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More About Resolve Live
Resolve Live has been designed to let you use all of the features of DaVinci Resolve to grade
these on-set video previews, in the process saving video snapshots that contain a captured
image, your grade, and reference timecode from the camera. The idea is that, using Resolve
Live, you can work with the cinematographer to develop looks and test lighting schemes on the
footage being captured during the shoot, and then later you can use those looks to build
dailies, and as a starting point for the final grade once the edit has been completed.
Additionally, you can use Resolve Live in conjunction with other Color page features such as
the Alpha output to build test composites to check green screen shots, comparing them against
imported background images in order to aid camera positioning and lighting adjustments. The
built-in video scopes can also be used to monitor the signal levels of incoming video. Finally,
you can use 1D and 3D LUTs to monitor and grade log-encoded media coming off the camera.
Configuring Your System
for Resolve Live
Setting up Resolve Live is straightforward. Whether you’re using a tower workstation or a
laptop, any of the Blackmagic Design DeckLink or UltraStudio video interfaces can be used to
connect your DaVinci Resolve workstation to a camera and external video display. The
important thing to keep in mind is that, if you want to connect to a live incoming signal and
output that signal for monitoring at the same time, you need to either use two separate
DeckLink PCIe cards or UltraStudio Thunderbolt interfaces, or a single DeckLink Duo or
DeckLink Studio card with multiple separate inputs and outputs on a single PCIe card.
The Video and Audio I/O panel of the System Preferences provides two sets of options for
configuring video interfaces connected to your computer, one for capture and playback, and
one for Resolve Live input. If you only have a single video interface, you can only do one or the
other. If you have two interfaces, then you can use these options to use one interface for
playback, and the other interface for Resolve Live.
Video input/output options in the System Preferences
During the shoot, the digital cinema camera in use needs to be connected to your
DaVinci Resolve workstation via HD-SDI, which must be configured to carry both the video
image and timecode that mirrors the timecode being written to each recorded clip. Most
cameras allow timecode output over HD-SDI, and both DeckLink and UltraStudio interfaces can
pass this timecode to DaVinci Resolve. Without a proper timecode reference, you won’t be able
to take the shortcut of automatically syncing your saved Snapshots to recorded camera original
media using ColorTrace, although you can always apply grades manually.
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