Whether you are an experienced colorist or new to the world of color management, the question of the day is "What will happen when I turn it up to 11?"
Sympathy for Nigel Tufnel aside – after all he is a rock star and I'm not – at least I have learned that 11 IS louder. And possibly, a LUT is like a capo for your amplifier: no sense learning all those finger contortions, if all you want to do is play a piece, say, in a different key. Too loose a reference? Maybe it's an artist thing.
This is going to be a personal view – that of a colorist, mostly working as a service bureau, importing projects from any number of clients using a variety of edit software. Although Resolve is being used in many aspects of recorded media production – on-set, in edit prep, pre-vis, in parallel with post production editing, visual effects and mastering/versioning – not everyone will use all the tools for everything; some will only use it for its core strength, which is colorgrade.
Resolve is a complete color management package. It is not a plug-in. It is meant to be a highly flexible, adaptable solution, designed to cope with the entire environment within color management. That is, it not only deals with the individual values within an image, but provides the means to control those values within the many colorspaces in use today – mobile devices, broadcast television, recorded media, and theatrical release. It is now much more, with apparently plenty of room to grow.
However you have – or plan to acquire – the software, for a while now, there have been a couple of things that must be present for a successful install.
For the past few versions, there have been five options: two "Lite" and two "full" versions for Windows and MacOS, and a Linux package. "Lite" is free to download; the full license as always has a price tag and is dongle controlled.
The main difference between the Lite and full offerings has not changed appreciably — a few processes are not available in the free version, but there are some very significant similarities, in that the hardware platform has always been demanding – Release 11 is no exception. Without going into a lot of detail, it is now more important than ever to review the configuration PDF that is published on the Blackmagic Design website. Resolve relies on its optimized relationship with its host operating system, drivers and system accessories. It is crucial that these be as up to date as possible.
Blackmagic stresses that over 140 changes, improvements and implementations have been added since the last release. Some users may note that the download has also been slightly streamlined. The payload used to include some test footage and at least the manual as a PDF – are not included in this version.
It is worth noting that the manual is still accessible under the Help tab, and text-searchable. The only quibble I might have with that approach is that it is a distinct advantage to already be familiar with Resolve's internal vocabulary and workflow – essentially, knowing already what you are asking for, so a real neophyte would be well advised to spend some time with simply reading the manual or taking advantage of some of the numerous online teaching resources – and, of course, the DaVinci Resolve forum at Creative COW.
It's that orange circle with the little white propeller. Maybe I should move my dock to the lower edge of screen. Frankly, I liked the little prismatic propeller better, but that would be harder and more expensive to print on a T-shirt – maybe this is in preparation for NAB'15?
… a moody amber-and-teal scene perhaps depicting a grassy landscape, and the usual list of trademarks and patents – names of processes recognized as part of the colorgrading language. Yes, they invented those things.
After that, it starts to look pretty familiar to those who have been keeping current with Resolve's evolution. So far, with some exceptions, it is hard to tell the difference sometimes, as there is a continuity in the overall look and feel of the implementation. Whether this is a good thing or not may depend on a user's expectations of either a graphically-arresting game experience or a utilitarian work environment. But that might be another artist thing.
… a "Media" page, the first of four basic modes that the application offers.
The others are "Edit," "Color," and "Delivery" – which makes sense considering a conventional way of thinking about how a job is organized. From a fundamental point of view, the simple goal for using this software is to bring in media, treat it, and send it back to wherever it came from – which would ordinarily proceed from left to right as it does across the bottom of the User Interface page.
What is not shown in this screen grab is the browser, monitor and media pool partitions that would start making up the source bins that will contribute to the playable timeline. There have been improvements made toward disclosing as much information about the media as exists, and in many instances, provision to change some of a clip's individual parameters. Very powerful stuff when attempting to integrate codecs that might not be as complete as others, lacking timecode, for example – or even requiring a re-assignment, whether internally (change timecode) or re-link a clip reference to a completely new source file, which would be part of a reconforming process.
This is really where the current version starts to depart, at least as far as its kernel function is concerned, because at least according to the marketing, what we are now dealing with is a new kind of Non-Linear Editing system. This could be a pivot point for the editing sector, but as advanced as the edit function is becoming, in this colorist's opinion, it still has some growing to do.
When we open the "Edit" page, the "Master" timeline is no longer present as a "sequence of everything," but can be created if its existence might be an advantage – the so-called "Remote Grade" approach. Otherwise, as has been the case, this is where EDLs, XMLs, AAFs and so on can be imported to rebuild a timeline composed in some other editing application.
It should be noted that selecting any one of the tool/icons shown below is more of a branching operation – once the operator's cursor is actually deployed, the tool's action changes in relation to the clip extents. For example, "on" a boundary will "roll" the cut, slightly "away" from the cut, a click-and-drag will "slip" or "slide" the clip… and so on. That's the second icon from the left that does most of those things. The other icons overwrite, insert, replace, very much like the actions found in most editing software.
It would be even better if an edit interface was as intuitive as a film splicer, but those days are gone. The process of editing is now way beyond slapping a sequence of pictures on a timeline. It does need to be observed that the basics are there – sequence assembly is definitely possible, and has been for some time as an *on-line* tool, more than equal to the task of making revisions to an otherwise-locked timeline.
However, this is not the same as creating a coherent scene in a free-form creative atmosphere, where there may be many cameras, takes, and audio tracks in play. The recent addition of waveforms in the edit page is a definite asset, and might help alleviate the lack of an audio scrubbing ability, but for those who need to hear the media in order to differentiate critical cues, it might not be enough.
