Joseph Owens
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[Ola Haldor Voll] “I’ve seen in writing and heard from a BMD rep at NAB in several videos that Decklink HD Extreme is supported, and I would think the others in this price range is too”
There is so much mis- and dis-information at NAB, that it is almost counterproductive to go.
If a reseller is specifying particular configurations, its because they’re going with what they know will work. All the rest is throwing the dice.As far as that comment about…. “as soon as AJA provides us with their SDK” goes… this is exactly what I was afraid of.
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[Eddie Kesler] ” will the DaVinci run well on an AJA Kona 3 card and not only on BMD products.”
They say it will eventually, but I sincerely doubt that it will be an option in the first release.
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[jake black] “”we will support a number of third party panels for the Mac system and not only USB based.” “
Well, this is encouraging, but lest we forget, its only one of the components that are required to flesh out a functional offering. I just hope the button mapping isn’t too wackily different between what I’m used to in COLOR and Resolve.
One of the buttons launches all of our nuclear weapons, and the other serves up a delicious hot latté… errr… which one was which again? ….oops.
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[Jack Jones] “I fully expect other companies, such as Digital Vision and Film Light (they sort of are already), to follow suit with ‘offline grading solutions’ for low cost, before people head into the online grading suite to conform it, watch it back with proper monitoring and adjust the project file where necessary.“
This will next-to-never happen. If the budget is there for a big iron shop, there is no point in taking it there for “tweaks”. This is an insult to A-List colorists. Pioneering a couple of looks is fine, and I appreciate the effort myself, because the conversation is immediate and instant. Aha! This is what you want… let’s go to it.
But where the budget is not there and the auteur needs total and complete domination over every aspect of the continuum… there is no lead-in path to “online”, because there is simply no motivation to do it. Its done, and a producer will reason the money and, more importantly, the time, has been spent. For good or ill under whatever circumstances and environment, the job has been judged “good enough”, probably without much knowledge of what that is,exactly. Trot out the for example, “its only for the net”, argument here if its a justification to look for.
It used to be that the “skill” people attached themselves to the shops that could afford to pay them and continue to amortize the investment in the equipment needed to provide a platform for them. And that attracted the clients who were looking for that experience. But they’re not paying anymore, none of them, at any level.
Its an old and boring argument concerning dilution… but I would find it amazing if an actuary got involved at some point and said, “no more lending” to post-production — it isn’t a business model. There’s too much chaos and NO ROI to support it anymore. What was a reasonable investment even 6 months ago is now obsolete and underwater… How many of the general American population is now in exactly that situation, and what’s being done about it? “Thrown to the wolves” sound about right?
Consider that “top” editors used to try to get employment at top shops, but with the advent of “off-line”, the situation that evolved was: absolutely no glamour or reward to being an “online” editor if all you do is conform and tweak. It takes a special personality to do that, and it is beyond the least creative work in the world; the only challenge usually being how to fix all the mistakes that were made offline.
What exactly is the skillset for an “online” colorist? My instinct plus educated guess, would be –reduced to worse-than-dailies. No, all that poor drone would be doing is grading out the inconsistencies and that’s all. So where and what will the talented A-Listers do? And a big iron shop is going to pay what(?!) a big-iron salary to this person… to do rote work. Better have a really good dental plan.
Starting to get the feel of a real estate bubble to me. I have to wonder as post gets segmented into isolated one-person “democracy”, whether it actually freezes the dialog between strata of production and less creativity is the net result? There is a dictum that you do have to please yourself at some point, but there is also a vast opportunity for “me”-diocrity, that a truly talented team with appropriate tools in a collaborative environment obviously helps to avoid.
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First of all, the Euphonix isn’t qualified, yet.
Second point is that the pro-sumer grade panels developed for Apple COLOR aren’t in the same class as the purpose-built daVinci panels.
Third point is that the Resolve panel will ONLY work with the Blackmagic software, but it is designed expressly for that purpose, and of course, will work perfectly and seamlessly with it.If I had it do do all over again, I probably wouldn’t have ever considered Final Touch, but, that’s history.
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Or for that matter, why not iPhone/ iPad?
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Beta testing… and several Resolve systems are already out there… even announced on this forum.
You know, there’s the ones who count, and then the rest of us.
I’m in absolutely no mood to re-capitalize, so if Resolve doesn’t work with my present configuration, then its a non-starter. I don’t see any advantage in spending all that money all over again to wind up with pretty much the same working environment, and totally indistinguishable to the paying customers.
I specifically set up for Silicon Color Final Touch with ATI, AJA, and Tangent-200 (K/TS/BK) ethernet panels, then “absorbed” the dumbing-down treatment that Apple gave to “COLOR”. If the new software app can’t do it, I’m not interested, its that simple.
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[Simon Blackledge] “aren’t you limited in the bandwidth the expander card goes into”
If you examine all the words typed in the company response, you’ll notice these ones:
“While the argument regarding bus traffic is certainly valid for some applications, Cubix has found that other applications from vendors such as Acceleware and Refractive software (Octane Render) execute mainly on the GPUs, not on the CPUs. Therefore, PCIe bus traffic is minimal and does not impact performance in most cases. ”
So the answer is, for some, yes, for others, no.
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[Peter Chamberlain] “As an aside – Resolve is 64 bit and uses either Linux or Snow Leopard both with multi-threading. More/faster CPU’s in the system help in the none grading/PTZR part of the application. “
Does it require SnowLEPER or is it just an advantage (if you don’t have to count on the system stability too much)? I’m assuming Tiger is a non-starter, and at least Leopard, but no 64-bit with that one. Forgive me, but my experience is that Snow Leopard is at least as bad as Windows Vista as an operating system, and Windows7 is not much better than Vista.
*in the none grading/PTZR part* — I’m thinking that was a typo and you mean “non-grading”… like the UI and scratch composites, still store, grade management, EDL processing, … etc?
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Good!
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