Mel Matsuoka wrote:iddos-l wrote:The way I see it, this is the price for a cheap/free software.
BM wants customers to invest in their products.
Absolutely. My guess is that native Loupedeck support (or any other cheap, 3rd party panel solution) will
never happen, because BMD makes its money by selling you the hardware that is required to effectively run their software products. They are basically giving you the razor blades for free, and selling you the handles for the blades at a price point where they can remain profitable.
At the beginning of the existence of the cross-platform version of Resolve (in 2010), BMD had to have support for 3rd party panels, because they had to build a userbase who simply could not afford to pay $36,000 for the Advanced Panel. But now that Resolve is at the point where people on forums complain that even $299 is too much to pay for a software tool that literally used to require half a million dollars in order to have a truly "professional" setup, there's no financial incentive for BMD to continue supporting every new cheapo panel that pops up.
Yet BMD have made Resolve Studio availableat the $299 precisely to compete in the FCPX market, so to say they don't want to broaden this market seems odd to me. Surely they know how many people they are tempting over from Premiere and FCPX right now and judging by anecdotal conversations with peers that's a significant number right now.
To use that rapidly growing userbase simply as a vehicle to sell control panels for $1,000's is an odd one to me. If they could produce a product to compete with the Loupedeck CT (a multi functional panel not just a colour panel) and price this similarly, then given their raidly growing user base, how could this investment fail to be profitable?!
Heck even sell their new Resolve keyboard at a reasonable price (yes around $400-$500) instead of the plainly ridiculous $1000 mark, then they may have a winner on their hands. (seriously who is going to spend a grand on a keyboard with a jog wheel on it??!!)
For MY editing needs (and I surely can't be alone) the Loupedeck CT seems absolutely perfect, and to just ignore that need from their customers hints at BMD showing NO aspiration to want to grow the non-high-end userbase at all, and subsequently sell devices thay THEY deem useful. Moreover by the fact that there are requests, they are clearly NOT servicing their current userbase properly with devices.
If they genuinely hold no interest in these devices as they perhaps deem them to be "beneath" the high end BMD product line, then at the very least BMD could give their users what they want and have the confidence to allow access to their APIs so that 3rd party developers can make their accessories compatible with Resolve. They are really missing a trick here, a crazy business approach.
If anyone knows of any workarounds to get this or other controllers to work, do post.