[Adam Claude jones]

Hi Myron. Thanks for the reply. That wouldn’t work. It’s all a single edit. It is a finished film. So the clips are not separated. It wasn’t edited in Resolve and I don’t have the original edit project anymore. So I can’t export an EDL to bring it in Resolve. I can only bring the edited film into Resolve. Know what I mean?

[Adam Claude jones]

My computer is just not fast enough to run new Resolve. But it runs anything else I need and use. Including 3D software and graphics. I wish Resolve wasn’t such a resources hog. 🙁

[Adam Claude jones]

I see. Makes sense.

Could you recommend another software to convert? Thanks.

[Adam Claude jones]

I thought this was the problem too. But it lets me export 2704×1440. UHD it doesn’t let me export. But the problem is the exported 2704×1440 is letterboxed inside the frame.

I don’t particularly need Resolve. I just need a free way to convert the files to more manageable format which is not so much of a resources hog as AVCHD, MP4 etc. So I need to convert it to either DNxHD, ProRes or some image sequence. But I need the custom resolution too. Could you recommend any free converter which would do that? Then I won’t need resolve. Thanks.

[Adam Claude jones]

Thanks. That surely did the trick.

[Adam Claude jones]

Sure. Nothing wrong with asking. Although by now BMD is pretty sure people would like to be able to fully use the panels that are cheaper than theirs. It’s not only a given, but people having been voicing that for years now. BMD knows.

But like somebody else said, if it’s not happening yet it probably means they don’t want to do it. And who can blame them really?

I think a better strategy would be what Mel said. Try to get them to release a light version of their panels for cheaper. I mean, this is basically what the “cheapo” panels like the Tangent and MC Color are anyways. Light versions of the full Resolve panels. But requesting that BMD help their competitors to make more money and sell more panels is hardly anything that makes any sense business-wise for BMD. So it’s like looking out only for ourselves. Of course they wont comply.

Change that tune to, BMD, we would pay $8-10K for a cheaper Resolve panel and there is real money to be made for them.

[Adam Claude jones]

I mean, sure. But isn’t this like telling Ford to allow you to use all the Chevy accessories you picked up for your Chevy before you went Ford?

How do you think it would go down if you went to reduser and asked them to make the Epic compatible with the Alexa’s viewfinder? Or worse, make the red viewfinder compatible with the Alexa.

And what about all the guys who bought MC Color?

[Adam Claude jones]

Mel, what you are saying makes a lot more sense. For BMD is much better business to invest in bringing the price of their panels down or coming up with a cheaper one than investing in helping other companies sell theirs.

[Adam Claude jones]

[Sascha Haber] “Let’s do away with Resolve free completely…
Bundle it as light with the camera (locked to its resolution and format) and as Full with the Element set for 5000$ and there is a market again.”

And bundle it with the cards too…oh wait!

[Adam Claude jones]

So Taivo, did you get it to work?