John Brawley wrote:
What from your wishlist does Resolve not do now ?
JB
I was wondering the same thing. And even for ONLY an NLE, $300 is less than Resolve would be worth, IMO. Even if at $300 the Fairlight and Color tabs were MIA, it would still be quite a bit less expensive than Adobe's bugware. I mean, NLE. Throw in a DAW and a Hollywood-grade color suite, and $300 starts looking ridiculous, rather than merely a good value.
Anyway... my guess is that we'll be seeing yet another major Resolve update.
It's already getting people off of Avid, and it has the ENTIRE post industry shifting strategies. Even FilmLight introduced a free student edition because of Resolve 14... but what every major color grade suite does that Resolve doesn't is compositing, so I'm guessing that compositing is going to be a significant new feature, either with more seamless integration with Fusion, or by building Fusion's image processing engine into Resolve and putting a large nail in the Flame coffin.
The editing tools will probably be enhanced; based on BMD's history, it will be a better NLE than Premiere by a long shot (it's already closer than I imagine Adobe would like), and shift a lot more production houses off of Avid, especially ones that already use Resolve for color grading.
Hardware wise, we might see some updates to the field monitors, some new micros, but nothing on the flagship front; BMD will probably wait until it has a big update for that, rather than doing the incremental update thing. I have a feeling that the emphasis will be on an OLPF, higher frame rates, and higher frame rates. Possibly some new Fairlight panels also, something affordable. Hopefully some nicely portable control surfaces for Resolve that geared toward editors, as well.
More training programs and resources. I'm hoping for a grading monitor also, preferably one that's made for HDR. Maybe a Thunderbolt 3 version of the 8K Decklink?