Proposal to BM:Host Reference Media & Projects
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 1:28 pmI propose that BlackMagic Design host on their website some reference media and projects. What these would be useful for are:
(1) Troubleshooting
(2) Benchmarking
(3) Training
(4) Marketing
When someone (a customer) describes a problem they're having using DR, one important variable is the actual data the customer is working with. The customer's system is another variable. If the customer could recreate the problem with a reference project, then that would allow the BM team to more efficiently evaluate the problem on their end. If it's a bug, then it could be part of the bug definition in the bug report given to the development team.
For benchmarking, the performance depends on the complexity of the project and the hardware and software of the system hosting DR and the project. If there were reference sets of media and projects, then different users could render the same projects and contribute to a benchmark database.
There actually the beginnings of this in the downloadable material for the DaVinci Resolve training videos and PDFs. Since the goal of this was to train the user in concepts for using DR, these might not be complex enough for all use cases.
And there could be some marketing value with these, particularly if the media was produced using one of BlackMagic's cameras.
Beginnings of an idea here. Hopefully others will see the value in this and contribute additional ideas and refinements.
(1) Troubleshooting
(2) Benchmarking
(3) Training
(4) Marketing
When someone (a customer) describes a problem they're having using DR, one important variable is the actual data the customer is working with. The customer's system is another variable. If the customer could recreate the problem with a reference project, then that would allow the BM team to more efficiently evaluate the problem on their end. If it's a bug, then it could be part of the bug definition in the bug report given to the development team.
For benchmarking, the performance depends on the complexity of the project and the hardware and software of the system hosting DR and the project. If there were reference sets of media and projects, then different users could render the same projects and contribute to a benchmark database.
There actually the beginnings of this in the downloadable material for the DaVinci Resolve training videos and PDFs. Since the goal of this was to train the user in concepts for using DR, these might not be complex enough for all use cases.
And there could be some marketing value with these, particularly if the media was produced using one of BlackMagic's cameras.
Beginnings of an idea here. Hopefully others will see the value in this and contribute additional ideas and refinements.