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[Oliver Peters “Gosh, if that’s what bothers you, then you are reaching ☺ I don’t see any less marketing BS all over BMD’s website. Or Apple’s or Adobe’s for that matter. OTOH, let’s see which company delivers their hardware mixing consoles first”
I’m certainly not a fan of anyone’s sales blurbs. I guess it doesn’t really stop me from using their software but I do roll my eyes at this.
Resolve have already delivered their EVO mix console with controller panel which worked with Resolve 14 onwards. I’m waiting for the separate desktop panels as I don’t want the EVO frame. So it’s not a race as BM have already delivered.
I contend though that if you truly want to work at the “speed of imagination”, you need a dedicated control surface.
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Hard to not gag on the web page spruiking it. “Edit at the speed of imagination. Reimagined to inspire creative video editing through a more intuitive interface and an enhanced user experience.”
The interface has improved but the sales blurb is still last century. Yes it does look more like Resolve.
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Chips are always being released so no computer maker waits for the latest. I doubt Apple were waiting for these multi core monsters. And the price is clearly aimed at big enterprise. Bob is right. They won’t end up in editors desktop machines.
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They are available to back order on B&H but they don’t have a picture. If they are based on the Fairlight edit panel the buttons are self labeling and based on software so they can easily be customised and changed as software changes. They do sell the old Fairlight EVO mixer panels which include the controller and faders which work with Resolve’s edit page, not just the Fairlight page.
I would be surprised if they didn’t make the desktop panels. They won’t get dedicated Fairlight people like me to use Resolve as the primary DAW if they don’t. Picture editors might put up with mouse ASCII hell but we won’t.
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It’s much easier to get a person to switch from an EOL’d favourite than what Resolve is doing. Premiere was in the right place to benefit most from Legends demise. Resolve is certainly eating into the Pr world in my neck of the woods. The key seems to have been the big improvement in performance, especially with DR15.
One thing that has surprised me is that the Resolve edit & mix panels are not available. As a company that makes money out of hardware, I did expect they would have it out by now. I have always been a fan of edit & fader panels. Once people get to use them and see what I have enjoyed for years with Fairlight there might be a rush to Resolve. Editors always just drooled when they sat in with me doing sound post seeing a proper controller with transport controls & dedicated keys compared to keeping a head full of ASCII shortcuts.
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Another NAB, another tour de force from Blackmagic coming up no doubt. The versions have been coming thick & fast.
The other day I dropped some Nikon raw stills into a Resolve project and they played. Even had access to RAW parameters on the Color page. I must have missed the memo but it seems some new features just appear without notice. I’m really pleased to see more codecs and formats appearing. I must test other stills RAW files. Very handy not to have to bounce to Affinity or Ps to process RAW stills. Maybe Resolve will eventually become the tool of choice for still people.
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Apart from the extra step of transcoding and requiring a lot of extra storage you are correct. If the RAW metatdata cannot be adjusted in the grade then I don’t see any advantage in shooting with it, hence my recommendation to not shoot with it at this stage.
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Seems to create a very boated working file that in grade software like Resolve or Baselight will not have the advantage of RAW in being able to alter the RAW data to correct highlight recovery, ISO or color temp issues. Until ProResRAW is available in finishing systems, I will strongly advise against it.
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I would first try other codecs and wrappers. ProRes4444.mov has in my experience been unreliable in replaying correct gamma in various players.
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It would be so much easier to use Resolve or Premiere which can work with this natively. Resolve has a free version which is capable of this.
Portrait can be edited in landscape and then reoriented.