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Resolve 12 Pros and Cons
After some initial testing with Resolve 12, here are some of the Pros and Cons:
Pros:
– Nice tidy layout, and I love the easy expand- and collapsible side panels.
– Great to have Ingest, Edit, Color and delivery in same application.
– Editing features are nice and simple.
– Audio FX actually have an option for great intuitive interfaces.
– Great performance in the color module compared to for example Speedgrade.
– Bypassing grades in Color module is reflected in Edit module.
– Lots of delivery codecs and clean output.
– Has only crashed a single time.Cons:
– Edit performance is still not totally up to Par with FCPX and Premiere (but getting there).
– Not possible to create Timeines with different settings in same project.
– Timeline keyframe editor expands strange, and is not intuitive to use.
– Playback Render management is crude.
– Only few built in video effects.
– Time remapping has bad performance.
– No OMF export (guess it’s a dinosaur).
– I find the way Looks are saved and applied a little confusing.– No Parking Production –
Adobe CC2014, 3 x MacPro, 3 x MbP, Ethernet File Server w. Areca ThunderRaid 8
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Does it allow for multiple timelines to be opened at once?
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Not at once but you can toggle from one to the other similar to FCPX.
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[Eric Santiago] “Not at once but you can toggle from one to the other similar to FCPX.”
I know it’s the same – timeline at a time – setup in avid, but pancaking timelines in premiere, with the way you can set it up, is a solid workflow if you’re skimming for b-roll or selects string-outs for a music based edit.
the ability to scrub selects in context of your edit without actually shutting that edit down, part of me is genuinely surprised more people aren’t irritated by not having that. For the stuff it works for, it’s deadly serious kit. It works in spades. Any editing system that can only show one timeline at a go is, on some level, missing a real trick.
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Its extremely annoying that I can’t do it in X. Avid allows source side sequence loading in the monitor which inherit the markers. So functionally you can do the same thing, though its not a stack. As of CC 2014, the marker targeting or lack thereof wasted too much time to make the pancake function a net gain for me. Or at least if felt that way.
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General question:
Are there plug-ins that can get color correction in close to Resolve? I would rather eliminate the roundtrip altogether and stay in X.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Color correction plug-ins for X? A ton. If you want something with wheels, then Hawaiki Color, Yanobox Moods, Color Finale, Film Convert and Colorista III.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Scott Witthaus] “I would rather eliminate the roundtrip altogether and stay in X.”
I would also Scott. I think a lot of people would. I think that’s the whole point behind Resolve’s move in the first place.
As more and more people stay in their chosen NLE and use the grading tools right inside there (or plugins) in there, Resolve becomes more and more irrelevant.
That is……..UNLESS…………you become your own NLE.
I thought it was ironic that in one of the videos that was posted on here, the guy that was demoing it said something like”we want you to stay inside this program for everything”
I’m sure that’s the goal of all of these NLEs
I know it would be my goal if I ran the zoo.
Once you go out you may not come back : )
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I get the feeling BMD is spreading itself thin. Why make an NLE? That’s like becoming another craft brewery. Too many already.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Scott Witthaus] “I get the feeling BMD is spreading itself thin. Why make an NLE?”
Resolve was already really close to being an NLE. They already had the hardest part down as core functionality for colorists: an mutable timeline representation of the edit. The rest is (relatively) easy.
[Scott Witthaus] “That’s like becoming another craft brewery. Too many already.”
Competition and choice are good, with beer and with software.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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You are changing the subject of the post.
But to answer your question it does make sense to have editing and color in the same application.
Conforming through EDL or round-tripping both introduce problems, that can be avoided in an application that can do both. How many times have you not needed to go back and fix some editing – even after you thought the edit was ready for grading? In resolve you can simply disable all grades, go back and do your fix in editing mode, and you don’t loose a single grade or any real time performance.That said, BM still needs to do some optimisation for playback – but they are slowly getting there.
Then again there is the question that has been brought up about how BM can maintain a useful income from giving away the software. At some point they will be forced to make us pay…
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Adobe CC2014, 3 x MacPro, 3 x MbP, Ethernet File Server w. Areca ThunderRaid 8
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