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MillimeterDa Vinci Systems Announces Resolve Digital Mastering Suite 3.4
Sep 11, 2006 12:47 PM
Da Vinci Systems announced the newest version of its Resolve digital mastering suite, Resolve v3.4, offering post-production facilities savings in time and money due to a more efficient use of resources.
With version 3.4, Resolve now provides a series of editing tools, which can be used to construct a grading timeline or trim an existing EDL to match an offline master tape. Users can assemble timelines from scratch, creating dissolves and other effects, and then generate a CMX-style EDL to reflect the result. Additionally, playlists can be created by dragging and dropping material from the media pool onto a timeline—without the need for an EDL. Rather than waiting for a revised EDL when last-minute changes to a conformed timeline are required, changes can be made immediately, which quickly speeds up many projects.
The new Resolve Conform Station takes the conforming and QC processes out of the expensive DI suite, allowing them to be done in a less expensive environment, at a fully integrated parallel workstation. Now time can be spent ensuring an EDL's conform of image files matches the offline before color enhancement begins, speeding up the grading session while saving time and money. The Resolve Conform Station utilizes Resolve's similar drag-and-drop edit functionality, allowing scenes to be selected and dropped onto a timeline in any desired order. With any number of Resolve stations sharing the same database, multiple work processes are completed simultaneously and image files are quickly accessed without time-consuming data transfer.
"In the past, much of the true color-grading work was held up at production facilities while colorists waited for EDLs or wrangled data," says Jim MacKrell, senior product manager at Da Vinci. "Resolve version 3.4 makes these issues a thing of the past, saving facilities significant time and money while enhancing all the traditional functionalities and capabilities of the Resolve."
Resolve v3.4 also adds a Batch Recording Mode, which allows the user to build a record queue so recordings can be deferred until a more convenient time, allowing the record process to run unattended. This improves facility scheduling by allowing the colorist to continue grading rather than waiting for a record to finish.
Workflow efficiency is also improved with Da Vinci's unique deliverables workflow, providing "on-the-fly," realtime creation of varying play-out versions from a single color-graded master. With the deliverables workflow, there is no need to copy data back through the SAN, so whether the job specifies HD, SD, 2K, or beyond, Resolve v3.4 can play out multiple formats from a single master, each with uniquely applied color space and sizing. This means a facility only has to store a single copy of a graded project, saving the cost and significant storage space of multiple copies.
All features of Resolve v3.4 work seamlessly within a DI workflow.
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