Rick Lang
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Thanks, Walter, for correcting my misunderstanding of that option. I’ll certainly want to do the same thing at some point and thanks to you, now I know how. Just getting back to Resolve (12.5 beta) after years of being away from it.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 5K Retina 4GHz 32GB/4GB, URSA Mini 4.6K PL, Pegasus2 R6 24TB
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Bob, nice story to tell the great-grandkids when Lytro becomes the 21st century equivalent of the 20th century Kodak Brownie.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 5K Retina 4GHz 32GB/4GB, URSA Mini 4.6K PL, Pegasus2 R6 24TB
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Tim, I finally purchased a Blackmagic URSA Mini 4.6K PL mount camera about a week before NAB 2016 so it was a relief to see there was no new ‘disruptive’ camera from BMD! I very much appreciated the announcement of firmware update 4.0 due in June and that honestly is such a wonderful update that it makes the URSA Mini a new camera in terms of ease of use and flexibility.
But I don’t own any PL mount lenses yet (50mm APO ordered), so another lasting takeaway was SLR Magic demoing their new 25mm and 85mm ‘budget’ APO primes that will likely be available in September this year: they also announced a 32mm APO as well as hinted there will be an 18mm and 135mm after that. And one of the nicest touches is their very simple EF replacement mount for the PL primes. You simply unscrew the last part of the PL mount and screw on the EF mount (or other popular mounts) like you’re changing the lid on a glass jar. I mean that literally, no screws and screwdrivers involved.
I also bought the just released cheap BMD B4 1.1x optical mount for the URSA Mini PL cameras and a used Fujinon HA20x7.8B-M10 all manual compact Cine zoom (not ENG) lens which appears to be a beauty.
Very happy to see the focus on improving the utility of existing products for the first time in a long time compared to the prior emphasis on distracting ‘disruptive’ shiny things.
Edit: Oops, need to update my equipment listed below! Now using iMac 5K Retina 4.0GHz 32GB/4GB.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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David, from a demo I saw, I thought Resolve 12.5 had edits now that optionally included pushing along your clips when you insert a new clip. Isn’t that like the magnetic timeline? I just recntly had to replace a broken iMac with a maxed-out iMac 27″ 5K and am shortly beginning projects that I hope I can do completely within Resolve. Will be working with ProRes HD or 2K CinemaDNG raw with no green screen or CGI.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Walter, the crop and centre of course discards 75% of your original 4K UHD material. Are your deliverables going to remain 1080p?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Marc, aplenty that’s not the way it should be done now. Peter Chamberlain is advising to edit and grade in the timeline in a lower resolution such as HD, but when you are done that stage, then change the timeline resolution to the highest master or deliverable you intend such as UHD so that a new render is done before you go to the Delivery stage. In that way delivery will use your UHD timeline resolution for creating UHD deliverables or downscaling to HD deliverables as you wish.
If you leave the timeline as HD, and try to deliver UHD, deliver will upscale from the timeline resolution, not use your source clips.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Darren, at the BMD event in NYC July 22nd, a rep stated the URSA Mini camera and the new 4.6K sensor would ship late August or early September. This is just their current estimate and could change. Normally, in the past, BMD ramps up production slowly, so the first shipments, including the 4.6K turret, will be relatively few in number. As they receive customer feedback on those units, then the next shipments a few weeks later will be larger but there will still be a backlog of preorders that may take several months to clear, When the second round of production begins, you could begin phoning smaller retailers to see if they have any stock; that’s the fastest way you’ll get a Mini if you didn’t preorder in April.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Pat, you might still like Resolve 12 if it includes a spell checker! 8^)
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Fred, when you look at the resource requirements for Resolve 11, they greatly exceed what FCP X requires to run an editor. FCP X can handle 4K on an iMac for example, but Resolve 11 wants a hefty new Mac Pro for 4K. Was there anything in the presentation that indicated Resolve 12 was able to run with less resources?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Marc, do you have time to provide more information about the things you liked most about Resolve 12? I suppose tracks might be on the list. Did they demonstrate improvements in handling audio since that was completely rewritten in Resolve 12? Othe standouts? Thanks!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB