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Resolve won't play R3D smoothly WITH ROCKET - previously worked fine

Eric Haase — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:56:29 GMT

Running Resolve 9.1.3 Lite on a Macbook Pro Retina (latest) w/maxed out RAM and SSD. 10.8.2 Mountain Lion.

Redrocket with latest drivers and firmware freshly installed connected by Sonnet Echo Express Pro Thunderbolt.

Resolve plays back at 3 or 4 fps. In SYSTEM OVERVIEW it recognizes card as it always has in the past (see attached pic). Camera RAW set to Half Good as usual. Used to work perfectly like this. Not sure what has changed!

R3D footage plays back perfectly in RedcineX Pro through the Rocket.

I have tested footage off an external drive connected by Esata/Tbolt through LaCie and also footage from the local SSD that I know to have played perfectly fine in the past.
I have also turned audio off as this was an issue in the past.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help.

Eric

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HP z400

martinnoweck — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:10:37 GMT

Anyone using Resolve Lite on a HP z400 (windows 7) machine?

Best wishes and kind regards,
MArtin

Does RCX read Resolve color files?

Will Keir — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:35:31 GMT

Can we take our color corrections in resolve and bring them into RCX? Our DP likes doing her first light in Resolve but the editor has been seeing weird bugs in Avid and prefers the trancode from RCX.

Will RCX read the .drp save or can I export to an extension RCX can read and import?

Thanks in advance.

Postgre SQL File

martinnoweck — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:01:38 GMT

Hello everybody,
tried to install davinci lite on a windows7 machine (for testing purposes) and installing is declined because there seems to be a postgre / SQL file missing. Do I have to download this somewhere else and if yes, where?
best wishes and kind regards,
martin

Disparity of Numerical RGB Coordinates in Log Mode when using Mouse Versus Trackball

Desmond Ford — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:05:25 GMT

I'm experiencing something odd in Log mode when I use the mouse to make RGB adjustments versus when I use the trackballs of my Tangent Element.

Basically, I'll make the same adjustment with the mouse as I will with the trackball, but the numerical RGB coordinates are way off.

For example, I'll use my mouse to move the little circle inside the highlight wheel so that it rests in the corner of the crosshairs of the Magenta vector. The coordinates will read R: 0.16 / G: -0.07 / B: 0.20

Then I'll reset it and make the exact same move with my trackball to the same (almost exact by eye) location as before. However, the coordinates read completely differentR: 0.04 / G: -0.18 / B: 0.10

So, there is a stark difference in the numerical coordinate values. Yet the relative position is almost identical in the Highlight Wheel of the Log mode.

I know what you're thinking: it's impossible to match it up exactly by eye!

So what I do is, I take a frame grab of both adjustments, then I toggle back and forth while looking at the little circle in the highlight wheel, and I can see no movement. It looks to my eye that the little circle has not moved position at all, despite the RGB coordinates below changing back and forth to extremely different values and the image showing a difference via the wipe.

I called tech support but they were unable to make anything of it from my description, so I'm posting it here with screengrabs for clarification.

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DaVinci Tutorials from the web

Hendro Setyo Wibowo — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:52:04 GMT

Hi, Just would like to share to all that there are tips and tricks that can be found on the net. These are amazing people who would like to share their knowledge to the world. They take their time out of their very busy schedule and do these tutorials. Some are very detailed tutorials some are just simple tricks that could save you lots of time.

These are the links that I have found so far. I can't post them all but some of the channels do contain other videos out there. So after checking out the video, do check out their other videos in their channel.

Mind you that some of the tutorials are in Version 8 but mostly are in Version 9. I think some of the old tutorials are useful as well.

Please do contribute to this thread. The more we contribute and help others to improve the more we get better. This is just for tutorials, tips and tricks. Please mention about who did it and links of the author (if available) and small description about it.

