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[andy patterson] “I hope competition will make Adobe lower the price to $14.95 a month.”
Why would you think this would happen? Why would Adobe want that revenue loss?
Scott Witthaus
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[Andrew Kimery] ” I think the “Resolve is poised to take over” talk is premature until Resolve proves that it can be top notch NLE because, to your point, people who edit for a living are looking for an NLE first and everything else second.”
Exactly.
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[Shawn Miller] “how many editors do you think there are that can actually get farther with Resolve than with Premiere and the Lumetri color panel though?”
Exatly. Or X and a plug-in for that matter.
[Shawn Miller] “I’m not sure most clients can even spot the difference between Premiere and Resolve to be honest”
You’re right, and quite honestly my clients don’t give a hoot what I cut on, as long as they get their story, on time, budget and to their clients satisfaction.
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[Andrew Kimery] “But you can still color a little bit and mix a little bit in Resolve just like you can in any other NLE.”
But if I can do that in an NLE I like better than Resolve, why switch? I will download this latest version of Resolve just to have a working knowledge of it (not that I see any freelance Resolve gigs in the near future) but it will be tied for second as far as NLE’s go (for now).
All a matter of comfort level, preference and workflow.
Scott Witthaus
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Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
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[Andrew Kimery] “I don’t follow. If someone mixes with computer speakers and grades on a computer display how does using Resolve 14 vs Avid vs X vs PPro vs Lightworks change anything?”
What I am saying is that I am an editor, who (if need be, for non-bcast material) can color a little and mix a little. For me, having to make the investment to REALLY do color and sound doesn’t make sense, no matter what software I am cutting on. That’s when I go out of house to the color and sound experts who have to make that investment in monitors, scopes, meters, etc..
[Andrew Kimery] “With regards to adoption rate, Apple caused a big shakeup by replacing 7 with X and that pretty much forced all 7 users to pick a new NLE (X, Avid or PPro).”
I disagree with this. I was cutting on Avid and Legacy when X came out. That fateful day in 2011 did nothing to force me to choose a new software right then. I continued to cut on (mostly) FCP7 until I felt X was ready for heavy-lifting editing and then made the move. But the release of X didn’t force me to do a thing
[Andrew Kimery] “Lots of people have been eyeballing and talking about Resolve’s improved editing abilities over the last few years, but I still think it’s got a lot of ‘prove it’ before people will see it as a solid, standalone NLE as opposed to a color grading tool that has NLE functionality added to it.”
Agreed. I still wonder why BMD is doing this.
Scott Witthaus
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Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
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[Andy Field] “It doesn’t for a great number of former FCP 7 users.”
And quite honestly, I think Apple saw any “Legacy fan-boys” they could win over as a bonus. I have always felt Apple wasn’t really looking at the veteran editor when it designed and released X (yes, a huge CF of a release) because it was too different. They were looking to the next generation. You don’t have to look too far to realize that, by and large, editors don’t like big change.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Looking at this release more. Interesting, and I will certainly download a free copy, but I can’t see myself using the Fairlight page hardly ever. Or even some of the more advanced color correction tools. So you can get a $299 software but now need audio suite quality monitors and color correction monitors? No thanks, I will let the audio and color houses do that.
I don’t know. The term bloated was used in this thread and I have to agree. I was expecting to be blown away after reading the posts but not so much. Maybe if you work in multiple editor, colorist and audio projects its a big deal. And maybe that’s where BMD wants to play, but that’s not my workflow. Good to see that the performance has gotten better!
Just my humble opinion of course.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Point is…?
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Ricardo Marty] “or 299. (or free) you get fusion advance and fairlight. Plus a powerfull nle.
Wonder what’s happening in the minds of the powers that be at adobe or avid?
“What Symphony should have been. Can’ be happy in Avid-land, but they did release their free starter version, MC|First.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Jeremy Garchow] “?”
exactly. But my monitor is bigger than yours…
🙂
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter