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Yes, I understand that, and tried to work with it for about three or four hours and gave up because I could never get it to work as well as the simple check boxes that do it automatically for me. I am not saying that Resolve isn't great, but simply that I can't seem to get it to work for me. That's just me, and I may have to learn it someday, but I just got too frustrated and went back to something that works well for me.

@Davide DB When I checked, Autotranslate didn't have English as a choice. I will try again. Nope, still not there.

I could only get it to give me subtitles in Italian, there was no choice of English and no other language seemed to work either.

I have been using Pinnacle Studio for years, and it does have a nice white balance correction tool - however, it is not free, and it is at end of life (see my other thread). I tried to switch to Da Vinci resolve, and after several hours of frustration and not getting results as good as I can with Pinnacle, I have gone back to Pinnacle Studio for my current editing project. I'm not sure what I will do for the next one, though.

Welcome. When I first saw your username, I thought that someone had hacked me, lol.

@rwe I have mostly been using Mickey Charteris' book, and that was my conclusion as well. This was a fairly small one, so perhaps it hasn't developed the spot yet. Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

Thanks @pdxDiver - the only reason that I thought it might be the Goldspot Goby was the vertical bar through the eye which the Goldspot has and the Patch-reef doesn't seem to have. Any thoughts on that? Thanks for your help.

Is this a Goldspot Goby? Photographed in about three meters of water off Coco View Resort in Roatan, Honduras. Thanks!

@Davide DB Thanks for the video, but since the automatic function in Pinnacle Studio has been working so well, I haven't been using a white card for a while now (even though I specifically bought white fins to use for that purpose). I just got lazy, I guess. I can't count on having a good white spot to grab from with the eyedropper, so until I start photographing my fins again, I won't be able to use that technique, even though that is probably the best way to go. @Rich W I did see that button, and tried it - and you're right, it does not work anywhere near as well as the function in Pinnacle Studio. In fact, it sometimes makes it worse. @gstrek Thanks, I will give that technique a try.

I bought the Wolfbox MF200 for my recent trip to Roatan, and really liked using it. Thanks @Chris Ross and the rest of you for that suggestion.

That would be heaven to me, I usually come up with way too much air. Lol...

I just bought a similar battery powered electric blower (the one that @Chris Ross suggested) for this recent dive trip, and really like it. I feel as if it does a good job helping keep the salt water out of the controls, and made the cleanup at the end of the trip much easier.

Hi all, I have been using Pinnacle Studio editing software for the entire time that I have been doing underwater videos. It was recommended to me early on for ease of use, and once I got used to it, it was hard to change to anything else with a new learning curve. However, I am now using Studio 26 and apparently it is "end of the line", that is, it has been sold and is unlikely to be updated. So, I have started trying to learn DaVinci Resolve since so many here seem to like it. One really, really nice feature in recent versions of Pinnacle Studio is the "Auto White Balance" and "Auto Tone" check boxes in their color correction menu. They work surprisingly well to get very close to right for most, but not all, of my clips. They make it very fast and easy to do a quick color correction on my clips, so that I can decide which ones to keep and spend more time trimming, and cleaning up, etc. I can't find anything like that in Resolve. I see the color bar sliders, and wheels, etc but nothing "automatic". If I have to manually correct each clip, it will take me forever to edit my most recent trip, since I have 250 video clips to go through. Does anyone have some good cheats for this, or possibly some good training links that will help me out? Thanks!

Cool, thanks. That will also probably add to the bouyancy and reduce the added weight in water - although perhaps that might not be a good thing for a tripod where a bit of negative bouyancy might be useful. I will play with that a bit, thanks, I appreciate the help. I am learning so much here.

What I am trying this time is to increase the infill % to 55% and changing the infill pattern to gyroid. I don't have much room left on the plate to change orientation, I'm afraid.