Adobe Speaks Out About DaVinci Resolve

[@slave3.6billion]

Let's not forget too that one of the main reasons people are switching and turning away from Adobe is due to their licensing. Big corporations like this get too big for their boots, forget their customers and think they can do what they like. No. Resolve all the way for me, love the software and the licensing model

[@10speed4]

Adobe needs to be humbled by their customers walking away.

[@834073]

I mean they can. Adobe is not only caged in the colorgrading or editing arena. They have a vast market share and softwares plus their ai models are coming up as well. They will need have that going on which is fair. Still pr and nuke is the industry standard on edits and ae is mainatream as of facts. Davinci is great when it comes to colorgrades hands down.

[@kevinbillington9773]

​@834073 and premier pro is a master at crashing too don't forget.

[@Mionwang]

It's not because of their licensing. I'm a filmmaker (primarily post production) and I switched because Adobe's software has become insanely unstable, slow and just plain awful. Things never work as they should and you end up spending more time troubleshooting than working. A few years ago, i had just had enough and had to swallow the pill and make the switch. I still have the adobe all apps subscription because A. I think Lr and Ps are still unbeatable. Luckily they've been pretty solid so far. B. Some of my clients still use Premiere and i find it easier to make the XMLs etc. myself instead of letting the clients handle that because that often leads to issues. Switching to Resolve has been absolutely incredible. I rarely see bugs that break your workflow. Things are zippy and everything works as they should. Grass has never been this green.

[@FrankJonen]

Adobe always had a dislike for their customers. As long as you blow their horn, they shake hands with you. But if you’re critical of something, you’re dead to them. Back when we did the Illustrator WOW books, I wrote to Adobe for a bug with gradient mesh. It eventually got fixed five years later. The customer service response was “If you don’t like how our products work, use something else.” I got the same exact response, verbatim two more times. Once for a Premiere bug and once for a Photoshop memory issue. So it is their corporate culture.

[@BillGarrett]

Blackmagic and Affinity have done amazing work in breaking the stranglehold Adobe held, not through legal maneuvering or predatory practices, but just technical excellence and customer engagement. Blender, Resolve, and Affinity are also amazing tools for small timers on a budget.

[@fernsehdesign]

@@BillGarrett Insuggest they team up and take it further than Adobe ever did. Feels like Premiere and After Effects are still from different competing companies, sometimes.

[@kevinbillington9773]

​@fernsehdesign great idea, then have a greedy corporation come and buy them up and create a subscription. model.

[@fernsehdesign]

@@kevinbillington9773 You mean the company Canva?

[@eyeemotion1426]

Adobe isn't only responsable for that stranglhold, but graphic-companies aswell. Try applying for a job, where the sollicitation is held by HR or interim-offices. They only read from a list and thus only know Adobe. So they always ask if you've worked with the latest Adobe software. If you say you work with exact same software from other 'brands', they look at you funny and assume you're not a good graphics designer. Thus not getting the job. And the problem is, Adobe subscription these days is only worthwhile if you're either a student who gets a discount or someone self-employed who makes money of it. But if you're already scraping by, unemployed (thus looking for a job), it's ridiculous to basically have to pay a subscription for a higher chance to get employed. I've just given up on trying to convince these idiots (in our country, most of the creative jobs are not in the hands of creative people anymore). I love Blender, I like Davinci Resolve (although they really have to bring the different together, with the shortcuts alone for example, you notice that they once were seperate software [i.e. Fusion]) and Affinity is also nice. With Affinity, I've held off with version 2, because I don't feel they are yet there. And their forum is filled with somewhat pretentious people (they seem to look down on people who use Photoshop/Affinity Photo for 'unrealistic editing' of pictures or even drawing. They don't look at it as Affinity Photo/Photoshop is 'raster-software' and Desinger/Illustrator is 'vector'-software. Which in my opinion, is a big mistake and why they are not implementing certain things. Funny how these people tell me to stick to Photoshop, if I want to do certain stuff. But the only things they want Affinity Photo for, is basically just Lightroom. Which in itself is even ridicilous, because Affinity Photo as a 'Persona' that is exactly for the same stuff done in Lightroom. So in that regard, I'm not a fan of Affinity. Affinity has what it takes to take on Photoshop/illustrator, but not if they only listen to just specific part of their userbase.

[@BackusCreativeImaging]

Blender and Resolve are a power combination. 10 years ago Blender was laughed at by Autodesk. Now, I can render sequences in Blender 4.2 with full path tracing and only like 1024 samples on my ASUS Strix 3090 GPU while my brother uses Autodesk Maya which the renderers are mainly CPU based. I also have Dehancer Pro for Resolve. Resolve, Blender, Affinity software, DxO PhotoLab and more. I look forward to Adobe going bankrupt! Been using Resolve since version 16.

[@ronsussman]

I just cut a film in Resolve. It was FX heavy and I was able to do everything without leaving the app

[@chezchezchezchez]

Can you show us a link to the film? Thanks.

[@gordmills1983]

Yes, that is why so many are using it. I dropped Final Cut once I got into it.

[@alex.muntean]

Dope!

[@grungebox]

Decided to do a 30 min short film in Resolve. It has NEVER crashed. It’s workflow blows away Final Cut. It’s compositing section blows ALL video editing software away. The only thing beating Fusion is NUKE.

[@Satori-Automotive]

do u use the free version? I saw there is a pro version with more effects etc. Is it worth to invest the money?

[@rano12321]

Petition to take that shirt off and put on a shirt with nodes on it.

[@ProWrestlingPsychology101]

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[@rakeshmalik5385]

Houdini rules! 🤣

[@metasploitstudios2257]

Nodes all the way❤

[@klaatubob]

My reason for abandoning Adobe is that Adobe abandoned me. I can't buy Adobe, i have to rent it. I don't rent software. I don't use software that they can alter at the drop of a hat and force me to use their changes. So many features have been removed. Adobe just doesn't get it.

[@bryantobin2]

i feel like this doesn't get mentioned enough. In a world full of "just a monthly charge" I am always looking for the flat rate one time pay option. The fact that DVR gives you free updates for life too is INSANE. I hope they never change their tactics as they grow to be the favorite more and more. Don't fly too close Icarus

[@angelsjoker8190]

As someone who is a new user (so no sentimental or convenince attachment to any software), this is exactly why I went for DaVinci Resolve fore video editing and DxO PhotoLab for photo editing over the Adobe solutions. If I spend money on software, I want to buy the software and not rent it. If they upgrade their program, I want ro decide whether I really need the new feature and spend new money on it or not.

[@derman3219]

You can also pirate it though

[@klaatubob]

@derman3219 sure, if you want your production company to be breaking the law. I prefer to stay legal.

[@alex.muntean]

Agreed.

[@UnboundedArtandCrafts]

What I love about Blackmagic is that they make Davinci Resolve work better and better without making me buy new hardware ❤ the jump from 18 to 19 is insane as my almost dying laptop now can edit 4k footage without proxies!

[@ProWrestlingPsychology101]

Wait - what'd I miss?

[@UnboundedArtandCrafts]

@@ProWrestlingPsychology101 I don't know how they did it but my laptop is having a way way easier time editing since upgrading to 19 and I'm on the free version.

[@EREN_ACKERMAN0]

​@@UnboundedArtandCrafts they enabled the gpu accelerate in free version because this feature was only available in studio. Which now renders happen on gpu rather than cpu.

[@sumesh-kumar]

yup. it is faster now in my cheap laptop

[@stephenleigh2530]

Long time editor. Familiar with all the major apps. I prefer the creative suite only because everything's built in and you get it all for a small amount each month. Back in the day good software was thousands of dollars blah blah blah. I love and use black magic design hardware all the time. Every year I load the latest resolve and in my system and tell myself I'm going to make the change. And I end up just going back to what I'm most familiar with. However, I feel like there is an underdog no one is talking about. You're going to laugh. But I feel that cap cut with very few tweaks could be way better than any other application we currently use. I know it sounds really silly coming from a professional. But I haven't had that much fun with an editing program for a long long time. I learned it in literally minutes. And frankly it has tools built in that I have paid a fortune for with plugins. And they are better. The skin softening and the ability to tweak the human body has made my female clients very happy. I could always do that before but now it's like super easy with sliders and stuff. Also I've never had good luck with warp stabilizer without a lot of monkeying around. The stabilizer built in cap cut just has a few settings and works much better in my opinion. I use it now as a tool for what it's good at and who my client is. The audio capabilities suck and the output only exports compressed footage at the moment. But again a few little tweaks and I think they all have a underdog to worry about. And the bonus is cap cut works great on my phone even though editing on a phone seems sacrilicious. Remember most of the time it works better as a cut anyway.

[@wporchard]

I've been editing professonially for about 10 years now, and I've switched from Premiere to FCP to Premiere and finally now on Resolve. The approach that I take, and something I stress to my post production team, is that we're video editors, not Premiere or Resolve specialists. So we will follow the path that's the most promising to get better results. Since switching from Premiere to Resolve, we've seen a huge increase in productivity because our workflow is smoother. No more round tripping or dynamic links, everything is built into one software. The tools on each page are industry standard. I don't have to deal with a Lumetri panel when I can have an industry standard grading page. That's not to say that there were no hiccups, every transition has them. What's important is that we focus on growth and efficiency to make our lives less frustrating.

[@Xokaned]

How do you deal with the lack of custom presets for effects. I use a lot of customised transitions in my workflow and it makes it a pain to have to copy paste from an adjustment layer of re do all the adjustments every time. Some very basic features seem to be missing everytime I try to make the full switch. And this is coming from someone who would love to fully switch to DaVinci.

[@petegaslondon]

As a total primitive, I have to agree - for example, i WANTED to learn all the little keyboard shortcts on ProTools,so I could work fast and slick - then something NEW (and Free)Came along - I feel bad fro putting all those pennies into Early Protools, but it DID mean i got to do DAW stuff earlier, and a BUNCH of skills translate to new platforms imho Then groped my way round video editing, just about being able to work FCP(weird) Premiere(pretty neat) and now Resolve :) Yes its a pain learing new key's and clicks, but most Pilots WANT to try newer high performance airpalnes right? We should have the same mindset!

[@agus.lorenzo]

@@Xokaneddude, the same thing happens to me. I’ve been using premiere since 2008. Then DaVinci came out and every year I try to do at least one project in Resolve and I end up just using premiere cause half of the things I need I just can’t do them. I recognize the software is amazing, I’m a blackmagic fan myself (I own 3 of their cameras), I even own Resolve Pro version, yet I can’t seem to integrate it easier to my work. (I admit I need a little more patience tho)

[@ElMeach]

I went from Premiere to FCP to Sony Vegas to FCP to Premiere and I knew I had to switch to Resolve. I was saving it for later and spent some months testing Resolve between premiere edits and 2 years ago I finally made the change and I am getting better and better. I miss the integration of MOGRTs from After Effects to Premiere I spend a year learning but I am sure soon I will learn Fusion and be happy with it.

[@cesarxo_]

lets hope davinci resolve doesn’t turn to the dark side and ends up like its competitors

[@airconstructor]

Their main focus is professional hardware, and it's quite expensive. They don't need subscription as a service because of that. Also, almost any hardware purchase comes with the Studio version of Resolve.

[@rakeshmalik5385]

Probably not as long as Grant Petty is in charge. He's kind of a goofball, but he is a genuinely friendly guy. Besides, Black Magic isn't a software company. It's hardware company. Resolve is the gateway to vast suites of Black Magic hardware goodies.

[@Sethmotley]

@@rakeshmalik5385 Calling him a goofball might get the rest of us a subscription base Davinci Resolve. Be grateful dude.

[@bk7472]

@@airconstructorNone of them ‘need’ subscription as a service. They do it because they want more money. There’s plenty of creative software where the business model is customers actually owning what they purchase, such as DAWs for music production.

[@HOODCLASSICTELEVISION]

Of course they will. Human nature

[@MrAlexTech]

Nice to see this style of video from you dude!! 👌

[@PatrickStirling]

I feel really good about it! Definitely would love to cycle more of this kinda stuff in

[@equisetuminc]

Agree with Mr Alex; interesting point of view.

[@wxexw]

I came from Adobe (Express) to Adobe (paid) to Final Cut Pro to DaVinci Resolve. Resolve just works better than any of the other options.

[@fr33dom_s4int]

I just cut a feature in Resolve, and it was a fantastic experience; edit, vfx, color, sound mix, all in one app.

[@avdcam]

The fact that Adobe doesn't know that Everything Everywhere All at Once could have been completely done in Resolve, include the lions share of the vfx (instead of using After Effects) just shows how while they might be looking at Resolve as competition they are not really deeply reviewing it and it's real toolset.

