Walter Biscardi
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[Mark Renz] “In my Symphony color correction, I would handle iris changes with keyframes or add edit with a dissolve over the top. With Resolve I have always had a non flattened file to work with so this will be something to to check out.
“The markers are the keyframes. Dynamic Marker starts the change. Marker ends the change. So you do the markers in pairs but you can add as many as you want to each clip.
Alexis Van Hurkman has an incredible series of training on Ripple. Highly recommend it as it will get you up to speed on Resolve very quickly.
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[Mark Renz] “This is an option, the project is full of dissolves and I was trying to get a better handle on dealing with them.
“Dynamic Markers and Markers in Resolve. Super easy. Can do wipes too.
I sometimes do this within shots too if there’s a major change in iris.
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Been doing Premiere Pro to Resolve almost three years now.
We do a Flattened ProRes or DNxHD file out Premiere Pro.
In Resolve I do a Scene Cut Detect which cuts the original file into all the individual scenes.
Grade in Resolve.
Render out either a ProRes or DNxHD file of the entire timeline or render out individual shots depending on the project.
This is how we do all our projects from corporate to broadcast to documentary.
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[Bryan Roberts] “1. What kind of media does Premiere Prefer or work best with? In my beloved FCP days, it was always ProRes for everything. FCP felt like it was built to work with that codec.”
We avoid any quicktime formats as much as possible. With FCP we always converted to ProRes before the edit. Now we go native all the way through the process as it’s faster and make a ProRes master. Quicktime always performs much more sluggishly than native.
[Bryan Roberts] “2. Why does a timeline of rendered media showing all green bars STILL drop frames?”
Too many factors here from RAID speeds to RAM to Graphics Cards to a lot of things. We get that on occasion even with light timelines.
[Bryan Roberts] “How can I decrease the time for all my media to be loaded in.”
Good, simple media organization on your drives.
[Bryan Roberts] “I can’t figure out export times. On the 30 minute show for broadcast (22:30 of content), with fast color corrector or 3 way color corrector on every single clip and a mixed timeline of native XDCAM, 5D and GoPro, my export was mindblowingly fast.”
Render timeline first, then Export with the box “Use Preview Files” checked. Very fast export times.
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Fastest Processor, Fastest Graphics Card, Maximum RAM.
That’s pretty much it. Whatever is the fastest / maximum today, that’s what you want.
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[Andrew Kimery] “[Jim Scott] “If you prefer to own your apps rather than rent them, you can still find CS6 for sale on ebay and elsewhere.”
You can still buy CS6 from Adobe.com
“Yep and CS6 is still available in the Cloud too. I would STRONGLY advise going with the current versions of PPro over CS6 because the changes have made the tool so much more efficient in CC and CC 2014. If you’re looking to get work today, most likely the shops will be using the Cloud version of PPro. It’s more cost effective to go Cloud and just go month to month if you want than the drop a bunch of money on 4 year old software.
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It’s all subscription model through the Creative Cloud. We have five workstations at the office all running Cloud and we love it.
I think I’ve been on the Cloud two years now since they first introduced it as an option.
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Rip the DVD to an MOV or AVI file via Handbrake. Then edit with that. That’s what I’m doing with some old 8mm films I had transferred to DVD at Costco.
Much easier to edit with those files than the VOB directly off the DVD.
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We have much more appropriate forums here on the Cow for questions like that.
https://forums.creativecow.net/dslr
https://forums.creativecow.net/cinematography
https://forums.creativecow.net/canonmarkii
https://forums.creativecow.net/fieldproduction
There’s something 100 forums here on the Cow with a lot of specialities to make getting the info you need easier.
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[Malcolm Matusky] “If I’m asked for a lot of detail I charge a fee to do the clients work for them as I’m now working as a production manager and not a producer, they will obviously shop the entire job around and go with the lowest bidder on each segment. If I get a decent day rate for putting a budget together for them, fine otherwise I pass.”
That part I don’t understand. I always have to work out a full budget before I place a bid whether I show them the work or not. I don’t see any reason to charge a client to show them the work I did to come up with the budget.
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