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NAB 2016 – Talking to Blackmagic Design about Resolve 12.5

It wouldn’t be NAB without Blackmagic updating Resolve. 2016 brings Resolve 12.5 with enough features to warrant a .5 update. Apparently that wasn’t planned but as the features kept getting added it seemed only appropriate. I won’t make any attempt to outline the new features here as Steve Hullfish took a tour of the 12.5 beta right after it was released and outlines a few or his favorite things.

I sat down for an audio interview with Bob Caniglia about Resolve 12.5. While asking about performance improvements were at the top of the list I was also curious about where Blackmagic sees Resolve slotting into a rather crowded and diverse NLE market.

I’ve played around with the Resolve 12.5 beta a bit and it is a big update. The first thing that I noticed was that the designers have taken what was an overly stuffed EDIT menu and broken all the commands in that menu out into several other menus as well. This makes sense as Blackmagic continues to push Resolve deeper into editor’s hands. I’ll have to update my Resolve keyboard cheatsheet!

Here’s a few things I noticed while looking at Resolve 12.5 on the NAB show floor.

Ripple Overwrite is a four point editing that will ripple the difference in length between the source length and the timeline length. In other words it’s like doing a few things at once as it replaces the length in the timeline with the length in the source and either lengthens the edit or shortens it.

 

 

I love the ability to show audio waveforms over the source-side video clip.

You can choose to see a zoomed in section of that waveform which will scroll with playback or …

See the entire waveform for the whole clip.

The speed change editor is also nice.

For a more comprehensive list of all that is new just give a scan to this long list up updates posted by BMD over on the Blackmagic forums. Yep, that’s a lot.

Significant New Features

Edit – Key new features

Edit Speed Improvements

Speed Effects

Markers

Titles

Multicam

Transitions And Composite Modes

General

Audio – Key new features

General

Color – Key new features

HDR Grading Tools

Resolve FX

Nodes

Split Screen

RCM and ACES

Advanced Control Panel Updates

General

Media – Key new features

Storage and Media Pool

Media Pool

General

Deliver – Key new features

General

Format Support

General Items

Minimum system requirements

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