I've used Adobe, Final Cut, and DaVinci, and I'd say DaVinci is the best choice for most people. The fact that it's free or just a one-time purchase is huge. For me, it also runs super smoothly. I had so many issues with Adobe over the years, which is why I switched to DaVinci. In the three years I've used DaVinci, I've had maybe only one or two crashes. With Adobe, I dealt with crashes almost every time I worked on a video. That being said, in terms of features, I do pretty much no keyframing or complex animations, so I can see where that might be a downside for some. But for anyone doing basic editing, I'd recommend DaVinci.
I have tried overwhelming fusion and couldn't do it. On the other hand when I have premiere and after effects open at once and one of them hits render, my whole system just freezes and both programs completely crash. That is also on a medium-high end pc. Having editing and vfx/motion graphics in one thing is great
The timing of this video is incredibly bizarre. I recently switched to editing using Davinci Resolve. After worrying about the longevity of Wondershare Filmora, I've been editing in Resolve almost exclusively for about 2 months. The notification of your video interrupted me from installing the brand new CPU I was going to install specifically because I needed to upgrade my system for Resolve. But the weirdest similarity to your experience is the conclusion. Through the pains of editing in Resolve, I realized that the thing that I wanted to focus on the most was the writing. This has given me a patience with Resolve that is priceless. Now that I've focused on writing and better organizing my thoughts, I have patience with Resolve. I don't know why, but I just do. So it's weird that your conclusion was eerily similar.
8:25 that unsmoothness has actually been bugging all of us and the community finally figured out youre supposed to keyframe the anchor point not the position
7:52 you can move and reposition keyframes by enabling the diamond keyframe button at the right edge of every clip. You can also add ease in and out of each keyframe by right-clicking on the diamond icon next to zoom, position etc. on the inspector. 8:09 Correction. You can ease in and out keyframes for OpenFX effects in Resolve 19. Currently, the only types of effects that don't let you ease in n out keyframes on the edit page are just Fusion effects. 8:20 That keyframe issue is a bug, the current workaround is to keyframe zoom only and move your anchor point to where you wanna zoom in instead of keyframing position, but that bug will most likely be solved before the stable version of Resolve 19 comes out. Or you can use the transform OFX as well instead of going to Fusion or just use the free Magiczoom plugin.
hey should i download resolve 19 or 18.6? apparently 19 is faster and has more features but 18.6 is more stable.. I'm just tryna edit let's play gaming type of content, what do you think is better?
As someone who has worked exclusively in DaVinci and has literally no experience in other softwares and therefore have no idea what I’m really talking about, davinci is a pretty damn good software, it just takes a while to learn it proficiently. *(also you can move keyframes in the edit page there’s a tab immediately to the right of the button you click to enter the easing menu)*
As someone who's only ever used DaVinci...it's must easier to start with it and learn over time than transitioning to it. I'm on the opposite side of the argument where other programs just do not look appealing to me. There's so much to learn and...IT'S FREE. DaVinci is incredible to start with. It's unfortunate that AE has a chokehold on the industry :(
I think this is probably the case for most big feature rich creative software (photoshop, blender, protools, etc). These programs are so complex and the workflows we develop so specific, personal and (often times) convoluted that transitioning feels like one of the most mentally taxing things you've ever done. I recently... eh hem... "acquired" photoshop after more than a decade of using GIMP. And man, it's a struggle. Even for tasks where PS obviously does it better/easier, something in my head just recoils at the notion of having to do it differently.
This mirrors my experience with Davinci Resolve. Very good and ease to use for simple editing, but I can't imagine doing advanced editing with it. Fortunately I'm not a professional editor
I'm doing professional editing with paying clients, I use resolve on a daily basis, and also I do tons of keyframing and animations, transitions, VFX etc. for each video. Most of what he said is him not knowing how to use the software and running a slower than recommended computer specs.
