Yes. I don’t use the studio features much as I’m not on such high level yet (except the magic mask which I abuse) and I pretty much bought it just to support them. What a great company providing people with a free version with such high value.
@@Nikesus Same thing i want to do godwilling, because they deserve it, That offer this big free version especially for those who cannot spend money for softwares.
Transcript editing tip: use a codec that has a constant frame rate. If you record footage on a phone (for example) the transcription will often be off sync. Convert to DNxHR and then run the auto transcription, and it will stay in sync.
After using Resolve for 4 years, I finally upgraded and sooo thankful I did. For me, magic mask alone makes it worth it! I also love supporting companies that: 1. Are honest, clearly passionate and focused on what they do and 2. Offer products/services without anti-consumer tactics like subscription services, contracts, marketing tactics, etc. aaaand the Speed Editor is incredible too 👏🏻
@@LucasWoodhouse It's a peripheral made by Blackmagic to work in coordination with Resolve. I mostly use it for quickly chopping up footage in the cut page. Just makes the process tactile and buttery smooth. It's an extra $100 when bundled with Resolve Studio. I bought mine on Amazon. Would recommend!
@@LucasWoodhouse I mostly use it for the jog-wheel, allowing me to smoothly scroll through video cuts and adjust audio. Works quite well! Used to be “free” if purchased with Studio, but now it’s an extra $100. Absolutely worth it IMO!
I've had studio for several years at this point, buying in after using the free version for a couple of months, and I am so glad I upgraded. One thing I was really worried about was the licensing because you only have 2 uses and I've run into situations where that caused me trouble in the past. I found out last year after having a computer crash that they allow you to reset the licenses if you need to so you can reuse them, making this one of the best purchases I have made for my video production stuff. That being said, you mentioned a couple things in here that I've never even thought of using, like the auto captions, and I'm so happy to know about these now and how they work. I honestly never really thought about them outside of seeing them mentioned in release notes, so your video actually taught me something new about the software I've been using all this time. Thank you!
Only 2 is unnecessarily stingy, and something that will make me think twice. Of interest, if you dual boot Windows and Linux, does that take 1 or 2 of your licenses? Frankly, 5 would make more sense (like e.g. Arturia), or perhaps recharging the 2 licenses after 6 months (like e.g. AAS).
I've only really been using Resolve for a few months and am still at the basic editing level, with some rudimentary colour grading. I really like it as I'm working through each feature whilst building my own channel. For a free package, Resolve is outstanding. I can see me upgrading as I get more in-depth, producing higher quality videos. Your delivery takes the pain out of learning a huge software package. As I delve deeper, I'll be delving through your previous videos even more. Cheers.
I upgraded a couple months ago and I also own FCPX the noise reduction tool is crazy. All these features are very useful and I am glad I have them. Makes you a better editor honestly.
Ive been using Studio since Version 16 as well, and the points you make in this video are SPOT ON! I think you covered about everything a beginner/intermediate would use on a regular👏
You also get the gate lifted on the graphics card for faster rendering times. I think by 25-30 % more. ( or something like that. I’ll be buying the Studio version in a few weeks, and all these benefits you’ve mentioned and the extra render speed is why. I moved from the bank breaking Adobe, to Divinci a year ago and haven’t looked back. Great Channel my guy! Keep it up! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
As someone who uses the free version of Davinci Resolve I am very tempted by the paid version. I would like to see a video for what presets/macros you use for pop-ups with tracking.
I just bought and installed Studio this morning and am now getting much faster Render speed because it's using my GPU vs CPU. I was also getting blocked out of many features before. I can't wait to do some hard core editing now. 😊
Davinci Resolve change my life. It is powerful tool. I feel that it is good to have a decent computer to get all the benefits from it. Everything is great: Editing, color, audio, delivery, file handling. The nodes and interface are very comfortable and it just takes getting used to them. This is an investment that truly changes our quality of work. Thanks for sharing!
