Chris Kenny
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[Cory Caplan] “Now, it seems with their trim solution, you’ll have to double click to open the edit up, carefully slide the edit point, and press enter. move the playhead, play it, then repeat this entire process to go back and forth. While I can see how the new system will be helpful in a few situations, it still seem like a really kludgy solution.”
It was mentioned during the demo that there was a lot of keyboard control, but the mouse was being used for demo purposes. Which makes sense; when someone is using software with lots of keyboard shortcuts, you often can’t follow what’s happening on screen very well.
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[Simon Astbury] “Or perhaps you will get a lot of very disappointed film grads, who can’t get a job as a Colourist. The truth is there is really no need for more than about 40 or 50 Colourists in the UK, and that includes dailies guys on TKs.That’s where the difference lies, there may be room for growth if the number of programmes being graded rises, but the majority of TV is still not graded by a Colourist in a grade suite. “
Think about something like graphic design. 30 years ago, before the desktop publishing revolution, graphic designers mostly worked for advertising agencies, magazines, etc. Your typical small business probably never utilized graphic design services for anything.
As tools became more accessible, a whole world opened up, of freelance graphic designers doing work for clients who had never previously had access to graphic design of any kind. And yeah, now anyone can set themselves up as a graphic designer, or clients can buy the tools and try to do it themselves. But it seems pretty clear that in spite if that, there are vastly more people making decent money as graphic designers now, because there are millions of potential clients you can work for all over the world instead of a few dozen media/advertising companies mostly in New York.
One could see the same thing happening with color grading. It’s not just grading tools that are getting cheaper, it’s a lot of things in this industry. That’s going to result in more material being created. As prices come down, there are also more people who can afford (and want) production values that used to be out of their range. Facilities that invested $300K in a grading suite that bills out at some crazy rate might be in trouble (though with the number of snobby clients in this industry, I suspect they’ll have no trouble paying off their current investments before they’ve forced to cut their rates), but the profession of color grading will, I suspect, be just fine.
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Remember that for pro-level grading, you still need a video I/O card, a calibrated video monitor, a control surface, etc. And not that many people will grade a serious project with that two node limit. I don’t think this really undermines professional colorists or post facilities at all.
I think they made it free because they want to pull people using Color or their NLE’s internal color correction tools into the Resolve world. They’ll probably sell quite a few more copies of the full version in the long run as a consequence of doing that.
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