[@gabehobbs]

Really hoping that Blackmagic does some serious investment in their Motion Graphics workflows to compete with Adobe. AE is still king in mograph. My wish list would be more investment into professional motion graphics workflows, a bigger push for third party plugins (just go look at the functionality you can add with aescripts), and it would be a stretch -- but some sort of overlord/photoshop style integration with some software like Affinity. Oh. And integrate it with blender.

[@isaacbedford3644]

Agreed. in the meantime, Apple Motion is a good companion app to do MoGraph alongside Fusion.

[@EREN_ACKERMAN0]

I have requested few tools in their feature suggestion forum. For vfx and motion graphics.

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

Also easier way to get motion graphic titles. You can't just download a mogrt file and import and use in davinci resolve. I like DR but it's not the complete PP killer like a lot of people said it was

[@KaarloMedia]

@@GadgetsGearCoffee Transferring and templating fusion .setting files is actually very easy. It's a different process but I've seen the community grow exponentially over the last few years. There are still a hell of a lot of features missing for motion graphics in Fusion, but it's an immensely capable software.

[@annebokma4637]

Expanding the integrated daw is all I need to switch to Linux

[@rickpinelli1586]

Hi Patrick, I got into video back in 1981... I came up through the VHS/S-VHS/BETA/8MM era. I still have my Panasonic S-VHS editing suite set up in my den. I never used Premiere, I started with FC Pro when I bought my first Apple Laptop from COMP USA in the 90's. I came over to Resolve with Ver. 14 and Resolve is MY system of choice. I incorporated the Speed Editor and Mini Color Panel into my workflow. I believe Resolve is putting pressure on Premiere and FC Pro to stay competitive and improve their products with new features and enhancements. For me, the Elephant in the room is that Premiere REQUIRES a Subscription to use it. Resolve and FC Pro DO NOT... That is a big plus in my book! Love your videos and keep up the great work. Rick 🎥📷

[@ggproductions7078]

hey, similair thing for me, though I stopped being an editor pre digital to being a production manager type lad. Just before the pandemic I wanted to get back to being a little more creative so I thought I would have a go at this digital malarky and chose resolve because it was free and I thought I would try it. Now then, there were some things that I could see would be much "easier" with different drag and drops and the like, but that is only since I went deeper. The interface was fine for me because it was what I was relearning on, the depths you can go to is madness, but again, what I was used to. I do however sometimes miss the simplicity of VHS/Pnuematic editing, scroll, press in, scroll press out, look out for the frame slippage, create graphics on another device and add them in and as for colour, naaah, just take it as it comes! I am only half joking, the more you can do the more you need to learn and sometimes you just want to cut stuff and put a few titles/effects on it but that's what your phones for (and of course the very much underused cutpage)no?

[@alexanderpapadopoulos3741]

As a professional editor for 30 years I can safely say that Adobes Premier wasn't in the picture before Apple shot itself in the foot with Final Cut X around 2012 or so. It was ALWAYS Avid Media Composer, and still is and Final Cut 7. Premier up to that point was a side kick for graphic designers. And Adobe has every reason to be afraid of Resolve for the same reason it cant compete with Avid. Both companies can build hardware. Adobe has just been lucky with a very bad and unstable product.

[@pxlmvr7]

Right! Premiere was at the same level as like Media 100. I want to say that some corporate media departments would use it because they knew of Photoshop and they happen to have Premiere also. FCP was in competition with Avid, had the best editor and people were excited about its *professional* future. You had hardware developers like Digital Voodoo and FCP on ICE, etc. Then FCPX happened :( Now, I feel like Grant (who I remember from the forums when he was just an editor) really approaches Davinci like an experienced professional editor and has added things that a professional editor would use. It even has many of the old FCP keyboard shortcuts (which I even used in Premiere). I feel like DaVinci is what I was looking for as the future of FCP.

[@tyesamson]

Strongly agree with this. For decades, Avid Media Composer was the real tool that every professional editor used for proper media management, extremely flexible interoperability, robust multi user collaboration with shared storage, and maybe most overlooked - an extremely sophisticated asymmetrical trimming system that remained unmatched for many, many years. FCP gained traction in the videographer market and was poised to make a meaningful encroachment into the professional market, only to faceplant with FCPX. Adobe cleverly capitalized on Apple's misstep and actively courted the disgruntled FCP7 users, which worked and then some. Adobe made a more sizable dent in Avid's pro market than FCP7 ever did but it never truly competed at the very high end of the market. I tried Premiere a handful of times over the years but never understood what the fuss was about. My career has mostly been finishing rather than cutting and I stayed with Avid Symphony and DS Nitris for online editing until Autodesk released Smoke for Mac and then moved to Resolve in v10 but I was still round tripping to and from Smoke. By the time v12.5 was out, Resolve had already adopted the best elements of Avid's trimming tools and had become my preferred software not just for conform and finishing, but editing, too. I'm genuinely flabbergasted that Adobe ever managed to foster such loyalty amongst their user base for such a deeply average product.

[@pxlmvr7]

@@tyesamson yes! And I edited very briefly on Smoke and it was my absolute favorite tool until DaVinci and its addition of Fusion and Fairlight. I work in feature film and I love that I can color, so VFX and also export proper audio stems using busses. It is so flexible and has so many tools that there is almost no need for plugins.

[@tyesamson]

​@@pxlmvr7 The Mac version of Smoke was way ahead of it's time and the market just wasn't ready for an all in one system like that. It filled the hole that Avid created when they discontinued DS and the tabbed pages for specialized tasks was very much a proto-Resolve if Resolve had evolved from a VFX pedigree rather than a color pedigree. I wish Autodesk had given it more time to cook but I totally get why from a business perspective they went all in on Flame. The high end advertising market was always their niche. It's funny you feel that Resolve is what you always wanted from the future of FCP, because I've always thought of where Resolve has landed as the ultimate realization of the Smoke on Mac vision - an ultimate all in one solution.

[@dmd3520]

​​​@@tyesamsonJust a shout out for mentioning AVID's assymetrical trimming. I think rarely mentioned because people using other NLE can't even imagine how trimming could be handled. As far as I know I still think no other NLE has even come close. Please enlight me if you know. That said, for my current use case, I had to switch to Resolve. Currently I am a "one man band", doing everything from start to finish (editing, audio, titles, color etc). In that area AVID is borderline unusable as a stand alone app. You are probably familiar with the Avid Titler + fiasco and other areas Avid is lagging behind. Unfortunate because when it comes to pure cutting nothing that I have tried has even comes close to Avid's speed and preciseness. But it doesn't matter when other pretty basic tasks during editing can be very cumbersome in AVID. If you do not have access to an entire post production team where you collaborate with a "specialist" for each area you are much better off using DaVini Resolve for example.

