Been with Adobe my whole life, but I've switched over to Resolve in the last month. Now I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. Goodbye, bloated Adobe products! Blackmagic just needs to release something to compete with Photoshop then I can completely drop Adobe.
I doubt they're going to do that anytime soon. Black Magic is really good at staying in their lane when it comes to their products. But it would be sick if that happenned!
Amen! Out of all the reps I've talked to in recent weeks, as I had done a new PC upgrade, I had ONE, an amazing gal from the Phillipines, who knew what the heck she was talking about, didn't make me feel like an idiot and was truly helpful. Other than that....their tech support is pretty sucky.
I was shocked when I saw your sub count. Your on-camera presence is very good man! If you upgrade your camera and get like 2 softboxes you will look like a 500K+ subs youtuber. Keep going hard!
Thanks! I appreciate that! I have an extensive gear wish list, but I need a little more money and a lot more space, so for now I do what I can with what I've got!
CORRECTION: You don't need to fill out the form to download Davinci Resolve. I was mistaken. Now that that's out of the way, take a look at one of my favorite new features in DR 16: th-cam.com/video/HtRX2WHcyJc/w-d-xo.html
Jay Lippman it could be a Windows 10 issue, I had Autodesk 123D have issues when I was closing the program, thought it was due to Autodesk not supporting it anymore. Then recently with an update in Windows 10 the issue is gone.
I've been switching to free and open source software a lot lately. I have used Shotcut before it caused my Laptop to lag. All I can Afford during Tax time is a $500 doller laptop from walmart. I don't know how to Edit videos or include screenshots, or put Text or pictures in my videos. Yet TH-camrs do that all the time. Do you have tutorials for that?
Adobe is what most vfx artists and move makers and film makers and big companies use and they are not afraid with the prices lol Adobe caters to them a lot
DreamerVFX Adobe are nowhere near avid or Resolve. They’re being bypassed and everyone is noticing. Yes they have great products but. P Pro doesn’t cut it anymore. Truth.
The simple truth is this: just like with every other product out there if you reach the peak, there is a huge chance of stagnation. Adobe has been milking its creative products (Photoshop, Premiere Pro etc.) for decades and at some point stopped giving a shit what the customers think. You forgot (I think) to mention that it runs on Windows, MacOS AND Linux. Since I use Linux DaVinci was the clear choice.
But they need to provide real packages for it, not that crappy self-installer that's only for CentOS that almost no one uses. AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap please. Any one of those would make it easily usable on the vast majority of systems, and Snap and Flatpak allow easy updating. If they want user details they should put the form inside the program.
Awesome video. This makes me want to check out resolve for sure. Maybe at some point. :-) you are just killing these tutorials and reviews man. Congrats on the 1k!
Like many who are watching this video, I have just made the switch to Davinci, I had too many poor quality renders, and glitschs on Premiere. TH-cam support is rapidly growing thanks to people like you. The free version is such an amazing feature packed piece of software, and a point often overlooked, is it handles 4K, which most free software does not. Thanks for your review, based on your actual experience over a decent length of time.
thanks a lot for the honest review, adobe really needs to have some strong competitors for them to get out of their comfort zone and take more care of their products! I will switch to DR right now hahaha
I read in the beginning of opening DR that you need to buy the Studio version of DR if you want to edit and upload videos in 4K. Is this correct? Secondly does the free version come with all the fonts required? I am in the process of switching from the Mac Mini imovie (which I found to be totally adequate for what I edit and upload) but rendering became slow so I have at considerable expense had a new computer built with Windows 10. I am at the beginning of trying to decide which software program to use to do tutorials on. I nearly bought into the Adobe Premiere Pro but watching this video has me thinking of starting with DR but I need to edit in 4K.
@@JayLippman thanks for the response. I look forward to watching your tutorials and learning how to edit and upload in 4k. Cheers from the Train Lord in South Australia
Premiere Pro started getting REALLY bad once I updated to 2020. I literally have to restart my computer and launch the program in order to work until the videos stop rendering (about 10 minutes) just to have to save and do it again. I'm switching to davinci...
I personally like both premiere and davinci resolve. Davinci is a good software for color grading and adobe premiere is good for splicing, effects, and transitions. They are both good softwares
Jay Lippman I'm not sure should I use DaVinci Resolve? I need to render 4k 60fps video. I currently using Sony Vegas Pro 17. But it has tons of bugs & glitches. Such as video/ audio not recognized by the software. It really slows down my production progress. Even though I research on Google I still unable to find any solution that can solve my problem.
The ability to edit 4K 60 has less to do with your software and more to do with your system. Both Resolve and Premiere can handle it, but how your system is configured will largely determine which program you choose. Premiere relies more on the CPU, and Resolve relies more on the GPU. So if you have a good CPU with lots of RAM, but your GPU is a little lacking, go with Premiere. If you have a really good GPU with lots of VRAM, go with Davinci. If you've got lots of RAM and VRAM, it won't really matter which you choose, because both will work well.
@@JayLippman It's free, you can get it now. As a user who has worked with both 3dsMax for 15 years and Maya for 3 years I can confidently say that it it's very capable and stable and you can create 3d art as good as commercial AAA packages.
@@hadizadeh697 indeed I've been using blender for over a year now. IT'S A COMPLETE TANK. With addons it is literally unstoppable and makes your work so easy.
I currently use filmora and i'd like to step up a bit and I've been wondering for a while which software should I learn hesitated a bit between those 2 software. Thankl you for the video I think it helped me, but i think theres too much accetot on performance issue or update issue. I would not make my choice based on that but mainly and the learning curve thank you!
Real world experiences is truly the best form of knowledge. Appreciate sharing your perspective, Jay. Will definitely use this info when further comparing different editing softwares!
It’s always helpful to hear the opinions of someone who is very familiar with both products. Thanks for posting this. Keep ‘em coming like this and your channel will do just fine.
I've been an editor for over ten years, and I started using Davinci resolve a few months ago. First I put one of my clients in, then another one, and now I'm going to put another client in. I'm almost saying goodbye to Adobe.
Hey, thanks for the video. I'm actually looking into Resolve now primarily for 1 reason, and 2 questions. Goal: Move into 4K editing (I'm currently using Premiere Pro CS6 for as long as I can because it's non-subscription fee based). The issue is that this older version CS6 doesn't do well with 4K footage. Question 1: Can Davinci Resolve edit and handle 4K footage natively. Question 2: Premiere Pro is more CPU intensive, not so much GPU (if any at all). I have both a strong CPU AND GPU... I heard Resolve splits the workload between the two and it would be nice to actually utilize my expensive graphics card to the best it can and not just use it for gaming. Can you confirm or know if Resolve has this workload split for the hardware?
happened! And yes! Resolve can handle 4k as long as your computer can, and they do a really good job of balancing the workload between the CPU and GPU.
Davinci Resolve is highly optimized for 4K over Premiere. You can cache and prerender your clips while still editing without drop in performance. Much better than Premiere's proxy system that screws up timecodes or it's slow renderer that has to rerender the whole clip everytime you add an effect.
Am a new creator and learned on PP. 2019 had problems, but so far with the 2020 I had no problems. I edit and render pretty quickly and the audio on the $20.99 monthly subscription is just fine provided the recording venue is properly sound proofed. I had to call support a few times when I had 2019 and thought they were terrific. To me that is important. I’d rather spend time creating and learning how to better SEO and grow my channel than watching troubleshooting tutorials and getting on forums. Just personal impression thus far. If Adobe doesn’t respond in kind to DR emergence as a serious contender and falls behind I’ll reconsider. For now, I’ll stay put as I am not sold. Many thanks :)
Love the vibe. I am also keen on Resolve. I’ve spent so much on a GPU on my Windows Pc and Premiere barely uses it, it was set to software graphics for the first few weeks and after setting it to GPU there is very little performance upgrade.
I tried to use DaVinci for a month but because I need to edit audio, effects with ae... Première is better for me. I couldn't find any tutorial about the easiest fx on after effects. And with Premiere CC, out of 100 times, I only have like 3-4 crashes because of high use of memory.... 4:2 I have a laptop, i5 7200U,4GB of ddr4 ram, Intel HD 620. I can work with Pr and Ae at the same time. You just have to make the right disk configuration.
Interesting. I know that with my new computer I don't have any issues running PP and AE at the same time, but maybe that was the issue all along on my old computer. Your specs aren't that far off from what I was running back then.