In my case, I learnt resolve as my second editing software, soon after I stopped using HitFilm free as I found it very clunky and buggy back then and not capable of what I wanted to do. Though maybe some of that was how bad I was at editing back then. (It was certainly very buggy though) With resolve, I can do literally anything I want to do. I love fusion and I love the keyframing because I'm used to it and I've learnt it. I can use dozens of fusion nodes without my computer lagging as well (I never even realized 32GB of ram is recommended, I run on 16,) and I don't have any reason to switch. I'd say that his low-spec computer was definitely getting into his way of enjoying the program and utilizing it fully.
@@rano12321 ^ exactly bro, you can do a lot of advanced editing on davinci resolve, it just takes time to know the program, he should watch a lot of advanced editing tutorials on the program, it took me maybe 1-2 years to become fully accustomed to it and now it's my favorite editing software ever, it's like the middle ground being something like adobe and more easy to use and free stuff like movie maker and filmora which I started editing on.
How can you imagine doing an advanced edit in Resolve if you aren't a professional editor? What do you think makes Resolve hard to use as a professional editor? Most of the issues JHXC64 has relates to running Resolve on an older, less powerful laptop - which is not the target PC-type for this program in the first place.
I started with DaVinci Resolve and later learned Premiere Pro to meet different client needs, but I always find myself returning to DaVinci. Perhaps it’s because I prefer the company behind it, or maybe it’s the supportive community of people teaching it. Additionally, mastering all the pages in DaVinci feels like having a superpower at your fingertips. XD That said, I do understand the negative aspects you mentioned. Great editing, by the way! 🙂
I am a huge Resolve advocate and I 100% agree with literally everything. Gaming laptop can’t run it properly, the keyframe system is inefficient, the whole program is unintuitive. I’ve experienced firsthand the horrors of trying to export a 30-minute HD short film for hours only for it to crash because storage space couldn’t keep up with the cache. The effects that delete themselves unless you re-apply them separately for every export. For most of my small-scale projects, I just use Filmora cuz it runs better. And yet, I will defend Resolve to my death. I will die on this hill, because even considering all that, it’s just miles better than any other program. Especially if you’re a filmmaker. Gosh, if you’re a professional, please for the love of god use Resolve! I haven’t been in this space for long, but I’m already fed up with having to work with Adobe software just because it’s been the industry standard for so long!
Yeah I actually edit with resolve using a Thinkpad p series I got used with a quadro and it runs fantastic, but I absolutely cannot imagine doing it with a regular gaming laptop. Also like he said it's editing style, I don't mind learning fusion nodes and editing is great once I learned to stack timelines, but I know for some it's a deal breaker.
If you are a resolve advocate and going to defend resolve to death, then why haven't you called him out for all of the things he got wrong in this video?
6:53, ye, everything about keyframes in resolve is true. I found it reeeeally confusing and hard to work with - when I switched to premiere it was such a relief
This video perfectly encapsulates my mood too. I desperately want to distance myself from Adobe, but whether it’s just being too ingratiated into Premiere and After Effects or not, Resolve’s keyframing and edit page is too painful for me to easily transfer over.
I loved hearing about your experience with resolve as someone who has been editing with it for the past 4 years. I feel like a lot of your criticisms regarding your own editing style and the program are completely valid, and my own experiences cannot invalidate that experience you had with it, however I want to share a few of my personal thoughts and anecdotes. Da vinci was the first editing software I learned, and although it was daunting to understand at first, it really only gave me as many problems as your average software would to learn, maybe even less, it felt somewhat intuitive. Most of my learning was done by just grinding out videos and learning increasingly complicated edits to the point where I learned a lot of fusions' capabilities and was making videos with lots and lots of effects I couldn't have ever thought of making. But the thing is that a lot of the cool stuff I could do in fusion I was only able to figure out by watching lengthy tutorials, I never ever would have been able to learn how to make some of the fusion effects I do now just by looking around the software. I think almost every software has this problem but I do think that da vinci resolve could be more simple in that regard. In terms of keyframes, I have only ever used da Vinci, but even when I spline almost every keyframe, I don't have any issues, but it would be nice to have spline graphs that maybe can pop up if you right click on any keyframe button just to speed up the process. I do think some parts of da vinci are unnecessarily laggy but that might be my pc being a problem as well lol.. but they are always releasing new updates getting rid of bugs and reducing lag and I rarely ever have crashes so I'm honestly really happy with the program. I respect you a lot though for trying the program out several times, I myself am very stingy when it comes to switching to a new program when I have already spent so much time learning another one. Still, after all of my time with the program, I personally feel like once one becomes familiar with da vinci resolve, it becomes a very efficient and expansively functional tool that is able to do a variety of things most softwares can't do at all, all for free. I appreciate all of the thought and effort you put into your videos, I hope you give da vinci some more time and hopefully you can get a better computer soon lol :).
