Well that’s the conundrum… Back in the apple color days there was a lot of complaints on the functionality and support of that free app, and offers to pay more for a “supported” version of the app. But a company does not have much incentive to fully support something like that as it does a $100k+ system
But people kept using color as the only other choice was to spend a hundred grand on something else.
Resolve is awesome as it is a great tool that you can get into for free and then scale up. But you hit a ceiling as there is limitations to it. But hey, if it’s good enough for company 3, Ridley Scott and Prometheus, it’s good enough for me!
If you need something like baselight, you might need to buy baselight or some other product from a company that only builds color and image enhancement systems. That is their only focus and product and you end up paying or that.
BMD has a lot of other products to focus on so resolve is not their only revenue stream. Hard to say if it’s more of a “loss leader” for them or what.
They have done an amazing job with it, and I for one am greatful to have the product at the moment.
But if it becomes a drain on their resources, it may end up being abandoned as a side project. But that’s ok because they have pretty much forced everyone else to start offering more entry level priced solutions solutions.
Fwiw, I’m ok with the keyer unless it’s really compressed noisy footage, but then I’ve never had the capabilities of baselight.