rotoscoping

I have crazy client like most of you and we are under conditions of need of tons of rotoscoping (beauty fixes/scars/other minutia...)

It seems reasonable to do this in a vfx environment (nuke/flame) but the client refuse to allow for the budget to grow (they have no money and a lots of demands )...

One of the Ideas we where playing is to use the main resolve (linux+san) for color grading and a lite version on a mac/PC to make keyframes of mattes that we will import in the main color correction session.

So, i did my shot, save a still, exported, grabbed with the other system, tossed in the main shot and all is good except for the little detail that there are no bloody keyframes!

Is is resolve so basic that you cannot save a correction including the keyframes and recall it in another shot? even in the same project you cannot recall a whole color correction including keyframing in a different shot unless you go node by node that is really unpractical.

Any workaround?

resolve (9.1.1)
Walter Volpatto
Fotokem

You have to use Color Trace (from a diff. project) to get the keyframes.
You can also copy one node (Cmd+c) and paste it to another (Cmd+v).

That are the only 2 ways I know of copying keyframes.

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lee

You have to use Color Trace (from a diff. project) to get the keyframes.
You can also copy one node (Cmd+c) and paste it to another (Cmd+v).

That are the only 2 ways I know of copying keyframes.

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lee

Thanks Lee for your insight.

Soo.... If I have a complex shot with several nodes and several keyframes for each node, there in no way I can just copy 'n paste the whole correction within the same project? Even if the color trace from ANOTHER project is perfectly capable to do that?

Any other way?

Another option is to do all the rotoscoping passes in another application (i.e. After Effects, Mocha Pro, Nuke, etc.) and just export Mattes to the "hero suite" as QuickTimes?

If I have to pass the shot to Nuke, I will have Nuke to finish the shot for me and treat it as VFX...