For me I have started my youtube channel with capcut, and today Im thinking of switching to davinci. My reasons are many 1.I was working on a video and after having spent almost a month on the video, the whole video kind of corrupted because of some capcut bug that I have never ever seen and I have tried informing myself but I havent seen anybody have it and when I say corruption Im talking about a global slomo speed curve what has messed up all of my small cuts. When I tried fixing it I also realised that all of my cuts are now linked and synced for no reason. 2.Capcut keeps on stabbing me in the back by making free features paid from one day to the other and then they reverse it when people complain, but then try it again which is why I just cant trust capcut anymore. 3.I dont see a future with capcut and I wanted to do some advanced stuff which is only really possible with a monthly pay or switching off capcut. 4.Davinci is hard to learn but it will be worth it. and when I have enough money I could buy davinci for a huge 1 time pay, which capcut doesnt offer.
I started on Premiere in the 90s, then FCP for 10 years, then back to Premiere for 7 years. I have spent the last 4 years using Davinci, it is really awesome if you get time to learn it but nodes are tricky to learn.
I use davinci almost everyday for client work and I do agree, edit page key framing is HORRIBLE, but for me probably quickly heading over to the fusion page and add a transform node isn't too bad.
you can use proxy in fusion by right clicking on 0 frame in timeline where we scrol for preview and select any resolution from 1 to 30 and enable proxy and disable high quality and motion blur by right clicking on or near pause button or you can render a node for preview by right clicking on node that you wanna see preview than select Create/ play preview on then select the veiwer you wanna see preview on and select resolution and wait for render and good see effect in real time and allset
I’ve used Davinchi for the whole time I’ve made YT videos or anything, even some thumbnails actually. Best software ever, but yes, I am now experiencing my PC getting weaker the longer I’ve been using Davinchi (the same slow lag thing you mentioned). Which sucks because keyframes that you visualized in your head you cannot execute due to the inconsistency in frames. I’ve had to render videos to really see what I’m doing, which is annoying because then I also worry about my space. I remember being so excited when Davinchi made a VERY SMALL update to keyframes that made it ever so slightly easier to ease in keyframes. I hope they still improve it the keyframes of even improve the performance. Yes, buying a better PC will solve most/some problems, but I believe we would rather buy essentials, then improve our FPS by like 30+. As always, great video 😃👍
I gotta say man, I really like your content. I saw your first video a while ago I I got immediately hooked, especially on your editing style and your animations. I really hope you can find your perfect editing software be it hitfilm or Resolve, although if you end up switching to resolve please don't give up too much. Keep up the good work and good luck for the future
Yea, as a resolve fusion, i fully believe fusion needs a ton of work. it's the heaviest part of the program that bugs down so quickly by doing so little. they've made some strides in efficiency but i think they can do more for sure
10:36 I remember Davinci Resolve can be install in other drive or direction. It was in the install progress, you can choose the direction you where want Resolve to install. And also the cache file direction can be change in the software settings.
So true, some of my expreience as a commercial editor : 1. Keyframes are so clunky to handle just like mentioned in video. 2. Warp stablizer is not as good as premiere pro and not giving stable result. 3. Motion blur when time remapping have a weird glitch between the cut. 4. If u have some technical or advanced questions ( other than Color which they are truly amazing people even in CZcams) nobody wants to answer that. 5. Tutorials are so outdated, they only teach some basic things not advanced or professional things. however i can say for editing documentries or short films Resolve is a good option.
Made a GreenScreen and a mask to disable what you don't need is juste 10 times hardare that the same thing in After effect. There is 3 way to do that in Davinci, there is only one in After effect, but the good and efficient one.. Davinci is a mess for so many things... You cannot simply double click to open and enter in compound clip. In most of the case, you need turorial to do a news things in DVR, but in Premier or in After Effect, you can find most of this new things by yourself.
