-
Final Cut Pro “effects” supported in Resolve 8?
Similar to the other posters I want to congratulate the DaVinci team at BMD for an incredible development cycle over the last year. Resolve V7 was amazing in itself, then V7.1 made it even better and brought multiple GPU support for the Mac. With v8 it’s another huge leap forward and I’m glad to see such a strong focus on workflow!
I was wondering if there is a list of motions, effects and wipes that are supported from FCP? And what happens with those that aren’t supported? Speed-changes is one that I can see would be difficult, but it would be great to have it supported!
Will it be possible to render out files with audio in this version? And is embedded audio in files supported? If I don’t have to I don’t want to go back to FCP…
-
12 Replies
-
You have some very interesting questions. Let’s cross our fingers Resolve is able to stand on its own feet.
-
I’m sure it will!
I also wonder if it preconforming from an XML will work as I can’t see us getting away from using flat files for most of our deliveries to CC in the near future. Having XML preconform with reconform would be great!
-
Helge, did you see the video presentation of Resolve 8 on their website? It covers the XML workflow briefly, but enough to understand that this is what we’ve been waiting for.
It also shows a sequence with three tracks, and one clip with a wipe being transferred from FCP to Resolve via XML.
-
Yeah, I saw it. It looks really nice. However, Color had this functionality as well, at least in essence, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t – it worked with some effects but not others. We found that we often ended up spending a lot of time sorting out the timeline before doing any grading. It is often unpredictable how long time this will take and therefor we reverted back to doing flat files with EDL/XML delivery…
Hopefully Resolve will work better – and it would be great to get a “log” telling you which effects “failed” when you try doing an import, preferably with TC. That would make it easier to correct or bake in the effects and then send a new XML.
-
The point is, I would like to avoid FCP in the delivery stage.
For me FCP is more an offline suite where my clients ask for DPX deliveries.
Hence I understand his request for a feature to use transition FX.
Not that I used them since the A-Team was hip.
And also Resolve is soooo much faster outputting ProRes in HD, it would be wonderful to use its speed for finals.A slice of color…
DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE -
To be honest I don’t need many effects. But things like scaling, cropping and speed would be great to have come across.
-
This right here. Avoiding FCP for finishing. Not only is it slow, but I’m always worried it will do something to my footage. It would be so much better if I could make all my outputs straight from Resolve (even if I have to add a sound track in Quicktime).
-
Ola, I can’t find the video you’re referring to. Care to link?
-
I know for the EDL and AAF workflows Blackmagic doesn’t give many specifics about it. I read through the manual and it does not say which effects need to be removed and which will carry thorough (so far many do not). I just had to do lots of testing with trial and error to see what worked and what didn’t. A little frustrating. It would be great if they would let us know what effects we need to strip out (because they will through off the entire timeline, or keep it from linking to the media in the media pool) and which we can keep in.
-Peter
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up