Tim Fraser

Problem now = do I sell my V1 and order the newly announced Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera which is priced within range of prosumer/hobbiest? ie. me. Excuse me replying to my own post, but I'm sure I can live with the ProRes 4:2:2 output from this camera recorded to SD cards, but I will miss being able to play with the almost 4K footage with the abilty to crop! But then again, I will get long clip times, and the 25fps frame rate that makes so much more sense for me in the UK.

Yes, I have to agree with you. I purchased a Nikon V1 with the intention to use the footage with Resolve. Initially I was disappointed to find that Resolve would not work with a sequence of DNG images as the file format differs from CinemaDNG. I then found that using the included and free Nikon ViewNX2 I could batch convert each 30 frame burst to TIFF's and although I'm not aware it's not a documented feature of Resolve, I found that Resolve Lite Media Pool sees my folder of sequentially numbered TIFF's as a single movie clip, which can then be gradeed and rendered. I'm so tempted to pay Vimeo for a Plus account so I can show these clips at 1080p :-) Fantastic! It's quite incredible that I'm able to use such a low priced camera to grade RAW footage using Resolve. I'm very impressed. Problem now = do I sell my V1 and order the newly announced Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera which is priced within range of prosumer/hobbiest? ie. me.

Here is Nikon V1 4K still RAW burst mode, processed in Davinci Resolve Lite from converted TIFF's which shows up in Resolve Media Pool, as movie clips. Shot on Nikon V1 1080p HD Movie mode @ 30fps Is it worth the extra time? Because I'm using Vimeo's basic account I had to downres Resolve output on both examples to 720p. The second clip while displayed here as 720p is as shot at 1080p HD movie mode. (no extra zooming while processing).

Thanks! I'm off to try this myself. Tim

Hello, I'm very impressed with your end result and if I had a mac platform, I would cope with running these scripts. I'm still hoping to find a way to use the raw burst mode of the V1 in Resolve. Andrew is going to see if he can find a tool to facilitate this and that will be awesome if it works out. On my Windows platform, I have been able to use Nikon ViewNX2 to create TIFFs and Resolve imports that sequence fine at full resolution, however unlike you I don't have any quality footage to post yet, but the quality of your workflow looks great. Thanks for sharing it. Tim

Hello, Your suggestion is a great one. By far the best workflow suggested so far. I was hoping to get the V1 raw burst mode output into Resolve, but at the moment it is a no go. So your suggestion to use Adobe products seems the most sensible for today. I don't have After Effects, but I wonder if it could be used as one member suggested to intake the 30 NEF files, and output a CinemaDNG clip that Resolve could work with? If anyone gets this working, I would have to go purchase AE. Tim

Hello, this may work, someone else's downloadable burst NEF shots here from the V1 if you want to try this idea out: http://vimeo.com/61774105#

I have found that if i batch convert the NEF files to a 16bit TIFF sequence using Nikon ViewNX2 then resolve imports that sequence into the Media Pool at full resolution, although obviously I am missing the full advantage of manipulating RAW. That TIFF sequence does grade and render from resolve tho. The interesting thing is that the DNG image files sequence was correctly seen and imported into resolve in every other way than resolution, so it graded and rendered fine, just that at 256x171/8bit, it was blurry and soft. I've asked BM nicely if there might be a chance they could look at this as I read their post, that resolve should import a sequence of DNG files at the lowest res in the sequence. (see above) That would be 3872x2592 and that would be awesome.

Got this from Blackmagic forum: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolve only supports CinemaDNG files. Standard DNG files have multiresolution support, and if you put one of those in Resolve, it will usually see and report the lowest resolution. Resolve does not support those. Dwaine Maggart Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support

After reading about this Camera on EOSHD I just took delivery of a Nikon V1 (£219 new from the hut). I used Adobe DNG Converter to convert all 30 frames into a sequence of 30 DNG files. This is shot as Electronic shutter Hi, 30 frames, and I've tried RAW only after RAW +Jpeg. The mode dial on camera is on the green camera icon, not movies. Pressing the shutter takes 30 pics then stops. I know CinemaDNG can exist as a sequentially numbered sequence of separate DNG files in a directory. To prove a directory of such files can be imported into resolve I downloaded the zipped Autumn1 files from http://www.ikonoskop.com/workflow/ and after extracting I loaded the directory into Resolve 9 lite without problem and Resolve shows the correct resolution of 2048x1092-16b and of course looks great. I notice that Each AND EVERY DNG file is exactly 3,288KB. When I do similar import of my Nikon V1 Converted DNG files into Resolve into the Media Pool, I see a low resolution 256x177-8b file which is very disappointing. Examining an indiviual NEF from the sequence shows a beautifully detailed image of course. Interestingly when I look at the file size of my Nikon NEF files they are all slightly different sizes but all close to 10,300KB. After converting using Adobe DNG Converter, Each file is again slightly different size but all are about 11,700KB. Maybe a clue is in the varying file sizes, but how to convert my NEF files to a consistent DNG sequence? or what could the problem be? Help appreciated! I can't wait to overcome whatever problem I have to get the Nikon output into Resolve!! I'd like to hear from anyone who is having success in importing V1 RAW clips into Resolve please! Tim