DaVinci 8.1 Announced!

[Tom.Wong]

http://digitalproducer.digitalmedian...lve-81-1668643


highlights:

complete Avid Media Composer round tripping
better/more compositing abilities
ACES color space support
and more!


BM is on fire, slated to be released end of this month!

[Tom.Wong]

RESOLVE IS ALSO GOING TO PC Q1 2012. HUUUUGE NEWS!!

[Steve Sherrick]

Awesome, especially love the news about MC.

[Rosario Balistreri]

Yeah!
The Windows version news is damn good!

Waiting for a NLE better then FCP to completely switch to PCs, again!

[Tom.Wong]

I'm not a mac vs pc guy, i use it all. opening up to a PC let's you build a power house resolve setup for much cheaper, and let's you use much more cost effective and powerful gpu's like gtx 580. I've already priced it out and built a sick ass setup on newegg at the price it would cost to buy a 12 core mac tower, at several times the performance. I'm gonna be building a PC resolve, just dedicated to resolve 100%, and use my macs for everything else, and on set work. I hope the PC version can write pro res. If not, I still have mac towers to do that for me. Just write dpx or uncompressed with resolve PC and convert on mac. or if it's possible, just transfer the project onto my mac after all the grading is done and write on my mac if I need pro res. either way, it's all worth the performance for while your grading at such a lower cost.


MC round tripping is gonna be the shizzle.

[Jake Bastian]

So I'm guessing between this news and the news that Adobe acquired Iridas Speed Grade that integration with Premiere isn't really a priority for either company right now... The fact that they are increasing support for FCP 7 though leads me to believe that the ball is more in Adobe's court to implement XML 5 support? All that's left now is for Avid to get better R3D support and Premiere will be dead in the water as far as I'm concerned.

[jake blackstone]

just transfer the project onto my mac after all the grading is done and write on my mac if I need pro res.

Can't imagine why it shouldn't work.
For me, the best part, is that there is no need for Hackintosh anymore. You can build a sick Resolve grading station without resorting to use of the Mac expansion chassys and inferior GPUs. 16 GPUs, that's Linux domain for a price of Mac!
My partner is counting days, until he's able to do Avid roundtrip...

[Thomas Pohl]

RESOLVE IS ALSO GOING TO PC Q1 2012. HUUUUGE NEWS!!

I can`t believe it... I`m thinking about switching to PC after nearly 20 years working with Macs.

Cheers
Thomas.

[Hillary Knox]

Unless Apple gets it together with GPU drivers, I'll soon be using Macs for nothing more than surfing the web, writing emails, making the occasional FCP7 XML, and as a fancy ProRes / background transcode dongle.

[Rosario Balistreri]

thinking about it a bit more and I changed my mind...
Not sure that switching to PC is a real deal...
Hackintosh is still the best way to combine best software with almost-new hardware...
Yeah, you have to wait a bit more for drivers, but remember that you're on a pseudo-mac that it's cheap as a pc and works quite as a mac ;)