who is using Resolve as their edit tool NOT simply as a grading tool?

I switched to Resolve from Premiere too two months ago. I was happy with Premiere but did not like to pay so much for subscription so I tried it. After I got Pocket 4K with full version I switched completely. There are some things that I miss - export mp3, more intuitive multicams, audio syncing clips, multiple timelines resolution etc - but so far so good. I have had some crashing but nothing serious. One important thing is Resolve likes GPU and it si slower then Premiere when it comes to timeline performance. Render is faster.

I would recommend switching.
 
Just upgraded to 15.2 Studio. Now will go through Ripple training for 15 and advanced grading. Then try my next project from beginning to end in Resolve. So use to PP CC it will be an interesting change, but change is always good.
 
BMD has great videos on their youtube channel, they cover pretty much everything.

For me, it took about a month to get used to Resolve and to know it well enough to do entite projects with it. I am cancelling my Adobe subscription in a few days, I just have a to export a few active PP projects and I am free!!! :)
 
That is the catch. With five years of PP CC projects that I will have to access in the coming years, it is a lot to export. Any good tips on how to handle 800 projects?
 
Paul Cronin said:
That is the catch. With five years of PP CC projects that I will have to access in the coming years, it is a lot to export. Any good tips on how to handle 800 projects?
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Why do you need to maintain project information for years?
After the client has approved the project I would only keep the master and be done with it.
 
If you 'export project' you get a small file with all the edit decisions.

Go back to this file in the furture, relink media and you are all good for digging out an old 'film' you made/

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Cary Knoop said:
Why do you need to maintain project information for years?
After the client has approved the project I would only keep the master and be done with it.
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Until they come back months later and ask you to change/update something in which you can't in a master because of burned in audio or text or something else.

Bites everyone at least once in their career.

I usually hold onto project files for 2-3 years depending on the people.
 
NorBro said:
Until they come back months later and ask you to change/update something in which you can't in a master because of burned in audio or text or something else.

Bites everyone at least once in their career.

I usually hold onto project files for 2-3 years depending on the people.
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That's why you should always have a client signoff moment!
 
Well, that would work too...or just hand them a drive with the project files if they are worth it (& express clearly these are the only copies).
 
For those projects I export a file that has only the video and voices. I export after a QT animation with alpha channel that contains titles/subtitles and music.
 
Doug_EX said:
For those projects I export a file that has only the video and voices. I export after a QT animation with alpha channel that contains titles/subtitles and music.
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Interesting way to do it. I will look into that option. I was thinking of just exporting a ProRes 422 onto a Raid 1 so I could bring it into Resolve.

Reason is I have a few big ongoing clients who ask as an example: "Can you go back to episode ?? and pull 1:30-5:55 and use that to help emphasize this point?" It happens all the time. We have gone back five and sometimes six years. So it is good to still have full access if I switch to Resolve and decided to get rid of PP CC. But most likely I would just keep PP CC for a few more years and use both which has been the case the last few years.
 
Exporting any master file (with or without clips/audio/text) may work for short and simple edits, but it would still take time to fix/change an inconvenient edit that throws everything off in various cases.

For example, if you have a 5 minute video with talking heads and b-roll in which various shots may be nicely arranged to the tune, and someone asks you to extend an interviewee speaking in the middle of the video to include something he or she said, the new edit will ruin the timing of the video (if applicable).

Now this would of course also ruin the timing of the edit in the original timeline, but it's easier to see the layout and what is where rather than having to go through one master file in the timeline and separating your original edits (shots).

But in the timeline project, you could simply and - maybe more importantly - quickly rearrange or drop/extend a shot to compensate the difference.
 
I was going to use Resolve to grade a recent project, here's what stopped me: I don't trust the viewer's accuracy. Now, I understand we are generally not supposed to trust uncalibrated computer monitors period, but I have also found my Imac's monitor to be "in the neighborhood". However, that's using FCP7 or FCPX. Resolve does something with the profile blah blah blah that looks quite different (more saturation, blacks more crushed) than things look in FCPX. I turned off the mac color profile option in the Resolve preferences, and that helped with the luminance issue, but the colors were still way more saturated than I really believe they were. I understand this may some quicktime-related issue. Basically all this is to say, wondering if anyone has a LUT for Resolve that tweaks the viewer to look identical to how it would in FCPX? Even if you had to disable that node before outputting at the end.

As always, these are unpaid (and not for client) projects so investing in decklink cards and $1500 (or more) monitors seems not viable for me. Other than that the program seems really cool.
 
