I use resolve on a daily basis and although i do understand the greatness of such software at such pricepoint i have to say that a lot of it is awful.
1) The Baziers are awful. It's 2015, have you seen another piece of software were you can't select and drag several bazier points at once? This is kind of crucial functionality as-well, you need to be able to mask garbage matte and hold out matte efficiently to be able to color. The points and the bazier curves themselves look awful. The points are thick and click area for them is massive so a lot of the times when you have the points close together you miss click and select the wrong one. A good example is nukes baziers. Resolves baziers and nukes baziers are just centuries apart. 2) The keyframe editor is awful. Again you can not select several, copy and paste, you often misclick. Also when rotoing and keyframing two baziers you cannot put the keyframes for the second bazier with a shortcut. This is a bug thats been around for ages. And i have reported it many times. Again resolves keyframe editor and nukes are just worlds apart. 3) Timeline functionality is uber shit. It's slow and laggy. It's impossible to edit. You grab a clip and drag it to a different location and it reacts after half a second. And this is on shortform work. I cannot imagine how guys like company 3 use it for features with 4k or 6k in timeline. And this is bearing in mind that blackmagic is uber proud of resolve being a ' full blown editor' and they are pushing this direction severely. 4) lack of custom mapping for smaller panels. Why is this even a question in 2015? And this brings us to another issue: 5) lack of full log controls. You cannot map contrast and saturation and offset onto the rings like baselight. 6) There is no support for pure maths color transforms. Jeez this is a grading program, this is the main functionality that should be in any grading program. Baselight has truelight, mistika has some implementation. Nuke has OCIO. And resolve only has luts. Something is happening with the new color management in resolve l 12 but again, is this user customisable? Can you create your own transform? No news on that. These are only the issues i remember right now on saturday night. There are lots of generally annoying and small issues like the fact that tracking info comes through with remote grades which makes you make 20 version of grades to work around this. So yep, pretty awful. > On 18 Jul 2015, at 17:10, Simon Blackledge > <[email protected]> wrote: > > And that makes it awful? > > > Next you'll be saying all compers know best lol. > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 18 Jul 2015, at 16:31, Michael Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It comes from the culture of colourists. >> >>> On 17 July 2015 at 17:28, Simon Blackledge >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What's wrong with Resolve? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On 17 Jul 2015, at 21:40, Michael Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> There is definitely latitude, which is really nice for such affordable >>>> cameras. I'd like to map to a grey card to see how many stops above 18%. >>>> The primaries do not match though, but maybe when ACES is in sync in Nuke >>>> and Resolve we will see the images matching. Despite that, there is a >>>> richness to the colour of the vanilla ACES image. >>>> >>>> Resolve is awful software! Which I guess is the whole point of this >>>> thread. I'd much rather bypass it unless it can be made more speedy to use. >>>> >>>>> On 17 July 2015 at 02:03, Gary Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Yep, thanks. That’s what I did. It results in an image quite a bit nicer >>>>> than bringing in the dng files directly to nuke. If i have time tomorrow >>>>> I’ll post an A/B but there is quite a bit of color ‘fringing’ (?) with >>>>> the dng files that is not present when converted to .exr files through >>>>> resolve. And the overall latitude seems much better. >>>>> >>>>> Gary Jaeger // Core Studio >>>>> 249 Princeton Avenue >>>>> Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 >>>>> 650.728.7957 (direct) >>>>> 650.728.7060 (main) >>>>> http://corestudio.com >>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 16, 2015, at 8:31 PM, Michael Garrett <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Gary, >>>>>> >>>>>> The basics of the ACES route through Resolve are: >>>>>> >>>>>> - Set up the project working space as ACES >>>>>> - Apply the CinemaDNG IDT to the input clips (there is a way to do it >>>>>> globally). >>>>>> - Turn off the ODT in the prefs. This is counterintuitive since your >>>>>> image will be dark in the viewer, so if you want to do any grading in >>>>>> Resolve you need to turn off the ODT only before you export. >>>>>> -Export through the render queue as exr. >>>>>> >>>>>> I used linear ACES, not log. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Michael >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 15 July 2015 at 12:18, Gary Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> Agreed. Michael, can you remind me (if you remember) the steps to get >>>>>>> linear exrs out? I’ve done it but it’s been a while. If i remember >>>>>>> correctly, there are a few places to change settings. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - Clip Settings >>>>>>> - Right click on Clip to set LUT >>>>>>> - Project Settings/Master Project Settings, Color Science >>>>>>> - Project Settings/Lookup Tables >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Do you set Resolve to use ACES or YRGB? or ACES log? Argh! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Gary Jaeger // Core Studio >>>>>>> 249 Princeton Avenue >>>>>>> Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 >>>>>>> 650.728.7957 (direct) >>>>>>> 650.728.7060 (main) >>>>>>> http://corestudio.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Jul 13, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Michael Garrett <[email protected]> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> needing to disable the ODT in the prefs prior to export to get linear >>>>>>>> exr's etc. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>>>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>>>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
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