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Nate Weaver
April 2, 2013 at 3:18 am in reply to: DaVinci Resolve 9.1.3 now online

You know, I almost didn’t post anything about the XAVC .mov thing the other day because history shows the Resolve team is always a step ahead.

You guys are amazing.

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
March 31, 2013 at 10:02 pm in reply to: A/V out limited to 720×486 SD ????

Do it again, reboot the machine.

After updating FCP I found the BM Pref Panel kept forgetting to stay in 1080. I then updated the BM drivers to Desktop Video 9.7 and haven’t had the problem since.

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
March 30, 2013 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Re-wrapped XAVC .mov support coming soon?

Yeah, I know. 🙂 If FCPX wasn’t taking in XAVC files, Resolve wouldn’t have to support XAVC wrapped in .mov 🙂

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
March 29, 2013 at 7:00 pm in reply to: 10.0.8 Update is Out

Okay, I am halfway to figuring out a hack for this.

IF you can externally add the following metadata fields to the QT file:

Arri Color Gamma SxS: LOG-C
Arri Look File Burned In: No

Then FCPX will allow you to turn on the Log Processing field and Bob’s your uncle.

I did the metadata editing in QT Edit from the Pro Media Tools suite for one file, but I can do a batch edit.

Does anybody know a program that can do batch QT metadata editing? Or, better yet, force FCPX to allow me to add those reserved Arri fields to any old QT file?

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
March 29, 2013 at 5:19 am in reply to: Sony RAW (F55) ‘Camera Raw’ setting in Resolve Lite – [proper color settings for Sony RAW]

In ACES the RRT is applied, so you’re not going to get that flat image you saw while shooting. Assuming the MLUT was turned off in-camera while shooting raw.

If you want to grade from a Slog2/SGamut (flat) image, turn off ACES, and then enable those two settings either via project or clip basis in the raw settings.

I’ve done this with F55 raw quite a bit over last couple weeks. The options are there.

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
March 29, 2013 at 2:49 am in reply to: 10.0.8 Update is Out

I have a gift certificate for anybody who can figure out a way to enable this for Sony S-Log2 footage.

I’m very, very bummed that the way it’s implemented is to be footage-agnostic, codec agnostic but in practice it’s locked out even to advanced users.

I use the Alexa Log-C LUTs all the time on S-Log2 footage. It’s a little too extreme most of the time, but I know how to take care of that.

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
March 28, 2013 at 8:19 pm in reply to: 10.0.8 Update is Out

Bigger than maintenance for me, had my F55 for 3 weeks now having to batch transcode XAVC in Resolve for weeks.

Also LogC LUTs automagically applied is big deal too.

Gonna see how well that 4K XAVC plays…!

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
March 4, 2013 at 8:47 pm in reply to: How would I get Sony F55 footage into Resolve the right way?

I got my F55 last week, have been testing, I have some help and thoughts:

First, that fringing thing was a bug in earlier firmwares. Straight-up bug. The owner needs to update to camera firmware v1.03 There’s no way to fix it in post, and it’s not a bug with how Resolve is reading the files. I have a day’s worth of shooting of this bug, and it makes me cringe every time I see it. It’s awful.

Second, as far as color rendition, there are an awful lot of choices in camera that can affect things. I would start by asking them, what gamma and what color matrix setting did they shoot with?

It is possible for the operator to enable S-Log2 gamma, but not modify the color settings or matrix, which causes the material to be very flat in contrast, but have color saturation that is “normal” and becomes a handful after you apply contrast (or a proper S-Log2 LUT). Easily tackled in Resolve, but just the same, it’s not something that should ever be shot in the first place.

Right now, if somebody is not shooting raw, the best combo from a colorists standpoint is shooting S-Log2 gamma, and enabling S-Gamut in system settings, which locks out all color manipulation except color temp.

There is a new LUT in the wild that takes S-Log2/S-Gamut material and gives a great looking starting point

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
January 21, 2013 at 11:41 pm in reply to: Sony F55 & ACES

Ah yes, testing on the 17″ Macbook, only 1GB video ram. Completely makes sense. Thanks!

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net
Nate Weaver
January 21, 2013 at 5:18 am in reply to: Sony F55 & ACES

Hi Peter,

Ok, that sounds great, it sounds like a S-Log2 IDT is at least under consideration, and possible without Sony’s contribution.

I’ve noticed some other things, in particular Full Res debayering doesn’t seem to be working quite yet. I wanted to do a test 4K output. I can only get half-res.

Im guessing this is a by-product of a full-res F65 debayer being twice the raster of a full res F55 debayer? Maybe another update will get this going?

Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net

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