As was noted by Francis Crossman in the post on this forum when they "dropped" the correction LUT, that was only for Mac users that wanted to change the image to appear outside of Premiere (or properly managed color management) on a Mac sort of mostly. It was announced on this forum, as it was released, as 1) a one-way trip, and 2) that it would cause issues for non-Mac viewers then on other gear.
So that gamma change LUT was released as a response to demands from Mac users, with full warnings. Your comments about it are understandable (how could anyone assume that without knowing the full history?) yet incorrect. Both as to why it was released and the "Adobe" attitude about it.
As far as Resolve "solving" anything ... I've just followed two different, lengthy disourses by colorists and color management types on color management ... and color managment is a mess that is simply not handled well period.
As one put it, from extensive testing that makes yours look very basic ... nothing that the user can do will generate a file from Resolve that will be seen correctly across apps and players and systems. He ended up listing a bunch of different scenarios, all of the "do X and it will look correct on Y, Z, and Q but awful on P using S or D ... " nature.
So there were some combinations where if your user was going to be viewing the file on X with Z player, or Y with D app, you could use Q settings for Resolve's export. BUT ... if someone was going to be looking at on X with M player, you needed to export with a different setting.
To get his various people seeing something mostly sort of what he was doing in Resolve, he needed to do up to three different exports for the variuos people to use, and track which version he sent to whom. He's not a happy camper.
You are most welcome to use Resolve. I use it some myself, as I need to be familiar with it due to the fact that I teach colorists how to work in Premiere, and I need to know how they do things in Resolve. I've not had a chance to test the new 17.x version, which sounds interesting as they finally really updated the color stuff, first time since the 15.x release.
But in general, for me, the interface is a pain and I greatly dislike the edit page especially. A good friend love love loves their edit page, and more power to him. We're all different, and in the end, all these apps are fancy hammers.
Use the hammer that works for you. And competition in offerings is a good thing.
Neil
It looks fine when I'm importing psd files and bmp files, but looks gamma shifted when I import jpg and png files. At least I've figured out the cause of the whole issue. This is definitely a bug. I'll likely create an entirely new thread to report this issue.
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