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Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by porphyra »

trop wrote: post #83
porphyra wrote: post #58

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Darktable is great, but notably, it doesn't have any neural network-based denoising, even though that's now standard in Lightroom, Capture One, and other apps. Darktable only has rather outdated wavelet and non-local means denoising. So a photo that would be perfectly fine at ISO 6400 in other apps will still look grainy, or worse, splotchy in Darktable.

Darktable has a "neural restore" algorithm [0] in the development version (intended for midsummer release). Note: - It appears to be an out-of-band pre-processing stage (run the image through denoise to produce an intermediary TIFF), unlike most other parts of the program. - All AI features are gated behind compile-time flags which default to off. [0] https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/20523

Wow, that's great news!

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by divan »

jayphen wrote: post #229
divan wrote: post #189

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You're not the first :) If you know how to do masking with video in Davinci, then it all just applies to photos too. I tried today some basic Magic Mask and color tab editing with photos, and it works exactly the same (without the annoying waiting time on huge videos for Magic Mask, ofc).

I've just now had a look at a couple of YouTube tutorials on Magic Mask for video and I think I understand where I got lost. It looks like the tools I was looking for are on the Color tab, and I first need to drag my images in to the timeline at the bottom of the screen and then jump to the Color tab to work with them. All the tools are here for a good photo editing product - they just need to be extracted and arrang…

Yeah, it's questionable that Davinci layout will yield a good photo experience, but it's interesting development anyway. BTW, that's the reason I like Photomator - it has absolute minimum of what I typically would use, and it's all there. Like, there is a hotkey for autoaligning horizont (and quite often it actually work), or intuitive AI-powered 'Select subject'/'Select background', and even an easy way to back those typical change into edit that can be applied with a hotkey onto a bunch of photos. It's easy to spot when software was written based on pain points of real end users.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by sanitycheck »

embedding-shape wrote: post #200
sanitycheck wrote: post #99

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DxO PhotoLab supports RAFs these days, and does not have a subscription model. They have black friday sales, if the RRP seems a bit much. I've just installed DaVinci and pointed it at my photos from this year and so far it's been frozen for 8 minutes, not initially confidence inspiring.

What platform, what storage and how large is the directory? Might be a difference in experience for people on Windows trying to open N-TB over a NFS share compared to Linux N-GB locally.

That was a Windows laptop, local SSD, about 200gb of raw files (fuji, pentax) from this year so far. Plenty of ram, plenty of spare storage, but no discrete GPU which might have been the issue. I might try it on Linux at some point.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by gregsadetsky »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #47
modeless wrote: post #43

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Interesting! How is the latency of this camera?

I can check tomorrow to give you a real answer. We use the SDI output (that cable is sturdy and the bnc lock connector is rock solid) and a Blackmagic 12G SDI to HDMI converter, and then an El Gato HDMI capture card. Intuitively, I’d say most of the delay is coming from the HDMI capture side (it’s a pretty cheap usb dongle).

I measured 40ms, so about 1-2 frames of lag. This was the camera's hdmi output captured with the el gato dongle (whose performance I underestimated..!)

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by finnjohnsen2 »

lynndotpy wrote: post #195

This is uncanny. Just yesterday, I was complaining about the state of photo editing software (Adobe and Google are no-gos, and Darkroom provided a thousand thorns). I wished that DaVinci had a photo editor, because I had similar pains about video editing that were resolved when I learned about DaVinci. AND it runs on Linux! It's not every night you make a wish and wake up to find out it has come true.

The simulation says you're welcome. Haha, just kidding. This is not a simulation obviously.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by doubletwoyou »

ryukoposting wrote: post #219
omgitsu wrote: post #210

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The amazing thing about Resolve is that the free version is almost certainly enough for > 95% of use cases. The features that are locked behind the Studio upgrade are truly pro features - in that you won’t need them at all unless you are delivering for a proper studio or professional project. The amount of firepower you get from the free version is easily at parity with any comparable product from Adobe/Apple - and i…

(and it supports Linux)

Theoretically..

IIRC, it only officially supports CentOS or some other baroque thing, doesn’t support importing or exporting mp4 when free, and also (unrelated to the product itself) Linux hw accel of video is flakey.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by MrDrMcCoy »

mikae1 wrote: post #27

This was bound to happen. I've edited stills in Resolve for years thinking this day would come. Resolve has supported DNG raw files (as long as they're not converted from funky sensors such as Fujifilm X-trans). But, it was always a bit of a hack. Kind of stoked to see this release even though I've transitioned to a 100% open source photo workflow on Linux now. IMO, most exciting developments in photo editing today h…

I tried several times to get Resolve to take my DNG sequences for video (as produced by my Sigma fp), but it only brings them in with very broken and washed out lighting. No combination of settings I've tried either imports them correctly or gives me enough leeway to post-correct them into something usable. Lightworks can handle them better, but is a lot less flexible in color correction, and I don't want to deal with their subscription model.

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Post by afarviral »

alfanick wrote: post #241
arecsu wrote: post #31

This is incredible. There are soooo many features that Davinci already handles so damn well when it comes to color editing, that I only wish they existed in photo editors. To the point there were people posting videos on Youtube about hacky workflows to edit RAW photo files on Resolve and export each one as JPG files haha. Only Darktable seemed to push the technical capabilities of photo editing forward (AgX, paramet…

While Darktable has a lot of nice niche features, from UX point of view it’s 20 years behind any of commercial offerings. If GIMP is like open source Photoshop, then Darktable is like open source Lightroom - both GIMP and Darktable are absolutely crap when it comes to UX, unless you mastered them for 10 years. Darktable should focus on some UX/UI GSOC-like project and figure out their usability to be considered usefu…

I'm some ways I'd argue the UI of darktable is ahead of its time and fairly snazzy. It's just a much more sophisticated tool. What is one thing about the UI that specifically feels dated? Burried maybe, but dated?

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by ano-ther »

Neat. But I am still disappointed that their ATEM Mini Extreme does not capture the transitions when recording to disk and opening in DaVinci Resolve (you only get the tracks). In their marketing materials it sounded like you do. Switched back to Premiere after discovering that.
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