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

Sunday, May 1, 2016

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

Before dinner, I downloaded Resolve 12.5. Within 5 minutes I was
editing. Not editing quickly or comfortably but I was editing. No
tutorials, no manuals, just feeling my way around. Quoting Monte Burns,
"I know what I hate, and I don't hate this." Hats off to the Black
Magicians. --J.B.

Mike Parsons mikeparsons.tv@gmail.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
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> I'm happier than most it seems to just bounce between systems so to me
> it's almost irrelevant how or if resolve becomes the base app of my
> workflow. The resolve conform is a huge plus but I think an offline /
> online workflow will need to be used for 4K and 8k production so it's
> all about pipeline and so long as the tools talk to each other I doubt
> the exodus will be instant.
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> Avids problem is the same as autodesks with flame it's user group is
> aging - both companies need to find a way to excite the kids, Connect
> with the next generation of editors or perish as we retire. Free
> software is a big part of that as is power, if you feel empowered you
> want the software.. The bmd packages are empowering and that's
> appealing to young minds.
>
> Mike
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On May 2, 2016, at 4:30 AM, David Dodson davaldod@gmail.com
> <mailto:davaldod@gmail.com> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>> Can you imagine how excited BMD must be reading all us "elite"
>> editors enthusiastically waiting for the Resolve NLE to mature?
>> That's a lot of us ready to jump ship off Avid and paddle over to
>> Resolve..,
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>> David Dodson
>> davidadodson@sbcglobal.net <mailto:davidadodson@sbcglobal.net>
>> 818-523-0905
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>> On May 1, 2016, at 2:06 PM, john beck jb30343@windstream.net
>> <mailto:jb30343@windstream.net> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>>> I totally agree with you, John. Of course when Resolve has better and
>>> faster editing tools than MC plus all the other stuff... I don't think
>>> it's a question of "if" but when. I wonder if the Avid_L is renamed the
>>> Resolve-L if some of the old names will reappear. --J.B.
>>>
>>> bigfish@pacbell.net <mailto:bigfish@pacbell.net> [Avid-L2] wrote:
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>>> >
>>> > ---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:avid-l2@yahoogroups.com>,
>>> <mikeparsons.tv@...> wrote :
>>> > "Meanwhile editors complain that avid hasn't changed the color
>>> > corrector or title tool!"
>>> >
>>> > We complain about these things because they are an integral part of
>>> > our everyday workflow and if they were improved no one in my world
>>> > would be contemplating round tripping to resolve from an Avid
>>> > offline. Sure there are a lot of great tools that have their
>>> > strengths and weaknesses but as a bundle Avid does most everything I
>>> > need for the basic offline online workflow a
>>> > reality/documentary/variety/comedy show needs. Could I track my ID
>>> > blur better in Mocha or Boujou? I assume so but at a big hit in time
>>> > and efficiency.
>>> >
>>> > Adding links to 3rd party software from within Avid or Resolve is a
>>> > better approach to getting someone like me to try out these other
>>> > tools but as you say, "and fusion isn't a short learning curve for
>>> > most editors.." This is a main reason I would like to see
>>> > improvements to Avid's Color Corrector and even Title Tool. Bottom
>>> > line is they work for so much of the work I do if Symphony Color had
>>> > noise reduction and power window capabilities there would be
>>> little to
>>> > no reason to use Resolve and I would continue to have the benefit of
>>> > the efficiency of Avid's Relational Color Corrector. Now the Title
>>> > Tool is sparse in features but easy enough that my offline editors
>>> can
>>> > use it and I don't have to do major tweaking or rebuilding of their
>>> > titles. Again Photoshop and the Adobe bundle can do much more refined
>>> > titles etc... but at a hit in efficiency and time for an Avid
>>> > workflow. There is nothing like opening a title tool to correct a
>>> > spelling error etc... as opposed to having to go out to photoshop
>>> > etc... and then re import. For Avid to abandon Title Tool in the 4K
>>> > world is just plain stupid and a real slap in the face to the user
>>> > group. It's the devil we know and have learned to live with.
>>> >
>>> > In the surgical world of Online finishing I'm the guy that will take
>>> > out your appendix and not leave too big of a scar. For that Avid
>>> > works well and the color corrector and title tool are adequate. If
>>> > you need a plastic surgeon then it's probably better to find a
>>> > specialist in that field.
>>> >
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