The pricing is the inevitable result of Resolve being a piece of software.
All of the other grading apps (Films Master, Baselight, etc.) are also software. I wouldn't buy a Scratch system over Resolve because it's not as good (IMO) and does not have it's own panels. Watch what happens with Adobe I bet CS6 has a grading app included.
this is what happens with computers, things which start out exotic and hard to do with computers become easy and more accessible with each generation of computing performance improvements.
Even Resolve Lite is not that cheap, you still need a panel, I/O and a monitor to do anything worth a damn with it and those three will run you $6-10K without the computer and software license.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com
MAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
