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Resolve 11 at NAB

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So it looks like the cat is out of the bag...

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My acknowledgment to @RobBessette for posting this on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/robsbessette/status/452637809686609920/photo/1

Apparently, Blackmagic is pitching Resolve as a serious conforming and delivery tool -- much more than I would've guessed. I kind of wish they would just stick to "just" color correction, but then, I also objected when programs like Microsoft Word got out of hand by adding tons of features for people trying to publish books and do complex layout, beyond just writing.

And just as I got Resolve 10 stable on my new Mac Pro... :undecided: Can't wait to see the new features!
 
Anybody looking for a new super duper graphics card to run Resolve, come along to Booth #SL10405 and check out the new AMD FirePro W9100.

Going to be a fun week week for sure :-)
 
This seemed as a logical outcome the moment V10 was introduced.

Looking forward to checking the features.
 
All these amazing tools becoming available are right up our alley. We've just done a deal to acquire a theatre and cafe. The idea is to be like Theatre D in Toronto where you have sound mixing and colour timing during the day, and then show films at night and during the weekends. Given what things used to cost we would have never considered it 5-7 years ago.

Can't wait to see what happens on the Projector side!
 
Jeremy, agreed. We can't look at productions the same anymore. With the ability to go direct into theatres, even while making nature docs, I keep asking myself what can I make that has a theatrical component.

It's exciting times.
 
I don't think anyone should discount the opportunity for theatrical.

What we're doing with Bandwidth Digital Releasing is quite simply a huge deal, not just for the First Nation/Native American community, but potentially for those small communities who don't have access to bricks and mortar structures. We are literally bringing the silver screen to the people...projecting 4K and 2K features from Hollywood while curating films into the mix to be considered by audiences. Essentially we're suggesting the films we include along side the studio fare can co-exist with them. We're very serious about expanding into the US and expect to be in every state within a couple years...we're quietly negotiating franchising for each province as each week goes by. The west is almost entirely wrapped up now.

On the delivery side you can do free DCP's (or pay a professional) which opens the door to theatrical, and it's a proven model since the studios have been doing it forever, even if some movies are loss leaders.

We would really like to see Avid get with the times and offer 4K within MC, especially with killing DS. They're already advertising their ISIS hardware as supporting 4K, so who knows? Regardless, Resolve has really paid attention the market and opened themselves up to new customers. Smart.
 
You won't mind the future ... its Open

You won't mind the future ... its Open

Gunleik Groven said:
If it gets some more compositing and finishing features and a good timeline...

I wouldn't mind "working in resolve"
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Hi Gunleik,

You definitely won't mind "working in Resolve" ... combine the new features of Resolve 11 with the power of the new AMD FirePro W9100 GPUs and you won't mind anything ... we're demoing Resolve 10.1.4 running on the AMD booth (#SL10405) and it easily handles 6K DRAGON files and 4K 10bit Log DPX files ... as soon as Peter and Rohit let us have a copy of Resolve 11 we'll start demoing that in Los Angeles.

You no longer need an expensive, heavy-iron propriety finishing system to work efficiently and quickly with 4K, 5K or 6K footage .... the combination of $1000 DaVinci Resolve with the 16GB of VRAM W9100s GPUs running in a SuperMicro chassis is more than you need to work with RED footage and finish efficiently.

OpenCL is the way forward .. you don't need to be tied to a propriety, legacy architecture like CUDA ... the so called high-end finishing systems like Pablo RIO or BaseLight aren't anything special anymore .. they are essentially sophisticated applications running on bog standard PC components ... there's no 'secret sauce' to their platform ... they used to be the only game in town but no longer ... the days of heavy-iron, clunky and very expensive finishing systems are over ... just take the rich feature set of Resolve 11 and add it to the open hardware from AMD, Intel, Blackmagic and SuperMicro and you have the platform of the future at a price you can afford today.

If you're going to NAB make sure to stop by the Blackmagic booth and see the new finishing features of Resolve 11 and then come down the hall to the AMD booth #SL10405 to see Resolve 10.1.4 running on FOUR AMD W9100s and three Fusion-io memory cards ... this kind of system is perfect for finishing EPIC and DRAGON footage at half the price of expensive heavy-iron alternatives.

The future is Open ... the future is OpenCL running on AMD GPUs powering DaVinci Resolve 11.

Hope to see you at NAB - in the meantime, here's an overview presentation we put together to show how these new super-computer workstations are empowering the future at a fraction of the costs of legacy heavy-iron systems plus some slides of the new features of the AMD FirePro W9100 - enjoy!
 

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Based on the promo video this looks like a proper editor.
Congrats.
 
Whoa... Resolve just became my DIT tool of choice, bookending my workflow. Nice.
 
As excited as I am for some of these changes, I also remember that last year, Resolve 10 was announced at NAB, and we didn't get it in our hands until . . . August? Later? Might have been October . . .

What would really help the DIT workflow is multiple burn-ins/exports. Right now, if you go to export, you can do multiple versions, but they are just different codecs. If I want to do H264 Dailies with Time Code and a Rec709, but also a ProRes in Log, I can't. I have to export one. Then change settings when it's done. Then export another.

When you're ingesting 8 cards a day, that's a pain. It's not impossible, but it's one more item on the checklist every single card.
 
I guess I will have to wait till version 11 to have this "Failed to Initialize Red Rocket Card 0" fixed.
 
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