Hiya! I've been using the free version for over 9 months now and have been able to practice Content Editing--as well as take on real paid work! The Studio version is incredible, no doubt about it, especially coming from an AE/Pr workflow. But I've challenged myself to push the free version as far as I can, and frankly I've yet to be stumped. Funnily enough, I finally upgraded just this month LITERALLY JUST for Camera Shake and NVIDIA-based rendering since H.264 was giving me render artifacts. (both of which still never prevented me from doing real work!) So for most of us who want to learn video editing, and aren't necessarily ingesting RED footage all day long, the free version will take you further than you could ever imagine! 😊
Hi! I'm a newbie video editor too, just a week ago downloaded davinci and trying. How long it took u? And in which field u got the clients? Can u give any tips?
@@HAHA-ix9vx Oh it took me MONTHS to learn it. i come from 8+ years of AE and Pr, which helps a lot for comprehension. But learning the new workflow, understanding what you can and can't do--it took me about 3-4 months to put out my first video with it haha. But Google is your friend! And I had to look up even the silliest, most basic of things~
I'm glad you answered that it's a single purchase for each major issue, I've been holding back on getting the studio version seeing as we're more than halfway through v18
New sub here, I think you have a lot of what info I need, just getting started on it all. Just the install of it has been a challenge on Linux Mint, got it done, redoing it now so it works better.
Thanks for the video Dunna! This is exactly what I needed. I have been with Premiere the last decade and finished a course in Resolve about a year ago but haven't jumped in fully. Edited my first RU-vid short in Resolve last week (it was 4:2:2 10 bit footage) and it worked fine. I used the free version of Resolve and realized there is no auto transcriptions in the free version. I still pay for my full Creative Cloud suite because I use AE, Photoshop, Lightroom, etc so still on the fence whether to get the paid version of Resolve.
i JUST started using davinci resolve but i’m really tempted to get it before it turns into a subscription (if it ever does). so far, i like davinci resolve and there’s a lot of things for me to learn!
The voice isolations was a project saving to one of my documentary films for a footage that I got from oversees with so much complications to repeat the shots. It was using 85mm lens and with scratch mic alone and managed to make it fairly acceptable after extensive editing and pushing isolation to 80% (best). Also you forgot about super scale (x2-4 resolution enhancement) which also an insane free update we got lately.
Without getting into the whole Premiere pro vs Davinci comparison, a lot of the features you mentioned are in Premiere pro. There's pros and cons to using either or both.
Tbh its quite good app. Only downside that is holding me back to fully switch from final cut pro to resolve is timeline scrobbling. U knoq u can hover ur mouse and u dont ever need to click to playhead to move on timeline. So for that reason, I'm currently editing my videos on fcp but if the video is long, i prefer to make an XML file then put it onto da vinci for export. For some reason i cant export videos longer than 15 hours on final cut pro woth .mov container. It exports as .mp4 tho but i need .mov so da vinci does that. But seeing auto captions and magic mask, it is insane to have em. No need for ae to rotoscope anymore. And that smart reframe. Idk how well its gonna work for my content but ima try it and see. Cos my shorts are waay to complex to edit. Cos sometimes theres 2 talking heads and i like to fit em at that moment where they talk etc in a single shot so definitely smart reframe cant do this. So im doin manually in fcp and im gettin better evry day but ima try it in resolve to see how its gonna work. Great video btw.
Great summary. For me, HDR workflows is another key difference that may bring me over the fence into the purchased version, as well as better multi monitor support.
Just to clarify cloud collaboration is possible using the free version of resolve as long as the owner of the cloud database has an active subscription to BMD cloud. But after that I believe up to 10 free users can all connect to that same library 👍
Thanks for sharing this Patrick! Not sure what got me thinking that cloud collab was just studio version! Wish I could easily edit uploaded videos haha
@@dunnadidit it was for a long time! back before cloud when you needed to be hard networked or do some complicated firewall stuff it was but I believe right at the start of covid they unlocked it for all users.
