DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio
Blackmagic Design | DaVinci Resolve Studio 17.4.6Linux/Unix, CentOS 7 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Reviews from AWS Marketplace
0 AWS reviews
-
5 star0
-
4 star0
-
3 star0
-
2 star0
-
1 star0
External reviews
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
Full-scale NLE since version 14
What do you like best about the product?
Color editing is at the top, and since version 12…14 it also has very good full non-linear editing. It is also cross platform (even a Linux version). Interface is adaptable and has presets to look like Premiere, Final Cut or Avid, if you are accustomed with those. Version 14 has a "live save" option that continually saves the project, so you don't lose work if it crashes. But you can also use the time-based auto-save, of you are over cautious with overwriting files. You can get a free Studio license if you buy one of their hardware products (Blackmagic camera for example)
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve is a bit steep, and sometimes it crashes suddenly, but it has auto-save. Noise reduction plugin is available only in paid version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Years ahead Adobe Premiere regarding color editing, and now on par as non linear editor. Price is a full-scale winner – there's a free version with no limits, and a Studio version at 300 USD, that has collaboration options, uses a dedicated relational database (PostgreSQL) for project storage and has some extra plugins. They also say that, once purchased, all updates and upgrades are free for life.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Download the free version 14 and try a test project – you'll love it straight away, even if it takes a while to learn. You can customize the interface to look like your previous editor, for easier transition. Even the paid Studio version is much cheaper than the competition.
- Leave a Comment |
- Mark review as helpful
Amazing software, especially considering you get the majority for FREE
What do you like best about the product?
An extremely powerful tool that is relatively easy to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't use it for every project and the learning curve is just steep enough that I often have to relearn how to use certain features. There are so many features that it can be overwhelming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's an amazing tool for color correction and look building for video. I have fun working in the tool and we have achieved what we were looking to with selecting it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Since the basic version is free, there shouldn't be anything holding you back from testing it out.
Resolve For Dailies
What do you like best about the product?
Resolve is outstanding for transcoding dailies. What makes this application better than any other for transcoding is the ability to to sync sound and add LUTs to your footage. Another great factor is all the different export options it has as well. You can maintain file name and even file/folder structure on output. Huge benefit.
What do you dislike about the product?
There honestly isn't a lot to dislike about the program. There could be a quicker way to start encoding your files instead of having to put them into a timeline first, that seems like an unnecessary step. Resolve could possibly just read folders that you create instead of strictly timelines.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is the main program we do all our transcoding in, this is a one stop shop and that greatly improves our speed and efficiency at transcoding and prepping projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're transcoding dailies in any other program, you need to give Resolve a try. It will completely change your workflow and make it so much easier.
Da Vinci Resolve
What do you like best about the product?
Da Vinci Resolve is one the high end color correction softwares in the field. They have everything from node based color correction to keyframing corrections within a node. The interface is extremely friendly and recently just updated to make a huge step towards becoming a competitive NLE.
What do you dislike about the product?
They have tried to simplify the export screen from Resolve and it doesn't offer me as much customization as I would like.
It also requires a fair amount of time to get familiar with all of the possibilities it has to offer.
It also requires a fair amount of time to get familiar with all of the possibilities it has to offer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We currently color correct our own work and sometimes our current NLE doesn't offer the precision that Resolve offers. There are numerous benefits from keyframing 2 different color corrections in one tracking shot to saving time because it's a reliable software and rarely crashes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Everyone should download this software. They offer a free version and anyone looking into getting into color correction should definitely download this product. In the future I can see whole feature projects going from start to finish in this NLE.
Sleek, non-linear FREE interface
What do you like best about the product?
For being such a well designed non-linear video editor with in-depth editing capabilities, I'm astonished that it's free. The best feature is how much control you have over lighting and colors with tons of histograms, levels, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest issue I have with Davinci is that it doesn't have a rendering progress bar. In fact, there's no way to tell whether or not a section has rendered. Also, the program overloads the CPU EXTREMELY easy if you try to layer a couple elements together.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
After Apple released the Os Sierra update, it corrupted our Final Cut. Davinci is a decent replacement until Apple updates Final Cut with a patch for Sierra.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's ok for color correction, but not for a full-scale production due to CPU overload issues and the lack of a rendering progress bar.
