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Resolve 12
In all the excitment of the X update many may have missed this –
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/products/davinciresolveVideos on the site show metadata based smart bins and fav folders, multicam looks interesting and audio has made a huge leap by including automatable clip and track based control and VST/AU plugins that can also be clip or track. AAF export of audio for ProTools, Fairlight etc with flattened video file. Trim & slip/slide multiple clips at once. Nesting with ability to decompose in place, custom transition controls, media management, multiple clip length trimming (great for adjusting title cards), improved tracking and serious keying.
This looks like a serious challenge as an editor and is probably the biggest single update to Resolve yet. Yes it has tracks and is smart in having both clip and track based signal processing. Combined with Boris CC 10 this looks like a much more serious edit/grade/finish tool. I hope Open FX has been sped up.
Perhaps it is not unexpected but with their pace of change and by sticking to a more conventional paradigm, Blackmagic is targeting both FCP Legend and CC holdouts and may well lure X editors away or at least encourage them to add it to their toolset. Given that it already is great at import and export of FCPXML and with AAf audio export, it will probably kill Marquis X2Pro as the new release has the lite free version or is a free upgrade for the full.
Of course it needs to get out in the wild and face some user feedback but as an announcement,even without all the new camera products it looks like Blackmagic continues to steal NAB.
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I’m really interested to see how well/when they’ll support fcpxml 1.5. There are a ton of color and masking parameters in there now.
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Wow, this looks amazing. The UI looks great, the editing looks better than FCPX. And integration with resolve and protools is infinitely more useful than after effects and speed grade. Plus it’s free?! This is easily the biggest threat IMO, it’s like the best of Premiere and FCPX without the the subscription and with active development adding excellent features.
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See my comments in the 10.2 thread, but yes, it looks like more of an editor. At least as a conforming/finishing tool. Probably more of a Smoke(Mac)-killer than anything else (when heavy compositing isn’t needed). And it’s free 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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looks amazing but version 11 runs like poo on the same machine i edit pretty effortlessly on AVID/PP/FCPX.
if they fix the performance issues, it could be a beast!
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[Chris Frantz] “And integration with resolve and protools is infinitely more useful than after effects and speed grade”
I’m not sure what that means. Resolve/PT is simply sending an AAF to Resolve. That’s completely different than PPro/AE (via Dynamic Link) and PPro/SG (via Direct Link). So I’m not sure how one has anything to do with the other. Premiere basically gives you the exact same level of integration with ProTools from what I can tell.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Sure, Resolve is just exporting an AAF, I was just pointing out the feature as the promo touted it.
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We will have to wait to see how Blackmagic get Resolve & Fusion talking to each other. Resolve has also been good at tracking FCPX XML changes which seem to be with almost every iteration.
I agree with Oliver that it looks like a finishing tool killer but I also see a point where an edit might switch from assemble to fine cut by swapping to Resolve from X or CC or even FCP Legend. The audio improvements alone will tempt some X users to perhaps move the edit over well before lock off just to have the finishing tools and then move to sound & picture post easily.
One item that may have slipped through the hype over up front features is collaborative workflows and remote grading. Sneaky little items that will change a few workflows and might be very interesting given my remote location.
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[Neil Goodman] “looks amazing but version 11 runs like poo on the same machine i edit pretty effortlessly on AVID/PP/FCPX.”
Agreed. R11 performance is so poor that it’s a non-factor for me at at this point. I will try with R12 and see what happens. Perhaps just a finishing tool after editorial in X?
Scott
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Avid demo’ed Fusion integrated (linked) into the MC timeline in the upcoming 8.4 update. Im sure Resolve would get the same treatment
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[Scott Witthaus] “Agreed. R11 performance is so poor that it’s a non-factor for me at at this point. I will try with R12 and see what happens. Perhaps just a finishing tool after editorial in X?”
This was a concern of mine as well and the BM people I talked to said that there is an all new playback engine so performance won’t be a problem anymore. Of course the proof is in the pudding so we’ll have to wait until July to see for ourselves.
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