Orash Rahnema

Hi all! I'm planning to buy a mini panel and currently bm is giving (in Italy) a 10% discount. It's not a lot, but still isn't bad. Anyway, are there any rumors of a new panel announced after nab? Cheers Orash

Hi all! It's now a couple of months that I have set up my windows workstation. So far everything it's fine, in still getting used to few things but it's running smooth. I'm finding few bugs here and there and I wanted to check was my problem or it's a common issue. For example : In the deliver page, choosing a render folder, when i right click in the explorer/finder window to create a new folder, DaVinci crashes. Once reopened it doesnt happen no more. Anyone else has this problem? Cheers Orash

Hi! I have just tested my new pc with a gtx 1080Ti and trying to export a red clip 8K with a noise reduce I got two errors: "The GPU failed to perform image processing because of an error" "Error Code: 33." "The GPU failed to perform image processing because of an error" "Error Code: 77." I'm using Resolve 15.2.2.007 If I disable in the preferences "use GPU for RED debayer" I don't get the errors but of course it slows down quite a lot Did anyone found a solution for it? cheers, Orash

Also, if you don't check Luma and sat mapping but you trim by hand, there is not clipping after the transform

Your comment on "the hobbit" thread helped me find the article I was referring to 😊 In that article it clearly state that printer point are used to control highlight and shadows. I was wandering what it meant and how was that achieved.

Agree! Altought I was hoping to get a little deeper insight, but I hope some more things can come up in the comments. For example I was reading in some other article (can't find it right now, I will look for it) the use of printer lights also to control with precision different tonal range like shadows, mids, hilights. How that can be achieve? By keying the 3 tonal ranges and keep them in parallel, perhaps? It's quite long time im using printer points for my base grade, and I have to say it's the best tool as far I'm concern

I'm not really a "happy new year" guy but I wanted to take this chache to thank the people behind this forum and the users involved. I have to say lowepost has become a great resource of information and I'm thankful of the help, tips and tricks and info I found here. So I wish to this forum and the users a great new year, full of nice info, tutorial and insights.

With this estimate time is taken into consideration the "needs" of dop and director or are this "maximum" timing given by budget/production I work with a dop (that I really like and we have great relationship) that is not easy to work with, he just doesn't want to stop. He could work on a grade for a whole year if someone doesn't stop him, and I cannot always do that.

Love this format and Kevin is really clear on explaining every bits and pieces. Thanks a lot for the efforts

The way I do it is to key the highlight, add a ton of blur to the key, then lift both gamma and lift while lowering the gain to control. If needed add a bit of colour to the lift control.

Hi @Jeremy Dulac! here's a quick example of how you can use the edge detect node Let me know if this it helps Orash

Hi Jeremy here's my 2 cents you could try with an edge detect fed as a mask into a node and slightly color it (in resolve) in nuke you can use a lightwrap node with a very tight diffuse Orash

Hi all! In "inside Lewis devis" there is a sort of shadows glow (I don't have better words to describe it) I have tried few different things but I haven't been successful in creating it. How would you do it? https://goo.gl/images/swwZxG https://goo.gl/images/bKwGr3 Cheers, Orash

Hi all, I might have to lend my monitor to another colourist. Do you know if is there a way to password/pin lock it so no changes can be made at all? I have looked through out the manual and checked other forum but I haven't found the answer i need Cheers, Orash

Hi @chris jacobson Thanks a lot for the insight! Can you elaborate more on this? I'm really curious about what you mean and how you accomplish it! cheers, Orash

Hi @chris jacobson Thanks a lot for the insight! Can you elaborate more on this? I'm really curious about what you mean and how you accomplish it! cheers, Orash

Hi all! in the colour lounge facebook group a pretty interesting topic was recently diccessed. Something that cought my eye was this post from Walter Volpatto. I'm not sure if he's part of this forum, here it is: Of course I could have asked him but I thought it could be useful to discuss it here. I'd love to know what's your thought and experience on this. When I see movies that have a very define style, other then art direction, styling and lighting, grading wise are there look created specifically for the show? this looks are created by whom? colour scientist + colourist and dops prior the shooting or at the first grading sessions? This looks do they come to the grading room in a LUT form or luts are generally avoided in order to preserve the whole signal and avoid artefacts? Well, as usual way too many questions thanks, Orash

I usually just ask for the lut they used and load it. If it's not possible to ask for it, in the HD with the unloaded footage (if it's an arri alexa shoot) check if there is the .ale and see if with the Arri Meta extract you can retrive it

Ok, I then have to ask to the lab that does the scan I know that dpx it's just a wrapper, I don't know the different scan log curve other then cineon

Hi there. When a film has been scan flat (dpx) is It safe to assume that has been scanned using a cineon log curve or can It be something else? In that case using a cineon to rec709 lut would bring It back as shot? Cheers, Orash

Thanks Bruno. In lightillusion website says: ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL & SUPPORT INFO. Operating System: Windows 7/8/10 PC Requirements: Minimal - 2Gig Ram Laptop, with HDMI Mac Operation: Runs on Mac using any Windows Emulation Unfortunatelly the first laptop i tried Met this requirement. Probably It was that laptop's fault anyway. I should try with another One running anche i5 CPU and see if It works

I've checked lightillusion website, i couldn't find the info i needed, otherwise i wouldn't have asked here. I wanted to know roughly what people use as i have tried on a very very modest laptop with an i5 CPU and it was unusable (i think the problem is not the CPU but Just about everything else) Right now i'm running It on a Pretty good i7 laptop and It works fine but its an expensive laptop that i have been lendt and i have to give It back.

Hi all! I'll have to get myself a new windows laptop where basically i will only run lightspace and maybe calman if i get a copy of it. As I will only need it for this I'll want to spend the least amount of money. Would you know what are the minimum requirement to run those software? cheers, Orash

What do you use it for? I'd love to hear real world example. I'm scratching the surface of the Matrix potential and i want to really understand what Can be done

one doens't reverse the other in this kind of process, the blur node average pixel values, in that way the edges bleeds into each other as well as the rest of the image, sharpening after that micro contrast an image that has pixel values that are closer together, and while it tries to reverse the blur, at the same time the pixels changed from the original image, so a pixel that "belonged" to the bg now seems part of the fg. yeah, kind of hard to explain i guess. in very small amount it mix the image together and sometimes it's even hard to see the result using such small values, so it's not always worth the hassle, it helps with super sharp lenses. a similiar process i used to do to 3d elements when i was a compositor is to add grain and then denoise (before adding footage grain on top again at the end of the composite) that helped a lot to remove the cg feeling out of it