[@meyerdigitalfilm]

I believe we underestimate greatly the amount of professionals that already use DVR exclusively from Cut to Color Grade. I was a hardcore FCPX User and slowly moved on to DVR over a time of 3 years, now I exclusively Edit from A to Z in DVR and I couldn't work in FCPX or PP anymore. DVR is so f awesome.

[@Superjeanmarc]

Same here ( cutting a 30 min wildlife tv show for Belgium national tv , on DV from A to Z )

[@writedirect]

I think Avid, Adobe and Apple have all seen the writing on the wall. And if they haven't, they're not paying attention. I've cut feature films in Avid. Cut commercial content in FCP. 3 years ago I switched to Resolve when I purchased a BMD camera. And there is no way I'm every going back. The NLE portion of Resolve is rock solid. There's pretty much nothing I used every day in Avid that I can't do in Resolve. And the ability to bounce back and forth between sound and picture without exporting to ProTools. HOLY CRAP. And then of course Resolve's famous grading tools. I'm blown away by BMD.

[@KaarloMedia]

Same, got into DVR v14 seven years ago from Adobe. Changed away from AE to Fusion during the last two years. The power you feel when you understand the entire ecosystem of Resolve and can do every part of a movie on a very high level without changing softwares or any intermediate exports. The best examples of this efficiency are 48 hour film competitions. I've attended quite a few of them and making a professional looking + sounding film in 48 hours requires extreme efficiency. Resolve doesn't hold me back.

[@caspiansfriend]

Mid 2019 I switched to Resolve because I could not afford Adobe any longer. That year I kept PP and AE on a computer for one client project that required Adobe for their workflow. But Premiere Pro kept crashing. Like a lot! I had approximately 12 restores piled up from constantly crashing and restoring. As an old school IT support guy, I did all the right stuff to try to correct the issue: updated the OS, and PP and stripped out any and every app that might be causing a conflict. Even ran a bunch of tests on my virus protection to see if it was influencing the issue. I never figured out the issue. And it was a simple project. Resolve, on the other hand, "just worked." What a breath of fresh air!! Once I got used to nodes, I never looked back. It's true that sometimes I miss AE. But for my needs, Fusion does everything that I could ever want. I love using Fusion. I have nothing against Premiere Pro and After Effects. But now that I'm in the Resolve "family" I doubt very seriously that I'll be leaving it any time soon.

[@Comedy4cast]

Jumped from Vegas to Resolve a few years ago, strictly for the only-buy-once aspect and have been very pleased with the constant improvements since then.

[@rano12321]

Fusion was the reason why didn't want to switch to Resolve 16 and then Fusion was the reason why I switched to Resolve 17. I was an AE user and thought nodes were confusing and pointless until I learned Nuke and the world was set upside down for me, and since that day I realized I've been using a toy that was marketed as tools for adults for the past 5 years of my life. Since then, I've never touched AE or PP or any adobe products. I mostly do compositing and much less mograph, so you are welcome to disagree.

[@isaacbedford3644]

I too use Fusion for compositing. I think a great companion app for MoGraph is Apple Motion. Unfortunatley AE is still king of pro 2D motion graphics.

[@idovidal]

fusion is fun for compositing! wish they would improve the mograph options also!

[@Zizos]

Yo, where can I see some of your work? Especially if you have some mograph videos in there too.

[@rano12321]

@@Zizos Fusion Resolved on YT.

[@rano12321]

@@idovidal There are a lot of feature requests for Fusion, both for comp and mograph.

[@FriederikeTyrer]

colorizethis AI fixes this. "DaVinci Resolve Now Unavoidable Competitor."

[@Mike_Mandigo]

Switched from Filmora to DaVinci Resolve Studio in 2021, haven't looked back and got way more out of it!

[@ayoubthegreat]

DaVinci Resolve became my first serious editing program, starting with version 14 or 15-I can't quite remember which. I didn't want to get locked into Adobe's ecosystem, especially since Resolve was free and their pricing is amazing

[@garretreed9709]

Back in March / easter time, I was editing videos for my church. One of them being the sermon edit that we shoot with 6k studios. I have used PPRO for more than ten years and I spent an entire week rendering, reviewing the footage, and then re rendering. I was continually getting dropped frames. To get the best quality we record to SSD’s but one video ends up being 180-250gb. The fender would take 40 minutes minimum and I would have to wait for that render to finish to review the final video only to see dropped frames. I was so fed up I forced myself to learn Resolve, back and forth reading about the basics as things arose. It was a simple edit and took an entire day, BUT when I rendered; it played back without dropping frames. The relief I felt that it worked as expected. Now any time I try to edit in PPRO I keep pressing’A’ instead of ‘v’ and also feel like PPRO has waaaay too many windows and tabs. That live save is so useful too

[@DaneBrammage]

I’m glad that our community is growing and getting the recognition it deserves. From creators to professionals Blackmagic has been making great decisions and is really driving the market right now. Thanks for the great spotlight Patrick, missed you at NAB this year 😢. You really need to do a training class with BMD soon. You rock 🎉.

[@oliveranderson9901]

Premeire projects were consistently "corrupting" across all of my machines, I've been an adobe user since the mid 90's, every month or so my film's files would become extremely laggy and crash every 10-20 minutes. I spent a year bashing my head against the wall try every possible fix to get it working smoothly without having to periodically copy and paste my work into a fresh premiere file and work as fast as I could before it would corrupt again and the process would start over or a fresh bug would appear ontop of the aforementioned issue. I bought an 4090 and built a fresh all SSD PC a few months ago and realized it wasn't me that was the problem, it was Premiere. I love Resolve, editing's fun again, I feel unchained.

[@kevinl20082008]

I am designer/Filmmaker with an experience of over 30 years. When Adobe said F u to me. So I said F u ADOBE to their entire suite (Pre Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Indesign...) moved to D. Resolve for my editing, color correction, and Fusion VFX. For design switched to Affinity Photo, Affinity design and for 3D switched MAYA to Blender... so far no regards. My clients have no complaints or problems.

[@HoundDogMech]

I started Editing Video Before Computers, VHS Tape Decks w/ Switchers & Titler. Then 2 Sony Cam Corders with Switcher & VTCI for Time code. 96' Built an $8000 system using 5 HDD's & Premiere 4.2 (Remember the White Horse) OH it did not work either. Many computers and Last Premier Pro CS3. Then the No Brainer First Davinci FREE then Davinci Studio & a Speed Editor For $295 OUNCE vs $500+/year. But use what ever works for you after all it's the results that count.

