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Resolve 8 – pinch me I’m dreaming
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[Joseph Mastantuono ]“I’m really excited about the Noise Reduction stuff and the XML support, I have to say I did sometimes miss the hue curves from color, just because it just took me a bit each time I wanted to replicate it with a qualifier.”
Resolve 8 adds hue curves, but not hue/saturation wheels like Color or?
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I see, thanks. And exactly is power mastering and remote grading? Does Color have anything similar? Thanks.
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Remote grading: you can have 2 machines with same media files and only exchange metadata to grade remotely. Lets say you are in london and your client is in LA. So you can have remote session so that when you do something in your end your client sees results in the other end.
As Resolve is realtime and you only send metadata by internet you ca have remote session with your client
you staying still london.Power mastering helps you making “online” session with your vtr.
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Margus
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I have to say I agree with Paul in that I do not see any threat for professional colorists with the free version. What is the difference between FREE and $995 in the professional market anyway? We built our first DaVinci grading suite this year and as far as I’m aware the only thing cheaper then the full Resolve license is the USB extender and the chair. Everything else, including the desk, is a lot more expensive and I would say that the Resolve dongle is probably 1% of the room cost. The above does not even to take into account how much an experienced and talented colorist bring to a session.
I see the free version as a great way of getting more people using Resolve and I would think it’s a “no brainer” for educational institutions to put Resolve on all their Macs. It’s a lot better then Color and I would argue that for someone wanting to get serious with Color grading, Resolve Lite is the tool they should learn. Apple started the democratization of color grading when they bought “Final Touch” and made it into Color, but they never made it an easy to use and properly integrated application. After the initial buzz at its launch, Color really hasn’t received much love and attention. I doubt it will receive much attention at tomorrows Supermeet either, but I could of course be wrong about that!
However, looking at what they did with Shake I could see the same thing happen with Color: Apple bought Shake to support and maintain a strong compositing application on the Mac OSX platform. Then After Effects matured and Nuke came to be – no longer any need for Apple to make a compositor to get this market buying Mac Pros. When Apple bought Final Touch there wasn’t any good and “cheap” grading applications for the mac, now there is Resolve and Scratch ($17’500 isn’t cheap, but a lot cheaper and what the cost used to be).
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Thats all very good news!!
I was wondering if the upgrade would work better with interlaced material.
The lite version seems very assistant/trainee intended, good to import edls, organise sequences, its a very good idea.
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So power mastering is only used if you’re going back to tape? I thought it was some tool for conforming. If it’s for tape I don’t need it. This days i never go back to tape anymore. don’t need the remote grading either.
So if single processing GPU is enough for 1080p, it seems the only big limitation is the 2 color nodes. The noise reduction can’t be much better than Neatvideo already is. Nice to have it in grading but by the time my footage reaches that stage I have already denoised it long ago. -
Some noise emerge when you push your material really hard.
Then one would like to have noise control in grading suite.—
Margus
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What a great upgrade..can’t wait!
Has anyone considered that Apple recently had a private event to preview FCP Studio 3. Perhaps they have something coming with a new rev of Color that’s caused Black Magic to put it in gear! 😉
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Peter any chance of getting in on the Beta? I know you guys are running around like nuts at NAB so I know I may not hear back anything till later. Just seeing what you guys had planed for last min. testing. We are a current version 7 shop.
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It’s funny, that no one is seeing the real reason for the free version of Resolve. Yes, there will be a few casual users, that will install it and try to use it, until they realize, that it’s pretty useless without a panel and BM card. So, once those casual users had spent $2500 on a missing hardware, then what’s another $995?
No, that is not the real reason for the free version. At least not the way I see it. Let me give a typical scenario.
You need to send the “look” to the VFX. These days this means CDL (not very good option) or a LUT (even worse one). Imagine, that instead all you’d need to send along with R3D files is an XML Resolve session. Yes, right now there’re only 2 nodes on a free version, but how many nodes do you need for CDL or LUT? Just one!
So now, all of a sudden, anyone with a Mac can open and apply a perfect “look”. What, if BM decided to build a Resolve plugin for Smoke, Flame or NUKE and all the artist would have to do is to just apply the “look” inside the program they’re using. No need to deal with CDL or a LUT. How about a plugin for FCP, Avid, PPro etc? Now all of a sudden everyone in a pipeline- editorial, VFX, colorists and camera crew, they all speak the same color language, with no translation necessary. Add a bit of IFF/ACES magic and now you have a perfect color management system, that anyone can use…
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