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Resolve 12 reviews?

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Hi all, I am super excited to try Davinci Resove 12 and possibly look forward to switching from FCPX so that I can edit, and color correct in one single place with out having to do back and forth. Does any one know where I can find full reviews that will give me an idea as to if this is worth trying yet?

THe color correction part, needless to say, amazing, I am just not sure if the editor is good enough to make the switch on a job, with out going finding too many bugs and glitches.

Thank you for you time.
 
You can download a free version Resolve 12 from the Blackmagic website and check it out for yourself. The full version (Resolve 12 Studio) unlocks higher resolution output (UHD and beyond), but you can get a very good idea of how well it works playing with the version limited to HD.

I was all set to make Resolve 12 my replacement for Premiere Pro this weekend, but the footage I was working on needed stabilization, and that forced me to backtrack to Premiere Pro (Software rendering only on El Capitan...what a drag!).
 
Resolve is probably the most tied to hardware requirements out of all of the NLEs. You'll want to make sure to follow their config guidelines. And that's coming from a guy who has used a supposedly unsupported machine to run Resolve for years. :-)
 
Jonathan Yonkers said:
Hi Michael, is there a reason you are not updating to El capitan yet?
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I did update...and woe is me (as far as Adobe Premiere Pro is concerned). I was eagerly awaiting the update for various reasons, and did so immediately the day it was released. The day after it was released Adobe put out a notice that updating was not recommended because PP basically didn't work. In my view, that showed Adobe as both incompetent (couldn't get their app working when everybody else could) and cowardly (they could have push a notice to all PP users that they should not update until receiving positive notice that everything works). To their credit, AVID at least lets their ProTools users know well in advance that ProTools won't work until they say its working. Which is usually 2-3 months (sometimes 6 months) after major releases.
 
Steve Sherrick said:
Resolve is probably the most tied to hardware requirements out of all of the NLEs. You'll want to make sure to follow their config guidelines. And that's coming from a guy who has used a supposedly unsupported machine to run Resolve for years. :-)
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And yet Resolve 12 works perfectly on El Capitan (as far as I can tell). True, there have been some challenges with various CUDA driver updates from time to time, but I think Blackmagic are actually the best at tracking OS platform stuff and RED SDKs.
 
Michael Tiemann said:
did so immediately the day it was released. The day after it was released Adobe put out a notice that updating was not recommended because PP basically didn't work. In my view, that showed Adobe as both incompetent (couldn't get their app working when everybody else could) and cowardly (they could have push a notice to all PP users that they should not update until receiving positive notice that everything works).
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And you're calling Adobe incompetent?:ihih:
Who updates their tools on the day of release? No software manufacturer can possibly predict every interaction of the software with the newest OS, other installed software and every possible permutation of the hardware. Any major release of software should be treated as a beta release and should be installed only after every precaution had been taken to back everything up.
 
For the record, I did have everything backed up. The reason I updated was because Premiere Pro had already failed me, and I was hoping the move forward might make things better. It made things worse, meaning it went from "it's not really good enough for me to use it" to "it's really pathetic now how completely unusable it is." If it were working for me before, I would go back to Sept 29th in a heartbeat. Instead, I'm happy that everything else is working, some glaring security holes in Yosemite that Apple wouldn't patched are better protected in El Capitan, and I wait to see whether Adobe earns my business back before my contract renewal is up. Right now its not looking good.

Meanwhile, Resolve is saving my butt because I can export projects out of CC 2015 that Adobe cannot render, Resolve can read the XML, and it can render it. That's how f-ing bad Premiere Pro is working for me. Adobe's work-around is "well, just convert all your R3D footage to Prores and work with that." Ugh!
 
CC 2015 has had a lot of issues for me as well, but it's always advisable to wait several months at a minimum to upgrade to a new OS. I don't know about anyone else, but I have received several emails in the last few weeks from plug-in manufacturers advising against doing the upgrade until they work out the kinks.
 
My opinion is that is Apple that should make sure that a new OS release works perfectly with software that at least 50% of Mac users spend their days on. There use to be something as "The Mac User Experience". Nice and easy. Now we have multiple devices that ring at the same time for FaceTime, but not a working NLE on it....
 
