Andrew Kimery
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[Brett Sherman] “In this case, it’s not 100% clear a backup would have saved him. Since it deleted the files without warning, he had no indication that they were gone.”
I think this is the part of the conversation where were we get into the difference between redundant storage and backup storage. ????
Keeping a mirrored copy of your active drives is redundant storage (which is good for recovering from a hardware failure) but the down side, as you note, is that any data corruption and/or deletion that happens on the active drives will find it’s way into the mirrored set of drives. Backup solutions must be quarantined from active storage for this very reason. Backups should also be kept off site incase of a fire, lightening strike, natural disaster, etc.,.
A small documentary company I sometimes work keeps one copy of their data on their shared storage (ProMAX Studio), one on external HDDs that are only connected when doing backups, and a third on LTO tape that’s kept in cold storage (the won’t even wipe cards from the field until the files have made it to LTO). They spend a lot of money on data security (relatively speaking), but they spend exponentially more in the field capturing things that can’t be recreated so to them it’s a no brainer.
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[Ricardo Marty] “Resolve is already making its foot print in hollywood. Check this out:
Starting on 16:52”
For coloring/finishing Resolve has been in Hollywood for a long time. For offline/creative editing though… not so much.
[Oliver Peters] “No one is stopping you ☺”
People who use it way more than I do say it’s still not ready yet, and no one that I know of in my neck of the woods will pay me to use it, so my incentive to choose learning Resolve (as an NLE) is currently incredibly low. There’s only so much time in a day. 😉
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[Steve Connor] “Well FCPX hasn’t displaced any competitors in a meaningful way either!”
I think X has meaningfully displaced MC, PPro and/or PPro in places where people have to edit as part of their job, but their job isn’t editing for 40-50hrs a week (which is probably the broadest market for NLEs with the proliferation of video creation). It also seems to be more popular in the EU and SA markets than in NA.
[Oliver Peters] “There are several openings for Resolve.
1. The people who want the FCP7/PremierePro track-based, modern NLE, but without subscription.
2. The finishing folks who want a DS or Smoke/Flame replacement and don’t find Symphony adequate.
3. The newer facilities looking for a modern all-in-one, start-to-finish solution.
4. Young editors or those working in certain sectors, where NLE choice isn’t determined by project interchange with other NLEs.
“Yes, the backup QB who’ll be amazing once he gets in the game… but no one is ready to actually put him in the game yet outside of garbage time. ????
I’ve been sold on the potential of Resolve for years, I’m just musing on when we’ll stop saying Resolve is almost there and we’ll start saying it’s time to ditch X, MC, and/or PPro in favor of Resolve.
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[Oliver Peters] “That’s development pace squared.”
At what point, from an NLE perspective, would you consider Resolve to be a ‘mature’ product and once it hits that point do you think their pace of development will be able to continue at the same rate?
[Michael Hancock] “I’ve cut a few things in Resolve to test it out (usually after every big release), and it’s not quite there yet. But every big release I go back and try it again, because I want it to get there. Maybe one day!”
Two editors at NAB:
“Did you see all the features they added to Resolve?!?”
“I know, isn’t it awesome?”
“Yeah, I wish Avid, Apple and Adobe would crank out new features that fast.”
“Me too.”
“So, are you going to start cutting in Resolve?”
“lol, no.”
“Me neither.”That’s always been my big hangup with the hype around Resolve, everyone (including me) coos over it every time a new version comes out, but every time a new version comes out it’s always ‘one version away’ from really being able to contend with X, MC and PPro. If Resolve can’t displace any of its competitors in a meaningful way does its pace of development really matter?
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I’m of mixed feeling about the lawsuit. On one hand, updates shouldn’t destroy/brick users’ data or hardware, but it happens enough that pretty much every update has a warning about the potential for data loss. And this guy had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of videos and no backups? Really? In 2017? At some point users have to be responsible for taking care of their digital property when it’s common knowledge than hardware and/or software failures could destroy data in an instant.
As I said, mixed feelings.
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[Michael Hancock] “Blackmagic is just doing it faster than everyone else.”
Are they though? Things like dupe detection, active window highlighting, sub-frame editing of audio transitions, faster timeline redrawing, entering TC w/o having to use “;” or “:”… are mainly quality of life improvements that all major NLEs eventually pickup. Once Resolve hits a more mature development status and all the low hanging fruit features are checked off I think it’s upgrade pace will slow the way it does for all mature software.
Resolve still seems to be the backup QB of NLEs; it looks great on paper, everyone crows about its potential, but it can’t manage to get meaningful playing time over starters like X, MC and PPro. I think I picked up my first copy in 2011 or 2012 and every NAB it feels like ‘this year’ will be the year Resolve is a break out NLE that takes the world by storm.
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Also, it should be noted that this is an old, much talked about bug from the first release of CC 2017, it’s just back in the news cycle because of the lawsuit.
[Brett Sherman] “This is a particularly egregious oversight by Adobe”
A previous OS update by Apple bricked external hard drives so, yeah, debilitating software bugs can come from anywhere.
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[Michael Gissing] “We get to debate the debate forum. It might end up like Inception.”
lol
This is a cool surprise, Ron. I can’t wait to check it out, and like any good beta-tester, try to break it in every way possible! 😉
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[Oliver Peters] “Actually RED and others have been doing that for a while.”
Worked on an XDCAM HD show in 2004/2005 and we were all excited the potential of using the inherent proxy workflow it had, but then found out the show’s version of Avid was too old so we had to ingest everything in realtime as if we were using tapes. 🙁
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[Oliver Peters] “My guess is that RAM would be the exception. Maybe, also the addition of more internal SSDs, but I think that’s slimmer.”
I agree about the RAM and possibly the storage. My previous comment was just about the GPU.