Resolve 16

[Michael Gissing]

Another NAB, another tour de force from Blackmagic coming up no doubt. The versions have been coming thick & fast.

The other day I dropped some Nikon raw stills into a Resolve project and they played. Even had access to RAW parameters on the Color page. I must have missed the memo but it seems some new features just appear without notice. I’m really pleased to see more codecs and formats appearing. I must test other stills RAW files. Very handy not to have to bounce to Affinity or Ps to process RAW stills. Maybe Resolve will eventually become the tool of choice for still people.

[Oliver Peters]

Seems like the new battle for editor hearts and minds these days is between Premiere Pro and Resolve. FCPX and Media Composer holding their own with their respective markets.

Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Andrew Kimery]

Another NAB where everyone talks about Resolve… and then no one currently using PPro, X or Avid actually switches to Resolve as their full time NLE. 😉

[Steve Connor]

[Andrew Kimery] “Another NAB where everyone talks about Resolve… and then no one currently using PPro, X or Avid actually switches to Resolve as their full time NLE. ????
“

I know 2 Editors who have switched already! This is obviously a BIG update, although Resolve point updates are bigger than some NLE’s major updates.

Perhaps they’ve done a deal with Apple for their Pro Apps 🙂

[Shawn Miller]

[Andrew Kimery] “Another NAB where everyone talks about Resolve… and then no one currently using PPro, X or Avid actually switches to Resolve as their full time NLE. ;)”

I know a number of people (including myself) who are using Resolve in addition to their main NLE. I wonder if more of us will be wandering into Resolve for straight editing tasks more often as the software gets more mature. I’m definitely anxious to see what BMD have done with r16. On a side note, I’m worried about the future of Fusion Studio, they seem to have abandoned it for Fusion embedded (my term).

Shawn

[Chip Doss]

Andrew, I think your point was good for last year but I know a lot of people who are using Resolve (Customers) as an equipment reseller and system designer we keep a pretty close pulse on industry changes. I don’t know that many adopted it vs. Ppro or others until Resolve 15. I personally forced myself to use it and stay out of any Adobe products in my last project. I had a few moments that I got lost and had to watch a video or two, but after that I was doing well. I have not been this happy since DPS VelocityQ

Chip Doss
Edgemont Video, Inc.
http://www.edgemontvideo.com

[Michael Gissing]

It’s much easier to get a person to switch from an EOL’d favourite than what Resolve is doing. Premiere was in the right place to benefit most from Legends demise. Resolve is certainly eating into the Pr world in my neck of the woods. The key seems to have been the big improvement in performance, especially with DR15.

One thing that has surprised me is that the Resolve edit & mix panels are not available. As a company that makes money out of hardware, I did expect they would have it out by now. I have always been a fan of edit & fader panels. Once people get to use them and see what I have enjoyed for years with Fairlight there might be a rush to Resolve. Editors always just drooled when they sat in with me doing sound post seeing a proper controller with transport controls & dedicated keys compared to keeping a head full of ASCII shortcuts.

[Oliver Peters]

[Michael Gissing] “One thing that has surprised me is that the Resolve edit & mix panels are not available.”

I suspect that my never happen. The market is small and BMD keeps changing menu location items. Hard to keep up.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Michael Gissing]

They are available to back order on B&H but they don’t have a picture. If they are based on the Fairlight edit panel the buttons are self labeling and based on software so they can easily be customised and changed as software changes. They do sell the old Fairlight EVO mixer panels which include the controller and faders which work with Resolve’s edit page, not just the Fairlight page.

I would be surprised if they didn’t make the desktop panels. They won’t get dedicated Fairlight people like me to use Resolve as the primary DAW if they don’t. Picture editors might put up with mouse ASCII hell but we won’t.

[Eric Santiago]

Going through the posts on the update and did a quick view of an MZed course.
I can’t see how anyone would have issues using the editor in Resolve since it looks so much like FCPX to me.
I only live in Media/Color/Delivery pages in Resolve maybe its time I start using the Edit page ☺

Where I am based, I only get older NLE projects coming at me.