Compared to some people on youtube Alex may come across as a little dry but this is a huge plus because it respects your time. There's no jokes, personal stories or other tangents. Every single word he says in that course is to the point and valuable to hear. Thumbs up

Can't wait to get started. I'm going to get the course Weds.

@@yillanayo7913 I consider his presentation style mature, pleasant and very effective. Most of these guys online sound like used car salesmen or young guys talking only to young guys.

You made a great comparison video, thanks. The BMD plan will take some time to complete, but I think it will work.

Yeah, I don’t understand why they forget this? I’ve transferred big files to other countries with a NAS in the cloud, a cloud service and the postal service. None were fun and I’d rather not do it again.

-Errr - ever hear of Intranets ? and Extranets ? The military shares Petrabytes of data - thoughout the world -without the internet in many cases.

@@LanielPhoto okay, I'm talking about independent filmmakers like myself, working on documentaries and such, nothing NASA or Hollywood level here :)

Why not use proxies instead of original files? They're there just for that.

@@Rrroarr you cannot efficiently colour grade on proxies..

Damn! If I knew that there were version 18 updates I would have capitalized on the 4th of July bundle sale :(

If they force it on us I start looking up alternatives once again! The very reason I wanted to get off from Adobe ffs!

@@madfinntech They won’t. Just watch Blackmagic’s original live stream (it’s called: DaVinci Resolve Cloud Update) and skip to about 36:36 where Grant talks about their culture.

Was thinking the same. However it would be interesting to make use of the servers to basically stream the footage to the editor via the cloud. As the original files are what the stream is based off even color grading should be fine if this is done right. How exactly it would work is up to them of course, but I think this could work nowadays.

hi, I ve watched the blackmagic anouncement video of all this. you should check it out…. there is solution to this.

As long as the render server can access the media files somehow, yes. But you’d need NAS+VPN or something like that. Blackmagic $5/mo service can’t possibly store media files too(too expensive for them). Just the Postgres database for the project itself.

​@@eric-seastrand Thank you for the confirmation. Maybe simple stupid integration with cloud computing/storage services will come to amateurs who don’t want to invest much in local devices.

DR18 is not a "cloud version" but just Uses the cloud for sharing the same way you would use a local network to share.

Are you looking for render farms?

Why wouldn't it be sending a stream of clicks to the cloud project, constantly updating. Then each client can merge their version or accept changes. You need to stop thinking locally ;-)

Out of curiosity, what would be some changes you'd like to see for the edit page?

@@skaarfproductions I detailed a few of them in a post in the DaVinci Resolve feature request forum called *'Seven Editing Problems and Solutions'* and I made GIF images to illustrate them. KZfaq usually deletes comments with links but if you search for the title on google my thread will come up. I'm fairly new to Resolve myself (only been using it about 3 months) and I made that thread a while ago, I can add a few more to my list now. 1. More shapes for keyframe interpolation (Vegas Pro has options for Linear, Fast, Slow, Smooth, Sharp and Hold) 2. Ability to drag a selection and get the frame count of the selected area. 3. Bring the spline editor from Fusion into the Edit page (the current spline editor in the Edit page isn't great) 4. Ability to select tracks (a lot of applications for track selection like pasting, enabling multiple settings at once, grouping, etc) 5. Drag and drop for track arrangement (instead of right-click move up/down) 6a. Track Folders for audio and video tracks 6b. Adjustment Clips setting to affect tracks only inside of its Folder Track or all tracks below it in the project (this would be huge!) And something I'd really love for the entire program (not just the Edit page) is an editor for the mouse button/wheel and modifiers just like we have for the keyboard. I don't like 90% of the current mouse behavior and would like to customize it to my liking like I have in my DAWs.

100% agree with you. I also wish they finally bring the spine editor to the edit page. Really big issue for my workflow. And you can drag and drop the tracks in the fairlight tab - why in the world not in edit?

They need to update the way you speed ramp...to many clicks...FCPX still king for speed ramp, and overall speed of editing.

@@my2cents198 Jup +1 And ever tried nesting clips with an alpha channel in a compound clip? Yeah that doesn't work, you'll get a black background.. like come on that's basic stuff right there and people complain since Resolve 15

I was thinking the same thing.

Yes, I agree. I am not sure this is a good thing for some. Besides, is there a difference if I use another cloud service to share the project?