Great Video Dunna. 🔥🔥🔥 The free version is good for folks to get started, break into Davinci and see if Resolve works for them. But Studio is obviously the way to go on all levels once an editor gets acquainted. If anyone is going to do some real editing, color grading....etc Studio is a must.
The one most important piece of advice I would give before buying the Studio version (which is very worth it) is, If you are looking at buying some hardware from Black Magic, wait and check because it might include a free Studio license. You could get a pocket camera, or a speed editor, and save some cash, since those come with the Studio license. If you aren't planning on getting anything from them, it's still well worth it to get Studio, any one of the features is probably a good enough justification.
I went straight in with studio and while my Mac does struggle with some things (magic mask) it gets the job done eventually! Don’t regret it at all! I do regret the £100s of plugins I bought for FCPX though 😢
I just upgraded to the Studio version of Resolve even though I'am still a novice in terms of video production and editing. I'am happy to support any company that has a one of payment plan. I refuse to pay via the subscription model and have been using open source based software as a result for alot of the software I use. I think because Black Magic Design is primarily a video hardware company maybe the reason they can use the one time purchase model for Resolve.
I’ve been using the free version on my iPad Pro for about a year now and I think it is that time to install Studio on my Mac with these features…thanks 👍🏽
i use capcut to make edits but i was limited due to the fact capcut was new and was missing features, i wanted to use aftereffects but it was way too big of a jump for me since capcut is one of the simplest editing softwares and after effects is one of the most complicated, i was looking for a way to have the simplicity of capcut but with the features after effects has... and then i found davinci resovle god i love this
I filmed in a noisy nursery next to a busy road, and the footage was very loud, but once I used the voice isolation feature, you could hear me super clear and all the background noises disappeared like magic.
The speed warp is genius, honestly. Because, say, you shot 30 fps on an iPhone and want to slow down 50%. You'll fall below 24 fps, but this warp trick fixes that! This technique can save you tons of storage in the long-run: shooting 30 fps on iPhone instead of 60 fps.
I switch in December to STUDIO - and the firts WOW - was, that the studio version use my fulll GPU power - so now I render 2 minutes instead of 20! That also a BIG feature that not so many free version users know.
Only buy studio if you are highly committed and taking video editing as a Top Hobby/Career. If you just a Casual RU-vid content creator just making videos for fun, Studio isn’t necessary, but you can get it if you want.
I'm sure I'll end up purchasing the studio version soon. This is so much better than Adobe premiere pro and it so much easier to use especially for a beginner people online were saying that it was more difficult to use but I find it a lot easier to use and understand where things are especially with the layout of everything.
Just got the M2 and upgraded to dr18...made two small clips and it's incredible...looking forward to playing more and posting new vids in my channel...I think now I will be making better videos...so happy to take this step and thanks to everyone who supported me all this time...
I have a Lumix S5 and used to use the free version. I could edit my 10bit footage then using my M1 Mac mini. What I heard from others is that blackmagic capped some computers and laptops to 8bit editing for the free version, but not really sure though. And from what I’ve heard is that the sure thing is that even if some laptops or computers can access 10bit files in the free version, it cannot export 10bit files. So to be sure, if you want to use 10bit files and export 10bit files, you need the studio version.
I picked up the speed editor hardware tool which comes with the software license for the paid version of davinci resolve. $400 vs $300 for the software alone. So basically, you get a hardware device for $100 with some useful shortcut buttons and a super useful wheel on it.
I've been using premiere since the beginning of my video hobby. About a year ago it updated and now doesn't recognize media encoder even though everything is up to date. Which means I can no longer make proxies and I have to export each video one at a time instead of editing a bunch and having them all export at the same time while I sleep. I was already on the fence and leaning towards DaVinci resolve but you've just convinced me. I'm going to open up all my recent projects and finish them as quickly as possible so I can start fresh on a new project with Resolve 🤘
I recently purchased Sony A7C2 and unfortunately I cant import 10bit 4:2:2 videos on the free version. I'm already keen on purchasing the paid version and this further solidifies my decision. Great breakdown !
