The grass is always greener after a day in resolve, everytime i re-evaluate the list gets smaller but holy damn how is anyone finishing on resolve?!? i mean flame is also sketchy in many parts but what kind of garbage basic stuff is this:
→ no Motionblur on timeline , simple wipe/push transition, you are allready forced to use fusion (which is… ugh well…)
→ stabilize is pretty much “on or off” , if you change grade versions stabilisation is lost
→ Text layers bug out between windows and macOS , same font but text is rendered lower/higher depending on OS
→ no source-res “green” tlfx on the color page, so denoise and many other effects e.t.c is rendered in timeline res (which is bad)
→ you can not present social timelines via broadcast out , got to use direct HDMI out of GPU to get scaling
→ Still dont have a clue how to properly use reFusion without breaking everything all the time (thats probably on me )
→ reconform/mediareplace breaks timewarps
at least we can render out multiple timelines at once now but … wtf what else is missing from your POV to make resolve a finishing tool?
Everyone I talk to says it is a world of regret trying to conform in Resolve. And everyone I talk to only uses Flame to conform, and Nuke for VFX.
I was telling a dude the other day that we do Feature Film VFX in Flame, and I might as well tried to convince him that Rainbow Unicorn Farts are real.
Editing splines to automate GFX movement on the timeline will make you jump out a window. It’s absolutely useless. The keyframes exist, but the UI to manipulate them is unusable.
Last year, I gave some GFX back to the graphic designer to animate in After Effects, because it was impossible to do what the client wanted.
Also external mattes can work great sometimes, and break other times, if there are timecodes involved.
I’ve been doing feature work in Flame for over 20 years. It never ceases to amaze me how many clients have either never heard of Flame, or who think it died years ago.
I really think Autodesk are missing a trick here.
