Well another year has come and gone at the National Association of Broadcasters and here’s some of the things I saw this year. Wasn’t able to get around as much since I was working all day Mon / Tues in the Small Tree Booth but still saw some good stuff. 4k, Storage and Data Management …
Some Random Thoughts Before NAB 2013 Opens Coming to you from 36,000 feet over these fine United States as we jet from the home of this year’s Final Four Championship to Sin City. I figured this was a good a time as any to share my thoughts for this year’s annual love fest for all …
UPDATED WITH ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE BOTTOM! UPDATE 2 – New Photo showing relative size of the panel at the very bottom. Thanks to Tangent Designs for letting me introduce this to you guys. I saw the prototype at NAB this past April as of today, Tangent introduces the new Element Control Surface. As …
UPDATED 9/6/11 at the end of the article. Today we had our incredibly awesome friend Ron Anderson in the shop to test out the workflow from both Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro using a native workflows into Resolve. The man is a colorist extraordinaire who has gone back to his roots on Davinci …
EXCLUSIVE! (always wanted to say that!) When I get an email from Dan Desmet at Flanders Scientific asking “do you have any time available? I’d like to show you something” I always MAKE the time. One of the awesome benefits of being literally 15 minutes away from FSI is we get to see a lot …
This is HUGE! BMD has approved an expansion chassis that allows up to four GPUs to be added to a Mac Pro or any manner of PCIe cards. Since Apple won’t give us any more than four slots in a single machine, this is a HUGE addition for folks like me who are trying to …
I’ve been getting quite a few emails from folks asking a lot of questions about Davinci Resolve and Apple Color. Specifically, “which one is better?” That’s a loaded question for a number of reasons, but not the least of which is, they’re both just tools. Neither will make you a better colorist just …
I thought I would put together a VERY simple example of the same shot getting essentially the same treatment in these two applications so you can see how they differ on what we would generally call “secondary color enhancement.” Basically after the shot is balanced, you now go ahead and give it the “look.” …
Here’s another workflow comparison between Apple Color and Davinci Resolve. Auto Balance. As in “my colors are really out of whack so can you please balance the colors for me to make the whites and blacks appear normal?” Most Colorists cringe at the thought of an “Auto Balance” button / knob / feature …
Today was Labor Day Holiday in the U.S. and instead of grilling outside, we took advantage of a nice quiet shop to really get into some Davinci Resolve testing. My buddy Ron Anderson volunteered to come over and show me the ropes. When a 30 year colorist offers to “show you the ropes” on a …
Had a great day today poking around in the beta version of Davinci Resolve for the Mac. Spent the first few hours just gleaning through the User Manual and that was actually quite interesting. See the User Manual for the new 7.0 Resolve is not out yet so I’m looking through the previous version. What …
Well isn’t this refreshing? I’m in a Beta Testing program and I can talk about it publicly. I can even talk to the other folks who are testing the software too. Sure wish a certain company that is all about phones and pads would get the message…… but I digress. BlackMagic Design has given me …