This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Resolve update from Editor's Lounge event

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] Resolve update from Editor's Lounge event

One thing to remember about Premiere - it has always worked best the more computing horsepower you can throw at it. On my MP trash can, my long form projects open quickly and the editing experience is much more fluid than Avid on the same setup, especially with 4K sources.

As someone who has cut with Avid for 20 years and feels totally at home with its interface, I am an unlikely champion of Premiere. But Premiere has been doing the job for me in the last few years alongside Avid. I usually have a choice of which to use, but unfortunately there are fewer and fewer reasons to stay with Avid.

Resolve costs... oh yeah, it's free. :-O

Well not really, if you need to buy BMD hardware to output to a pro monitor. And invest time to get proficient in its interface, go through the usual startup costs of switching to any new software, etc.

I haven't used Resolve - what is the user experience like for day in day out long form content editing? How well does it handle audio? If Resolve develops to a point that it is on a par with Avid and Premiere for long form editing, and offers compelling advantages, I will have no problem with using in it.

And how long will it stay "free"?

- Rich

On Apr 30, 2016, at 10:49 AM, tcurren@aol.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Rich,
It's true that Adobe has been adding features also. But...

Premiere is painful in long form. You have to plan extended coffee breaks when you ope or save your project. The there is the matter of the cost. You have to pay your monthly tithe to Adobe forever, or lose your ability to work on your project. Resolve costs... oh yeah, it's free. :-O

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <rrfavid@...> wrote :

But how do you know a product in-depth that is changing so rapidly?

Premiere Pro from CS6 to now. The Adobe folks have been listening just as carefully, and responding. And just like Resolve, Adobe added features that editors were requesting - features that Avid has had for ages. So yes BMD is playing catch up at a terrific rate. But so is Adobe.

The question is, who will lead innovation over the next 5 - 10 years?

- Rich

On Apr 30, 2016, at 9:47 AM, tcurren@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

It was an interesting event last night. BM still has a way to go to infiltrate the multi-editor project market. But... they were taking notes on what the editors were asking for. If those show up in V13, I think you will start to see a shift in the market place.

It was good to have working editors hitting them with questions. Some examples off the top of my head. They showed how you can easily convert a marker to a spanned marker. Then someone asked if you could export the markers. Uhhhhhhh. (now it's a feature request)

Showing multi cam someone asked if you could easily toggle through grouped audio separately from the video. Uhhhhhhh (now a feature request)

Etcetera. The disclaimer here should be the presenters, while long time industry folks, didn't seem to know the product inside and out so maybe there is a way to do some of the things they were stumped on last night. But how do you know a product in-depth that is changing so rapidly?

Their main advantage over the competition is price point. It's hard to beat free. (Up to UHD) If they keep adding features at the current pace, Resolve stands a chance of seriously penetrating the NLE marketplace.