Resolve Feature Requests (The “Too-Late-for-NAB” edition)

[Knut Jansohn]

Sorry if it received that way.
I didn’t intend to ask turning resolve into baselight!
The curvetool didn’t do that and other new features will not too, altough they possibly similar present in baselight (or other applications). Resolve has its advatages beside!
These features are usefull for me and I would be glad to see them similar in resolve.
Obviously the most ergonomic operating is provided by the first party boards.
But regardless for low budget it would be helpfull if more functions could be assigned to third party devices.

[Ernest Ratliff]

All I want is AVC-Intra support.

[Mike Most]

Even with the full control surface, Resolve is very appropriate for “low budget.” It costs less than 1/3 what a base Baselight system does, and 1/10 of what a Pablo does. Unless you’re really talking about “no budget,” in which case you shouldn’t be comparing it to things like Baselight that cost over 10 times more (if you’re not buying the Resolve control surface).

I really wonder if the guys at Blackmagic get a bit frustrated at how quickly they’ve made so many people forget how much this stuff cost only 12 months ago, and the rather unreasonable level of demands and complaints that’s engendered….

[Knut Jansohn]

Maybe my style is insufficient. If so, I have to appologize.

Resolve gives a sensational way for the price. That is beyond all question.

However BM develops it further on. And customers tell what they would like to see. I don’t see these wishes as unreasonable demands.
And even if we are ‘no budget-customers’ with say a wave and a Mac – what is wrong with thinking about more ergonomics etc.?

And don’t forget that BM itselfe declaires Resolve as “The world’s most advanced color correction solution for Mac, Windows and Linux!”. There isn’t an addendum like ‘for its price’

[Mike Most]

Well, can you name one other color grading product that’s available on the Mac, Windows, and Linux other than Speedgrade? And I would contend that in that context, Blackmagic’s statement is generally true…..

[Knut Jansohn]

lol…

You are kidding, right?

I don’t have the impression that they mean it along this line.

[Gustavo Bermudas]

[Mike Most] “I really wonder if the guys at Blackmagic get a bit frustrated at how quickly they’ve made so many people forget how much this stuff cost only 12 months ago, and the rather unreasonable level of demands and complaints that’s engendered….”

Well, they certainly are not victims when you introduce a product such as Resolve that used to cost around $250K as a free one. They obviously’ve had to see this coming, we all did.

[Mel Matsuoka]

Please, no!

The reason why Resolve is so awesome is because it’s not trying to be a finishing tool.

Smoke already exists, and is the best in breed for what it’s intended focus is. I’d rather purchase a tool that was designed and optimized from the ground up for a specific task, rather than having an amalgam of different “cool things” that don’t do any one thing particularly well (i.e Final Cut Pro and 3rd party plugins) If you need to grade stills, Lightroom exists and excels for exactly that focus, and is better than Resolve could ever reasonably hope to be, considering that it’s designed for realtime film/video grading.

I think a more reasonable request would be for Adobe to support control-surfaces within Lightroom. Then again, I have a hard time seeing how this would work, considering how deep and precise Lightroom’s controls are compared to any video grading app. Color correcting stills is a different type of workflow that I imagine would be very frustrating to perform using a control surface.

I agree it would certainly be convenient to be able to import camera Raw stills into Resolve. But it would also be “convenient” for it to load in native projectfiles from Apple Motion like Final Cut does. I just don’t think it’s particularly reasonable for Resolve to dedicate any sort of effort to try and make it happen, considering how esoteric such workflows are.

Of course, I could be proven wrong about all this in 2 weeks at NAB 🙂

[Michael Stirling]

The nightmare reconform I am embarking on today (mention in another thread) would be to have grade versions ripple through from other cuts

I could see how this wouldn’t help in all circumstances (ie. when you are versioning an ad for example) so suggest this:

Right click on a Session in the timeline management window/gives option to reconform this session/ xml loader dialog – loads a new session with grading decisions intact.

Oh, and render sound of course 🙂

Michael

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I’d like to propose…

Support for titles and other objects with Alpha and which can be linked to an XML. Imagine, you can master out a graded programme with subtitles, and even opening titles, lower thirds and other supers.

While we are at it, some rudimentary compositing, even simple DVE moves inherited from an XML would do nicely too.

And, pass-through for audio embedded in a video clip. Great for dailies.

DPX standard log to Lin conversion like Apple Color can do.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India