Resolve v9 - NAB 2012 Highlights

For those not in Vegas we had a great day today and a chance to demo our Resolve v9. Here are some highlights.
Peter

Interface re-designed to streamline the grading process
o Fast user login by entering user name or scroll user thumbnails
o Browse and select projects with scrubbable thumbnail or list view
o Search and sort project lists
o Larger color palettes with direct user access to more tools for faster grading
o Larger and clearer text to ease eye strain during long grading sessions
o Larger timeline thumbnails makes selecting shots faster
o Resizable gallery stills stored and displayed in user named albums
o Gallery now includes 48 'Looks' for fast grade selection
o Full screen viewer mode for accurate window and qualifier control
o Cinema review mode offers a clean full screen to sit back and enjoy

Clip Management
o Browse and select clips in the media library with thumbnail or list view
o Re-sizeable and scrubbable Library and Media Pool thumbnails
o Fast clip management with drag and drop clips between bins in the Media Pool
o Clip list view now also displays PAR, video/data level, frame rate and audio channels
o Optional automatic creation of the Master Timeline to match the Media Pool
o Master and Default timelines option to sort in timecode order or reel # and timecode order
o Reveal clip in Finder

Conform
o Expandable timeline view for conforming
o Drag and drop clip editing
o Consolidate RED camera clips with user defined handles
o Speed warps from FCP XML and Avid AAF
o User selection of common keyboard shortcut layouts

Color
o Log grading includes contrast and pivot with low and high range controls
o Composite RGBA clips using embedded Alpha
o Stereoscopic 3D floating windows include position, softness and rotation
o Separate 3D monitoring controls for GUI/SDI/WFM mesh
o Camera Raw palette offers real time direct control of raw images
o Camera Raw image debayer and decode settings optionally saved per graded version
o Nodes can now be named and wire linking is faster
o Window palette displays the selected windows and position
o Key shapes and position are displayed in the new key palette
o Image transforms are now controlled in the sizing palette
o Tracker and stabilization palette with editable keyframe tracks for pan, tilt, zoom & rotate
o Stabilization strength control to blend stable and original image track
o Eight colored user selected pins & flags to mark clips for fast & easy location and sorting
o Clip thumbnail timeline filters for color corrected, tracked, rendered, pins and flags
o User configurable preset descriptions for graded version names

Audio
o Multitrack audio decoding from BWF, Quicktime and MXF files - Op-Atom and OP-1a
o Multitrack audio encoding to Quicktime and MXF formats - Op-Atom
o Audio waveform display and 16 channel audio meters with selectable dB and dBu scale
o User selectable reference alignment levels for dBu scale
o One-click Auto-Sync of multiple dual system audio files with camera images

Dailies
o Dailies production metadata fields for fast data entry
o Automatically assign iXML production metadata with audio sync
o Dailies clip sort and simultaneous multiple format rendering
o Simple text name burn in for dailies deliverables
o Source clip data burn-ins include custom text, logos & user selectable fade up/down times
o One click generation of LUTs from the clip grade
o User configurable folders to save LUTs

Deliverables
o Dedicated screen for creating rendered deliverables includes large viewer and timeline
o Deliverables user easy setups can now be saved and recalled
o Batch render queue shows job status
o Encoding and decoding Avid DNxHD in QuickTime
o Avid DNxHD444 codec encode/decode is supported on all platforms
o Up to 50% faster DNxHD/MXF encoding speed
o Additional 'Force Highest Quality' settings when rendering clips
o Additional Resolve control panel controls for Camera Raw selection

General
o Resolve Control Panel shortcuts to new Log, Raw and Stereoscopic controls
o Canon C500 camera support
o Improved decoder performance for uncompressed MXF on Linux
o Projects are now saved in file based database with optional database server
o 4K monitoring with DeckLink 4K
o Resolve for Mac OS; hot plug and play for removable drives
o Resolve for Mac OS; now a 64 bit app

Gotta say, looks nice but a lot of things in this will make my job harder, less room for nodes, gallery and dynamics.
I was hoping for floating windows on 2nd monitor and frame blending speed warps and plugins, better noise reduction, bigger window for curves, I liked the bigger font and audio! They have done a great job although.
Thanks BM.

Davinci Resolve Control Surface
MacPro
Cubix desktop 4
2 Red Rockets
GTX470+GTX470+GTX285
24GB RAM
HP Dreamcolor

As I told in person ... :

Great work ,
Really great work .

g

Davinci Resolve Control Surface
MacPro
Cubix desktop 4
2 Red Rockets
GTX470+GTX470+GTX470
24GB RAM
HP Dreamcolor
Panasonic 58PF Plasma
Ultrascope

64 bit is really huge :)

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Margus

http://iconstudios.eu

Yes it supports as you can read from camera materials.

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Margus

http://iconstudios.eu

just let it run a bit. it took me yesterday about 5 minutes to see pages as server was on such pressure.

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Margus

http://iconstudios.eu

But is there a Premiere Roundtrip?

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Ben Edwards - Freelance Picture Editor
http://www.funkytwig.com

Macpro1,1 2007 6GB RAM 2*2 3Ghz Xeon

Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

WOW, 250 days before Christmas! A lot on my wish list here!

One question though, do any of the improvements help with HSL selection while working in log space? I find the HSL keyed to be optimised for linear work.

Thank you!!

I was at NAB and saw the demo with Warren. Even played with the app. But I forgot to check if v9 adds the following capabilities...
Support for stills/feeeze frames referenced in XML/EDL/AAF
Support for alpha in V2 clips. Like text in a TGA with alpha and soft shadows.
Or maybe ProRes4444 clips with alpha perhaps.

Or maybe these exist in v8.2 Mac or Win.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

Embedded alpha is only on ProRes 4444 right now, but I talked to Peter at the booth, and more formats are coming. We specifically talked about TIFF sequences, which I'm guessing is the main thing that's needed.

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Joakim Ziegler - Postproduction Supervisor

Does anyone know if they finally allow us to duplicate an existing session? I need to have alternate versions of a sequence that I can very quickly load up. Need the ability to show multiple versions of a scene to a client (without having to switch all the grades manually shot by shot).

I see that they added some support for Avid motion effects through the AAF workflow. Anyone know if they added the ability to link by source clip name? Most of my shows that I get don't have tape name (reel name) anymore since everything is file based?

Last question.. any word on support for any of the older panels (Tangent CP100)?

Thanks all.

-Peter