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Even when Resolve was only ever those two modules (and back then the edit was pretty basic) I thought it was incredibly good. DaVinci's dedication to publishing

Even when Resolve was only ever those two modules (and back then the edit was pretty basic) I thought it was incredibly good. DaVinci's dedication to publishing free (of charge) software is one of the few things keeping Adobe in check.

Melatonic 4y ago
My problem was I always found it to have weird holdovers in terms of UI from hardware integration days of colour correctors. Hopefully that is gone now. But for example you used to not be able to just drag your full screen viewing window to a second monitor - they forced you to get their little hardware PCIe card. Given that most Nvidia cards will do 10 bit colour now with the studio drivers I hope they have rethought this.
- dylan604 4y ago
  They prefer for the GPU cores to be doing math rather than displaying image. That's why you can get away with the GPU not being in a full lane width slot. The little PCIe did more than just send out an HDMI signal back then as well, as most of it went to an SDI or even older analog component BNCs. No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors.
  - angry_octet 4y ago
    NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI cards, ~2008-2020.
    - dylan604 4y ago
      holy jeebus, i had never heard of this board. but a quick search found this bit of oddity: "DVI-to-DVI Connection Connect one end of the DVI cable to the DVI connector on the SDI Output card and the other end to the "north" DVI connector on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600/5600 card as shown. The SDI output will not work if the cable is not connected to these two connectors." So it was an external pass thru type system that just converted DVI to SDI. They joined the daughter card via external oddball cable rather than making an internal ribbon cable connection.
      - angry_octet 4y ago
        Yep, it was just to convert computer graphics into broadcast TV world. Probably powering a bunch of TV stations weather broadcasts for the next decade.
        dylan604 4y ago
        That's still a few rungs up from the older skool tech of a large round table top with the different gauges for things like temp/pressure/humidity/etc on it that rotated at a set speed with a stationary camera mount so that the gauges would spin underneath it. For a lot of small cable companies this was the "weather" for that cable company. It would be setup at the head end where all of the various satellite dishes were pulling the feeds. An ex-coworker's family was responsible for that existing, so I used to hear all sorts of "back in the day" themed stories about it.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - digitallyfree 4y ago
    My AMD W8100 has a SDI port. They're only seen on the workstation cards, not the consumer ones.
  - mschuster91 4y ago
    > No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors. Not much need for them, either. As long as you have an HDMI output (or a DVI output with a passive HDMI adapter cable), there are HDMI-to-SDI converters. Blackmagic sells 'em for like 70€ apiece - I've disassembled one, it's essentially a HDMI decoder, an FPGA that does the protocol translation and an SDI encoder/transceiver.
- dharma1 4y ago
  You don’t need it anymore. I think it was more the OS not being able to colour manage properly, or have SDI out
dylan604 4y ago
Slight nitpick, but Blackmagic is releasing the product for free. Before the acquisition, DaVinci would NEVER have released Resolve for free. At least based on their pricing models from decades prior.
- DoctorOW 4y ago
  Whoops sorry, I meant Blackmagic.
- gizajob 4y ago
  What's your point? Resolve has been free for ages.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    That the name of the company giving something away should be accurately noted. DaVinci is no longer a company. It is a brand owned by a company. The brand doesn't set the pricing. The company does.
    - AussieWog93 4y ago
      In the case of Blackmagic, the company doesn't set the price either. It's 100% Grant (Petty, CEO). Long live the king.
      - dylan604 4y ago
        If you think the CEO does not set the direction for the company, then you need to study up on some things on how businesses operate. psst, rumors say that Grant Petty wrote the original drivers for AJA. wikipedia doesn't even seem to have an entry for AJA the company.
digitallyfree 4y ago
I've seen a lot of students serious about video editing switching from (typically pirated) Premiere Pro to Resolve as the free version got better and better. One student told me his high school filmmaking class was switching from FCP to Resolve so that everyone could easily work on their projects at home. It's pretty much the only freeware professional editing suite available - and if some of those students later work in the industry they'll prefer the system they're familar with. When I used Resolve several years ago the system requirements were high but you could mitigate that by using a proxy workflow.
- baldfat 4y ago
  People have switched to Resolve due to it having a BETER workflow then FCP or Premier. Personally I jumped on the bandwagon due to Linux. The big difference maker for Resolve was when it became an editor. It was THE STANDARD for color correction for over a decade.

