[Toby Tomkins]

Ok. Thanks for the info. What if I took the GTX 285 out, left both 580s on the mobo, using one for GUI and the other for processing and then put the titans in the Cubix?

[Toby Tomkins]

Suggestions;

-Appropriate production design
-Appropriate costume design and makeup
-Where possible do to let the colour go too dark or too light
Shoot and DI on a 444 10b or higher format (makes qualification easier/cleaner)
-Shoot with good colour separation (match lighting temp to sensor temp, no strong casts, 3200k on most digital formats probably not best if possible)
-Combine windows and HSL qualifications

Good luck (-;

[Toby Tomkins]

I agree but I also think there will always be ‘two more features’ (-; they’ve done SO MUCH between 8 and 10 in two years it’s incredible.

I would love to see more support for alpha. If alpha could be treated like a channel and so be treated like RGB and any node, that would indeed be incredible!

I like working with disco mattes (rgb mattes) however and then things might get complicated/too processor intensive.

Alpha support is fairly new itself and it’s been great to have it, but yes it would be great if the alpha toolset expanded.

BM want DaVinci to be a fully fledged online editor and a better alpha toolset could help it leapfrog the alternatives, becoming more a finishing station like Flame and open up a whole new market for them, so maybe it’s already in development! If DV goes down that route then nested node trees like in Nuke night start to become necessary! One of the strongest things about DV is its simplicity and stripped back UI. It could be hard to add all these new features and keep it that way.

Keep up the good work BM!

[Toby Tomkins]

What is your target? 709 or P3? I don’t think the DCI gamut will give you a good starting point as I think its set up for DCI input.

Also you need to calibrate for your colour pipeline, ie out of your Resolve / video IO card, going through your laptops DVI/HDMI port won’t necessarily give you the same output. You need to be sending the display a video signal, not a RGB signal which the laptop is probably sending.

[Toby Tomkins]

Your bottleneck is CPU speed, not power, ie clock speed. When codecs, or even other parts of the encoding process are single threaded then your clock speed will quickly become the limiting factor. To break 100fps in Resolve you need to be over 4GHz in my experience. This is why overclocked i7 processors running at say 4.6GHz would be faster for transcoding/rendering certain formats in DaVinci than a dual Xeon set up (at 2.8GHz or 3.5GHz in Turbo if you’re lucky). The 6-core i7s at these speeds are phenomenal with DaVinci (-:

[Toby Tomkins]

Use video levels. Use Lightspace test patterns in DaVinci to set brightness and contrast. I’d recommend Cinema mode with native gamut to start. The wide gamut can be comfortably brought to rec709 with a LUT. If you need the brightness higher use Standard mode with native gamut but in that mode I find ABL more noticeable as white will be much brighter when small in area than when a large proportion of the screen is white/bright

Get the brightness/contrast right with the desired brightness from the light space set up images. Work out a patch size that works for you (I went for smallest in davinci, so ABL wouldn’t effect the profile, but arguably you could go for larger patches….)

Good luck

[Toby Tomkins]

I would also love to know if this is possible.

[Toby Tomkins]

That is an oddly large change, 8 bit or not! The gene has only been discovered in women but I don’t think there’s a limit on the genetics side to women but I might be wrong, it was just a throwaway comment as a joke! (-;

I think something is wrong with your install or set up. Try reinstalling the latest version maybe? If you do t want to do that then use my workaround described in the first reply I gave! This will also test the 8 bit monitor issue but I highly doubt this is the case.

[Toby Tomkins]

Sounds like you could be a Tetrachromat!

But to answer your question, use a node’s output gain to fade the adjustment node effect from 0-100%

[Toby Tomkins]

Lol “cue the requisite lecture by Steve Shaw about the horrors of Plasmas and ABL here…”

I agree this would be a welcome feature!

We can’t all have Dolby Prm-4200 monitors and the Panny Plasmas (specifically the BT300) are great client monitors and it would be good to have this feature to get them profiled quickly for calibration.

I imagine this is a problem on BMDs end and could be resolved possibly be having scaling settings applied to the signal from Lightspace.