Thanks for sharing your insights. I'm producing programming video tutorials on my channel, and I recently switched from Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 (pretty old, I know) to DaVinci Resolve 15. And so far, I am very happy. I do have to relearn a few things, but it will work in the end. I'm now a new subscriber and I will try to level up my video editing using your video tips. Again, thanks for sharing.
I'm teaching a few single weeklong creative classes this summer to middle school kids (one is filmmaking where they each make a 5x5 film and the other is Motion Graphics where we mostly use Fusion). I chose Resolve because I believe in equity (I don't ever want cost to get in the way of a kid who wants to start making films!). This decision FORCED me to switch from Creative Suite and learn Resolve on the fly. It was easy for them to learn, create, and experiment. A few times the kids picked up things I didn't even know you can do. Very pleased with my choice. I get Adobe for free as an educator, but I may be switching regardless. Nodes were WTF at first and now are so damn pleasing. Thanks for this video. I am a physics teacher during the year and filmmaker on weekends. I'm pretty sure I'm all in with Davinci.
@@JayLippman - based on the amount of hair remaining on your head, I'd say it was a different Greg Lowe :D (I'm originally from a suburb of Los Angeles and now in Seattle)
Adobe: ok boys I have a idea for the future of adobe. Employees: ok tell us. Adobe: lets add TONS of bugs and glitches to the 2019 pp update AND sell it for full price! Employees: 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ Customers: WHAT THE F#@$!
Random Employee: How about we ditch the subscription service that everyone hates and make it a one time payment? Adobe proceeds to throw Random Employee out of the window. Adobe: Anymore stupid questions? I'm the boss around here... give me money
So glad I'm not the only one. I didn't have too many issues with the 2019 version but this new 2020 update has just destroyed my opinion of Adobe. So many bugs.
Please I am concerned about exporting. Which app exports videos faster because I currently use Premiere pro and exporting is long, time wasting and frustrating.
I still use Photo Shop and Ai. It’s nice to be able to drag an Ai file into Premier. I can do most of my audio editing in the edit page in premier. I’m still on the fence with switching. I can edit at light speed in Premier and can just export and XML an open the project in Resolve.
I know this is a 6 month old video, but very glad I found it. I've recently switched from Adobe after using Premier for approx ten years. Like many have said, wish I jumped ship earlier. Learning curve is legit, but this video helps me feel confident I made the right call. Cheers!
What computer you use? Also can i make 20 minute videos on the DaVinci. I do fishing youtube videos so the most basic editing is what im looking for. I dont need all the bells and whistles. I need something that i can edit gopro footage and just put clips together. I dont need special effects or any of that... I just need to trim clips and put them all together
I currently use a custom PC from Puget Systems. Yes you can absolutely do 20 minute long videos in Davinci. It was built for feature length film editing.
Also, Audition doesn't have real time effect processing. But, Resolve Fairlight(Resolve's audio processing desk) does have real time processing like a real Daw. You can simply record a band's song with it and make the PV at the same time.
Recently switched to Resolve, I'm finding it much better. The layout, the transitions and effects are much smoother, Industry standard colour grading. I really like it so far. It's like the best of Premiere Pro and Final Cut put into the one software. My PP 2019 was such a pain so many bugs and glitches.
I also switched to Davinci Resolve in version 14. Davinci Resolve outclass Adobe Premiere in many ways ... price, content, operation ... never back to extrem expensive and lower performance Premiere. Davinci Resolve is FRREEEEEEEE!!!
Adobe Dynamic Link is not even reliable anymore. It constantly crashes my project files and causes glitches with the surrounding clips. Dynamic Link was causing my computer to crash to a black screen ... Adobe Support is a joke. They go through the script that does nothing and then say they can't help you. Adobe e sucks all around.
I tried out Resolve and took to it like a fish to water. The workflow is brilliant! For me the tutorials were just right. I had LOTS of freezing issues though. There's a lot of discussion about this online some involving pretty high spec computers. There is some talk that the problems may be connected with the recently added Fusion page. I am quite surprised you didn't encounter much yourself. I would be very cautious about relying on Resolve/Fusion 15 for professional work unless confident about support. I use a Wacom Studio Pro 16.
Switching from Pr to Davinci resolve is fine, but for those of us who work with complex motion graphics & character animations on a daily basis, There is Nothing comparable to Ae.... Unfortunately.
I disagree. Fusion is a really great piece of software. Theres very little that you can do in AE that you cant do in Fusion. It's just a matter of learning a new workflow.
@@JayLippman The headache is for those of us that invested in some pretty stellar after effects templates. Honestly I have dozens of templates that do advanced graphics animations. To create the same thing from scratch would take me a loong time.... as in a week or so. And since I don't have that kind of time, buying pre-made AE templates looks crazy amazing and saves buckets of time.
@@DCSDCPD I see your point there. I know that there were a couple AE transitions packs that paid good money for that I cant use anymore. That stung a little at first.
I do my basic editing in Resolve but all my VFX and motion Graphics in After Effects. I never use Premiere. I just cant seem to get my head around how to use nodes in Fusion then there arent many good tutorials for motion graphics in Fusion.
Its okay for light work. But as someone who works mostly in audio, it doesnt do the heavy lifting I need sometimes, and the ui is a bit clunky and slow. For stuff like interviews, simple audio syncing, its perfectly fine. If you need extensive audio work, its lacking
You hit the nail on the head comparing the the performances. I know Pr inside and out, but the horrible performance and crashes (even on my decent PC) is why I'm switching. I've been with Resolve for only a week, but I'm not seeing any real downside that would compel me to go back to Pr-besides syncing workflow with the studio. I love Pr, but I like my sanity more. I still can't believe how well Resolve runs. It's night and day. I can actually see my GPU working with the timeline. I've been watching a lot of these Pr vs. Resolve videos to see opinions of people who did the same. Pr might be superior on the technical side, but not so much so that I want to keep working with it.
I recorded my gameplay in 1366x768 and i upload it to TH-cam but it compressed it to 720p and losses way much quality. Can I upscale my video to 1080p and upload it to TH-cam,can I do it on resolve.
So i want to make a a TH-cam channel and i'm like pretty young and Premiere is decent but i saw the price and i was like NOPE im not paying that much so i asked my friend and he said Davinci resolve and i was like is it free he said "Yes" so i get on my computer download it and at start its complicated but i'm still learning i'm watching your tutorials other tutorials and im learning so much about Davinci resolve
Coming from someone who has never touch any video editing software, I personally think Davinci Resolve is a very beginner friendly-ish editing software especially if you started watching alot of tutorials. The 7 bottom tabs help streamline the editing process and keeps all the important editing tools in one place, making it easier to move between each tabs. The tabs coupled with the overall design keeps things from getting cluttered and help beginners ease into the software without overwhelming them, thus encouraging them to look further without getting them too lost. I've been using Davinci Resolve for 6 months now and its been fun turning a flat looking video into something that has depth. In terms of issues, Fusion is a headache to rap my head around with its logic gates though it's probably a personally thing and I haven't fully invested my time into learning it but regardless, it's not something any new users could get use to from the get go. And if you're editing process heavy videos and you don't have a beefy cpu (like me) or at the very least a stable one, its prone to crashing a lot so "CTRL+S" is your best friend whenever you make any changes. Overall, Davinci Resolve is a good video editing software for anyone planning to use is has a platform for editing. Whether its a good replacement for other video editing softwares is up to preference.
Just tried Davinci Resolve - however I'm always getting kinda laggy playback especially at transitions so that I can never really be sure whether its the way I want it to be or not. Does anyone have some tipps? I'm always getting hick-ups in the timeline-playback which did not happen in Adobe Premiere. Thx guys
I have the same problem my computer doesn't have that much horse power but I think the problem is just your computer just try to upgrade to a new PC. Sorry that don't have any other solution😅. Also when you are done installing there is a prompt that davinci resolve needs a strong CPU and GPU
You can disable fx to speed things up. Also try proxies. And adjust the RAM usage in preferences. You should have at least 16GB although it supposedly works with 8. This is a pro-level software suite so really it should be used with a decent computer. But it can limp along with insufficient hardware too. I have to say though that it works much faster than Premiere all things considered.
