FS7: How I choose between Resolve, Premiere Pro and Sony Catalyst.

Clermond said:
please please please ask them to bring back the burn in source timecode. This feature was cancelled in 10.0.3 afair and even the recently published TC by fxfactory is not exactly brilliant
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Can't you just export with a burnt in tc? Or are am I not understanding your question?
 
Lightworks Pro is on offer for $200 until the 15th, bundled with Boris FX. It's for all platforms and might be worth a look. I never tried it myself, but it's used by a lot of the big name Hollywood editors
 
Yoak said:
Can't you just export with a burnt in tc? Or are am I not understanding your question?
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I am talking about source tc. It works only with the fxfactory plugin which is cumbersome as you have to throw it on every single clip in your timeline.


 
Just a vote for Resolve!

(burn in TC is possible amongst many other things)

To get good playback usually I transcode to pro422, (but there are options I dont understand (yet) for proxies and 1/2 res playbak)
 
Getting playback at 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc playback resolution in Resolve is done via
A) project settings within the preferences or
B ) at a clip level by selecting the clip within CC mode then clicking on the camera icon & selecting in a drop down menu "clip " then clicking on the numerous resolution preferences in another drop down box. Currently working 6 & 5k & it all plays back fine.

NOTE . Just make sure when you export you have checked " force debayer at highest quality" in delivery mode. Not sure yet about the other checkbox "force image size to highest quality or similar" working that one out .


Ps obviously the above only applies to "Raw" files
 
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I am running both, FCPX and Resolve, and even if Resolve has improved editing capabilities why should I use it for editing? Because it's free? Most of my projects are under 3mins that means lot of footage and strong selection. FCPX gets me way faster my job done not only because of it's great media management, key-wording, magnetic TL.
 
Clermond said:
I am running both, FCPX and Resolve, and even if Resolve has improved editing capabilities why should I use it for editing? Because it's free? Most of my projects are under 3mins that means lot of footage and strong selection. FCPX gets me way faster my job done not only because of it's great media management, key-wording, magnetic TL.
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This is _exactly_ why we use FCPX, gone are the days are laboriously renaming the clips with description mnemonics, shot sizes or trying to remember which thumbnail had the best take even with being super anal with bins.

Before I deleted FCS 7 off the machines I fired it up and I couldn't believe how decrepit it actually was, in its time I thought it was the dog's bollox, how times have changed. Apple may have peed a few people off with FCPX but as far as I'm concerned they were absolutely right to take this direction.
 
Lenilenapi said:
any issues or are you liking it?
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I came to Resolve while making up my mind what to do after FCP7. Im still using it.

Firstly the colour page is better than photoshop - and coming from stills to motion control of the image is critical to me.

Often having mixed sources FS7, gopro whatever having that colour on hand even to get 'in the ballpark' is key to the edit process

As an editor Im pretty simple - hard cuts and no VFX.

Every 'issue' Ive had with Resolve I have found that 'you can do that' if you dig the manual or the web for solutions - simply loads of stuff dug away like killing the empty audio tracks from the FS7 or keying and the like.

My current dislike is space in the edit page, with the FS7 I record my single mic at two levels, so end up with too much audio which can clutter the timeline - again there are probably ways around this.

Im not fully understanding the rendering options and implications for filling the scratch disk - again I need to deepen my knowledge.

In the back of my mind is also the question of team work.. can I get the sound out to proper mixer? Can I rough a project and then pass an EDL to a proper editor using another NLE.

I would say the downer in Resolve is that in my locale it would seem that Prem is the go to NLE - and I want to be able to easily collaborate with people.

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Im just grading a project I shot that was edited in Prem - now Im feeling that some of the blacks and whites have hard clipped mainly from the Gh4- probably a superwhites issue or whatever.. now that would not happen in Resolve. Resolve just works.

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In the broader picture I take BM very seriously and dont think they are going away. Adobe gave my photoshop in 1996 with a neg scanner - so Im used to free stuff being punted as a route in to market.

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Clermond said:
I am running both, FCPX and Resolve, and even if Resolve has improved editing capabilities why should I use it for editing? Because it's free? Most of my projects are under 3mins that means lot of footage and strong selection. FCPX gets me way faster my job done not only because of it's great media management, key-wording, magnetic TL.
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I hear you and I really like the latest version of FCP X too. But the latest
version of Resolve has key-wording and metadata as well. It does NOT have
the magnetic timeline, but the magnetic timeline can actually get in your way
on certain projects (well not the magnetic timeline exactly but the fact that you
can't connect a secondary storyline to another secondary storyline, it MUST
be connected to the primary storyline). And when using a track based editor,
I am certainly not going to support Adobe and their new rental policy. Plus
I'd want Resolve anyways for grading, so on certain projects, I'll just edit in it
as well. But I'm keeping FCP X, it's really turning into a good NLE.
 
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