[Gustavo Bermudas]

I hope their motivation is to make great products to begin with instead of coerce me into buying a product I didn’t want in the first place, AJA never needed to buy any software to sell their Kona’s, and they were very successful at it.

As far as them making any money I couldn’t care less since they couldn’t care less about me as well.

[Gustavo Bermudas]

As much as I love Blackmagic and Davinci, I’m not sure they’re the best match…at least for Resolve.

If you look at the development history of BM DaVinci, every change or new feature seems to be aimed at a Blackmagic Device, version 9 seems to be all to accommodate the Blackmagic Camera, I have no info on future plans for Resolve, but common sense tells me that since they bought a scanner, most likely Revival will be revived, if not integrated into Resolve.

And it all comes down to purpose, or intention, what’s the intention with every software update? Again, I only talk from a logical and observation standpoint, but it’s quite obvious that the intention for BM is to sell hardware, otherwise Resolve wouldn’t be free or $1K, that’s not the real price.

And that’s a bit dangerous for colorist, we’ve seen what happened with Apple’s array of software.

It’s like the girlfriend that goes out with you either because she loves you or because you have money (I know most of us don’t apply to that analogy, but you get the idea).

Is Blackmagic motivation to make a great color correction tool for the love of it, or is to to sell more hardware? If the answer is the second, I seriously doubt we’ll see any improvements in DaVinci’s keyer.

[Gustavo Bermudas]

I guess the only option available is Assimilate Scratch, but at $18000 in a post BM Davinci market isn’t suitable anymore.
Are people buying the Blackmagic camera anyways? I haven’t seen a single thing shot with that, other than some test online, but no real projects so far.
Are colorist going the way the dinosaur went?

[Gustavo Bermudas]

I don’t mind paying more for that function, what about a DaVinci Resolve “Pro”, that allows us to get not only all functions mapped to the keyboard, but also open to other video cards instead of just Blackmagic’s?
You can include the price of a decklink in the final price, but let us choose what we need, and we all win, right?

[Gustavo Bermudas]

This used to happen to me all the time since version 8, and I found out if you have a custom shape, that is tracked, then you have to be very careful not to accidentally add additional points when trying to move the shape otherwise Resolve will crash

[Gustavo Bermudas]

At the end of the day, FCX is for kids than when they grow up they’d like to be editors (and for that I mean cutting features in AVID)

[Gustavo Bermudas]

yeah Peter, and what about Siri integration with Resolve? Like…Siri, can you split the difference?
Or Siri, why it’s taking so long???

[Gustavo Bermudas]

I also want to to add, the the Flanders 2461 is an incredible monitor. The commitment the guys at Flanders show to create the best product in the market is outstanding.
Having saying that, I’ve seen differences between the 2460 and 2461 on factory settings, the last one looks greener but truer to a Barco 2K, the 2460 way redder. For what I understand they changed the calibration equipment, but you can send it for recalibration.

But also we had them side by side with a few Panny Plasmas, and what we found, and we don’t know of this is being a limitation of the Plasma technology and the Flanders being a 10bit panel, is that strong red tones, like the ones found in women dresses, nails or cartoons, tends to look more orange in the Flanders than in Plasmas, everything seems to match except when we enter the strong reds. One thing that got me baffled is that the red in the plasmas seems to be the right one as far as color tone, I mean, we al know how red nails should looks like, unfortunately I have no pics to show, but they do look more towards orange in the Flanders. I was wondering if someone in this forum also noticed something similar.

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Peter, also, while you’re at it, could you make a mortadella sandwich?

[Gustavo Bermudas]

Except the reason that Resolve exists IS selling Blackmagic cards, that’s the whole strategy from the get go.
They’ll never support AJA, even if they promised that long time ago. There are more chances for Smoke to support BM than Resolve on AJA.

But, if ADSK decides to include Lustre on Smoke for Mac, then the whole game changes.

Another possible scenario is Avid supporting higher resolution like 4K, then the Baselight plugin would make more sense as well.