[@danielroujansky6420]

Patrick. Your conclusions are spot on! Be it the all-in-one programs you get with DaVinci Resolve and at a cost for the Studio version, it's a steal! I am a retired seven time Emmy winning television editor who worked with Avid Media Composer for nearly 20 years, followed by Final Cut Pro Studio and now DaVinci Resolve. Between use of the cloud, remote proxy based editing, quick cutting or editing and multiple people editing on the same project simultaneously, the other systems definitely have something to be concerned about!

[@grantsutton8727]

Lifetime license and upgrades. They listen to their users and Resolve is cross functional with BM cameras, switches etc and spend money into R&D.

[@ereceeme]

I was a very happy adobe user had the full suite. Then the rent sign came up , so I kept using my adobe vs 6 while searching and continued to use adobe. When DVR 15 came up I sewithed and never looked back even if premier had some great tools. Today Im a Davinci and affinity user plus som fusion. I have 4 studio licences and 3 Free licenses in my company if I had stayed in the adobe universe I would have been paying over 4k a year just to rent. Losing everything If I stopped paying. I can write off other things

[@Pecadrosa]

I love resolve, has the best ui and easy to use but, even if you edited for years, all the companies want someone can work with adobe, even freelance service buyers only knows adobe products and if you don't work with those apps, you have a small amount of people to work with or you should work for yourself. It was really hard for me to even start learning AE, but i also wanna make some money so for now, resolve is for people who wants to use advanced program but has no money and people who are soo good buyers dont care about the program or maybe color graders

[@jimmay8627]

Works for me. I'm a VFX artist with 20+ years in TV/games/film, and I just recut my demo reel in Resolve. I'm continuing to learn it with the goal of replacing After Effects (it helps that I already had some Fusion experience).

[@pixelrancher]

Davinci and Motion (which nobody talks about) covers most of the bases. When you throw in the Affinity suite of apps, you can drop most of what you need from Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. And not a subscription anywhere. Now if they'd only implement MIDI in a useable manner, there'd be a few other apps I could drop!!! (I'd even settle with Ableton Link at this point).

[@caspiansfriend]

re: Affinity, me too! As part of my dropping Adobe for financial reasons mainly, I also picked up Affinity Photo. It works very well for my projects.

[@pixelrancher]

@@caspiansfriend We'll see what happens with Affinity now that they've been purchased by Canva. No doubt, they'll become subscription-based sooner or later.

[@CreativeVideoTips]

I love this video! I feel like i'm hanging out with you. Way to go dude. So much good insight.

[@PatrickStirling]

Thanks so much! That's so encouraging. These are just the conversations I'd have with all the cool Resolve peeps if we weren't all recording videos alone at home :p

[@Zizos]

Adobe has 2 things going on for them. Photoshop/Illustrator which have given them enormous experience with graphic tools. And After Effects. AE is a beast. If Fusion ever gets an upgraded renderer that can handle complex effects and tools and also gets more tools, then big oof... I've tried AI to write me some code so that I could build some plugins for Fusion but it's very hard currently to achieve the tools I'm after without being a coder. Is it even possible BMD to go that far with this pricing model? Maybe, I hope so. Whatever they do, I do hope it's well coded, optimised and modern. Because Adobe kept building on top of an old platform and that's why they had so many issues with crashes, bugs, etc. God speed BMD!

[@giuliolazaretti8401]

Funnily, I've only started using Resolve to work with raw MLV files coming out of my Magic Lantern-powered lemon 5DII. Then, albeit the learning curve, I was hooked by being able to work with all those different stages of editing, coloring, special effects and audio in one software. I eventually fell in love with BMs philosophy, the community (gotta love the forum!) and that awesome software. Been using it for 2 years now. And I have to thank the likes of you, Patrick, Mr AlexTech and many others that help me on a daily basis ❤!

[@johnny26910]

About, "Everything Everywhere All At Once" ... it literally says on the Blackmagic website that it was color graded in Resolve. And my understanding is that the 3D stuff was done in "Blender" or other similar 3D software. I think the notion that you could not have done that movie in resolve is completely wrong

[@matthewhartman7176]

I'm 51, a professional video/film editor with over 20 years plus experience. I jumped to Resolve (for editing) in version 16 and haven't looked back since for certain projects. What holds me back from 100% workflow adoption is simply legacy workflow pipelines of some clients who have an explicit need for compiling in other software like Premiere. Resolve is more than competent as a NLE. It's my favorite one. Full adoption of Resolve isn't as far away as it might seem. Especially as genX and Boomers age out of the industry, but plenty of this demographic is already using Resolve, too.

[@2424rocket]

The person claims that everywhere all at once was too complicated for resolve… That’s such a bunch of horseshit. What they’re actually saying is that they had to take the movie into after effects to do the special effects. You can still take footage from resolve and put it into after effects, do your thing and then bring it back into resolve. I do that all the time. You can bring individual layers from after effects into resolve… And let’s face it, dynamic linking from Premier Pro to resolve is crap. So doing it old school is perfectly fine. Some third-party software maker could come up with something to dynamically link resolve and after effects… There may be a copyright issue somewhere in there… But don’t be afraid of old school, it works.

[@gankster9007]

Used the free version for over 7 years before finally buying the studio version last month. Never once in the last 7 years were they shoved those - "yo you should be buying the studio license" notifications in my face. This is one of the few let the product speak for itself experiences I've had so far.

[@steveruger6429]

I just really hope that blackmagic doesnt charge for the normal resolve too once it becomes the dominating industry in future

[@zeneal]

I really appreciate Black Magic for being a private company therefore not being dependent on shareholder value.

[@JaylonDBZ]

They both have strengths in which the other lacks. Keyframing in Davinci, and the Spline Editor/Keyframe Editor SUCK. In Premiere it’s amazing. But on the flip side, try to make a character animated text in Premiere Pro. If either Adobe or Davinci would actually make the features they lack for CREATORS. Not film producers, or people working on big budget projects, but for creators who use their tools to make content (which is their main market). That company would win the race and become the solidified industry standard.

[@PatrickStirling]

I think it's really hard to know from the outside where the true market lies. Creators are most visible but even between them and Hollywood there's an entire spectrum of working video professionals through all tiers of corporate and marketing work.

[@definingslawek4731]

yess I hate doing key frames in resolve.

[@recombinantfilms1241]

@@definingslawek4731 Try using the transform nodes in Fusion for much nicer keyframing.