Not sure how I missed this comment. Sorry about that! Proxies can help a lot. Also, you can try using Render Fusion Output on the clips where you have the transition
Two of many "editorial" things you can't do in Resolve that Premiere does well... 1) add working splines (Easy-in) to position keyframes (try it... does nothing in Resolve 16.1). Otherwise, your chroma-keyed talent will slam from center to one side when revealing a new background. And... 2) trim edits dynamically while looping the adjusted playback over and over. On Premiere (and Avid, for that matter), double click any edit, hit spacebar, then trim your edit with keyboard shortcuts while hearing the results immediately. You can trim out perfect dialogue cuts or fades in much less time in Premiere (shorten the pre-roll and post-roll times to one second for quickness). Isn't trimming a huge part of editing? There's more, but my AE render is done now.
Thanks for your input! Theres definitely things that Premiere can do that Resolve can't. No one software can do everything perfectly. It's all a matter of figuring out what works for you.
I was just getting into video editing and as a student..... Resolve is fkn AMAZING for the price, which is of course, FREE I had to like recheck 15 times to make sure whether it was ACTUALLY free cause it's SO FEATURE RICH like it's actually insane how much they're giving you for free
@@bhavyakabade well they do have a paid version. I doubt they will go subscription though. Black Magic Design makes most of their money through their cameras and editing hardware. There's no need for them to change to a subscription model.
cheers can you tell me if you can sync resolve to a external midi timeclock and if so if all the functions are available like - sequencer positioning start stop and also continue after repositioning .. i also asked the support but as you can imagine people who wanna sell soemthing always answer yes and we are implementing it stuff like that. thanks in advance
I personally use them both because each of them has their own strengths. I am still new to resolve 16 though. I started with 13 & 14 clear back and had a hard time adjusting to it. As for premiere, I started with 2015. I used to be more of a coral video studio & Sony Vegas type editor since 2011.
@@JayLippman more recently, I also got exposed to avid and hitfilm. Hitfilm is excellent for visual effects and it supports 3D modeling natively; however, its poorly optimized so there will be crashing and long rendering times. Avid on the other hand feels old and expensive.
Great video dude. I'm currently using corel video studio and am on the fence for upgrading to their v10.. with resolve, you're opening my eyes to a whole new chapter. Thanks.
Great to hear that you're sticking with DaVinci - I just downloaded it a couple weeks ago and really like it! Lots to learn, not just to relearn how to do what I did in Premiere, but how to excel with Resolve's better features. Hope you're well, man!
Hey Brian thanks so much for watching man! I've got a ton of tutorials on my channel, but if you dont find what you're looking for, let me know! I'm always looking for new video ideas.
Very Good. Saw your first video on DR a long time ago. Now I am using Resolve and liking it a lot. This video was great. Looking forward to checking out your tutorials. Thank You.
I really want, but after Premiere I cannot get used to DaVinci. i am simply not able to use it and cannot find functions which I use in PRemiere in DaVinci which is frustrating.
One weakness DaVinci has compared to Premiere though, is proxy workflows and your workload with Intermediate Codecs when the source footage comes from an unfriendly codec (like H.264 footage sent to me). Premiere comes also with the ability to render a video on the background while you continue working in real-time, via Media Encoder. Media Encoder is not beaten yet... and it comes with Premiere so they should be considered together. Render queue is superior with Premiere. - I’m a DaVinci convert having a harder time leaving the flexibility and utility of a multi-computer and multi-video workflow.
Media encoder is definitely awesome, but for a lower spec computer where rendering in the background makes it impossible to do anything else anyway, it's kind of a non-issue. Thanks so much for watching Charlie!!
Thank you for your video... But today my Davinci resolve 16 programm was collapsed two times... I spend like two hours and I didn't save project... and after collapsing I don't have any trace from the work I did. Do you have same problem? Could you tell me.?
That's really weird. I've had Davinci crash once or twice, but I was always able to recover my project. You can turn on autosave and then you wont have to worry about that.
My main question is, something that I have actually googled and checked most of qna sections.... The price of 299, do we have to pay it every time we upgrade? Say for example from a version 14 to a 15 then to a 16 and so on?? Or am I worrying too much into it, and it is actually a one time thing?
@@JayLippman AWESOME!!! Thank you so much. Sorry for the weird question. It's sometimes embarrassing, it's not easy being poor. I'm just glad that people mistake it as for being frugal.
I want to make clips and possibly gaming montages but purchasing adobe ae and adobe pp seems kinda overkill. But is it possible to edit a video using DR16 and using Adobe ae for effects ? Sorry if it’s a dumb question, thanks
Hey @Jay, do you think the bulk of these Pr crashes can be fairly attributed to creators using under-performing/older/gutless systems? I know from being a sound producer even adding quality realtime reverbs etc can really drain the resources. Vision is heavy on resources - are these people experiencing so many crashes just not using powerful enough systems to try and do production that requires massive CPU/Ram? Currently checking out both Pr and DR to decide what to use, cheers for the videos
Hey John! I'm sure some cases are definitely a matter of lower spec computers, but I know people with high specs that have had issues as well. The big problem I think is that Adobe releases new products before they're ready. Black Magic Design releases beta versions of Davinci Resolve for you to try, but keeps the current full releases available for download as well, which I think is nice.
I have a question... is Premiere Pro lighter than Davinci Resolve? Because I also have a Laptop that is not so powerful and I want to learn to use one, and I don't know which could work better. It seemed to me, after having edited 2 simple videos on both that Davinci Resolve runs a bit slower.
I've actually had the opposite experience. Premiere used to get bogged down and crash on me all the time. I think it depends on the actual computer specs.
Would love to try resolve but my machine doesnt seem to be able to handle it. I click on the installer and it completely freezes and locks up my Imac! I installed Premiere Pro without any issues but cant seem to get this to install. Do you have any advice?
Nice video - FYI, I used to constantly fill out the BMD form to download each update of resolve, but if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, there's a link that you can click that lets you simply download the file.
It's a trick people use in talking headshots in order to keep things moving and hopefully to keep the viewers attention. A better option would be to use 2 different cameras and 2 different camera angles, but this is a good option when you only have one camera
You cant buy an activation key directly from the BMD website. Only through an authorized retailer. Only thing you can do from the website is download the software. Not sure if the app store is the same. I suggest B&H Photo for the activation key.
My only issue is i like to use the text fusion for my videos but there are no stroke or background templates for the text so what ends up happening is my text get's lost on the video where there's white background unless i use a darker color but that causes an issues when the video flips to a darker scene.
You can change the stroke and color of text in Fusion! Well at least the color. You might be right about stroke. I change the color in my text tracking video.
@@JayLippman after doing some digging it looks like you can do it in the fusion editor. I've been running away from trying to use that thing. I'll tinker with it some more and see what I can learn.
OK so I tried to switch to resolve from FCPX but for some reason It crashes on me so quick I can't do anything with it. It crashes when ever I scrub a clip whether in the timeline or in the media pool. This is just something I started dealing with today and Thats why I'm here Looking for answers. What do you make of it?? I'm on a 2018 MacBook pro with best specs.
That's really weird! I'm not sure what the issue is. I'm on a PC, and the only time it's crashed on me is when I overload my GPU, which hasn't happened that often.
I was never an Adobe user of any of those programs. I used to edit my videos on Sony Vegas back in the days. Then I stopped editing for a few years cause wasn't feeling creative or inspired enough to continue editing. Now, I just recently got back into editing and was looking for a free video editing software since I didn't feel like buying the new version of Sony Vegas Pro and the priced for it is higher today than it was back then. Then I found DaVinci Resolve listed as one of the greatest free editing softwares out there. I first tried Filmora9 but then found out that the free version leaves you a huge watermark all over you video and if want to get rid of it, you had to pay for the studio version and I wasn't feeling it, wasn't ready to invest my money on something I wasn't familair with yet. Back to DaVinci Resolve, I gotta admit it looked kinda scary at first, especially the fusion tab. But after having a deep dive into it, I did recognized a few things that I already knew, I also looked up tutorials on how to start edit with DaVinci resolve adn tbh I haven't even been editing with Resolve that long, just started with it last month. Found a few features on Resolve that Vegas lack of. Only one month of using Resolve and I am already used to it, and I am slowly fairly being confident on trying the fusion tabs and learning the nodes. For a free version it's actually quite good. It's like you said, it has all apps in one software, edit for videos, one for effects, one for music, and one for color grading etc. I am loving it so far and I am not going back to Vegas. I will eventually upgrade to the paid version of DaVinci as well when I can afford it. =)
Hey. I'm kinda new to the whole pro video editing scene and been editing some stupid videos in PPro in the past years (simple stuff like cutting and changing audio). Nothing hardcore but now I want to start seriously. How am I going to fare coming from a beginner's eyes?
