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How to identify a skilled colorist?
Tom Evans replied to Nandita Goel's topic in General Discussions
Hi Nandita, I think color is subjective and the final grade is always a result of the production, client and the people in the room. Therefore it’s not always possible to jugde the skills of a colorist by only looking at their final work. In addition, if a colorists does well is just as much about handling the process and the people in the room. That said, if a colorist has been working on long contracts with big clients in a large facility, you can assume they do their work quite well. -
Look Development & Workflow in DaVinci Resolve
Tom Evans commented on Lowepost's course in The Art of Color Grading
Looks ungraded to me, did you download everything? -
Creating exportable 3D LUTs in Baselight for Avid
Tom Evans replied to Darren Shearer's topic in Baselight
Exporting LUTs from Avid Baselight is not possible. -
Creative Grading Strategies with Dylan Hopkin
Tom Evans commented on Admin's course in Color Grading Masterclasses
Amazing masterclass, exceptionally well made! Thanks Dylan and Lowepost. -
Thanks Bruno, will swap to SSD at least and make sure to add more internal space on my next Mini.
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Very useful insight and lots of new techniques to experiment with, thanks!
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I'm talking about the USB-C ports, but I experience much slower playback from the external drive than the internal ones. Isn't it supposed to be that way?
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I bought an Apple Mac Mini M1, and while it is very fast when working inside of DaVinci Resolve with footage on the internal disk - it's slow with a fast external hard drive connected to the USB port. Any suggestion? Do I need to connect the drive differently, will a RAID work faster? Any ideas very much appreciated. I want to avoid swapping the Mini with a new one with more storage.
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And while I have you here... any idea how I can get Avid to recognize the Ultrastudio? Desktop Video and Resolve recognize it.
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Thank you Bruno. I did now, but unfortunately the sequence does not update. When I match frame the clips though, it appears in the monitor window but not in the main timeline / player window.
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Seems like I can right-click the grouped sequence and choose "edit group" to swap the clip in the group. The issue I'm having now is that the main sequence with the group on the timeline does not update. Tried to restart. Any idea what can solve this issue?
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Hi. Is it possible to change / swap a grouped clip in Avid with another clip? I did some changes to the original clip so I would like to change it without redoing the whole edit.
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Looks great Randy, but you can skip the four top nodes. The components are there to turn a technical transform curve into a film style curve. You do not need that because it’a built into the LUT at the end of your stack.
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Jonathan, the LUTs have the transform built into them so there is no need for using a CST at the end. Just follow the steps in the post and use the LUT at the end.
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It's 8 bit.
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James, you do not need to pay for any Plugin / DCTL to set up your node tree exactly as in the examples, including the use of CSTs, ADX and Matrixes. If you want to use GradeLAB for subtractive grading it's totally up to you, but it got nothing to do with setting up your nodes for a film workflow.
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You don’t need plugins to do anything of the above, and to go from Slog to LogC3 you just apply a CST first thing in your node tree.
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I have two processes going on at the same time on my Mac Mini M1- 1. Copying files to the Mac Mini from an external SSD disk. 2. Transcoding some footage inside of DaVinci Resolve from the internal SSD disk. When I transcode, it slows down the file transferring. It should take an hour or so to copy the files over, but when when starting the transcode it suddenly goes up to 10 hours. Why is this happening?
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Will definitely give Baselight a try, thank you Josh and Lowepost.
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Why you need a color control surface
Tom Evans commented on Lowepost's insider article in Color Grading
Have any of you used the Baselight Slate panel with DaVinci Resolve? -
Exactly, so you will have to transform your camera space to Cineon with a CST prior to the LUT.
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The name of each LUT states what it expects and what it returns.
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First of all, "working under the transform" means the opposite of what you write. It means working prior to the transform / on nodes before the transform. If you want to work on a normalized image you will have to work on a node after the transform. If you want access to the log data, you will need to work on nodes before the transform. It can be more complex, but you are confused enough. I suggest you watch the first lessons of this course, it explains the concept very well.
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Yes of course, what is your question really?
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Because the transform is applied on the third node. Resolve processes the first node first, the second node next and finally the third node and it will stay in camera space all the way until it reach the transform. I guess what confuses you is that you see the transformed image on your monitor. That does mean the image is rec709 but it doesn't mean the nodes prior to the transform is rec709.
