade without them now…

i do still pine for the separate R,G and B lift, gamma gain dials that color/wave had

Mike

[Michael Stirling]

It’s my understanding that you nodes before ‘grouping’ remain as graded IF UNTOUCHED and nodes added afterwards are rippled through all. Also, there are ripple options in the group menu give you a relative option so if you added sat to any node (including the 1’s made beforehand) by 30% then it would do it relatively to where you grade is now on that clip. All in all i think that relative is the safest setting cos the others risk you ruining the clips previous grades if you touch one of these nodes by accident.

Also, to get to the stage of grouping in your case as you hadn’t started with it in mind you need to make sure that your pre-grouped clips have the same number of nodes for this to work smoothly

Mike