Got another question Jay, for a beginner like myself - I plan on reviewing cars and starting a YT channel. I will have two camera sources and two audio sources (two people talking). Is it worth getting the Studio version of Resolve for what I plan to do?
@@JayLippman Thanks for the prompt reply Jay! When you have a moment, please reply back to my other question that I posted here about 30 mins ago. Thanks!
Hey !! How to work with xavc s, sony footages round trip from premier and resolve, there is a issue related to time code, how to get it set for smooth work flow between premier and resolve??
i have been using davinci but am having alot of trouble importing in to the media pool, when i put my files/videos in it they dont show, they just show as static or black, help?
Does anyone know how to get moment app log setting movie files to work with DaVinci Resolve without using a converter software? They are .mov files, which technically should work, but say the file is offline when loaded into the program. Help? 🥺
Quick question. If you were stuck on a deserted island with a gorilla. NOT A MONKEY... But a gorilla. What video editing software would you try to teach him/her. I am gorilla-esque... and i'm trying to make simple videos of myself in a room playing songs. I have a mac and I would be recording audio from another source and syncing the audio/video afterward.
Off the top of my head I would say Filmora or Movavi for simplicity, but I'm pretty sure with both of them you would have to manually sync the external audio. Premiere and Resolve both can do it automatically, but are much more co.plicated to learn.
Wai....wait.... did i just watched a channel with subs under 10k? Holy shit! Your presentation is way too good for a small subs channel. I can't believe it when i see your subs count. Man, all you need is a new lens and better lighting. Maybe you can try placing 2 different color lighting (such as purple and orange) so you can get some sweet color in your videos. Anyway, cheers. Welcome to the club! Great to see more and more people switched to DR.
I use the free version of DR, and I already love it! No stupid crashes, that no one can explain or correct, no super long rendering time, a very user friendly interface, and the great feeling of a continous workflow.
What about companies looking for specific skillets tied with the software.. From where I am from some companies put a requirement "must be proficient in premier, after effects etc." any rebuttals for that?
I sometimes SaaS even though I am in the IT field and sometimes it pays my bills. SaaS (paid subscription programs) are OK sometimes because it provide a great service. But Adobe I think went too far and made the pricing so high, people like us who do TH-cam videos for hobby (not professional) cannot afford it. A good SaaS program I paid for is the Microsoft Office 360 for home users. It is useful for families and the cost is low compared to the features we get. Microsoft also have non SaaS options. This is why I went with Davinci Resolve Free version over Adobe. For most non-pro users, which is a huge sector, it is not wroth to pay for for it. I am not earning money from TH-cam!
Hi Jay, LOVE your channel. My name is Olaf de Fleur, a film director from Iceland. I'd higly appreciate if you could reflect on a couple of things. I've been moving from Premiere, but when I .xml into Davinci. External audio drifts out of sync. (I've checked 48 vs 44.1 - and that's not the issue) - My main question to you - how I should I setup a sequence in Premiere in the purest way possible - so the import of the .xml will be flawless in DR. Thanks for a great service!
First, thank you so much for watching! Unfortunately I'm not really sure how to fix this issue. I haven't had to export something from Premiere and import ti Davinci yet, but I'll definitely look into it. Thanks again!!
As a new TH-camr entering the video creator world, I am very pleased with DaVinci Resolve. I started using DR 15 having no clue how to edit videos. Although still in diapers, it is coming along just fine. I agree Resolve 16 crashes from time to time in the editing process, it has happened when rendering the video. Last week I downloaded trial Premiere Pro and had such a bad experience that immediately canceled. For now, I will continue with DR and chances are I will eventually upgrade to the paid version. Still unclear how much more I am going to use being a beginner user. Great video!
💥💥UPDATE: There's an updated version of this video! Check it out! th-cam.com/video/bCgs2eZfoUU/w-d-xo.html
Been with Adobe my whole life, but I've switched over to Resolve in the last month. Now I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. Goodbye, bloated Adobe products! Blackmagic just needs to release something to compete with Photoshop then I can completely drop Adobe.
I doubt they're going to do that anytime soon. Black Magic is really good at staying in their lane when it comes to their products. But it would be sick if that happenned!
Try Affinity Photo. It's pretty cheap, stable and quite powerfull.
Edit: And it launches in about 4-5 sec
Serif already released a Photoshop alternative and Skylum has a Lightroom killer
I haven't been using Adobe for months now except AE, feel so good 😌
can you plz tell me what software is best to make top 10 videos?
Try Krita, it’s the best alternative I’ve found and it’s free.
There’s a few differences but overall a great program
Imagine making something free that does just as good as something you have to pay for
Don't need to lol
linux?
False question. Resolve is not just as good, it is better than premiere
Does it better
blender is a good example
GIMP is *not*
Inkscape is a good example
Kdenlive is *not*
Sounds like Adobe has yet to learn that "Software as a Service" means they have to do some service in exchange for monthly payments...
Imagine how much money they've made by doing almost nothing!
Amen! Out of all the reps I've talked to in recent weeks, as I had done a new PC upgrade, I had ONE, an amazing gal from the Phillipines, who knew what the heck she was talking about, didn't make me feel like an idiot and was truly helpful. Other than that....their tech support is pretty sucky.
1 year old video but he still reading new comments and hitting like and commenting too.. this is the example of a true TH-camr
... keep it bro❤️
Thanks, I'm going to keep responding to every comment fir as long as I can. It's my favorite part of this whole thing, TBH.
I was shocked when I saw your sub count. Your on-camera presence is very good man! If you upgrade your camera and get like 2 softboxes you will look like a 500K+ subs youtuber. Keep going hard!
Thanks! I appreciate that! I have an extensive gear wish list, but I need a little more money and a lot more space, so for now I do what I can with what I've got!
@@JayLippman Keep doing it bro. Your vids are awesome.
lets connect!
CORRECTION: You don't need to fill out the form to download Davinci Resolve. I was mistaken. Now that that's out of the way, take a look at one of my favorite new features in DR 16: th-cam.com/video/HtRX2WHcyJc/w-d-xo.html
BMCC with DV = Turn key no issues.
Jay Lippman it could be a Windows 10 issue, I had Autodesk 123D have issues when I was closing the program, thought it was due to Autodesk not supporting it anymore. Then recently with an update in Windows 10 the issue is gone.
Jay Lippman thens it’s your moral obligation to remove this video #fakenews
can you plz tell me what software is best to make top 10 videos?
I've been switching to free and open source software a lot lately.
I have used Shotcut before it caused my Laptop to lag.
All I can Afford during Tax time is a $500 doller laptop from walmart.
I don't know how to Edit videos or include screenshots, or put Text or pictures in my videos.
Yet TH-camrs do that all the time. Do you have tutorials for that?
Adobe has BIG mistake for monthly payments!!!!
Actually it was a right decision because they make more money than ever before.
Smiley Jack for now. I’m on a mission to convert. Weekly I’m pulling 4-5 ppl. I’ll never stop. The word is getting out.
Greed
Adobe is what most vfx artists and move makers and film makers and big companies use and they are not afraid with the prices lol Adobe caters to them a lot
DreamerVFX Adobe are nowhere near avid or Resolve. They’re being bypassed and everyone is noticing. Yes they have great products but. P Pro doesn’t cut it anymore. Truth.
The simple truth is this: just like with every other product out there if you reach the peak, there is a huge chance of stagnation. Adobe has been milking its creative products (Photoshop, Premiere Pro etc.) for decades and at some point stopped giving a shit what the customers think.
You forgot (I think) to mention that it runs on Windows, MacOS AND Linux. Since I use Linux DaVinci was the clear choice.
That is a definite plus. Thanks for watching!
I loathe subscription based software. A full version of DaVinci is thrown in free if you buy a BMPCC 4K.
I know!! And I definitely want that camera. Thanks so much for watching!!
For MacOS, Resolve updates via the App Store 👍
And it's on Linux!
It mos certainly is!
But they need to provide real packages for it, not that crappy self-installer that's only for CentOS that almost no one uses. AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap please. Any one of those would make it easily usable on the vast majority of systems, and Snap and Flatpak allow easy updating. If they want user details they should put the form inside the program.
Awesome video. This makes me want to check out resolve for sure. Maybe at some point. :-) you are just killing these tutorials and reviews man. Congrats on the 1k!
