timbutt2 wrote: At this juncture there is no benefit unless you love the Adobe ecosystem.
Perhaps on very simple editing projects this claim may hold water, but Resolve is nowhere near as flexible or multi-faceted in terms of large scale editing projects as Premiere is, and I say this as someone who would dearly love to be able to take a project from start to finish in the Blackmagic ecosystem.
Resolve certainly is on the up & up with it's editing capabilities, but to pretend that it is not primarily a colour-grading software with some editing capabilities thrown on top is just plain wrong in my experience. Admittedly much of my work is on large-scale projects, and your experience may be on very different styles of work, but there are a multitude of reasons that many professionals around the world still pay an exorbitant monthly fee to Adobe, as opposed to just purchasing or using a free version of Resolve. The fact that I still can't even create multiple timelines of differing frame rates & resolutions within one project in Resolve (unless I've missed a recent update!) is an absolute deal-breaker, and that's just the first of the real world issues that I face in my production environment every single day, which sadly Resolve just can't handle yet.
As I've said, I'm a massive Blackmagic fanboy, and have been in their camera & grading ecosystem for over 5 years, but to have access to BRAW within Premiere would be a massive benefit to myself, and all of my co-workers. For BRAW to truly take off it's going to need to be made compatible with all major NLE's, and I am eagerly awaiting the day that it is included within a Premiere update!
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:00 am
