Tom Evans

Premium+
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    440

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Tom Evans

  1. Tom Evans
    I have watched a couple of the seminars with Dado and I just want to state my opinion on them. They are pure sale hallelujah meetings for a plug in this guy has made and I feel a bit angry that I have scheduled time to look at this nonsense. People in the chat asks questions about how to do this and that and you never get a qualified answer, it's more in the line of 'its not possible to get a great result with the built in color management system in Resolve, you need to get my plug-in'. Dado, if you see this: A big shame on you!
  2. Tom Evans
    Second that. Good to see training by someone who knows the in-and-outs of the other color tools.
  3. Tom Evans
    Not necessarily. Your output space should match while you are grading, but as explained in the course, you can switch upon delivery. That's kind of the whole point of applying the output LUT or ODT at the very end.
  4. Tom Evans
    I watched the color management course and DaVinci process the RAW files input color space automatically. Does it work that way in Scratch too?
  5. Tom Evans
    This is the best course I have seen about color management in Resolve. It's a lot of bits and pieces on other sites but here everything is covered in one class and it's extremely well put together. Thanks Lee and Lowepost for always delivering top quality!
  6. Tom Evans
    Personally I don't use most of the controls in the panels and bought a Wacom pen instead after owning several of them. I'm more into entering numbers and precision than turning the wheels wildly in all directions. That said, I buy the speed argument.
  7. Tom Evans
    You can use a color space transform at the end to go to P3 but you need to watch the transform on a P3 projector/monitor and do some adjustments if necessary.
  8. Tom Evans
    Many people ask if BlackMagic Design will continue to develop and support the standalone version of Fusion. Now they confirm that that they still will keep it alive. It will be interesting to see if they can lift Fusion to the next level and really start to compete with Nuke. https://www.redsharknews.com/post/item/6286-blackmagic-confirms-ongoing-support-for-fusion-with-fusion-16-studio
  9. Tom Evans
    It will definitely eat from the Premiere market.
  10. Tom Evans
    That's a completely different discussion and a complicated topic, but if you don't have an established P3 color workflow with proper P3 monitoring you don't need to think about these things at all.
  11. Tom Evans
    No it is not, don't make your life harder than it is.
  12. Tom Evans
    Then you deliver ProRes 4444
  13. Tom Evans
    Ask the festival for their specifications. Normally you can deliver DNxHR/ProRes as their setup isn't neccessarily professionalized enough to receive DCP's and treat the signal the way it should. Most cinemas today even create a hybrid 5.1 from stereo tracks. The digital age is evolving, not neccessarily for the best.
  14. Tom Evans
    I do understand the marketing hype around having different modules such as Fairlight and Fusion but I think the tabs should be named VFX and Audio because it would give the feeling of it actually being a part of the same software. I have started to learn Fusion and it's already well integrated but I understand that new users can get frightened to step into the new world.
  15. Tom Evans
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJLY5hCr1lc
  16. Tom Evans
    Looks really cool! How common is Scratch in the high-end facilites @Mazze?
  17. Tom Evans
    Looks really cool! How common is Scratch in the high-end facilites @Mazze?
  18. Tom Evans
    I need to match some RED footage that is shot on Dragoncolor2/Redgamma4 with Alexa footage shot with the standard log2rec709 LUT. I transformed the RED footage to REDlog Film and Dragoncolor2 in the project settings to transform it to log. Is that a correct way to set it up before adding the color tranform node? If so, what are the correct settings? Or should I not change the project settings (not transform the RED footage to log) and do the entire transformation in the transform node?
  19. Tom Evans

    Conforming in DaVinci Resolve

    Tom Evans commented on Stig Olsen's insider article in Courses

    Different techniques in different lessons. If you watch the offline reference lesson you see that he use the reference clip to overlay instead of stacking and blending the clip on the timeline.
  20. Tom Evans
    A reel like this can say something about if you are into music videos, local spots or do Hollywood blockbusters etc. From your reel I can tell that you do local work because of the texts. Indie projects and probably some shorts and narratives because there aren't many money shots in there. Definitely not into high-end features and commercials. If that is what you want to say with your reel, keep pushing it. If you want to get into more higher end, this might not be the best way. It's all about what you want to communicate.
  21. Tom Evans
    Many clean and good looking shots there. Personally, I prefer a well presented selection of videos as that tells me more about about your color grading skills than a bunch of single shots put together.
  22. Tom Evans
    So an OFX node taking us from Alexa log to rec709 would draw the same curve as the standard log2rec709 Alexa lut, just with cleaner math?
  23. Tom Evans

    Functions

    Tom Evans posted a topic in DaVinci Resolve

    Can someone explain to me the concept of using transform functions instead of LUTS, what is the difference?
  24. Tom Evans
    Have you tried it, is it fast?
  25. Tom Evans
    Looks like Lowepost is pushing Fusion tutorials hard now, thank you!