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I have quite a problematic bug which makes it hard to work with Mistika Boutique 8.10 System tested: iMac 2017 |8gb AMD 580 | MacOs 10.14.6 When I ty to edit a value on the left side of the interface, it is scaling the interface with a strobe affect. (flickering from normal to small size, see screenshot) Did a whole clean install of MacOs and Mistika Boutique, unfortunallly the problem is still there.

Maybe someone on the forum can help me out with the Playback Cache function of Mistika. Is there a in depth tutorial online about this function? Right now if I 'Select Cache On' I get the cache Icon on a node, noting happens afterward. If I select 'Render Current in the Foreground' I get the error message . "Unable to open Xfs file for writing". Any Idea's?

Apologies for the rash of topics/questions. In the middle of new project and still filling in some knowledge gaps with Misitika. On this project I have to do some skin cleanup with the clone brush. Nothing major and not worth going to another app with. Everything works great using the Vector Paint node, making a quick track, then applying the clone brush, selecting each stroke and copying the track (still wish I could apply the same track to multiple shapes). But the issue I ran into this time is that on two longer clips the face turns sideways, so I really only need to apply the clone brush to segments of the clip. In the tracker window I can select a range of frame…

I was wondering if there is an equivalent to Resolve's A/C mode and/or Avid's source/target in Symphony. Essentially a way of speeding up grading of multiple clips from the same source media file. We often see this in dialog scenes and or tutorials where there is a lot of cutting back and forth between two camera angles resulting in multiple clips from the same source file. One way of doing it in Mistika is to go to the Storyboard and create gangs for each camera angle, then solo that gang and propagate the color grade. That works fine, but it's a time consuming to setup the gangs. I think the equivalent to A/C mode would be if the story board had a sort fe…

Not sure what the correct answer is, but something to mull over... Yesterday I was working some quick cleanup on a clip, and ended up banging my head against the proverbial wall for 30min. I couldn't get the clone brush (or the paint brush) to do anything I wanted. The strokes showed up when selected, but there were no results. I could add shapes without issue. I was almost suspecting there was a bug maybe in the latest version, went back to tutorials to check that I wasn't missing anything. In the end it turns out I had recently changed the tip sensitivity of my pen to being a bit firmer. Between that and the standard pressure curve in the Mistika paint tool th…

Conforms from an NLE are always a mixed bag. We wish they would be painless and 100% accurate, but they rarely are. One interesting technique that exists in Resolve is called Pre-Conformed EDLs. You export the timeline from the NLE as a render, and you export an EDL of the timeline. In Resolve it's imported as a pre-conformed EDL (separate function) and instead of linking to the original media, it uses the single render from the NLE and replicates all the cuts as they existed. Of course the relationship to the original media is lost, but everything is in individual clips with cross fades, etc. and can be colored. Such a function doesn't exist in Mistika. But in …

How do you add a garbage matte in Boutique? I tried with shapes in the green screen node, and that seemed to disable the chromakey itself; without the shape, the backdrop is gone, with the shape, the backdrop is visible. What am I missing?

In VR you can remove the last keyframe and the animated status of a parameter (usually several at a time) while maintaining the current values. I can't see any way to do this in Boutique. Resetting values to their defaults is a nightmare I do not want, Is there a way to make parameters no longer animated and maintain their current value?

Just curious if 32GB of system RAM is appropriate for 4K color grading in Mistika Boutique. In the system configuration guide, 16 GB is specified for HD work and 64 is specified for 4K, but there is no mention of 32GB. My system has 32GB of RAM, 2x 1080 Ti GPUs, and a 1950X Threadripper CPU. I was just wondering if I was limiting my performance by not upgrading to 64GB of RAM as per your configuration guide.

I can't figure out how to properly import 1:1 ratio top/bottom 3d footage! Please help. We've got the workflow from mistika VR, but what if we already have a stereo 4k image (top bottom) that we want to grade and remove a rig? thank you in advance!

Hello, I only made this topic as the browser wouldnt let me create a post in "Rig Presets" where this belongs. I have a massive 360 job here in Switzerland where we have a 10 gopro Hero 7 Black rig ( with an additional 2 more on top and bottom but they will be seperately stitched as they will playback on the floor and ceiling of a big immersion theatre) called the NS VR360 and I really need a preset for this that gives me a 360 pano look (we will add the sky and water below seperately as mentioned) and cant find one or dont know which existing preset in Mistika would work, can anyone help???

Does Mistika have the option of saving a stack as a 3D LUT to be used as a look in other software? Workflow example: Import footage, grade to a look, export footage as EXR clip to go into other software, export 3D LUT of look, go to other software load EXR and LUT to do additional processing, save changes as EXR sequence, import EXR sequence back into Mistika. Use case: if more extensive skin work has to be done than is efficient with the Mistika paint node, I often taken EXR sequences to SilhouetteFX. I was just working on the details of how to bring ACES graded footage out of Resolve into Silhouette that way. But it relies on the ability to save a grade as a 3…

One thing that I've been a bit disappointed by in Mistika is speed. I'm using 8K Redcode at 1/16, which plays smoothly in Resolve on the same machine, and plays adequately in Mistika… but once I add audio, the performance tanks hard, which isn't good. And the audio I added is just a single stereo clip at 48 KHz, nothing all that large.

