Using DaVinci Resolve Lite
danielschweinert
22 Nov 2011 23:35
Anyone here using the Blackmagic Design's new Resolve Lite 8.1.1 ??? It has been standard in post production since 1984. I know it's kinda breaking the butterfly on the wheel but you can color grade in realtime on a decent iMac or MacBookPro with 1080p material. The best of all the Lite version for HD1080 is totally FREE.
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/davinciresolve/
Im still learning it but it makes a lot of fun. The next investment will be a Tangent Wave control panel for it.
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/davinciresolve/
Im still learning it but it makes a lot of fun. The next investment will be a Tangent Wave control panel for it.
LUXORPYRAMID
23 Nov 2011 15:50
I cannot find the FREE download link :-(
jason
23 Nov 2011 17:24
@luxor try this:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/davinciresolve/
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/davinciresolve/
jdennis
23 Nov 2011 19:06
@luxor; you can find comparison of LITE version to others here
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/davinciresolve/compare/
Looks like only for MAC and Linux
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/davinciresolve/compare/
Looks like only for MAC and Linux
danielschweinert
24 Nov 2011 10:35
Yes right now it's only for MAC but they will release a Windows version in Q1 of 2012.
jdennis
24 Nov 2011 23:46
@jetsetmodels; I took a quick look at their demo video on site. Looks very impressive. Sounds like you've got some experience with the LITE version? Is it easy to learn? I'm wondering if color correction with Sony Vegas is enough or would using "Resolve" be better ?
danielschweinert
25 Nov 2011 00:26
Yes I've learned a lot in the last couple of days. There are many tutorials on youtube. Usually After Effects, Vegas or any other software package should be enough for grading stockfootage because you will do only small subtle changes (increase a little bit the contrast doing white balance...).
But I felt in love with resolve lite because it's so fast (realtime color grading on a decent mac) and in my opinion it's very easy to learn. You have a built in stabilizer that is very simple and works great. You can use PowerWindows (masks) to color grade only parts of your footage in matter of seconds and they can be tracked too. You can save your grading effects and paste them on your other clips from that same series. To keep it simple if you know the program you can color correct more efficient and it makes fun to play with new toys.
Though theres one disadvantage. I couldn't find how to export to Quicktime PhotoJPEG directly from Resolve. You can export anything from Avid DNxHD, FileSequence, ProRes, Quicktime uncompressed...but no PhotoJPEG. So I render Quicktime uncompressed and then compress that footage with Adobe Media Encoder to PhotoJPEG.
But I felt in love with resolve lite because it's so fast (realtime color grading on a decent mac) and in my opinion it's very easy to learn. You have a built in stabilizer that is very simple and works great. You can use PowerWindows (masks) to color grade only parts of your footage in matter of seconds and they can be tracked too. You can save your grading effects and paste them on your other clips from that same series. To keep it simple if you know the program you can color correct more efficient and it makes fun to play with new toys.
Though theres one disadvantage. I couldn't find how to export to Quicktime PhotoJPEG directly from Resolve. You can export anything from Avid DNxHD, FileSequence, ProRes, Quicktime uncompressed...but no PhotoJPEG. So I render Quicktime uncompressed and then compress that footage with Adobe Media Encoder to PhotoJPEG.