You load in hundrets of wonky XMLs from editors from HELL that add timewarps to everything, still frames, nested sequences, whatever other garbage the editors left for you to clean up… so “the usual”
its 99% one click and done, repos, timewarps everything it even supports nested sequences, animated crops YOU NAME IT.
its a XML, its open, we can read it , its not a binary format using proprietory math or other garbage.
WHY is Flame not the Absolute BEST at this? at this point I really have to stop blaiming premiere for doing “non standard stuff”. its not premiere, its Flame , something is inherently broken.
We dont get ANY AAFs anymore, nobody uses avid, that stuff is dead in my world.
→ Oh ther eis a timewarp let me just add 10000 frames to the virtual handles so your sources sequence is broken
→ haha you want a reframe? let me just break all the actions
→ nested sequence, let me replace that with nothing
list goes on and on and on.
I am honestly considering writing my own python tool that can properly read premiere XMLs and then generate new flame tiemlines for it, if i have to see one of my artists sitting there a full day for something a FREE SOFTWARE can do with a SINGLE CLICK I am going to start throwing wacom tablet out of the window(again) .
Its a waste of life in all honestly yes we cant properly finish in resolve because resolve is COMPLETELY STUPID. but i am every week asking myself the question if Flame is even worth it, and if I rather just hire a full-time dev for the same money we spend on Flame to fix resolve/nuke and make that work for us instead.
Flame has to be the BOSS at conform, the absolute pinnacle of it by the money it costs. this is not acceptable.
Sorry for the rant. Flame on…