Davinci Resolve 12 public beta available now!

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alaskacameradude

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Wonder how many people will download this in the next 24 hours?
Needs some tweaks, but I might be able to cut an entire project in
this! Playing with it right now.....
 
I'm tempted but also careful... I don't want to jump blindly in. Most of the time even the best software has some silly birth defects. But it looks promising.
I just had my debut as a colorist in Resolve 11 and got a promisary feature hire off it... so Resolve 12 would be fun to work with for that.
 
The nice thing about the editing is that there is no round tripping, no data export import, etc. Just bring the media in and start working all the way to export or audio sweetening. I'll have to grab the free version and give it a look when I get a chance.
 
the "optimized media" feature is really convenient when dealing with 4k. You can choose any flavor of prores.
 
I think it runs snappier. In fact, this update is nicely enhanced. I spent the better part of today working through the interface, it's pretty vastly improved and I usually hate changes that force me to re-learn lots, but it's more intuitive than before. The upgrades are significant, with ACES you can apply IDTs and ODTs per clip allowing you to mix and match different cameras, and new ODTs support HDR and PQ (perceptual quantizer) and ADX10. That's big news to me because HDR grading and encoding is possible with Resolve 12. I see only positives and no negatives at all with it so far.
 
One thing still lacking in Resolve 12, no HEVC encoder yet, but x265 now supports HDR metadata and 10/12 bit encoding as well, so the tools for encoding the new HDR displays and Dolby Vision are available.
 
I just only just got around to download 12 and man I should have down it before. For general use, you know small jobs with a fast turn around, I find it SO much more useful now than Premiere.

To be able to walk back and forth between editing and grading with just one click is extremely helpful, and so far I'm not missing anything from the editing workflow of Premiere.
If one needs Effects you'd still go to AE in the end, but for everything else, why bother with Adobe which also seems so much slower when it comes to rendering things out.
 
legrevedotcom said:
If one needs Effects you'd still go to AE in the end, but for everything else, why bother with Adobe which also seems so much slower when it comes to rendering things out.
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Fusion is available for PC and soon will be released for OSX. I bet they will integrate it in the Resolve workflow. For serious compositing, as a node-based and true 3D environment, it's so much better than AE.
 
silyn said:
Fusion is available for PC and soon will be released for OSX. I bet they will integrate it in the Resolve workflow. For serious compositing, as a node-based and true 3D environment, it's so much better than AE.
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Agreed... nuke is fun too, but I would probably end up using AE for the few times where the client want's something graphicky movingy... ;)
 
I'm totally converted to Resolve now. It's a lot easier to get realistic looking colours from A7s (particularly skin tones) and it's much more difficult to get smooth tones to posterise and band. I've just discovered the Proxy feature so I can edit my 4k realtime on a laptop!
 
The *real* question is: where in the world does it save projects? I'm just starting out in Resolve and I tried to do a search but it appears as if everyone in the world just knows where to find the project files.
 
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