Resolve 11 – Dan’s First Thoughts

Sweet video Dan! Thanks a lot man, good overview.

Thanks for pointing out the new tools hidden in the colour match page. The highlights / shadows sliders have a much nicer look than lift and gain in log, they preserve a lot more detail and do not solarise. Colour boost seems to increase saturation without clipping any colour channels (try comparing extreme adjustments of colour boost vs saturation to a colourful scene while observing the waveform). And midtone detail – Key skintones, reduce this, you have a super quick and fantastic looking skin smooth!

Even better news is that the controls are right there by default in the primaries page on the davinci control surface, along with the ever handy contrast and pivot. These tools are fantastic, and extremely powerful, I see myself using them a lot!

I’ve noticed that the qualifier denoise causes quite a performance hit (similar to a noise reduction). BUT this performance hit doesn’t seem to be picked up by Smart Cache. I’ve passed this on to Blackmagic tech support. In the meantime you can manually flag clips where you have used the denoise to cache.

Hi Dan,

Love the insight. There was a lot I didn’t fully realise yet.
Quick question: Do you know if there is a way to make the scopes more prominent (or just bigger) in the dual monitor layout.
I find them a little small for my taste.

Regards,

Remco

Yes, you can expand them taller to take about 1/3 the bottom of the screen. At that size I find them pretty useful. Plus, the scopes are now full frame rate showing you every line of video. They feel and look MUCH more responsive.

Hello Dan,

A quick question about the cache system: does Resolve 11 uses the cached clips for render out or does it just render out everything from scratch like in 10?

Steve – R11 gives you a choice in the Deliver Tab… You can choose to use your cached clips or you can choose to re-render.

Great news!

I have a 90 minutes movie fully cached but during delivery, it insists to re-render everything. This should have saved me so much time… (around 7 hours actually)

Btw, this cache at the node level is so cool.

I can’t wait to finish all of my currents projects to move to R11. I’m sure they have optimized it even further for the MP2013.

Sounds like a great excuse to upgrade to a larger monitor. 😉

Look really cool. Helps us get up to speed fast. Keep em coming!

First thing I noticed about 11 was the scopes were much more responsive. This seems like a really great release. I’ve been working with the new group grading controls a bit, do you know if there’s any way to do versions of group grades? The versions seem to only affect the clips.

I do love the highlights / shadows sliders! I’ve been doing some testing with greyscale ramps to see what it does and it seems to be emulating curves which gives it such a nice look!

I love where the controls are on the panel. Makes it so much easier to use 🙂

Thanks Matt!