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Been using Resolve for over a year and graded a documentary short with it last year. I fell head over heels for Blackmagic and we now own several Ursa mini pro

Been using Resolve for over a year and graded a documentary short with it last year. I fell head over heels for Blackmagic and we now own several Ursa mini pro g2 cameras and a few of their smaller 6Ks. We shoot on canon lenses and our entire workflow is Resolve. Resolve is the best color grading software in the biz, without question. Most Oscar winners each year have used Resolve for their grade. The node based workflow is a game changer. Fair light is the sound editing software and is built on a company they purchased that was a leader in the field. What is truly unbelievable is that you get the full version of fair light in the free version of Resolve. In fact the only thing you’ll miss in the free version is a few plugins. Last year I was doing a color grade and accidentally upgraded to free. Took me an hour to realize. Fusion is also very powerful for VFX and does an excellent job with a few plugins for planar tracking. Resolve provides a complete workflow including media management, two editors, color, sound, vfx and export. It is remarkably fast and stable. The BM folks are also super friendly and helpful. Met a few at a DP seminar in NYC end of last year. I’ve been trying to create awareness about how much BM is giving away and how powerful Resolve is so I’m glad to see it here. One last thing. Blackmagic raw is unbelievable in the latitude it gives you for heavy grades. We came over from Sony s-log2. One shoot and we were hooked. I kept pushing the footage and waiting for that Sony purple grain to appear in the darks and they stayed clean with a ton of detail. Amazing.

PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
Fairlight was not really a leader in the field of sound editing software. It was a ground breaking company 30 years ago when they introduced the Computer Musical Instrument (CMI), but they went through hard times due to the incredibly high cost. The company was reformed several times, was bought and sold several times, and no doubt had some vaguely valuable IP coming with it. But their sound editing software has never been a leader in the field, and wasn't widely used. Being a part of Resolve will likely result in more exposure and use of any technology that gets reused.
- mmaunder 6y ago
  This is moot at this point. Resolve has had fairlight for some time and have made it their own. It does an incredible job. We use it with Universal Audio’s Apollo units which contain external DSP and industry leading emulation and it integrates beautifully. Amazing to be able to emulate Ocean Way Studios room sound for a film track, for example. I’d encourage podcasters to look at Resolve as an audio only workflow option.
  - PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
    > Amazing to be able to emulate Ocean Way Studios room sound for a film track Convolution. It's a common, everyday technology that comes with varying degrees of chrome and user handholding. No special magic going on there (except for being able to get your hands on a good impulse response for the space/room in question).
    - netik 6y ago
      why shit on this? it’s great software and works well
      - PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
        I don't like people conveying an impression that something is magical when its relatively every day stuff, that's all.
httpsterio 6y ago
> Been using Resolve for over a year and graded a documentary short with it last year. I fell head over heels for Blackmagic and we now own several Ursa mini pro g2 cameras and a few of their smaller 6Ks. We shoot on canon lenses and our entire workflow is Resolve. > Resolve is the best color grading software in the biz, without question. Most Oscar winners each year have used Resolve for their grade. The node based workflow is a game changer. > Fair light is the sound editing software and is built on a company they purchased that was a leader in the field. What is truly unbelievable is that you get the full version of fair light in the free version of Resolve. In fact the only thing you’ll miss in the free version is a few plugins. Last year I was doing a color grade and accidentally upgraded to free. Took me an hour to realize. > Fusion is also very powerful for VFX and does an excellent job with a few plugins for planar tracking. > Resolve provides a complete workflow including media management, two editors, color, sound, vfx and export. It is remarkably fast and stable. The BM folks are also super friendly and helpful. Met a few at a DP seminar in NYC end of last year. > I’ve been trying to create awareness about how much BM is giving away and how powerful Resolve is so I’m glad to see it here. > One last thing. Blackmagic raw is unbelievable in the latitude it gives you for heavy grades. We came over from Sony s-log2. One shoot and we were hooked. I kept pushing the footage and waiting for that Sony purple grain to appear in the darks and they stayed clean with a ton of detail. Amazing. > Been using Resolve for over a year and graded a documentary short with it last year. I fell head over heels for Blackmagic and we now own several Ursa mini pro g2 cameras and a few of their smaller 6Ks. We shoot on canon lenses and our entire workflow is Resolve. > Resolve is the best color grading software in the biz, without question. Most Oscar winners each year have used Resolve for their grade. The node based workflow is a game changer. > Fair light is the sound editing software and is built on a company they purchased that was a leader in the field. What is truly unbelievable is that you get the full version of fair light in the free version of Resolve. In fact the only thing you’ll miss in the free version is a few plugins. Last year I was doing a color grade and accidentally upgraded to free. Took me an hour to realize. > Fusion is also very powerful for VFX and does an excellent job with a few plugins for planar tracking. > Resolve provides a complete workflow including media management, two editors, color, sound, vfx and export. It is remarkably fast and stable. The BM folks are also super friendly and helpful. Met a few at a DP seminar in NYC end of last year. > I’ve been trying to create awareness about how much BM is giving away and how powerful Resolve is so I’m glad to see it here. > One last thing. Blackmagic raw is unbelievable in the latitude it gives you for heavy grades. We came over from Sony s-log2. One shoot and we were hooked. I kept pushing the footage and waiting for that Sony purple grain to appear in the darks and they stayed clean with a ton of detail. Amazing. I do audio work and use an actually proper DAW. Fairlight is pretty crummy and audio editing in resolve is a pain. Rendering a 5 hour audio track and importing into my DAW as a wav doesn't really work either so I'll either have to chop it up with ffmpeg or just use Fairlight. So far, I've stuck with it but it's no joy.ä to use.
unicornporn 6y ago
> Resolve is the best color grading software in the biz, without question. That's not what the Baselight[1] people are saying. :) One thing that hasn't been mentioned here yet is that Resolve is available for Linux. It is BY FAR the best free video editor for Linux. [1] https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/baselight/overview_bl.php https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/baselight/overview_bl....
- McDyver 6y ago
  One big issue with DaVinci Resolve on Linux, is the fact that it doesn't support h264, and you need to transcode all your files to a supported format, before using them. There's a whole thread here: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=78058 https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7805...
  - unicornporn 6y ago
    Yeah, sucks. H.264 is usually crap for editing though and transcoding to a intra-frame codec like CineForm is a pretty damn near lossless operation.
    - tagrun 6y ago
      1. CineForm is lossy 2. This requires ~2x time and disk space, given that most end-user cameras record H.264/H.265 By the way, they chose to cripple it by making these codecs premium-only features on Linux only: https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_16_Supported_Codec_List.pdf https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_... Their excuse for not having H.264 is an outright lie, because Cisco has already paid the royalties for all binary users of OpenH264 on any OS. Furthermore, even if you buy their premium version, the only option to encode to H.264/H.265 on Linux is NVENC, which is inferior to CPU encoders and requires you to own an Nvidia card. They're outright hostile toward Linux.
  - Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
    Only the free version doesn't support h264. If you get the paid version, you get h264 support. My understanding is that this is not BM's fault, simply the way license agreements for that codec work.

PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago

Fairlight was not really a leader in the field of sound editing software. It was a ground breaking company 30 years ago when they introduced the Computer Musical Instrument (CMI), but they went through hard times due to the incredibly high cost. The company was reformed several times, was bought and sold several times, and no doubt had some vaguely valuable IP coming with it. But their sound editing software has never been a leader in the field, and wasn't widely used. Being a part of Resolve will likely result in more exposure and use of any technology that gets reused.

mmaunder 6y ago
This is moot at this point. Resolve has had fairlight for some time and have made it their own. It does an incredible job. We use it with Universal Audio’s Apollo units which contain external DSP and industry leading emulation and it integrates beautifully. Amazing to be able to emulate Ocean Way Studios room sound for a film track, for example. I’d encourage podcasters to look at Resolve as an audio only workflow option.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
  > Amazing to be able to emulate Ocean Way Studios room sound for a film track Convolution. It's a common, everyday technology that comes with varying degrees of chrome and user handholding. No special magic going on there (except for being able to get your hands on a good impulse response for the space/room in question).
  - netik 6y ago
    why shit on this? it’s great software and works well
    - PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
      I don't like people conveying an impression that something is magical when its relatively every day stuff, that's all.

httpsterio 6y ago

> Been using Resolve for over a year and graded a documentary short with it last year. I fell head over heels for Blackmagic and we now own several Ursa mini pro g2 cameras and a few of their smaller 6Ks. We shoot on canon lenses and our entire workflow is Resolve. > Resolve is the best color grading software in the biz, without question. Most Oscar winners each year have used Resolve for their grade. The node based workflow is a game changer. > Fair light is the sound editing software and is built on a company they purchased that was a leader in the field. What is truly unbelievable is that you get the full version of fair light in the free version of Resolve. In fact the only thing you’ll miss in the free version is a few plugins. Last year I was doing a color grade and accidentally upgraded to free. Took me an hour to realize. > Fusion is also very powerful for VFX and does an excellent job with a few plugins for planar tracking. > Resolve provides a complete workflow including media management, two editors, color, sound, vfx and export. It is remarkably fast and stable. The BM folks are also super friendly and helpful. Met a few at a DP seminar in NYC end of last year. > I’ve been trying to create awareness about how much BM is giving away and how powerful Resolve is so I’m glad to see it here. > One last thing. Blackmagic raw is unbelievable in the latitude it gives you for heavy grades. We came over from Sony s-log2. One shoot and we were hooked. I kept pushing the footage and waiting for that Sony purple grain to appear in the darks and they stayed clean with a ton of detail. Amazing. > Been using Resolve for over a year and graded a documentary short with it last year. I fell head over heels for Blackmagic and we now own several Ursa mini pro g2 cameras and a few of their smaller 6Ks. We shoot on canon lenses and our entire workflow is Resolve. > Resolve is the best color grading software in the biz, without question. Most Oscar winners each year have used Resolve for their grade. The node based workflow is a game changer. > Fair light is the sound editing software and is built on a company they purchased that was a leader in the field. What is truly unbelievable is that you get the full version of fair light in the free version of Resolve. In fact the only thing you’ll miss in the free version is a few plugins. Last year I was doing a color grade and accidentally upgraded to free. Took me an hour to realize. > Fusion is also very powerful for VFX and does an excellent job with a few plugins for planar tracking. > Resolve provides a complete workflow including media management, two editors, color, sound, vfx and export. It is remarkably fast and stable. The BM folks are also super friendly and helpful. Met a few at a DP seminar in NYC end of last year. > I’ve been trying to create awareness about how much BM is giving away and how powerful Resolve is so I’m glad to see it here. > One last thing. Blackmagic raw is unbelievable in the latitude it gives you for heavy grades. We came over from Sony s-log2. One shoot and we were hooked. I kept pushing the footage and waiting for that Sony purple grain to appear in the darks and they stayed clean with a ton of detail. Amazing. I do audio work and use an actually proper DAW. Fairlight is pretty crummy and audio editing in resolve is a pain. Rendering a 5 hour audio track and importing into my DAW as a wav doesn't really work either so I'll either have to chop it up with ffmpeg or just use Fairlight. So far, I've stuck with it but it's no joy.ä to use.

unicornporn 6y ago

> Resolve is the best color grading software in the biz, without question. That's not what the Baselight[1] people are saying. :) One thing that hasn't been mentioned here yet is that Resolve is available for Linux. It is BY FAR the best free video editor for Linux. [1] https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/baselight/overview_bl.php https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/baselight/overview_bl....

McDyver 6y ago
One big issue with DaVinci Resolve on Linux, is the fact that it doesn't support h264, and you need to transcode all your files to a supported format, before using them. There's a whole thread here: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=78058 https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7805...
- unicornporn 6y ago
  Yeah, sucks. H.264 is usually crap for editing though and transcoding to a intra-frame codec like CineForm is a pretty damn near lossless operation.
  - tagrun 6y ago
    1. CineForm is lossy 2. This requires ~2x time and disk space, given that most end-user cameras record H.264/H.265 By the way, they chose to cripple it by making these codecs premium-only features on Linux only: https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_16_Supported_Codec_List.pdf https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_... Their excuse for not having H.264 is an outright lie, because Cisco has already paid the royalties for all binary users of OpenH264 on any OS. Furthermore, even if you buy their premium version, the only option to encode to H.264/H.265 on Linux is NVENC, which is inferior to CPU encoders and requires you to own an Nvidia card. They're outright hostile toward Linux.
- Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
  Only the free version doesn't support h264. If you get the paid version, you get h264 support. My understanding is that this is not BM's fault, simply the way license agreements for that codec work.