The only thing I can agree with you on about this video is the keyframe part on the edit page. Blackmagic needs to redesign that area. At least they are working on it. They added easing to keyframes to OFX plugins on version 19. I also have a laptop with similar specs to yours, but the difference is that I have 32 RAM and the Studio version. Compared to Premiere (which I have used for over 6 years), I felt like I got a whole new system when I installed Resolve. I have been using Resolve on my laptop for 4 and a half years now. Performance never gave me any issues to the point where I couldn't even work. I even managed to work with 6K footage, obviously using efficient workflows with certain codecs and compression. Resolve can vary a bit on Windows depending on your hardware, drivers, and how clean your OS is. I have a colleague who had no smooth playback in Resolve due to a lack of disk space and an OS riddled with junk programs, viruses, and background processes. He did a clean install of Windows and everything worked without any issues. Resolve is an amazing program, keyframes on the edit page are not a big deal for me right now, because you can automate almost everything with the Fusion integration. I'm also creating my own plugins within Resolve even without having extensive coding knowledge. And there are some useful tools like MagicAnimate from MrAlexTech that can speed up your workflow. I hope you can continue using Resolve and find a workflow that works well for you and your system.
10 years into premiere pro and I just don't see myself giving it up. It's really only the grading in resolve that attracts me. If adobe pulled their finger out (they won't) and upgraded lumetri's support for RAW footage and some of the features in the colour grading, I'd be set.
the reason why yor resolve runs slower is because you have free version.only studion version has hardware acceleration,properly utilizes gpu in fusion and also support multiple gpu.
Not everyone likes Davinci... Most people try to convince and reassure themselves that they made the right choice because of the price. I make a video every week... I'd much rather create them in After Effects ^^ And I've just switched to Affinity Photo 2, but I'm clearly missing the polygonal lasso tools to work with.
Been using Davinci for 3-4 years, or maybe more, and I happily never used Adobe Premiere or Effects. I have a really beefy PC, and I totally agree with your review. Same pros, and same cons.
you are... 100 percent right, its more about the script AND YOU, think about it people come here to see you so if you invest in yourself, the script, the community, then your gonna have growth no matter what, theres people on here that sit and eat food in there car..... and thats it, no music no crazy edits and they get insane life changing views. So just remember that with all this said its nice to have some editing skills but like anything els in life you cant have to much of everything, YOU need to have a well balanced system at play!
I think a lot of the issues you experience with DaVinci Resolve are due to the software you learned video editing with. Any change from that will be hard to adapt to. Personally I got really used to Vegas Pro keyframes and it's hard to get used to other software, but it's just a matter or spending more time on it I think.
In the case of the Lag problem, i can only say that Premiere and AE have it worse, although the cache is transferrable, it still fills up very fast with very little editing and on low resolution. Whenever I try to edit a video, after a certain point, the audio just cuts out and i have to restart the playback or the audio plays and I get no video. Honestly I have a better time in the blender Video editor, at least for VFX and audio sync, or stuff like that. But i totally agree, that Premiere and AE have the best Keyframe handling, hands down. The blender Graph editor is not yet GPU accelerated so it still lags when there are too many effects.