Michael Tiemann said:
I was all set to make Resolve 12 my replacement for Premiere Pro this weekend, but the footage I was working on needed stabilization, and that forced me to backtrack to Premiere Pro (Software rendering only on El Capitan...what a drag!).
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The stabilization actually works OK within Resolve, though it's not quite the equal of (say) Mocha Pro. But it's fair to say I have yet to do a project where I didn't have to use stabilization on some shots in Resolve. It's a pretty standard part of the workflow nowadays. For the rare shots I can't do, those I hand off to a VFX person and let them do it in AE or Mocha.

I think Resolve 12 can work as a limited NLE, but I don't think it's quite there yet. I think they need to add more finesse and curves to the transform functions, and I think they need to add a lot more features to the titling. For conform editing, it's working pretty well for me.

jake blackstone said:
Who updates their tools on the day of release? No software manufacturer can possibly predict every interaction of the software with the newest OS, other installed software and every possible permutation of the hardware.
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I totally agree, Jake. My policy for the last 20 years has been to wait about 3-4 months after a new OS update, make sure everything is rock-solid, and then upgrade after I'm sure all the drivers and stuff will work. There's a lot of people screaming about OSX 10.11 issues with Avid and Pro Tools (as two examples), and I think the issues are more about the developer than Apple.
 
I have switched from Adobe to Resolve. Resolve is extremely simple, efficient, and powerful.

Right now my edits are simple, so Resolve is working for me. If I had very complicated edits I might stay with Adobe or Avid.
 
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Resolve for NLE, chroma keying and grading. I have used FCP7, FCPX, Premiere CC and now just Resolve, especially since that 3D Keyer is so excellent for my green screen stuff. I've only edited small projects though. If more developers write plugins for it, especially on the audio side, lots more people would switch.
 
I love it all...

BUT The only thing that annoys me from the editing side and keeps me off it is my Laptop runs up fans almost the moment I launch the program, and it heats up so quickly, then slowing the machine down to safe mode. Drives me nuts,
The tower gets a work out as well.
Premier and FCPX don't have that issue, My laptop fan hardly ever turns on, RED CINE X it will tun on, but it is rendering 6K !
I wonder what's going on inside Resolve to make it work so hard in the back ground.

Annoying ! and I hope they can fix it and when they do, I'll be using the editing function more. Colour grader is awesome.

FCPX is a lot quicker editor though... RESOLVE is sort of like PP and FCP7 in its structure and tools.

Great job though. Love the integration of Resolve. Well done.

Now fix that BG processing please .
 
Tom Lowe said:
I have switched from Adobe to Resolve. Resolve is extremely simple, efficient, and powerful.

Right now my edits are simple, so Resolve is working for me. If I had very complicated edits I might stay with Adobe or Avid.
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Yes, while I love the speed at which Premiere renders footage while scrolling through source clips etc. it's the only thing that Adobe has. I think the timeline and tools are crude and not very precise or fast as Avid. Resolve however I found I could get almost the same kind of feel as I do with Avid. It feels much more focused on a professional feel than Premiere and that's just in it's second iteration of a free NLE.
I actually don't understand how the hell BM manage to finance the development of the Resolve Lite, but maybe they are making offers you can't refuse to eventually be the king of post. I mean, all newcomers to grading and editing will surely start with Resolve compared to costly other options. So the foundation of users will be pretty tied into Resolve and grow each year.
 
Christoffer Glans said:
I actually don't understand how the hell BM manage to finance the development of the Resolve Lite, but maybe they are making offers you can't refuse to eventually be the king of post. I mean, all newcomers to grading and editing will surely start with Resolve compared to costly other options. So the foundation of users will be pretty tied into Resolve and grow each year.
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This is actually not very different from how Adobe used to do it. While officially frowning on piracy, Adobe allowed people to literally update pirated copies of PP and AE for years. They could have stopped it at any minute, but I personally think it was their strategy to let students and broke people pirate the software, letting them get used to it, and then only enforce anti-piracy sanctions against companies, for example. This way, some kid learns on Adobe, and when he gets a real job or a real project or some money, he buys a real copy. Same thing Resolve is doing, but Resolve's way is much simpler and avoids law-breaking etc.
 
Wonderful feedback. Thank you all very much. I also think Resolve is the future. I dont exactly look forward to learning yet, an other software, but I certainly love the idea of not having to go back and forth!
 
I found it more stable than the last resolve which would crash and hang up frequently, this one is much more reliable.
Agree with mark though, for editing you need a beast of a machine.
 
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