Gustavo Bermudas
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Hopefully now we will see Revival ported on the Mac. Interesting though, since film is pretty much dead. I guess restoration and 2D to 3D conversion will become cheaper and more accessible now.
At the same time, they’re about to revolutionize digital filmmaking with their new camera, and now they cover film!
I think if they can do something like Autodesk Smoke (NLE + VFX) they will definitely conquer the world. I posted in another thread recently that VFX and Color seems to be merging, and whoever covers both will definitely be the winner, but you have to have a NLE. Autodesk may have it easier since all they have to do is throw Lustre in Smoke, BM will have to acquire and develop new products. Which makes me wonder, why Adobe hasn’t yet? Is it because they’re too modular? We’ll see once Speedgrade works with video cards, right now is unusable.
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[Paul Provost] “I agree with you completely, it’s just that once something is given away for free it seems impossible to raise the price for more features even if some users want it.”
Yeah, I agree, the damage is done now that is free, it will be hard and almost impossible to revert that.
I find a lot of limitations with the keyer but I get around it, and for green screen comps I use it as a way to see what it looks like and then I give the colored plates to the VFX guys so they do the keys.
I’m noticing a trend of clients asking for VFX right there in the color session, do a green screen here, or can you do a wire removal, or we need to paint that guy out, or can you do some titles, and now with Smoke targeting the one man post show, I wonder if Color/VFX will start blending more and more? It is all part of finishing really, but what’s making it really hard for us is that stupid video card war we’re in. You can’t do a grading session in Smoke, and you can’t do compositing in Resolve, and you can’t use both in the same machine. C’mon guys, truce?
Autodesk/AJA could have won this war by adding Lustre to Smoke, that’s all they needed to do, but they so missed it, maybe next version if they wise up.
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no 9? : )
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No one other than Grant can say what makes sense for him to buy, but I can tell this, Blackmagic is not a software company, it’s a hardware one, and they will support software as long as it makes hardware sales. Most NLEs at this time support BM, so I wouldn’t see the point in buying one, unless you want to cripple AJA or Matrox output options, but Avid is not that popular among indies just as FCP or Premiere is.
The move to buy DaVinci was genius, because now they’re forcing pretty much everybody to switch from Aja to BM, but DaVinci was so under he probably had a great bargain out of it. Avid may be too expensive to turn around, and for what really? To sell more Intensity Pros? I think his next move should be monitors and / or projectors. Also, if we are all going to go tapeless, we need in the hardware / codec infrastructure, I think they’re pointing in the right direction with SSD recorders, but it would be nice to see broadcasters support that as well, if they make the equivalent to a SR deck on a tapeless format they’ll rule the world. -
Actually I would love for him to buy Smac and enabling Blackmagic card on it, it seems the only way it could happen
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I don’t know, I mean, Quantel’s only software version of Pablo goes for $50K. I doubt Avid can charge that for any f their software only products, and if you add hardware it’s in the 250K +. Maybe in the broadcast world, but not for post.
The bottom line in my opinion is that the world of post changed, before it was all about the big irons, but now it’s not about the arrows anymore, it’s about the indians. And Quantel business model is about big irons, but technically, I’m trying to think what is it that you cannot do with tools most people are using now that you can with Quantel and I cannot think of any.
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I think everything’s going to change once Lightworks gets ported to Mac and support 3rd party video cards like BM, Matrox and Aja (it’s in their roadmap). That will be the turning point, because it will be free or almost free. And Lightworks has proven over time to be the choice for many professional editors for feature film. I think with that looming over the horizon, it’s hard to assess if buying Avid will be a good investment for Blackmagic. ProTools on other hand it could be.
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I don’t think Quantel is a good example in this case, they are more of a niche product, and in my opinion, I’ve using a Pablo since v3, it’s way overpriced for what it does, not to mention how buggy it still is.
And for color work, I jump to Resolve if I have the chance over Pablo.I’m not sure either how more they will be able to sustain their business model. They have a client base made five years ago when big iron system made sense, but the cost of upgrading nowadays from Quantel is ridiculous and to be honest, the color tools are not that great.
On the other hand, editing is awesome, but way too expensive for an editor software. -
I played a bit with it, I like it, but we have blackmagic cards on our machines, so for now it’s not use, unless they incorporate Lustre for color correction we’re sticking with DaVinci Resolve at the moment.
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I wonder if they forgot they have a Mac Pro in their lineup and at the last minute they went “oops, let’s put something up now, anything!”