Control surface rumor…..

[Paul Mitchell]

That would be awesome, Resolve panel lite

[Paul Mitchell]

Let’s hope we see it ready for shipping at NAB

[Tim Wilson]

I haven’t heard any specific rumors about NAB, or for that matter, anything confirmed…but I’ll observe that for the last two years in a row, Blackmagic Design was given the Creative COW Blue Ribbon Award for Best in Show at NAB, for both the dizzying volume of products released, and the game-changing nature of several of them.

In that sense, nothing that they do will surprise me. This is shaping up to be the hottest NAB in years, but BMD has set itself up as the company to beat.

Although I should also mention that Grant has explicitly denied any intention of buying Avid. 🙂

Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine

[Margus Voll]

But in the other hand if BM would buy avid it would only be good. BM comes on board and makes products always better. At the moment avid is still a bit old and not so good. If you remember how Resolve was and how it has evolved. In that sense buying avid would be good for everyone. Maybe not for aja 😉

For me BM is a bit like apple, they have clear vision and means to make them happen and make products great.

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Margus

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[Gabriele Turchi]

i have feeling too that is going to happen ,and would be great

but i would like to ask to BMD to keep developing also even a bigger panel , with tablet in it ,and more buttons as possible (like baseligth or Quantel..)

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[Gustavo Bermudas]

[Margus Voll] “But in the other hand if BM would buy avid it would only be good”

Maybe for DaVinci it was good since hey were already bankrupt, but I think Avid has momentum now since the demise of FCP. In any case, I think if Blackmagic would buy Avid it’ll be catastrophic, we don’t need another “Lite” mayhem, and what’s the point now, Avid just open up to third party hardware, under Blackmagic we all know it’s going to only work Blackmagic’s and not Kona or Matrox or Bluefish.

[Jonathon Lee]

I think BMD should buy the DS finishing platform from Avid… Avid does not seem to care about it and BMD seem to be masters of turning products around. If BMD took on the Avid DS and “fixed” it, that would be amazing.

[Margus Voll]

but it would be logical to work with your own brand?

i agree with later replays that avid needs to be fixed. it is not good at the moment and BM can do that.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Marc Fisher]

i agree with jonathan, if BMD were to do anything with Avid, PLEASE buy up the DS code. i used DS for the last 9yrs on some of the biggest projects, but the toolset has fallen so far behind. i made a switch to Autodesk Smoke last year. That being said, BMD DS would surely be Innovated immediately. there are so many things that could be fixed/enhanced/added in short order that would make it a viable platform again. Adding support for BMD cards would be a good start, esp since Composer and Symphony now run on those. XML support. 16 ch audio support. I’m not talking earth shattering things here..

As well, BMD doesn’t have an editing platform of their own. DS would be a huge jump into the pool..

WOW. the possibilities would be awesome knowing BMD’s track record…

[Jonathon Lee]

Yep, totally agree with Marc. I figured others would chime in about the DS thing. I’ve also started using Smoke… which is a fantastic tool. However, the DS is by far the easiest to use and NO ONE else has integrated editing and compositing with Trees into a timeline as elegantly as on the DS. The compositing integration is something that you can only properly appreciate and miss if you’ve used a DS. Once you are accustomed to the DS workflow it is not fun working on other platforms.

Imagine DS and Resolve integrated into a single app.

Jonathon