Nice to know. I also work a lot with baselight inside MC. I love it. The only thing I miss is the fast copy paste of color from two shot and the way to create stills.
About Resolve 12, I installed to try, I couldn't find the curves the way it was in 11.3. I cannot make it big and have Y RGB all in one box. There's a way to change it?
Thanks!
Dario
The smart cache in Resolve is not as smart as you think. Once it loses the link to a render, it has to re-render. It happens all too easily too, similar to the way Final Cut Pro 7 used to lose renders in a lot of cases. Unless this has changed in Resolve 12, Resolve often struggles to play back a show in real time, frequently freezing for a fraction of a second at the end of a shot before playing the next clip in a sequence, especially with render cached clips. I cannot tell what a show is really going to look like until I return it to Avid. I am not the only one who experiences this. I would not want to use Resolve as an editor. We've been using Resolve for about 2 years and have always found bottlenecks in the round trip. mostly caused by Resolve. In some cases, it could not even see MXF media files it created itself when it was reused in another production.We looked at other grading solutions from Scratch to Mistika and decided we would do our current production cycle using Baselight for Avid inside Media Composer. They finally have it so that you can move from shot to shot without exiting the Baselight GUI. The tools are very comprehensive and frankly superior to Resolve. The Baselight keyer is miles ahead when it comes to isolating parts of a picture and the power window equivalent shapes are so much better to work with.Using Baselight inside of Media Composer eliminates the round trip completely and I can see the show play properly without the need for rendering. As well, we use Tiffen DFX 4. In Resolve, the smart cache wanted to render every Tiffen effect in spite of them being GPU aware. In Media Composer, they just play, unless there is intense pixel manipulation.So I can have the best of all worlds right inside Media Composer - Symphony correction and a world class grading platform in Baselight, plus the ability to use any AVX plugin and no round trip. It's much easier to make revisions to a show now.There is a lot I will miss in Resolve, but I think we will be reducing our stress levels while getting superior results in this new workflow.Dennis KutcheraOn 23 September 2015 at 19:25, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:So, I do most of my color work in Resolve now. I know there are diehard Symphony colorists on here, and I still have to do it from time to time, but resolve is my coloring tool of choice. There's one particular feature in Resolve that really needs to find its way into media composer - and every other NLE. I have no idea if the architecture even allows for it, but: Smart Cache. Say you use a plug-in, or keyer, or something that's a little too taxing for the computer in real time. If 'smart cache' is turned on, anything that won't play in real time is CACHED as you play through it the first or second time in non-real time. Noise reduction, a boris plug-in, whatever. Make a change, the cache goes away, until you play through it once. It's friggin' amazing. No 'render selected clips' or crap like that, no changing playback resolution, etc. It just caches the first (or second, if you started from the middle of the clip) play through. If your cache settings match your output settings, you can use cached clips for output, saving render time.
As an editor, resolve is still in it's rough toddler years - but there are smart things in the architecture that make me I'm anxious to see where it goes. Yes, it crashes, but not as often as my media composer!
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