It is interesting that the "old" multi-track layered model for stacking video priority is still a standard approach. As far as gestural functions are concerned, in various modes, mouse actions switch in proximity to clip extents – in time there may be some efficiency gains to be had, but it is going to take some practice and muscle memory to be confident with whether an editor is going to execute a slip, slide, roll, or trim when they decide to click and drag. *And you can.* But so far, at least for me, its a good thing that 'apple-z' is still "Undo."
Before diving into any meaningful feature-for-feature comparisons with other NLEs, there really are some basic internal engine functions that have to be addressed. Resolve's major strength is its ability to process a large number of high resolution media types in real time, something that many other applications have either completely failed to deliver or had to rely on caching or proxy strategies.
Here is the issue. One of the essences of the editing function is nimbleness – the ability to retrieve, arrange, and display decisions as fast as the speed of thought – and the competition in this sector is brutal and unforgiving. It has been reported that the playback "smoothness' in the Resolve edit page is not the same – fundamentally smooth, real-time as in the COLOR page, where the image enhancements are made.
This may be in part due to some internal data-handling differences. I do not have any insights into this as a software engineer, but it has the feel of needing two media players. Whether it would be a good idea to splash up the media the way an NLE would, without any recoding, in the edit page, and then flip to the Resolve engine for adding the color correction might be for another generation of computers.
All that said, many third-party transitions are now supported, effects can be trimmed for ballistics (ease-in, ease-out), time code addresses can now be directly typed into the user interface! With feedback in the viewer! Little by little, the proprietary control surface gives up its small luxuries.
A number of producers and editors voiced the opinion to me personally that the next project they did would be in Resolve and would bring it to me pre-built. So far that hasn't happened, although there have been a lot of new projects. When the rubber met the road at the end of the day, for whatever reason, they all decided to stay with what they knew and we would just continue to work it out.
What would be really great would be if everyone had a copy of at least Resolve Lite on their workstations and tried to export the job to pre-troubleshoot the migration. The only hurdle is making sure that the editing workstation can support booting Resolve – but it would likely eliminate the vast majority of show-stoppers that take up so much irreplaceable problem-solving time in the production schedule.
The fact of the matter is that the existing edit interface in Resolve has some very familiar features and functions and is much, much easier to learn, comparatively speaking, than figuring out some of the truly bizarre incompatibilities between application timelines as they are imported from other sources.
One major change in the COLOR page is the secondary qualifications keyer.
Matte Finesse may become a friend of yours.
Denoise is new. No more, or at least fewer, sparkling keys. Black and White clip work like limiters, increasing the contrast of an alpha channel, and for those who think they might be missing the Inside/Outside blur, its combined into the "Ratio" factor. I've been dealing with some overcast bare-branch treeline horizons for the past while and this tool works better at working out separations that were never, ever meant to be keys.
The way this is supposed to work is when a scene is being set up, an approved, calibrated test chart is recorded as part of the source footage. Theoretically, anyone dealing with the incoming footage can apply this tool to analyze the values inherent in the footage and bring those values to match a standard.
Color charts have been in use for a very long time of course, with varying results. There are a few caveats. First, the chart has to be shot in a very controlled way – evenly lit, not angled in such a way that it is picking up any shadows or reflected stray (non-image-forming) reflections, and so on.
It should be obvious that if any lighting conditions change between the recording of the chart and the first actual take, or the fifth, or the seventy-second, then the standard is essentially ruined, but this is a "set" problem – which could be due to anything from budget and scheduling issues to a halogen lamp going sour. It's a tool. Great when it works, but be prepared to cope with what happens when it doesn't. Of dubious value to the highly-experienced … it requires a lot of experience to get it right.
And please don't try to make your own charts. Seriously.
Grouping is another very useful new feature.
Pre-clip means that adjustments made to this node tree will be applied to the group prior to any individual clips within that group. The company example is the application of a log-transform to linearize a group, but it could be anything. Correct color temperature for a series of shots that were obviously mis-filtered, then make them all black and white.
You could then go into clip mode to tweak them relative to each other, and then, when someone in the room asks to see the whole scene a little darker, use Post-clip to grade the group a few points down without tweaking them all again.
Maybe it might mean trying to figure out how to ripple a relative value correction over a range – one of those pesky finger contortions that Nigel Tufnel would not bother with. Nor should you.
This screen grab has all the "Collaboration" options grayed out because my #2 system is not part of a centralized server. However this could be extremely valuable in a shared workflow where many actions are being carried out on larger projects with a complex network of teams working on various versions of scenes, effects, episodes and so on.
This might not be so obvious an advantage to independent project producers who can control the evolution of a show's revision process, but where a lot of clips are changing hands, authorship becomes critical.
EasyDCP is not new to Resolve 11. It appeared in Version 10, but it is worth mentioning that Resolve does offer a viable player, at least for conforming a Digital Cinema Package. It does not fully emulate all the vague little snags that exist out there in the wild among all the divergent server types in use, but at least you can see what you made, and Fraunhofer explicitly makes its software with Blackmagic display hardware in mind. Buy the easyDCP license to make the watermark go away.
If all you are doing is a round trip – out of some NLE and back again – this is the only page you need. You have refrained from trying to revise your AAF-imported timeline though, I hope. That often doesn't work, especially if there were actions embedded in the sequence that made it complicated to get the whole timeline running in the first place.
