Crashing and not optimized like Davinci

I've been working in both Premiere and Resolve for over a decade. I work for/with/teach pro colorists. And prior to that I had years of experience processing and printing film. So yes, I had 25 years of fighting that crud.

Premiere and Resolve use GPUs differently and both are optimized for the way the app uses the GPU. Resolve was created as a grading app that has had editing and audio abd Fx stuff stuffed into the app to try to compete as an NLE against Premiere and Avid. Both of which are generally considered still a bit better as an NLE than Resolve.

So strictly for color, yes, Resolve is better optimized for using the GPU. In other areas, no notably so. In general editing work i don't see anything better in Resolve use of my GPU.

As for "perfect" film emulator, as someone with years of film experience, that's a hoot. There isn't nor can there ever be one.

For movies, normally shot on negative film and then a print film made from that... you had *at least* two different emulsions to deal with, and that's not considering any internegatve that might be used for some clips or scenes.

EVERY batch of every emulsion type ever made was different than any other batch of that same emulsion type. Which is why you had to buy a massive quantity of reels to make sure all your reels were one emulsion batch. Color timing a print to get something usable was as much guessing art form as technical demands.

Due to the damage done to a master by printing a couple hundred release prints, the view that later prints gave was very different than the first few prints

And past that, pick any shooting and printing emulsion pairing. Say 5247 and one of the several then in use print stocks..

Look up the movies using that pairing. As noted colorist Marc Wielage notes, and remember he did the color timing on some ... you can have 5247 with fine grain, raised blacks, fairly low saturation, and rolled off whites. A number of mid 70's movies fit that. 

But in another movie shot on 5247, and same release print, you have dark shadows and definitely blacks. Heavy saturation. Nearly harsh highlights. Massive grain.

So, seriously, I'm curious, how do you decide what is a "perfect" film emulator? When any one pairing could be all over the place? Not being snarky, but very interested in your thinking, as we are all different.

I know several big name colorists I talk to at NAB and other things, none of whom know of any "perfect" one. They will use different emulation routines and software for different things. Fascinating discussions around this topic abound.

Hi there,

What kind of footage are you editing? What kind of computer components are you running. Do you have the latest studio driver installed? Let me know.

Thanks,
Kevin