DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio
Blackmagic Design | DaVinci Resolve Studio 17.4.6Linux/Unix, CentOS 7 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Great if you know what you are doing
What do you like best about the product?
DaVinci Resolve is so robust. It is one of the best color grading softwares out there. Any professional colorist will be using this. It is very easy to digest footage. The free version is great too!
What do you dislike about the product?
Since DaVinci Resolve is so robust, it is hard to learn. You have to take a lot of training to use properly and depending on your project, it might not be worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use DaVinci Resolve to do a lot of color matching which helps brands tell their story in a way that looks amazing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have full understanding what a colorist does and the art behind it before jumping into this program.
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Incredible Workflow
What do you like best about the product?
Industry leading color correction, simple workflow. Hands down, the only program I would use to color correct a piece.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike having to roundtrip projects from Da Vinci into Premiere.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are making our produced videos full of vibrance and color.
Best Coloring Software on the Market
What do you like best about the product?
Davinci Resolve has all the tools I need for coloring, and they are easy to use. I find Davinci to have the best UI compared to all of the other coloring softwares out there. It has great workflow options, and the HSL keying is a powerful and precise.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest thing I dislike about DaVinci is that there is no easy way to use it with Premiere or any other major editing software. I wish Adobe's SpeedGrade was as good as DaVinci since you can use it with Dynamic Link.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DaVinci has been vital in improving our company's videos. Our quality has gone up tremendously with skillful grading, and really has given life to our videos, including the not-so-exciting ones.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Highly recommended for any video professional!
DaVinci Resolve review
What do you like best about the product?
I think DaVinci Resolve is a fantastic color, online AND editing tool. You are always able to get a version of DR for free which is crazy in this day and age. Although not as powerful the free version is still good enough to do ALOT.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only real issue I've had with DR is that every time you were working with media from a new drive you had to mount said drive, save, exit program and restart it. This didn't take a whole lot of time to do but seemed like such a pointless thing to have to do each and every time you started a new project.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm not solving any business problems. As an editor it is extremely beneficial to have a color tool as powerful as DR. With DR I am able to professionally color and output my own personal projects and business projects that don't have the budge to pay a telecine house.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try. Even if it seems a little daunting at first there are plenty of tutorials online to get you the basic tools you need to take your projects to the next level of finishing.
Editing and color grading for all.
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity, elegance and speed of this software is phenomenal. The organic navigation throughout the contexts is what makes it so attractive to me. With a few key strokes you can do wonders. The tight integration of the timeline editing with the color grading tools are efficient. With a short learning curve you quickly get the tech out of the way and work only on the art and creative side of your project.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I would enjoy seeing is a wider range of node for the color grading tool.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Really spend some time at blackmagicdesign website and check their videos introducing the key features, you will be surprised by what you can do and how fast you can do it. Highly encourage everyone on the moving image business to have this on their machines, it is a must have.
Resolve is hard to beat
What do you like best about the product?
Resolve from Blackmagic Design is an an ediitng and grading that you used to cost thousands and is now availavbe for free. Fitting in the middle ground between the non confirmist ways of Final Cut Pro and the effective but let's be honest dull Adobe Premiere, Resolve offers a new and simpler way of putting edits together. Best suited for smaller shorts, the areas that Resolve excel are in it's quick powerful UI with really outstanding color tools which are a boon to any editor worth their salt. With the latest release, Resolve has better integration with Fusion, BlackMagics effects compositing software, makign Resolve a creative hub which can output your work easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
To be honest their isn't much to dislike. A lot of the earlier gripes such as fiddly file input due to Resolve being fussy wha it ingested are behind us. The colour UI could be more intuitive and Resolve is resource intensive and really only works with a beefy discrete GPU powering it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Resolve can act as the hub for any NLE project, able to take it from inception through to completion, especially with the new Fusions Integration
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is no excuse not to look at Resolve, especially as it's free for commercial use, available on both Windows and Mac, version 12.5 is a lot more straighforward to use than previous versions and is probably the nicest looking of the NLE's to live in
The standard in color; an infant NLE
What do you like best about the product?
