Christopher Tay
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Ola…I think the best way to answer your question is to get an opportunity to sit down in front of the DaVinci Resolve Control Surface panel and drive it to get a feel. As Joseph has mentioned, this panel was built from ground up specifically for Resolve as a replacement for the aged 2K panel. Majority of the functions are right in front of you so there is no need to navigate through different pages of menus to access those functions and this is where it sets itself different from the other panels.
If you are going to be grading 8-10 hours a day with a client sitting next to you, you’ll probably want a panel with immediate access to the functions. I’m not saying you can’t do the same with the other panels but you get my drift. You have to get your hands on it to feel the difference and you will.
As to whether the price tag justifies, well I guess that really depends on how much grading you are going to be doing. If it’s a full time grading suite, yes it definitely justifies the price tag and remember prior to NAB this panel cost alot more.
And also remember, when you get the Resolve Control Surface panel, it comes bundled with a Resolve Mac license already so the panel cost is actually US$29K.
-chrispy
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Hi Rob,
Any reason why you prefer the JLCooper over the Euphonix panel ?
I’m based in Singapore so that may be tad too far for you to travel all the way for the Resolve training but you are certainly welcome to attend our next one if you happen to be in Asia and timing is just right 🙂
-chrispy
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The only stereoscopic demo on the Resolve was on the Linux machine. They did have a demo of the Media Express playing back the left/right eye streams from, I believe, the new Decklink HD Extreme 3D card which, I believe, was fed to the new HDLink Pro 3D. Can’t remember now…brain cells dying 🙂
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Me ask this many times…hope so !
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Hi Steve,
You can share the 2K network grading panel with the Resolve (Linux) and the 2K by using a 9pin A/B switch box with a 9pin to RJ45 adapter on each port. You just power down the panel, make the switch and then power it back up again. It will automatically communicate with the application and you don’t even need to quit the application itself.
I’ve done this before and it works very well.
-chrispy
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Hi Margus,
I’ve had experience on both Nucoda and DaVinci but I am not a colorist. It’s really hard to say which product is better as both are good products and each have their strengths and weaknesses. You really need to arrange for a demo and have a hands on to get a feel of the grading panel and how easy it is to access the various functions directly from the panel as you’re going to spend many hours on it.
Other things you’ll need to consider are the grading features, formats support, speed and whether real time is critical for you as some products deploys background render while others uses GPU for real time performance.
And then of course the million dollar question is the cost…which product meets your budget and offers the features that you need at that budget.
As you may have already read here, DaVinci has recently been acquired by Blackmagic Design so things are likely to change so if you don’t need to make a decision now, I’d recommend that you hang on till perhaps end of the year and see how things progress for DaVinci during this period. I’m sure there’ll be exciting things lined up for the product under the new management team.
-chrispy
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Hey Neil the man…
Do you have the GigE Expander for your Bright ? But even if you do, it’s only a 4 port GigE connection to your 24 VFX Macs but will bottleneck the pipe. We still pretty much recommends working locally as there are no network bottlenecks to contend with, coz it’s really hard to track who is doing what. And once you throw in the renderfarm, which is most likely to be there, it gets worse.
Running these VFX on FC will be too costly…stick to local drives. Proven and least $$$…but you know that already 🙂
-chrispy