This is exactly it. The fact that it’s also really easy to read and interpret if needed which is extremely helpful. Studio I worked at previously would always requested an edl as a back up to the xml or aaf, even just as a point of reference for clips that might not be linking.
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So true.. same we repoz and whatnots…
You would think in 2025 the US wouldn’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars to built a tent camp in the worlds biggest swamp and laugh about it, and complain they don’t have enough money to feed starving children, yet here we are. The fact of the matter is, we need to rely on people upstream of us to do their part with a complete lack of understanding about what we need. For my part, I only work short form and it is second nature for me to do it by hand. I like to think of it as artisanal conforming. It takes me less time to throw their crap in the trash and start over than to try and use what they have done. Often times I find that even if their repos work out correctly, there are hidden traps like the inability to remove a keyframe, or trying to make a refinement just doesn’t work. I applaud attempts to make it more smooth, but it’s less a technical issue and more a human one.
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Grant Petty is in the hardware business. Software (Resolve) is his loss leader to sell his hardware.
$295.00 is a very competitive price point. I use it to create my home/travel videos. I just find Flame’s VFX toolkit to be so much better and integrated for the professional work I do that using Resolve would be 6 steps backwards.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of folks who use Resolve who haven’t bought a single piece of hardware from BMD. And much of the hardware you could buy these days (the smaller control panels, etc.) didn’t exist in the early days. Very few would pay $30K for an advanced panel.
He totally used Resolve as a backdoor to get into places that snubbed him before.
$295 isn’t just competitive, it’s a competition killer. It has largely made the color grading software market unsurvivable for the most part for any software only player. Now in unregulated capitalism there is nothing illegal about it. But as artists who thrive if we have a healthy ecosystem, there’s nothing to celebrate about the $295 so you can make travel videos.
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We’re still very, very heavily Avid for creative editorial and are training up assistants on it. $299 perm vs $259/yearor whatever Avid is is mega inconsequential compared to staff salaries.
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I think the best analogy I can think off is this:
During the strikes 2 years ago, one of the big fears was that the studios would eventually have to come to the table, because the strikes brought 100% of what they did to a standstill. But the big streamers, and particularly Apple and Amazon, for them their streaming business was just one small division of their overall business. They could have sat out the strike for years without any consequence, largely reducing any leverage the writers and actors had.
So in this comparison, BMD is the Apple/Amazon. Baselight would be a traditional studio.
I hear lots of YouTubers use Resolve.
Its more about what people grow up with when starting out , small social videos nowadays, music videos etc
why would you start with adobe and avid if you can use resolve for free? its the long game.
Adobe won jusr because they made cracking it so easy so every student had a cracked copy of adobe everything anyhow.. so east to get staryed and then stay in adobe cloud, eventually turning broke students to paying customers.
As a studio yea this matters less, and if you are large enough to train people on avid - thats awesome.
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Yeah, for sure. If I’d started my career in the last 10 years instead of (no comment) years ago, Resolve would likely be my main axe.
I’m about 50/50 Premiere XMLs and Avid AAFs these days.
I voted Avid because 90% of our work comes from Avid, but the 10% of Premiere XMLs we get make us want to tear our hair out. We’re on older software (soon to be remedied), but anything with timewarps in it comes in completely screwed up, and that’s with the Fix Premiere XMLs Python script (which shouldn’t need to exist.)
Perhaps the incompatibility model is another iteration of
Just sayin’ I would have listed multiple in the poll if there was an option to.
Maybe we should re-do the poll as follows:
Poll 1: Multi-choice - list all the conform formats you’ve received more than once in the last 24 months
Poll 2: Which conform format is causing you the most manual labor and/or delays.