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Legend
April 29, 2018
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New Text+

  • April 29, 2018
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I frequently watch YouTube tutorials for other software to get ideas about how the Adobe suite might be improved.  It's how I first learned of Instant Auto Save – Adobe video & audio apps.

Well, Resolve 15 has stepped up it's titling capabilities far beyond anything Premiere Pro alone is capable of.  Take a look.

Learn Text+ Titles in 15 Minutes | DaVinci Resolve 15 Tutorial - YouTube

Make some recommendations.

Premiere Pro: Hot (605 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

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Legend
May 15, 2018

While it's a fair statement that Premiere Pro alone cannot handle text like Resolve 15 can, a more accurate scenario is that Resolve 15's Text+ probably cannot match up to the text abilities of After Effects, which is included in Creative Cloud alongside Premiere. AE has a pretty full-featured per-character 3D text engine. It could use easier controls, but the functionality is all in there.

The direction that Resolve is heading in is a pretty scary scenario for Adobe, and thank the heavens for that. Some competition was sorely needed. The amount of stuff Resolve 15 offers for free right now is nothing short of insane.

Legend
May 15, 2018

Resolve 15's Text+ probably cannot match up to the text abilities of After Effects

I believe it can.  Text+ is essentially a Fusion title, and Fusion is now built into Resolve.

Legend
May 17, 2018

Fusion...has a pretty uphill journey against the After Effects giant

"Fusion has been used for nearly 30 years to create the visual effects and motion graphics for some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbuster films and television shows."

Fusion 9 – Credits | Blackmagic Design


My whole statement was:

After Effects giant establishment with its enormous user and third-party support.

Despite Fusion's credentials, it doesn't hold a candle to After Effects' user base, and probably never will. AE's layer-based approach is far more intuitive and accessible, especially to those with a grounding in Photoshop, and a node-based approach is a hurdle most users will never bother with, unless there's some serious functionality that isn't offered anywhere else (there isn't).

AE's extensive third-party plugin and script support adds to that barrier, with sites like aescripts.com providing an easy way to extend AE's functionality beyond its original packaging, often with free scripts.

It's integration with other Adobe apps is another massive plus, and it is also very capable for high-end compositing work.

There's not much (if anything) that Fusion does that AE cannot do and it'll ultimately boil down to user preference over layers vs nodes (and that massive 3rd party support imbalance). Layers can get clunky on larger, more complex compositions, but nodes are hardly the holy grail. Nodes on complex projects can be equally cumbersome to deal with and can be a visual nightmare of tangled lines if good housekeeping isn't maintained.

AE has a slew of issues that need to be addressed (not least of which is the glacial update pace lately), but when it comes to getting the job done, there's often not much need to look beyond After Effects, which is why Fusion (and its integration with the rest of Resolve) will have to up its game in a serious way if it has any aspirations to draw users away from AE.