honestly, i also tried to switch to davinci resolve because of all the problems i was having with hitfilm (scrolling through a 2+ mb project causes the editor to act funny), but honestly i just can't seem to comprehend a lot of the functions, specially the node system that fusion uses for effects, and most of the time i just end up making worse looking videos overall (also, i'm used to the keyframe easing presets that hitfilm has) It's def more stable and faster on AMD graphics cards, but i just don't have the same patience/adapting skills when i use davinci resolve, so i just ended up not liking it my best option will probably be an older version of hitfilm express, or waiting for an open-source version if the stars align
i feel the exact same but the other way around. i learnt davinci resolve, used it my whole life so far, started to go to work and university and was suddenly forced to use premiere pro and no matter what i do, i just can't get it right. premiere pro just does everything so... differently? like yeah ofc it does, its a different program, but it just feels so weirdly clunky to use to me. not saying it's bad, but when you get into a video editing program, it'll take you a loooong time to be able to switch to another one
Found this very interesting cuz I thought I was the only one with the performance issues due to a bad laptop. For my channel I make edits which needs lots of advanced editing skills and you always have to keep learning more to improve. When I used hitfilm, it also ran way smoother but it also felt limited because I didn’t have any tutorials on how to do advanced stuff. The hitfilm community is also falling apart because they deleted their whole forums system which made it even harder to learn advanced effects. Yes davinci resolve is very complicated but if you really need advanced effects and go all out, davinci resolve is your best bet. If you want simple editing for videos that don’t require a lot of effects, then hitfilm is the best option. I has to switch to davinci resolve because hitfilm had a bug where it would crash on rendering. Davinci resolve has a way bigger community than hitfilm and has a working forum which allows me to do so much more.
I was really hesitant to switch to DaVinci Resolve back in the day. I used lightworks for years on my old laptop. I tried to used DR and it would black screen my laptop when trying to boot. After my old laptop died I put out the money to get a MSI gaming laptop and I slowly started to used DR but my sister insistent. I now used it as my go to. My laptop has 16GB but I pretty sure i have it downloaded to my D drive. I'll check and update this comment when I get home. So DR'S slowness might be a GPU problem for you
Tbh, as a davinchi user i agree, its kind of has a inconsistant style and each thing like fusion the color page, fairlight all have a big learning curve to it and it doesnt help that the layout is a bit complicated. But its honestly better than spending money on different programs to do the same job, and my style suits it (probably because i learned davinchi beffore anything else). For the fusion page point, nodes thing wasnt that hard to learn after i watched a video on it tbh it makes sense to me as person who didnt ever use nodes beffore. This is a very good video btw it has great points and good storytelling and good editing
I'm a full time editor that uses Davinki and it's frickin sweet lois. I can do virtually any 2d, 3d, 4d effects I want, all except for waveform visualizers. I have to switch to ae for those.
I highly recommend getting a new SSD, a 1, or 2 TB one. (1,000 or 2,000 GB). And installing it. It should be easy to install and use for your main drive. There are tools to clone your current C drive to the new one, you can plug the new one in through a SATA to USB adaptor, and clone your old SSD to the new one, and swap out the old SSD for the new one, and that will fix that problem. Same can be said for the RAM. I'm assuming you have DDR4 RAM, and that is likely upgradable to 32 GB, or 64 GB. It's worth a try. See what the maximum RAM your laptop supports.
Davinci Resolve was build with GPU rendering in mind. If you don't have a decent dedicated GPU fusion it's almost unusuable. I Used Premiere cs5 for years on an stupidly old PC (i5 core 2450M 2nd gen) and When I tried Davinci it was impossible to do anything. (not that it ran too good with premiere, but at least it would open) Later I got a GTX 1650, and now a RTX 4060.... and it works fantastic. The better your GPU, the better your overall experience with resolve will be
I have the same experience with Fusion and Edit. I've got AMD Threadreaper 32 core, 64GB RAM, GPU is 2080Ti 11GB VRAM. What davinci resolve version have you been using? Do you use free or paid DR? Cheers!
I have Ryzen 5 2600 + GTX 1060 and Fusion is super smooth and have fast render cache compared to After Effects and I even like node base system just the keyframe panel inside Fusion is not something that I like.
@@3DAndDigitalArt Free Version the only issue I have with performance is when I try to edit H264. mp4 files because free version don't use gpu for decoding that file format or limit it if I remember well and fairlight tab is little bit laggy even if I have only 1 audio track with no plugins. Maybe what I do in fusion is very simple compared to your workflow I use a lot of texts, glows, shapes with keyframes.
tbh most people say that davinci's performance is way better then premiere's, my ram is half of what you have and fusion is okay for me my specs are worse in general too, if you really want to use premiere just get the cracked one for free, 100% agree that the key frame tab in edit page is terrible just use fusion for that.
honestly. i agree with you so much bro Im a quite beginner editor, learning a little bit of fusion caused me a lot of mental pain, i dont wanna even try doing something slightly advanced
I tried to switch back to Davinci but ironically had to switch back due to crashes. And things like creating split screens, keyframing, creating track mattes are so needlessly complicated compared to PR and AE. I think Davinci has potential, but compared to competitors I think it’s just clunky and overcomplicated
I don't know how it compares to anything else in terms of workflow and performance, but I've been using Kdenlive for video editing for a while now and have found it to work pretty well for me. Granted, I certainly don't make complex video edits. But in any case, I'd love to hear your perspective on it!
