Colourist/ Post Production Specialist
with 30 years of production / online / FX / Dailies and Mastering experience. | | | | Member Since: December 4th 2006 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | | |
Friends:  Eric Hansen  Gary Shaw  Juan Salvo  kim krause  Laco Gaal  Robbie Carman | | | | |  | Resolve & New Mac Proby Paul Kim 1 week agoAny thoughts on using Resolve 10, with Blackmagic cards and all necessary accompaniments, on the new Mac Pro as teased today | Re: Resolve & New Mac Pro
by Joseph Owens 1 week ago
However, if you can find Grant Petty's statement (search the Resolve forum on this site), you will find that apparently Blackmagic has already been testing the device. They seem to be departing from s
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| | | | | Multi-layer opacity supportby Eugene Lehnert 1 week agoI am experiencing compositing errors inside of DaVinci Resolve. The compositing mode is set to screen, there are opacity changes and there are dissolves on the edits. During the dissolve the composite | Re: Multi-layer opacity support
by Joseph Owens 1 week ago
Eugene Lehnert "I am downloaded the new update at the moment to see if this improves the problem. Specifically 9.1.4" That probably won't help, and it would be surprising if this wasn't fixed until R
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| | | |  | New Mac Proby Vladimir Kucherov 1 week agoThoughts Basically a CPU core and all expansion via Thunderbolt. Makes a lot of sense. I wonder if there will be an elegant enclosure to hold all the bits together and how much they'll sell the variou | Re: New Mac Pro
by Joseph Owens 1 week ago
Nate Weaver " I don't see any reason for Grant to go out of his way to say something like that other than it's really the way he feels." Hard to say. However, having been around computers for 40 year
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| | | |  | How to achieve this look?by andrew smith 2 weeks agohttp: youtu.be ytIfSuy_mOA Curious to get some opinions on how best to achieve the looks in this video with Resolve. Thank you | Re: How to achieve this look?
by Joseph Owens 1 week ago
brandon thomas "Surprisingly.. Super 16." Which I have seen either tack-sharp to the extent of *why would you bother with 35 * or *OMG, was the lens loose in the mount* Which wouldn't be too dissimil
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| | | |  | Since everyone here is old and grumpy...by Charlie Austin 2 weeks agoI thought this would bring a smile to all. :-) I present to you, Google as it would have been seen in the 80's ... http: www.masswerk.at googleBBS There's some really fun stuff on their site, includin+4 | | | | |
| | | | | 680s, 780s, Titansby Paul King 2 weeks agoHi All Here comes that same question again re GPUs. I have to deliver a new Resolve system. It will be based on the Supermicro board and the client wants to do 4k. So to do 4k you need 4 x 680 @ 6000 | Re: 680s, 780s, Titans
by Joseph Owens 2 weeks ago
Paul King "An expansion chassis has always been a very expensive option and only serves to house what will become redundant technology." My hope is that an expansion chassis is as beneficial as the c
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| | | |  | Copying Grades from Different Projectsby Dan Edwards 2 weeks agoHello all! I have a tricky question. A client handed me a single ProRes file of an edit of a promo to grade for testing purposes. I then threw it into Premiere, broke it down into clips, then did an X | | | | |
| | | |  | 2 questions about still importby Lorne Wright 2 weeks agoHello, Couple of questions about still import which are pretty simple but I can't find an answer in the manual. 1) In the media pool, I am adding a series of 30 title stills (Resolve 9.1.3 full versio | Re: 2 questions about still import
by Joseph Owens 2 weeks ago
"Stills" in the context of Resolve, refers to reference frames used for comparing color treatments. like the stills you grab from the source footage to use as guide and grade storage. Not as active so
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| | | |  | Issues with reconfirm.by Justin Keating 2 weeks agoHi all, I'm new to Color, I've only used it for a few small projects over recent months. An edit had to be updated so I sent the NEW sequence XML (Not the original. Yes, facepalm indeed) to the Color | Re: Issues with reconfirm.
