
I've been making films since 12. Writer, producer and director of 18 films, my work has screened at 38 international festivals including SXSW, Telluride, Cannes. An industry production veteran for 20 years, I've worked as Producer, Director, AD, Art... [ more] I've been making films since 12. Writer, producer and director of 18 films, my work has screened at 38 international festivals including SXSW, Telluride, Cannes. An industry production veteran for 20 years, I've worked as Producer, Director, AD, Art Director and for commercials, studio features and television. I've also published film criticism, curated festivals, written screenplays. I edit only narrative features. I love the many forms of drama--all onscreen! From industry experiences as a filmmaker, I realized absent from the post process was a genuine consideration of the myriad dilemmas filmmakers face in the crucial finishing stages. With rapid changes in technology that blur the boundaries between production and post, filmmakers need a clear, unbiased source of consul to make informed choices. I founded my company, Solventdreams, to provide a supportive, experienced environment for talent to collaborate and flourish. My role is to guide and facilitate the challenging end processes of finishing a film..and to learn something as well. | | | | Member Since: December 13th 2002 | | | | |
| | | | |  | Replacing 16 port 4gb fibre switchby David Davidson 3 weeks agoTime has come to replace the 3 year old Qlogic 5600. Besides Qlogic, does anyone recommend another brand and make with which they've had good experiences I see lots of Brocades, HPs on ebay for fracti | Re: Replacing 16 port 4gb fibre switch by Juan Salvo 3 weeks ago What r u replacing it with Forwarding thinking, I suspect future of FC is FCoE on 10gE.... so would get something that can crossover. Hint: QLogic has such devices. online editor colorist VFX BD autho
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| | | |  | Apple Xserve RAIDS, fibre card, etc.by David Davidson 11 months agoVery clean, fully tested, studio condition full populated Apple Xserve RAIDs with low drive hours used for backups and some editing, color work. Always kept in smoke free, air conditioned server room. | | | | |
| | | |  | Searching a volumeby David Davidson 1 year agoOn 4.5 with "spotlight indexing" checked. Doing a Spotlight search of a volume turns up no results. In fact, it never has, since v2.2.3.. Any ideas David Davidson Managing Director solventdreams, llc  | Re: Searching a volume by Michael Peele 1 year ago Yeah I have turned Spotlight off in the MetaSan control panel and hid my volume from Spotlight in the Spotlight control panel. Figured if it doesn't work for that volume I won't even let it try. I use
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| | | |  | Volumes appear twiceby David Davidson 1 year agoWe've been having this persistent issue where SAN volumes appear twice, incremented with the number 1. So for instance, I have multiple clients with MetaSAN accessing four unique SAN volumes. All volu | Re: Volumes appear twice by David Davidson 1 year ago Hi Brandon Thanks for your reply. Clients mount volumes over fibre, normal circumstances. We're not mounting the SAN volume, it just appears on the volume list when previewing the connection over AFP.
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| | | |  | XDCAM proxiesby David Davidson 3 years agoHas anyone been able to get FCP use the XDCAM proxies David Davidson Managing Director solventdreams, llc www.solventdreams.com 4222 santa monica blvd los angeles, ca 90028 323 906 9700 info@solventdr | | | | |
| | | |  | Multicam SANby David Davidson 3 years agoI'm designing a 4 seat SAN to offline edit two network shows on XDCAM in FCP's multicam mode. I'm not entirely certain if XDCAM will be shot at 35 or 50 Mb s. I've had very good experiences with MetaS | Re: Multicam SAN by Daniel Hatch 3 years ago David, Here's some information on Apace Systems that might be of use: The best solution to provide you with support for multi-ingest XDCAM streams is to consider two products from Apace Systems. a) Th
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| | | |  | Service: Solventdreams ltdby David Davidson 4 years agoLos Angeles California, United States Post Production Film Color Correction Solventdreams ltd Digital Intermediates Post Visual FX Color Correction and Gradin | | | | |
| | | |  | HDlink Pro LUT formatby Sean Donnelly 4 years agoI'm planning on ordering an hdlink pro (if I can ever find one), and I'm curious about the file format of the LUT's created by it. Is it possible to export DaVinci or other formats directly from the s | Re: HDlink Pro LUT format by David Davidson 4 years ago Andrew, who's your sales rep David Davidson Managing Director solventdreams, llc www.solventdreams.com 4222 santa monica blvd los angeles, ca 90028 323 906 9700 info@solventdreams.com
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| | | |  | 24p via SDIby David Davidson 5 years agoHave you had pretty good experience bringing in 24p (not 24pa) material via SDI thru a Kona or Blackmagic HD card and getting the card to recognize the proper A frame Any recommendations on the settin | Re: 24p via SDI by Noah Kadner 5 years ago It's not worth it IMHO. Same exact effect by capturing Firewire and export to ProRes with much less storage requirement. Probably need a trip to CinemaTools though. NoahUnlock the secrets of the DVX10
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| | | |  | Now HERE's an Apple Color Suite!by walter biscardi 5 years agoWow, my friends down at CineFilm Lab here in Atlanta have completed a new DI suite featuring Color. Now this is a serious Color correction suite and oh by the way, the guy running it is a very long-ti | | | | |
| | | |  | G-SPEED usersby David Davidson 5 years agoA few questions for those using the G-speed XL.. Can you set the stripe size to 8mb as one can with the Xserve RAIDs What's the standard practice on this unit for 2k and 444HD What RAID controller is  | Re: G-SPEED users by David Davidson 5 years ago Hi, Clark I was not expecting a company rep--more an objective user's experience. Appreciate the answers anyway. Like others, I've been researching large storage concerns for some time, especially fib
