Dallies on software other than RedCine

[Paul J Steinberg]

RedCine has been doing a great job cooking up dallies for me but I'm looking to get additional power when grading like secondaries and maybe power windows and the ability to work with other file types from time to time. The heavy lifting of the system would be to pretty much follow the same workflow as RedCine. Original media is loaded in, usually with sync sound, grade applied and final output to file type used by post but keeping the same file name as the original.

I thought Resolve was a no-brainer for this but it doesn't look like it the embedded audio will make the round trip with Resolve. The new Scratch seems to have some sort of audio tools but don't know much about the software.

Any suggestions for a colour solution that can handle the audio?

Much thanks!

 

[D Fuller]

For dailies? Really?

 

[Frank Cueto]

Take a look at Baselight Transfer.

 

[Paul J Steinberg]

Oh, I should mention that I'd like to run this on a PC. Is baselight PC/Mac or both?

 

[Tom.Wong]

Scratch Lab doesn't let you do any keying, compositing, or secondaries of any kind. you'll need the full version of Scratch, and it will do everything you want it to do and more.

 

[jake blackstone]

Oh, I should mention that I'd like to run this on a PC. Is baselight PC/Mac or both?

Neither. It's linux only. And it is VERY expensive, because it runs on it's own hardware.

 

[Paul J Steinberg]

Thanks for the Scratch suggestion. I think that may do everything I need and runs on PC.

 

[Paul J Steinberg]

Have been test out ScratchLAB for a couple days and it's a brilliant piece of software and their support has been outstanding. Thanks for the suggestion Tom.

 

[Dustin Cross]

Paul,

Secondaries and power windows for dailies is a bit much.

I wrote a little shell script that adds the audio back into clips rendered from Resolve. Here is a link to a thread talking about it:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?65613&viewfull=1#post852354

Doh! You are looking for a Windows solution. My script is for Macs.


Dusty

 

[Paul J Steinberg]

Yeah, I'd like to have the secondaries, power windows and tracker for occasional use, primaries and audio sync are what I really need and ScratchLAB does that brilliantly. All I need to do is to add a second Quadro card and a BM I/O card to get Resolve working. I figure if I have use for secondaries and tracking I can run it through Resolve and then use LAB to sync it back up with the sound.

 

[Marc Wielage]

I believe using a lot of secondaries and power windows for dailies is a very, very, very bad idea. You want the DP and director to see what was shot. If they're experienced and have a clear vision of where they're going to go with the film in post, all of that stuff can be added later. It's much too premature to do this in dailies.

I do agree for the need to do a little preliminary color correction just to give the editor something to look at that is in the ballpark of the final film's look. For example, if something was shot "normally," but the final film is going to have an extremely desaturated/blue look, then do that for the dailies. That's three knobs: pull saturation, add some blue to the highlights, add some blue to the mids. Move on.

Resist the urge to try to color correct now. One good reason is that much of this footage will never be used in the final, so this could be a lot of wasted effort. Even modest films shoot on a 10:1 ratio (and I think the average is well over 20:1), so you figure for every minute you keep, 10 minutes is thrown away.