If you want a color grading program, get Resolve. There isn't anything better. The only exception would be if you need something that integrates into your NLE like a plugin. But if you are serious about color, you can't tough Resolve with anything else. I've tried, and have uses for Magic Bullet Looks and Colorista, as well as other tools like SpeedGrade, and FilmConvert. But at the end of the day, if I'm going to seriously grade a project, it happens in Resolve.
Additionally, this thing has the best tracker of any program I've used—including Mocha, Fusion, and After Effects. It rocks.
I love that Blackmagic is trying to make this a full featured NLE. It's not there yet, but it's getting better.
Additionally, this thing has the best tracker of any program I've used—including Mocha, Fusion, and After Effects. It rocks.
I love that Blackmagic is trying to make this a full featured NLE. It's not there yet, but it's getting better.
What do you dislike about the product?
The NLE functions are fledgling. They hit checkboxes, sure, but they just haven't given it the time it needs to be a real, seasoned NLE that gives a great editing experience. It's nothing major missing—it's a hundred small things that add up to lost time. Tasks take one or two clicks longer than in Avid or Premiere, keyboard shortcuts don't exist for certain tasks, or behaviors don't happen the way they really should.
And none of that is a knock against Resolve or Blackmagic. I firmly believe they'll get there, in time. It's just not there yet.
And none of that is a knock against Resolve or Blackmagic. I firmly believe they'll get there, in time. It's just not there yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like Fusion, this amazing, full-featured powerhouse of a program is FREE, or under $1k for the whole shebang. That's unbelievable. This program used to cost thousands, and is now free with more development and continued improvements.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't question it—if you want to do color grading, get Resolve. The only reason you may not want to is if your computer is very underpowered. But my 2011 MacBook Pro runs it well enough (with 4K footage in proxy mode) so you probably can make it work.
Don't be intimidated. There's a rumor that Resolve has an intense learning curve—it really doesn't. It runs just like any other color grading program I've used.
Don't be intimidated. There's a rumor that Resolve has an intense learning curve—it really doesn't. It runs just like any other color grading program I've used.
Even the free version is Hollywood grade
What do you like best about the product?
Black Magic has emphasized the editing and audio aspects of DaVinci Resolve in its latest versions, making it possible now to execute the entire post production process for a film in Resolve. Rather than being an NLE with audio editing functions, Resolve functions more like an operating system that hosts several applications. The audio workstation page has matured dramatically, and the new Cut page provides an alternate editing application designed to be quick and efficient, while the Fusion page provides a robust toolset for compositing. Support for the newest version of BorisFX' Moch Pro and Silhouette paint are welcome additions, bringing some exceptional paint tools to Resolve. There are some bugs in compatibility with those plugins still, but hopefully those will be address in short order. Translating edits from Resolve to other even higher end color grading applications like Scratch and Mistika works well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Resolve still requires a fairly powerful computer to run optimally, but it's gotten a lot more efficient in recent years. That said, it does make good use of that hardware, making this less of a down side and more of a wash. The biggest con still is support for interchange with the industry standard for audio post production, ProTools. There are still some issues with this, and while the integrated Fairlight page is very good, most professional sound designers use ProTools, so that interchange support is still critical.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been using Resolve as my primary non-linear editor and digital audio workstation. It's also an excellent conforming tool, making the process of getting an edit prepared for finishing in software like Mistika and Scratch easy also.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Resolve's roots as a color grading system optimized for a dedicated control surface shows in the unusual layout for its entire toolset. Rather than being geared around maximum flexibility, it's designed to be efficient and user friendly, so it seems quite odd at times for those coming from other applications such as Premiere. However, very few who take the time to learn to use Resolve return to their previous software of choice for a reason.
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