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I expect it will take the rest of this week to finish editing these interviews. For a variety of reasons, I decided to edit these in DaVinci Resolve. (No, I am NOT abandoning Final Cut or Premiere. I simply wanted to learn something new.) Resolve is amazing - just as are FCP or Premiere - but different. After working with it intensively for a week, here are my thoughts.
Link: Compare Editing in DaVinci Resolve to Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro
Because my NAB Show interviews will be posted to a variety of websites, I need to create both horizontal and vertical versions. All my source media is horizontal, which means I need to convert the aspect ratio. Resolve makes this both easy and... difficult.
Link: Convert Horizontal Video to Vertical Video in DaVinci Resolve 19
NOTE: Next week, I'll have tutorials on creating vertical video in Premiere and FCP.
IN CLOSING
One of the underlying themes in my interviews was that the bloom seems to be off the rose for cloud storage; though not, as Michael Kammes made clear, cloud compute. We are seeing more and more companies "repatriating" their data - moving from the cloud back to local storage, or, perhaps, a hybrid mix of both.
While cloud storage enables collaboration, it is fraught with concerns about privacy, security, AI scraping, bandwidth limitations and never-ending rental fees. Especially for long-term archiving, the cloud is no longer the best option. In these days of cost control, cloud storage is getting an especially close look.
Another question I asked in many of my interviews was the impact of Trump's tariffs on hardware and pricing. At that time, less than a week after they were first imposed, every single speaker said: "We have no idea. We'll just have to wait and see." Now, two weeks later, that answer hasn't changed. I can't remember a time when politics has had such a direct - and confusing - impact on our industry. If there's a plan, it is very difficult to discern.
Just one more thing to worry about. Sigh.
Until next Monday, stay healthy, stay hopeful and edit well.
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