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Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by ch_fr »

nekiwo wrote: post #29

Now we just need a proper replacement for After Effects on Linux and I will stop dualbooting.

Fusion has great potential, but is probably being held back by a lack of community support, the slightly-higher-barrier-of-entry of node-based workflows, and the subtle but annoying ways in which the software can work against you.

TLDR: it does some stuff slower than ae, but nodes allows it to very easily do a lot of stuff that ae struggles with.

It's also a lot easier to parse since node->properties is less nested than comp->layers->effects->properties (and this makes a big difference on cognitive load).

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by googie »

dtf wrote: post #133
googie wrote: post #126

I wish they (authors of DaVinci Resolve and the Photo Editor) paid more attention to Linux platform. Theoretically DaVinci Resolve runs on Linux, but getting it run is a very bad experience on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04. I even paid for the DaVinci license, as I read somewhere that for Linux it's necessary in order to have all codecs supported. It did not help. Fortunately there were no problems with refund. There are whol…

I recently used Resolve (just the free version) for a project. It was my first time seriously using the software but I ended up spending a lot of time with it - lots of timeline editing, keyframe animation, some simple Fusion compositions, and a fair bit of work in the Fairlight page, rendering out daily . I did all this on my beloved Arch Linux workstation, and frankly it was rock solid, apart from exactly one crash…

You encouraged me to try again and somehow, blackmagically ;) it works this time. It may be that recent DaVinci version has made some improvement. I'm so happy!

Installation still requires workarounds and codecs support is limited, but having that aknowledged and accepted, the application is finally usable!

PS. I don't know where the h264 (and other codes?) limitation come from, since ffmpeg has full support of it. Or is it just business model? Weird.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by embedding-shape »

unmole wrote: post #139
tomaskafka wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Blender metaphor is spot on. I am a software engineer, I spent 2 years living in 3ds max in my teens, writing tutorials for it, and I am unable to make a basic scene in Blender, it’s like alien made software.

The GP refered to "blender of yore". Blender went through major UI overhauls and recent versions are very intuitive.

Still, Blender and 3ds Max are pretty much on two different ends of some spectrum, not sure which yet, but they seems to more or less follow two very different axioms when it comes to UI and UX philosophy. I've spent most of my 3D-ing time in 3ds Max, but Blender is more intuitive to me, but I also know others in the same position favoring 3ds Max.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by goldenarm »

miksuko wrote: post #141
danbruc wrote: post #140

Complete tangent, what is going on with this image [1]? Render? AI? Too much post-processing? It has some computer game graphics look to me, but I can not quite put the finger on what seems off. [1] https://images.blackmagicdesign.com/images/products/davincir...

Ridiculously engineered studio lighting and HDR, I would suppose. Stuff can start looking very artificial when you start bringing in good equipment.

We may be witnessing a fascinating trend : AI images are making professional-grade imagery look like spam, and natural lighting and blurry images are becoming the new "human" esthetic.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by mikae1 »

omnimus wrote: post #109
esperent wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Only Darktable seemed to push the technical capabilities of photo editing forward (AgX, parametric masks, tone equalizer, etc) As a casual photographer, I wanted to love darktable and I'm sure it's extremely capable. But the UI is just so hard to get to grips with. I've put a few hours into it, tried following some tutorials etc. but I have no idea what I'm doing there. I do have a fairly decent grasp of color scie…

There is even Darktable fork Ansel where they try to roll back lot of these ux mishaps. Once you care only about editing and not cataloging then RawTherapee ends up being better editor for mr.

> There is even Darktable fork Ansel where they try to roll back lot of these ux mishaps.

AFAIK, the reasons Ansel exists are:

1. To yank out darktable internals for code purity reasons.

2. Its (talented) developer worked better by himself than in group.

He was vehemently opposed to any idea containing the words "intuitive" or "UX".

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by dubbie99 »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #39
geerlingguy wrote: post #11

It's crazy that the RAW photo processing market is so underserved that a video editor can add on photo capabilities and it's immediately in the top 3 photo editors. I mean, they all process image data, so it had that going for it, but I'm still disappointed Apple gave up on Aperture, then nobody really innovated after that, in terms of library management and workflows.

Darktable does a lot of things that are conceptually similar to what DaVinci Resolve is likely doing here. One of the big things Darktable has been pushing for a few years is moving from the now deprecated display-referred workflow to a scene-referred one. The key idea is that you keep the image in something closer to the original scene as captured by the camera for as long as possible, instead of rendering it early…

I am a color science and image expert and couldn’t make heads nor tails of the dark table UI. I wanted to like it but it is just so horrible to use that I couldn’t stick with it.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by Kkoala »

danbruc wrote: post #140

Complete tangent, what is going on with this image [1]? Render? AI? Too much post-processing? It has some computer game graphics look to me, but I can not quite put the finger on what seems off. [1] https://images.blackmagicdesign.com/images/products/davincir...

Looks like a rendered scene yes
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