Tutorials

How to move AVID bins including metadata to DaVinci Resolve

How to move AVID bins including metadata to DaVinci Resolve

Moving bins and metadata from one application to another can be difficult sometimes. In this tutorial I will explain how to move bins including metadata from AVID Media Composer to DaVinci Resolve. Unfortunately not all metadata can be moved, but the things you can bring from AVID to Resolve are: Name Reel Name Description Comments […]

Tutorials, Workflow
Why I don’t use a fixed node tree

Why I don’t use a fixed node tree

It happens that people ask me – “How does your node tree look”, suggesting that I am using a fixed node tree. When I say that I don’t use a fixed node tree they look surprised. Then I ask them, “Do you use a fixed node tree?” and most of the time they say “Yes […]

DaVinci Resolve, Tutorials

Fandev Grader and Suppressor now available as freeware

In the early 2000 I was part of Fandev (the maker of CuteDCP) and we created 2 color correction plugins for Adobe After Effects. Christer from Fandev has maintained these plugins during the years but decided to declare them End Of Life. But we like to contribute to community and that is why we decided […]

Tutorials
DejaEdit – a new way of editing together!

DejaEdit – a new way of editing together!

Today financing for features and TV-series creates workflow problems. Money from different countries also means work has to be shared between these countries. For example Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE was working with such a project. More about that below. Many productions struggle with the fact that they shoot in one place and edit in another. 10.000’s […]

Tutorials, Workflow

Monitoring 5.1 in Resolve, the easy way.

Monitoring 5.1 in Resolve, the easy way.

Since Fairlight was introduced it has been a bit of a problem to setup a timeline to just monitor a 5.1 mix. I have seen many different ways to do it, and here is one more 🙂 Import the 6 mono audio files into the Media Pool Create a new timeline and give it 6 […]

DaVinci Resolve, Tutorials

iMac Pro – first week

About 8 month ago I started investigating to jump ship from Mac to PC for my grading machine. I have been using an iMac 3.5GHz i7 with GTX 780M from 2013. After many investigations I found it a difficult choice since I write software for Mac which I use daily on my grading machine. The […]

Product Reviews

Creating an EDL from an XML

Creating an EDL from an XML

A few weeks ago I was on Bali for the ICA Colorist Summit. We where looking at different ways to get footage into DaVinci Resolve, one of them being “Pre-conformed EDL”. Which is a way to split a “baked” clip into separate clips in the timeline. But what if you only got an XML and […]

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