{"id":166967,"date":"2022-04-22T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=166967"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:59:40","slug":"blackmagic-cloud-service-vs-frame-io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/blackmagic-cloud-service-vs-frame-io\/","title":{"rendered":"How Blackmagic’s New Cloud Service Compares to Frame IO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the launch of Blackmagic Design’s new cloud service, let’s discuss what it offers, and how easy and affordable is it to use.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To help, we compare the new service to one already operating from Frame IO<\/strong>, whose purchase by Adobe <\/a>last year shed new light on the importance of shared working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edit window from the new DaVinci Resolve 18. Image via Blackmagic Design<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With the pandemic focusing our attention on remote working, Blackmagic has added a new cloud collaboration service to their DaVinci Resolve 18 iteration in time for the welcome return of NAB. You could collaborate before with Resolve, but it was an option for Resolve Studio<\/a>, which was and still is a $295 option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just to keep you entirely up-to-date with what you get for your money or for free, here’s a comparison between the free version<\/strong> of Resolve 18 and the Studio version<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free vs. Studio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For Studio, you get everything in the free version plus the DaVinci Neural Engine<\/strong>, additional Resolve FX<\/strong>, temporal<\/strong> and spatial noise reduction<\/strong>, stereoscopic 3D<\/strong>, film grain<\/a><\/strong>, optical blur<\/strong>, and mist effects<\/a><\/strong>. It also supports 10\u2011bit video at 120 frames<\/strong> per second and resolutions beyond 4K<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The free version of Resolve works with “virtually all 8\u2011bit video formats<\/strong> at up to 60fps<\/strong> in resolutions as high as Ultra HD 3840 x 2160.” It also includes the new cloud service, although Blackmagic will charge you $5 per month per project without tax, as they will do for the Studio option. You’ll have to hand over a payment method before going further within your online account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, it’s the sweeping creativity you get with Resolve that makes collaboration, executed well, a potential game-changer. Shared working is promised across the disciplines offered by the app, from video editing to VFX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine watching someone else or multiple users working on your material live. In fact, Blackmagic’s Grant Petty shows precisely that in his new product demonstration video (see it below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, there are bumps in the road to making sharing a vital part of your work schedule\u2014mainly how the media is handled. More of this later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blackmagic Cloud: The Basics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The new Cloud Store from Blackmagic Design. Image via Blackmagic Design<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With the following, we’re working from the information we have at the time with beta software, so things are subject to change. Blackmagic’s Cloud<\/strong> is primarily based on working on a server you choose when you sign up\u2014the best one will always be the nearest to where you work or live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant describes the practice as not unlike using email, where you use a local “thin client” model to control software on a remote server somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where you’ll keep your Resolve Projects but, importantly, not your media. Blackmagic suggests that your media be shared via Dropbox, allowing syncing and caching locally. (Ask Dropbox to do that in preferences. Look for “Storage of New Files” in the Sync<\/strong> tab).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other synchronizable <\/strong>storage services will be added to the list, with Google Drive <\/strong>being the next option ratified by Blackmagic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll have to peruse the Dropbox price plan to pick an amount of storage you think will work with your expectation of media use. Maybe you’ll use your studio’s account or, as a freelancer, you’ll find an option to suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Cloud Store Mini from Blackmagic Design. Image via Blackmagic Design<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Grant at Blackmagic Design has always been one of the good guys, and his introduction to this new Cloud product opened with his need to preserve the Blackmagic culture of helping their customers, not exploiting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, he’s against charging a subscription for the product or using his customer’s data in any way that resembles unwanted marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He admits, though, that Blackmagic might be able to sell you something through this free enabling technology. However, you’ll still pay the $5 per Cloud<\/strong> project <\/strong>a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Blackmagic has a few hardware announcements to bolster the new Cloud Collaboration product. The biggest of these is the new Cloud Store network storage devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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