Resolve XII…

[David Mathis]

This eager beaver wants to get his paws on it. That with Fusion.

[Gabe Strong]

Ha, or you could be like me and think tracks are awesome
but subscriptions suck even worse than not having tracks
so you use a little FCP X, a little Premiere CS 6 and a little
FCP 7, depending on the project. And you think Resolve XII
looks just like throwing those 3 NLE’s in a pot and mixing….
so it should be perfect for me……lol.

Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
http://www.gforcevideo.com

[Steve Connor]

[Charlie Austin] “A small bird told me to get your public beta tester hats on. If you like tracks, you have another nice alternative. If, like me, you prefer FCP X and think tracks suck, (because they do!) the bird says that X and 12 play very well together for all your advanced coloring and finishing needs.”

Did that small bird also tell you whether it was actually useable for editing in this version?

[David Mathis]

I just been reading some comments on the BMD website, and so far the indication is that XII is a huge improvement over the current version. Perhaps we will get realtime performance in the edit page. It looks like there is serious competition about!

[Charlie Austin]

[Steve Connor] “Did that small bird also tell you whether it was actually useable for editing in this version?”

The bird…oh screw it, it’s me, and BMD has said it’s OK to talk about it now. lol.

It is useable. As everyone knows, there were some, uh.. performance issues with 11 that made it pretty useless as an NLE, and these have been addressed. My main focus has been messing with the fcpxml integration, and seeing how it works for short form cuts/revisions. it’s good now, still “young”, but you can actually work in it.

I can’t speak to the color page and other improvements, but there have been quite a few things improved there as well. There should be a public beta soon, and everyone can see for themselves. 🙂

Depending on what they do with Fusion, I could totally see finishing houses adopting it as an all-in-one solution. As an FCP X user, I think that would be a very nice development, as the 2 play very well together. 🙂

Compared to X, well… FCP X is in a league of it’s own. There’s nothing in Resolve, or anything else I’ve used, that changes that. Compared to other NLE’s, Resolve is close to nipping at their heels. I’ll be interested to hear what others think.

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[David Mathis]

Admit it, you are starting to like tracks! 😉

Joking aside, I am in complete agreement with X being in a league of its own. The timeline and organizing tools are just the tip of the iceberg. My only reel beef is with keyframing, something that Resolve is much better at. Trimming is nice there as well. Where our friend X shines is custom transitions, generators and other such icing filled with flavor on the cake, done in Motion is just sheer super duper awesome.

[Charlie Austin]

[David Mathis] “Admit it, you are starting to like tracks! ;-)”

lol… Actually, if anything, I am liking them less. I’d tell you about the horrorshow I’ve been having with Pr lately, but I’ll defer to the lessons my mom taught me, and just not say anything. 😉

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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Eric Santiago]

The beauty of tracks for most of us is that we started with it.
If its there we know how to deal with it.
If its not there…well some of us took the plunge and learned a really fast NLE at a very low price 🙂

[Bill Davis]

If you can adapt to riding a bike without training wheels, you can use an NLE without tracks. It’s about the same level of mental leap.

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[Bret Williams]

I’ve found that I can take or leave tracks. I never was much of a patcher, just drag to the timeline so that point is moot, but what I still dislike 3 years later is the the constant ripple mode. I would rarely need ripple mode in legacy. Why would I want it to be the default? But I deal with it because of the motion integration. If be just as happy with AE integration, but they lost me with the subscription thing.

Resolves non default ripple mode is insanely more powerful than X. We’ll see if the performance is there. But it’s still lacking motion graphics integration. Maybe R13 with fusion. But Xs timeline performance is pretty abysmal lately. Everything is always leggy. Maybe I have too many motion templates. But if my favorite part of X makes it laggy then what’s the point?

Resolve now has smart bins and multicam that doesn’t also slice up the audio. Real trimming, live audio mixing and so on. Tracks or not, they’re stepping up the game. But we all said this a year ago and the software was pretty useless.