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 | | | | |  | Message to Appleby Steve Connor 5 days 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 20 hours 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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| | | |  | scaled legal videoby Ben Edwards 3 days 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 3 days ago
how to deliver broadcast safe video, Not really an option. The linear broadcast setting is intended to export 709HD where the image values take into account the Y'CbCr 64-940 (10-bit) range for 0-100
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| | | |  | Recording from SRW-5800 to DVD..??by Ray Brown 1 week 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 2 weeks 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 | | | | |
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| | | | | Big AAF import?by Christoph Tilley 2 weeks agoHey there, my client gave me several big AAF-Files to grade (I am not an Avid cutter but I think they are called consolidated AAFs). Basically they are a sequence containing all the media. Seems like | Re: Big AAF import?
by Joseph Owens 2 weeks ago
Christoph Tilley "Seems like I can't import that into Resolve after several tries, " Let's review: You opened Resolve, created a "Default project", went to "Conform", pulled down File... selected Imp
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| | | | | Color Space Questionby Hoku Uchiyama 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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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| | | | | DPX file sizeby andrew sableton 3 weeks agoHi all, I have never worked with DPX at all but might be needing to soon. I've done some googling but have not been able to find either a calculator or chart showing DPX file sizes. Any pointers Thx A | Re: DPX file size
by Joseph Owens 2 weeks ago
This is a good number to work with (8 MB frame). Think in terms of 10 or 11x ProRes, or about 11 GB minute for 1080p23.98 for example. jPo "I always pass on free advice -- its never of any use to me"
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| | | | | need advice.by paulson lang 3 weeks agoI graded a commercial in lite. today i bought the full version but after installing it resolve crashing every time i open admin. And strangely i am getting "gpu memory full error" now which i never go | Re: need advice.
by Joseph Owens 3 weeks ago
From the current configuration guide for R9: Apple iMac: 21.5-inch, Mid 2011, 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 or faster 21.5-inch, Mid 2011, 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 or faster or 27-inch, Mid 2011, 2.7GHz Intel Core
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| | | | | Removing Dead Pixelsby Ben Edwards 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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, | | | | |
| | | | | Framerate question (29.97 to 23.98)by Woody Brubaker 3 weeks agoI know that this issue has been covered ad nauseum on the site, but I've swam through so much of it at this point that I'm exactly that: nauseous. Here's my issue. I've got a lot of 23.98 footage (sho | Re: Framerate question (29.97 to 23.98)
by Joseph Owens 3 weeks ago
Shane Ross "Go 23.98. Web loves Progressive, hates interlaced." The only way that 23.98 converted to 29.97 looks any good is 2:3 interlaced, and a web compression will take this away. And besides, 6
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| | | | | Exporting XML for FCP 7by Ben Edwards 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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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| | | |  | Another Mac Pro Hardware Config questionby Jordan Mena 3 weeks agoGetting my hands on a Mac Pro Tower and would like to add a Quadro 4000 for Davinci without buying a Cubix Expander. Here's what I've got. Mac 2.66Ghz, 6-Core Intel Xeon 24Gb RAM PCI - Slots Slot 1 Ra | | | | |
| | | |  | After Effects Davinci Workflowby James Harding 3 weeks agoHi guys, I don't know much about workflow, all I know is that I have done some visual effects in After Effects which contains lots of video files overlayed and composited with effects on the files. Ho | Re: After Effects Davinci Workflow
by Joseph Owens 3 weeks ago
James Harding "I have done some visual effects in After Effects which contains lots of video files overlayed and composited with effects on the files. " Like fine cuisine that requires a few steps in
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| | | |  | Clips are not being foundby Aimie Burns 3 weeks agoHi, I am working in Avid Symphony 6.0 - and DaVinci Lite 9.1 In my Avid project I have Nikon D800 Footage and Pansonic P2 footage. Most of it was shot at 24fps, though some at 60fps. Working in a 24p | Re: Clips are not being found
by Joseph Owens 3 weeks ago
Nothing "offline" Have you tried the browse option to see if the clips that are missing are visible jPo "I always pass on free advice -- its never of any use to me" Oscar Wilde.
