“Maybe I should edit this thing in Resolve.”Īs both post-production supervisor and editor, I was my own devil’s advocate. “Huh,” I thought, my curiosity officially piqued. A family-run gas station becomes the most important storehouse in a small town, but the family finds itself deeply divided about what to do with its newfound “wealth.”Īs pre-production started buzzing around me, I was knee-deep in writing a previous article on DaVinci Resolve and came across this bold statement on the Blackmagic website: How then, on that relentlessly sunny day in late August, did I find myself tasked with assembling an entire day’s footage, on set, in DaVinci Resolve-a program I had never before considered a capable NLE-to help put together the following day’s shot list?Ī few months earlier, my co-writer and I took the plunge and set a production date for our short film, Currency.Ĭurrency takes place in a small town one week after all banking, credit, and electronic monetary records disappear. And I like using software that I know inside and out. Foam bats, fake wounds, choreographed fight stunts.Īnd me, at a rickety folding table, furiously editing in the midst of chaos.Īs a feature film editor, I like quiet. I like temperature controlled edit suites.

A horde of 35 extras playing an angry, shouting mob. Would I be able to edit an entire film in Resolve, without ever having to go to my staple NLE? The StoryĪ wailing baby.

But I wanted to put it to the test on a real project. We recently wrote in this article that Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 14 could soon become the ultimate post-production tool.

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