I want to tell you an amusing anecdote about that program. DaVinci was originally developped 30 years ago on very expensive SGI hardware, with very expensive de

I want to tell you an amusing anecdote about that program. DaVinci was originally developped 30 years ago on very expensive SGI hardware, with very expensive dedicated controller hardware. Back then and for many years, DaVinci booth was a must-see both at NAB Las Vegas and IBC Amsterdam. You could see the marvels or real time color correction using more than $300k of RealityEngine Onyxes and huge gleaming control panels that looked like they just fell from the starship Enterprise. They switched to Linux in the early 2000s and made Windows/Mac versions. The software and controller hardware remained horrendously expensive, though. The high price of the software made the rare people who were proficient with it stars in the cinema industry, high-flyers that grabbed big money and drove expensive cars on Hollywood boulevard. BlackMagic has been the bane of high-end boutique hardware makers for a long time. Apparently at some point they planned to buy 3 or 4 DaVinci Resolve complete systems for some project. Then they realised that they could buy the whole company (a very low volume company indeed) instead for about the same price. Since then, they made (as they usually do) the software and hardware less and less expensive every year, until they completely broke the market: for the past five years or so you've been able to hire color grading experts working from their room in India on the net. Hollywood specialists aren't amused.