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| | | |  | iMac with GTX 680MX for 4k Dailiesby Eric Liner 3 weeks agoWe're waiting to upgrade our Mac Pro towers and are looking for an interim machine for creating 1080 dailies from various 4k and 2k source (XAVC, Sony RAW, Phantom Cine, etc). Does anyone know if the | Re: iMac with GTX 680MX for 4k Dailies
by Joseph Owens 3 weeks ago
Eric Liner "would it be unreasonable to think that we could add additional GPU to improve performance " Performance is a blend of data-throughput and total CUDA-core processing. If you can string out
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| | | |  | Copyright questionby Jonny Cates 4 weeks agoI see conflicting opinions regarding the copyrights in using loops and jingles from soundtrack pro. I was under the impression the copyrights were all usable since they came with the program. I just g | Re: Copyright question
by Joseph Owens 3 weeks ago
Sorry -- the two middle paragraphs concerning Patty Smith Hill are from IMDB. Hope the SWAT team doesn't show up before I can issue the atrribution. jPo "I always pass on free advice -- its never of a
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| | | | | Reading the chicken gutsby Joseph Owens 1 month agoFor those who take stock in this sort of thing -- that is stock prices -- and how AVID must be going down if its stock is suffering... then what of Apple http: www.theglobeandmail.com globe-investor i | Re: Reading the chicken guts
by Jeremy Garchow 1 month ago
Joseph Owens "A new MacPro is not likely going to fire the imaginations of the gadget-frenzied, and so... really, what possibly could " A screen between 3.5" and 3.9987". It's never been done before.
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| | | | | Can't Create Tweening Keyframes.by Steve Davies 1 month agoHi, I've been trying to set keyframes in the Keyframes editor (bottom right box). I've been following the manual which shows keyframes appearing as vertical lines with the start keyframe coloured gree | Re: Can't Create Tweening Keyframes.
by Joseph Owens 1 month ago
Steve Davies "end diamond " No, the way dynamics work in Resolve is the start point should be a diamond and the end point is the square. Even in the days of Dynatech daVinci, "keyframes" start with t
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| | | | | NAB and PCIby Jordan Mena 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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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| | | | | Quality of imageby Jon Felix 2 months agoJust learning the software ....! I am grading material shot on a Canon MkIII which has been cut and output for me as an uncompressed Quicktime. The picture looks slightly pixilated, especially full sc | Re: Quality of image
by Joseph Owens 2 months ago
Just curious to know what you mean by "uncompressed"... jPo "I always pass on free advice -- its never of any use to me" Oscar Wilde.
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| | | |  | how to determine bit depth of DPX filesby Nick Meyers 2 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 2 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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| | | |  | The Cloud is the future! Except...by Charlie Austin 2 months ago... when it doesn't work. As i write this, YouSendIt, which tons of people rely on, is down. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Including mine, as I can't get to the VO I just read to cut into the+1 | Re: The Cloud is the future! Except...
by Joseph Owens 2 months ago
Chris Harlan "Louis CK on Conan last year, Everything is amazing and nobody is happy." I think its older than that, but never more true. I don't know the accreditation, but a number of years ago the
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| | | | | FCP7 XML exportby Mark LeGrand 2 months agoI copied all the data and project files and then shipped it to an editor in another city. I just found out they were using FCPx and not FCP7. Can I now send them a FCP7 XML export and have them openin | Re: FCP7 XML export
by Joseph Owens 2 months ago
Bret Williams "Perhaps you should gift it to them on the app store to make a point. It really is more of a end user X process than a 7 user prep process." Whose responsibility it is to prep for someo
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| | | | | Gesture control in FCPXby Steve Connor 2 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 2 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 7 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 3 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 3 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 3 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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