No, I am not covering all 140 features. Work for me is about to commence on an overlapping series. It's possible that there will be opportunities to discuss more real-world situations as they come up, but so far, so good. Safe to proceed.
Color control, beyond simple correction, is itself more important than ever. Digital production techniques call on many image origination strategies, and final product release is now a panoply of displays, devices, streams, and methods. The challenge before software developers now is to make it simpler but more sophisticated, bigger, faster, but not heavier – and the role of 'colorist', not well-defined to begin with, can now encompass the skills of an editor, lighting director, camera operator, roto-artist, VFX specialist, tracker, delivery author and so on. No more simply making it lighter and darker, sometimes at the same time.
Few applications get into double-digit versions. Many peak at around V5 or 6, and then start to decline, either because their internal processing becomes obsolete, its market is superseded by some environmental influence – competition, usefulness – or it is simply time to re-envision its whole reason for being. The (small-d) daVinci color correction system, now (capital-D) DaVinci, in use in one form or another for nearly thirty years, is still evolving with only more utility to come.
Thank you very much for this article. The biggest hurdle for me as adopting Resolve as my primary, wait, only NLE is the playback as you described. I sincerely hope that Blackmagic Design will address in the next version or preferably in another update.
I look forward to see what their plans are with Fusion and given their history, all should be good. Until now it is FCP X for editing and Motion for the basic motion graphics and titles. Resolve will be used mainly for color grading though I am tempted to do a rough cut in there. Trimming tools are much better and some of the features from Final Cut Pro 7, such as adding a transition to multiple clips with one a simple keyboard shortcut is a very big bonus.
I can honestly state that I am seriously contemplating Davinci Resolve as my next NLE. With the addition of plugin support for Boris CC and soon I hope Eyeon Fusion there is no reason to leave Resolve. It's lightning fast, supports just about any codec (including dng, cdng) and renders out quicker than anyone else. Davinci Resolve has been turned into a real slicing and dicing machine. All I can say is wow and fairly soon good bye Adobe, Avid and yes even my beloved Vegas. Of coarse it plays nice on a Mac as well. Can you say good bye to subscription? Oh yes I can, I certainly can and will.
Sometimes it might seem that colorists are all about stylized treatments and extreme color correction, but Aidan Stanford's work on season five of Modern Family is all about maintaining realism and hiding all the tricks in the background. Making the jump from film color timing into digital hasn't been easy, but Aidan has found a way to utilize his film skills in the digital world, turning around episodes in a day using his favorite tools in DaVinci Resolve.


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OCC staff noted that a proposed rule is currently in draft form and is undergoing further review. They added that they expect to publish the proposal in the Federal Register around Labor Day with a 60-day comment period, which would permit a final rule to be issued by year end.
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I am using a fairly recent IBM PDK with Calibre 2011 and Cadence IC6.1.4 - both of which are fairly old, probably before the PDK was created.
PDK says it was tested with Cadence IC6.1.7 and Calibre 2015.
I am getting an error with the DRC rules file: I attached it here and deleted the proprietary information.
Is this error because of the version of Cadence I am using and the version of Calibre ?
If I upgrade either or both - will this error go away ?
Can I be fixed with the set up I am using now ?
Can anyone help me resolve this issue ?
Upgrading to a version of Calibre newer than 2011.3 will fix the issue. Or you can convert the top-level SVRF rule file into a TVF file and the error should go away. Basically, in that version of Calibre, you can't include a TVF file from an SVRF file, which is why one solution is to convert the top-level file to TVF.
No, I cannot see that article, when I go to that article it says it is not found, maybe you can re post some of it if possible.
404 - Page Not Found The page you are looking for can not be found.
How do I convert the top level SVRF file into a TVF file ?
source "my TVF deck path"
PS - I should mention that it would be better for you to update to Calibre 2015, since it was listed as tested for your PDK. That way you shouldn't have to update the rule file.
Yes, I will be looking into updating to Calibre 2015 - it will make everything easier.
I will make the updates for DRC based on your suggestions - but based on my skills in programming, I hope it will work.
But until then, I get another error when doing PEX: I attached it here.
Do you know how I can fix this ?


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Po raz pierwszy plany zbudowania samochodu terenowego będącego współczesną interpretacją pierwszej generacji Land Rovera Defendera z lat 1983–2016 ogłoszono w lutym 2017 roku. Pomysłodawcą przedsięwzięcia został brytyjski miliarder sir Jim Ratcliffe, właściciel koncernu chemicznego Ineos, który rok wcześniej do tych celów powołał przedsiębiorstwo Ineos Automotive. W lutym 2018 ujawniono, że brytyjski samochód terenowy rozwijany jest w pod nazwą Projekt Grenadier, nawiązując do pubu w londyńskim Knightsbridge, w którym Ratcliffe omawiał pierwsze detale przedsięwzięcia. Wtedy też pozyskano pierwszego ważnego partnera technologicznego, współpracującą dotychczas m.in. z Mercedesem-Benzem niemiecką firmę Mbtech. W grudniu 2019 z kolei nawiązano kooperację z austriacką Magną Powertrain przy opracowywaniu ramy i zawieszenia. W międzyczasie, we wrześniu tego samego roku ogłoszono, że współczesna interpretacja klasycznego Land Rovera Defendera będzie nosić nazwę Ineos Grenadier.

