An overview for a Smoke/Flame pipeline from Avid to Resolve to Smoke via XML

An overview for a Smoke/Flame pipeline from Avid to Resolve to Smoke via XML | wolfcrow:
Johnny Fegan presents an “overview for a Smoke/Flame pipeline that starts with Avid(Editorial), sent to the Colorist(Resolve), and conforming the final Smoke XML sequence with both the RAW footage and the Graded footage.”

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Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 10 Public Beta is Available Now

News: Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 10 Public Beta is Available Now:
DaVinci Resolve 10 is a major upgrade that includes new features for integrating the workflows of multiple different software products used in the film and television industry. DaVinci Resolve 10 has upgraded on set tools, upgraded editing features, support for OpenFX plug ins as well as new tools for delivering final project masters to cinemas. Other changes include the addition of Ultra HD resolutions and additional GPU support on the free of charge DaVinci Resolve Lite edition.

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Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 10 Public Beta is Available Now

Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 10 Public Beta is Available Now by PVC News Staff:
DaVinci Resolve 10 is a major upgrade that includes new features for integrating the workflows of multiple different software products used in the film and television industry. DaVinci Resolve 10 has upgraded on set tools, upgraded editing features, support for OpenFX plug ins as well as new tools for delivering final project masters to cinemas. Other changes include the addition of Ultra HD resolutions and additional GPU support on the free of charge DaVinci Resolve Lite edition.

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Avid and Resolve use Metadata to link to Essence

Avid and Resolve use Metadata to link to Essence:
A container, like a glass containing liquid. That glass would be the metadata and the liquid in that glass would be the essence. I want to replace low quality liquid with high quality uncompressed master resolution liquid.

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Color Grading Tutorial: LUTs in DaVinci Resolve

Color Grading Tutorial: LUTs in DaVinci Resolve | Premiumbeat.com:
Discover how you can quickly modify the colors and intensity values in your video footage using LUTs in DaVinci Resolve.

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Blackmagic Design announces DaVinci Resolve 10 - what's new + video interview!

Blackmagic Design announces DaVinci Resolve 10 - what's new + video interview! - motionVFX Blog:
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 10 is coming and it brings some amazing new features! It has has upgraded on set tools, upgraded editing features, support for OpenFX plug ins as well as new tools for delivering final project masters to cinemas. As you will learn from the video below, the new Resolve Live feature is pretty exciting as it allows color grading direct from the video input live with full creative power such as primaries, secondaries, power windows, custom curves and more! It also offers enhanced editing features and allows online finishing of edits performed in other popular editing software. Maybe it will even replace other NLEs? Especially that editing features include full multi track editing with 16 channels of audio per clip and unlimited video and audio tracks in the timeline!

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Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 10

Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 10 | Broadcast Engineering [primary-term] press release archives:
NAB 2013, Las Vegas, USA - April 8, 2013 - Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 10, a major upgrade that includes new features for integrating the workflows of multiple different software products used in the film and television industry. DaVinci Resolve 10 has upgraded on set tools, upgraded editing features, support for OpenFX plug ins as well as new tools for delivering final project masters to cinemas.

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Creating a look in DaVinci Resolve – Part 2

Creating a look in DaVinci Resolve – Part 2:
Colorist Jesse Borkowski is back with a second series of node by node tutorials on how to create a music video look in DaVinci Resolve involving qualifiers, simple compositing techniques and more. Jesse walks through creating his look and explains the techniques he uses in plenty of detail.  To check out the first series of 4 video tutorials check out this previous post.

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A Colour Grading Round Up For Virgin & Veteran Colourists

A Colour Grading Round Up For Virgin & Veteran Colourists:
Here’s a quick round up of some of the latest free tutorials, tips and training on the craft of colour grading that should help both those who are new to the craft and those who have been around it for years.

