Resolve 11 What is your plan?

[Michael Gissing]

I wonder how well it can do things like luma or chroma keys. I just graded a show with lots of layers in 10.1.4 and although I could view both layers I couldn’t change the screen mode and see a basic luma key. As a finishing tool it will need pretty good luma and chroma keyers, perhaps as plugins?

And what about audio export? It still needs to get an audio timeline out to sound post. If they are smart they will have both OMF and AAF export of audio.

[Oliver Peters]

[Michael Gissing] “And what about audio export? It still needs to get an audio timeline out to sound post. If they are smart they will have both OMF and AAF export of audio.”

I don’t know the specific answer, but audio is not strong. No audio plug-in support and mixer is very basic. No subgroups, just track and master faders.

– Oliver

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[Walter Biscardi]

[David Mathis] “Just curious as to who might jump over to Resolve 11 for editing as well. “

We all saw this coming last year. They released a basic editing tool kit to allow the colorist to make simple changes to an edit so it didn’t have to go back to the Editor. But looking at the editing functionality in Resolve 10, it wasn’t hard to see it advancing further to a fully functional NLE.

Resolve 11 and the addition of the former Product Manager for Apple’s Final Cut Pro shows clear intent to move into the fully functional NLE market. It’s a VERY small step from where Resolve 11 is to calling itself a full fledged NLE. I would suspect by IBC or certainly NAB next year they’ll be showing Editing and Color at two different demonstration stations.

Is Resolve 11 all that? We don’t know until it gets out into the hands of the many and we see if we can break it. But with Alexis van Hurkman being very much a part of the development and now we have the former FCP 7 product manager on board at Blackmagic, the intention of Grant Petty is very clear. A true non-linear editor that will not only be feature rich, but absolutely free.

I knew this was coming, I just expected there to be one more year before the tool got this far. I will definitely be testing this alongside our current Adobe workflow when we get it in the shop. For quick turnarounds, shorter projects, it can definitely handle that when it drops. The real question will be long format projects and whether they will ever start allowing third party plug-ins to work with the editor.

The realtime color grading while editing is simply incredible and a real world application that I would use tomorrow if we had it. Editor finishing up the edit, adding graphics, etc.. while I color grade simultaneously and update their timeline. If that works out of the gates, Resolve really will be our finishing editor pretty quickly.

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[Michael Gissing]

Same for me Walter. R10 is close. And they do already support OpenFX plugins. Watch the plugin developers jump on board ASAP. It needs to export OMF/AAF if it is going to satisfy editors who do broadcast/ feature workflows.

It needs a cracking keyer (Chroma/ luma) and a brilliant text tool with proper translation. Also it needs to handle stills and translate moves properly from other NLEs.

[Michael Gissing]

Oliver,
If they just put in VST plugin support then I am happy for finishing. I really need little more than multi track routing for use as a finishing tool.

For editing I can see that clip based levels and plugins would be good but they also need track based routing/ sub grouping and plugins. Maybe then some editors will understand the power of a track based system for audio.