Stepan Ko
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Forgot to mention that the read and write speeds to the server are around 600 MB/s so that really can’t be an issue.
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Crickey, it’s sometimes is hard to explain things over the internet. Sorry, i’m not a native English speaker.
So:
The macpro that I am using for grading has a solarflare pcie card, through which it is connected to the switch. Then another fibre cable runs out of the switch and goes into a slot into a the Dell r720xd Server (just found out that it’s xd rather than just dellr720 like it says on the front of it).
Including the picture of the switch and the ports on the back panel of the server. According to the server manual the ports are two 10/100/1000 Mbps NIC and two 100/1Gbps/10Gbps SFP+/10GbE T connectors
Hope this explains a bit better =)
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Hello!
Sorry i’m not too knowledgeable about this stuff so not sure which details to provide. Basically a Solarflare pcie card is in the macpro that i’m using. The fibre cable (with a few extensions, it’s not a single wire) is going straight into the switch.
Alex:
Thanks for the reply, don’t have any experience troubleshooting this but at least now i’ve got a direction to work in. Thanks! Will write how I get on!
Stepan
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Morning!
The card is a singleport Solarflare card.
Stepan
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27 timelines! Hell I though my 8 timelines is a lot, was worried whether resolve would stay stable!
Patrick:
I came over to the vet at some point as part of a course from four corners and I work 2 minutes from you so possibly will need to invest into one of the courses!
Thanks for the input!
All the best
Stepan
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Thanks a million for the replies!
Joseph:
Levels are checked and as Marc suggested I’m putting a hardclip on track level so that should take care of everything. And resolve is the last link in the chain. The thing is i’m not being asked for anything apart from prores 422 right now, but it just makes me slightly worried, because i’m not sure if the client is expecting to get a file that can just be submitted to the broadcaster (and there are so many things to take into account according to the BBC’s guidelines) or if the client has someone else prepping it for broadcast. Also I want to know this just for myself in case I am every the last person before the submission.
Marc:
Thanks, will check out the audio discussions and see what I dig up. So countdown is something that you need to put before and after? Right this explains quite a bit. I was just trying to decipher what lineup ident/clock, black or living hold is in the BBCs guidelines, i’ve attached a screenshot of that page, apparently this is something that needs to go before and after the program. Not sure what I’d trust more, a hardclip or some specific function that is supposed to legalize. After all there are similar legalizers in NLEs and they don’t seem to be very good. Then again BM knows their stuff…Patrick:
Thanks will check all of this out. As I understand this is something that you have courses about in the VET? I might need to go check it out.
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Thanks for the replies! It’s interesting to hear people who work on the highest level. Unfortunately for me i work in a very small shop so the vfx team is sitting right near me and is asking the same questions XD! In any way I now know what to do so it’s all good!
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Yeah I think this is the way I should have done it. Just chucked the shots from the longest edit onto another timeline and extended them a bit to include everything. Right now it’s a mixture of still frames and slight speed changes to cheat and extend the clips slightly where they’ve been trimmed too much. It could be cleaner though!
Would be interesting to know how people deal with such problems on a feature film scale. It’s not so bad on small scale, cause there are only 20-30 clips used. But how do you get that sorted with the heaps of footage used for a feature?
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Hello Margus
Well it’s not so much grading 2 times thats the problem. Its the after effects work that needs to be done on the shots. Some of them are done frame by frame for removal of blemishes and skin work. So it’s time consuming and not something you want to do on the same clip 4 times just because the in and out points of the edit are slightly different. And the second round of Davinci is just for tweaking for the client, which is not really a problem cause it’s easy to bring the clips back into resolve.
Hope this explains it a bit more!
Stepan
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Second to last post in this thread from 2011 has some guidance for green screening in resolve.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/277/6676
It worked brilliantly for me!
All the best
Stepan