[@youtubemoneyhater643]

I learned Resolve almost from the beginning of my career, way before any good Tutorials out there and I just love it. I would never switch and after 7 Years of using it, I still barely scratched whats actually possible. Fusion, Fairlight and the Color Page hold so much potential, one can almost not learn all about them. Just today I made a whole motion design infographic video in one Fusion Clip.

[@JohnHollands]

As an Aussie, working on high end projects in the 80s, I remember being given presentations from local developers showing Fairlight and also Fusion. Fairlight was a musical instrument and I think during their presentations, they became aware of the opportunity to service sound editing, mixing and the film industry. These were the days when Avid was low-quality and strictly an offline edit system (and cost $100,000). Very pleased to swee them combined in Resolve.

[@Tamajyn]

I switched to Resolve in around 2017 and going back to Premiere now for colour grading feels downright archaic. For colour grading I don't think it's hyperbole to say that Premiere feels ten years behind Resolve.

[@jameshooper6165]

So grateful for people like Grant Petty, the CEO of Blackmagic Design. He's truly committed to improving the industry and make it possible for ANYONE with a creative vision to produce that vision, regardless of access to large production budgets. He's enabling the casual hobbyist in a way that's truly transformational. I hope Adobe takes note, not just of the feature set, but of the fact that you can be a large company, AND care about both the consumer and your bottom-line at the same time.

[@team2films]

Great video Patrick. Really balanced too. Love your office setup btw.

[@PatrickStirling]

Thanks! I'm really liking the new setup as well. Trying to keep things nice and clean. Got to take a more thorough look at lighting and probably buy some new light for the first time in over a decade though :pp

[@Alexanderthetitan]

We’re over the subscription model is the main reason.

[@triumphantape]

I hope they don't buy Resolve.

[@akyhne]

That will with 100% guarantee never, ever happen. Never!

[@GarryFPV]

Not a premiere lover here but those statements sound incredibly normal

[@jaypea34]

I’m slowly moving from autodesk flame to resolve. It’s amazing to me that resolve is winning over users from so many different areas of post production and that it is such a diverse application that brings those users skill sets closer together.

[@tvchris]

I don't know... I'm the biggest fanboy of DR, but let me tell you what is driving me back to FCP and Premiere is Color Management and Fusion. The hoops you have to jump through if you're doing ANY sort of FX work, be it simple titles or adding a jpg to a shot, are CRAZY complicated... Viewer LUTS that don't stick, multiple CSTs, etc. Not to mention, I love the idea of Macro Title Templates, they are a pain to create and even more of a pain to update. If I was solely doing documentary type work I would 100% stay on Resolve. But any graphics work, I'm not jumping through those hoops anymore.

[@iono_ritmo]

Very real!

[@isaacbedford3644]

(respectfuly) what have you been smoking? DR (industry standard color software) has wayyyyy better color management than FCP, Pr, or AE. Fusion just got a new update for easier color management. Those other apps have terrible HDR workflows/capabilities. Simple titles and adding JPGs is easy in Resolve. I don't know what difficulties you're having.

[@tvchris]

@@isaacbedford3644 LOL I’m well aware of Resolve’s pedigree, no one would agree with that. and I’m not talking about adding graphics directly to a timeline. The fusion implementation is still half baked. Their recent fixes don’t fix the issues, at least not on my Mac. I’m not saying other software does color management better, but having to add incoming CSTs and outgoing CST and constantly being aware of all the vgotchas, it’s been a big deterrent to fully adopting the software.

[@2424rocket]

Yikes, challenge yourself, learn something new… Da Vinci is so much better than those other programs. It’s almost laughable.

[@iono_ritmo]

It's not better when it comes to working with titles. Have they even fixed the wraparound issue? That and keyframing velocity are two things in particular Premiere does better than DR. Everything else I'll give you.

[@gchorton]

Great sharing Patrick. I have examined Adobe and Apple but quickly switched to Black Magic and the studio edition is easily and wisely to buy! Just love DaVinci Resolve!

[@johnsaxz]

Actually outside of the crashing and stuff of premiere. I feel the cutting experience in premiere is actually dope. Not like resolve is bad but premiere just has this feel. I presently do all my editing in resolve but yeah sometimes I go back to premiere for client work and mogrts haha.

[@hantomeii]

More companies should follow the licensing model that Resolve follows. Every working professional had to start somewhere, and there are so many movies, shows, and games that we'd never see if every software had an upfront cost that blocked out many would-be future industry pros at the very start of their journey.

[@Realist-m9c]

I started editing in Premiere in the late 90s, then 12 years of FCP, then about 7 back on Premiere. They were all good but not great. The last 4 years have been in Davinci Studio, it is great! I feel I’ll be editing in Davinci until I retire.

[@JaydenLawson]

I switched to Resolve a few years ago and never looked back. One payment, one time. Also switched to Affinity Photo and ended 100% of my Adobe reliance (no more subscriptions!)

[@JeremiahTrue]

I started in Resolve because I wasn't paying for the full Adobe suite. When I started doing freelance work for companies I started using Premier because that was what they used and I wanted a seamless handoff between parties. I prefer Resolve and continue to use it for my own personal and professional work.

[@SceneOfAction]

Going to Resolve after years and years on adobe feels like Dorothy walking out of the tornado house.

[@innocentodeny6882]

😂😂

[@circleinfo]

DaVinci Resolve is a good Premiere Competitor but Fusion is far, far from being a great After Effects alternative. All the people who try to say it arent good in either Fusion nor After Effects. Cavalry and even Blender are closer to being After Effects alternatives and even there are missing a lot things you could do in AE. I'm not even starting to mention all the insane Plugins you get for AE.

[@PatrickStirling]

I can only speak from personal experience but the kind of things I most often jumped into AE to handle can also be done in fusion. I absolutely agree with most out there that fusion in general still needs a bunch of work to play better in that field at the level BMD wants it to, but fusion can do a wholeee lot as is.

[@stephengentryvfx]

Hmm I seriously disagree. Unless you mean for motion graphics or using stock templates. AE shines in those categories. Most kinds of compositing work (what fusion is built for) is way easier and more powerful in fusions node based workflow in my opinion. Trying to comp multi-layer exr in after effects is a nightmare. Now nuke is better than both of them by far of course.

[@metasploitstudios2257]

I use resolve and Ae. PP is somewhere in my bins. I do my titles and motion graphics in Ae. Then my audio, vfx and editing is all done in DR

[@edgarturnerfilm]

I edit strictly in Resolve. However I still use Adobe for Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop, and Lightroom. I would love to ditch the rest because of price, however I just dont know comparable replacements.