Thanks Michael! You should definitely try out Davinci! It's free, so if it doesn't work for you, no big deal.
Like many who are watching this video, I have just made the switch to Davinci, I had too many poor quality renders, and glitschs on Premiere.
TH-cam support is rapidly growing thanks to people like you.
The free version is such an amazing feature packed piece of software, and a point often overlooked, is it handles 4K, which most free software does not.
Thanks for your review, based on your actual experience over a decent length of time.
Thank you so much John!
thanks a lot for the honest review, adobe really needs to have some strong competitors for them to get out of their comfort zone and take more care of their products! I will switch to DR right now hahaha
Lol I agree. Competition is good for any business. Thanks for watching!
I read in the beginning of opening DR that you need to buy the Studio version of DR if you want to edit and upload videos in 4K. Is this correct? Secondly does the free version come with all the fonts required? I am in the process of switching from the Mac Mini imovie (which I found to be totally adequate for what I edit and upload) but rendering became slow so I have at considerable expense had a new computer built with Windows 10. I am at the beginning of trying to decide which software program to use to do tutorials on. I nearly bought into the Adobe Premiere Pro but watching this video has me thinking of starting with DR but I need to edit in 4K.
You can edit 4k videos in the free version. I do it all the time.
@@JayLippman thanks for the response. I look forward to watching your tutorials and learning how to edit and upload in 4k. Cheers from the Train Lord in South Australia
Premiere Pro started getting REALLY bad once I updated to 2020. I literally have to restart my computer and launch the program in order to work until the videos stop rendering (about 10 minutes) just to have to save and do it again. I'm switching to davinci...
I personally like both premiere and davinci resolve. Davinci is a good software for color grading and adobe premiere is good for splicing, effects, and transitions. They are both good softwares
Agreed! They're both good, I just think Davinci Resolve fits my needs a little better.
My computer hates it when even one adobe app is open. Lol
Jay Lippman I'm not sure should I use DaVinci Resolve? I need to render 4k 60fps video. I currently using Sony Vegas Pro 17. But it has tons of bugs & glitches. Such as video/ audio not recognized by the software. It really slows down my production progress. Even though I research on Google I still unable to find any solution that can solve my problem.
The ability to edit 4K 60 has less to do with your software and more to do with your system. Both Resolve and Premiere can handle it, but how your system is configured will largely determine which program you choose. Premiere relies more on the CPU, and Resolve relies more on the GPU. So if you have a good CPU with lots of RAM, but your GPU is a little lacking, go with Premiere. If you have a really good GPU with lots of VRAM, go with Davinci. If you've got lots of RAM and VRAM, it won't really matter which you choose, because both will work well.
Davinci + Affinity + Blender = you'll have everything you need to create anything.
I have all of those except blender
@@JayLippman It's free, you can get it now. As a user who has worked with both 3dsMax for 15 years and Maya for 3 years I can confidently say that it it's very capable and stable and you can create 3d art as good as commercial AAA packages.
preach
@@hadizadeh697 indeed I've been using blender for over a year now. IT'S A COMPLETE TANK. With addons it is literally unstoppable and makes your work so easy.
I currently use filmora and i'd like to step up a bit and I've been wondering for a while which software should I learn hesitated a bit between those 2 software. Thankl you for the video I think it helped me, but i think theres too much accetot on performance issue or update issue. I would not make my choice based on that but mainly and the learning curve thank you!
Glad it helped! I hear you on the update issue, that's just a nitpick. But the performance thing can be a big deal, depending on your computer.
Real world experiences is truly the best form of knowledge. Appreciate sharing your perspective, Jay. Will definitely use this info when further comparing different editing softwares!
Thank you so much!
It’s always helpful to hear the opinions of someone who is very familiar with both products. Thanks for posting this. Keep ‘em coming like this and your channel will do just fine.
Thank you so much!!
I've been an editor for over ten years, and I started using Davinci resolve a few months ago.
First I put one of my clients in, then another one, and now I'm going to put another client in.
I'm almost saying goodbye to Adobe.
Awesome! Thanks so much for watching Omar!
Not much, unfortunately. I've never used it. But from what I hear, it's pretty bare bones with not nearly as many features as Davinci.
Hey, thanks for the video. I'm actually looking into Resolve now primarily for 1 reason, and 2 questions.
Goal: Move into 4K editing (I'm currently using Premiere Pro CS6 for as long as I can because it's non-subscription fee based). The issue is that this older version CS6 doesn't do well with 4K footage.
Question 1: Can Davinci Resolve edit and handle 4K footage natively.
Question 2: Premiere Pro is more CPU intensive, not so much GPU (if any at all). I have both a strong CPU AND GPU... I heard Resolve splits the workload between the two and it would be nice to actually utilize my expensive graphics card to the best it can and not just use it for gaming. Can you confirm or know if Resolve has this workload split for the hardware?
happened! And yes! Resolve can handle 4k as long as your computer can, and they do a really good job of balancing the workload between the CPU and GPU.
Davinci Resolve is highly optimized for 4K over Premiere. You can cache and prerender your clips while still editing without drop in performance. Much better than Premiere's proxy system that screws up timecodes or it's slow renderer that has to rerender the whole clip everytime you add an effect.
Am a new creator and learned on PP. 2019 had problems, but so far with the 2020 I had no problems. I edit and render pretty quickly and the audio on the $20.99 monthly subscription is just fine provided the recording venue is properly sound proofed. I had to call support a few times when I had 2019 and thought they were terrific. To me that is important. I’d rather spend time creating and learning how to better SEO and grow my channel than watching troubleshooting tutorials and getting on forums. Just personal impression thus far. If Adobe doesn’t respond in kind to DR emergence as a serious contender and falls behind I’ll reconsider. For now, I’ll stay put as I am not sold. Many thanks :)
Love the vibe. I am also keen on Resolve. I’ve spent so much on a GPU on my Windows Pc and Premiere barely uses it, it was set to software graphics for the first few weeks and after setting it to GPU there is very little performance upgrade.
Yeah the GPU acceleration in Resolve is awesome. Plus you can use Multiple GPUs with it. Thanks for watching!
I tried to use DaVinci for a month but because I need to edit audio, effects with ae... Première is better for me.
I couldn't find any tutorial about the easiest fx on after effects.
And with Premiere CC, out of 100 times, I only have like 3-4 crashes because of high use of memory....
4:2 I have a laptop, i5 7200U,4GB of ddr4 ram, Intel HD 620. I can work with Pr and Ae at the same time. You just have to make the right disk configuration.
Interesting. I know that with my new computer I don't have any issues running PP and AE at the same time, but maybe that was the issue all along on my old computer. Your specs aren't that far off from what I was running back then.
Thanks for sharing your insights. I'm producing programming video tutorials on my channel, and I recently switched from Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 (pretty old, I know) to DaVinci Resolve 15. And so far, I am very happy. I do have to relearn a few things, but it will work in the end.
I'm now a new subscriber and I will try to level up my video editing using your video tips. Again, thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Claudio! Let me know if I can help!
Alright, that's it, you've got me convinced. I'm moving to Resolve. Thank you.
Haha no problem! Thanks for watching!
I'm teaching a few single weeklong creative classes this summer to middle school kids (one is filmmaking where they each make a 5x5 film and the other is Motion Graphics where we mostly use Fusion). I chose Resolve because I believe in equity (I don't ever want cost to get in the way of a kid who wants to start making films!). This decision FORCED me to switch from Creative Suite and learn Resolve on the fly. It was easy for them to learn, create, and experiment. A few times the kids picked up things I didn't even know you can do. Very pleased with my choice. I get Adobe for free as an educator, but I may be switching regardless. Nodes were WTF at first and now are so damn pleasing. Thanks for this video. I am a physics teacher during the year and filmmaker on weekends. I'm pretty sure I'm all in with Davinci.
That's awesome Greg!! Thank you so much for sharing your story!
Also, I went to elementary and middle school with a Greg Lowe.
@@JayLippman - based on the amount of hair remaining on your head, I'd say it was a different Greg Lowe :D (I'm originally from a suburb of Los Angeles and now in Seattle)
Lol nope this was on the opposite side of the country.
Adobe: ok boys I have a idea for the future of adobe.
Employees: ok tell us.
Adobe: lets add TONS of bugs and glitches to the 2019 pp update AND sell it for full price!
Employees: 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Customers: WHAT THE F#@$!
🤣🤣🤣
Random Employee: How about we ditch the subscription service that everyone hates and make it a one time payment?
