Blackmagic Design is presenting a big banner on their website that shows beyond the shadow of a doubt the upcoming new version of DaVinci Resolve 16.
Blackmagic is a company that doesn’t stop the inertia of innovation. Jump here to read all their innovative products announced one after another, which are relevant to all types and stages of productions ( cinema cameras) and post-reduction (DaVinci Resolve).
DaVinci Resolve itself has been undergoing multiple rounds of improvements and evolutions regarding its capabilities of color grading, editing, sound design, special effect and delivering.
The Banner says: “The revolution in editing starts at 9 AM PDT on April 8th, 2019” and it’s aiming for the impaired NLE capabilities of DaVinci Resolve.
DaVinci Resolve 16 as an NLE
There is no doubt that DaVinci Resolve is the industry standard regarding color grading. However, the software suffers from insufficient efficiency and limited capabilities when complex editing is needed. According to the banner on the Blackmagic Design website, that impaired NLE abilities are going to change as it seems that the company is focusing on elevating the software’s NLE strengths. The Banner says: “The revolution in editing starts at 9 AM PDT on April 8th, 2019” and it’s aiming for the impaired NLE capabilities of DaVinci Resolve.
It’s important to note that DaVinci Resolve is a great NLE software that got improved tremendously over the time, however, in complex timelines characterized with a lot of layers (especially when editing feature film), there are some crushes and speed issues. Glad to see that Blackmagic is making efforts in further developing DaVinci Resolve to polish those editing abilities of the software in order to transform it to industry standard NLE like FCPX, Avid, and Premiere.
Have you been using DaVinci Resolve in editing? What would you like to see in DaVinci Resolve 16?
I’ve been experimenting with it and it is incredible the amount of things it can do, but also incredible the amount of basic things it can’t do. It can’t change the position in a non-linearly way. It can’t export h264/265 without major major incredible bugs. It can’t stay without crashing every now and then. It can’t copy and paste transitions. It can’t show eases easily. Support is non-existent. I still prefer Premiere for now.
That’s weird. I’m using Resolve studio 15 and it does all of the above for me. Maybe the free version is missing features
This guy must be working for adobe, these are all fake accusations.
Just started Davinci Resolve 15.3 and love it. Sure there’s some things it can’t currently do, but love editing with it much more than Premiere.
Just dumped my Creative Cloud subscription.
If you could dump Creative Cloud for Resolve 15.3, then you probably never needed it – ever – and were doing nothing but wasting money, anyways…
Resolve isn’t going to replace After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, or Character Animator. Adobe CC is more than just Premiere Pro, Rush and Audition… The Cut Page can replace Rush – with 10x the system requirements – but that’s about it. Same with the Fairlight page, somewhat (Audition has much better wave editing and audio cleanup tooling). You get alternatives to Premiere Pro/Rush and Audition, with a bit of After Effects functionality in Fusion (though it’s awful for Motion Graphics)…
For the other stuff, you’re going to be slumming with Affinity or something comparable… and those are really no match for Adobe’s software – particularly when you often have to interop with people using Adobe’s software. The feature disparities (in Adobe’s favor) become a workflow nightmare, at that point. “Unsupported Adjustment Layer/Effect” etc. all day, every day. Have fun with that!
If you’re the average YouTuber who comments on websites like these as if they’re some Hollywood editor, then Resolve may work out well – provided you have the hardware to run it well – since you get a decent package of functionality at a low price. Premiere Pro feels like Final Cut Pro X on my windows machine after running Resolve. The difference in performance is massive, for me. I don’t see a point in paying 1,000 extra in hardware to save on software – especially when every PC I buy for editing will need more horsepower to run this software – compared to Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X. Over the long haul, I’m not seeing it resulting in any “massive” savings…
I don’t consider the Free version to be usable at a professional level – or even at a high end “content creator” level. No 10-Bit media support. Tons of needed features limited. UHD maximum output. No HEVC. No Accelerated Decode or Encode. Some free features are now being limited to Studio. The free upgrades will stop at some point. They’ve been more vocal at clarifying that they never stated free upgrades were forever.
Resolve, in general, has some of the worst H.264 output quality on the market… so I’m astonished that they are encouraging people to render and upload straight to YouTube from their software – especially with the default YouTube render profile being as bad as it is.
It also has, BY FAR, the worst OpenFX performance that I’ve EVER experienced in an NLE… ever. Better have 2 1080Ti GPUs if you need to use a lot of that stuff.
To say that FCPX is industry standard is a gross misstatement. Ive been an Avid editor for 18 years and it’s the industry standard as far as narrative storytelling. It’s pretty solid. Resolve is a great program, though. I’ve been editing with it for the past 4 years. Yes bugs and crashes here and there but they handle it pretty quickly. Premiere boards are filled with instability issues. I’ve cut long format narratives on resolve and to say that it’s not up to the task is simply not true.
We have migrated to Resolve from Premier on both Mac and PC and loving it. No bugs or crashes yet, but early days. Also using Blender 2.80 and hope to import some 3D into Resolve when the crude Blender editor doesn’t cut the mustard for our animation work.
Will Resolve 16 finally give us access to smooth jog and shuttle controls? Guess we’ll see.
I came to Resolve from Edius world and cannot say that resolve is fast and responsive, but I like it more then Premiere and cannot report any bugs or trouble other the very hungry for computer resources.
Things that I would like to see:
Multi Monitor support
UI customization (font size, background colors)
Better performance out of the particle simulator, I have a 8GB video card and it is still sluggish at points
That pretty much it, So far, my journey with Resolve has been great.