Love your channel Dunna! I've been using the free version for the last year and a bit, and this has finally convinced me to pull the trigger on the studio version. Do you have a BlackMagic affiliate link? Would love to support the channel and purchase it through an affiliate link, since this is what convinced me! Keep up the great work!
depends on who you are, most people will find the free version gets them most of the way there. In the end I only really benefit from the 10bit colour managing and that's only if you want to colour. Genuinely sucha good piece of software to learn on before jumping up to more professional editing or colour programs (Film light or AVID)
I've been using resolve free for about two years before switching to studio and I honestly feel like the free version, if your just a normal editor, is fine. But if you want to push your content, UPGRADE! Its 200% worth it!
A software company supporting a reasonably priced in-route to amature creatures is a huge value for me. Adobe will never get my money. I don't even mind if I stop getting new updates at some point. A perpetual license of something this powerful is a huge value.
Coming from Adobe's hell, I think I'll keep the free version for now, mainly due to my easy edits and my 8 bit camera. I do plan to upgrade just to support a company that cares about its customers
Used to LOVE and always use FCP7... Moved on from that, didn't edit anymore lol.. Then tried newer versions of FCP, hated it.. Premiere dropped, got on that, junior-editors on that, LOVE it.. But NOT loving the subscription anymore lol. Got on Capcut while traveling, pretty easy and fluid... Now about to get on Resolve for the end all be all lol.
If you're a windows user this is an absolutely mandatory upgrade, without it you are unable to use hardware decoders and encoders of your computer, meaning video playback will be choppy even on high end systems.
As a penny pinching reluctant Studio user: My favorite studio feature is two screen editing. Magic mask was a huge disappointment. I found I could get better separation with the more cumbersome free tools. I REALLY NEED to look into editing via transcript!
So as far as I know, with Studio you still cant really move around your workspace like in Premiere? For me thats a dealbreaker and I would probably go back to Premiere for it. Especially working with more screens makes Davinci (at least the free version) sometimes insufferable.
Great video. As a cruise vlogger I started editing with filmora but am seeing lots of issues with various elements. Has anyone used this and moved to Davinci and how difficult was the transition? Thanks in advance.
Davinci Resolve doesn´t work for me. It says "media offline" when I import a file. I heard that the free version can´t handle 10 bit so I tried the workaround and converted the file. Didn´t work! I then imported an 8-bit file and it still won´t work.
The studio version of DaVinci Resolve is not available to buy in all around the world (It exists only in 60 countries) and I reached the support to ask them if I could buy a UK or US serial key they tell the key wouldn't work cause my country is not supported. The Blackmagic company's focus is on selling cameras and other items, not the software. The opposite of Adobe software that you can buy in whatever place you are in (195 countries)
10 bit that opens are ProRes versions, some H.265 -it’s a trail and error, DnxHR HQx (actually 12-bit). I haven’t got any H264 10bit files to work in resolve.
I need to remove and replace backgrounds with Majic Mask but you need the paid version to do this? I do not need most of the paid version features only magic masking.
It took me 5 years before I finally sucked it up and upgrade to Studio. 3 of those years I had a computer that would've been able to handle the extra grading features, fusion effects, and benefit from hardware acceleration. It's been a year since the upgrade and I'm still seriously pissed at myself for not upgrading sooner.
What's amazing is that buying Studio is a fraction of the cost of buying your camera hardware. :-) And the reason there is a free version and the pad version is a one-time purchase is probably because BlackMagic Design make most of their money selling hardware!
I personally love using davinci resolve for the fact that i can use it on linux unlike filmora with windows or whatever apple uses. Davinci is available for all!
