Dear BMD – don’t you think it’s time to open up?

[Blase Theodore]

You understand that they took something that used to cost half a million dollars, made it a thousand times better, and now give it to you almost for free, so that you’ll buy their hardware instead of AJA’s.

[Chris Tomberlin]

Yeah, I completely understand, and I’ve bought plenty of BMD hardware. AJA just tends to work better (for me) with other software that’s not Resolve. Resolve working with AJA would solve some problems. Charge twice as much for the “open” version – they could easily make up the profit difference by doing that.

I love Resolve and what BMD has done with it; I’m grateful for all they’ve added to it (for FREE) and will continue to use it and love it whether they support other hardware or not. But it would be nice if they did.

Chris Tomberlin
Color/Finishing
Outpost Pictures

[Margus Voll]

To me it seems that maybe aja will go out and BM be the smoke IO.

Maybe later on Smoke will be integrated to Resolve?

Just wild guess but seems reasonable

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu
https://vimeo.com/iconstudioseu/videos

DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro

[Paul Jay]

Looking at Resolve 10, Resolve will be Blackmagic’s Smoke.

[Chris Tomberlin]

Maybe eventually, but it’s got a LONG way to go to match Smoke’s toolset. Just like Smoke doesn’t come close to Resolve’s grading tools.

Chris Tomberlin
Color/Finishing
Outpost Pictures

[Margus Voll]

I was thinking of combining capabilities.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu
https://vimeo.com/iconstudioseu/videos

DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro

[Jake Blackstone]

Autodesk and Discreet before that spent many, many years perfecting the toolset of Smoke and Flame. You either haven’t seen Smoke in action or you don’t appreciate the enormous complexity, elegance and sheer creative power afforded by Smoke. Despite much promise at finishing, in it’s present form Resolve has a long way to go… But it’s a start…

[Jake Blackstone]

Just wait till Baselight Editions for Flame and Smoke. Then will talk:)

[Blase Theodore]

That being said, its actually not that crazy of a thought. 5 years from now, I could see BM becoming the dominant market player, with enough cash on hand to pull a power play. The discreet line continues to see diminishing returns for the Autodesk, who run enough product lines that they might be willing to shed them for cash to buy the Foundry line. Adobe would have already bought C4D by then, and BM would buy smoke/flame.

Wild conjecturing, but fun to speculate nonetheless.

[Jake Blackstone]

Five years is an eternity in this market.