Adobe proceeds to throw Random Employee out of the window.
Adobe: Anymore stupid questions? I'm the boss around here... give me money
So glad I'm not the only one. I didn't have too many issues with the 2019 version but this new 2020 update has just destroyed my opinion of Adobe. So many bugs.
Please I am concerned about exporting. Which app exports videos faster because I currently use Premiere pro and exporting is long, time wasting and frustrating.
For me Davinci exports faster, but every machine is different. Davinci Resolve is free, so there's no harm in downloading and testing it out!
I still use Photo Shop and Ai. It’s nice to be able to drag an Ai file into Premier. I can do most of my audio editing in the edit page in premier. I’m still on the fence with switching. I can edit at light speed in Premier and can just export and XML an open the project in Resolve.
There are definitely some upsides to both of them. Thanks for watching!
You can try affinity photo and affinity designer!
I know this is a 6 month old video, but very glad I found it. I've recently switched from Adobe after using Premier for approx ten years. Like many have said, wish I jumped ship earlier. Learning curve is legit, but this video helps me feel confident I made the right call. Cheers!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience!
i have used resolve for 2 years..i can see that premiere cannot be beat..premiere looks pretty good
They're both great, but I actually prefer Davinci. It just seems more intuitive for me. Thanks for watching!!
Except premiere crashes after every 5 minutes. Better save the nerves and switch to a more consumer friendly software.
What computer you use? Also can i make 20 minute videos on the DaVinci. I do fishing youtube videos so the most basic editing is what im looking for. I dont need all the bells and whistles. I need something that i can edit gopro footage and just put clips together. I dont need special effects or any of that... I just need to trim clips and put them all together
I currently use a custom PC from Puget Systems. Yes you can absolutely do 20 minute long videos in Davinci. It was built for feature length film editing.
@@JayLippman hey thanks man. I appreciate the info
I feel like all adobe products are too complicated, very frustrating and overpriced. Switching from one app to another for the same edit, Hell no!
I still love their photo products, and Audition. Even Premiere Pro is a great NLE. I just happen to like Resolve better.
Also, Audition doesn't have real time effect processing. But, Resolve Fairlight(Resolve's audio processing desk) does have real time processing like a real Daw. You can simply record a band's song with it and make the PV at the same time.
Recently switched to Resolve, I'm finding it much better. The layout, the transitions and effects are much smoother, Industry standard colour grading. I really like it so far. It's like the best of Premiere Pro and Final Cut put into the one software. My PP 2019 was such a pain so many bugs and glitches.
Agreed! That's why I switched too. Too many problems with PP 2019. Thanks for watching Barry!
I also switched to Davinci Resolve in version 14. Davinci Resolve outclass Adobe Premiere in many ways ... price, content, operation ... never back to extrem expensive and lower performance Premiere. Davinci Resolve is FRREEEEEEEE!!!
Yes it is! Thanks for watching!
Don't need to turn up the sound - I can read his hand gestures and tattoos.
Clever!
broken it down makes it seem so user-friendly and easy to use. I can’t wait to start making soft! Thanks again!
Adobe Dynamic Link is not even reliable anymore. It constantly crashes my project files and causes glitches with the surrounding clips. Dynamic Link was causing my computer to crash to a black screen ... Adobe Support is a joke. They go through the script that does nothing and then say they can't help you. Adobe e sucks all around.
I think the only time I've heard of them having good customer service was when my girlfriend called them to change the payment method.
I tried out Resolve and took to it like a fish to water. The workflow is brilliant! For me the tutorials were just right. I had LOTS of freezing issues though. There's a lot of discussion about this online some involving pretty high spec computers. There is some talk that the problems may be connected with the recently added Fusion page. I am quite surprised you didn't encounter much yourself. I would be very cautious about relying on Resolve/Fusion 15 for professional work unless confident about support. I use a Wacom Studio Pro 16.
I've had some lagging issues with 16 Beta, but never full-on freezing. Thanks so much for watching!!
Switching from Pr to Davinci resolve is fine, but for those of us who work with complex motion graphics & character animations on a daily basis, There is Nothing comparable to Ae.... Unfortunately.
I disagree. Fusion is a really great piece of software. Theres very little that you can do in AE that you cant do in Fusion. It's just a matter of learning a new workflow.
@@JayLippman The headache is for those of us that invested in some pretty stellar after effects templates. Honestly I have dozens of templates that do advanced graphics animations. To create the same thing from scratch would take me a loong time.... as in a week or so. And since I don't have that kind of time, buying pre-made AE templates looks crazy amazing and saves buckets of time.
@@DCSDCPD I see your point there. I know that there were a couple AE transitions packs that paid good money for that I cant use anymore. That stung a little at first.
@@DCSDCPD - OpenFX plugins? They should in principle be compatible.
"There is Nothing comparable to Ae..."
Fusion is more advanced. I've even heard professionals call AE a toy, compared to Fusion.
I do my basic editing in Resolve but all my VFX and motion Graphics in After Effects. I never use Premiere. I just cant seem to get my head around how to use nodes in Fusion then there arent many good tutorials for motion graphics in Fusion.
Audio in Resolve is kinda bad right now =/ But the rest is good.
I used to say the same thing lol. I've actually come to like Fairlight quite a bit though.
IAMDIMITRI it’s getting there. By the time DR 17 hits it will be it will be the complete package 📦
Its okay for light work. But as someone who works mostly in audio, it doesnt do the heavy lifting I need sometimes, and the ui is a bit clunky and slow.
For stuff like interviews, simple audio syncing, its perfectly fine. If you need extensive audio work, its lacking
You hit the nail on the head comparing the the performances. I know Pr inside and out, but the horrible performance and crashes (even on my decent PC) is why I'm switching. I've been with Resolve for only a week, but I'm not seeing any real downside that would compel me to go back to Pr-besides syncing workflow with the studio.
I love Pr, but I like my sanity more. I still can't believe how well Resolve runs. It's night and day. I can actually see my GPU working with the timeline.
I've been watching a lot of these Pr vs. Resolve videos to see opinions of people who did the same.
Pr might be superior on the technical side, but not so much so that I want to keep working with it.
Sounds like you had the same experience as me!
i just got to laugh with the part you said, mine computer isn't the greatest
LOL I've since upgraded but yeah my computer back then SUCKED
I recorded my gameplay in 1366x768 and i upload it to TH-cam but it compressed it to 720p and losses way much quality. Can I upscale my video to 1080p and upload it to TH-cam,can I do it on resolve.
You can totally upscale! I have a couple videos on that. One for the free version and one for Studio.
So i want to make a a TH-cam channel and i'm like pretty young and Premiere is decent but i saw the price and i was like NOPE im not paying that much so i asked my friend and he said Davinci resolve and i was like is it free he said "Yes" so i get on my computer download it and at start its complicated but i'm still learning i'm watching your tutorials other tutorials and im learning so much about Davinci resolve
That's awesome! Make sure to hit me up on Twitter if you have any questions!
@@JayLippman ok thanks!
Coming from someone who has never touch any video editing software, I personally think Davinci Resolve is a very beginner friendly-ish editing software especially if you started watching alot of tutorials. The 7 bottom tabs help streamline the editing process and keeps all the important editing tools in one place, making it easier to move between each tabs. The tabs coupled with the overall design keeps things from getting cluttered and help beginners ease into the software without overwhelming them, thus encouraging them to look further without getting them too lost. I've been using Davinci Resolve for 6 months now and its been fun turning a flat looking video into something that has depth.
In terms of issues, Fusion is a headache to rap my head around with its logic gates though it's probably a personally thing and I haven't fully invested my time into learning it but regardless, it's not something any new users could get use to from the get go. And if you're editing process heavy videos and you don't have a beefy cpu (like me) or at the very least a stable one, its prone to crashing a lot so "CTRL+S" is your best friend whenever you make any changes.
Overall, Davinci Resolve is a good video editing software for anyone planning to use is has a platform for editing. Whether its a good replacement for other video editing softwares is up to preference.
Я из России и очень люблю Davinci Resolve..)
Just tried Davinci Resolve - however I'm always getting kinda laggy playback especially at transitions so that I can never really be sure whether its the way I want it to be or not.
Does anyone have some tipps?
I'm always getting hick-ups in the timeline-playback which did not happen in Adobe Premiere.