Money will always flow to those who can do more for less, unless you are REALLY good and can justify your prices. Technology gives you the tools but in the end, it's what you do with it. Ask Christopher Nolan to edit with a free video editing app and give Resolve Studio 18 to an every day editor, you know who will do a better job. It's the same with sports, and anything else. 🤷

@@reelhawksstudio Will have to agree to disagree, yours is a very utopian vision of reality where Amazon doesn't exist and the CEO of the company isn't making 10000+ times the average worker just because he can. You are speaking as if we don't live in a world where apple pay Chinese workers 2 to 3 dollars a day to build iPhones and sell them for hundreds of dollars, where Luxury brands like Gucci and Fendi, and Car companies have move their production offshore so they can pay workers little as possible and sell for maximum profits. I have no illusion that talent exist all over the world and so companies will find that talent wherever it is cheapest, it simple math. Like I said these tools are double edged swords, by lowering the barrier to entry, you increase the flood of workers and lower the wages. Google understands that if they are in New York or SF they have to pay their workers a wage that enables them to live in those cities, pay rent, send their kids to school, eat, afford transportation etc. But if Google can outsource to say Shanghi where the cost of living is lower, well then pay is adjusted to suit that, basic ECON 101 friend. You don't pay a worker in NYC or SF 300K a year and then ship their job overseas at the same cost, if you can get that down to 50K or less the less the better. What is happening here, is going to happen across the economy, and in the meantime the business model everyone is entering is subscription, where you pay endlessly for everything and OWN nothing. You seem like a fellow who is on board for all this, seem to me, you have no qualms with having zero assets, and being a permanent renter.

@@SereneBobcat wow, aren't you exhausted from all that jumping to conclusions? 1. You seem to know a lot about me without actually knowing me. 2. I dislike outsourcing because it is exploitative, the burden is on you to show otherwise. 3. We all compete with people racing to the bottom in terms of cost of services - it's a fact, I don't like it, but it is a fact. Real estate, commercials, sports videos, etc. I see it every day. 4. Employers DO demand more for less - I don't like it either but it is a fact. 5. In the end, it IS WHAT YOU DO WITH THE TOOLS. Knowing how to use a Sony A7SIII and Final Cut Pro does not turn you into Daniel Schiffer. 6. I am not a renter so please keep your condescending remarks to yourself. 7. Next time I lose a job to someone who charges less I will sue BMD, because Mike Dyson said it's their fault for releasing new features that make our job easier...

That or proxies... I seem to recall Grant mentioning Dropbox as the vehicle for actual media exchange, in BMD's _DaVinci Resolve Cloud Update_ ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qthomddhnNe8j5s.html )

Resolve’s multi user capabilities have been way ahead of the other tools on the market for a while. It’s just been a very complicated thing to actually set up and get working. Because you had to set up your own Postgres database server and wire up the computer to that server. This now turns that whole set into plug and play. I think this could be the catalyst to get people to switch their whole workflow to resolve.

@@dustymccord i disagree. Avid has been doing this for decade's with avid. Collaboration editing is its strongest feature, and why many studios including Marvel uses avid to cut with multiple editors. Cloud based was pushed to move quicker because of the covid shutdown and avid had this done a year or 2 ago. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nK2Yg6pkypyoeIk.html

@@dustymccord kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jdGVY9mj0s21qqM.html This was made 2 yrs ago

@@d.edwardsfreelanceeditorvi4212 I have used avid in a multi user setup and I know avid has supported this type of functionality for years. What I am saying is resolve’s multi user tooling is slicker and has been in the the program for many years as well. Resolve Actually lets people work in the same timeline at the same time. Not just the same project. And the bin locking is done with better ui and just feels cleaner. So you can The editing while someone is coloring and another person is doing visual effects in the fusion tab in the same timeline. Avid let’s be in the same project but only one person can be in a bin at a time. And as timelines have to live in Bins with avid only one person can be in a timeline at the same time.

I am using a MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013 (i7 quad-core 2,3GHz, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GT 750M with 2GB) and the performance, until now, looks a little bit snap to me. No issues at the time, and is is the beta version of DR 18.

is it mandatory?

Very good idea

Tell me you're a Trumper without telling me you're a Trumper lol

@@henrytheturnip is that your real name?

@Matt Quinn It's also very interesting that you would go off on such a self-justifying rant, care to flex much more? Show me your biceps! I feel comfortable saying this to you because I know your type only too well. This is the internet, the only reason people post is to sate their own ego. I am not immune to this, hence my reply. So seriously, I am genuinely interested in your possible justification that you need to air-gap your server farm.

As far as I know, both parties have to have the media locally. That’s why the cloud doesn’t make much sense to me.

@@DogFiles agreed

Maybe it is not important for large producers, but Resolve is used by smaller producers most of the time anyway. The area of video production is growing and growing but there isn’t a lot of money in it because it is for small businesses or private people. And then security isn’t the biggest thing.

I agree, I think there are a lot of bugs which exist which no KZfaqrs ever mentions. For instance, exporting OMF/AAF audio for a sound designer to work on is often very buggy and inconsistent. Simple things like the presence of a plain text layer interfering with the color management of clips beneath it on the timeline. Edit page functions not working properly after a while unless you switch to another page and back again, or have to quit and restart Resolve. At the same time I love it and want to recommend it to everyone, but it is hard convincing collaborators to switch to Davinci when it is clearly buggy, which I find is rarely mentioned in reviews of the software.