The latest release, Resolve 12, is being touted by Blackmagic as a real Non-Linear Editor – something you could edit a feature film or TV programme in, and then, of course, grade it in the same application. It didn’t have the feature set that an editor needs nowadays and, particularly with larger projects, it became sluggish and annoying. Sadly, the answer was a pretty resounding “no”. The question was, could you start an edit in Resolve? Would it be possible to use Resolve as the only NLE for your prime-time TV show, or your latest Bollywood blockbuster? So the previous release of Resolve, version 11, had a reasonable editor – certainly enough to do minor changes without having to go back to the off-line – and the editor was available in the free version. At some point, you must get to a tipping point, and you start to develop the NLE features for their own sake.
So some of the abilities of an NLE kinda had to be there, to make a useful grading system.Īnd as the capabilities of the ‘source’ NLEs expanded it was useful if Resolve kept up with those new capabilities. Grading software, like Resolve, always had to ‘understand’ the edit imported from Avid, or FCP or whatever, and it’s useful to have the user interface to allow the edit to be tweaked once it gets in to on-line – as a grader friend of mine once said, “If you ever find a Director who actually locks picture, please give her my name and number.”
My theory is that, a few years ago, Blackmagic Design realised that Resolve was turning into a Non-Linear Video Editor – almost by accident. ADAM GARSTONE says hello and welcome to my studio. What can you say to a free piece of software that not only will grade your movie but now will also edit it as well.
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