Thx guys
I have the same problem my computer doesn't have that much horse power but I think the problem is just your computer just try to upgrade to a new PC. Sorry that don't have any other solution😅. Also when you are done installing there is a prompt that davinci resolve needs a strong CPU and GPU
You can disable fx to speed things up. Also try proxies. And adjust the RAM usage in preferences. You should have at least 16GB although it supposedly works with 8. This is a pro-level software suite so really it should be used with a decent computer. But it can limp along with insufficient hardware too. I have to say though that it works much faster than Premiere all things considered.
Not sure how I missed this comment. Sorry about that! Proxies can help a lot. Also, you can try using Render Fusion Output on the clips where you have the transition
Are you on the free or paid version? I’ve read in the past that the paid version has better acceleration and optimizations.
@@WesAllen I am on the free version
da vinci resolve is the best one
I didnt know about it until my film producer told me about it 2 years ago
Two of many "editorial" things you can't do in Resolve that Premiere does well... 1) add working splines (Easy-in) to position keyframes (try it... does nothing in Resolve 16.1). Otherwise, your chroma-keyed talent will slam from center to one side when revealing a new background. And... 2) trim edits dynamically while looping the adjusted playback over and over. On Premiere (and Avid, for that matter), double click any edit, hit spacebar, then trim your edit with keyboard shortcuts while hearing the results immediately. You can trim out perfect dialogue cuts or fades in much less time in Premiere (shorten the pre-roll and post-roll times to one second for quickness). Isn't trimming a huge part of editing? There's more, but my AE render is done now.
Thanks for your input! Theres definitely things that Premiere can do that Resolve can't. No one software can do everything perfectly. It's all a matter of figuring out what works for you.
I was just getting into video editing and as a student..... Resolve is fkn AMAZING for the price, which is of course, FREE
I had to like recheck 15 times to make sure whether it was ACTUALLY free cause it's SO FEATURE RICH like it's actually insane how much they're giving you for free
I agree! Everything I do I do on the free version. Although there are definitely some tools I'm looking forward to using when I upgrade
@@JayLippman I sure hope they don't change it in the future to a paid or even worse, subscription as software companies always end up doing
@@bhavyakabade well they do have a paid version. I doubt they will go subscription though. Black Magic Design makes most of their money through their cameras and editing hardware. There's no need for them to change to a subscription model.
cheers can you tell me if you can sync resolve to a external midi timeclock and if so if all the functions are available like - sequencer positioning start stop and also continue after repositioning .. i also asked the support but as you can imagine people who wanna sell soemthing always answer yes and we are implementing it stuff like that. thanks in advance
I honestly am not sot sure if you can do that or not
Says : Premiere is 20 a month
Little did he know you can get it for free
Legally?
I personally use them both because each of them has their own strengths. I am still new to resolve 16 though. I started with 13 & 14 clear back and had a hard time adjusting to it. As for premiere, I started with 2015. I used to be more of a coral video studio & Sony Vegas type editor since 2011.
You've definitely done your research then! Thanks for watching!
@@JayLippman more recently, I also got exposed to avid and hitfilm. Hitfilm is excellent for visual effects and it supports 3D modeling natively; however, its poorly optimized so there will be crashing and long rendering times. Avid on the other hand feels old and expensive.
@@JayLippman Do you know if it's possible to get Davinci Resolve 16 to work on windows 8.1? There appear to be some compatibility issues I am facing.
@@davidpoulton7694 I'm not sure if you can. You can find all that info on the Resolve website though!
Don’t mind me. Just going down the rabbit hole.
Bahahahaha well I appreciate it!
Dan ! ❤️
Great video dude. I'm currently using corel video studio and am on the fence for upgrading to their v10.. with resolve, you're opening my eyes to a whole new chapter. Thanks.
No problem! I was looking at Corel at one point to see if I wanted to test it out. Decided to stick with Premiere back then.
How is Resolve with editing multi camera angle videos?
Works great! I'll be doing a tutorial on it soon actually.
@@JayLippman Awesome. I'll be looking for that video.
I have tried Resolve 16 now, but I'm not getting sound when in edit. It's hard to edit not hearing sound.
I could imagine! There are a few reasons why you might have lost audio. I would check the forums. I usually find pretty good info there.
Great to hear that you're sticking with DaVinci - I just downloaded it a couple weeks ago and really like it! Lots to learn, not just to relearn how to do what I did in Premiere, but how to excel with Resolve's better features. Hope you're well, man!
Hey Brian thanks so much for watching man! I've got a ton of tutorials on my channel, but if you dont find what you're looking for, let me know! I'm always looking for new video ideas.
Very Good. Saw your first video on DR a long time ago. Now I am using Resolve and liking it a lot. This video was great. Looking forward to checking out your tutorials. Thank You.
Awesome! Thank you so much for watching!
I really want, but after Premiere I cannot get used to DaVinci. i am simply not able to use it and cannot find functions which I use in PRemiere in DaVinci which is frustrating.
It definitely takes time to learn.
One weakness DaVinci has compared to Premiere though, is proxy workflows and your workload with Intermediate Codecs when the source footage comes from an unfriendly codec (like H.264 footage sent to me). Premiere comes also with the ability to render a video on the background while you continue working in real-time, via Media Encoder. Media Encoder is not beaten yet... and it comes with Premiere so they should be considered together. Render queue is superior with Premiere.
- I’m a DaVinci convert having a harder time leaving the flexibility and utility of a multi-computer and multi-video workflow.
Media encoder is definitely awesome, but for a lower spec computer where rendering in the background makes it impossible to do anything else anyway, it's kind of a non-issue. Thanks so much for watching Charlie!!
Can I run this davinci resolve on my laptop with core i5, 8gb ram, GTX 1050 nvidia, smoothly? Please answer
Thank you for your video... But today my Davinci resolve 16 programm was collapsed two times... I spend like two hours and I didn't save project... and after collapsing I don't have any trace from the work I did. Do you have same problem? Could you tell me.?
That's really weird. I've had Davinci crash once or twice, but I was always able to recover my project. You can turn on autosave and then you wont have to worry about that.
My main question is, something that I have actually googled and checked most of qna sections.... The price of 299, do we have to pay it every time we upgrade? Say for example from a version 14 to a 15 then to a 16 and so on??
Or am I worrying too much into it, and it is actually a one time thing?
One time thing! Unless they change it in the future, you only have to pay once!
@@JayLippman AWESOME!!! Thank you so much. Sorry for the weird question. It's sometimes embarrassing, it's not easy being poor. I'm just glad that people mistake it as for being frugal.
I want to make clips and possibly gaming montages but purchasing adobe ae and adobe pp seems kinda overkill. But is it possible to edit a video using DR16 and using Adobe ae for effects ? Sorry if it’s a dumb question, thanks
Useful video! Thanks for the info
Hey @Jay, do you think the bulk of these Pr crashes can be fairly attributed to creators using under-performing/older/gutless systems? I know from being a sound producer even adding quality realtime reverbs etc can really drain the resources. Vision is heavy on resources - are these people experiencing so many crashes just not using powerful enough systems to try and do production that requires massive CPU/Ram? Currently checking out both Pr and DR to decide what to use, cheers for the videos
Hey John! I'm sure some cases are definitely a matter of lower spec computers, but I know people with high specs that have had issues as well. The big problem I think is that Adobe releases new products before they're ready. Black Magic Design releases beta versions of Davinci Resolve for you to try, but keeps the current full releases available for download as well, which I think is nice.
Thanks for the reply, cheers mate great advice, love the videos keep em coming! John
I have a question... is Premiere Pro lighter than Davinci Resolve? Because I also have a Laptop that is not so powerful and I want to learn to use one, and I don't know which could work better. It seemed to me, after having edited 2 simple videos on both that Davinci Resolve runs a bit slower.
I've actually had the opposite experience. Premiere used to get bogged down and crash on me all the time. I think it depends on the actual computer specs.
Another great video. Love the honest breakdown with pros and cons.
Thanks Eric!
Would love to try resolve but my machine doesnt seem to be able to handle it. I click on the installer and it completely freezes and locks up my Imac! I installed Premiere Pro without any issues but cant seem to get this to install. Do you have any advice?
Not sure. How old is your iMac?
Jay Lippman I have the IMac 21.5 inch late 2015.
8gb ddr3
2.8 ghz intel core i5
Intel Iris Pro graphics 6200 1536 MB
Might be that your graphics processor isn't compatible.
Jay Lippman thanks for the info. I plan on upgrading soon so hopefully I can try it out! Thanks again for your help.
