Control surface rumor.....

That would be awesome, Resolve panel lite

I haven't heard any specific rumors about NAB, or for that matter, anything confirmed...but I'll observe that for the last two years in a row, Blackmagic Design was given the Creative COW Blue Ribbon Award for Best in Show at NAB, for both the dizzying volume of products released, and the game-changing nature of several of them.

In that sense, nothing that they do will surprise me. This is shaping up to be the hottest NAB in years, but BMD has set itself up as the company to beat.

Although I should also mention that Grant has explicitly denied any intention of buying Avid. :-)

Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine

[Margus Voll] "But in the other hand if BM would buy avid it would only be good"

Maybe for DaVinci it was good since hey were already bankrupt, but I think Avid has momentum now since the demise of FCP. In any case, I think if Blackmagic would buy Avid it'll be catastrophic, we don't need another "Lite" mayhem, and what's the point now, Avid just open up to third party hardware, under Blackmagic we all know it's going to only work Blackmagic's and not Kona or Matrox or Bluefish.

i have feeling too that is going to happen ,and would be great

but i would like to ask to BMD to keep developing also even a bigger panel , with tablet in it ,and more buttons as possible (like baseligth or Quantel..)

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i agree with jonathan, if BMD were to do anything with Avid, PLEASE buy up the DS code. i used DS for the last 9yrs on some of the biggest projects, but the toolset has fallen so far behind. i made a switch to Autodesk Smoke last year. That being said, BMD DS would surely be Innovated immediately. there are so many things that could be fixed/enhanced/added in short order that would make it a viable platform again. Adding support for BMD cards would be a good start, esp since Composer and Symphony now run on those. XML support. 16 ch audio support. I'm not talking earth shattering things here..

As well, BMD doesn't have an editing platform of their own. DS would be a huge jump into the pool..

WOW. the possibilities would be awesome knowing BMD's track record...

I'm sure BM is sitting there watching these third party companies get a $1500 gravy train off their $995 product (or free for the Lite). How many peeps would be spending the $1500 if it wasn't for Resolve.

No need to imagine it. This app is called Smoke.
And if Autodesk finally manages to incorporate Lustre into Smoke, then that would be THE finishing app.

It would be great if they offered a more affordable grading panel. I would be very interested in it.

Although I am still hoping that they will add support for the Tangent CP100 board (Which is a great board).

I hope they do NOT buy Avid. Unlike what Margus says, I think Avid is great and the best editor out there. Sure there are things they can do better at, but I don't think Blackmagic is the solution here. A free version of Avid is not going to yield a better editing experience. I'm still waiting on Blackmagic for Resolve fixes from version 7.0.

-Peter