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Hi guys, Something that annoys me so much is whenever you render individual clips in davinci resolve and are using a adjustment layer, it does not render the color grade from the adjustment layer (unless you make compound clips from each clip). Does anybody have a fix for this? If not would be a good feature request for bm. cheers

IMO, many people just do it to justify their FF cameras and f/1.2 lens. It can look lazy, stupid, and cliché nowadays. For me, I go for everything in focus when it looks good; otherwise, I aim for f/2.8-f/5.6 on S35 (f/2-f/4 on M43)- there's a reason this has been a standard for such a long time- it looks right and like the films I enjoy. I also use AF-S, but sometimes I try AF-C.

PL is of course. But their EF is not sadly. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1324258-REG/blackmagic_design_cineursamuprotef_ursa_mini_pro_ef.html?sts=pi

What we get in export with adjustment layer is IMHO intended behavior. An alternative to adjustment layer for color grading that many prefer are Davinci Resolve group or remote grade functionalities. Grouping clips from one camera and then using Group Pre-Clip or Group Post-Clip instead of adjustment layer will give the same result and functionality as adjustment clip, while exported individual clips will all have color grade for the specific group in Group Pre-Clip or Group Post-Clip all applied. Exactly the way zerocool22 wants it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtXuabX-ims Before submitting a request to Blackmagic it makes sense to try clip grouping functionality. IMHO it is what zerocool22 wants to achieve in export while workflow changes will be minimal.

Ah yes, sorry, I'd completely forgotten the pulsing. I suspect that there's probably a tradeoff in the coding somewhere. My understanding was that the only advantage of PDAF vs CDAF was that PDAF knows which direction focus is in, whereas CDAF just knows what is in focus but not which direction to go in to get better focus. This is why DfD is pulsing - it's deliberately going too far one way and too far the other way just to keep track of where the focus point is. Maybe Olympus has just tuned their algorithm to be more chill about it, which would result in less pulsing but potentially more time slightly out of focus when the subject moves. Of course, the reason that eye AF is now a thing is because people want to have a DOF that isn't deep enough to get the whole face in focus, so they need an AF mechanism that won't focus on someones nose or ear but get the eyes out of focus. This really makes the job of AF much more difficult, and any errors that much more obvious. I wonder how much Sony is implementing their focus breathing compensation due to the crazy amount of background blur that people want nowadays. Even if you have perfect focus, when it tracks the small movements of an interview subject moving their head around the changes in size of the bokeh are so large and so distracting that focus breathing becomes a subtle (or not so subtle) pulsing of the size of the whole image. I'm glad I don't have to deal with it. Even though I'm moving to AF, I'm using AF-S only and having DoFs that are much more practical (and TBH, cinematic). Maybe it's time to reverse the 'common wisdom' online and start saying that if you want things to be cinematic then you need to close down the aperture, and that the talking-head-at-F1.4 is a sign of something being video rather than cinema. Wow.. So we're back to my iPhone 6 Plus where it had PDAF but didn't use it for certain things! I didn't expect that from Panasonic in 2023. I've seen a number of those "the AF is great, but you have to know how it works and choose the mode and perform integrals in your head to get the most out of it" videos, and I'm glad that I'm not using it TBH.

Instead of using adjustment layer for color grading use/switch to timeline in color panel. You can apply color grading and everything else with nodes on individual clips but also exactly the same way on all clips in the timeline by simply choosing one or the other. This is how I typically do it when would like to apply a color grade for all clips and this is in general one of the ways to do it. Saw this from a Hollywood/Company 3 colorist 🙂