Davinci Resolve 9.0

[jake blackstone]

Version 9 is an early beta or even alpha and there will be changes. But in it's present form it is clearly a Major update, starting with new, much improved interface, support for audio for dailies work and deliverables. Resolve will have an option for single render, multiple deliverables. In other words, you'll be able to set up a single render with something, like prores, h264, dnxhd, all in one render. Very cool. Audio syncing in auto mode, based on TC or manually. Bringing images with sound imports them as separate video and sound files. And finally for die hard colorists- Log grading! Metadata settings are not burried anymore, but are next to the timeline and live. Metadata settings are per shot and even per version. Yes, you can have different metadata settings for different versions of the grade. iObviously, there is much more, but that's what I can remember.

[Scott Crawley]

Version 9 ... iObviously, there is much more, but that's what I can remember.

Thanks Jake. If I were guessing I'd think you were hanging out in Cupertino a lot lately.

[jake blackstone]

Thanks Jake. If I were guessing I'd think you were hanging out in Cupertino a lot lately.

Haha, I haven't even noticed

[Chris Kenny]

Any word about ProRes 4444 support on Windows? Our primary grading system is Mac-based, but it would be really nice to use low-cost Windows boxes with Resolve Lite for dailies transcoding, etc. Just need better ProRes support there for it to be workable on most projects.

[jake blackstone]

Any word about ProRes 4444 support on Windows? Our primary grading system is Mac-based, but it would be really nice to use low-cost Windows boxes with Resolve Lite for dailies transcoding, etc. Just need better ProRes support there for it to be workable on most projects.

Why do you need prores 4444 for dailies?

[Chris Kenny]

Why do you need prores 4444 for dailies?

We need to be able to ingest 4444 for dailies -- not for Red projects, obviously, but for other cameras/recorders. And of course we need to be able to render out ProRes for any job cutting in FCP -- Apple's own Windows ProRes support in QuickTime is read-only even for 422/LT/Proxy, and doesn't support 4444 at all.

[Marc Wielage]

We're you there Marc, did you get your mitts on it? What did you think? I was hoping you would have your own accounting to give.

Nope, busy working! First NAB I've had to miss in about 10 years. But I'm keeping tabs through the net.

I'm very impressed by the whole spectrum of new products Blackmagic has at the show -- just the Teranex boxes alone surprised me. Given that these used to cost about $50K, and are now under $3K, is pretty amazing. And the new Resolve 9.0 is a huge change over the last revision, not a subtle upgrade.

[jake blackstone]

We need to be able to ingest 4444 for dailies -- not for Red projects, obviously, but for other cameras/recorders. And of course we need to be able to render out ProRes for any job cutting in FCP -- Apple's own Windows ProRes support in QuickTime is read-only even for 422/LT/Proxy, and doesn't support 4444 at all.

Your information is incorrect. 4444 prores read had been supported on windows for a long time. Alexa files work just fine on the Windows, regardless of the application.

[Rob Ruffo]

Jake have they finally implemented separate, per edit-clip, or per node Red settings (rather than just one possible for the whole R3D file, no matter where it appears in the timeline, as is now?) Is there control surface support within Red Settings?

Really would LOVE to be able to set separate ISO and WB within nodes, using various qualifiers

Before anybody this is beyond what a color grader should do, what would this be, exactly, other than color grading?

[Chris Kenny]

Your information is incorrect. 4444 prores read had been supported on windows for a long time. Alexa files work just fine on the Windows, regardless of the application.

Err? Is this recent? Trying this about six months ago didn't work (latest QuickTime on Windows 7 at the time) and Google searches turned up numerous confirmations that it didn't work -- couldn't even get a ProRes 4444 file to load in QuickTime Player.

In any event, even if decode works now, about 60% of the projects we do dailies for seem to edit in FCP, to the lack of ProRes encoding support is still a major impoundment to using the Windows version.