Hey guys, I just bought a 35mm trailer, I thought I was going to get a regular 35mm print, but it comes with a lead that says it's an internegative. Does that mean I bought the interneg instead of a regular print? It does look positive ie the colors are not reversed.
A decklink card works with any graphics card, you keep your main card for general computer use/GUi etc. and the decklink card supplies the image to the broadcast monitor or TV for you to view the colour corrected footage on, and make adjustments etc.
Now that I'm more certain of my theory about the dates on each DVD being their master dates... anyone have a DVD of My Fellow Americans dated 1997 on the packaging?
Without a second monitor, and a BMD output card or external output device, Resolve is completely useless for colour correction, as what you see on your main GUI monitor (your standard computer monitor) is *not* the correct colours or levels, even if you calibrate it.
download the manual, there is a configuration guide and it explains everything. Basically to run resolve properly, you need a second monitor that can be calibrated fro (at least) rec709. To connect that monitor to your computer, it must be connected through a BMD device, either a PCIe card inside the computer, or an external USB or Thunderbolt output box.
@poita The trouble is, I don't know what specifically I need from BMD for color correction in Resolve. Terms like "output" and "card" are, to me, pretty vague, and not helping is that I have only a passing familiarity with BMD--why, I didn't know until you told me I needed BMD output that BMD owned DaVinci Resolve.
It has a full bitrate DTS track with the original score. It also supposedly has outtakes during the end credits, which I don't think other editions have. I do have a PAL DVD with DTS, but an NTSC source would be preferable.
Does it have to be a BMD output, specifically? Wouldn't the 1070 or 1080 have multiple monitor ports, so that it'd theoretically be capable of running a second monitor by default?
I actually find that the French version didn't go all the way, as scenes that would have been more believably played in German, are in French (Scenes in the gasthaus and the chateau). The agents sent can speak fluent German (Said so by Turner) so it would make sense for them to avoid speaking English after they land to avoid being heard speaking in the language of a country they are at war with (In "The Americans", the orders clearly forbid the agents from speaking Russian after they leave the USSR).
Would anyone interested in Where Eagles Dare, half breed edition ? Let me explain, in the film, all german officers speak english with a german accent in the original version. However in the french version, they all speak german. The french used the german dub for all these parts, with added subtitles. It's much better cos it gives a much more immersive experience of being on dangerous grounds. So my idea would be to take the original english, and patch all the german parts from the french dub, thus giving all non french speaking fans the exact same feel as all the french had when they viewed the film.
Resolve is a bit of a pig for editing, you will need 16GB, and an 8GB GPU is really needed. The CPU isn't all that important unless you are using RED footage. Drive speed howver is crucial. as is HDD space. I'd forget trying to use it on a laptop.
OK, I'm at a sort of a quandary. The Aurora R6 I looked at yesterday (4/8) is the only one of two desktops I looked at to not have a processor in the yellow (read: below 1070), so in case a laptop beats it out, what specs would be recommended for editing on DaVinci Resolve using a laptop?
"The Home Whovian was a 30 minute direct-to-video documentary produced in 1985 by and for the New Jersey Network (NJN). The special was hosted by Eric Luskin, and contained extended and re-cut interview footage that had previously appeared in Doctor Who's Who's Who. The special was later released on video in the UK by Reeltime Pictures in 2001, with a DVD edition under the Myth Makers series in 2004." - http://gallifreybase.com/w/index.php/The_Home_Whovian
Anyway, back to editing suites. Since I'm going to be using DaVinci Resolve from time to time I expect I'll need for the GPU either a 1070 or a 1080. Any idea on how much RAM I might need?
Speaking of which, I'm hoping to give the old Lionheart logo the Yadif treatment. I think it might appear on "The Home Whovian", a PBS special presented in association with NJN that was released on VHS just over 30 years ago.
Apparently DaVinci Resolve doesn't like Avisynth (it's output formats). https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172456 "although Resolve supports AVI ... it only supports a few specific formats. ... The problem becomes getting UYVY, or 10-bit RGB, out of Avisynth. As far as I know the Avisynth+ project hasn't implemented higher bit depths just yet."
And with the first Ultra HD Blu-ray burner on the market being priced well out of my range, it doesn't look like I'll be shopping for any UHD adventures any time soon. Maybe in a few years' time, when the prices go down...
Anyway... when I get to restoring TGTBATU, I'm thinking of extending the Mexican standoff at the end to incorporate the full, unedited version of "Il triello", the music that plays during the showdown. I'm not sure what route to go, but I do know it involves reusing shots, so I'm going to need some input here.
But the way I see it, DaVinci Resolve 12.5 is the best tool for the job. Course, I might upgrade when the free version gives more stereo capability than the current version does, but I guess some things can wait; after all, I'm not yet planning any stereo projects.
Oh, regarding color grading, when it needs to be done manually I'm gonna swear by DaVinci Resolve Lite, unless someone would point me to some better freeware in that regard.
It *should* be around 50mbps, but in reality is around 20mpbs... better than previous 7mbps, but far from the potential 200mbps fiber can reach in my city... oh, let's wait if it improves in the weekend!
Fiber is now at my home! Not lightning fast but I can upload at 20x (at least) in comparison to old ADSL... that's why I uploaded three projects in the last days!