Stepan Ko
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Tried it! Works great! Thanks a million!
Stepan
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Hello!
Thanks for the reply
Wouldn’t that xml (the one exported from the edit page) link to the original media and not the trimmed one that i’ve just exported?
Stepan
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Hello!
Right! Thanks for that. Didn’t think there would be a problem of this sort with h264. Any idea why the activity monitors are not showing much? Surely then the Vram and Gpu indications should be going crazy, but they are in the middle or even less than middle? Or should I not trust them?
All the best
Stepan
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Got a gtx 680 2gb mac version. I’m pretty happy with it, but seems like my storage is slow now. After that my processor will be slow probably!
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I’ve also just tried another poor mans idea. Generating 4 different 1920×1080 jpeg frames in photoshop. 255-0-0 Red 0-255-0 Green 0-0-255 Blue 255-255-255 white. Improting those into resolve and making a target in Eizo Color Navigator. It allows you to pick and option to read from any source you put the probe to (like for example paper). I’ve put it to the resolve viewer window and displayed the colors accordingly to what it was asking for. Well it seems that the footage still looks different (this time I had to compare to another eizo calibrated to a normal sRGB target standing right next mine). Also the inconsistencies are different in VLC and quicktime.
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Yes this is what I have with stills as-well. And with stills I have the possibility of saying that the monitor is in fact calibrated and checked. Shame these systems seems to be different from stills to video. Having paid for one software to maintain color consistency for photoshop and proof printing you now have to pay for a whole different package and even a different colorimeter. But then again resolve lite is free which is amazing and one can’t expect everything to be free like that. Anyway thanks for the answers!
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Hello Juan
Well unfortunately a reference monitor is just not going to happen right now. As much i’d love one, i have to face the facts here. Also I will look into the calman software. I might consider renting a package out. Again, I know how not ideal this is but the price seems a lot more realistic. Thank you for the great info!
All the best
Stepan
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It seems that you are right… Bearing in mind that differences still exist I started to think that the whole calibrate your monitor to sRGB solution outlined in the blackmagic forum is not a solution at all. The differences are just less visible due to a smaller color space, but they still exist.
I am thinking of finding some footage of a chart and running it through davinci exporting and then trying to match the waveform by applying a correction in resolve. Cause then you can just make a lut and apply it on output everytime.
The problem is that even when I import the exported .mov file back into resolve and use the reference wipe to see the differences- THERE ARE NO DIFFERENCES. So this is specifically a davinci viewer problem. So then the only way to match it (cause i can’t use the resolves internal waveform) is by making screenshots and checking the values of the colors with a color picker in photoshop until I get them all right. Then again I might never get them right.
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Thanks for the answers guys! Very much appreciated!
Glenn, the problem is that the retouching in mocha is being done by another person. I don’t really know it (not an excuse, looks like time to learn). I think there are some problems with tracking in it but actually doing the retouching in after effects. Either our actual software versions don’t support such workflow or something else. I will see if there is a possibility to get rid of one of the passes this way.
Andy I think we’re going to try and do 80% of grading in the base grade in resolve, then make the correcting in mocha then bring in some already corrected CG in after effects and possibly finish in after effects with some minor adjustments in case there are some inconsistencies.
So just a question for the future: if I was to deliver for broadcast, for example, would this method still be viable or would I need to look into using a truly lossless format? Don’t have much experience so don’t know what the right tools are for the job…
All the best
Stepan
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Sooo according to the radio silence in the replies i’m guessing the answer is so obvious that there is no point to answer. Gone to read the manuals then…