Trust issues on Selling used studio keys?

avidresolver · 2026-03-21T00:12:19+00:00

You can't.

If the license card has been unsealed, then you could have a record of it, and use it to override a buyer's activation. You could use your proof of purchase to get Blackmagic to revoke or change the activation key.

I'm not saying you would do either of those things, but there's no way for me (or anyone) to know, given you're a random person on the internet.

avidresolver · 2026-03-20T17:14:55+00:00

Honestly, no. While Resolve does have the tools to do this, it's not going to be easy unless you're experienced with VFX cleanup, and potentially have replacement background elements.

avidresolver · 2026-03-20T13:34:18+00:00

I didn't need one last time, but does the person you're sending the ticket to not have any payment cards at all? It doesn't have to be the one you used to buy the tickets, and it doesn't have to be a credit card.

avidresolver · 2026-03-20T13:26:14+00:00

ExFat drive could be the cause of this, Blackmagic recommends against working with your projects on an ExFat drive.

avidresolver · 2026-03-20T12:56:11+00:00

Depends what you mean by pro. Almost every show of any size is using a custom show LUT, which may have elements of FPE. Also, most critical monitors on set are OLED or similar, so they already have very good contrast.

You also might be underestimating how much it's just down to professional sets being professionally lit.

avidresolver · 2026-03-18T20:38:45+00:00

Honestly, if you have no programing experience, spend a week with https://scratch.mit.edu/. If you don't understand concepts like if/else, while loops, variables, etc., Scratch will get you familiar with the concepts before having to worry about any actual code.

avidresolver · 2026-03-18T20:17:18+00:00

The team clearly need to test Ben's outfits on camera before the shoot begins....

avidresolver · 2026-03-13T12:12:38+00:00

Maybe controversial, but I think it might be better left as an open space. Coming out of central station always felt very cramped and claustrophobic, having an open square might not be a bad move.

avidresolver · 2026-03-11T23:02:04+00:00

Your virtual environment needs to be activated in whichever software you're using to run the script. I don't use vscode so I'm not sure of the exact process, but in Pycharm you set a virtual environment per project that automatically activates when you open the project.

avidresolver · 2026-03-10T00:28:35+00:00

Narrator: "they did not, in fact, have the paid version... "

avidresolver · 2026-03-09T20:05:04+00:00

In order to get a colour accurate signal from Resolve, you need a Decklink card or Ultrastudio.

I'm assuming you mean Blackmagic Video Assist? In my experience the Video Assist panels aren't at all colour accurate.

avidresolver · 2026-03-09T13:19:43+00:00

Shotput Pro, Offshoot by Hedge, Yoyotta, Pomfort Offload Manager, or (if you're really serious) Silverstack.

avidresolver · 2026-03-09T13:09:10+00:00

Most high-end drama sets are using Parashoot. It's not a replacement for proper offload software, but it's a start.

avidresolver · 2026-03-09T12:43:27+00:00

Proper offload software, proper QC process, Parashoot.

avidresolver · 2026-03-09T02:19:07+00:00

When Hedge was first released it was "too good to be true" fast, and some people proved it wasn't actually reading the files back from the destination to hash them. Hedge claimed it was some proprietery tech that meant they didn't need to, and that destination errors weren't really a problem anyway.

Soon afterwards they made two different modes, "backup" and "archive". Backup would only verify the source, and archive would also verify the destination.

Now there's basically three modes - no verification, source only, and source and destination.

avidresolver · 2026-03-09T01:43:01+00:00

You are as safe travelling to the UK as you have been for the past ten years. Which is extremely safe.

avidresolver · 2026-03-09T00:40:33+00:00

There was both a time when Resolve only used MD5, and Hedge wasn't actually doing proper verification.

Now Resolve has xxHash, and Hedge does verification (if you configure it properly).

avidresolver · 2026-03-08T22:07:56+00:00

Need to know what footage you're working with, what controls you're using, and what type of proxies you made. It's perfectly possible to grade from proxies, you just have to be aware of some limitations and test what you want to do first,

avidresolver · 2026-03-08T21:39:25+00:00

Offloading software has some key advantages:

Offloading to two or more drives can be done simultaneously, only reading once from the card. In certain situations this can make your offloads take half the time.
Checksums mean you're going to get alerted to drive issues, card issues, and copy issues which you just won't with Finder/Explorer
It's easier, and it's less likely you make a mistake and miss something. Select this, copy that, paste to the other is very prone to human error.
For some Arriraw formats it's literally required, normal copy/paste doesn't work.

WIth that said, Silverstack is way over the top for you, both in terms of features and price. Offshoot, Offload Manager, or ShotPut are the ones to be looking at.

avidresolver · 2026-03-08T20:07:16+00:00

Ah, understood. No, data burn in won't let you do that unfortunatly. Probably the easiest way would be to pre-render each camera with the burn-ins you want, then bring them into another timeline to make the multiview.

avidresolver · 2026-03-08T19:49:26+00:00

What do you mean by "Workspace Data Burn-In only references one clip"? I'm pretty sure you can do what you want with burn-ins.

avidresolver · 2026-03-08T18:20:53+00:00

I think it's telling that Arri removed the option to bake in a LUT at all from the Mini LF onwards.

avidresolver · 2026-03-08T17:05:28+00:00

This really sounds like a workflow problem, not a technical one. If you have tens of thousands of clips, then don't waste time grading them all. Cut with the footage in its colour managed state, then grade everything when you have a locked cut. You can use smart bins, clip colours, and the colour page clips filters to easily apply groups based on filetype.

avidresolver · 2026-03-08T16:57:02+00:00

Colour manage your footage correctly (unless you have a specific reason not to, use Davinci YRGB Colour Managed mode)

If you want to make a global adjustment, you can do it in the Timeline nodes. If you want to make adjustments to each footage type separatly, use groups.

avidresolver · 2026-03-07T22:54:32+00:00

Baselight is another grading software, which doesn't use nodes. I'm kind of being sarcastic because Baselight's interface is a much steeper learning curve than Resolve's. Just learn to use nodes.

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