[@KuttyJoe]

I don't do much video editing work but when I started doing some video editing, I tried Premiere Pro because I already had the software. I hated it immediately. There are certain workflow things that I just expect, or maybe demand because they're logical. None of that stuff works in Adobe Premiere so right off the bat, working in Premiere Pro was going to be aggravating for me. But as soon as I touched DaVinci Resolve, I found that they were "thinking" exactly like me. What I expected is what I was actually doing the very first time I touched it. So I knew that it was going to be smooth to continue learning the software. But, I assumed that for professionals there is a reason that people are using Premiere Pro. But I really enjoyed learning DaVinci Resolve and it's so good that I wish I had more reason to use it.

[@grandsome1]

It's a good thing that Resolve is subsidized by the hardware part of the company, it's a genius move to capture the market with accessibility. Hopefully they won't turn too greedy when the next generation of editor put them in lead of the market. The fact that Resolve is running on Linux gives me hope that they're not too bad.

[@arthurbell4614]

I agree the biggest competitive advantage Resolve has is price. Resolves cloud workflow is getting amazing, If they lower the price of the small desktop hardware caching storage device AND rebuild keyframes to get closer to being intuitive AND follows Premiere's lead and builds the AVID copy of PRODUCTIONS and allows windows customizations....the bar will get pretty even.

[@Romeolmoore55]

Davinci has been a game changer for me after switching from Adobe, I have became very efficient in it.

[@Tekkerue]

I came to Resolve from Vegas Pro for video. My primary DAW is Reaper and Fairlight will certainly never replace that, but it is very nice seeing BMD making big improvements to Fairlight (both stability and features). I just installed v19 yesterday and so far this has been the most stable version for audio that I've experienced since I started using Resolve. It's not perfect as I've encountered some bugs with audio in compound clips, but overall it has been sooo much better than my experience was in v18.

[@WatermanSurin]

Was on premiere pro for years, and just finally made the switch to editing in resolve. Already loving it and am convinced that it is a better designed software that is just as capable, if not better for workflow. Not to mention the colour grading is undoubtedly superiour. All for a one time payment, that would equal roughly the cost of a one year subscription of adobe.

[@mytwo2cents]

16 years with Adobe. I just wanted a good software I could pay for once, since I am a hobbyist. I stumbled across resolve. It was scary at first with these Node things, but watching tutorials from KZbinrs like yourself it made it easy. All the power for free? And then… Magic Eraser! Yeah, Blackmagic shut up and take my money already. And now I have an M4 iPad with resolve which is basically the same as my desktop. Seriously, Blackmagic is doing the Lord’s work for the people. Edit: I forgot about the camera! Just picked up the 16 pro and the camera app has been Stellar

[@aaronstestlab]

Made the switch last year and haven't looked back. Don’t miss Premier one bit. I do miss After Effects a little, still having trouble mentally converting to nodes over layers. But I’m getting there. Now if only I could find a Lightroom alternative I could ditch Adobe forever.

[@gabrielgawa4826]

I still use Adobe because as a content creator for Instagram I use a lot of after and photoshop on my timeline. So I’m trapped on the adobe ecosystem but I’m really interested on give it a try on Vinci because the hype is on fire

[@mamAsita1111]

for me as a newbie when is startedd editing eith no experience or higher education. i did some research and started out with movavi. after a year of learning the basic tools to edit a video, i was ready for the big players. did more research and decided on davinci, i dont regret taking the time to learn its interface. best program and thats without trying the other big players. key reason i went with these gwo is because i dont have to subscribe to anything! i spend money on products to own not to rent... the way companies are heading with subscription models, you'll soon see many go bust or revert back to the original ways

[@JKVisFX]

I started out with a very early version of Premiere and dealt with all of the issues that early versions of Premiere had. Next, was FCP until Apple borked it in 2011. Back to Premiere for a while until Resolve v14 or somewhere thereabouts. Now, with v19, I'm never going back. I do still use Adobe CC for Ps, Ae primarily. Audio is Logic Pro, vector art and print design are Affinity Designer and Publisher. I would be using Fusion if I could get my head wrapped around nodes better. For me to be able to make effective use of Fusion for the things I use Ae for now, I would need two things: a layer/timeline or dope sheet and a full motion/function graph editor for any function that has keyframes. The tiny keyframe/curve editor they have now is simply too small to make careful, subtle keyframe/curve adjustments. This level of control is especially necessary for motion graphics and 3D compositing tasks. If BM added that kind of functionality to Resolve, it could very well be my go-to for all things motion related minus 3D content creation, that will remain Modo and C4D for me.

[@STOGG]

Here to say, that DR shirt you have on is really DOPE

[@RobertSimmonsAirship]

As a colorist. Kinda crazy to see the slow evolution from being the premier color grading tool, no pun intended, to being a solid editing suite. 2nd favorite editor after FCP and leagues better than Premiere.

[@jarrydjackson361]

Resolve is AMAZING. Adobe is nice because it can link with a lot of its native applications. I like Filmora for mobile editing

[@jezreelfilms]

For Adobe to keep up the game with davinci, I suggest they acquire Colorista for their color grading department and integrate it within premiere. That's one of the only obvious solution

[@KarlGutowski]

For me, it was when Premiere baked in an error message banner into a render that had everything to do with lazy coding and nothing to do with the way I use it

[@joefilter2923]

Apple didn’t shoot itself in the foot with FCPX, they got out so developers would continue on their platform. Adobe stopped Premiere on the Mac, and probably threatened to take away their whole line unless Apple stopped developing those pro apps. Just a guess.

[@ItsNifer]

Honestly the fact that resolve is free is insanely good for normal practical consumer's that are getting into video editing.

[@deekshithvodela]

my man doesn't use ad blocker. respect ++

[@mithileshlokhande]

I am wedding filmmaker from india. I have been using Davinci resolve since 2017 free version on Mac. Non problems at all till today!

[@intrepidchimp]

Never used a video editor before so had to pick one. I'm allergic to monthly subscription fees, so that seem to bring it down to capcut or resolve, and capcut puts a watermark on the free version projects. Apparently people try to get around this with screen capture on the previous screen. Anyway, I looked at resolve and fell in love with the speed editor. Since I don't know anything about video editing, I figured it would be a great place to start because it would likely have all of the most useful functions that I would start learning keyboard shortcuts for. What a great decision! The scroll wheel alone was worth the price of admission! 😬👍

[@paulidevoss7249]

Great Aussie company, nice work Blackmagic 🏆

[@DOSStorm]

Resolve is the REAPER of the video editing world. I still wish it was a bit more flexible like REAPER but it's getting better all the time. I wish the free version wasn't artificially crippled performance-wise so much though. However, I feel like many people are stuck in the same Adobe workflow and aren't likely to change it anytime soon as it requires re-learning a new program. The next generation of editors raised on free software like Resolve are the real threat to Adobe in the future.

