Walter Biscardi
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[Andrew Kimery] “Doesn’t this generally apply to all professional NLEs though? Off the top of my head I can’t think of an NLE that is purely edit-only (no audio mixing, no grading, no compositing, no motion effects, etc.,.).”
Definitely nobody is an “Edit Only” app that I know of but Adobe has the the best integration of an entire suite. Basically all of their creative apps almost function as one with seamless integration across the entire suite. Even with all the capabilities inside PPro with every third party plug-in on the planet, it’s nowhere near as powerful and useful as the entire suite.
I think the point that X tries to keep everything self contained within the one application, especially with the wealth of plug-ins and tools, is a valid one. That’s an excellent option for many editors who don’t want to deal with multiple apps and it does a great job of being an all-in-one tool.
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[Andrew Kimery] “By jump you mean edit with Resolve? Why not just try and see how it goes? It’s not like you can’t change your mind later. ;)”
That’s excellent advice Andrew. The fact that Resolve is free is a great reason for anyone who has any interest in what Resolve can and cannot do to just go ahead and download. I can tell you that the Beta 12.5 is extremely stable both Mac and Windows in my testing.
I have not jumped whole hog into Resolve yet, still early in my trials and still have a series that runs through Premiere Pro. The thing about Resolve is that it doesn’t really require you to just “quit and jump” completely to that app. The Dynamic Zoom feature was added specifically for FCPX users who want to bring the Ken Burns effect over to Resolve. It now does this seamlessly from what I’m told and you can still adjust the parameters of the images if need be.
The keystrokes are the same (Resolve has the FCPX keyboard layout) so I think anyone running any NLE right now would want to have Resolve as an option. Think about a project that might require heavy color grading and filtering. Good reason to start / finish in Resolve. Although the XML round tripping is supposedly getting better. I have not had a reason to test that yet, but will at some point.
So I personally think Resolve is less about “jumping” than it is about “adding” to your toolbox. My 2 cents.
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Then it should just install without the need to copy anything. Unless he’s trying to copy it from another machine and doesn’t actually own the software. Then it probably won’t work.
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[Susan Lan] “I copied the folder plugins of BCC from here: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore
to here: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6\Plug-ins\Common
but doesn’t work, please HELP!”You don’t copy anything, you just install it. After installation the plug-ins will appear. That’s how it worked here.
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[Rick Lang] “Walter, the crop and centre of course discards 75% of your original 4K UHD material. Are your deliverables going to remain 1080p?”
It doesn’t discard it, it just leaves the image at 100% scale so then I can manually crop and position the image as I want. Yes, the deliverables are 1080p. I’ve been cutting / delivering 4k UHD materials almost 3 years now. When we output to 1080p sometimes we want to rescale and re-position the images. I’ve been doing all my editing in Premiere Pro so it’s a snap for me to do this in there. I just couldn’t find the magic button on Resolve to stop auto-scaling. Got it now. Thanks!
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[Marc Wielage] “The Timeline itself determines that resolution. You can create a 4K timeline, then monitor it at 1/4 or 1/2-res and downres it to a 1080 display for color correction, and that can work. If you have a system powerful enough to playback at 4K in real time to a 4K display, then that works, too, provided you have a BMD 4K monitor adapter.”
Thanks, but not the question I was asking. I’m editing in a 1080HD timeline with 4k footage. I wanted Resolve to stop automatically scaling my video down to 1080 frame size.
I got the answer from Blackmagic on Twitter. Had to change my Image Scaling to Crop and Center instead of Scale to Timeline.
My system edits and plays back 4k RAW so playback of 4k isn’t the problem, it was just getting Resolve to stop scaling the 4k automatically. But thanks for trying!
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[Ned Miller] “Wow! What a great home page video ScreenLight produced:”
Yeah, they turned that group loose to have at it and they produced a great series of videos. Excellent service too. I have the 100GB plan.
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[Ned Miller] “Hi Walter. May I ask why you don’t just use Dropbox? Or is it better to have a separate service that just transfers? Thanks”
Because I hate Dropbox. The sync’ing is horrible.
ScreenLight is the perfect review tool for clients. Private, secure and they only have to bookmark one site and use one password to review all their projects on any device. It’s also a great collaboration tool allowing me to share resources with off site artists and editors.
WeTransfer I use for folks who have no need to review videos and simply need me to send them a file.
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I always had problems even when it was YouSendIt.
Been using ScreenLight for client review and some large file transfers.
Use WeTransfer Pro account for all other transfers.
No problems with either service.
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The biggest way to get ransomware today is the invoicing scam. You receive an invoice to pay and it’s usually a .zip or .tar file. If you open the “invoice” it’s really ransomware.
My web host has now put a block on all .zip and .tar files to move through email. I have to manually whitelist someone if they want to send me a zip file.
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