resolve 9: wave still doesn’t trigger GUI

[Andi Winter]

i agree totally, i wanna see the values!!!

and i don’t see any advantage of not updating the gui.
doing something at the same time with the mouse? hm,
i can’t think of anything useful but clicking on the proper
tab to actually see what i am doing valuewise…

sascha, do you think bm does this on purpose to reward
people who do use the big iron?
(same goes for memories a-h and not being able to jump directly to clips)

[Sascha Haber]

Well, I have no information about the technical possibilities of the Wave or Element panels.
The panel mapping provided is 90% complete and allows to develop muscle memory to a certain extend.
But the more you grow into the software, the more you start to miss those extra features.
So what we are doing , essentially, is not being thankful about what we are getting for free, but complaining about what we are not getting…for free.

But as much as I want to justify the investment into the full panel, clients are as discussed not as rewarding with their budgets and a lot of them also lowered their standard in time of recession.
They only thing we can hope for is for the big panel to become cheaper.
I doubt we will ever see a complete mapping for the third party controls or a matrix to do it ourselves.

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[Jon Howard]

Don’t think Resolve equals Apple Color when it comes to market perception. Company 3 and The Mill LA are on Resolve, and for commercials those are probably the two biggest color shops in LA. The Linux version with big honkin panels of course, which isn’t free by a long, long stretch. Interesting discussion overall, just wanted to chime in regarding the statement about market perception.

In my experience sitting in color sessions for commercials, clients are looking at monitors, not the GUI or panels. They’re interested only in getting the color they want in the time they have booked. If the software gets them there, they’re happy, regardless what it is. Between Resolve, Scratch, Pablo, Baselight and Lustre, I’ve been in color sessions for all of them and not once has the software been asked about or become an issue, with the exception of Lustre. But that was more of a facility infrastructure issue and nothing to do specifically with the application.

The artist is by far the most important component in a color session and the editors and creatives I work with routinely seek out specific colorists for their work, and would go after those guys even if they switched software.

Interesting discussion and I don’t mean to go off topic. The comment about Resolve’s market perception stuck out at me.