Tom Evans

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  1. The problem is most likely that the Black Magic Dektop Video driver was installed BEFORE Premiere was installed. You need to delete and reinstall the driver after your Premiere installation and your ouput card will be recognized in the preferences.
  2. Rushes was one of the top Soho studios back in the days when I entered the industry. I remember flying over to treat a bunch of music videos over many years as their colorists were known to be top notch. We couldnt afford more than three rolls of s16mm film for each video and we didn't have much money for the development either. Remember we used to do a one light while the negatives were running through their systems. Could never afford post treatment but the result was always better than what we could imagine. Think one of the colorists we worked the most with was Joel? Jules? Joe? Sounds familar?
  3. Hi Monica. Just read one of the many color assistant requirements in the job section to get an overview of what is expected. Basically you should be able to conform and deal with all kinds of technical issues at a high level to make sure the colorist can focus on the job. And, It's not uncommon that the colorist set the look and leave the rest to the assistants.
  4. What lens flare collections are you most happy with? I don't like the lens flares available in DaVinci Resolve as I think they look fake.
  5. How do I copy inspector settings from clip to clip in edit mode?
  6. Thank you, I will have a look at it. That said, I find it strange that it's not a built in display LUT option in AE as it happens all the time that VFX people need to deliver cineon or "raw" back.
  7. Thank you Bruno. Is it the file "Core Library v1.0.9 – .zip .tar.gz" that I should download? Any information about how to implement it? I'm not so very techy when it comes to anything that is harder to install than Red Giant plug-ins ment for the average user.
  8. Thank you, hopefully they take care of this in the next build. It has happened some times now and it's pretty annoying.
  9. I need to do basic VFX in After Effects on some Alexa RAW log footage. What is the best workflow for this? Can I load the original clip and apply a log to linear display LUT, work on that and remove it before I render? Do I need to set up the project in a specific color space?
  10. Have you experience the error message "Failed to encode video frame" when rendering from Davinci Resolve?
  11. I like the fact that the color correctors implement composing tools and other online features. My impression is that they are leaning more towards Mistika. Curious to see if BMD will implement Fusion or if they they develop the code further to implement parts of it in the exisiting tool.
  12. Tom Evans

