Thinking about Switching from Premiere to Resolve but need some questions answered

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offbeatbryce

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Hello,

I have been looking into switching to Davince Resolve and their version 15 update seems well worth the switch but I did have a few questions before I moved over.

Is there any way to export an mpeg2 file from Resolve to burn to a DVD? I know DVD's are phasing out but I still have customers who want DVD's and as of now Adobe CC comes with Encore cs6 and I can't find any other program that is as fluid as encore with custom menus etc.

on pond5.com there is hundreds of templates, effects I can purchase for After Effects. Just last week I purchased a template for a complex video tracking. I so far can't find any place on the internet to purchase premade fushion templates etc. This is one real downside that if I can't find for fushion I will not switch.

import old premiere sequences to resolve. Is there anyway to do this that will keep all my transitions, audio level effects and even color correction? I do not want to switch if I can't open up old projects upon customer request if they want something from the project years later.
 
offbeatbryce said:
Is there any way to export an mpeg2 file from Resolve to burn to a DVD?
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No.

offbeatbryce said:
import old premiere sequences to resolve. Is there anyway to do this that will keep all my transitions, audio level effects and even color correction? I do not want to switch if I can't open up old projects upon customer request if they want something from the project years later.
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No.

The problem with Adobe's leaseware is that even if you change NLE you will never get totally rid of paying it, every time you have to open and edit old projects you have to pay for it. If you get Resolve you buy it and while future versions are not guaranteed to incur extra charges you can use the version your bought forever.

You can now obtain Resolve and Fusion combined for $399. That's software you can use forever against about 6 months leasing Adobe CC.
 
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Cary Knoop said:
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No.

The problem with Adobe's leaseware is that even if you change NLE you will never get totally rid of paying it, every time you have to open and edit old projects you have to pay for it. If you get Resolve you buy it and while future versions are not guaranteed to incur extra charges you can use the version your bought forever.

You can now obtain Resolve and Fusion combined for $399. That's software you can use forever against about 6 months leasing Adobe CC.
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That sucks. Kind of defeats the purpose of switching if I have to buy it just to open an old project.

Also dissapointing I cant export an mpg2 file
 
offbeatbryce said:
That sucks. Kind of defeats the purpose of switching if I have to buy it just to open an old project.

Also dissapointing I cant export an mpg2 file
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There is no NLE where you can open a project file from another NLE and have all the transitions, FX, CC, etc., exactly as you had them, if you even get anything beyond cuts at all. Given the inevitable architecture differences, it's just not possible. No two NLEs work the same.
 
its depend how you work with the NLE, now a day I dont ever make any DVD. so its not big deals for me.
outputing mp2 is way in DVD days, h.264 take care of everything now.

I switched from Premiere to Resolve 14 earlier this year but ended up going back to Premiere. Because Resolve still lacking build-in Audio effects(editing in another audio software just pain export/re-importing when u need fast wrokflow), less customize shortcuts (Not all command you can place shortcut lead to more work.)
But the color is definitely better in Resolve, 4k playback is way smother in Resolve too.

Resolve 15 announces really got me back into it again, all the thing I need above they just put it in.
 
My personal opinion on switching from one to another software is that most people think they need to switch. I went thru this as well. It’s mostly driven by reading forums or watching videos of someone who is happy with his/her switch.

Simply it doesnt mean that switch was working for someone else that switching is good idea for you as well. Think twice before switching. What you will miss? There is always something.

You know more what you need. For example I must work in After Effects because of clients. Dumping Adobe is not an option unless I want to loose some clients.
 
Well, that's one reason to get out of Adobe as soon as possible.

Apple Final Cut Pro has a published spec on their project format, so maybe it's at least possible for a programmer to make a translation tool, https://developer.apple.com/library...tProXXMLFormat/Introduction/Introduction.html

I don't know what DaVinci's project format is. But at least it looks like it can interoperate with Apple, https://www.rippletraining.com/arti...nal-cut-pro-x-to-davinci-resolve-12-and-back/

Not telling you what to do, except:

- we all can pester software vendors to use open standard for project files
- we can support the ones who do
- we can avoid the ones that don't (but each person must weigh the pros and cons of their situation, I'm not telling you not to use Adobe, just that (1) leaseware and (2) proprietary are two reasons against)
 
Resolve can export standard XDcam Mpeg 2 in MXF wrapper.
It should be possible to export an AAF or XML from your Premiere project timelines with media as a means of transferring projects. Not 100% reliable for special effectes, but works for cuts only or dissolves pretty well.
 
Cary Knoop said:
The problem with Adobe's leaseware is that even if you change NLE you will never get totally rid of paying it, every time you have to open and edit old projects you have to pay for it. If you get Resolve you buy it and while future versions are not guaranteed to incur extra charges you can use the version your bought forever.

You can now obtain Resolve and Fusion combined for $399. That's software you can use forever against about 6 months leasing Adobe CC.
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Actually, I think the leasing arrangement makes a great deal of sense, especially if you're going to return to it periodically.

A one-off $40/month to be able to jump back into old project and do whatever you need to with it. Is a cheap and painless option to have at your disposal.
 
Roxio Toast Titanium can encode a video file for DVD with basic menu system. It's no Adobe Encore, but it might be good enough for the few times you need to deliver to DVD.
 
Thanks all for the info. I was wondering how resolves waveform monitor works. I'm used to 0 to 100 ire but resolve has a different layout. What's actually 100, 70 etc ire? My original camera footage is in 8 bit.
 
offbeatbryce said:
Thanks all for the info. I was wondering how resolves waveform monitor works. I'm used to 0 to 100 ire but resolve has a different layout. What's actually 100, 70 etc ire? My original camera footage is in 8 bit.
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What difference are you seeing? IRE is IRE; the scale doesn't change due to the bit depth of the footage. All the bit depth does is increase or decrease the fineness of the gradation.
 
offbeatbryce said:
well, in resolve 15 right now the scale is no 0 to 100 ire it's 0-1023
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I would ignore those numbers. On a well-calibrated monitor 0 should represent the lowest visible black while 1023 should represent the brightest visible white.

Resolve internally converts code levels to float 32 values by mapping minimum black to 0 and maximum white to 1. So-called BTW or WTW levels will be resp. be negative and larger than 1 and, while not internally clipped, won't show on the scopes.
Note that rendering a video in the delivery page will clip those values for most codecs.

In the clip attributes you can set a clip to be interpreted as data or video levels while the default is automatic.
 
Cary Knoop said:
I would ignore those numbers. On a well-calibrated monitor 0 should represent the lowest visible black while 1023 should represent the brightest visible white.

Resolve internally converts code levels to float 32 values by mapping minimum black to 0 and maximum white to 1. So-called BTW or WTW levels will be resp. be negative and larger than 1 and, while not internally clipped, won't show on the scopes.
Note that rendering a video in the delivery page will clip those values for most codecs.

In the clip attributes you can set a clip to be interpreted as data or video levels while the default is automatic.
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wait so 1023 is pure white just like 100 ire is in premiere? Where is the skin tone level in resolve? Cause in premiere it's 70 ire
 
offbeatbryce said:
yes but what level is skin tone within the waveform? 70 IRE in premiere is the skin tone rule so what is equivalent to 70 ire in resolve?
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I personally don't think there is one skin tone level let alone a rule.

But if you think it is 70% for rec.709 on Premiere then use the same in Resolve.
 
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