[Nat Jencks]

To be clear, I’m not suggesting a magic autowhite button. I’m also not suggesting that correcting white to D65 is a good idea creatively.

What I am suggesting is that a toolset which deals with white balance is very useful above and beyond what can be done with RGB gains. Can you acheive the same results that you would with a white balance toolset using RGB gains combined with the channel mixer, combined with good use of the HSV keyer? Of course. But using the channel mixer to this end is fairly painful.

Would a white balance tool set be useful… yes, very much so.

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-Nat Jencks

p.s.
and yes, and “Color Temperature” adjustment would be extremely useful as well. Not always appropriate, but there are many times when it would be great to push white up and down in temp (along the plackian locus). Most colorists approximate this by pushing gain toward or away from orange, which of course works fine, but doesn’t actually align with color temp.

However that feature request is a longshot in my opinion, since unlike white balance tools, I haven’t seen a “color temp” adjustment that would push white point up and down the plackian locus in any pieces of software.

[Nat Jencks]

+1. White balance using a color picker is not a trivial feature. It is not always better to do this by hand.

Typical adjustment for white balance is often different than simply adjusting the RGB balance on Gain, as most colorists would do to manually white balance.

When a shot has a significant hue cast for example a green cast do to overuse of ND filtration on an Alexa, it can be very difficult to accurately balance white using the traditional RGB Gain controls. One can try to use the channel mixer to acheive this, but my experience is that using the channel mixer via the GUI rather than the Davinci Panels is very clumsy and adjustments are much too coarse.

One example is that if you take a still with an extreme cast, it is often much easier to white balance out the cast within Lightroom than in resolve.

Resolve’s color capabilities typically far exceed what is found in a tool like lightroom, but this is definitely an exception. White balance tools are really not for amatures, but a very needed pro feature where resolve is slightly behind the competition.

+1 vote for manual color picker based white balance (and black balance) in v11.

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Nat

[Nat Jencks]

Yes I would have though so, but this does not seem to be the case.

This issue is not strictly related to pre conformed EDL workflow either, it would be nice if adding a flag only added the flag to the single instance of the local version, unless the shots are gouged in which case it would make sense to add the flag to all shots grouped right?

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[Nat Jencks]

thanks Peter, understood. consider this is minor feature request 🙂

Flagging shots (in such a way that they can be seen in the color page while working is quite important to me (and I’m sure others), and I still quite a few jobs grading from a single precomformed render notched with an EDL.

Thanks for the quick reply 🙂 !
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[Nat Jencks]

Aha. got it. The “timecode calculated at” field has always been perplexing to me.

This would be an appropriate time for me to take issue with the phrase “timecode calculated at 23.976”.

In my opinion this is mis-leading / false, since timecode for both 23.976fps and 24fps is actually “calculated” at 24 (24.000) fps. The only instance in which TC is not “calculated” at 24.000fps in in the case of drop frame TC, which is not relevant to typical 23.976 / 24 fps.

Thanks guys!
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[Nat Jencks]

Nope. Because you can only lasso (select) clips in the edit mode, and you cannot choose to display only flagged clips in edit mode, only in color mode.

[Nat Jencks]

Thanks Peter, this is a great suggestion but it doesn’t work because:

a) the color grades from my current sequence are not copied to the new sequence why I do this. i guess I could try to do that and they do a color trace, but that seems like a bit of a nightmare.

b) Also, I have many sequences with various flags in them. I just want to take only the flagged items in the sequence that I have been working in and copy those to a new sequence, not every flagged shot in the project.

I guess one approach would be do duplicate the project, delete all sequences except the one that I’m working on, then sort by flagged in the media pool, drag to a new timeline, then color trance from my old sequence, then export an XML file and bring back into the old project.

but that is super complex to simply take my flagged clips and place them in a new timeline! hmmm.

Thanks though!
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[Nat Jencks]

hi Jake, the problem is like I said:

“why not just filter those? a) because I’d like to edit them down and b) because I’d like to delete the other timeline so the project is not filled with thousands of clips.”

thanks though!
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[Nat Jencks]

Thanks Sascha, I didn’t know about the “load config to current project available by right clicking a past project. Thats helpful at least that way I can make a template and just right click on that and load it each time, but it still seems like you should be able to overwrite the defaults?
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[Nat Jencks]

Solved my own issue. The QTs that were not loading didn’t have the .MOV suffix on them. Strange that resolve doesn’t recognize them, but oh well.
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