Resolve 15.2

[Michael Hancock]

Do you ever sleep Oliver? This was just released! ????

Does Blackmagic ever sleep?!

For anyone interested in the new features, here’s an overview:

https://youtu.be/h8lo7mWq978

My jaw is on the floor at their pace of development. If only any other NLE developer was even half as responsive as they are.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

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[Neil Goodman]

Looks good. Between Avid PPro and FCPX i feel like Ive got my editorial needs covered already – but its great to know a free option like this is around and growing at an alarming rate. Kind of looks like the best of all 3 apps smooshed into one.

Hows the trimming in Davinci? Can you mimic Avids functionality?

[Steve Connor]

It will be interesting to see what the next release of FCPX brings, Resolve development is clearly still on an upward curve, much as I love FCPX it really feels like development has been slowing down over the last couple of years.

[Steve Connor]

I just downloaded it and have loaded up a project with 4K XAVC files, FCPX works with these really well, PPro, not so well on my 2015 MBP.

I have to say, on first impressions Resolve is even more responsive than FCPX now, the speed improvements have been spectacular over the last year. I’m going to try a client project with it today and see how it goes

[Oliver Peters]

[Michael Hancock] “Do you ever sleep Oliver? This was just released! “

☺

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Oliver Peters]

I use Resolve pretty regularly for color correction jobs and a bit of light editing (mainly trimming stringouts of footage). My son uses it for some basic YouTube editing. It’s definitely capable, but of course, if you want certain specific tools that you are used to from other NLEs, then they may or may not be there. For example, specific titling attributes. But there are plenty of bell-and-whistles.

The ideal set-up is a single installation with local storage. It gets a bit trickier with larger installations and SAN/NAS operations. First of all, Resolve uses a central database for its projects, not discrete project/library files, like Premiere Pro or FCPX. This is stored on your local host machine. But, let’s say you have media on your NAS volumes and the project local. If you try to launch Resolve without your NAS volumes already mounted, Resolve will give you major complaints. Not a simple “media offline” prompt. Not a problem – just something to get used to.

Since projects are contained within a single, larger database, you have to individually export a Resolve project file, whenever you need to archive it or have it be transportable. A good habit to get into.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Scott Witthaus]

[Oliver Peters] ” If only other NLE developers were this fast and responsive to customers.”

Or are they just playing catch up?

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Michael Hancock]

Everyone is playing catch up in some respects, but also innovating along the way. Blackmagic is just doing it faster than everyone else.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Andrew Kimery]

[Michael Hancock] “Blackmagic is just doing it faster than everyone else.”

Are they though? Things like dupe detection, active window highlighting, sub-frame editing of audio transitions, faster timeline redrawing, entering TC w/o having to use “;” or “:”… are mainly quality of life improvements that all major NLEs eventually pickup. Once Resolve hits a more mature development status and all the low hanging fruit features are checked off I think it’s upgrade pace will slow the way it does for all mature software.

Resolve still seems to be the backup QB of NLEs; it looks great on paper, everyone crows about its potential, but it can’t manage to get meaningful playing time over starters like X, MC and PPro. I think I picked up my first copy in 2011 or 2012 and every NAB it feels like ‘this year’ will be the year Resolve is a break out NLE that takes the world by storm.

[Oliver Peters]

[Scott Witthaus] “Or are they just playing catch up?”

It doesn’t matter. Even if they are playing catch-up, the fact that a feature exists in another product doesn’t make the development effort any easier for the engineers and UI team. Add that on top of this, they are also actively merging products acquired from different companies and blending them into a single all-in-one product. That’s development pace squared.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com