Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Dear Avid: Baselight and Resolve let's go!

The lack of any matte controls in the Symphony secondary and lack of shapes
are my biggest frustrations with Symphony. In some ways it's good - I rely
on achieving the look I want in a "primary" grade in most cases, but it's
very frustrating in the things that I compromise on because the benefit
from breaking out of CC to create AniMatte shapes and a "secondary" grade
is not worth the effort it will take.

We've got the DaVinci license and extra GPU on the strength of being able
to use it on a lower-budget six episode series, but I'm keen to explore
more about using it for my main job (a nightly soap - 250x23min a year).

The benefits of Avid's "grade in the timeline" approach are great, but lack
of flexibility is frustrating - but we are assured that they hear our
frustrations on this, hopefully, so perhaps change is in the wind.

Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Christopher Lowden <
christopher@fearlesstv.com> wrote:

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>
>
I have just finished 15 commercials using an aaf / davinci lite workflow.
> Apart from rendered mxfs out of davinci that were occasionally quarantined,
> it worked amazingly well. The reconform in the avid was easy , as long as
> the tc and tape name were right. To make it harder, these were 5d rushes
> that we graded directly, so metadata was key to the success. I initially
> wanted to use symphony but I got stuck as firstly I could not find someone
> who really knows what creative colour grading is. There are plenty of avid
> editors who can fiddle with colour levels. Secondly, symphony has the worst
> matte/track logic ever conceived. Once you have used a dedicated grading
> app, you're in no hurry to go back to symphony.
> All to say that I feel that avid should integrate symphony to mc and have
> a utility to repair mxfs. Aafs are great. In my experience, it's avid's
> very strict media needs that are such a handicap. What is the point of a
> quarantine if you can't repair the media. Once.that is sorted, a truly
> viable avid mxf pipeline with other apps is possible.
>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jim Gilson <gilsonjamesj@...> wrote:
> >
> > It would be nice if more of Magic Bullet Suite would work with MC, too.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > jim
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@...>
> > To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> > BASIC MC
>
>
>

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