Says Caniglia, “Even if editors are working on the same project in different platforms, we can combine them so that they can be read by Resolve as one timeline and then passed back out to any or all of the other applications so that everyone can read the same project.”Īccording to Caniglia, most of the early colorists came up from the film side and had no interest in editing. This release improves support for XMLs, AAFs and EDLs from Avid, Adobe Premiere, and Apple Final Cut 10 and 7, making transport between Resolve and the NLE much more seamless. However the communication between the NLE and Resolve wasn’t always as painless as you might like, often requiring that the edit be flattened into a single track before it could be sent to Resolve.
Resolve was always a color-grading tool, and it was originally expected that the editing would be done in an NLE. When Resolve 9 was released the interface was completely redesigned to, in Caniglia’s words, “free up space and give us a better framework for moving forward with the software.” According to Caniglia, with the redesign completed in release 9 they were now able to focus development efforts for release 10 on features, adding “over 100 new features.” The most significant of these are in editing, audio handling, round-tripping with other NLEs, improved noise reduction (this feature is in the full version only) and a new “Live” function. But this release is a significant upgrade, and Blackmagic Senior Regional Manager for North America, Bob Caniglia, provided us with some perspective on the new features. The following is not a review of this release – I’m far from competent to review this product. Resolve is still a complicated and sophisticated tool, and color grading is a skill that can take a lot of study to master, but if you’re doing any image manipulation to your footage you shouldn’t ignore the functionality Resolve offers.
Its purchase by Blackmagic hasn’t lessened its sophistication – they’ve continued to expand its tool set – but it has seen the software’s price lowered substantially, a free “lite” version released, and a redesign of its UI that has made it a lot friendlier to new users. DaVinci Resolve began life as a high-end grading tool found in expensive color suites.
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