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Resolve 12 Pros and Cons
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[Oliver Peters] “But I’d bet they aren’t selling a lot of them either. My guess is that the Linux seats are more likely to buy a Resolve panel than the Mac or PC seats.”
You are probably right on both counts. Out of curiosity, did the current BM panel come from Da Vinci or is it something BM made (or heavily updated) after they bought Da Vinci?
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[Andrew Kimery] “did the current BM panel come from Da Vinci or is it something BM made (or heavily updated) after they bought Da Vinci?”
This is BMD’s own design. The original Davinci panels are much more engineered and heavy – i.e. more expensive to built. More metal, less plastic. The new panel was designed by BMD and can be configured via software. These panels connect via USB, while the old Davinci panels used a custom protocol to their own hardware.
FWIW – Wikipedia has a pretty decent chronology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci_Systems
– Oliver
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[Ricardo Marty] “If you read the resolve12 press release you get a feeling that they are out to grab adobe by the neck. “
Well… maybe. BMD has been on the move to become the next big tv/video company – a la Sony, GVG, RCA, etc. – for quite awhile. Grant Petty has pointedly said he hates the subscription model. A lot of his product moves have been to open the industry by lowering the cost of entry. So this is all consistent with those goals.
And yes, Resolve was pretty close already. Ultimately every NLE can or does have good color correction tools, so moving a color correction tool more into editing makes sense. Unfortunately many editors don’t have the slightest idea how to do color correction. It’s not that they can’t twiddle the controls, but rather they don’t really know what to do to get the effect they desire. It’s a specialty and that’s even more true when you have a complex tool like Resolve. The danger is devaluing the skill set.
Ironically a lot of effort is going into make better “online” editing tools for finishing, but very little towards make better “offline” (i.e. creative) editing tools. Apple is the exception with FCP X. It’s one of the things that Hollywood editors have pointed out to Avid as well, when it comes to product development.
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Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Another limitation in Resolve is that all projects reside on the client computer.
(that’s also one thing I don’t like about FCPX)In order to save a project to a Workgroup server it must be exported – which means the next time you open that project, you will have to import and replace if it has been altered on another client.
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[Morten Ranmar] “Another limitation in Resolve is that all projects reside on the client computer.”
There is a new consolidate function that makes your project more transportable. But in general, yes, Resolve’s project workflow isn’t quite as convenient as other NLEs, because of how the database is handled.
[Morten Ranmar] “that’s also one thing I don’t like about FCPX”
This is incorrect. FCPX Libraries with embedded or linked media can be created and/or moved around to any computer, internal or external drive. The only problem is that you have to set up the initial media locations with each newly created Library. So, if you want everything on a single, external, removable drive, it’s no different than FCP 7 or Premiere Pro.
– Oliver
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Orlando, FL
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I think it’s a bit early to complain about what Resolve 12 can or can’t do yet. This first version of the public beta has a lot – and I mean a LOT – of things that aren’t functional yet.
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Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “I think it’s a bit early to complain about what Resolve 12 can or can’t do yet. This first version of the public beta has a lot – and I mean a LOT – of things that aren’t functional yet.”
Does sync by waveform work? At NAB one of the BM reps said they weren’t showing it because it was too slow (obviously still alpha at that point).
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[Andrew Kimery] “Does sync by waveform work?”
It seems to be OK and analyzes and sync pretty quickly. I only tried one pair of audio and video clips, though.
I find the way they are handling multichannel audio in these source clips and then in multicam clips, as well as on the timeline, to be extremely confusing. It’s quite possible that some of this (like “display individual channels” on the timeline) isn’t working yet, which doesn’t help.
In general, it looks like they tried to graft a lot of X’s paradigms into a track-based world. And to some extent, hide the fact that you are working with tracks.
– Oliver
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[Oliver Peters] “It seems to be OK and analyzes and sync pretty quickly. I only tried one pair of audio and video clips, though.”
Oliver did you test with RED files?
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I didn’t test RED files for sync as I don’t currently have in my possession any RED files that are double-system sound. However, I tested RED Dragon files for input, peformance and grading and they seem to be fine. Video-only.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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