Mike Most
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One thing you should try is to turn off all clip effects. Premiere is known to apply things like CDLs if they are present unless you explicitly turn clip effects off. This screwed us up for a while on a project for which we were supplying dailies along with an ALE for logging purposes. Premiere was applying the CDL values in the log to every clip.
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Make optimized media. This is exactly the kind of circumstance it was made for, particularly if you’re talking about UHD resolution (which I suspect you are even though you didn’t specifically say it).
Premiere Pro’s Mercury engine is indeed a very optimized playback engine that does work well with H.264 and H.264 derived codecs. That doesn’t mean you’re going to get the same thing in other software. That said, there is no downside to using the optimized media in Resolve, as you can switch back to the originals for rendering with one menu click.
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You don’t need a “flashed” card. All you need is the correct Nvidia and CUDA drivers. Any out of the box 1080 or 1080ti will work fine.
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If it works so perfectly, why not just pay for it and solve your problem? The full version is only $299….
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If you haven’t already, you might want to try Unlinking then Relinking.
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If you don’t understand this stuff, why do you insist on doing it yourself? You really should be seeking out someone who can do this for you, do it correctly, and charge a reasonable price to do it, rather than getting in over your head just to save a few bucks.
I don’t know when it because “normal” that everything in this industry should be “free.” If you want a car you have to pay for it. If you can’t afford it you either rent one, borrow one, use Uber, or go without. Same thing with just about everything else – except, it seems post production. Do yourself a favor and do some research. Find someone who can make your DCP and go back to what you really need to be involved with – namely the creative end of all of this.
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Features generally don’t go back to Avid. But nearly all television programs do.
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On Windows, there is no Prores encoding.
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Every one of those users, assuming they are looking at a proper video output, is using a Blackmagic video interface that I further assume they paid for. That is how Blackmagic can afford to give away the software in the first place.
Quite frankly, at $1000 for the full version it’s STILL a giveaway.
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I tried some things in Resolve 12. One thing I found is that changing the project setting conform options after the conform is already done changes the metadata in Resolve but does not “undo” the conform. So in theory, you might be able to use the original EDL as is (i.e., tape name is the original file name, comment line is the VFX name) by setting the conform options to “assist using source clip filename,” doing the conform (that should link properly), and then in the Edit page, accessing the project settings and changing the conform option to “extract reel names from EDL comments.” From what I’m seeing, that should dynamically change the EDL but not affect the conform you’ve already done. Then when you render, you should be able to use the %T parameter I mentioned earlier to render with the VFX names.
Let me know if that works.