Premiera
Pierwsze oficjalne fotografie i wstępną specyfikację techniczną Grenadiera przedstawiono w lipcu 2020. Klasyczną stylistykę łączącą elementy retro z oświetleniem typu LED opracował szef działu projektowego Ineos Automotive, Toby Ecuyer. Samochód zyskał foremną sylwetkę bezpośrednio nawiązującą kształtem bryły nadwozia, linią dachu i szyb czy przetłoczeniami do pierwowzoru Land Rovera. W pierwszej kolejności zadebiutowała odmiana z 5-drzwiowym nadwoziem, planując uwzględnienie w gamie także 2-miejscowej odmiany użytkowej oraz 4-drzwiowego pickupa.

Właściwości terenowe zapewniło nie tylko off-roadowe ogumienie, ale i m.in. umieszczone zewnątrz koło zapasowe i drabinka do wejścia na dach na klapie bagażnika. Głównymi założeniami podczas procesu konstrukcyjnego było oparcie modelu na ramie, zawieszenie ze sztywnymi mostami, stały mechaniczny napęd na cztery koła oraz tradycyjny silnik spalinowy. Za dostarczenie jednostki napędowej wraz ze skrzyniami biegów wybrano niemieckie BMW. Prezentacja wstępnych informacji na temat Ineosa Grenadiera była wstępem do dalszego intensywnego procesu rozwojowego, w ramach którego przez kolejne 2 lata samochód w formie przedprodukcyjnych prototypów miał przejechać 1,8 miliona kilometrów.

W lipcu 2021 Ineos Automotive przedstawiło pierwsze oficjalne fotografie kabiny pasażerskiej Grenadiera, którą utrzymano w surowym, użytkowym wzornictwie uwzględniającym też nowoczesne, cyfrowe rozwiązania. Tuż za dwuramiennym kołem kierownicy znalazł się niewielki wyświetlacz cyfrowych zegarów, z kolei masywną konsolę centralną wzbogaciły liczne przełączniki i przyciski, które znalazły się także na podsufitce. Na szczycie deski rozdzielczej znalazł się 12,3 calowy, dotykowy ekran systemu multimedialnego spokrewnionego z systemem BMW. Od niemieckiej firmy zapożyczono też charakterystyczny, wąski dżojstik do zmiany trybów jazdy automatycznej przekładni biegów. Ineos Grenadier trafiły do sprzedaży z dwoma rodzajami sześciocylindrowych silników konstrukcji BMW: benzynowym o mocy 285 KM oraz wysokoprężnym rozwijającym 249 KM. Oba silniki współpracują z ośmiobiegową automatyczną skrzynią biegów, którą dostarcza niemiecka firma ZF Friedrichshafen.

Grenadier FCEV
Jeszcze w fazie rozwoju produkcyjnej odmiany Ineosa Grenadiera, brytyjski producent w październiku 2021 zapowiedział chęć budowania swojego modelu terenowego także w odmianie napędzanej wodorem z wykorzystaniem technologii południowokoreańskiego koncernu Hyundai Motor Group. Testy prototypów z takim napędem rozpoczęły się w 2022, a rozwój wodorowych napędów dla samochodów terenowych firmy zainwestowano ponad 1,7 miliarda funtów. W tym samym roku Ineos Automotive poinformowało, że rozważa opracowanie Grenadiera także w czysto elektrycznym wariancie.

Sprzedaż
Pierwotnie produkcja Ineosa Grenadiera miała odbywać się lokalnie, na terenie Wielkiej Brytanii. We wrześniu 2019 Reuters podawał, że Jim Ratcliffe chce chce zainwestować 600 milionów funtów w budowę nowej fabryki w walijskim Bridgend, tworząc 500 miejsc pracy. Rozważano wtedy też drugą lokalizację na wytwarzanie terenowego modelu w postaci miasta Estarreja w Portugalii. W grudniu 2020 brytyjska firma ogłosiła zmianę decyzji, za miejsce produkcji Grenadiera wybierając ostatecznie dawne zakłady niemieckiego Smarta we francuskim Hambach. Ineos Automotive kupiło w ten sposób zakłady od Daimlera, przejmując 1,3 tysiąca pracowników i zwracając uwagę na bliskość Niemiec, skąd dostarczane miały być układy napędowe BMW. Pierwotnie początek produkcji wyznaczono na koniec 2021 roku, jednak ostatecznie seryjna produkcja Ineosa Grenadiera rozpoczęła się w drugiej połowie października 2022 z dostawami pierwszych sztuk wyznaczonymi na grudzień tego samego roku. Wśród rynków zbytu już we wrześniu 2021 roku uwzględniono Polskę, w której brytyjska firma zaplanowała uruchomienie autoryzowanej sprzedaży w co najmmniej 3 punktach dealerskich poczynając od 2022 roku, serwisowanie zapewniając we współpracy z firmą Bosch.

Silniki
Benzynowe:
 R6 3.0l BMW B58 285 KM

Wysokoprężne:
 R6 3.0l BMW B57 249 KM

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DOG MESS: BAG IT AND BIN IT!
