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How did your journey begun in Davinci?
I just recently started using Davinci Resolve for my work, because I got hired for a short film. Now I see a lot of cool features, but also confusing nodes to learn. I especially like rotobrush built in to davinci (fusion panel?, what should I call it) and it works better than after effects. It’s definitely harder to learn than premiere, but seeing a lot more professional standard features, it looks attractive enough to be my edit partner for atleast 15 years…
What do you think about davinci and how did you get started with it?
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After 18 years of handling videotape, online editing, I was hired on as a telecine transfer artist and trained on a daVinci 8:8:8 digital color corrector.That was 1994; davsys offered in-person classes at their facility in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea (Florida). Ten days at a HoJo on the beach. Started to encounter non-linear media while sitting in on some sessions at Modern (Burbank) in 1999. I started my own firm in 2005 — originally with Silicon Color’s “Final Touch 2K” which was purchased by Apple and repackaged as “Apple Color” and released with Final Cut Pro 5/6/7. Originally I had specified daVinci Resolve, but as it was in Beta, was not available. When Grant Petty purchased the company and rebranded it to DaVinci, featuring Resolve as a Blackmagic product, I switched over to what I was familiar with (I thought) because by then, the writing was on the wall for FCP (X-product). I think the first version I picked up was Resolve8, and of course we’re up to 17 now.
It has become the supersuite that was all the rage / fever-dream that Final Cut Pro editors all thought (at the time) was going to be FCP 8. Personally, I think it is too big now, but as a commodity consumer item, why would you *not* want that Ferrari in your garage?
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Surely, a ferrari is always better than a toyota.
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I have adopted DaVinci Resolve as an ethical and open alternative to the tyranny of Adobe.
As a professor, I have steered many students in DaVinci’s direction. It is not painless. A user is often buried in the prolific manual, wondering what they did wrong—especially with all the BS happening at the hardware and software levels in today’s “connected: world,. It’s been a mixed bag. I’ve barely made it through on my own, with over 40 years of editing. At this point, if a student, or newcomer to editing, is seeking an edit program, they need to decide upfront that they don[t mind turning over their labor to adobe. It’s a shitty equation, but there it is.
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