Shawn Miller
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[Ricardo Marty] “Im no color grader but the things that cab be done with davinci color outclases anything that any nle color tool can do. Its a quetion of added value. This is all about impressing the client
Ricardo Marty”
Sure… how many editors do you think there are that can actually get farther with Resolve than with Premiere and the Lumetri color panel though? I’m not sure most clients can even spot the difference between Premiere and Resolve to be honest. ☺
Shawn
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I suspect though that atypical workflow combinations like mine will become the norm in the near future and that’s where BMD are poised to take advantage.”
I would love to hear about your atypical workflow combinations!
I can see more VFX centric artists gravitating towards Fusion and Resolve, but again, I think it might depend on what percentage of VFX vs mograph work they do. Fusion is great and I really like it… but I think AE’s animation tools are just easier to use – I also wonder how many motion graphics folks would trade their favorite AE only plugins for the flexibility and power of Fusion! ☺
Shawn
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[Ricardo Marty] “Im sure that bmd is looking for the oneman end to end post house the ones that fell through adobes fingers. Because we dont need all that power but its great to gave it in case you do. We can also contract someone to work these specialties inhouse providing we have system capabilities. However i think bmd is looking at the mid to highend.”
I think it depends on what that one person band (see what I did there) mostly focuses on. Folks who mostly edit have many more software choices than folks who mostly create motion graphics for instance. If you had watched the live stream from the Cinema 4D booth at NAB this year for example, you might have noticed that, of all the presenters who talked about the compositing side of their workflow, no one talked about using anything other than Photoshop, no one mentioned using any other vector drawing programs than Illustrator, and only a few people (I believe) talked about compositing video in anything but After Effects, even more interesting, of those folks who talked about using Nuke with C4D, not one of them did any animation in Nuke. These people ranged from individual freelance motion graphics/VFX artists to small post houses that do high end mograph/VFX for film and television. Resolve and Fusion are great, and I use them fairly often, but for my day job (a single person band for in house corporate production), the Adobe suite is just faster, easier and better integrated with the tools I use the most.
[Ricardo Marty] “Bmd might well be creating a new class of
highend oneman post boutiques. With less than 20k they would be abke to compete providing they have theknow how.”Maybe for color or audio centric workflows… but for motion graphics/VFX centric projects, I’m not sure Resolve/Fusion will find a foothold any time soon.
Shawn
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[Andrew Kimery] “[Tim Wilson] ” Adobe was even bolder in some ways when they took a formerly Mac-only product (Adobe Premiere) and made its next evolution Windows-only from 2001-2005 (Premiere Pro), ”
Minor correction, Premiere had been cross platform since the mid-90’s I think.”
That’s right – my first version of Premiere was 4.x, and that was in 95 or 96… I think. ☺
Shawn
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[Jeremy Garchow] ”
[Shawn Miller] “Wow, the glass is even textured. Does it do caustics?”
Not that are in motion, at least, I can’t see how to do it.
All the materials/textures seem to be static.”
I see, still cool though. I imagine you can do a lot with the addition of some simple glow and reflection effects.
Shawn
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[andy patterson] “I have yet to see anyone create a metal object (hexagon) with FCPX’s titling tool and have a glass title pass in front of it.”
Did this very quick only using FCPX, but is this what you are talking about?”
Wow, the glass is even textured. Does it do caustics?
Shawn
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[Steve Connor] “Price drop for full Resolve Software to $299!”
The audio and performance enhancements are insane!
Shawn
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[Richard Herd] “[Scott Witthaus] “an issue with focus, consistency and quality control”
This cannot be overstated loudly enough. Just examining the text tools in AE, PP, AI, and PS … hello? Can Adobe institutionalize that already? Please.”
Not trying to defend Adobe… but this is a lot harder than it looks, especially when you have large sections of each user base that don’t want them to change a thing. I also think it’s easy to overlook the fact that there isn’t another suite of creative applications that are designed to work together as well as Adobe’s offerings. ☺
Shawn
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[Roy Pearson] “Well there aren’t any 10-core i7 chips so no choice there, even the Xeon E3s are 4-core only. That’s why Apple needs a Mac Pro in their lineup.”
Intel Core i7 Broadwell can have up to ten cores…
Shawn
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[Alex Sporanox] “Woow! Great scheme! Thanks Shawn!
In the future probably I will have 5 lights but at the moment I own only 3.
As reflector can a Foam board diy be ok? White? Silver?”
Yes, diy is fine. Silver is more reflective, so you will get a stronger fill, but foam core is softer and IMO looks nicer. The upshot is that they’re both so inexpensive, there’s no reason not to make/buy both. ☺
Shawn