Resolve v9 - NAB 2012 Highlights

[RivaiC]

Log Grading ! Finally...

Thx Peter

RV

[Hywel Phillips]

Sounds awesome, Peter.

Do I understand that the expansion of audio capabilities will effectively allow audio pass-through? i.e. if I have some R3Ds or some ProRes files with audio, will I be able to export to a final ProRes master with that audio passed through to the final file?

The lack of that has been slowing down my workflow with Resolve up until now. If that's there, I'll be switching to finishing everything I produce with Resolve I think!

Cheers, Hywel.

[luigivaltulini]

For those not in Vegas we had a great day today and a chance to demo our Resolve v9. Here are some highlights.
Peter

Interface re-designed to streamline the grading process
o Fast user login by entering user name or scroll user thumbnails
o Browse and select projects with scrubbable thumbnail or list view
o Search and sort project lists
o Larger color palettes with direct user access to more tools for faster grading
o Larger and clearer text to ease eye strain during long grading sessions
o Larger timeline thumbnails makes selecting shots faster
o Resizable gallery stills stored and displayed in user named albums
o Gallery now includes 48 'Looks' for fast grade selection
o Full screen viewer mode for accurate window and qualifier control
o Cinema review mode offers a clean full screen to sit back and enjoy

Clip Management
o Browse and select clips in the media library with thumbnail or list view
o Re-sizeable and scrubbable Library and Media Pool thumbnails
o Fast clip management with drag and drop clips between bins in the Media Pool
o Clip list view now also displays PAR, video/data level, frame rate and audio channels
o Optional automatic creation of the Master Timeline to match the Media Pool
o Master and Default timelines option to sort in timecode order or reel # and timecode order
o Reveal clip in Finder

Conform
o Expandable timeline view for conforming
o Drag and drop clip editing
o Consolidate RED camera clips with user defined handles
o Speed warps from FCP XML and Avid AAF
o User selection of common keyboard shortcut layouts

Color
o Log grading includes contrast and pivot with low and high range controls
o Composite RGBA clips using embedded Alpha
o Stereoscopic 3D floating windows include position, softness and rotation
o Separate 3D monitoring controls for GUI/SDI/WFM mesh
o Camera Raw palette offers real time direct control of raw images
o Camera Raw image debayer and decode settings optionally saved per graded version
o Nodes can now be named and wire linking is faster
o Window palette displays the selected windows and position
o Key shapes and position are displayed in the new key palette
o Image transforms are now controlled in the sizing palette
o Tracker and stabilization palette with editable keyframe tracks for pan, tilt, zoom & rotate
o Stabilization strength control to blend stable and original image track
o Eight colored user selected pins & flags to mark clips for fast & easy location and sorting
o Clip thumbnail timeline filters for color corrected, tracked, rendered, pins and flags
o User configurable preset descriptions for graded version names

Audio
o Multitrack audio decoding from BWF, Quicktime and MXF files - Op-Atom and OP-1a
o Multitrack audio encoding to Quicktime and MXF formats - Op-Atom
o Audio waveform display and 16 channel audio meters with selectable dB and dBu scale
o User selectable reference alignment levels for dBu scale
o One-click Auto-Sync of multiple dual system audio files with camera images

Dailies
o Dailies production metadata fields for fast data entry
o Automatically assign iXML production metadata with audio sync
o Dailies clip sort and simultaneous multiple format rendering
o Simple text name burn in for dailies deliverables
o Source clip data burn-ins include custom text, logos & user selectable fade up/down times
o One click generation of LUTs from the clip grade
o User configurable folders to save LUTs

Deliverables
o Dedicated screen for creating rendered deliverables includes large viewer and timeline
o Deliverables user easy setups can now be saved and recalled
o Batch render queue shows job status
o Encoding and decoding Avid DNxHD in QuickTime
o Avid DNxHD444 codec encode/decode is supported on all platforms
o Up to 50% faster DNxHD/MXF encoding speed
o Additional 'Force Highest Quality' settings when rendering clips
o Additional Resolve control panel controls for Camera Raw selection

General
o Resolve Control Panel shortcuts to new Log, Raw and Stereoscopic controls
o Canon C500 camera support
o Improved decoder performance for uncompressed MXF on Linux
o Projects are now saved in file based database with optional database server
o 4K monitoring with DeckLink 4K
o Resolve for Mac OS; hot plug and play for removable drives
o Resolve for Mac OS; now a 64 bit app

WOW....
AND PRORES FOR WINDOWS?

THANKS
LUIGI

[J. Cody Baker]

Color
o Stereoscopic 3D floating windows include position, softness and rotation

Excellent. I hope that this is or will soon be separate from PTZR in terms of colortracing and applying corrections from stills....
Also a separate node-tree for 3D eye matching corrections in general would be great.

[Kwan Khan]

o 4K monitoring with DeckLink 4K
o Resolve for Mac OS; hot plug and play for removable drives
o Resolve for Mac OS; now a 64 bit app

Fantastic updates, Absolutely amazing

[Bob Gundu]

Über impressed with Resolve 9. Price for this estonishing to say the least.

[Matt Gottshalk]

Saw the new interface today.

It was incredible.

[Florian Stadler]

Thank you for listening.

[Christopher*Seguine]

o 4K monitoring with DeckLink 4K

What about 4k monitoring over hdmi 1.4 on the DL HD 3D+ ?

[ERIC PECK]

4K monitoring with DeckLink 4K ?

Spent a good hour on the BMD Booth at NAB asking the BMD people about this (Specially after seeing the RED Projector). NO ONE COULD CONFIRM OR DENY IT!

The DaVinci guys would say "I don't know about the Decklink 4k, you need to ask the Decklink guys"... the Decklink guys would say "we have an open API that works across all boards.. but we don't know, you need to ask the DaVinci guys".

No one could confirm it. Now I read it here. The BMD Staff on the booth needed better training.

By the way, the new camera looks amazing. Poor Canon.