Nicolas Hanson

This is probably a Tangent killer, but the only reason I'm sad about that is because @Mazze will sell less of his amazing boards.

What made you want to try Nucoda? Seems like nobody is using it.

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Any free screen recording softwares for Windows that you can recommend?

BMD just announced that the studio version is 299USD. Why would they give it away almost for free?

An absolutely great looking ad!

Do you have any plans on releasing a win version @Daniele Siragusano?

They could have reacted the same way on every eye lash campaign ever made in modern times. The Flame artists have been doing beauty work like this on every place I've worked.

My 'weapon' is actually to use an invert LUT (built into Resolve) on all the linear footage. When I got everything in 'log' I use a log to lin LUT and that gives me a great 'contrast starting point' at least. I also tend not to use white as absolute brightness as bending the highlights towards a warmer tone will help. If that fits the story of course ;-)

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Can someone please explain the main differences between the Fuji and Kodak stocks when it comes to film emulations?

Thank you for the detailed answer, it makes sense that it could be related to the PSU. I didn't know they come with different watt versions. I had to leave the office early so hadn't time to switch but I pulled out the old Red Rocket and for some reason the first (and only) render did complete. Not a qualitative result and it might break the render next time, but I will let you know what is the solution.

I got some RED files that I have tried to render out from DaVinci several times, but every time the machine turns itself off. I've tried to load the material into different projects, rendered one file at a time etc, but the machine turns off every time. It runs on a z820 that is rock solid on every task I throw at it, so I find this pretty strange. Any idea what is happening?

Apple actually admits that the last pro versions were a failure. Not going back anyway. http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15175994/apple-mac-pro-failure-admission

I'm sure it is! :-) What I don't understand is that your previously wrote that transform is something different than normalization so can you please explain what a transform is if it's not "taking log footage into a pleasing "normal" contrast" one or the other way?

Orash, great explanation but I'm fully aware of this. What I'm curious about is how you define the difference between normalization and transforming the image from any log favour.

Thanks for your explanation. So by normalization you mean correcting the clips (e.g with a log-lin LUT) to set it back to the initial state. How do you transform the logarithmic clip to linear in DaVinci and what is the pro/cons compared to normalization?

The ProRes 444 XC log material is shot on Alexa (Mini + full body) I've used the LUT creator on Alexa's site and end up with almost the same results as the built in software LUT. I just want to know if applying this LUT will put the footage back to the linear condition that was defined by the DOP on set. Put another way, is the software built in LUT applying the same transformation as the camera is doing on set? Often, the director is asking me to set the image back to the original state (what he saw in the monitor on set ' ....yes, I know...), so will applying this LUT be the right way to approach this request?

The NC1201L will do just fine for P3 and 709 in normal conditions, but make sure to have it set up and calibrated properly.

What technique do you prefer for skin smoothing? I will leave wrinkles and pimples to the Flame guys but since I got better keyer/tracker I want to do the first pass getting rid of the skin pores around the nose area.

Thank you for the great explanation @Daniele Siragusano. I don't have access to an inverse DRT, so I simply used a built in inverse LUT. I should probably head over to Baselight for tasks like this as I can't access any formula based transform in Davinci.

Great taste. The reel is good enough to be compared with the top post production house commercial reels.

Thank you Bruno! Thought that was for previous versions as Avid doesn't use the AMA name inside the software anymore.

I'm working with the latest Avid (8.6.x) and I've noticed that AMA is replaced with a source browser. Maybe that happened a long time ago, but I usually get handed transcoded MXF files made in DaVinci. Anyway, how do I import/transcode r3D files? When trying to "link" it says "cannot be linked" so I'm a bit lost.