What is the Standard Practice Sharpening or not Sharpening in Post?

[Andrey Blanco]

Just Wondered what is the best Practice Sharpening or not Sharpening in post with Davinci?

I own a Scarlet my delivery is 1080p with very little if none crop in post.

most of the time I kind of like the soft image, Normally I'm only sharp a few clip minus 10 or so in Resolve.

 

[ericyoung]

Don't think there's a standard practice - surely it needs to be done to taste?

Personally I prefer less is more and avoid noticeable sharpening, but it's going to be subjective to an extent, and display/delivery medium dependent.

 

[Joel Arvidsson]

Its strange that davinci has so poor sharpen tools. I like it crisp but not syntetic as video and that i cant do inside of davinci. Tthey should have atleast an unsharpenmask. Perhaps you can build something similar but why not just have an easy option.

 

[Christian Berg-Nielsen]

I don't like davinci's sharpen either.
but, when I have to I only sharpen luminance as explained here:
http://www.liftgammagain.com/forum/index.php?threads/building-a-better-sharpen-in-resolve.278/

 

[Nick Pasquariello]

I'll have to try the luma-only sharpening.

What I've been doing for Red footage, typically, is to sharpen to around .47, .48. Basically sharpening juuuuuuuuust a hair, across the board. I'm also almost exclusively dealing with 4K footage, not 5K. 5K will look a little sharper than 4K on it's own.

 

[Marc Wielage]

In Resolve 10, you can also use a Splitter/Combiner node to only apply NR to luminance only, or apply it to just one specific color channel (like Blue only). Page 427 of the Resolve 10 manual.

 

[paulherrin]

the other thing you can do is isolate out the highlights (and/or shadows) to avoid weird artifacts.

also, check out the neat video plugin for resolve. great sharpening.