by Joseph Owens 2 weeks ago
Unless you opened the exported XML in the original project, the Send To... command creates a new project that has no memory of any previous versions, no matter how similar. Depending on how the timeli
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| | | |  | 18 HOUR RENDER TIME!!!! Is that normal?by Jenessa Kenway 3 weeks agoHi all, What is a normal amount of time for a high quality export out of FCP 7 I usually work with PremierPro but chose to assemble Mp4 clips created in Premiere in FCP for my final video output. The | | | | |
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| | | |  | Subtitles Drop Shadowby Sridhar Kumar 3 weeks agoHello All: I am editing a foreign film and adding subtitles to it. I added drop shadow to the subtitles. FCP default setting was: Offset 2, Angle 135, Softness 10, Opacity 100. Is this the standard us | Re: Subtitles Drop Shadow
by Joseph Owens 3 weeks ago
Nick Meyers "an outline is more common than drop shadow" I usually go with a 1 pixel outline when creating subtitles in MacCaption or Encore. jPo "I always pass on free advice -- its never of any use
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| | | |  | Apple confirms 10 June WWDC 2013 keynoteby Mark Dobson 3 weeks agoI've just read that 'Apple confirms 10 June WWDC 2013 keynote.' So could this be where the new MacPro gets announced or there's news of a new update of FCPX. I would imagine a lot of Premiere Pro user | | | | |
| | | |  | Lite and Full version on same machine?by Timo Teravainen 3 weeks agoIs it possible to have both installed on the same machine If not, then is it possible to open projects made with the full version on a machine with lite version I know that it works fine the other way | | | | |
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| | | |  | ColorTrace questionby Jordan Mena 4 weeks agoI am working on a project that has over 1100 shots. My client up versioned the cut. I Re-applied my grades using Colortrace in Manual mode. Actually worked pretty well. Once I was done I realized I ha | Re: ColorTrace question
by Joseph Owens 3 weeks ago
I might have been tempted to re-import the new version timeline into the original Resolve project (you can have more than one timeline in a project) and all this ColorTrace stuff would probably have g
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| | | |  | scaled legal videoby Ben Edwards 4 weeks agoHi, I have been trying to work out how to deliver broadcast safe video, I found the below in the manual but cant find the 'drop' down on the deliver page. Where exactly is it Ben "Output Data Level Se | Re: scaled legal video
by Joseph Owens 4 weeks ago
Thanks for that, so basically you are saying there is no simple way to get resolve to output broadcast safe video. From my understanding Broadcast safe is where white levels are a max of 1000 (100%),
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| | | |  | I/O card usageby Matt Campbell 4 weeks agoI'm looking into purchasing either a Thunderbolt or the PCIe I O but this question is really for any of the I O card devices. When we all talk about doing the conversion on output, I would assume most | Re: I/O card usage
by Joseph Owens 4 weeks ago
HDCP protection would it. Isn't that only for DVD players and those things Tape masters would appear to be evolving into being a kind of encryption protection, anyway, since fewer and fewer individual
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| | | |  | Message to Appleby Steve Connor 1 month agoI know you're out there, tell us what's coming in the next release, you've done it before, you could do it again. Adobe have fumbled the ball at the 10 yard line (is that a correct US Football analogy | Re: Message to Apple
by Joseph Owens 4 weeks ago
probably also time fora few surprise urine samples. jPo "I always pass on free advice -- its never of any use to me" Oscar Wilde.
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| | | | | Recording from SRW-5800 to DVD..??by Ray Brown 1 month agoWe have both; and SRW-5800 and an SRW-5500. At present our workflow is to patch the 5800 to the 5500 and from there into the DVD player to record a clean copy before sending the tape out to the broadc | Re: Recording from SRW-5800 to DVD..??
by Joseph Owens 1 month ago
Ray Brown "no way to record directly into the DVD deck straight from the 5800 without the addition of the SD conversion card ($15,000 or so). " You can buy a lot of other things for $15K. Teranex, fo
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| | | | | projector wont deinterlaceby Stu Gilbert 1 month agoshot at 24p, edited in a 29.97 sequence, lower frame first. exported w compressor, prores 422. rented an optima th1020 projector for the screening (on monday). going through my laptop, dv to vga to pr | Re: projector wont deinterlace
by Joseph Owens 1 month ago
Simon Modery "Because if the lines really go vertical it can't be a de-interlacing issue (field lines are always horizontal)." That's what is really fishy with this story. Those vertical lines really
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| | | | | Simple timeline navigationby Yoram Tal 1 month agoThis might be something simple I have been missing... Is there a simple "go to in timeline" command Somewhere I can type a timecode number and it will take me to that point in the timeline Thanks. Tal | | | | |
| | | | | Color Space Questionby Hoku Uchiyama 1 month agoHello, I'm working on project that involves using media from a lot of different sources (ripped DVDs, web downlaods, etc...). It's for a museum exhibit. The sequence I'm working with is Apple ProRes 4 | Re: Color Space Question
by Joseph Owens 1 month ago
Hoku Uchiyama "can you explain how I'd check the gamma settings" For graphics, right click on the clip and check the "Item Properties"... "Format"... "Gamma Level". ProRes doesn't have this option, b
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| | | | | Removing Dead Pixelsby Ben Edwards 2 months agoHi, thanks for everybody's help so far. One on the cameras the footage was shot on has dead pixels (which show up as white spots). Its a dance pice in a theatre so the background it black. Was wonderi | Re: Removing Dead Pixels
by Joseph Owens 2 months ago