    Mumbai, colorist

    Colorist (mid + experience ) wanted in Mumbai. Send work samles to amit.mishra635@gmail.com
  13. I have five timelines in a project, and when I imported some additional clips to a bin - one of the clips applied itself to the end of each timeline. Any idea why this happened?
  14. Dailies Colorist Shed Los Angeles, CA Posted: September 5, 2017 (via Entertainment Careers) Full Time Job Job Description: The position requires both technical skills and artistic skills. In addition, the colorist serves as the face of the company and frequently deals directly with clients in challenging situations; accordingly, a professional demeanor and diplomacy are also critical. The Dailies Colorist is responsible for providing dailies services and deliverables to clients of Shed. Job Duties and Expectations: Operate Color Correction Systems and related technical facilities to ensure efficient and accurate completion of assigned tasks Ingesting of camera original picture and sound via mags, cards, drives etc.. Data Management skills Sync audio to picture QC image and audio and check against camera, sound, and script supervisor reports Spot soft focus, exposure problems (Report to DOP and Dailies Producer) Look for digital artifacts, missing frames, missing picture, failed checksums Check against notes from supplied reports Proficient with vector scope and waveform monitor to recognize exposure concerns Communicate concerns with above processes to Dailies Lab Supervisor and Dailies Producer Communicate with clients as necessary before and after sessions to ensure customer satisfaction with work performed. Personally ensure the technical accuracy and quality of work produced in the session. Email session reports as assigned by Studio, Production, Editorial and Dailies Producer deemed required for on location workflow. *Client satisfaction level with the work performed *Dailies deliverables and workflow *Strong multi-tasking abilities and priority assessment skills *Full understanding QC Procedures *Creation and understanding Editorial files - avid bin, Flex Files, ALEs, QC Reports *Knowledge of how to read camera reports and sound reports *PC, Linux, and Mac Office Tools and file transfer tools *Filmlight (Daylight), Codex, Colorfront OSD, Resolve, Redcine-X, Avid, Final Cut Pro *Experience with USB, Firewire, eSata, Thunderbolt, Codex, card reader, audio SD card, Alexa SxS card, and RED memory card *Understanding of archive procedures with LTO LTFS *Working knowledge of the PIX upload procedures *Familiarity with imaging concepts, and other related troubleshooting methodologies. *Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines *High level of people skills to interact with clients *Able to work with in house production staff *Analytical and problem solving skills *Effective organizational skills *Effective written communication skills http://www.entertainmentcareers.net/Shed/Dailies-Colorist/job/240826/
  15. Hi Marcelo. Just curious, how do you feel Bamboo helps you when working with DR?
  16. There are many reasons to use look up tables, mostly because of the production environment with many departments and artists involved to make sure everyone is seeing the same. Another important use is look development and on-set use to establish a direction early in production. And of course calibration and log to linear transforms. That said, in a grading session with first access to the footage, meaning no pre-look is applied or direction is set, I find it much easier and faster to manually dial in colors. But, having your controls behave the way they do with a pre-applied gamma curve correction could be difficult to accomplish without the help of a look up table. For a very experimented colorists the curve data can be set pretty accurately for further enhancement, but for a newbie - the look up table can be of great help.
  17. Can any of you recommend a hardware based scope solution for my Davinci suite? I mostly want this to improve speed.
  18. The problem was that I had the highlight button above the player window enabled, and therefore the player said 'media offline' even though all my clips except the first one on the timeline actually was online. Thanks anyway Bruno, always very helpful!
  19. We are please to announce the availability of DaVinci Resolve 14 beta 7 on our support web site. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion This is a no charge update for all existing customers. Please backup your projects and database before updating and note the special items at the bottom of this notice. New items for beta 7 Reorganized Project Settings, User Preferences and System Preferences Added support for speaker setup in System Preferences Added support for displaying track automation data on the Fairlight page Added support for rendering multiple individual audio tracks Improved Multicam playback performance Improved scrubbing and playback performance for compressed CinemaDNG clips Improved Fairlight timeline navigation and performance when zooming, scrolling and resizing tracks Improved Fairlight video playback performance Improved audio quality when scrubbing a clip in the source viewer Dual machine servers are no longer supported on Linux Added support for adding, deleting and modifying clip level keyframes on the Fairlight page Added support for track properties, AudioFX and automation in nested timeline and compound clips Added support for the Razor command in the Fairlight page Added support for cut, copy and paste actions in the context menu in the Fairlight page timeline Added support for displaying the composited preview in 2-Up and 4-Up modes when trimming Improved resizing behavior for tracks and buses in the mixer Improved viewer image quality when zooming in and out of the Color page viewer ResolveFX Color Stabilizer is now GPU accelerated ResolveFX Timelapse Deflicker is now GPU accelerated Improved playback performance for 4K AVC Intra clips Added support for decoding and encoding 32-bit float OpenEXR clips Added support for the Metadata inspector on the Fairlight page Added support for the Bus Assign and Bus Format dialogs in the Edit page Improvements to the timeline compare tool including a better zoom range and the ability to show Display Names Data Burn-In has been moved to the Workspace menu Added a new LMT Neon Suppression CLF Added support for viewing track layers in the Edit Index Addressed a crash when placing compound clip on the timeline using the Place On Top command Addressed an issue where large projects with compound clips would sometimes not playback sound Addressed an issue where audio meter bars would sometimes not clear when switching pages Addressed an issue with multicam playback where the embedded audio would be played instead of the linked audio Addressed an issue where syncing a multicam by sound would not work with custom channel mappings Addressed an issue where the Dip to Color Dissolve transition would revert to using default parameters after an AAF import Addressed an issue where the Fairlight video player would sometimes show black frames Addressed an issue where moving a track up/down would leave the Fairlight timeline out of sync Addressed an issue where clips in the Fairlight page would sometimes show waveforms from the wrong channel Addressed an issue where the automation of audio pan parameters would not work Addressed an issue where disabled audio plugins were still available for insertion in the Mixer plugin insertion menu Addressed an issue where trimming a clip in a layer would temporarily cause the clip to jump to the top most layer Addressed an issue where changing an audio track format would leave the track in an inconsistent state Addressed an issue where moving a clip to a track with a different format would not work correctly Addressed an issue where the Track Input dialog would not display the actual track name Addressed an issue with linear power window softness when a flip or a flop is applied on the clip Addressed an issue with the advanced stabilizer data getting reanalyzed when parameters were changed Addressed an issue where an offset would sometimes be created between a Power Window and the grade Addressed a crash when disabling a node when in Highlight Mode split screen Addressed a crash when creating a compound clip and switching to the Color page Addressed an issue where dragging certain clips or folders into the Media Pool from the file browser would not work Addressed an issue where selecting multiple bins in the Media Pool would make the folder view scroll to the top Addressed an issue with incorrect timecode on some Panasonic QuickTime clips Addressed a crash when reading some Panasonic MTS clips Addressed an issue where the first few frames of some MTS and H.264 clips would show as offline Addressed an issue with incorrect waveforms for some MTS clips on Mac Addressed an issue where thumbnails would not be shown for certain CinemaDNG clips on Windows Addressed an issue where the clip extents were displayed incorrectly for some variable frame-rate clips Addressed an issue with the audio playback of certain mp3 files Addressed an issue where some IMX MXF clips would not playback audio Addressed an issue with the option to render one channel per track Addressed an issue where the selected keyboard preset would sometimes get changed General stability and performance improvements Important information regarding dual-server configurations on Linux Starting from DaVinci Resolve 14 beta 7 the dual-server configurations are no longer supported. Please ensure that your system has been re-configured appropriately prior to upgrading to this version. The legacy “Configure DaVinci Resolve” application will no longer be supported. DaVinci Resolve Preferences can now be accessed from the DaVinci Resolve application menu similar to Mac and Windows. Important information regarding Preferences and Project Settings Starting from DaVinci Resolve 14 beta 7 the Preferences and Project Settings have been reorganized into Project Settings, System Preferences and User Preferences. Settings such as keyboard shortcuts and panel sensitivity controls are now stored locally on the machine instead of with the project. These settings (along with others) can now be found under the User tab in Preferences. There is also a new user guide available with this beta update.
  20. Hei all. I got all the clips on the timeline in Davinci Resolve perfectly conformed but the player window says that "media offline". I have tried to reload the AAF-sequence but no luck. Other sequences works fine.Any idea what is going on?
  21. Hi Patrick, great to be reminded about Nucoda from time to time. Just because I'm curious, can you list some known shows and features that are colored on Nucoda the last year?
  22. Most definitely a GPU issue, try to reverse a driver update.