The reason we are NOT buying a full DaVinci control surface is…

[Joseph Mastantuono]

Sure the Keyer sometimes has a hard time with dslr/xdcam/etc footage, and we all want better blur & shrink/grow tools, but this is ridiculous.

I really love using daVinci, and its great and fast at synching and timing dual system sound dailies. I find it faster turnaround than using redcinex.

Sure it’s a matter of personal presence and comfort, but resolve is my favorite colorist software out there right now. And a big part of that is the node based workflow.

Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting

[Kacey Baker]

Transformers. Sucker Punch. Pirates. Star Trek. Lone Ranger. Oz. Man Of Steel.

Clearly I’m going with Stefan Sonnenfeld’s career over your opinion.

[Vincent Taylor]

Sensitive bunch us colourists. 🙂

[Robert Wentz]

@Joseph Owens “at least it doesn’t keep disappearing like the AJA does if the Mac ‘sleeps’. Then its a system cold boot or forget it.”

One of the many reasons why most people disable sleep mode on any machine dedicated to production or post.

[Marc Wielage]

Wow, here’s a 2-year-old thread back from the dead.

I think the HSL keyer in Resolve could be improved, but it’s actually been pretty good since v11 (released after this discussion started). The daVinci panels have uses above and beyond just the keyer — I can typically work at least 20% faster on their panels than anything else.

I’m sure that performance will improved even more with v12.

[Michael Gissing]

The preview videos I have seen of vers 12, there seems to be a big improvement in keying including green/blue keying. HSL also looks much cleaner and easier to pull a key just by drawing a simple line over the tones you want to gather. You can draw a few lines to broaden the key. It sure looked good on the demo.