[Robert Olding]

Regarding software for the asset management of photos, I don’t believe anything has yet to surpass Apple’s Aperture. Unfortunately, it’s not an option anymore. If you need something for just asset management, one great option is Pixave . We’ve been testing it in our creative department.

I believe that asset management for professional photographers is a very underserved market. Especially in an environment where files are accessed by multiple users. Even though everyone in our studio and post-production house has a full Adobe CC subscription, we don’t use Lightroom. Currently its asset management function doesn’t meet our needs. Photoshop is a must have and Adobe’s ACR is a fantastic RAW file processor, but we and many other studios use Phase One’s Capture One Pro.

Robert Olding
http://www.8streetstudio.com
Minneapolis, MN

[Robert Olding]

Copy the footage you want to use and place it above the corresponding storyline. Choose the Transform tool from the Inspector and scale, or rotate, or shift the position of the copied footage in relation to the footage in the storyline. Then choose the Compositing tool from the Inspector and choose a blend mode such as Normal, or Overlay, or Soft Light. Then adjust the Opacity to your liking. To hide distracting visuals such as the edge of the frame, you will need to mask those portions of the copied footage.

Robert Olding
http://www.8streetstudio.com
Minneapolis, MN

[Robert Olding]

Hi Glenn … I’m not sure about the free version from the Mac App Store, but I was able to get a third party OFX plugin to work with the Mac App Store Studio version of Resolve. It’s a bit of a pain but here are the steps I took:

I got Tom’s False Color 2 OFX plugin to work with the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve purchased on the Mac App Store by modifying the permissions of the folder that the plugin installer created. This is currently the only OFX plugin that I use so I’m not able to say if this will work for others.

The installation of Tom’s False Color 2 OFX plugin on macOS Sierra creates a locked folder in the main Library folder on macOS Sierra ( /Library/OFX/Plugins ). This “Plugins” folder is locked by permissions and can’t be opened untill you change the permissions.

1. Open the main Library folder of your Mac. MacintoshHD/Library

2. Locate and open the “OFX” folder.

3. Select the “Plugins” folder and choose “Get Info” from the Finder’s “File” menu bar.

4. Once the info window opens, click on the lock icon on the bottom right corner and enter your password to give you admin access to the “Sharing & Permissions” section.

5. Once unlocked, click on the + icon on the bottom left of the info window and from the drop down menu, select your username from the list to add it to the “Name” section of “Sharing & Permissions”.

6. Under the “Privilege” section of the “Sharing & Permissions” section, change the privileges to “Read & Write” for all the names listed.

7. Starting with the first name listed, select it, then click on the gear icon at the bottom of the info window. Choose “Apply to enclosed items…” and selet “OK” form the window that pops open.

8. Close the info window.

This OFX folder needs to be seen by the App Store version of DaVinci Resolve. Keep the main “Library” window open so you can see and access the “OFX” folder inside it.

1. In a different window, open your User Library folder ( /Users/username/Library ).
Normally this is hidden by macOS Sierra. To access it, hold the option key on your keyboard and it should show up in the “Go” menu from the Finder menu bar. ( This is weird but one of my computers uses the “command” key while another uses the “shift” key. )

2. Inside your User Library folder, open the “Containers” folder. ( /Users/username/Library/Containers )

3. Inside your “Containers” folder, open the “com.blackmagic-design.DaVinciResolveAppStore” folder.

4. Inside the “com.blackmagic-design.DaVinciResolveAppStore” folder, open the “Data” folder.

5. Inside the “Data” folder, open the “Library” folder.

6. From your main Library folder, select the “OFX” folder and option-key drag it into the “Library” folder from the “Data” flolder. This makes an alias of the original OFX folder that DaVinci Resolve will now see.

That should do it for you. Your Mac App Store version of DaVinci Resolve should now be able to access your OFX plugins.

Robert Olding
http://www.8streetstudio.com
Minneapolis, MN

[Robert Olding]

We’re doing 4K projects and we ran into the problem with our Mac Pro’s with D700’s in them. Our Mac Pro’s with D500’s don’t exhibit the problem. We installed iStat Menus ( https://bjango.com ) on the machines with the D700’s and set the fan speed to medium. We set Resolve’s render speed to 50. This solved the issue.

I understand that Apple has a recall on some of the Mac Pro’s with D700’s but curiously, we didn’t have the issue with any of the machine’s until we started using Resolve 12.5. Makes me wonder if some of the problem may also lie with Blackmagic.

Robert Olding
http://www.8streetstudio.com
Minneapolis, MN

[Robert Olding]

Right click in the Nodes window to bring up a contextual menu. At the bottom of the menu you’ll see “Cleanup Node Graph”.

Robert Olding
http://www.8streetstudio.com
Minneapolis, MN