The pre-nab editor’s lounge panel on the state of editing.

[Bill Davis]

[Oliver Peters] “I spoke with some of my LA facility friends who are actually posting 4K series. Seems that the Resolve systems are giving them problems with 4K content, whereas Baselight handles it in stride. Always good to separate marketing from reality.”

Interesting Oliver,

I too heard some grumbling about how parts of the BlackMagic ecosystem are showing some stress.
I know that this year they were gleeful to announce 38 new products for NAB 2015, but I gotta wonder if that pace of development is overly torrid to allow them to buff them all up to the level customers might expect.

I honestly hope they do. Because Grant’s thinking is obviously right in line with where the market appears to want to go.

And they certainly managed to capture the “big buzz” once again this year.

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[Michael Gissing]

[Oliver Peters] “I spoke with some of my LA facility friends who are actually posting 4K series. Seems that the Resolve systems are giving them problems with 4K content, whereas Baselight handles it in stride. Always good to separate marketing from reality.”

Love to know what those problems are and what hardware differences there might be. Having just dropped a Titan X card into my PC I have had a marked performance jump. Are they comparing similar hardware configs? It is folly to think just because Resolve is cheap or free that you can also go cheap on hardware.

Or is it software. Important distinction so people don’t slag off at the pace of software developments when that may not be the issue at all.

[Oliver Peters]

[Michael Gissing] “Love to know what those problems are and what hardware differences there might be. Having just dropped a Titan X card into my PC I have had a marked performance jump. Are they comparing similar hardware configs? It is folly to think just because Resolve is cheap or free that you can also go cheap on hardware. “

It’s a house doing top-level commercial and feature work. They are running fully-equipped Windows and Linux Resolve systems as well as Baselight 8 units. So, I don’t think cheap hardware is the issue.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Michael Gissing]

If they are running on the same hardware then that is interesting. A critical thing for 4k is enough RAM on the GPU. Until the Titan X card came out there weren’t that many GPUs with enough RAM on board for 4k or bigger files.