Workflow

In this tutorial we will look at how to not run in to problems when using motion graphics with alpha channel in a BlackMagic Cloud proxy workflow.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

While the rest of the world supposedly sleeps better, colorist will sleep less. Apple introduced two new features yesterday, Night Shift and True Tone. These functions will alter the screen color temperature depending on the time of day or the surrounding color temperature. The idea seems good, but I am just waiting for the first […]

During my freelance years I have been working on many different grading systems and panels. Recently I started a new Post house with some people and to keep the costs down we decided to use a Tangent Elements panel instead for going with the large Davinci Resolve Panel. When using large panels there is often […]

I am working on a large project, 2 times 90 minutes cut in FCP 7. When we tried to get the material into Protools we got a problem when using OMF from FCP. Protools couldn’t match the clips to the field recorder files using the “Matching Field Recorder Channels” function. After many hours of trail […]