[Gustavo Bermudas]

It would be interesting to see what happens with the Element panels once they are released.

Blackmagic forced pretty much everybody to lower their prices, I wonder if Tangent will do the same now to Blackmagic…

Karma?

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Hi Peter,

thanks for chipping in.
To be honest it hurts that the DaVinci panels, are so unaccesible, if you would have made them ugly it’d be easier on us : )

A couple of points to give perspective to this issue though…a couple of months ago if I’d have bought the Linux version and the Davinci panels, today I’d be regretting losing $20K. So even if I had the 30K for the panel, I know that by April or September prices could go down, and it is a holding point in the decision making, and a very valid one.

Second, let’s not forget that while Resolve is , in my opinion, one of the best color grading tool available, it also took the market share of Apple Color since it’s demise.

Which means more and more people who are not even colorists to begin with, are using it for their projects, so in reality while Resolve market share expanded, the market share for professional colorist is diminishing.

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Ok, I think the question needs to be re-written:

How much would you pay for the Resolve panel today, IF you don’t own one.

How much considering how much the Element would cost, and how much considering that it can only work with a $1000 software (I wouldn’t know to say if Linux is free now), and considering that it is Blackmagic, and no one knows what will they do with the price of it in a year or so, I mean, they are the ones who started the post revolution after all.

I would take Linux out of the equation since I presume it is a minority that’s gonna get even smaller if not extinct.

Also, keep in mind that the most import piece of equipment in a color grading suite, the grading monitor, goes for $5K (Flanders)

So, how much would you pay. I would pay between $5K and $7K, maybe $10K, but that’s a big stretch.

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Thank you so much for the info. Great tip!!!

[Gustavo Bermudas]

One thing I still don’t understand is why there is no log to lin lut in Resolve?
Anyone know where can I get one?

Thanks!

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Final Dud Pro

[Gustavo Bermudas]

I applaud Larry’s integrity, but also, his field is teaching, so what does to your reputation when suddenly instead of training for professional apps, now you’re training for toy apps?
His career shouldn’t depend on Apple, like any of us…

[Gustavo Bermudas]

If it’s for just the experience, I’ve seen a lot of people using the Optoma, specially sound houses, and actually I thought they looked very good, but I haven’t seen them on a color correction environment, I was working with a Barco 2K projector and still couldn’t make it match the FSI, so there’s always going to be discrepancies no matter what.
And blacks could get a bit milkier, so they’re going to ask you to crush them more than necessary based on the “experience”.

The thing with the Optoma though, is that I noticed there is a bit of distortion at the top and bottom corners, you don’t get a perfect rectangular projection, I guess it’s missing some geometry calibration controls. And it gets hot, but it’s $1000.

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Actually, they came from Caprica

[Gustavo Bermudas]

You would not be saying this if Apple also decides to kill the MacPro. That’s the next fear growing, and the indications seems it is quite possible.
Personally I wish they open OS X to any hardware if they do that.