[Arthur Bell]

At the end of the day ‘ free’ may be the toughest feature to combat.
This used to be AVID’s world. Final Cut Pro 3 though 7 gave the adventurous pro’s a good run.
Adobe Cs6 maybe? added ‘FCP 7 Keyboard shortcuts’ a small but brilliant trojan horse as the uproar over X.
Premiere has become very strong, very full featured – except for grading. SO..they bought IRADAS, one of the more stunning demo’s @ NAB maybe 7 years ago.
Out popped ‘Speedgrade’ good, but terrible integration. A slow painful death over the next few years as the promising toy LUMETRI appeared.
Resolve continued to add more editing, audio etc. and better integration into the Premiere workflow.
Lumetri continued to get one percent better a few times a year ..as we waited.
Resolve adds Free 4K up to 3840
Resolve drops price to $300
Lumetri adds nice support for Canon raw – and another few checkboxes to their color tool set – but they still can’t spell ‘secondaries’, easy tracking and a hundred other things the industry needs every day.
NAB 2018 Resolve adds Vfx…a trojan horse on AE….the light of a distant train coming down the track.
A pro editing solution without a pro color solution is not a solution going forward.
I have never used Resolve to edit, but we have fully integrated Resolve color into our workflow. The cost of 4 Adobe seats per month is something I re-visit every few months…the day may be coming.

[Arthur Bell]

I can’t believe this worked – but it did – BUT it encourages me to have much cleaner workflow to be able to import smaller specific sequences.

Thank you.

[Arthur Bell]

FCP X …reminding people of the big success Quark had moving to OS X.

…my angst with Apple for FCPX has permeated the part of my brain that used to universally recommend all things Apple.

Questions i have always enthusiastically answered ‘Apple’ to…

” Should I get an iPhone?” Well, there now ARE other options.

“What do think of the IPad 2?” Liked the first one but it is now slow, heavy and lacking flash. I’d look around.

” I want to move all my music to iTunes” Have you seen Spotify? I see now why Apple lawyers tried for 3 years to keep it out of the US. Its amazing. As Apple killed the album in favor of songs, I feel now more every day that Spotify will kill iTunes. Here, have an invite”

Piss off our professional work life and it seems to have slowly widening effects.

Can one even buy Quark anymore?