thanks caveport for the heads up so is it possible to use davinci in combination with premiere without rendering TWICE? I mean can Davinci open my Premiere files so I can just work on certain scenes and then either davinci or premiere does the rendering with the grading settings from davinci?

R11.1 available. No more beta.

@olli66 I guess it is complicated depending on what you're used to, but it can be well worth it to do things which couldn't be done with conventional software, for example being able to track and correct moving objects within an image. You don't have to use it for every shot - you could just load the ones you want and treat those.

I find Resolve's new editing capabilities a bit clunky, and also it would involve transcoding all my GH2 footage, so I much prefer to edit in Sony Vegas and export the final shots into Resolve using a Resolve-friendly format, and then export the finished footage back into Vegas for adding titles etc - so yes, you have to round-trip between programs - but Resolve is worth it if you have the time (and the need) to do it (and can put in the hours required to learn what it can do). I take my hat off to anyone who uses it professionally and at speed!

I do see what you are getting at - it would be great to somehow be able to switch into Resolve to grade some footage and then switch back to your editor and instantly have graded footage in your timeline - but that's not unfortunately how it works.

you don't have to round trip. Davinci's editing is okay if you just need a few scenes put together. But if it's a real shoot with multiple scenes and special fx and audio issues, premiere is clearly better.

If you do all your editing cuts in premeire and than want to color in resolve, there's no roundtripping, just an export. If, however, you then want to do editing changes back in premeire or add effects in after fx, after coloring you will have to render and that would be a roundtrip.

Just watch a video on roundtripping and follow every step. You only have to render one time before the release render. Even if you do changes after the initial render the edits will update automatically.

Is it worth the effort? Plus resolve is complicated to learn. You will have to study and watch videos (Denver Riddle) to get any good at it. You can just drop in a lut or an ofx plug in in resolve. That's easy enough. If that's all you plan on doing in your color correction it isn't worth it.

That said, Resolve is so massively better at color correction than anything else, final cut, adobe, avid, frankly it embarrasses them. Add to that the best tracking capabilities on the planet, way better and easier than even aftereffects new tracking and its hard to beat.

It's free. The paid version has a few other capabilities, like a denoiser, that the free doesn't, but if you already have a denoiser plugin(ofx) it will work in free resolve. For the most part the free version is identical to the paid.

Finally took the time to play around in Resolve 11 and it's finally at the place where I can use it on most projects. Blackmagic has made some small but significant changes that speed up the overall process between Premiere and Resolve and it's working quite well for my needs.

I've always liked the extra color features Resolve offered but the process was cumbersome. The work I was able to do today was miles beyond any color work I could do in Premiere or After Effects and it really didn't take that much extra effort. The Hue v Hue, Hue v Saturation and the Saturation v Luma help add so much more to your footage.

I also didn't realize the Lite version isn't limited to 1080p and lets you edit and export 4K now. Not sure how I missed that feature but now with the GH4, it's an absolute necessity.

I just wish there were an interface more like Camera Raw/Lightroom, that's still my favorite model for coloring.

something 4:4:4 I think I use quicktime mov. If I then need an output for vimeo. I use the mov file and render a custom vimeo highest setting h264 in adobe media encoder cc based on vimeo's specs .

Resolve does not have a good output option for vimeo highquality. Not that I know of anyway. Everything will be rerendered by vimeo after upload.

I found (on a Mac, though) that some other programs seem to block the GPU somehow.

After using After Effects or Cinema4D, I need to restart my computer to have Resolve running reliably.

I had crashing while editing on v11.1lite - PC

@Psyco, Source gamma should be set to LOG, not Rec709. Also you might need to play with the Target Color Temp to get the most accurate match.

You can look at the numbers underneath the color palette in the result to see how far off your result is from the reference chart and tweak accordingly. Sometimes it's a matter of deciding which colors you want to match 100%, but it's usually pretty negligible.

Also, make sure you select Macbeth for your color chart, not X-Rite.

@Oedipax Macbeth chart and X-Rite colour checker are the same colours. The source gamma was not log, but BM Film.

I solved the problem by changing the raw dng import from automatic to BM Film (gamma and colour space). Somehow the automatic parameters get it all wrong.

For those asking about minimum sys. requirements for Davinci 11 Lite - it is 8GB RAM, but on my old PC with 4GB RAM (Win7 64-bit, GPU Nvidia GT9500) - it works. Starts quite long, but after it has started I am able to do some color grading with no problem.

Hey guys I was wondering if someone got OpenFx_misc plugs, they come packaged in a bundled (specially interested in yadif deinterlace) working in DRL on OS Yosemite??? Alternatively a free deinterlace OFX? =)

BTW from Devernay's page, the Tuttle plugs I manage to get running on davinci are listed bellow; - direct DL link to the whole pkg

AnisotropicDiffusion-1.1.ofx.bundle
BasicKeyer-0.0.ofx.bundle
BitDepth-1.0.ofx.bundle
Blur-1.0.ofx.bundle
CTL-2.0.ofx.bundle
ChannelShuffle-0.0.ofx.bundle
ColorGradation-1.0.ofx.bundle
ColorSpaceKeyer-0.0.ofx.bundle
ColorSuppress-3.0.ofx.bundle
ColorTransfer-2.0.ofx.bundle
ColorTransform-0.0.ofx.bundle
Component-1.0.ofx.bundle
Crop-1.1.ofx.bundle
DebugImageEffectApi-0.0.ofx.bundle
Diff-1.0.ofx.bundle
Dpx-1.0.ofx.bundle
Dummy-1.0.ofx.bundle
Exr-3.0.ofx.bundle
Fade-0.0.ofx.bundle
Flip-1.0.ofx.bundle
FloodFill-1.0.ofx.bundle
Gamma-1.0.ofx.bundle
IdKeyer-1.0.ofx.bundle
ImageMagick-1.0.ofx.bundle
Invert-1.0.ofx.bundle
Jpeg-1.0.ofx.bundle
Jpeg2000-1.5.ofx.bundle
LensDistort-2.2.ofx.bundle
LocalMaxima-1.0.ofx.bundle
Lut-0.0.ofx.bundle
MathOperator-1.0.ofx.bundle
MemoryBuffer-1.0.ofx.bundle
Merge-1.0.ofx.bundle
Move2D-0.0.ofx.bundle
NlmDenoiser-2.2.ofx.bundle
Normalize-1.0.ofx.bundle
OCIO-1.0.ofx.bundle
OpenImageIO-1.0.ofx.bundle
Png-1.0.ofx.bundle
Print-0.0.ofx.bundle
PushPixel-1.2.ofx.bundle
Ramp-2.0.ofx.bundle
Raw-1.0.ofx.bundle
Sobel-1.0.ofx.bundle
Thinning-1.0.ofx.bundle
TimeShift-1.0.ofx.bundle
TurboJpeg-1.0.ofx.bundle

@czarek now they load into DRL allright but I still not getting them to work... on the other hand you just dropped an open source nuke!!! what??? convolution sharpening, a denoise plug that actually works and a myriad more effects and composite aids, all channel separable in a node based workflow for free?!!! BIG thanks mate =)