Re: Resolve for Mac feedback from former Apple Color users?

Robert:

From reading your post and reading about your workflow I'd say Resolve is exactly what you want. My clients are so happy now they only want to be in Resolve where they can view real time, have audio and make changes on the fly, any number of adjustments (nodes) and no rendering. You can make versions of your edit or versions of clips, as many as you want, I believe. Like colour, which ever version is currently set to display will playback or render, but then can you really call Color playback, maybe chugback. Sorry, now I'm a Davinci snob, but really you would never look back.

I'm currently into the 5th episode of a national comedy series all shot on Red. Along the way I've timed many commercials, small documentaries almost all without issue. Red in Davinci is such a treat. When was the last time you tried qualifying say green grass in Color if the files are Red? You can't do it cleanly because Red was built into Color as an afterthought the pipeline is bad. Your colour picker is reading off the raw images which of course are very washed out and flat until they got through the Red tab. I had suggested to Andrew Bryant on occasion that Color needs a downstream qualifier when working with Red files but nothing ever happened. I know that Apple is so busy building mobile devices that they seem to have dropped development on all these editing products.

The one issue with exporting from FCP is that it is now an edl instead of xml. This means you cannot have multiple tracks of video stacked up, but then I rarely worked this way in Color. I usually tried to work with one base layer if possible but if I do get a stacked project in that I have to deal with I can always go back to Color. In almost 4 months of work I have not re-opened Color which is rather telling.

I do miss saturation and hue curves. I loved these in Color but I understand there are ways of working in a similar fashion. I'm going to take some training from another old Davinci colorist in Atlanta the end of December where I'll get some of these inside secrets.

When I go to Atlanta I'll be working on the big panel. I'm really curious if it's overkill or not. I'll have a chance to find out first hand. Right now I'm on the Wave panel and it's okay, but lots of navigating up and down. I do find there is more mousing in Davinci than in Color, at least with the way I work. Sometimes this is an advantage because you can be dragging out a window while you're dialing softness or aspect at the same time on the controller.

That's all I can type for now. Got a ton of work to do but if you have specific questions, feel free to ask.