Use grains and scratches in your grade

Tao of Color Grading - https://vimeo.com/37951192
ICA - https://vimeo.com/59908356

Achieving that summer blockbuster look

Juan Melara - https://vimeo.com/65617394
Presynkt - https://vimeo.com/58251457

Bleach Bypass look

Color Grading Central - https://vimeo.com/35281947
Warren Eagles (ICA) - http://youtu.be/rUbhsavxruM

Keying two layer together
Warren Eagles (ICA) - http://youtu.be/zbpshownHLg

Other looks

Presynkt
- CSI look https://vimeo.com/33952857
- Sunrise Grade https://vimeo.com/34650798

Cheers guys :-)

Beginners question :)

greg filipkowski — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:21:24 GMT

I watched Juan Melara and i'm inspired, so today did the workshop, got to the export the fooatge looks great and when i export the clip the clip does not export with the grade, the quicklime files proress 1080p looks like r3d r3 film very flat image. any ideas?

DaVinci Resolve Config Guide and the Supermicro SuperServer 7047GR-TRF

Nikhil Kamkolkar — Sun, 05 May 2013 03:45:38 GMT

The Resolve guide recommends the Supermicro 7047GR-TRF ( http://www.supermicro.com/products/s...cfm?parts=show )

I'm seeing this out of stock in a few places, which is generally a giveaway that an upgrade is on the way. Specially since this only has USB 2.0 ports as you can see at the link above.

Can someone from Davinci confirm if we'll see an updated recommended config and if yes, by when?

Many thanks!

PS. I'll need this beast built before I can actually grade my short shot on the EPIC-X. Check out the current state at -
http://www.vimeo.com/kamkolkar/tbd password: tbd

Blackmagic Mini Monitor

martinnoweck — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:55:11 GMT

Hello everybody,

anyone using the Blackmagic Mini Monitor (Thunderbolt to HDMI / HD-SDI) in combination with Resolve lite?

I can select it in the Davinci preferences, but I get no picture out of the box.

(Using Blackmagic Media Express I get a picture out of the box)

Best wishes and kind regards,
Martin

any Linux user here?

Mayo Hurajt — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:54:12 GMT

Hi, is here someone who is using Resolve under Linux?

Best workflow: Premiere - After Effects - Davinci

Mikko Suomalainen — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:55:38 GMT

I'm wondering what would be the best workflow for RED-footage with this setup:

Basic editing: Premiere CS 5.5
Effects: After effects CS 5.5
Color grading: Davinci Resolve Lite

Do I loose the 4K quality using the Resolve Lite? How should I export the footage from Premiere to AE, and then to Davinci, still having the RAW-footage, and that I can render out all the effects?
Or should I do the grading first, and send it to AE after Davinci?

Thank you in advance
Mikko

Exporting to 1080p issues, scaling down issues

Michael Patterson — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:27:19 GMT

I was wondering if anyone else is having this issue or if I am dong something wrong here. Everytime I go to export a 1080p clip or self contained finished file, my 1080p footage doesn't fill the whole frame. It's a few pixels short all the way around. It's almost as if it's scaling it down to 99% or something and then I have black lines around the quicktime viewer. It's just a bit of a hassle as I then have to take the file back into cs6 and scale it to 101 to get it to fill frame. Is this a normal thing or do I have something set wrong? It's been doing this since 8, so it's not a 9 issue. Usually it's not that big of an issue as I have to bring it back anyway to add titles and finish the audio, but for a project I just shot, the client just needs about 30 small sequences with no audio that they are using for demo purposes in an iPad app and I want to try and just go from DaVinci out and not have to do the extra step of going back into premiere and exporting again. It's a tight turnaround, so any time that could be saved would help me out a lot. Thanks.

DaVinci Resolve Commercial Colorist

R�my De Vlieger — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:48:54 GMT

Hi all Red users, i just finished a clip were you can see nice color corrections on Da Vinci Resolve.

RED, but also BMD and Phantom footage are used.

Please have a look and give me your feedback !

https://vimeo.com/64255302

R�my

Anyone tried 4 gpu in resolve yet?

Paul Provost — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:25:46 GMT

In mac i mean. Looks like limitation lifted in 10.8.3 and is working on 2012 Mac pros. About to order a fourth gtx680 for my cubix.

Reslove 9 to DNxHD - audio out of sync

david_winters — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:24:29 GMT

Creating transcodes of 10-20 minute long interview takes. In MXF DNx renders, audio drifts out of sync, going out more as runtime increases.

1. What settings do I need to change?

2. How do I define a specific DNx 10bit bitrate?

3. Did I select the wrong audio sample rate to export as (24 bit)?

Thanks in advance.