



Failing that, he recommends the Quadro 4000 card.

He has three graphics cards just to start with one for the UI display, one to accelerate the software, and one to output HD video. Hardware: David was running a MacPro with 12 cores, and an expansion interface that adds four more slots.To watch David take a somewhat plain scene, and then adjust contrast and brightness, soften the highlight clipping, brighten up the clouds with a traveling matte, then add green to folliage and yellow to rocks using color and luminance mattes to produce a stunning final shot, that's pretty cool.Īnd it gives me an idea of what I should be trying for. Well, true, I still haven't even figured out Apple's Color, but there's something very cool about watching someone who knows what they are doing apply color correction to a scene. "You can barely find your way around the Three-way Color Corrector in Final Cut Pro, and you're going to a workshop on a high-end color correcting tool?!" The event happened downtown at Emerson College.ĭavid has been working with Resolve for more than 20 years and was even product manager for Resolve before moving to FilmSystems two years prior to the sale to Blackmagic. This past Tuesday, David Catt of FilmSystems gave a free two hour workshop on DaVinci Resolve organized in collaboration with BOSFCPUGand Blackmagic Design.
