[Sascha Haber]

Known problem, does not work well…needs to be un-premultiplied

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[Sascha Haber]

Preferably, you are doing it right 🙂

No, seriously…you need to know about your media, your work and viewing environment and then flick the right switches.
Some programs , like quicktime, assume the viewer is a little uneducated and thus changes things.
The QT file itself contains some meta data that it can read (on mac) or ignore (on PC) and the ‘double click audience’ might not see what you saw.
Good thing you are using VLC, that is a much more direct approach and yields far better, more comparable results cross plattform.
But browsers, or embedded video players like Youtube, Vimeo and such again use a different method.
Also you might see drastic changes in rendering ProRes4444 compared to ProRes422, and i am not talking subtle color differences here.

So, first thing is to load your media into Resolve , right click your clip and go to Clip attributes
If it says Auto, change it to either Data or video and you will see a jump.
But before that, you also need to set your working environment.
In case you are working for broadcast, interact with AVID and/or have a BMD output card, set it to video.
For Film and Web, set it to Data.
So lets say you are in data and you are working with xAVC data, i bet its video, but you still need to flag it correctly.
Use your build in scopes to determine the correct black and white levels..a tad above the clipping line is a good start.
Then, on rendering, same procedure…
If you leave it at auto, it will use the color space you are in, in this case data.
If you are getting something way to black, it is changing it to video (stretching it over the limits)
If you are getting something to milky it is changing it to data (compressing it and generating needless headroom)

I would not render out in anything else than ProRes4444 just because its the fastest render method.
Use Wondersh@are video converter or Media Encoder to change it afterwards.
In any case, make an account at vimeo and such and upload your result

Good luck, grasshopper 🙂

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[Sascha Haber]

Just save the image with the graded LUT as a still or a memory key.

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[Sascha Haber]

And whatever tool you use (i use Mocha) , make sure you do not overstabilize it.
If the motion blur in the picture asks for some motion, talk your producer out of it and honor your DOPs choice of shooting hand held.
I love the speed Resolve is doing this is, allowing me to demonstrate different levels of stability vs motion.

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[Sascha Haber]

Well, i was grading on a DaVinci and then on Nucoda when Lustre was still “the shit”
Also a Pablo was somewhere on the road but then Scratch happened.
And that changed everything.

I fully understand the power of an Autodesk environment, i had the pleasure to work in several more TVC based facilities, but as both of you stated, it needs the infrastructure and the highly skilled, experienced and trained staff to flourish.
My point was more the technical aspect running it on a home computer like most Resolve users do those days.

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Haha, that IS quite funny 🙂
Thanks for that experiment.
Now i need to find a way to convince my windows based graphic department to render out .png
Jesus….

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[Sascha Haber]

Windows can not render ProRes
If you really care for quality, render DPX/TIF/EXR
Or go a tiny bit below and chose DNxHD

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[Sascha Haber]

Lustre is so incredibly outdated, it’s almost funny 🙂
And yes, you need a total different set of hardware for it, so you are better of going somewhere where people took care of the tech for you.

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[Sascha Haber]

Here you go…

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/277/32473

To sum it up, you need to render in AE unpremultiplied, meaning, your colors need to be existent in the area the alpha is about to fade away.
Only like that you will avoid the black fringing that Resolve does
Honestly, i would use Smoke, Nuke or AE for the task if it needs to be pitch perfect.

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[Sascha Haber]

The fix is you turn of Single Clip Output

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