Tom Evans

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  1. Tom Evans
    Probably just a DaVinci Resolve bug, let them know about it.
  2. Tom Evans
    That's what I'm afraid of, but I see the devices that I listed as necessary to work. Monitor Screen Speakers Panel External Disk The Mac Mini M1 has the following ports: 2x Thunderbolt/USB4 1x HDMI 2 2x USB A 1x 3.5 mm/headphone Any chance this is enough?
  3. Tom Evans
    I just bought Macbook Air m1 and it's incredible fast and I'm going for a Mac Mini M1 to run DaVinci Resolve next. I need to connect a screen , a calibrated monitor, two speakers and a panel. In addition, I need two usb-c inputs for external disks. Does the Mac Mini have enough inputs for this setup? And I need a UltraStudio to get XLR outputs for the speakers and SDI to the monitor? Sorry for the newbie questions. I have the Mac Pro 2020 and it comes with lots of inputs and a decklink card but want to scale things down for my home office.
  4. Tom Evans
    Use a film emulations LUT to get the rich contrast. Then, key the blacks and work the lift and gamma against each other to open up the shadows. That leaves the richness in the mids and gives milky blacks.
  5. Tom Evans
    I don't believe I just watched this... thank you Walter!
  6. Tom Evans
    I don't believe I just watched this... thank you Walter!
  7. Tom Evans
    Do you know if it exists any wireless audio systems that works with the DaVinci Resolve?
  8. Tom Evans
    Thanks, think I will go for the last Ultrastudio as it was way more affordable. How do you adjust the audio coming out of Resolve? I used to have a JBL Nano Patch Plus, but there might be other alternatives now?
  9. Tom Evans
    I'm buying an iMac Pro to run DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro. How do I get the video signal and audio out to my monitor when I can't insert a decklink card?
  10. Tom Evans
    I have a CG318 from Eizo that I took home the other day, but I don't have access to our regular calibration guy this time. As I don't have a clue about how to calibrate, I tried the internal Eizo auto-calibration, set the gamma to 2.4, brightness to 100 and viewing space to rec709. I have a trained eye after working with color for more than twenty eyes and can see that it looks wrong. I know the internal calibration only is supposed to take you 95% there but it looks totally off. For some reason it looks more correct when I switch from rec709 to DCI. Can someone please enlight me why this is happening?
  11. Tom Evans
    I'm considering buying or renting one of the Boris FX products, but not sure if it will be good value for money to pay more for a new license than going for an annual subscription. On a general basis, would you own a software today when computer tech are going forward in this pace. Will it be outdated in a year or two anyways? Thoughts?
  12. Tom Evans
    I learned a lot from this course, thank you Lee!
  13. Tom Evans
    I want to to create a black letterbox on the sides of a clip, but blanking on the input sizing is greyed out. Why is it?
  14. Tom Evans
    Looks like you need to do some frame by frame work, this isn't complicated in Fusion but it's time consuming work. Or your could consider covering a larger area with a plate or see if you could get away with keying the dust parts and changing its color and luma levels.
  15. Tom Evans
    Extremely well done course, very useful techniques that can be used on a variety of problem shots.
  16. Tom Evans
    Extremely well done course, very useful techniques that can be used on a variety of problem shots.
  17. Tom Evans
    This is a software bug. Resolve is in general buggy when it comes to PNG images, also in the edit and color module.
  18. Tom Evans
    Log controls are mainly designed for log images and you can manually set how wide or narrow range you want to affect with your corrections.
  19. Tom Evans
    In this case he just means working with the log tools when going out of linear.
  20. Tom Evans
    Hi Andrea, In a printer lights workflow the LUT represents the film stock and should be at the very end of your node stack. That way every correction will run through the curve of the LUT. Experiment with using different LUTs such as the Kodaks and Fujis coming with Resolve as those mimic the original film stocks. By pushing exposure and colors through the LUT you will see that the image will be affected more in the mids and less in the blacks and whites. I suggest you watch the professional color grading course here on Lowepost for some examples of this workflow and you might also read the printer light article in the Insider section for a better understanding.
  21. Tom Evans
    The course will answer these questions, it's a large topic and you need that basic understanding to pull this off properly.
  22. Tom Evans
    Not sure if I'm allowed to share this but this is the result of the low sat green technique demonstrated in the color grading course.
  23. Tom Evans
    Agree with Amada. Looks like rather hard offset adjustments + saturation through a curve with rather flat ends so that mainly the mids are affected.
  24. Tom Evans
    Can I ask why you don't go to a post house with flame/Nuke artists of you want to pull of complicated stabilizations? Baselight is a colorist tool and it's highly unavailable for the regular man on the street. Over the top expensive and hard to learn for doing a single shot once in a while.
  25. Tom Evans
    Now that Flame included Lustre, I'm tempted to go that way. Pricey though, but you can't beat that finishing package.