I set up one Sapphire transition (whiplash) between two clips, and used the "key in" and "key out" buttons to set the start and end transition amounts. That really didn't work; epic fail -- the transition amount didn't change at all throughout the transition. I switched to using autokey, and though I had to go back and forth an extra time since I couldn't find a way to get the start keyframe to work, I got that transition to work as I wanted to. So I went to another transition point where I wanted to use a Sapphire blur transition. Absolute fail; using autokey it insists on setting the transition amount to a constant, refusing to give me any transition animation. …

[RELEASE] Mistika Boutique 8.10 is now available! Hi everyone! The latest version of Mistika Boutique is now available offering its users upgraded HDR workflows, expanded hardware and RAW formats support, exciting new features and many other enhancements and stability improvements made throughout the software. As usual, all the upgrades added to Mistika Boutique are available to all active users at no extra cost as a part of SGO Loyalty Rewards Program. In this video, you'll find explained in more detail what is new in this version New Features: The latest ARRI, Sony, Canon and RED SDK supported. Improvements: The FX Filte…

I'm using the Vector Paint/Clone tool to remove some skin blemishes. Works quite well, including the tracking if there is a small number of blemishes, and can save the trip through VFX software. One question: I have one blemish where the person's hand is moving in front of it part of the clip (occlusion). So I used the clone brush, tracked the blemish and copied the track which applies the clone to every frame. What's the best way of suppressing the clone brush for select frames? In my case the clip has 46 frames, and I want the clone be seen in frame 9-46, but not 0-8. I tried selectively removing these keyframes, without luck. Looks like the opacity can only b…

I'm finally finding some time to experiment with the various built-in FX and filters. In reading the manual and experimenting it seems there is a lot of power hidden in these that is not clear to many new users. Sometimes the names are pretty generic, other times there are many complicated parameters. One thing I've always missed in Mistika was some form of Frequency Separation to even out skin. Resolve has a new Blur/Sharpen effect that is divided into three bands. In reading the manual and playing with the Enhance filter, it seems Mistika too has that already built-in. You just have to stack multiple Enhance filters and setup the RadL/RadH accordingly. Is that a co…

Just looking for a way to stop the composer from trying to show an image, so I can get some work done and arrange things in the timeline. I'm working with really large resolution, so every time I move the cursor or change any parameter, I'm waiting 20-40 seconds before I can do anything again. Is there something comparable to Nuke's Pause update feature? Right now, I move the red cursor off of the footage and I can do that, but then getting it back to where I want also takes a while. Any help would be appreciated as I can't find anything like this in the manual. I'm probably just not familiar with the language or terms that Mistika uses.

Tried to figure this out the last 20min, and can't spot it. Maybe someone knows? I imported some RED Dragon footage (4608x2160). I setup the project settings to that same resolution. The clip loads and plays fine, but for some reason it's coming into Mistika at half-resolution. Also on the display it plays in the center of the monitor with black framing equal to half the resolution. Here's what the clip attributes say, and here's the 'rescaled message' in the visual editor. Of course I can use a framing effect to adjust it, but I'm concerned that the clip somehow got loaded wrong and the framing effect will stretch a rescaled image instead of native resolution. …

I've been trying to get a conform to work from Premiere, and so far it's been failing pretty miserably. I get *some* of the files to link, but there's a series of cutaway shots in the edit that didn't link at all... We've been trying a few options, but one question is which XML format should I ask the editor to use? Is there only one option in Premiere? 3A3F3A_PU.xml 3A_PU.edl 3A3F3A_PU.aaf Evil_Dead_Escape_Room.xml

There was a previous discussion about improving the license tool to avoid the hiccups during the monthly renewal and when using Mistika on laptops why may change network settings. I'd like to add one more request to that list - remote floating licenses, or at least little sibling licenses. The scenario: My main grading system is in my office. However, since my office is a tad far from many of my clients, I started putting together a second laptop based system which I can take to client's offices for supervised sessions. Because I don't have network connectivity to my office when I'm at a client, under the current licensing setup I need to maintain two full licen…

Hi guys Is there a way of enabling disabling stabilize in Boutique after i've run a stabilize? I want to basically see what the stabilize is doing to the image. Like and A/B before after. Cheers Loren

Mistika Boutique 8.8.2 is now available! Hi Mistika Boutique Community! Here you'll find the release notes of this new version. As usual, all the exciting new features and upgrades added to Mistika Boutique are available to all Boutique active users at no extra cost New Features: Video Board autodetection. Added VLOG-L Mode Panasonic in Unicolor effect. Support for Sony X-OCN codec. Support for Neat Video version 5. Fixes: 2235 Change Request: Grade Effect has been renamed as Gradient. 2250 VR Stitch Effect is now faster when more than 32 inputs are used. 2277 Fixed XML co…

Would it be possible to get a short tutorial / example on how to use Mocha Pro. I tried a remove yesterday, and while Mocha Pro did it's job, I couldn't get the results back into Mistika. I know it's supported, but I must be doing something wrong. I first tried it on some 4K footage, to remove a small tattoo on person's arm. It was only 15 frames. I added the footage and the Mocha effect, it loaded fine, did the remove, closed Mocha and selected 'Render=yes' and 'Module=remove' and the UI becomes very unresponsive. Monitoring system activity it's not clear if it's rendering in the background or not. Eventually I got some partial output on on some frames. Th…

Hello. Two questions: - Is the a way of applying a Divide operation between two inputs? Can not find it in the Comp3D node. - Is it possible two get the GLSL node to take two inputs? I can see I can connect several inputs in the node graph, but can not find an example of how to specify these in the internal code. Cheers! A