Great for preparing media and color correction.
What do you like best about the product?
The media and color correction panels are very well thought out and serve me well in my workflow
What do you dislike about the product?
The editing panel in resolve is missing some features compared to Premiere and is a bit unintuitive. I typically only use it to trim & extend shots if needed in color correction.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Media ingest, color correction
Editor
What do you like best about the product?
The clip based grading system saves days worth of time
What do you dislike about the product?
The is not a true NLE and should be used as coloring system only
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The range of this application can correct any level of mixed camera colors
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Separate your clips onto new tracks before exporting an linked xml
Easy to use, extremely cost-effective color correction software
What do you like best about the product?
Resolve is incredible software, at an incredible value: free. Of course, we shoot on BMCCs, so we have received Resolve dongles to unlock additional features of the software, namely: noise reduction.
Resolve has a mostly intuitive interface, and specifics of how to use it, can be found through plentiful online resources. Color grading is made easy through our use of the product. Black Magic provides a helpful and free pdf with their product for users to become familiar with and use to learn the software. I find this awesome, and I'm quite happy with their intentionality with DaVinci, even if their approach with cameras is extremely lacking.
Resolve has a mostly intuitive interface, and specifics of how to use it, can be found through plentiful online resources. Color grading is made easy through our use of the product. Black Magic provides a helpful and free pdf with their product for users to become familiar with and use to learn the software. I find this awesome, and I'm quite happy with their intentionality with DaVinci, even if their approach with cameras is extremely lacking.
What do you dislike about the product?
One will need some previous experience with the art of color correcting/grading to be even slightly competent with Resolve. Of course, you will grow in your skill over time, but many of the features built-in to Resolve should be somewhat second nature if you are familiar with other grading software built-in to Adobe programs.
Another note is the NLE included in Resolve. I've used it only a tiny bit to become more familiar with it. It's not extensive, and only simply gets the job done as opposed to software that actually costs money.
While this could be useful for someone wanting to try their hand at editing, I don't think it slightly practical for professional use.
Another thing that just doesn't work well is sharing color grading profiles with other users. There is a built-in user sign-in, however it does not transfer over well to multiple users. This should be addressed by cloud-based sign-in, but time will tell.
Another note is the NLE included in Resolve. I've used it only a tiny bit to become more familiar with it. It's not extensive, and only simply gets the job done as opposed to software that actually costs money.
While this could be useful for someone wanting to try their hand at editing, I don't think it slightly practical for professional use.
Another thing that just doesn't work well is sharing color grading profiles with other users. There is a built-in user sign-in, however it does not transfer over well to multiple users. This should be addressed by cloud-based sign-in, but time will tell.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Resolve has made it easy to provide beautifully colored images for our clients in early draft stages. It's become easy to have one editor cutting together a story for a client, meanwhile, the other colors the footage. With a plethora of exporting options, it is simple for one to replace the footage in their NLE software with the graded footage.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If nothing else, just try out this software. It really has a ton built-in, and has a huge leg up over the basic Lumetri color grading features in Premiere Pro.
WAY better then Windows Movie Maker
What do you like best about the product?
It's a non-linear editing system. I love it. it makes it way easier to line up audio from a separate piece of equipment with existing audio on the video you're editing.
What do you dislike about the product?
the interface takes a huge learning curve to get acclimated to. but once it is learned it works wonderfully
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
not so many problems. the benefits, however, are many. with Da Vinci Resolve my company is able to split projects between multiple editors and we are able to work together and file share seemlessly on the same project. the final product is created is a much more cooperative manner. better quality of work, better quality product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Research the interface before downloading. if you're not familiar with video editing this program has a learning curve. but results are very much worth the effort. good luck!
Powerful editor, great color correction
What do you like best about the product?
Simple streamlined interface makes editing a breeze
What do you dislike about the product?
Nested bins disappear causing you to lose edits
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's nice to have a powerful color correction suite built into an nle editor
showing 151 - 160