[Alan Langdon] “But please tell me: Da Vinci is free and so many people have been downloading it, but can it be that anyone who wants to do beginer or intermediate color correction HAS to buy all the hardware? “
Beginner or training: no. If you want to know what exactly you’re doing or you’re actually selling grading as a service: yes.
[Alan Langdon] ” I understand that to be professional and trust what you see, yes, they are needed, but can’t one just get an aproximate look on the viewer so they can do OK corrections?”
There’s really no “OK” in color pipelines. Either it’s correct or it isn’t.
[Alan Langdon] “I just would like to believe I can learn Resolve on real jobs for less picky clients.”
If you can’t be sure what you’re seeing do you really want to sell that to a client?