This February 20th-22nd, I had the pleasure of conducting another BMD Certified RG123 class at Media Asylum, Singapore.
This time round it was quite interesting, it was my first time running the class for a group of people from a law-enforcement institution, in this case, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) Forensic Division.
Media Asylum training room
It was a fun group, plenty of question were asked. For most of them, it was their first encounter with a non-linear editing and colour grading software.
A couple of them are familiar with Avid Media Composer (the old version) and they are looking for option on switching over to another software, DaVinci Resolve.
The first 2 days they were bombarded with new knowledge, one of the interesting statement from them was; this is after I showed them on how easy it is to change/replace colour in Resolve, one of the them said, “Oh no, this means, we can’t trust 100% of evidence that we received”.
Throughout the 3-day class they learned the basic function of DaVinci Resolve, from organising project, assemble their first edit, fine cutting their edit, introduced to Fusion, basic colour correction and final delivery.
Another question that was asked was, “Is it possible to stabilise the video and follow the license plate of a car?”
So I showed them a simple tracking function that we can do in Resolve and explain to them the basic tracking workflow.
It was a fun 3 days, lots of question from them, mostly in the matter on how the software can actually help them to analyse a video better. Hopefully now they have a better idea on what a colourist can do to alter an image so they (SPF) have a better educated guest in analysing the video evidence.
Yuki and the SPF students
Yuki Ariandi ICA
Singapore
