My Top Davinci Resolve Requests

Some of my good friends design grading programs, write documentation for these products and are employed full time testing these applications. Me? I just grade, grade, grade. Last year, I graded about 230 hours of programing for various outlets. Yes that’s a lot, and yes, please ask my wife and my daughter, I'm never home! In an attempt to be home more and as NAB 2012 approaches, I would like to mention my top 15 requested features in Davinci Resolve to make my life easier so that hopefully I can be home more :)

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My Room

I get asked on a lot on Twitter and Facebook about my setup and what equipment I use.  So I thought I'd address that in a quick post.  

Our shop is based around DaVinci Resolve (Currently 8.1).  In our main room (my room) we run the following setup.

2009 Mac Pro 2.93GHZ 

24GB of Ram

NVIDIA GTX 470 (for GUI) also works nice with Adobe Premiere

Cubix Expander 16x Host Card

Decklink HD Extreme 3D

Sonnett SAS Card (32TB direct attached storage 2k DPX capabable)

In the Cubix I have 3x GTX 580s, RED Rocket.  This is new, only due to new Nvidia Driver

We also run Blackmagic Ultrascopes on a simple PC. 

As far as monitors we have FSI's and Panasonic Plasmas

All of our equipment lives out of the suites in a machine room - makes it cooler and more quite

A New Resolve Panel

Ok so its been a hundred million years since I've updated this blog (yes I hope to get better), but I've been busy - tons of series to grade, books to finish, travel and I've just sold and bought a house.  Anyway, just wanted to post a few shots of another new Resolve panel I got for the shop, that just got in.  And plus I have to compete with my buddy Alexis Van Hurkman who took some awesome unboxing shots with when he got his Resolve panel.  But unlke me, he probably took them with a real camera - me iPhone 4 without a flash! Sorry for the blurry photos!

We're having a professional photographer come into snap some shots in the next week or two so I'll post more soon. 

Also, big shot out to Torrey Loomis at Silverado Systems for facilitating getting us this new panel and cubix expander box. 

There really are no words for the awesomeness of this panel.  Its fast and its functional and its why we've put them into play in our suites. 

A Big Box

Monster Power Cables, USB Cables and Software/DongleCenter Panel in the Box

Side Panels in the Box Beefy Power Cables and USB connections. Seriously these are the badest power cables in the universeLow Profile. Sorry about the power plug on the wall need to adjust the plasma down

Straight on view

The Color Correction Handbook

Well I've been waiting a while to make this post but my good friend and colleague Alexis Van Hurkman's new book The Color Correction Handbook is out and available for order! After receiving my copy  this week I can sum up the book by saying it stands alone in the category of color correction and grading training and reference material.  Put simply the book is fantastic!  Alexis spent months pouring his exceptional breadth of knowledge of color science and his years of hard earned experience as a working colorist into this book.  What I think will impress everyone, is that he takes what are sometimes very complex topics and puts them into easily understandable and approachable terms and exercises with a sprinkling of very useful tips.  What's more is the book is pretty close to platform agnostic as Alexis discusses Color, Resolve, Pablo, Scratch, Lustre, Baselight and others.  Although I discussed the book with Alexis and saw samples while he was writing seeing the entire book together is just down right impressive. You can rest assured because Creative Cow regular Joe Owens was the technical editor on the book its also one of the most technically accurate books I've ever seen. I've read a lot of technical books and written quite a few myself but I'm just blown away by how thorough and complete this book is.  I'm very proud of Alexis and I really encourage all of you to check out the book today. It's absolutely a must read.

Here is the book on Amazon. 

Catching Up

Oh man! I suck! When I started the new blog I had hopes of contributing every week. Well...that hasn't happened. Let me tell you what has been happening...

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