Melatonic 4y ago

My problem was I always found it to have weird holdovers in terms of UI from hardware integration days of colour correctors. Hopefully that is gone now. But for example you used to not be able to just drag your full screen viewing window to a second monitor - they forced you to get their little hardware PCIe card. Given that most Nvidia cards will do 10 bit colour now with the studio drivers I hope they have rethought this.

dylan604 4y ago
They prefer for the GPU cores to be doing math rather than displaying image. That's why you can get away with the GPU not being in a full lane width slot. The little PCIe did more than just send out an HDMI signal back then as well, as most of it went to an SDI or even older analog component BNCs. No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors.
- angry_octet 4y ago
  NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI cards, ~2008-2020.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    holy jeebus, i had never heard of this board. but a quick search found this bit of oddity: "DVI-to-DVI Connection Connect one end of the DVI cable to the DVI connector on the SDI Output card and the other end to the "north" DVI connector on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600/5600 card as shown. The SDI output will not work if the cable is not connected to these two connectors." So it was an external pass thru type system that just converted DVI to SDI. They joined the daughter card via external oddball cable rather than making an internal ribbon cable connection.
    - angry_octet 4y ago
      Yep, it was just to convert computer graphics into broadcast TV world. Probably powering a bunch of TV stations weather broadcasts for the next decade.
      - dylan604 4y ago
        That's still a few rungs up from the older skool tech of a large round table top with the different gauges for things like temp/pressure/humidity/etc on it that rotated at a set speed with a stationary camera mount so that the gauges would spin underneath it. For a lot of small cable companies this was the "weather" for that cable company. It would be setup at the head end where all of the various satellite dishes were pulling the feeds. An ex-coworker's family was responsible for that existing, so I used to hear all sorts of "back in the day" themed stories about it.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- digitallyfree 4y ago
  My AMD W8100 has a SDI port. They're only seen on the workstation cards, not the consumer ones.
- mschuster91 4y ago
  > No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors. Not much need for them, either. As long as you have an HDMI output (or a DVI output with a passive HDMI adapter cable), there are HDMI-to-SDI converters. Blackmagic sells 'em for like 70€ apiece - I've disassembled one, it's essentially a HDMI decoder, an FPGA that does the protocol translation and an SDI encoder/transceiver.
dharma1 4y ago
You don’t need it anymore. I think it was more the OS not being able to colour manage properly, or have SDI out

dylan604 4y ago

Slight nitpick, but Blackmagic is releasing the product for free. Before the acquisition, DaVinci would NEVER have released Resolve for free. At least based on their pricing models from decades prior.

DoctorOW 4y ago
Whoops sorry, I meant Blackmagic.
gizajob 4y ago
What's your point? Resolve has been free for ages.
- dylan604 4y ago
  That the name of the company giving something away should be accurately noted. DaVinci is no longer a company. It is a brand owned by a company. The brand doesn't set the pricing. The company does.
  - AussieWog93 4y ago
    In the case of Blackmagic, the company doesn't set the price either. It's 100% Grant (Petty, CEO). Long live the king.
    - dylan604 4y ago
      If you think the CEO does not set the direction for the company, then you need to study up on some things on how businesses operate. psst, rumors say that Grant Petty wrote the original drivers for AJA. wikipedia doesn't even seem to have an entry for AJA the company.

digitallyfree 4y ago

I've seen a lot of students serious about video editing switching from (typically pirated) Premiere Pro to Resolve as the free version got better and better. One student told me his high school filmmaking class was switching from FCP to Resolve so that everyone could easily work on their projects at home. It's pretty much the only freeware professional editing suite available - and if some of those students later work in the industry they'll prefer the system they're familar with. When I used Resolve several years ago the system requirements were high but you could mitigate that by using a proxy workflow.

baldfat 4y ago
People have switched to Resolve due to it having a BETER workflow then FCP or Premier. Personally I jumped on the bandwagon due to Linux. The big difference maker for Resolve was when it became an editor. It was THE STANDARD for color correction for over a decade.