How in the world are you better at editing, on the software I use everyday - and it's not the one you mainly use ??? Also Plug-ins go crazy on DaVinci.
I have a 2070 super, Ryzen 7 2700x, and 32gb of 3600mhz ram and Davinci's Play-back still lags sometimes (lmao) and yea it has a kind of ass key-framing system. Absolute banger program tho, especially for someone like me who mostly does simple edits. I have used it for 5 years and have no plans to switch.
I love DaVinci's Fusion page, and the edit page for editing. But for anything with animation I almost always find myself turning to Blender or the Fusion page. The animation in the edit page is so... bad lol
Dude, I REALLY hate the way DaVinci handles keyframes, and especially easing. The fact that you can't make elastic/bounce animations without pretty much doubling the steps is nonsense.
Hello, at 14:42 you talked about the writing / script of your videos. Here is my personal opinion on it (for details see the response I will make) : 1) Regarding the utility / meaning of your videos I think that you are mistaking. You wanting to talk about something is purpose / meaning enough for doing a video, therefore it will never be pointless. 2) I agree when you say that you sometimes feel as if your scripts are inconclusive. Not the video in itself but more for small things inside it. 3) Concerning “what” to write about, as said previously anything is fine as long as you want to talk about it (so no forcing yourself) but I think there needs to be a distinct difference for various types of videos as it might slightly confuse people making the video a bit less enjoyable. Because deferent type of videos will have deferent scripts / vibes. P.S. : I really loved how your username moved in the outro of your previous videos, is there any chance to have that “gimmick” back ?
For 1) I have two good examples that come to mind.
The french twitch streamer Etoiles doing on regular basis streams about the culture TV show “Question pour un champion” (equivalent of the TV show “Going for Gold” in the UK) and time to time streams where he visits museums etc. One might think that because gamers and young people are not known for being fond of cultural stuff it would be pointless but many people still love what he does. Then a youtuber named City Planner Mismanages, he has autism and is in love with maps (and drawing them). At first he did videos about the game city skylines but recently he did a lot of videos that are way more personal with sometimes heavy topics. In my opinion it was so he doesn’t feel so lonely about his obsessive passion and to get stuff out off his chest. One might think that nobody would care but it was the complete opposite. People hearty welcomed those videos and it helped him feel better. For 2) I personally see your video style as an essay / presentation about a subject. Hence it is like exploring a tree, you go from the big trunk (the intro) to the very top of it (the outro) and the more details you have in your video the more branches your tree has. However it always feels a bit weird when you begin exploring a branch but it doesn’t have an end. I would suggest that each time to go explore a branch that you put a small conclusion to it (even if the branch if very small). It doesn’t really matter if the conclusion is useful to the video / final conclusion, what matters is that it has one (it can even be just a word or two). For 3) For now there seems to be almost only videos about youtube but at one point, whether or not it is out of fear to feel again trapped in a certain subject like your previous channel, you might want to change / variate subject just like with your Spyro speedrun video. However people tend to have habits especially about what they consume (always same food, same series, same video games etc) and it will be the same for your videos. People will already have a certain mindset before watching one of your videos and have expectations. No matter how good your video is, if those expectations are not exactly met then it will fill a bit confusing / shitty. Therefore I would suggest to classify your videos under various categories (or vibes) and have a distinct deference between categories. It might be a slightly deferent scripted intro, a slightly deferent visual intro (can be a text appearing or a colour palette deference) or thumbnail. This would put people into a deferent mindset before clicking on the video or before going deep into the subject of the video.
