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Hi Toni,
Prelude CC doesn’t actually save subclips, markers etc… in the project file, but in the video file XMP metadata. That can either be a sidecar file or embedded in the file itself. You haven’t by any chance been deleting XMP files?
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It also depends on your workflow… If you’re a mac based facility, there are great advantages to having Resolve on the mac since it’s a simple “drop in” – it can run FCP and it has access to most of the mac based codecs. It also works great of the XSAN.
The Linux version supports a lot less codecs which is okay if you mainly do film finishing, but can be a pain if you work with multiple formats from a myriad of sources.
There are no indications that the Linux version will be discontinued, but as the GPUs on the Mac become increasingly powerful I believe the Linux version will be more and more of a niche product for the extreme high-end (f.ex 4K 3D, 8K etc…).
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I agree with you, Gary! I’d love to use this version at home or for my own smaller projects. However, at our facility I can’t see how ut would integrate well. It is also a clear step towards more “mouse centric” editing rather then keyboard based editing. But then again, multitouch is the future and FCPX seems to be going in the same direction as all the other Apple apps (including Lion) – a push towards more touch interfaces.
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As many of the previous posters have mentioned, there is still a lot of questions to be answered. However, from what we saw I think it’s a clear shift from Apple towards democratizing editing even further which means a simplification of the application which may or may not be a “dumbing down” of FCP. I believe that Apple sees a bigger potential with the millions of people who’ve just purchased a mac, have got iMovie and has a DSLR camera that shoots video.
Sure, they’re not going to abandon the pro-market but I don’t think they’ll focus on features that make our life easier if it makes the application harder to use for those with limited editing experience. Therefor this will probably be a great application for consumers, semi-pros and those pros that work in a “closed loop”, doing everything themselves and outputting to the web. I believe for broadcast and others who work in a shared environment it may not be the product of choice in a year from now. The killing punch for me is the iMovie / iPhoto style browser which stores everything in its own hierarchical folder structure. And as someone who works in a facility where audio output routing is important for archival, versioning and repurposing I wouldn’t know how to achieve that when there’s no audio tracks and the tracks jump up and down to help you keep everything in sync and not inadvertently ripple anything.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Apple has shown an amazing application that will potentially increase their sales 10-fold. But, I think for most pro users it’s going to be a problem fitting it into the workflow.
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To be honest I don’t need many effects. But things like scaling, cropping and speed would be great to have come across.
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Yeah, I saw it. It looks really nice. However, Color had this functionality as well, at least in essence, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t – it worked with some effects but not others. We found that we often ended up spending a lot of time sorting out the timeline before doing any grading. It is often unpredictable how long time this will take and therefor we reverted back to doing flat files with EDL/XML delivery…
Hopefully Resolve will work better – and it would be great to get a “log” telling you which effects “failed” when you try doing an import, preferably with TC. That would make it easier to correct or bake in the effects and then send a new XML.
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I’m sure it will!
I also wonder if it preconforming from an XML will work as I can’t see us getting away from using flat files for most of our deliveries to CC in the near future. Having XML preconform with reconform would be great!
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I have to say I agree with Paul in that I do not see any threat for professional colorists with the free version. What is the difference between FREE and $995 in the professional market anyway? We built our first DaVinci grading suite this year and as far as I’m aware the only thing cheaper then the full Resolve license is the USB extender and the chair. Everything else, including the desk, is a lot more expensive and I would say that the Resolve dongle is probably 1% of the room cost. The above does not even to take into account how much an experienced and talented colorist bring to a session.
I see the free version as a great way of getting more people using Resolve and I would think it’s a “no brainer” for educational institutions to put Resolve on all their Macs. It’s a lot better then Color and I would argue that for someone wanting to get serious with Color grading, Resolve Lite is the tool they should learn. Apple started the democratization of color grading when they bought “Final Touch” and made it into Color, but they never made it an easy to use and properly integrated application. After the initial buzz at its launch, Color really hasn’t received much love and attention. I doubt it will receive much attention at tomorrows Supermeet either, but I could of course be wrong about that!
However, looking at what they did with Shake I could see the same thing happen with Color: Apple bought Shake to support and maintain a strong compositing application on the Mac OSX platform. Then After Effects matured and Nuke came to be – no longer any need for Apple to make a compositor to get this market buying Mac Pros. When Apple bought Final Touch there wasn’t any good and “cheap” grading applications for the mac, now there is Resolve and Scratch ($17’500 isn’t cheap, but a lot cheaper and what the cost used to be).
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It depends on what you mean by “effect”? If you have a 4000 card as your secondary card and install 10.6.7 you will get a picture on reboot because the GT120 is your display card. However, you wouldn’t be able to use the 4000 card until you’ve installed the new drivers from nVidia.
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Thanks for the heads up Peter! Sounds like nVidia didn’t get their drivers ready in time and Apple decided to go ahead and release the 10.6.7 update anyway. I feel sorry for customers only having a 4000 card in their machine though. I thought this type of driver issues were something us as mac users shouldn’t have?!