Daria Fissuon literally wrote the DaVinci Resolve 17 Training Guide, and she has some great tips and tricks for using DaVinci.
And this one from Craig Beckta at FStoppers which I need to watch again, because she goes into how to setup and export your videos to deal with the Mac Color shift, which is huge!!!!
Blackmagic Design has upgraded it’s BlackMagic RAW plugin to version 2.1 with M1 support and improved Premiere Pro Performance.
Improvements to performance are always welcome and M1 support is as well.
Now I was a huge fan of SpeedGrade when it existed, and greatly lamented it’s passing when it went away. For those of you who don’t know, SpeedGrade was a professional color correction software much like DaVinci Resolve that Adobe purchased and added to their creative suite for a while, and then gutted it and that is where the Lumetri color panel came from. What I miss the most was that unlike with DaVinci where you render out movies with the grade baked in, the grade from SpeedGrade could be exported a single movie or movies of each shot, but you could also roundtrip to premiere and the entire grade came back to Premiere as the Lumetri plug in on your clips! Not only was this much faster, especially since most Lumetri grades would play back in real time without rendering in Premiere, but it saved hard drive space too and made the whole round-tripping thing a real pleasure.
Sure it wasn’t quite as powerful as DaVinci Resolve at the time, but it was plenty powerful and at the time even beat DaVinci on a couple of things.
Of course by this point DaVinci has vastly moved on from SpeedGrade, but this is Adobe we are talking about, and they could certainly update it (and give it multi-monitor support). And maybe bake in some After Effects tools for masks and tracking and the like.
Now Premiere Pro has the Lumetri Color Panel, but it isn’t near what SpeedGrade was and no where near what Premiere can do. So the Adobe Creative Suit really needs a high end color correction package and it could be the evolution of SpeedGrade or as Randi Altman called it Lumetri Pro (I wish I could take credit for the name).
Maxon has updated Universe (formerly Red Giant Universe) to 4.0. Universe is a set of Transition and effects plugs ins for editors and motion graphics artists, and is red giants fast rendering transitions.
The suite has 3 new plug ins, Electrify to add electrical effects, Analog to add the look of Analog video, and Texturize Motion which adds animated textures to your footage for a sketchy stop motion look. They have also included 100+ presets for the new effects and 140 new presets for Array Gun and Typographic.
Universe is available as a subscription for $199 a year, or as part of Red Giant Complete for $599.99 annually or Maxon one with all their products for $1199 a year or you can pay a monthly for $30, $79 or $149.
Personally I have used the Red Giant plug ins for many many years, and they have many of my go to effects. They are also fast and work across editing software for the most part. It is a big expense every year, but I find it very worth it for the suite of tools. And honestly if I could afford it would love to add Cinema 4D to the mix.
A great article and something to consider because of the lack of pro M1 computers with more than 16 GB of combined ram, and the possibility than sone plug ins or software might not yet work in an M1.
Trailer editor Chris Salters has posted 2 remote collaboration workflows, one free and one including a second computer. Great to see an almost free solution and a much more robust solution as well as solutions better than Zoom though much more expensive (starting at $399 a month).
I like that he sets up a solution that will work with other programs as well.
The budget solution creates a new video monitor which means you are eating more of your precious video memory, which worries me a little, but for screening should be ok.
And the other solution requires another computer and some hardware, so might be more for where companies can provide hardware.
Adobe Premiere Pro desperately needs to add support for iXML audio date for secondary audio in Premiere Pro. Currently when you add your external audio in Premiere Pro you get zero of the Metadata that the Audio Recordist has added, you just get the audio.
This is the same Audio in DaVinci Resolve, in which the engineer has added Mix and TrkA and TrkB to the metadata! Why can’t we see this in Premiere?
Being able to see which track is what would make my whole life so much easier. Especially with lav and boom and mix. If the data is there, Premiere Pro should be able to read it for sure, and export it for the mixer to see as well.
Now this is in various places on Adobe Voice, but I have voted for them all but this hasn’t gotten enough votes for sure. 11 votes here. 5 Votes here. And 20 votes here.
Now as full fledged editor I still much prefer Adobe Premiere Pro over DaVinci Resolve. DaVinci Edit is functional, but just doesn’t feel as fully functional, and I like that I can setup the windows on Premiere Pro however the hell I want to, while I am much more forced into how they want me to do it on DaVinci, and that is my big complaint with Final Cut Pro X, engineers forcing you to do things there way. Also I am not a big fan of the new Cut Page. It feels very Final Cut Pro X to me. Yes I like how you can quickly scan through a folder as if it is a single sequence, but the actual editing is just not how I edit, and I would much rather have an edit control surface for the Edit page than for the Cut Page.
That being said there is certainly one feature in DaVinci’s Edit page that is far superior to Premiere Pro’s the Monitor window and the ability to overlay your Audio on the video either in zoomed in or the full audio. To activate this click on the 3 dots on the upper right of the viewer window and you can seelct either show zoomed Audio Waveform or Show Full Clip Audio Waveform.
Premiere is either or, and you can do that in Resolve, but I just find this so much faster.
But both together is such a time saver! Please Adobe I hope they adopt this soon.
There are over 500 votes for this at Adobe Voice, but if you agree please add your opinion. This is a timesaving feature that I really love and would love to see added to premiere.
BlackMagicDesign has updated DaVinci Resolve to version 17.2
These are the new features for the Studio Version.