As a dog owner and parish councillor, I hope to enlist your help in eliminating a scourge of South Hams' beaches and footpaths. During a walk on the beach at Bigbury-on-Sea and on Burgh Island this week, I was disgusted at the number of black plastic 'poo' bags left lying at the side of the path or tied to bushes by irresponsible dog walkers after their pets had performed. These people obviously leave home with the intention of 'emptying the dog' because they are equipped with the necessary collection bags but they seem incapable of disposing of the fruits of their pet's labours in the appropriate bins if they have to carry the full bags for more than a few metres. In Bigbury-on-Sea these bins are perfectly visible at the top of the main beach access points which beach users have to pass en route from the car parks and footways. The excuse that inadequate signage to dog bins is to blame just does not wash; if in doubt, TAKE IT HOME!
Many dog owners/ walkers do not appear to know that the failure to properly dispose of dog waste in a bin is as great an offence as leaving the mess unattended. As the SHDC website clearly states, 'Dog Fouling is one of the top anti-social problems nationwide. Dog mess is unsightly, unpleasant & can spread disease, or in extreme cases, cause blindness. If you do not ensure that dog mess is picked up AND properly disposed of (my emphasis) a £80- £1000 Penalty may be payable under the District of South Hams Fouling of Land by Dogs Order 2013.
Come on dog walkers, clean up your dog's act and help keep our beaches and footpaths 'fit for purpose' – 'Bag It & Bin It' for all our sakes!
In the interests of improving pedestrian safety on the road at the bottom of Folly Hill, the National Trust will soon be improving the permissive path along the side of Clematon Hill, tucked behind the first strip of scrub (red line shows roughly where path will be installed). Click on the link below to see a photgraph of the site.
The path will be 1m wide and compacted with 75mm of crushed quarried stone. Works are planned to start beginning to middle of October with a local contractor from Holbeton. The works must be completed by the end of October otherwise the funding is lost.


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How to college football
How a European recruit gets noticed 5,000 miles away from his future campus
About 5,300 miles from Colorado, Valentin Senn developed into a promising tackle and later signed with the Buffs.
By Bud Elliott Jan 2, 2019, 12:47pm EST
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ORLANDO, Florida — Looking down the roster of an Under Armour All-America Game reveals hometowns familiar to anyone following college football or U.S. geography: Palm Beach, Houston, Atlanta, Birmingham, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Detroit, etc.
But Volders, Austria? That's different
That is where 2019 offensive tackle Valentin Senn hails from. Standing 6'7 and weighing 285 pounds, Senn is hard to miss.
Senn signed with Colorado, more than 5,000 miles from home, during the Early Signing Period. But the story of how he became a college football prospect is more interesting.
Senn did not start out as a football player. Like most kids in Austria, he played soccer.
"A friend of mine with whom I played soccer, he was starting to play football. He was always like, 'Come join me, play football.'" Senn said.
At some point, any recruit has to commit to football. That might happen later in Europe. When he was 15, Senn took the plunge into the game.
"I came to one practice, and from that moment on, I just loved the game."
But Senn did not start out as an offensive lineman. He was actually a receiver.
"I started out as a receiver, but then moved to tight end because I grew bigger. And now I ended up as an offensive tackle."
It's a point of pride for Senn that his Innsbruck team won the Austrian championship over a team from Vienna, a city 15 times more populated.
To get linked up with American college teams, Senn got help from a German-born former NFL player who specializes in those relationships.
Björn Werner, a Berlin native, played his college football at Florida State. He now runs Gridiron Imports, an organization that helps European players get to the states for college.
Werner was placed in an American boarding school with help from a now-defunct program affiliated with NFL Europe. When he got out of the league, he wanted to be able to help European players get a chance to play football in America.
"Schools are more willing to offer European players now than they were when I played," Werner said. "So it's not as important to play high school football in America, but schools do want to see players in person. We help them get to America for college camps."
Because American football is relatively niche in Europe, Werner says that when a player stands out on a European team, he gets noticed. And word spreads fast to Gridiron Imports, which will review the player's highlight tape, share it with colleges, and organize camp tours stateside.
Over the last three recruiting cycles, Werner said his group has placed 70 recruits in the states.
"I love playing the mentor role, both for the highs, but also for the lows," Werner said, noting that the experience for European players can be tough and unfamiliar.
As Senn came up, Werner got in touch, "saying he was interested in getting me on a camp tour," Senn said.
From there, one program's camp would lead to another.
"In June, I went to some camps, and got some offers," Senn said. He said that Werner told him to be first in line and go hard. He described his first camp (at Rutgers) as "huge."
Word spread after that.
"We went to some MAC schools, Rutgers, and he was getting offered so fast, I realized, 'Holy smokes, he might be a [power conference] kid,' ya know?" Werner said.
They started on the East Coast.
"Then Colorado got wind of it," Senn said.
So he visited Boulder and later camped there.
Colorado still had to like Senn, and he still had to like Colorado.
He performed well at Colorado's camp and received the Buffs' offer. He got 10 in all, including other FBS offers from Buffalo, Akron, and UConn.
"Every camp he went to, he got an offer," Werner said.
New Colorado coach Mel Tucker liked what Senn could bring and focused on his athletic upside in announcing the signing:
"Another big guy. Tremendous upside. Good balance and body control on the second level. He can road-grade guys, obviously something that appeals to me. You rarely see a guy with this type of size and length with that type of balance and athleticism in pass pro and the run game. He's got some versatility.
Along the same line, Colorado site Ralphie Report loves his mobility.
The thing that sticks out right away about Valentin is how well he moves. He looks like a tight end out there. He can get down the field hurry and is very comfortable shuffling laterally. He finishes blocks well and the Colorado Buffaloes desperately need athletic bodies at tackle.
