Bruce Allen wrote:My top 5, plus a bonus!
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BONUS: Stills mode so I can ditch Lightroom
(is it just me or does going back to Lightroom / DXO / Capture One just feel like a massive step backwards?)
waltervolpatto wrote:Dust busting should be allowed on any single frame type, not just dpx 10bit.
The movie I'm working has film scans and the client demanded a exr workflow.
It is unimaginable painful.
For all the 2700 shots of the movie.
I'd like to heartily agree with these feature requests.
Indeed, I'd like to see Resolve open up to a whole new market of professional and enthusiast still photographers.
This week Adobe announced a bombshell to its pro photographer user base: after the end of this year (2017), the company will discontinue the standalone, purchased version of its Lightroom photo editing software, favoring a subscription-only business model. This is creating frustration that many photographers' primary post-processing software will no longer be supported, as well as sowing doubt that their archives will not be future-proofed.
In April 2015 Adobe announced that Lightroom users would have the option to subscribe to Lightroom Creative Cloud for a monthly fee, or they may opt to buy the software outright with the traditional perpetual purchase licensing model. Lightroom CC was touted as a constantly-updated photo processing application, which would get the newest features and bug fixes, weeks or months before they were implemented in the standard purchased LR5.X version.
The reason this could be relevant to Blackmagic Design is that Adobe seems to have bungled their latest Lightroom rollout. Currently at version 6.X for a perpetual license purchase, Adobe Lightroom will continue henceforth in two fractured and somewhat confusing manners; both of which are built around Adobe's Creative Cloud-based subscription model where users are obligated to pay a monthly fee in order for the software to be fully functional. "Lightroom CC" has now been redeveloped into a simplified app that will float between desktop, tablet, and handset usage, and seems to be aimed at an amateur photographers market. However, the "old" Lightroom CC is still available but has now been renamed "Lightroom Classic CC".
Adobe has promised to continue development on this LR "Classic", but for Creative Cloud subscribers only. There will no longer be any version of Lightroom sold by Adobe for outright purchase, and this week's blowback from passionate Lightroom users has been immense.This post is not meant as a rant; I've used Lightroom for many years, and there is a lot that I like about it. However, years before digital SLR cameras were widely available, I worked in a Telecine facility and was trained on a daVinci Rennaissance 8:8:8 GUI system. In many ways I always felt that Lightroom was trying to reinvent the wheel of a mature post-production color-correction workflow, and stumbling unnecessarily along the way. Adobe never did quite seem to get it right in my opinion... Lightroom Development and/or management had a hard time implementing user input like feature requests and bug reports. An ongoing source of frustration for users were performance issues, even on spendy workstations. Lightroom 5 finally received a simple Power-Window type mask tool (circular and elliptical shapes only)... but 3-way Color Wheels, where are you? My detailed pleas in the user forums only fell on deaf ears.
As far as Resolve replacing Lightroom? Well, to my delight, I have been able to open a few .CR2 Canon RAW still images in Resolve to play around with. However, the touch-up brush is not available except for .DPX frames. I'd love to be able to experiment with this tool on any still image file format. Spot healing with freehand brushstroke repairs on my stills are a necessity for me, and I'm sure experienced pros would agree.
To BMD, I suggest to strike while the iron is hot. There are many frustrated longtime Lightroom users that are painfully and angrily saying goodbye to Adobe due to being increasingly forced into the company's subscription-only business model. These are pro users, by and large, and they are looking for a replacement for Lightroom right away. I think that with a few tweaks, Resolve could also be Resolve For Stills... that could be just what they need.