Ben Edwards "Was wondering if it was possible to set a qualifier on white pixels so I can turn them down." Stuck pixels don't move around (but moving objects in the picture content obviously complica
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| | | |  | Pre-read closed caption with SRW 5500by Ronen Pestes 2 months agoIs there a way in the SRW to preserve a closed caption track and just do a video fix or the opposite (preserve video track and insert new closed caption) I believe that can be done with the pre-read, | | | | |
| | | | | Exporting XML for FCP 7by Ben Edwards 2 months agoHi, the Resolve 9 manual says: To export an EDL: 1. Open the Conform page and select the timeline you want to export an EDL from in the Timelines list. 2. If you want to export a track other than Vide | Re: Exporting XML for FCP 7
by Joseph Owens 2 months ago
Ben Edwards "So I did this and tried to import into FCP 7 and got message 'please choose a translation document'. Googled but no luck. I tried both the 1.0 and 1.2 fcpxml options." Could you clarify
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| | | | | NAB and PCIby Jordan Mena 2 months agoAnyone know if there has been a change in configuring a PCI expansion chassy to work with Graphics GPU. I know this is a major reason people have been hoping for a new Mac Pro. If they solve this prob | Re: NAB and PCI
by Juan Salvo 2 months ago
It isn't sufficient. Stick a gpu in a 4x slot and see how well it works in resolve. Hint: not well at all. Colorist Online Editor Post Super VFX Artist BD Author http: JuanSalvo.com
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| | | | | Apple Color Playback Keeps Jumpingby sean auchombit 2 months agoIve sent my footage from final cut pro to apple color, but when playing back the footage in colour, it keeps jumping, a typen of flickering happens, why is that i need to get this sorted please. thank | Re: Apple Color Playback Keeps Jumping
by Joseph Owens 2 months ago
First item: "flickering" is a searchable topic on this discussion heading, and I think a fairly recent thread exists. As I recall it had something to do with the codec, and that would be a good thing
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| | | |  | how to determine bit depth of DPX filesby Nick Meyers 3 months agohello, all. i am going to be providing DPX files for a grade, and need a little guidance. most of the process seems easy enough, here's what i think i need to do: Re-link my ProResLT timeline to the P | | | | |
| | | |  | LUT, ICC Profiles and Apple Colorby Emiliano Rodriguez 3 months agoHi everyone, I will be doing the color grading for a low budget documentary. Unfortunately, I dont have a profesional broadcast monitor, so I am trying to find a good solution for external monitoring. | Re: LUT, ICC Profiles and Apple Color
by Joseph Owens 2 months ago
A consumer LED LCD display will be somewhat preferable to a computer graphics display, simply because the former will at least lean further toward a SMPTE Rec709 rendition than the DELL. The problem w
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| | | | | Gesture control in FCPXby Steve Connor 3 months agohttp: www.arcticwhiteness.com thetouch I like the idea of using this with a trackpad Steve Connor There's nothing we can't argue about on the FCPX COW Forum | Re: Gesture control in FCPX
by Michael Gissing 3 months ago
With a trackball you can feel them without looking. Same with the dials that adjust black, white & gamma etc. They stick up unlike a virtualised iPad display of the same. As Joseph says, you need to b
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| | | | | SRW 5500 menu settingsby Jay Hunt 8 months agoHello, I'm trying to set up my SRW 5500 to record closed captions onto an SR tape from Final Cut 7 w a 708 file provided by my captions company. What are the exact menu settings in the maintenance men | Re: SRW 5500 menu settings
by Joseph Owens 3 months ago
Shouldn't be required. SR is like a separate machine to HDCam settings... jPo "I always pass on free advice -- its never of any use to me" Oscar Wilde.
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| | | |  | Anyone seen the Trailer for Iron Sky?by Scott Sheriff 1 year agoAnyone seen this yet Scott Sheriff Director http: www.sstdigitalmedia.com "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ---Red Adair Where were yo | Re: Anyone seen the Trailer for Iron Sky?
by Joseph Owens 3 months ago
happened to catch this mess over the weekend by accident on Movie Central, and laughed and laughed. Running the Death Star with an iPad, the trembling Hitler rant meme, and on and on... made so much m
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| | | |  | 2013 Oscar Picksby Scott Roberts 4 months agoWell, we are less than a week away from hearing Seth MacFarlane sing a bunch of comedy songs on a stage, and I thought I'd put down my Oscar picks in our forum so that I have proof when I'm inevitably | Re: 2013 Oscar Picks
by Joseph Owens 4 months ago
Tim Wilson "Speaking of which, while most of the facts behind Argo were declassified in 1997, the first real retelling of the story was in Wired in 2007: highly, highly recommended. You've probably h
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| | | |  | Blog: Onceby Tim Wilson 5 years agoThe move "Once" was one of my favorites from 2007, and against all odds, a song from this lo-budget indie WON the best song award. It led to the most magical moment I've seen in over 35 | Re: Once
by Joseph Owens 4 months ago
Wish I shared the enthusiasm The *movie* was "meh". The Broadway presentation is good, something my daughter the Tisch BFA student found really resonant. I confess I haven't seen the live stage versio
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| | | |  | Article: Confessions of an NAB Virginby Kylee Wall 1 year ago Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Confessions of an NAB Virgin This is no ordinary NAB recap. This isn't a collection of thoughts about products and software. This is the confession of a small-town starr | Re: Confessions of an NAB Virgin
by Joseph Owens 4 months ago
"I find that I am wearing approximately 70% too many clothes in comparison with the rest of the women at the party. Somehow, I don't think they are in post production." LOLZ.... but oh... they are. Bu
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