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Switching Apple Color to Resolve… Good idea or Great idea?
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DOH! Better response, though not funded by an account at NASA, I’ll do the opposite of what I’d do this time last year : jump on a Tangent Wave..
Time to find a table thick enough, cut a hole and make the Wave slip into it to make an impression on clients when they stop by….
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BMD have really thought this through. You buy the software, start learning and earning on your laptop if you can stand working at SD you’re good to go (doesn’t mean you have to finish at SD, just grade). When you can afford it, move to a Mac Pro (and prey Apple have a bit of a long hard look at themselves and give us Southbridge and 80 lanes or onboard USB3 in the meantime) and start working at HD in real time (about 5-8 nodes, depending on what you’re doing – for instance, blurs eat up RT). Then later you can get a Davinci panel and then, when you start taking over the industry, move up to Linux, 8 GPUs, 3D, 4k etc. All without having to learn new software.
They get you hooked and they keep you wanting more. And you thought drug pushers were evil;-)
Cheers
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FWIW I will be switching as soon as they start shipping. I have been working on Color for a year now, after having worked on Pogle, 2k etc. Color has some great features but I keep on coming up against the fact that it is not real time and it doesn’t have sound, these two factors have lost us clients… eg BBC client a few months ago,
“Oh Color, that’s the one with no audio right ? We had to re-do half a days grade because the director couldn’t attend and the colourist didn’t know that two scenes were day for evening because he couldn’t hear the VO….” This is just one of many examples others include “why is it jerky” “Oh it’s not real time” etc etc. When people are paying upwards of £250 per hour they want to see exactly how their film/promo will look, hopefully Resolve will allow that. -
I’ve been there too. It’s embarrassing to answer “sorry, Color doesn’t do that..”
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Exactly my point.
When grading feature etc you want speed and audio.
Client wants to see all stuff now not in hour or so.
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Margus
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I almost got the MC Color, but switched to Wave because of the out of the box davinci support. And I’m kinda glad I did – mostly because I love the clickety-clak buttons on it. They’re very fast and easy to press.
When I was looking at vids of the euphonix panel, all the buttons seemed tiny and, how do I describe it, squishy-like?
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I think in the end what matters is the control and speed you get from your board.
Tangent cant beat full board on that.
I’m reading old manual and it is really impressive how much control you have
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Margus
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One more for the WAVE, I love it, much more than the MC COLOR. MC COLOR’s buttons are too small, and its not as customizable.
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No, it can’t beat hundreds of dedicated buttons and knobs, but I was really (and pleasantly!) surprised by how customizable and extensible it can be.
With its ability to have multiple banks of buttons and knobs I can create almost “rooms” within Wave in Color – this layout is for secondary vignettes, this layout is for keying, this layout is for keyframing – etc. For the size and price, it’s pretty darned good!
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