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That word you keep using ... I do not think it means what you think it means ...

The only thing confusing here is trying to track all your statements. And claims.

First, for everyone to remember : these apps are all tools ... fancy hammers. That's ALL they are. And they are all different. Use whichever one works for your needs. Period. I've got good friends who love Resolve and totally diss Premiere. Fine and dandy, and we laugh about our different views.

Personally, I'm always irked when working in Resolve by the UI, and by the way my hardware is simply limited by BlackMagic ... intentionally. But again, that's how BlackMagic pays their bills. Providing Resolve to help sell hardware.

There is freely available use of BRAW clips in Premiere, provided by the BM 'freebie' plugin. So yes, without paying extra, you can get BRAW support in Premiere. Not particularly confusing. What's perhaps informative, is the best support for the freebie BM BRAW plugin ... isn't provided by BM, but by Autokroma.

But then, BM has dissed Adobe for years anyway. Not a lot of love there. Go to NAB ... the Adobe people don't talk much about Resolve, but they don't diss it either. It "is", and that's about it. But in the BM booth ... the distaste for Adobe is worn on the shirt sleeves.

As I spend a fair amount of time in both places, yea, I get that. Have for years. And will be checking out any new camera announcements they make during NAB ... I figure my GH3 is coming up on an EOL as my b-cam, with it's total Rec.709/1080 limitations. And I might get another BMPCC4K, or maybe a 6k. But ... gotta see what they come up with. They have other options that might become ... useful for the price.

The Autokroma BRAW plugin provides better stability and more functionality for BRAW, within Premiere, for a very small fee. No brainer for me, it works better. Done. Don't wanna spend a small one-time fee? Don't. Use the freebie BM plugin.

In general, Resolve has smoother playback on some computers with certain codecs and tools than others. Premiere has smoother playback on some computers with certain codecs and tools than others. I work with both, and participate on the BM Resolve forums. And see the joys & frustrations with both apps. They both have strengths and challenges for users.

Resolve has a much deeper color toolset, naturally, as it's a grading app that has cadged on graphics, editing, audio, and fx. Although every colorist I know has a ton of high-cost plugins added to their Resolve installation.

Premiere has a deeper editing set, as it is at heart an editing app. And most pros I know of have a series of plugins that fill all sorts of needs or simply do things fast.

Nothing particularly confusing there that I can see. And again, to make it very clear ...  most of the people I know working in these apps have plugins, no matter whether it's Resolve or Premiere.

Resolve doesn't allow much customization of workspaces and tools. It is also a marketing tool to get us to buy BM hardware, as they intentionally throttle non-BM hardware within Resolve. This is a large part of the difference in the selling of the two apps. Adobe doesn't make money on hardware, only software.

Premiere encourages personalized workspaces. And allows all hardware makers to work with the API and map things as they choose. All Adobe is selling is software.

And Premiere's use numbers are going up rather markedly. So, as much as I'd LOVE to be able to put pressure on them to completely rebuild the color capabilities immediately, I can't see that much leverage to use against the M&E types, the folks well above the "mere" product people. M&E drives a company like Adobe from the top. And their M&E people look at the numbers and say ... it's all good.

Yea, I personally get a bit hacked at the M&E dominance, no question. It seems the teams clearly get irked at times also ... but they work for the company. You do as you're paid to do.

I know colorists that live in Resolve 12 hours a day and better ... they've got gripes about things going back to R14 or so "that still haven't been fixed" ... but that's the app they have to live in. It doesn't do everything as they want, but it does enough to get them by. It's still to them a useful tool, no matter that some things are broken.

So ... that's the app they need to use. Unless of course, they wanna buy a Baselight system. And ... you do NOT load Baselight on your computer. You buy a "turnkey" system from them, a computer with Baselight installed by them. For many thousands of dollars ... something like three choices, $12G, $15G, $18G.  And they ship that computer to your door. Seriously.

And THEN you also pay a steep yearly fee past that. And yep, I know colorists who are working in Baselight, and love it. A different sales model, and probably the most stable colorist tool out there. Also about the most expensive except for a couple others that not hardly anyone even knows about.

I don't see anything confusing here. Are there things I want changed? Well, duh, in both Premiere and Resolve. So? Many of my colorist friends are really expecting "another bad new version" of Resolve, because they feel BM has been trying to go after the editing/YouTube crowd over the last version or two. And they feel BM has (almost) totally neglected the color page. Though that ColorWarper is a cool tool.

Some think that R17 was so clearly delivered for the social-media/YouTube crowd that BM has to give more 'love' to color in R18.

I dunno. No clue at all. We'll all find out what Adobe and BlackMagic are doing as it finally rolls out. As always.

Neil