For Senn, CU stood out for some of the same reasons it might stand out to any recruit.
"I really enjoy that it's not only a great football organization, but also a great education," Senn said. "Also the campus is not too big, so I can orientate and find everything I need to."
That wasn't all.
"Colorado's landscape with the mountains is also similar to where he is from in Austria, with the Alps," Werner said.
And Senn still had to convince his parents to let him go to school an ocean away.
"They weren't with that idea from the get-go," Senn said. "But once they went on the official visit and saw the whole place and the organization, and now they are feeling good about it and are all in, like me."
After the coaching change from Mike MacIntyre to Mel Tucker, schools started blowing up Senn's phone. UCLA, Oregon, and Oklahoma State were interested but wanted to scout him in person before offering, Werner said.
"But he is the type of kid who thinks commitment means commitment," Werner said.
Senn will arrive in July after finishing school in Austria.
There's an adjustment period for any recruit. But it's an even starker jump for a player without American high school experience.
As for his week at the Under Armour All-America Game, Senn said that he had no clue how he'd stack up against the other competitors.
"It's overwhelming, everything," he said. "I'm like — still, I need time to process. It's huge. In Austria, football is growing, but it's a long, long way until it is like it is here. I'll give my best and see where I am at."
Senn didn't looked like the best player at the event, but he did look like he belonged.
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Home Sports Patriots hosting Empire
Patriots hosting Empire
Homecoming game for SWCS
Cole Shaw tackles a Coyle runner during a recent game. The Patriots host Empire Friday night in their annual homecoming game.
By Chuck Reherman, Sports Editor – Southwest Covenant has faced a pair of top 10 ranked teams in their last two outings.
The Patriots may not have a ranked team this week, but they will have a resurgent one.
SWCS will look to get back on the winning track as the host Empire in a 7 p.m. contest at Patriot Field. The game will also be homecoming for the Patriots and homecoming festivities start at 6:30 p.m.
Empire is in its first season of eight-man football, dropping to class B from class A. The Bulldogs have brought in longtime eightman coach Bruce Harrell, who coached Maud to several state playoff appearances. Harrell has the Bulldogs off to a 3-1 start. The three wins totals the number of wins Empire has had over the past three seasons.
Empire beat Waurika 26-20 last week and own wins over Life Christian (57-6) and Temple (46-0). Their one loss came at the hands of Cyril 44-6.
"I'm big on tradition," Harrell said. "I knew coming in that this senior bunch had only won three games in their career, so to win three in a year, that's a big deal for them. They've just got to not be satisfied and we just have to keep working every day and try to get a few more of those wins.
"You hate to say this, but when you haven't won, you're still a lot closer to going back to that stigma that you've been accustomed to the last few years than you are of getting to where you need to go," Harrell said. "I think it's a deal where we really have to stay on them about not falling back – what I'm trying to say is, I think the confidence is good in the fact that they believe they can win and they believe they can be successful … The other night, we found a way to win and that's a good sign."
The Patriots also enter the contest with a 3-1 record having lost their first game of the season last week to class B No. 2 ranked Depew, 42-20.
SWCS knows that Empire has gained confidence with their three wins and won't be a push over on Friday night.
"Empire have some talented kids, they were an 11-man team last year," SWCS head coach Trey Cloud said. "It will be a good test for us. It should be a good game, I talked to the boys today they we have to go out and play, because they are coming in here to play and if we don't play well, they could beat us.
"We have to go a take care of business," he said. "This is our last non-district game and we want to finish that strong and go into the district with a 4-1 record."
Cloud said that Empire is a team that likes to run a lot of different formations. He added that the plays may be the same, but it will come from a different look.
And, with the exception of one game, the Bulldog offense has been able to move the ball on teams.
"In the two games I saw, they ran the ball more in one and passed more in another,' Cloud said. "I look for them to come in and be more of a balanced team against us with the run and pass."
The Empire offense revolves around quarterback Rodolfo Martinez. Martinez can throw the ball all over the yard and has Ethan Pannell and Rowdy Swanson as his main targets. Runningback Logan Martinez is the key runner in the offense, but will also step out and catch the ball as well.
Fermin Diaz (5-10, 280) anchors the front line and Dakota Coffey at end is the best pass rusher. Linebackers Logan Martindale and Devin Mitchell steady the defense.
That defense may not have faced an offense that can be as explosive as the Patriots. SWCS is averaging 45 points a game through four contests.
"We will take what they give us," Cloud said. "I feel we can throw the ball and can run it also. If they stack the box, we will throw it. If they back up and go zone, we will run it.
"We don't know what kind of defense they will run at us, we have seen them in a 3-2 mostly," he said. "We did throw the ball a little more than we wanted to last week, but when you get behind like that, you have to try and score in a hurry. We will make the adjustments as the game goes along."
The Bulldog defense will face a quarterback in Sam Webb that has thrown 846 yards and 17 touchdowns in four games. He is 42 of 84 passing. Trevor Kelly and Cole Shaw have been his two leading targets. Both have had two games of over 100 yards in receptions.
Defensively, the Patriots have played well overall. The team did give up nearly 500 yards of offense last week, but faced probably the best offensive team in class B in Depew.
"We will have to be disciplined with all of their different looks," Cloud said. "We have to spread out and figure out where we are suppose to be with what formation. That is the main thing. We do that we will be all right.
"They have a good coach that has been in eightman football a long time and we know he will have them ready to play."