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| | | |  | Log, 2k, HDCAMSR with the Viperby David Davidson 5 years agoWe did an ingest of the Viper 444 log image using the Aja LOG codec, and getting some confusing results on the histogram. Anyone do this before Does the log codec "logiffy" linear material Is there so | | | | |
| | | |  | Final Postby Bob Sliga 5 years agoHello All, It has been some time since I have posted. Because of my recent change in employment, this must be my last post. First of all I would like to congratulate Jean-Luc on the birth of his son.  | Re: Final Post by David Davidson 5 years ago Congratulations! Thanks for all your valuable support and knowledge. We are sincerely appreciative of your professional insights.David Davidson Managing Director solventdreams, llc www.solventdreams.c
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| | | |  | XML's not reconnecting to Final Touch Rendersby walter biscardi 6 years agoI've completed two renders using FT 2.6 beta something and after importing the XML's to FCP, they are not reconnecting to the rendered media. They're just simply reconnecting back to the original FCP  | Re: UB 2.7 made XML worse by David Davidson 5 years ago Walter The fast rendering quandry (in leaving FCP open simultaneous to FT) may be the Macpro's troubling RAM addressing problems also seen when starving After Effects of memory. Not sure because your
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| | | |  | UB 2.7 beta 2 Availableby David Davidson 6 years ago2.7 Beta 2 AvailableDavid Davidson Managing Director solventdreams, llc www.solventdreams.com 4222 santa monica blvd los angeles, ca 90028 323 906 9700 info@solventdreams.com | | | | |
| | | |  | HDCAM 24P to 25Pby Per Ottesen 6 years agoAre there any who had some experience with the conversion from HDCAM24P to 25P  | Re: HDCAM 24P to 25P by David Davidson 6 years ago Thanks. The 25p is artificially created--not in the camera.David Davidson Managing Director solventdreams, llc www.solventdreams.com 4222 santa monica blvd los angeles, ca 90028 323 906 9700 info@solv
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| | | |  | ARRI d20 imagesby David Davidson 6 years agoWe're doing some tests with the camera, planning on working in LOG-C mode. Anyone here had the chance to work with the D20's images and a viewing LUT for filmout David Davidson Visual Effect Superviso | Re: ARRI d20 images by David Davidson 6 years ago I'm sure you got busy. Tony, feel free to email me at david@solventdreams.com. I'd love to evaluate some of those images here if you have a moment! david David Davidson Managing Director solventdreams
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| | | |  | Anyone use Jetstor RAIDsby David Davidson 6 years agohttp: www.acnc.com 02_01_jetstor_sata_516f.html Interesting lower cost 4gb fibre option, w 1 controller (not as robust against failing as a dual controller). Wondered if anyone has tried this array.  | Re: Anyone use Jetstor RAIDs by David Davidson 6 years ago Probably, but in unprotected mode--who wants to work in that. David Davidson Managing Director solventdreams, llc www.solventdreams.com 4222 santa monica blvd los angeles, ca 90028 323 906 9700 info@s
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| | | |  | Fibre questionsby David Davidson 6 years agoHi, Gtech Do you have any benchmarks for the G-speed 4.5 TB in different raid modes Also, what kind of total data size will result when drive is striped as RAID 3, 5 and 6 When striping two RAID 5 arr | Re: Fibre questions by David Davidson 6 years ago Have you tried other drive enclosures, such as ADTX and Jetstor Not really happy with XRAIDs anymore.David Davidson Managing Director solventdreams, llc www.solventdreams.com 4222 santa monica blvd lo
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| | | |  | FCP to Avid to FCPby David Davidson 6 years agoForgive the cross post on the Avid side of these forums. We're working with an editor who is comfortable with Avid and wants to cut this feature on an old Media Composer. However, the director wants t | Re: FCP to Avid to FCP by David Davidson 6 years ago Thanks, Nick. I'd heard of Sebsky's tools before & I'll try this as part of my workflow & see what I come up against. We're logging in FCP as currently these are our resident HD systems & have a techn
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| | | |  | FCP to Avid to FCPby David Davidson 6 years agoHi, Avid users. First time posting to this part of the Cow. Forgive the cross post on the FCP side of the forum. We're working with an editor who is comfortable with Avid and wants to cut this feature | Re: FCP to Avid to FCP by Scott Simmons 6 years ago I would also suggest that if you do this then investing in Auto Duck is the way to go. i have heard many good things and from my experience they have great support. The big issue I get between Avid an
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| | | |  | Finding Jaime Fowler?by David Davidson 6 years agoI've lost touch with Mr. Fowler & am searching for his whereabouts about acquiring an Avid system... Isn't he in Texas Any info where I could reach him would be much appreciated. David A. Davidson sol | | | | |
| | | |  | color correction broadcast safeby Jose Alfonzo 7 years ago Here it it: At work they wanted me to color correct all these clips coming from AE. (look all blown and funky, etc.) and they want me to use the color corrector 3 way, looking at the vector scope, wv | | | | |
| | | |  | Filmout tests - Panasonic repsby David Davidson 6 years agoWe'd be interested in shooting some tests to send to different labs. Especially tests which convert the material to a full HD 10bit 4:4:4 format, graded, put thru a film LUT, and how the material prin | | | | |
| | | |  | Filmouts or D-Cinemaby T Mathai 6 years ago Having spend a good part of a decade doing film scanning and recording, I find what happens in post plays a big part in how video looks when it's transferred to film. Before DVX100, since most video | | | | |
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