[@zurasaur]

Hopefully it makes them re-write after effects from the ground up - the layer based system with adjustment layers and pre-comps is so simple and procedural. if it weren’t so slow it would be a brilliant tool. If they could match resolve speed playing heavy image sequences nothing can compete in my opinion

[@johnsaxz]

Nothing is impossible in either app it's just a comfortability things. i.e what is the editor more comfortable with!

[@RickyGarcia_Learning]

Resolve is a no brainer for me. I started on Adobe CC about 9 years ago, then took a 5 year break. But coming back, with that nasty cloud model and having so many separate apps, I just went DaVinci and Affinity Photo 2. I'm pretty shocked how good the workflow is.

[@UnboundedArtandCrafts]

And on a sidenote @Patrick thank you for making the corner look straight(er) 😊

[@drdarkeny]

I've been using Premiere for over two decades now, starting with short online videos I captured and cut at a ripping 320x240 pixels (because that was all my 486/66 DX PC could handle in those days!) and some VideoCDs I did as a result (back when a DVD drive was EXPENSIVE!). I even bit the bullet and started paying the Adobe subscription because, while I thought Premiere Elements was a pretty decent video editor I wanted to do...more. I ended up with Davinci Resolve as a value-add on a BlackMagic Pocket Cinema camera I purchased that I ended up not using-but since I had it on my new Mac Studio anyway I started using Resolve. Now, I'm mostly using Resolve and seriously considering not renewing my Adobe subscription next year if I can find a good Photoshop replacement (I've near really gotten around to using After Effects).

[@orcanimal]

PLUS - Fusion is really underrated for compositing. It gives AE a run for its money and can do basically 90% of what Nuke does.

[@ArminSteiner]

Fusion might be good but giving AE a run for it’s money is just Fanboy nonsense.

[@orcanimal]

@@ArminSteiner I take you don't use Fusion and/or are unaware of all its features so this seems more like AE cultishness to me. I didn't see it was miles better than AE in every single way, I just said it rivals it. Fusion is legitimately just a variation of Nuke with a (small) handful of nodes missing, but other ways they are virtually the same. I will happily say that Nuke is better than Fusion overall, but Fusion isn't leagues behind it, just 2nd place. It certainly can do basically anything AE can do (there might be a couple of minor exceptions but nothing significant). I think AE users aren't even aware of what Fusion can do because the node-based system (like Nuke) gives them nightmares (because they refuse to admit that node-based is just superior to a layer workflow). And yes, Fusion also has 3D workflow like AE and NUKE + USD compatibility just fyi

[@isaacbedford3644]

@@ArminSteiner Fusion is better than AE for compositing since it's node-based (like Nuke). AE is better for 2D motion graphics and animation. Fusion users can close the gap by using Apple Motion.

[@TheFinalCredits]

I started this channel looking for free software to edit. I went from having the free software to buying Studio, 4 blackmagic cameras and an atem mini pro iso. Im the customer that Blackmagic is looking for with free software. Get them hooked and they buy the whole ecosystem

[@AdamPaulStone]

I’ve been editing professionally for 15 years and about 20 years total… starting with Vegas to Final Cut to Adobe I wanted to make the switch to DVR and cut the monthly payment… I gave it a shot for a project… I just struggle to make it run smooth. Might try it again down the road.

[@theancientvoice9272]

I got in Resolve because it was affordable for me and easy to learn. I bought the pro license because I knew I couldn't do without it anymore. And now, I'm wondering how they actually make money to provide that level stability.

[@RYOkEkEN]

they are a hardware company, the software is the gateway

[@nasko235679]

As an amateur, the reason I switched to Resolve years ago was simple - Adobe products are so damn laggy. It is inexcusable for them to ask so much money on monthly basis and for their software to be so poorly optimized. Resolve runs smooth as butter on my PC, and I don't wanna even think about going back to Premiere.

[@ThePNWRiderWA]

I see your point , however I would add that the revenues from Resolve are minuscule vs Adobe. The hard part will be converting paying Premiere consumers will not be easy. They have to bet on that students and hobbyists will at some point bring the desire to use Resolve to paying gigs. It seems that Final Cut is aiming to be a super iMovie.

[@canalcorridaaos50]

Hi, Patrick, thanks for another great video! It's great to have someone like you on KZbin! Two things: - is this 70%-off Audiio PRO coupon still valid? - where could I get this wonderful tee you're wearing (Note: I live in South America...lol)? Thanks once again, pal! You're really great!

[@resolving_boris]

I used Premiere and AE for over 15 years but with the the way Adobe treats its customers and the degradation of Adobe's quality, I now only use it if a client has that workflow. As for Everything Everywhere All At Once, Adobe's quote is what Avid users say about EVERYTHING. Not only do I use Resolve for most of my editing, I am building my entire studio around Blackmagic hardware.

[@stephenleigh2530]

Long time editor. Familiar with all the major apps. I prefer the creative suite only because everything's built in and you get it all for a small amount each month. Back in the day good software was thousands of dollars blah blah blah. I love and use black magic design hardware all the time. Every year I load the latest resolve and in my system and tell myself I'm going to make the change. And I end up just going back to what I'm most familiar with. However, I feel like there is an underdog no one is talking about. You're going to laugh. But I feel that cap cut with very few tweaks could be way better than any other application we currently use. I know it sounds really silly coming from a professional. But I haven't had that much fun with an editing program for a long long time. I learned it in literally minutes. And frankly it has tools built in that I have paid a fortune for with plugins. And they are better. The skin softening and the ability to tweak the human body has made my female clients very happy. I could always do that before but now it's like super easy with sliders and stuff. Also I've never had good luck with warp stabilizer without a lot of monkeying around. The stabilizer built in cap cut just has a few settings and works much better in my opinion. I use it now as a tool for what it's good at and who my client is. The audio capabilities suck and the output only exports compressed footage at the moment. But again a few little tweaks and I think they all have a underdog to worry about. And the bonus is cap cut works great on my phone even though editing on a phone seems sacrilicious. Remember most of the time it works better as a cut anyway.