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DaVinci Resolve Workflows

DaVinci Resolve Workflows:
Blackmagic Design’s purchase of DaVinci Systems put a world class color grading solution into the hands of every video professional. With Resolve 9, DaVinci sports a better user interface that makes it easy to run, regardless of whether you are an editor, colorist or DIT working on set. 

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Download Free DaVinci Resolve Film Print Emulation LUTs

Download Free DaVinci Resolve Film Print Emulation LUTs:
If you’re looking to give your DaVinci Resolve grade a ‘film look’ then these free film print emulation LUTS from Juan Melara will add some real finesse to your project.

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Understanding Color Gamuts, Working with ACES in Resolve & More...

Understanding Color Gamuts, Working with ACES in Resolve & More... | Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor:
In this ten minute video tutorial, colorist Jesse Borkowski explains what ACES color space is, how to work in it and how to set up a DaVinci Resolve project to correctly work in that color space with CinemaDNG footage.

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Offline to online with 4K

Offline to online with 4K « digitalfilms:

The 4K buzz  seems to be steam-rolling the industry just like stereo3D before it. It’s too early to tell whether it will be an immediate issue for editors or not, since 4K delivery requirements are few and far between. Nevertheless, camera and TV-set manufacturers  are building important parts of the pipeline. RED Digital Cinema is leading the way with a post workflow that’s both proven and relatively accessible on any budget. A number of NLEs support editing and effects in 4K, including Avid DS, Autodesk Smoke, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Grass Valley EDIUS and Sony Vegas Pro.

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How to Create Dailies in DaVinci Resolve 9

How to Create Dailies in DaVinci Resolve 9 | www.creativeplanetnetwork.com:
Andy Shipsides of AbelCine goes over how to create dailies in DaVinci Resolve 9 in the two-part tutorial found below. The first part focuses on syncing audio both manually and automatically, while the second part explains how to add a LUT, change raw settings, add burn-ins and create an output format.

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DaVinci Resolve 9.0.3 Adds Timecode Syncing from Audio Tracks

DaVinci Resolve 9.0.3 Adds Timecode Syncing from Audio Tracks | Below the Line:
Blackmagic Design announced the release of DaVinci Resolve 9.0.3. The update includes a new timecode feature to add timecode to non-timecode cameras, as well as an improved CinemaDNG control palette, AAF and XML clip management, enhanced stereoscopic 3D grading and support for XML round tripping in the new release of Apple Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.6.

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Conforming in Resolve

Conforming in Resolve:
How to use a Reference Movie in Resolve
Warren Eagles from the ICA has this 10 minute tutorial inside the latest version of Resolve – 9.0.2. Warren talks through the importance of using a reference movie to check your grade and how to go about doing so.

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Resolve and Premiere Pro With Unsupported Media Files

Resolve and Premiere Pro With Unsupported Media Files
This is an introduction to working with unsupported media when sending a project to Resolve from Premiere Pro CS6. This video just shows you what happens when you try to import unsupported media into Resolve and is an illustration as to why it is important to manage your media before you send it to Resolve for color correction.

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Resolve > Adobe Premiere CS6 Round Trip for the Cinema Camera

Resolve > Adobe Premiere CS6 Round Trip for the Cinema Camera

Jesse Borkowski gives you a quick workflow tutorial covering the use of cinemaDNG files from the Cinema Camera with Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. The workflow is simplified to focus on the round trip aspects of the process and not specific video format encoding or output settings.

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DaVinci Resolve v9.0b3 released

DaVinci Resolve v9.0b3 released:

Blackmagic Design has released v9.0b3 which has many bug fixes since the last update, and also a few important changes:

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Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 9 Public Beta for Mac, Windows and Linux

Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 9 Public Beta for Mac, Windows and Linux:

Blackmagic Design today announced the release of DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta, a major new update to the world’s most advanced color correction tool featuring a completely redesigned user interface to optimize workflow speed. DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta is now available for free download to existing full featured DaVinci Resolve customers, as well as the free DaVinci Resolve Lite!

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