[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi Bob,

Yes, I like resolve too, basically FCP8… Do you have the MBP with additional GPU (2GB)? Resolve really needs that, it is a demanding, heavy coloring pipeline. I only have small projects shot on Blackmagic pocket, the next is how I work. I guess you can also do the automatic proxy, but I somehow started with this and it works.

• I put my prores hq 1920×1080 on an external disk; and in the media page, I put them in a separate bin.
• I put all those clips in one timeline and render them as prores proxy 960×540 to my internal disk on the MBP, individual clips, same filename (I used compressor, but now resolve)
• In the media page, I organize all those proxies in bin’s, edit, make multiple timelines; etc
• OK, then I make a copy of my final timeline
• In the media page, right click the timeline->timelines->reconform from bin’s (deselect the proxy bins)
• If that doesn’t work, go to the edit page->select all clips on the timeline->right click->deselect “force conform enabled” and try again

All my clips have unique names with date/time stamps. I have nothing in the reel entry (you can put the directory there), so I get all messages that there are double clips. But I don’t have problems. This is a bit classic offline/online, in this way you only need your laptop to organize, edit etc. Page 631 Using the “Reconform From Bins” Command in the manual.

[edit] On the color page, I see the codec; so if I see prores hq, I now it went well
Oh, I also set my project to 960×540 resolution while editing, if you forget that resolve will work hard to upscale it… And before reconforming, set the resolution to hd again.

Also check Alexis van Hurkmann’s tutorials on optimizing speed. On the edit page, switching off the filmstrip and waveforms etc also helps.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi Bob,

You can always export xml’s etc. But have you tried optimized media etc?

I also have a 2014 MBP, what I do is making proxies of half HD resolution (960×540, prores proxy). Edits like butter and with my final timeline (copy), I do a reconform to a (or more) bin’s with the original media to grade. Works very well. I have smaller projects proxies on my MBP’s internal drive (SSD). Offline/Online workflow.

You can try that with a timeline, render that one out to individual files/ proxies, copy the timeline and reconform that copy to the proxies to test performance.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Edit: I mean 14 mm lumix; and the 14-140. The good thing is that they both have a manual focus ring. To focus the 14-140, I use the zacuto viewfinder

(looking for the edit button…)

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi Jon,

Congrats. I have a pocket for two years now and it is so much fun 🙂 There are nikon to m43 adapters, also from metabones, so you can use all your nikon glass. (I don’t have nikon, so no experience.) Be advised that nikon’s focus is turning the other way around; and that there is a crop factor of 3x, so your 50mm will be a tele; not to talk of the 80-200. The metabones compensates that for a bit.

I have a panasonic 18 mm (very nice) and a panasonic 14-140 (bit long) both with a separate focus ring. This summer I bought a KIEV 16U set of lenses (12, 20, 50mm), check eBay with an adaptor from raf camera. All manual and also fun. Gives a small footprint, everybody thinks you are taking foto’s

So, there are adapters for nikon, check the crop factor.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

I would do two things:
-in the manual it states is where the files/dbase are stored, copy them. Do a base export (is this the failure message? (Export of the project is failing?)
-export the timeline (xml/edl etc)

And check what is causing the error message

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Maybe with not all files in one time? How many shots? Try a subset first.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi E’mya,

Bad luck. Apparently just too much compression for a single layer dvd. If you will make an on-line file, use H264. Newer codec, same file size will yield a superior result.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi,

Problem can indeed be the scaling from HD -> SD. And if you have 1 hours 20 min and want to put that on a single layer DVD, that’s heavy compression. Cannot judge without an image.

I still have compressor 3.5.3 with the DVD 90 min best quality. Works perfect 🙂 Here are the settings:

Name: MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass
Description: Fits up to 90 minutes of video with Dolby Digital audio at 192 Kbps or 60 minutes with AIFF audio on a DVD-5
File Extension: m2v
Estimated size: 2.79 GB/hour of source
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Usage:SD DVD
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width and Height: Automatic
Pixel aspect ratio: Default
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Start timecode from source
Aspect ratio: Automatic
Selected 16:9
Field dominance: Automatic
Average bit rate: 6.2 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum bit rate: 7.7 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 1/2 second, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled

Further looking it says resize settings are Better. Perhaps you can set that at Best, but if I remember correctly it can lead to very long compression times, and you have to set motion from best to better. Try a small part of the movie first.

Good luck with the deadline

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi Sacha

Looks like the SD material is resized (blown up) twice. So perhaps this is happening (but not sure): in FCP7 it is scaled and then Resolve sees SD material and scales it again

Try another test sequence in FCP7, don’t blow up the SD material and see if Resolve interprets this correctly and blows SD up to HD

And what codec is the SD material? I had some strange issues with DV material from FCP7->resolve, not reading the stop and start from all the clips correctly out of the big DV stream. (So a lot of clips looking the same, all the beginning of the bg DVstream) What helped me then is to convert the DV stream to one big proress; relink and then all things went ok. So also perhaps resolve is struggling with the SD codec material?

[Richard Van harderwijk]

It will most certainly do what you want.

You can skip the color grading and go directly from edit to render. Try it out, I think you will be satisfied. And it resembles other editors, so if you want to go premiere or vegas, the way of working is the same (but a lot of shortcuts and knobs different of course). If you want to do more color correcting later, you will find that everything is there.