Pretty impressive so far, but a few glitches.
I am dealing with a lot of film footage that requires a lot of keyframing inside of a clip, since a clip may be a roll of rushes or a cut film with exposures all over the place.
I can not find a keyboard command for Add Static Keyframe -- something I just used about 250 times in the last 2 hours. The right-click menu has it, but there is no keyboard equivalent. It would be nice to be able to map it to a key on a Contour Shuttle, too.
The other problem is more arcane. I deal with a lot of films that are shot at non-standard framerates. Sometimes 16 fps or 18 fps, both of which easily fit into a 24 p timeline. But I am doing some scans of modern 35mm silent footage shot at 15 fps intended to fit into a 29.97 project (it will be intercut with existing HDV material).
The clips (which are 3.3K, 12-bit Cineform files) open up and play and grade beautifully in Resolve 9 (W7 64 bit) and easily reduce to fit into a 1920 x 1080 frame, scaled to fit. The clips show up as 15 fps clips in the Media window but I can't set any output frame rate other than 23.976 or 24 fps -- even if I set it in the project settings I can't get it to appear in the Render settings.
Yes, I could render to DPX files, put them in After Effects, and output from there, but that would be pretty silly.
The other glitch is windows on a single monitor. If I enlarge the timeline window, it is automatically centered on the top half of the screen -- but if I open the scopes window it can't be resized -- and overlaps the fixed-position picture. This is a pain.
However, the grading tools are great -- i love having curves in addition to all the other control options. Curves are especially nice for dealing with B&W negative footage, where the film's contrast varies a lot.
All advice appreciated. Perhaps we need to start Resolve-L?
Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
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