Scattered Thoughts . . .

It is amazing what just a couple of nights of halfway decent sleep can do for one's emotional well-being! After our appointment with the Oncologist and putting that stressful waiting period behind us (awaiting test results which determine specific treatment)... and after arranging for counseling with an outstanding counselor specializing in cancer... and after arranging for insurance coverage for additional treatment to help with the side-effects of ten years of cancer treatment... Sheila managed to get a couple of nights of halfway decent sleep.   She still didn't sleep well and she is still understandably struggling with some anxiety but she managed to calm down enough to catch up on a little bit of sleep. This was enough to see a visible difference in Sheila's demeanor this morning.   That is great news! This evening we'll be making some Kansas City-style country ribs and homemade fries... That should help with both of our attitudes!

I've been learning how to effectively use Davinci Resolve for color grading my video clips but, unfortunately, it has been a very steep uphill battle thus far. In a previous blog entry I mentioned that this software reminds me of some RAW file conversion software that I've attempted to use in the past. What these programs share in common is that I could not find a way to effectively control my output so I abandoned them. Unfortunately, the powerful Davinci Resolve very much reminds me of those abandoned software programs. Let's put aside some basic color correcting for now and talk about the interface itself... Every single time I try to access something, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it the way I want to do it. I spent hours last night trying to access "curves"... well, I could access the curves, one channel at a time, but I still have no idea how to get Resolve to show me all the curves at once   (each channel in its own curve)  s