DaVinci for Mac, game changer or game over?

[Andrae Palmer]

The davinci support page... here's the direct link:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/dow...olveManual.pdf

[Gabriele Turchi]

thanks!!!

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[shashbugu]

Hi Andrae,
thats the version 6.-- linux manual, from the black magic reps fcp-super-meet video the interface is much better and there are even more features than in that manual. A few days ago i was afraid they just gave us the same ugly complex linux interface but i was wrong, they actually put some muscle into this thing. Black magic has some new inexpensive hard ware cards that makes ingesting directly into Resolve even easier, complete with hardware scopes. Only BM sells a multichannel stream 3D stereoscopic card for $495.

[Tim Whitcomb]

We are building a non Linux system and will post results
in May. Going to put it head to head with Color suite and give people a
choice - choices are always good.

[shashbugu]

We are building a non Linux system and will post results
in May. Going to put it head to head with Color suite and give people a
choice - choices are always good.

Tim that sounds really cool, but this is the assimilate scratch forum, we should be comparing it with scratch not color

[M Most]

Right, 50K soft + killer panel on Linux (expandable), against $75K (or 50K) soft only Scratch running on Windows (non-expandable). See the big difference?

Besides, even if its soft only, daVinci is far superior than Color as far as tools and capabilities.

How many more times and how many more ways do you need to say the same thing? You think Resolve will put Assimilate out of business. We get it. I was trying to expand this into a more sensible and general conversation, and offer a view from another end of the industry. That's clearly a conversation you don't seem to want to take part in.

[shashbugu]

Oh wow Andrae! I'm looking through the manual the resolve thats have a full multitrack timelime now

[shashbugu]

I was reading the manual I got to page 81, my head really hurts. This calls for a Noah Kadner video tutorial. I am a director not a colorist/engineer just simplify the stuff for me so I can get my vision across.

[Jorge Torrens]

Oh wow Andrae! I'm looking through the manual the resolve thats have a full multitrack timelime now

No, not at the moment when you see two tracks is because there is a dissolve, is like in an AB Edl, but hopefully when they implement the xml importer there will be one

[jake blackstone]

We are building a non Linux system and will post results
in May. Going to put it head to head with Color suite and give people a
choice - choices are always good.

Tim.
If you're talking about the Mac version it would be very difficult feat to achieve, as that version is only planned to go on sale in June-July:-) As far as head to head goes, why bother? The answer is already obvious to anyone, who has used both of those systems in the past already. Especially after having seen 1/2 debayer, 6 layer of color grade, 2 keys and defocus playing back unrendered in real time on a Mac version...