jakemccurdy wrote:I'd love to have editors working on resolve, especially since it's free. Unfortunately you can't hire freelancers or editors in most markets that have much experience cutting on resolve. Plenty of colorists, but muli-camera editors, not so much. I'll start a write in campaign to Adobe to fix this issue in a separate post. Perhaps they'll listen, perhaps not as they'll see resolve as a competitor.
Yes, Resolve is competition. However, Adobe should listen to work with Blackmagic Design to work with the cameras and the metadata that comes from the cameras inside Premiere. I'll also submit a request. If enough of us submit requests then they should make it a priority.
I still find it amazing that Adobe doesn't work as well with CinemaDNG considering that they were the ones who created the DNG codec. It's embarrassing, really. Blackmagic is doing a far better job of working with CinemaDNG files in Resolve than Premiere is. I feel as though the Resolve 13 update next year will be the final update to make many people switch. 12.5 was a huge one this year, and for the most part I'm primarily editing in Resolve these days. The only thing that I still have issues with is keyboard shortcuts, and a few tools that I'm used to in Premiere that are different in Resolve.
Since the free version of Resolve is so powerful I can see it becoming the perfect tool for beginners. That will lead to those editors being completely familiar with Resolve over Premiere. It will lead to the upgrade to the paid version as a natural progression of an editor.
There are a few areas that I still need Resolve to improve upon. One, the Project File needs to be like Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, and Avid in that it is easily accessible through the Finder. This way you can easily keep it in the project folder with all the other project assets. Then you could duplicate it, change the date on the duplicated file, and move the old one into an "old" directory in order to archive your project files. This helps you never lose progress and you can always go back to an old edit. Also, this method of storing the project file in the same directory as the project directory allows you to share the project with others and keep a good hierarchy. This is how I've worked for over a decade.
We'll have to wait and see what 2017 brings for both Resolve and Premiere. The key is to submit the update requests.