Feature edited and finished in Resolve 14

[Michael Gissing]

[Tony West] “I know, I would just personally preferrer that one piece of software to be X.”

Has a feature ever been edited and finished in X? Heaps of features are finished in Resolve so the point of this whole thread is that an editor chose to also edit in Resolve. This in no way implies that Resolve is a better editor than X, but I will say Resolve is a much better grade app than X, even when the new updates arrive. So the whole point of the article is that Resolve is now good enough and the advantages of staying in a true finishing app are enough to convince an editor to not edit in another NLE. This and the collaboration tools are going to appeal to a lot of editors who are using, Avid, Premiere and X to edit features and other broadcast work.

No mention of sound post which I doubt was done in the Fairlight page of Resolve. That page is still being developed and there will still be a tendency with features and most broadcast to send sound to a different facility which is more likely to be Pro Tools. I’m looking forward to staying in Resolve to do sound soon. And the next frontier will be the pressure on Pro Tools with facilities looking at Resolve as the one stop shop once the Fairlight facility is as fully featured as the stand alone.

” I wouldn’t make my decision based mainly on finishing, but that’s just me.”

There is a whole world where the pressure and the bulk of the post budget is in the grade, VFX and sound, so to not look for speed and budget advantage in that area is bad business. For you it might not be the factor but I can assure you that it is a huge issue for the area that many of us work in. If you are not in that time and budget squeeze and X can be your edit and finish tool then I wouldn’t expect you to see the significance.

[Tony West]

[Michael Gissing] “There is a whole world where the pressure and the bulk of the post budget is in the grade, VFX and sound, so to not look for speed and budget advantage in that area is bad business.”

Who’s not looking? I’m not narrowing it to the post budget, I’m talking the total budget.

The film festival is going on in St. Louis this week and I spoke with a feature producer during the Q and A, just this evening.

He said that the bulk of the funding of his film (shot in LA) went to pay the actors (SAG) and the rights to music. He didn’t mention grade, but he said the VFX were done by a guy that worked with them (in other words, cut them a deal) They looked great btw.

This film had a lot of actors with speaking roles so that’s where they chose to spend the money.

I’m sure it ranges all over the place.