Nicolas Hanson

6 minutes ago, Jamie Neale said:

I'm really enjoying Raven Grade, the volumetric highlight/shadow adjustment is a really nice feature too.

Yeah that's one of my fav features too, I used to key the highlights and decrease contrast within that range but now Ravengrades Vol/Ratio handles it for me - with a roll of that makes it look good every time.

On 2/10/2022 at 4:46 PM, Rihards said:

I've been chasing and trying to understand how to achieve a certain blue look very so often seen from the top shelf houses and their colorists. 

If you have access to Ravengrade for Resolve, there are several film print emulations there that will work perfectly as a starting point for these types of looks. The rich and bold film contrast, tinting and strong restricted primary colors.

Ravengrade is insane! Got it yesterday. 

Newsletter and Instagram. 

I'm using the remote grade feature on a documentary where an interview is recorded on multiple clips. Any way to "link" those clips together someway, so that my grade applies to all those clips and not only the particular clip that belongs to the one I apply the grade too?

They just announced their largest masterclass so far coming later this month.

On 12/5/2021 at 1:06 AM, Tom Evans said:

I'm also one of those who downloaded Mitch Bogdanowicz Kodak LUT's when they were available on Lowepost a couple of years ago and as far I can tell the "Niran" look in Ravengrade matches quite accurately. Mitch is not on their contributor list, but they state there are color scientists involved in creating their looks. ARRIs color scientist Florian Utsi is also on their contributors list and he is known for using some complex film print data from ARRI in his look creation so that might explain why Ravengrade feels much more cinematic than anything else I have tried.

Mitch is on the Ravengrade.com contributor list now, so it's reasonable to think that his film print emulations are implemented in the Plugin. I'm first in line to get my hands on that product when the official sale opens. 

You can't delete parts of an audio clip embedded in a video clip.
Do you mean to automatically delete parts of an audio track on the timeline where the sample plot is not bouncing? Not possible.

Resolve is full range internally, so what you see on your desktop monitor is black at zero.

The MP4 file you are looking at is legal range in QT, so what you see on your desktop monitor is black at 16 IRE. 

You should not work this way, but watch your grade on a proper color grading monitor. What you see on the grading montor will match what you see on your QT if set up correctly because of the way it handles the video signal. 

2 minutes ago, Bruno Mansi said:

Harsh!

Yeah, even out of my comfort zone. Filmlight is a company that regularly speak and promote in channels where 90% can't afford their products. If they want to honor the craft, they should change their pricing model or bring an affordable product to the table.

I suggest you guys use your time on writing a product that people actually can afford instead of arranging events like this. 

I think they are quite similar really when it comes to silver. You could try to de-connect the RGB channels and draw a luma curve.  It will increase the silver.  You could also use the top part of the curve to compress the highlights or flatten them out. And, play with the midtone details slider to reduce sharpness. 

Would need to see how the lighting is on the shots you are working on to determine which techniques to use to get there.  Need to know what's already taken care of and what challenges you face. 

Any chance you can post references? Sounds like you are looking for ways to compress highlights but your post is a bit cryptic and I'm not up for guess games right now.  

What is a Mercury look? Is that a movie reference? 

Hi Marc. Any reason why you wouldn't use a parallel node istead of a layer node in this case? I find that by pumping the color I want from the source in a parallel node will give a less destructive result than with a key inside a layer node.

7 hours ago, Luca Di Gioacchino said:

I purchased the M1 Mac Mini and UltraStudio Monitor 3G and Resolve Studio (v 17) does not  pick it up.

Download Desktop Video and if it's not visible there, you need to boot the Mac Mini  M1 and reduce the security.

1. Apple menu/ Shut Down.
2. Press and hold the power button until you see “Loading startup options”.
3. Click Options, then Continue.
4. Reduce the Security 

Now, Desktop Video will recognise your Ultrastudio.

Yeah, need to see the colour management settings and full UI. 

I would set up the DaVinci Resolve Mini M1 with your devices like this:

1x Thunderbolt/USB4:

UltraStudio HD/4K with external monitor and speakers. The ports on the Mini m1 has its own busses so it should not steal bandwidth from the other ports.

1 x Thunderbolt/USB4:

External drives (with our without a hub)

1x HDMI 2:

Screen

2x USB A:

Panel etc

1x 3.5 mm/headphone:

Desktop audio

Is there any issues with using the UltraStudio Mini to connect audio and a monitor to the new Mac Mini m1? 

You can hit the wall by not preparing for HDR, 4K etc of course, but how long will you an Eizo monitor last when thinking solely on the life span of the components and the image quality?
Second, I have read that Eizo will update their cg2730 to a cg2740. Is that because the technology is old, and will they also update the cg279x?

I wonder if I can save some cash by going for Eizo cg2730 instead of Eizo cg279x.

I hope to be able to trust the internal calibration, but I understand it relies on calibration with a 1D LUT only. So for 100% accuracy I would probably need external calibration with a 3D LUT that cg379x has built in. I have also picked up that I don't need the built in 3D LUT capability that comes with cg279x  if I add an external 3D LUT box (which I dont want to do) or output a 3D LUT from Resolve. 

So my question will be; what is the process of outputting a 3D LUT from Resolve when used for calibration? Is this a process done when calibrating only? If it's just a matter of doing a simple process in Resolve each time I want to calibrate, then I would probably go for the cg2730 and save some money.


 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts guys!

I think I will go for 32GB, the 8GB update and 1TB SSD, but I'm a bit afraid of the fan noise... any experience with that? Not sure my wife will be very happy if it isn't silent when working from the sofa.

I have a scene with an actor taking a photo of an object on a table. I need to add a flash. The shot is top down, so you don't see the actual flash light on the camera. Any suggestions on how to create it in Resolve Fusion? 

Thanks for going in detail about this Bruno, really appreciate it. At work we have a 2017 Macbook Pro with 3.2gHz, would that be a better choice than a 2020 with 2.3/4gHz?