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Engineering Up-date - February 2019
Submitted by alaws on 30 April, 2019 - 19:59
Work on The Unknown Warrior since the last report has concentrated on establishing the true condition of vital components and assemblies.
The first stage was to get a full independent mechanical inspection of the chassis completed and this was undertaken by Andy Forster, former CME of the West Somerset Railway, on 4th and 5th December at Crewe Heritage Centre. The results confirmed our own initial thoughts, plus a couple of other issues, but nothing of a serious nature. The first priority was to rectify the issues raised along with progressing ongoing work on the lubrication system. Nigel Day and our team of volunteers have made fantastic progress in the far from ideal conditions in the Heritage Centre Exhibition Hall over the last three months. We are hopeful that circumstances will change in the near future to enable better facilities to be accessed.
On 15th January the locomotive was shunted across the Heritage Centre to the outdoor pit road to allow us to get underneath and remove the temporary Bogie Nut and Washer fitted at Llangollen for our move to Crewe. Whilst we were underneath further inspections were made and preparations for future work planned.
The Unknown Warrior is shunted at Crewe Heritage Centre on 15th January 2019 Photo – Kevin West
One issue highlighted by Andy Forster's report was the poor white metalling and machining of the Motion Bearings. There are issues with the white metal not adhering to the bronze bearings, poor machining and radii not machined to the correct dimensions. All bearings need to be re-done. Llangollen Railway Engineering as the original suppliers were asked to do the work at their own cost and under our supervision, but have so far not committed to doing the work due to staffing issues. We have received a quotation from Statfold Barn Engineering to undertake the work which is under consideration. The costs involved will be recovered from Llangollen Engineering.
David Hughes, Nigel Day and Gerry Paulson take a break from working on The Unknown Warrior. Photo – Kevin West
Due to the issues found with the white metalling of the Motion Bearings, we have decided to inspect all the other parts similarly treated by Llangollen. These include the two Outside Crossheads presently at Tyseley Locomotive Works, the Inside Big End Bearing at Crewe and the Inside Valve Gear Eccentric. To dismantle the Eccentric required the purchase of a slogging spanner, which will become part of the tool kit required for ongoing maintenance of the locomotive. We are slowly acquiring the larger size spanners as they are offered to us or found. If you have any sitting in your sheds that are 1" BSW (Whitworth) or bigger and in good condition, please let us know.
Coupling and Connecting Rods await attention. And the Eccentric following removal from the locomotive to assess the white metalling. Photos – Kevin West
Keith Riches has started work on kitting the BR 16 ton Box Van out as a mobile workshop. Additional shelving has been installed at one end and a workbench will be erected. To enable this to be done we completed a tidy up and sorting of the locomotive parts we have. Our two containers have been sorted into one for locomotive parts and the other for tender parts. A selection of shelving and benches were erected in the tender container to provide storage and working space.
New storage and work bench now available in one of our containers. Photo – Kevin West
As part of the sorting work, all the tender chassis parts were moved to Leaky Finders works in Exeter in early February. This will enable George and Rory to go through the parts and provide an assessment if they can be refurbished or need to be replaced. An assessment of the original Outside Combination Levers has been made. One appears to be damaged, possibly as a result of accident damage on the original locomotive. The lever is bent so the bushes would have to be bored out of square to line up with the related parts. We have therefore decided to have new parts made.
One of the major issues relates to the Centre Driving Axle Crank Pins. These were made and fitted by South Devon Engineering when the wheelsets were assembled. When we finally came to trial fit the Return Cranks it was discovered there was an issue with the keyway cut into the end of the Crank Pins. There has followed a protracted backward and forward discussion regarding the suitability of these parts and plenty of advice from other engineers regarding the way forward. There is no clear way they can be corrected, so we have decided that the best option is to totally replace them. As the original suppliers we have asked South Devon Engineering to provide a plan to replace the Crank Pins. We received a quotation to remove the old pins and replace with new, but not machine in the keyway slot or the stud holes, as they now say they do not have the facilities to do the job! Added to this we would have to pay transport costs to SDE workshops in Devon.
Centre Driving Wheel marked up to show orientation of the Crank Pin. Photo – Kevin West
Further investigation led us to Multi-Tech Ltd. in Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. They have undertaken similar work for Jubilee class Galatea, and provided a very competitive price, including transport and have been awarded the contract. This obviously involves removing the Centre Wheelset, but before this can be removed all the motion work has to be taken down, plus the Brake Gear, Sanding Gear and Springing and many other smaller fittings. This work has been completed and the locomotive was scheduled to be lifted to release the centre driving wheels on Wednesday 13th February.
With the loco off its driving wheels it allows access to complete the riveting of the platforms to the Frame Brackets. All the holes have been drilled ready for the riveting.
Nigel Day is continuing to make good progress on the installation of the lubrication system alongside the rectification work. Most of the pipe runs are now formed and the clips installed.
Work continues on the boiler. The Barrel is now fitted permanently to the Firebox Assembly and the internal pipework and trays are being manufactured. HBSS are ready to start installing the firebox stays but we are waiting for the insurance company to give the go ahead regarding the stay size, pattern and material. We were under the impression that this had been agreed some time ago, but a change of staff has meant a complete reassessment. This has involved additional drawing and design input to obtain the sign off, which is expected by the end of February. The Dome is due to move to Harrison Engineering for additional drilling in the next few days.
