Hendrik Proosa wrote:If the monitor is calibrated and results tell you that it is calibrated properly, then it is either good or you don't trust your calibration device. In which case why do you trust the path through display card?
You gotta trust something. Whenever I'm not sure at the start of a session, I don't have a problem popping up a 50% gray screen and then SMPTE bars just to give me an idea of what I'm seeing. Somehow, this has gotten me through almost 40 years of post production, and I'm still standing.
The o.p. asked for opinions -- we gave you opinions. Don't complain that you don't like the opinions. Go and do what you think is right. We already told you what works for us and what the manual says. If you disagree, please, drive off a cliff or fly to Mars, whatever makes you happy.
carsonjones wrote:Rick van den Berg wrote:I would like to have full screen multicam playback (in the edit page) on a seperate monitor. A must for certain projects when there's a director next to me and want to see all the angles.
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about also. Resolve ties our hands behind our backs and we're not able to use the app in a more flexible and often necessary way. As far as I can tell, based on modern app capabilities and recent / current hardware, there is no good reason for not allowing for it other than that it hasn't been implemented yet.
Driving the point home again... this is for viewing not monitoring.
For Resolve's purposes, viewing
IS monitoring. It's a question of semantics. You can fight and fight and fight all you want, but this is how the program is designed. Sure, for casual use you can just have a 2-up display and work with dual GUIs and live with that.
But -- as I pictured above -- there are plenty of editors, colorists, and VFX people who always like having a "hero" display that they can trust. The other advantage is the graphics card takes a bit of the load off the computer itself, which helps real-time playback (assuming the graphics card is reasonably powered).
If you disagree and want to work a different way, there's 9 other programs out there you can use that have overlapping features and give you some (but not all) of Resolve's features. But at some point, you have to use the program the way it was designed and not try to bend it to your way of thinking. Consider a more Zen approach of fighting the program less and accepting its design philosophy, and see if you can adapt over time. Trust me, I've used programs far more ornery and limited than Resolve (11 different color correction programs in 35 years), and Resolve is actually fairly flexible -- particularly with a control surface and macros.