Ronald Anderson
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Hi Nick,
An easy solution would be if your assistant could set up the project on his Resolve, save the project, and email the project file to you. If you have the same media in your systems media pool, loading his project file should link up with the media, and your off to the races.
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Hello Bruce,
I highly reccommend David Catt, of Film Systems, here in Alpharetta, Georgia. He was the product manager at Davinvi for Resolve from the onset, and can sell, install, and train all in one stop. davidcatt@gmail.comReally the best!
Cheers, Ron Anderson
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Entertaining and insightful Mr. Owens. For better or worse the relatively inexpensive softwares now allow for anyone to dabble in Color grading. Because of all the tools available, and the changes in our old post production models, now it seems that one can get a top quality job from a home studio.
In the words of past comedy great, Jimmy Durante’ , “Everyone Wants to Get into the Act!” -
I would give David Catt a call, as he has been at the forefront of the Resolve from the beginning, and knows the software better than anyone. Not to mention he is a really nice fellow that would be happy to help you.
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Hello Holger,
If you are using the MCS 3000 media controller along with the Spectrum, that is very comparable to the Eclipse CX. Be interesting to know if the Resolve software works well in that configuration.
I have used the Wave panel with Apple Color, and the Davinci panels for Resolve. All I can tell you is that the JLCooper seems to be very functional with Resolve, where the Wave requires more mouse control, and menu searching, which would make a color session take longer. The Davinci panels are the finest, at a $30,000 price tag. There is a button, or knob for almost every function within the Resolve, and they light up with their function description, plus they are heavy cast aluminum. The blue function LED’s are extensive too. The Davinci panels definitely can make coloring more efficient and faster. They are visually very impressive if you work with clients. That being said, I am so far very pleased with the JLCooper functionality, but have sticky labels everywhere……
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Hey Paul,
It connects with ethernet to port #2. I have been working on Davinci’s Resolve panels for a while, but having the JLCooper working is an added bonus. -
I am presently working with David Cat of Film Systems, here in Alpharetta, GA. Together we are putting forward suggestions, and recommedations for software updates and improvements to Black Magic. I am showing David the simplicity and ease of the secondary graphical displays in Apple Color, so as to add a similar tool set in Davinci. I agree with your posting, that they are a very quick way to achieve hue and saturation adjustments, without having to make a “qualifier” and fine tune it.
On another note, I believe that working in Drop Frame time code is coming very soon…..
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hello ergin,
No, I am afraid you need to have a full 8 core Mac, or better yet the new 12 core, to run Resolve eloquently. I am only noodling around on my laptop to become more familiar with the software.
A control surface is also essential for any real color grading. The Tangent Wave is probably the most affordable, and functional at the moment, but JLCooper is also going to be ready soon. My workhorse is still Apple Color, but am following the Resolve development closely. Also running a Scratch for DI work. -
I experienced some problems in the past running Apple Color with colors and gamma levels not reproducing properly until I installed an ATI Radeon 4870 graphics card. Have used this on my Mac tower with great results for a while now. Lately with dual Red media for stereo 3D. It is my understanding that using NVidia cards may run Apple Color more slowly, but am hoping to see how the color reproduces using them. Had a large Red project in June that required Pro Res 4444 from r3D 3K. It took about 20 hours to render just one hour on Red media. ouch!!!
Resolve promises perhaps a 2 to 1 render time for full Res Red media.
Hoping not to have to invest in a whole new system just yet. Best… -
Using a 2008 Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core duo, with an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT. 2.4 GHz processor
It may not be beefy enough to navigate r3D media, but ok for now.
May find myself upgrading my big system sooner than later.