@@JayLippman I watched another video that explains that the upgraded version has the necessary drivers to render out much faster.
I downloaded the program and so far I am indeed thankful for this.
Awesome!
Nice video - FYI, I used to constantly fill out the BMD form to download each update of resolve, but if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, there's a link that you can click that lets you simply download the file.
Lol yeah I figured that out a couple weeks after I uploaded this. Thanks William!
Where in the page is that link? I can't see it.
Scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page, the link is there - on the left if I remember correctly
Can somebody explain to me why a lot of people are zooming in and out between cuts? What are the benefits of this.. ??
It's a trick people use in talking headshots in order to keep things moving and hopefully to keep the viewers attention. A better option would be to use 2 different cameras and 2 different camera angles, but this is a good option when you only have one camera
Brother can u tell how should i buy davinci studio for mac from app store or black magic website whats the difference between them
You cant buy an activation key directly from the BMD website. Only through an authorized retailer. Only thing you can do from the website is download the software. Not sure if the app store is the same. I suggest B&H Photo for the activation key.
My only issue is i like to use the text fusion for my videos but there are no stroke or background templates for the text so what ends up happening is my text get's lost on the video where there's white background unless i use a darker color but that causes an issues when the video flips to a darker scene.
You can change the stroke and color of text in Fusion! Well at least the color. You might be right about stroke. I change the color in my text tracking video.
@@JayLippman after doing some digging it looks like you can do it in the fusion editor. I've been running away from trying to use that thing. I'll tinker with it some more and see what I can learn.
I am starting to get use to Resolve. I'm really digging it.
Me too! Thanks for watching!
OK so I tried to switch to resolve from FCPX but for some reason It crashes on me so quick I can't do anything with it. It crashes when ever I scrub a clip whether in the timeline or in the media pool. This is just something I started dealing with today and Thats why I'm here Looking for answers. What do you make of it??
I'm on a 2018 MacBook pro with best specs.
That's really weird! I'm not sure what the issue is. I'm on a PC, and the only time it's crashed on me is when I overload my GPU, which hasn't happened that often.
Thanks for the response. I'm determined to figure this out. Watching vids on settings and what not now.
it will be to do with the codec you are using probebly
I was never an Adobe user of any of those programs. I used to edit my videos on Sony Vegas back in the days. Then I stopped editing for a few years cause wasn't feeling creative or inspired enough to continue editing. Now, I just recently got back into editing and was looking for a free video editing software since I didn't feel like buying the new version of Sony Vegas Pro and the priced for it is higher today than it was back then. Then I found DaVinci Resolve listed as one of the greatest free editing softwares out there. I first tried Filmora9 but then found out that the free version leaves you a huge watermark all over you video and if want to get rid of it, you had to pay for the studio version and I wasn't feeling it, wasn't ready to invest my money on something I wasn't familair with yet. Back to DaVinci Resolve, I gotta admit it looked kinda scary at first, especially the fusion tab. But after having a deep dive into it, I did recognized a few things that I already knew, I also looked up tutorials on how to start edit with DaVinci resolve adn tbh I haven't even been editing with Resolve that long, just started with it last month. Found a few features on Resolve that Vegas lack of. Only one month of using Resolve and I am already used to it, and I am slowly fairly being confident on trying the fusion tabs and learning the nodes. For a free version it's actually quite good. It's like you said, it has all apps in one software, edit for videos, one for effects, one for music, and one for color grading etc. I am loving it so far and I am not going back to Vegas. I will eventually upgrade to the paid version of DaVinci as well when I can afford it. =)
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Why dont you pirate softwares?
Hey. I'm kinda new to the whole pro video editing scene and been editing some stupid videos in PPro in the past years (simple stuff like cutting and changing audio). Nothing hardcore but now I want to start seriously. How am I going to fare coming from a beginner's eyes?
If you keep learning and practicing, then you'll fare just fine :) Never stop learning and practicing! Thanks for watching!
Got another question Jay, for a beginner like myself - I plan on reviewing cars and starting a YT channel. I will have two camera sources and two audio sources (two people talking). Is it worth getting the Studio version of Resolve for what I plan to do?
Not necessarily. You can work with multiple video and audio sources in the free version. But the experience in Studio will be much smoother.
@@JayLippman Thanks for the prompt reply Jay! When you have a moment, please reply back to my other question that I posted here about 30 mins ago. Thanks!
Hey !! How to work with xavc s, sony footages round trip from premier and resolve, there is a issue related to time code, how to get it set for smooth work flow between premier and resolve??
I'm not sure. I only work in Resolve, so I didn't really dive into every single possible codec when I was researching how to do this.
i have been using davinci but am having alot of trouble importing in to the media pool, when i put my files/videos in it they dont show, they just show as static or black, help?
What format ate your videos?
@@JayLippman mp4
@@PeerlessPina that's really weird. Have you tried playing the video clips outside of Davinci Resolve?
Does anyone know how to get moment app log setting movie files to work with DaVinci Resolve without using a converter software? They are .mov files, which technically should work, but say the file is offline when loaded into the program. Help? 🥺
This is probably a stupid question, but you're moving the footage from your phone to the computer before you bring it onto Davinci correct?
Quick question. If you were stuck on a deserted island with a gorilla. NOT A MONKEY... But a gorilla. What video editing software would you try to teach him/her. I am gorilla-esque... and i'm trying to make simple videos of myself in a room playing songs. I have a mac and I would be recording audio from another source and syncing the audio/video afterward.
Off the top of my head I would say Filmora or Movavi for simplicity, but I'm pretty sure with both of them you would have to manually sync the external audio. Premiere and Resolve both can do it automatically, but are much more co.plicated to learn.
@@JayLippman thank you!
Wai....wait.... did i just watched a channel with subs under 10k? Holy shit! Your presentation is way too good for a small subs channel. I can't believe it when i see your subs count.
Man, all you need is a new lens and better lighting. Maybe you can try placing 2 different color lighting (such as purple and orange) so you can get some sweet color in your videos.
Anyway, cheers. Welcome to the club! Great to see more and more people switched to DR.
Lol thanks! I've actually improved the lighting in this room a lot since this video. You should check out something more recent!
I use the free version of DR, and I already love it! No stupid crashes, that no one can explain or correct, no super long rendering time, a very user friendly interface, and the great feeling of a continous workflow.
You just summed up my entire video lol
@@JayLippman yeah I know xD I just agree with you!
What about companies looking for specific skillets tied with the software.. From where I am from some companies put a requirement "must be proficient in premier, after effects etc." any rebuttals for that?
Rebuttals? No, not really. Some jobs will require you to use specific software. Can't really argue about that.
I sometimes SaaS even though I am in the IT field and sometimes it pays my bills.
SaaS (paid subscription programs) are OK sometimes because it provide a great service. But Adobe I think went too far and made the pricing so high, people like us who do TH-cam videos for hobby (not professional) cannot afford it. A good SaaS program I paid for is the Microsoft Office 360 for home users. It is useful for families and the cost is low compared to the features we get. Microsoft also have non SaaS options. This is why I went with Davinci Resolve Free version over Adobe. For most non-pro users, which is a huge sector, it is not wroth to pay for for it. I am not earning money from TH-cam!
Hi Jay, LOVE your channel. My name is Olaf de Fleur, a film director from Iceland. I'd higly appreciate if you could reflect on a couple of things. I've been moving from Premiere, but when I .xml into Davinci. External audio drifts out of sync. (I've checked 48 vs 44.1 - and that's not the issue) - My main question to you - how I should I setup a sequence in Premiere in the purest way possible - so the import of the .xml will be flawless in DR. Thanks for a great service!
First, thank you so much for watching! Unfortunately I'm not really sure how to fix this issue. I haven't had to export something from Premiere and import ti Davinci yet, but I'll definitely look into it. Thanks again!!
Oh, I goodly want to hear so!
As a new TH-camr entering the video creator world, I am very pleased with DaVinci Resolve. I started using DR 15 having no clue how to edit videos. Although still in diapers, it is coming along just fine. I agree Resolve 16 crashes from time to time in the editing process, it has happened when rendering the video. Last week I downloaded trial Premiere Pro and had such a bad experience that immediately canceled. For now, I will continue with DR and chances are I will eventually upgrade to the paid version. Still unclear how much more I am going to use being a beginner user. Great video!
Thank you! Feel free to reach out on Twitter or by email if you have any questions!
you dont need to fill out the form there is a button at the bottom for "download only"