NorBro said:
Exporting any master file (with or without clips/audio/text) may work for short and simple edits, but it would still take time to fix/change an inconvenient edit that throws everything off in various cases.

For example, if you have a 5 minute video with talking heads and b-roll in which various shots may be nicely arranged to the tune, and someone asks you to extend an interviewee speaking in the middle of the video to include something he or she said, the new edit will ruin the timing of the video (if applicable).

Now this would of course also ruin the timing of the edit in the original timeline, but it's easier to see the layout and what is where rather than having to go through one master file in the timeline and separating your original edits (shots).

But in the timeline project, you could simply and - maybe more importantly - quickly rearrange or drop/extend a shot to compensate the difference.
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Thanks for the input and I agree. I think for now I will just keep PP CC, also since I use LightRoom CC Classic. Cheap when you think of it in the long run. And this of course will not stop me for using Resolve for full edits.
 
Hi Josh,

I tried using Resolve with just computer monitors and it was a mess for me, always chasing colors. So I did what sounds like you are not interested in doing, bought a Flanders grading monitor. You can get buy with a BM UltraStudio Mini Monitor to run Thunderbolt to SDI or HDMI. This is great for me on the road. At home I use BM UltraStudio 4K so I can run the Flanders and a HD TV, then the computer runs two LG's from thunderbolt, but they are corrected for stills not video. I know it means spending money but used Flanders pop up all the time and they are very nice piece of gear. Either way I hope you find a solution that works for you, I know it is no fun chasing color.
 
Thanks. I did a test last night and realized that Resolve with Mac color profile off looks identical to what you get when you export and upload to vimeo. So I might start everything over again. I’ll consider the used monitor the but every part of me says its stupid as I dont get paid for this stuff.
 
Been using Resolve 15 studio to do all of my editing since it came out. Some bugs here and there, but overall I"m hooked on it now over Premiere Pro. I just wish they would fix some small bugs that can be annoying. I'm using Resolve on Windows 10 and some things that have been a pain are keyboard shortcuts not working, I have custom keyboard shortcuts set up and after having a project up for a few minutes some of the shortcuts just stop working.......I have S assigned to add a serial node in the color tab....it just stops working. The delete key in the edit page won't work to ripple delete etc. I also had a project to edit for YouTube delivery and for some odd reason there can be audio glitches between certain cuts on export, these "glitches" don't exist on the timeline, only after it was rendered. I can't figure out why Fusion doesn't allow you to hear audio when you use it? Pretty hard to edit any special effects to the "beat" when you can't hear music in the Fusion tab.

Besides those gripes, I'm pretty happy with Resolve Studio 15, those things are minor annoyances for now and with the frequency of updates hopefully they will fix these issues. They supposedly released updated versions of resolve that fixed the keyboard shortcuts, but they're still not working for me on 15.2.2.

Overall, I'm a very happy Resolve user, much better than paying a subscription fee for Adobe and the performance of Resolve for speed etc seems to be on par with Premiere if not better in some cases.
 
Thanks for the info. Eventually I will have to replace Premiere Pro CS6 and it will NOT be with CC. Resolve may be the choice. I'm thankful for how good CS6 is. Working on a project at the moment 10240 X 2160 dynamic linked with After Effects. Will be exported as 3 UHD videos for a tri-screen display in a business. Before today I didn't know Premiere would even handle such resolutions.
 
firehawk said:
Thanks for the info. Eventually I will have to replace Premiere Pro CS6 and it will NOT be with CC. Resolve may be the choice. I'm thankful for how good CS6 is. Working on a project at the moment 10240 X 2160 dynamic linked with After Effects. Will be exported as 3 UHD videos for a tri-screen display in a business. Before today I didn't know Premiere would even handle such resolutions.
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I used CS6 for years and still have a CC subscription, although I usually use FCPX. Premiere 2019 is much faster and better than CS6, yet Resolve 15.x has a much faster playback engine than Premiere 2019 for 4k H264 material, at least on the Macs I've tested. And Resolve supports proxies (like FCPX always has and more recently Premiere CC), so you will probably be satisfied with the performance of Resolve. Like FCPX, Resolve uses Intel's Quick Sync for both decoding (playback) and encoding for output. Premiere only uses it for encoding, at least on the Macs I've tested. Resolve is the only NLE I've seen with a "video skimmer" that approaches the fluid performance of FCPX on a Mac. I assume it is equally fast on contemporary PC hardware.
 
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