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[Kell Smith] “Is there any advantage to going over there now or will it slow me down since the effects and transitions are laid in?”
The important question is: do you know how to use Resolve? Do you think you can conform the edit so it matches and you can use the tools to do what you need to do in the time you have?
[Kell Smith] “Also, I’ve read that “use previews” can result in a generational loss, is that correct?”
If your preview format is more compressed than the original then you’re getting generation loss. If you use prores as a preview format in the same resolution as your sequence then your previews are fine for exporting with.
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[Kell Smith] “Good idea? Bad?”
You might get better performance compared to a compressed format but you are not getting any extra information that wasn’t in the file in the first place.
[Kell Smith] “It would be nice to send it to Resolve, but from what I am reading this could be a headache with transitions and time remapping.”
Probably. You could try exporting an XML of your sequence and conforming that to Resolve and see how it looks.
[Kell Smith] “What’s the best workflow for color correction in this situation?”
If you want to use Resolve you could export a master file from your whole sequence and use the scene cut detector in Resolve to find most of the cuts and add the rest manually.
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Your export resolution isn’t matching because you’re hitting the maximum specced resolution for H264 at that level. Have you tried exporting to some other format?
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What are your compositiong settings and what are your exact export settings?
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I can see this being useful. I can also see this being a thing where you can mess up a whole project really easily.
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Shift+I, shift+O are the jump in/out commands. You can search the keyboard shortcuts.
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Well the drone footage probably doesn’t have a timecode track so it starts at zero.
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[david payne] “Could you explain what that tick box does and confirm i should have it checked when exporting?”
The use previews-setting uses your sequence preview files when rendering.
[david payne] “The countless other files in that same video all output fine without a red screen in sight.”
Yeah but without any extra information I can’t help you in troubleshooting. It’s apparently file related and you should probably transcode it to a new file in some industry standard format.
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If you hold alt you can trim, roll or ripple video and audio separately if they are linked.
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I’ve had to deal with all kinds of strange bugs and issues before, after and during projects with even more expensive hardware/software solutions. Usually it can be dealt with with a bit of troubleshooting or a workflow change. Sometimes they were one off issues, sometimes footage issues and sometimes you’d just need to reboot. The thing is that no matter what the end result is and what software is giving you issues the whole thing will be on you. The client won’t care that your Mac Trashcan overheats and sometimes renders weird lines when they’re looking at the finished product in a packed theatre. They’re gonna call you.
It’s kinda ironic that the only thing I had to actually straight up decline to use was a really expensive quality control tool that didn’t spot any errors on our error filled HDCAM SR tape. Luckily it was only a trial setup.