On-Set: Best Practices

[craigjkharris]

I haven't use DaVinci on-set yet -so- I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas or best practices for workflows.

Specifically, could anyone suggest the best way to:
A. Ingest R3D files?
B. Preview R3D files?

Is there a way to only make changes to the metadata and create a Look files that RedCine-X could read? (I'm guessing not, but thought I'd ask anyways)

Thank you kindly,
Craig

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Not sure why you would want DaVinci on-set for ingest and preview. DaVinci is a color grading and finishing tool. It's intended to be used in a light-controlled environment, specifically an editing / coloring suite with proper monitoring and controls. On-Set tools are REDCINE-X and soon to be STORM.

No, DaVinci does not create look files / RMD's for RC-X or the camera.

[craigjkharris]

Not sure why you would want DaVinci on-set for ingest and preview. DaVinci is a color grading and finishing tool. It's intended to be used in a light-controlled environment, specifically an editing / coloring suite with proper monitoring and controls. On-Set tools are REDCINE-X and soon to be STORM.

No, DaVinci does not create look files / RMD's for RC-X or the camera.

Jeff,
For some projects (especially commercials), DP's want the option to color time material with tools like Scratch, Iridas and now DaVinci Resolve. Even though the surroundings aren't always going to as friendly as a post facility, you can get things really close for dailies and for continuity. That is why I and others would want DaVinici as an option on set.

Like you, I use REDCINE-X and might use Storm. Great tools for QC, metadata & primary color work.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

That's understandable. I guess I'm just not feeling the love since it doesn't deal with RMD or camera-specific metadata, looks, etc.. Resolve should still work well for creating dailies, even in an on-set environment.

Best practices? Hmm... I don't know, you'll want a nice big cart to hold it all and a comfortable chair. I would think any limitations for using Resolve will come more from hardware and finding a suitable location to set up. To be as efficient as possible, you'll need the Mac tower, Rocket and a decently fast RAID. You may need a PCIe expander if you also want to set up 10bit+ monitoring, eSATA and/or LTO, etc..

[Manuel Wenger]

For onSet Grading i´d go Speedgrade onSet, it generates LUT´s which you can load into Davinici, but doesn´t need the Hardware resources DaVinici uses (it won´t do playback, you´ll grade on stills) and could basically run from a MacBook Pro.
3cP is also an option, but honestly i dont like it a lot.

Manuel