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Resolve XII…
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Apple seem a bit distracted about iPhone sales right now but another maturing cross platform NLE with the goodies that many want plus it having better potential as a complete finishing tool for free might just concern some at Apple and Adobe.
The increase of third party support for OFX including Hit Film now making their plugins Resolve & Pr compatible (and X ) makes it easier to contemplate using Resolve with plugins, Fusion and or Hit Film as a really potent combo of edit, title, compositing, finishing without needing Apple or Adobe software apart from perhaps Photoshop.
But for me the most exciting thing is the sheer pace of improvements with Resolve. In another 4 years I suspect Resolve could open up a substantial gap and many might find X in the same position as FCP7 being underdeveloped and languishing. I hope it doesn’t. Adobe will probably chase but I have less confidence in AVID or Apple wanting to. Don’t be surprised to see Resolve throw in an option to edit track or trackless or hybrid. They have less ideological baggage and I am sure they are hearing both sides of the argument.
But by far the most significant thing for me is the bulk of my clients who are holding onto FCP Legend will now move to Resolve and as it is my finishing tool of choice, it becomes a single system with little need for xml standards that change at the whim of Apple.
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[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.”
The self affirmation mantras are getting really old Bill. Maybe you never got the training wheels off with Legend and dealing with tracks. Maybe we don’t care as long as the job gets done the way we prefer.
But spare us the close minded vehicular analogies.
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If Resolve gets that much headway Im guessing Apple could care less. As far as they’re concerned, as long as they have a suitable functioning product that fits nicely into their ecosystem, they’re happy.
The OFX stuff, last time I checked was expensive or subscription plugs. Honestly I’m more into templates or compositing footage like dust, light leaks, etc. But I do of course have a pretty good investment in mFlare and mObject. I’m also enjoying things like mBehaviour. Stuff that lets you create your own stuff, but speeds it along.
I really would like to see fusion integrated in the same way as motion. The rigging and publishing is totally unique to FCPX. Being able to edit your text from an AE project in Premiere doesn’t even begin to touch it. If they could do that with Fusion and resolve, plus have “send to fusion,” functionality then just wow.
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Funny because I see the FCPX timeline as the one ‘with training wheels’.
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[Michael Gissing] “[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.”
The self affirmation mantras are getting really old Bill. Maybe you never got the training wheels off with Legend and dealing with tracks. Maybe we don’t care as long as the job gets done the way we prefer.
But spare us the close minded vehicular analogies”
Here, let me try language that you can comprehend…
X is really very simple to understand. When you dig into it, It all makes simple sense. The only people who have trouble with it are those who’ve become so hidebound invested in thinking ONE way, that the very idea that there might be any other way to think about editing puts them into total brain freeze. Those folks are STILL on the boards four plus years on – discussing X through the lens of little to no actual experience with how it operates in a cohesive daily production system – largely because they’d rather spend 4 years dissing it than 6 months learning it.
It’s just not that hard to adapt comfortably to the X system unless you’re either A) exceptionally dim, or B) you WILL yourself NOT to do it because it scares you too much.
(Thought I’d join you in making everything PERSONAL, since obviously you can’t handle someone saying something about PROGRAM LEARNABILITY (is that a word?) – without transmuting that into a personal attack.)
Hope you feel better now that you have another post to point at to denounce me.
Always happy to help.
Carry on.
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[Gabe Strong] “Funny because I see the FCPX timeline as the one ‘with training wheels’.
“Really? I never met anyone that can go significantly FASTER on a bike with training wheels…
Somebody should tell all those guys on the Tour de France.
This could be transformative!
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Oh FFS, can I kill this thread now? Sorry I brought it up.
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Maybe this relates to teaching track editors to use FCPX.
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[Bret Williams] “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?”
What hardware? Other than the occasional restart if it’s chewing up RAM (and that happens way less these days) It’s been quite good for me lately. Which is obviously unhelpful to you. 🙂
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I do not see a trackless timeline as a bike with training wheels nor do I see a timeline with tracks has training wheels either. Going back to tracks will not require my brain going crazy. Sure there will be a couple of extra steps but not that complicated. I actually like the style that X uses, gets out of your way allowing for more efficient editing with less time concetrating on track assignments. Not saying tracks are bad, just a different approach. Just my two cents, carry on!
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