Blackmagic Ultrastudio not available in Adobe Apps

Neil, I know you had problems with your Atem, but gotta say I was very impressed with it.  Just connected it and it worked as advertised...  Can't remember if I had to load any drivers or not...  

These are all tools ... just fancy hammers. Use whatever works for you and your clients. I work in Pr & Resolve daily. I teach color to Resolve-based colorists for when they need to use Pr.

The recent major Resolve release ... 17.4 ... had the same types of issues for users as the Pr2022 release. Most users were working without issues. Some users had to use annoying workarounds for changes in the app or bugs, but were able to work.

And others couldn't work in it at freaking all. A noted colorist posted on their forums that it was plain busted in his suite, unusable. Some days later they pushed out a patch, which he posted was more busted than what it supposedly fixed. They've finally got it so that most users can be working fine.

I think the issue is both Pr & Resolve are trying to do Swiss-Army knife sort of working ... all sorts of workflows, all sorts of tasks, all sorts of media, all sorts of hardware. And along the way, you are going to get glitches in the system.

I just upgraded to Resolve 17.4.2.9 myself, as ... unlike the Adobe apps, you can only have one version installed at a time. I waited until all the others seemed to say it's ok before changing. Going back is a royal tushie pain to me.

Whereas, with say Pr, something like going from 2021 to 2022, you can install 2022 alongside. Create new projects, see if it works for what you need. When it does fine, create new projects for your old ones, and use the MediaBrowser panel to import the previous projects.

That's the most stable way to migrate a project forward, besides keeping the old project file still usable in the old version if there's any problems. And this is easier than Resolve for such things.

Yea, the software is cheaper as their profit model ain't sellling software. It's providing low-cost software to get you to buy their hardware. Which is fine as far as it goes. But it much of it doesn't go very far, because their keyboards and control surfaces only ever work with Resolve.

My Tangent Elements panel is an awesome Swiss-Army knife in Pr, I can do everything from audio mixing to graphics to color with that Elements. I can remap everything. To everything.

In Resolve ... it's usable mostly, but mapping is totally locked down by the BM engineers. At any one time half the controls are 'black' and unused. Because they'd rather I use their panel, which ... yea, only works with Resolve. And is spendy.

I don't have room for multiple panels. Or patience for swapping them out either.

Their UI is also totally locked down. A good friend loves it, and he hate's Pr's UI. We're opposites that way. I'm no fan of Resolve's UI in any way shape or form. It's functional, yea, but I never like working in it.

And I've got enough BM kit I've bought over the last few years I've got a drawer with several Resolve licenses in it. Love my BMPCC4K.

Neil

Edit: my Atem Mini Pro had a one year warranty. Partially died just as 13 months ended, it's no longer reliable. Which basically meant buying a new one. From their forums, that ain't ... unusual. Sigh.