This is a basic guide on how to get your DaVinci Resolve Project over to us for Final Post

This is a basic workflow or tips for generating ‘proxy’ media via DaVinci Resolve to be used for editing . The goal of these steps isn’t to be the perfect workflow for all productions as we customise a lot of this for specific cameras and workflows but hopefully this will help any productions looking to prep their own media to do it in a way that should make the conform process more simple when the time comes for final post. If you need to talk to us about a specific project so we can create a more refined template please get in-touch.

This is a basic guide on how to get your DaVinci Resolve Project over to us for Final Post

The Finish Line has been crowned “Gold Winner” in the Broadcast magazine best places to work in TV for the second year in a row!! If it was just the one time, we might have thought it was an accident, but now we know we are doing something right, and we would love to help more companies make the list! TV & Film is a notoriously unhealthy industry that is rife with exploitative business practices, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Below, we’ll do our best to cover simple things that you can do to make life better for your employees and help them to be able to do work they love while also enjoying life outside of work.

Our Founder, Zeb Chadfield, recently spoke to the team at Broadcast Tech about how producers can overcome common post-production hurdles while maintaining quality results. Read an excerpt of the article here!

The Finish Line began with a core conviction: Post-production artists can prioritise their mental health and still produce great work. Our founder, Zeb Chadfield’s vision helped create a space where artists can thrive, while growing the business year on year. And, with the mental health crisis impacting the vast majority of post-production professionals, he’s hoping others will follow suit. 

This is a basic workflow or tips for ingesting media via DaVinci Resolve to be used externally in applications like Avid Media Composer. The goal of these steps isn’t to be the perfect workflow for all productions as we customise a lot of this for specific cameras and workflows but hopefully this will help any productions looking to manage their own media to do it in a way that should make the conform process more simple for us when the time comes for final post. If you need to talk to us about a specific project so we can create a more refined template please get in-touch.

Our current recommendation is to move all media management processes to Davinci Resolve, but if you are still ingesting any media these days with Avid Media Composer you should move to the DNxHR codecs. The beauty of this is that you can bring any frame rate in to any project and work natively throughout. We can then manage the mixed frame rate media appropriately for you in final post.

This is just a quick video tutorial for a cool way to keep your media more organised in Avid Media Composer when working locally off a drive.

I just wanted to share this tip for fixing drone footage that has heavy aliasing, it can actually be used for any Aliasing/Moire but we get a lot off the drone cameras. It’s something I have struggled with for a while and haven’t found an easy direct fix within avid, if you find one let me know! I tried replicating this process in Media Composer but it didn’t work so this is my best fix for now and does a pretty much perfect job with every shot I have put through so far.