[Steve Grimes]

Hey all,

So I got it to work, and I think I know what the issue was. Lion has changed the permissions on the /Library folder from admin to wheel. Therefore I believe the permissions were insufficient to install the database when I put in my admin credentials on the installer. Instead I enabled the root user and used those credentials and that time it worked. I also completely removed the Postgres folder and all preferences from the /Library folder. Hopefully this helps anyone else that was in my shoes.

[Steve Grimes]

Andrea, you didn’t seem to actually answer my question though. You stated all of the very high end perks of owning a $5k monitor. That I already understand. What I am honestly wondering is why do you need all of those perks including perfect 10 bit color reproduction when virtually every person that watches your content will see it in 8-bit, and furthermore on insanely crappy color / contrast settings. Does a well calibrated computer monitor really not offer you any chance whatsoever to grade decently well? Do you honestly think no affordable computer monitor is capable of being calibrated so that blue is in fact blue and not grey? And if not, won’t everyone watching have their calibration of blue be largely imperfect anyways? I am just trying to understand the large vocal majority that states without a $5k monitor, you cant possibly have any sort of accurate grade.

[Steve Grimes]

I have an honest question. I keep reading all the time that people are obsessed with having a properly calibrated broadcast monitor for their edit station because using anything else is so inaccurate it borderlines on crap. My question is, especially in regards to content for broadcast, do people realize what 95% of everyone is watching this content on? TVs so poorly calibrated not any discernible original color presentation is still relavent. Almost every home I have ever walked into has a big screen TV locked into Vivid mode, set to “Very Cool” coloring, with frame interpolation active no less because “the colors are awesome and everything is so smooth!” I know there are a small minority of home theater buffs in the world with properly calibrated TVs, but for nearly your entire audience, this couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, most computer monitors I encounter have a much more accurate color calibration as people don’t generally have a horrid Vivid mode to activate, and generally additive frame interpolation isn’t an option.

I have friends that do independent fx and coloring work for TNT shows that only ever use two 30″ apple cinema displays. Granted they went through the effort of calibrating them well, but if it looks good on their displays they are generally very satisfied. In my earlier points I am not trying to say quality is irrelevant, but rather a decently calibrated computer monitor with attention to detail when grading will yield something so close results wise that 99% of those watching the content will never notice the difference.

The one point that gets made that I have respect for is with regards to interlaced footage and how it ultimately ends up, but for the large amount of content now captured in full progressive modes, why is the concept of a $5000 broadcast monitor still regarded as so damn necesary. I just can’t wrap my mind around given nearly everyone watching the content absolutely destroys their display settings anyways.

[Steve Grimes]

I noticed a bullet point was OpenCL. Does that mean that davinci resolve 8 can be used with ati cards now?!

[Steve Grimes]

Yea. I spotted it shortly after posting. I was originally looking under render all and not render only. What is the specific differences between rendering audio under a render all vs a mixdown?

[Steve Grimes]

I wasn’t able to find a “Mixdown” command under the sequence settings, but I think you may simply mean render audio?

Also, I am editing from a 6 core 2010 mac pro and I was wondering about a few settings regarding the audio. For the sequence settings should I set audio config to “stereo downmix”, “channel grouped”, or “discrete channels”. Also, is it best to set bitrate depth to 16 or 24 bit? Also, What should I allow for real-time audio mixing on my mac pro? The default seems rather low considering it is only audio. Is it safe to go up to 20 or even 30 tracks? And lastly, what should audio playback quality be set to?

Thanks for help with these questions. I have not had to do an edit for the past few weeks as I am currently in the production phase of my current project, but I literally have a near anxiety of hitting the spacebar in final cut at the moment as that audio distortion nearly gave me a heart attack last time (very powerful speakers attached to the mac pro). Thanks again for any help.

[Steve Grimes]

I can do this, but I would be surprised to learn that I have to pre-render previews for my audio on a 6 core 3.33 Ghz mac pro to avoid hearing sudden noises so loud they could knock me out of my chair.