Bernard Newnham
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Editing in Resolve 15 is much like all the other track based NLEs – though not FCPX of course.
Coming from – most recently – PPro CC, it took me about 15 minutes to get an edit going. I picked a drama piece shot by a fellow lecturer and some students, with separate sound. R15 has automatic syncing built in, but it didn’t want to work on my boarded rushes so I had to hand sync all the shots. A bit irritating but I expect it will come right. I dragged and dropped the synced clips into a new bin and forgot about the originals.
After that cutting and trimming was straightforward, though I had to hunt around for the rubber band sound level stuff. I think I could have just used Fairlight, but I’m not familiar with that yet.
For the uni, there are enormous advantages – it’s just like most of the others, and it’s free, both at the uni and for students at home. No complicated licencing as we have at the moment with PPro.
At a lesser, nitty gritty, level, the uni version of PPro is distributed from a central point. We use it as a playback system in the studio, but the central version doesn’t have the BM drivers needed for the Decklink card. We have to use a standalone. Oops – licencing, and much fiddling around. Not totally surprisingly, with R15 you just tick the Decklink box.
I haven’t done much with node based software, but there’s an increasing amount of it around, so familarity with Fusion would give students a baseline for other node type software of whatever type. And of course Color is an industry standard.
Resolve does of course run on Linux, OSX or Windows, but the uni has hundreds of cheap PCs that are regularly updated….
Bernie
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They’ve probably just noticed that Affinity and Blackmagic are offering serious cheaper competition with no subscription.
Bernie
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“MUST: Must have edited network promos and have examples. I.e. you watch the entire show, and with our creative directors, come up with the best direction for premise trailers. We cut everything from social content to full length broadcast specials.”
Do promotions producers in the US really pay for editors to sit and watch the show with them?
I made promotions for around 15 years on and off for the BBC and we certainly wouldn’t have done that. We were very happy for editors to have ideas, and for them to edit quickly, but we were the producers. The editors at the BBC were a precious resource – the good ones anyway – and would be off doing something completely different as soon as we went away.
Bernie
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One great thing about moving from FCP – and I stopped at 7 – is that you can move to using a PC. I’m mostly retired now, but after FCP7 I used Edius then PPro CS6 and now Resolve 15, all on various generations of the box next to me. I can update the machine or any part of it whenever I want. I updated my GPU from a 460 to a 960 a while back, and now that I read that Resolve does a lot on the GPU I can just slot in a 1080 Ti, maybe. And the box has lots of useful connections and slots in the back so that I can add or remove functionality.
I don’t need machines from the stone age – 2010 and 2013 are so last year (!) Herb, sorry. I can’t think why Hollywood or anywhere else would want to stick with old limited hardware.
Bernie
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I’ve been trying out Resolve 15 over the past few days. I’m coming from Premiere and before that FCP7. It’s pretty amazing, and extremely free. If you’re paying Adobe every month – it may be time to move on. Resolve was a colour corrector last time I looked, and an industry standard. Now it’s just an option along the bottom of the screen, along with Edit, Fusion and Colour
As for FCPX? Well…….
Bernie
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“There is a cost in time and effort to deal with Windows vs buying more expensive hardware from Apple. None of this is new. I would rather spend my limited brain cells on editing than operating systems.”
Perhaps you could give some examples. I’ve used a good few operating systems, and although I haven’t touched OSX since FCP7 went away (my favourite editor), I don’t remember Windows and OSX being particularly different. They both have good bits and bad bits.
I’ve just undated a machine from 2014 Linux Mint to 2018 Linus Lite. It’s amazing how rapidly Linux moves on. You used to have to spend an awful lot of time writing stuff like “wget –save-cookies cookies.txt –post-data ‘user =
foo&password=bar’ https://server.com/auth.php” , but that’s nearly all gone.Bernie
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At the university where I work there are hundreds of PCs in use by students every day. There are new ones and old ones across a number of buildings, and most software is held on a central server somewhere. I can sit down at any machine and expect any of the Adobe programs, and a lot more, to just work. I’m no lover of Adobe and their payment model – here at home I’ve stopped at CS6 – but I’m surprised that Phillip Bloom is having big problems with the software.
Bernie
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[Bob Zelin] “We must do the same. You get the tools that you need. If “brand X ” doesn’t make it – you do what you need to do. “
How long has this forum been around now? Six years? I came back to it recently to find that little had changed in a long time. It’s a bit like people who say “I always buy Ford” “But you said you don’t like the current models” “Yes, but I always buy Ford”. They do exist. I’m not a psychologist, but I’m sure that one who was could write learned commentaries on that and similar instances here.
I’ve never had any kind of brand loyalty. I buy whatever suits for the job at hand, though I must admit that in a crowded equipment market I tend to lean towards Asus for computer parts. The one I avoid like the plague is the one that massively overcharges for everything and then stashes $250 billion on a desert island, doing nothing at all for society, or even it’s shareholders. Not naming any names.
So as Bob says – do what you need to do – and forget brand loyalty, they have no loyalty to you.
Bernie
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I see that Nvidia have announced a new consumer GPU, the Titan V at $2999 . That should satisfy the “only the fastest and most expensive will do” crowd. Though not if they have a Mac
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/8/16750326/nvidia-titan-v-announced-specs-price-release-date
Bernie
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In the UK the processor and the two GeForce GPUs in the Silverdraft Davinci Resolve workstation cost a total of £2053 inc tax, which is the equivalent of $2756. The glitzy toy that B and H are selling costs $12,750. Hmmmm. I wonder how much mark up is in that price?
Bernie