The Dome and cover awaiting additional machining. Photo – Kevin West
Work on the Tender Chassis continues at Leaky Finders workshop near Exeter. A number of issues regarding work undertaken at Llangollen have been discovered and solutions either found or are in discussion to establish a way forward. A number of holes have been found to be drilled in the wrong positions which will require them to be welded up and redrilled correctly. All very disappointing. The Top Angles have been riveted to the frames, we will then start refitting parts after the stripping down.
Kevin West and George Balsdon discuss the Tender Frames in the Leaky Finders workshop, near Exeter. And the Tender frame marked up for future work. Photos – Kevin West
As stated above, all parts from the original tender chassis are now at Leaky Finders workshop. Most parts are showing the effects of 40 years railway service and another 40 years in scrapyards and open air storage. At least we have the parts to use as patterns and guidance if replacement is decided.The Horn Ties fit across the bottom of the axlebox cutouts in the frames. The ties have to fit correctly to the frames to stop the gap opening or closing as the frame moves. The ties had suffered corrosion and fretting. They have been built up with weld and re-machined to be the correct fit.
A selection of original Tender parts as delivered to Leaky Finders. Photo – Kevin West
Alongside the physical assembly work we have been spending a lot of time in discussion with the possible candidates who we have approached about finishing the locomotive. Andy Collinson has been heading up the contact with these organisations, creating the work schedules and fielding the questions. We now have quotes in from three companies and one company has informed us they are unable to fit into our schedule, so have decided not to offer a quote. A fourth option of overseeing the finishing of The Unknown Warrior ourselves is also under investigation.
Wednesday 13th February 2019 proved to be a turning point in the fortunes of the Project, following our recent setbacks. After months of discussions and planning and a lot of hard manual work in less than ideal conditions, a programme of work was undertaken that will open up real progress over the coming months. The main activity was to remove the Centre Driving Wheelset for replacement of the out of specification Crank Pins. To achieve this, we hired two road cranes to lift the chassis to allow the wheelset to be rolled out. With the chassis lifted the opportunity was taken to complete a range of tasks that would have been either very difficult,or impossible with the locomotive on the ground.
Lifting the chassis at Crewe Heritage Centre on 13th February. Photo – Kevin West
Recently it was discovered that attention was required to five missing rivets on the Drag Box. The leading ones on each side were behind the trailing wheel tyre, so the plan changed from simply lifting the loco to release the Centre Drivers, to releasing both the Centre and Trailing Wheelsets.
A team was assembled to undertake the work, headed up by our resident engineer, Nigel Day and CME Kevin West. Engineering Director, Steve Blackburn acted as liaison with Crewe Heritage Centre and diesel shunter driver. Dave Owen provided technical advice and experience alongside regular volunteers, David Hughes, Gerry Paulson, Brian Greally, Keith Riches and new recruit Tayger Farrow. Our thanks to Ray from Crewe Heritage Centre for his assistance driving the folk lift truck.
Over the last few weeks the Brake Gear had been taken down along with the Sanding Gear in preparation for dropping the wheelsets out. The Lower Centre Slide Bar was removed to allow the Bogie Centre Pin to be removed and sent away for a new nut to be made. On Tuesday 12th February the exhibits in the Heritage Centre, the Class 47 diesel, the Crewe Cab and The Unknown Warrior were shunted to get our chassis in the correct position to be moved out to where the lift would take place the following morning.
Following an early breakfast, I arrived at the Heritage Centre at 8.00am, to find the two cranes already on site. A quick briefing of the crews and they were soon in position and being set up.
Steve fired up the Class 03 shunter and The Unknown Warrior was propelled out into position. The first lift was to remove the cab and place it out of the way. Then came the 'Big Lift'. With a crane attached to each end of the framework, the chassis was lifted clear of the Trailing and Centre Wheelsets and the Bogie, which were rolled clear. The chassis was then lowered back onto the leading driving wheels and a sleeper stack positioned under the rear Drag Beam. This provided a safe, stable condition for work to start.
The chassis supported on sleeper stacks. Photo – Kevin West
Heritage Boiler Steam Services (HBSS) had arrived to undertake the riveting work on the Drag Box and Platforms. Whist this was underway the team split into two groups, one working on removing the centre driving wheelset axleboxes and springs. The Wheelset was then craned onto the waiting road transport for dispatch to Multi-Tech Ltd., in Yorkshire.
Andy Wilcock from HBSS riveting the platforms. And the centre driving wheels ready for dispatch. Photos – Kevin West
The Centre Wheelset Horn Ties were refitted to keep the Chassis stable. The other team worked under the Cylinders, drilling and tapping the rear Cladding Fixing holes which were not accessible with the bogie in place. Also undertaken was some preparatory work to fit the Inside Cylinder Relief Valves when the loco is lifted again in a few weeks' time to refit the Centre Driving Wheels. This work was completed in a couple of hours, the chassis was lifted again, the sleeper stack removed and the Trailing Wheelset and Bogie rolled back into position. The rear end was lowered slowly until the Horn Guides engaged in the Axleboxes, then attention shifted to the front end and the Bogie. Once in position and lowered back down the cranes were removed and the chassis shunted back into the Exhibition Hall for HBSS to finish the platform riveting.
The team then cleared away the tools, swept away the debris and retired to the mess for tea and doughnuts. A grand effort, that shows planning and attention to detail brings rewards. From here on we look forward to parts going back onto the locomotive for the final time rather than being removed. A good day. Many thanks to all that made it possible.
Kevin West, CME.
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