I have a 3070, 32 gb ram and can confirm resolve gets really choppy once there's an animation or two on screen. There's ways of getting around it like waiting to add performance heavy animations but it's pretty lame
I do a lot of keyframing on my videos, and it really is hard and time consuming on resolve. I also have the same issue with playback, and my setup is in the mid range. We just have to pick our poison because all editing programs have their own con. I choose to poison myself with Resolve because it does a lot of great things. Just got to be extra patient in using it.
davinci has its issues for sure. God forbid you want to use a lot of text - even the fancy "text+" doesnt support word wrap. Like, the tech for word wrap was figured out 40 years ago - its ridiculous. But once I got used to rendering out clips and then using those clips in place of heavy effect stacks in resolve, things have been going pretty well with it for me. I suggest turning off cache entirely and using timeline resolution > quarter though - performance is ok enough like that for me! Just remember Davinci BOUGHT both Fusion and Fairlight - they were not developed by Blackmagic but 3rd party apps that they purchased and integrated.
If they solve all the solve, the only con that they have is a learning curve. Which is basically neglected easily thanks to tutorials. They really need to prioritize fixing their performance.
The key key frame argument is iffy💀there’s a key frame timeline to the right of the graph u see the clip. The easing is mediocre through the edit tab but there IS a key frame timeline
I've recently switched from Adobe to Davinci resolve 18, it was hard at first, but it was kinda the same like premiere except the fusion editing with the nodes, which was new for me but I took some time and learnt it by tutorials and turns out it's kinda simple.
@@astrn5620 Yeah it's really good with the pro version, but the free one is also good, It's about the same as premiere pro and AE combined and yes you can do smooth motion graphics, there's a blur effect like the one from AE that makes it really smooth and really easy to apply.
NO NO NO, there's so much wrong with this video. I can understand you've had certain experience with Resolve, but I've been professionally editing with Resolve and by professionally, I mean I make a living editing with Resolve. I personally prefer Resolve's way of keyframing way more than premiere or any other editor as since it's on the timeline, and not on a separate view you'd need to look to match everything, so it's much faster and easier. You can literally click on the diamond button at the end of every clip to see the key frames and adjust the timing of it, you only need to open the graph view if you wanna change the animation graph. Now you are saying some of the time it lets you change the graph like ease in and sometimes it doesn't. It only happens if you are using a Fusion transition on the edit page but you can switch to Fusion page if you wanna do that. Usually if you wanna easing two things at once, it offsets the anchor point, trying setting up it properly and it would work. When it comes to performance, Resolve has a much higher bottom point than any other editor even tho it has a free version a lot of people would associate it with being a cheap or inferior editor but this same software a decade ago without editing, fusion fairlight, used to cost upwards of $25K and since now it's basically 4-5 programs in 1, it makes sense why it has so much system requirement. Unlike PP, Resolve heavily relies on GPU, even on the free version so if you have an older GPU and low VRAM, then you are not gonna have a good time unless you are using a lot of proxies both in edit and fusion page. Most people don't matter what type of videos they are making, doesn't need to use every single page. Resolve is a professional program and each page is basically a separate program with indepth tools and workflows, a lot more than what adobe programs have to offer, but that doesn't mean you'd need to learn every single page fully to use Resolve, most people use max 1-3 pages to get everything done and having different pages to do different things makes a lot more sense to me and much much faster than constantly opening and closing different programs and importing and exporting files and the dynamic link crash constantly breaking the moment you change something in one program. Cool video but in conclusion a lot of the problems you've had were not necessarily problems with Resolve but you not fully knowing the program you're talking about and your computer not matching the recommended specs to run the software to begin with. I mean for god’s sake, you were using FL studio while accusing Resolve to be hard to learn and having different interfaces and learning curve with Fusion and color page when FL studio is known for being the most awkwardly different daw in the world, and people who learn fl first have a really bad time learning another daw since it's so different and odd compared to everything other daw.
On hindsight, if you are doing a lot of zooms and doing a lot of animations on the edit page, I'd recommend the Magicanimate and Magiczoom plugins for Resolve. They basically bring the power of Fusion in the edit page and makes it very easy and quick to do easy animations and zoom stuff with just a few clicks and you can save your custom zooms and animations and reuse them over and over.
Honestly in my experience you can move, copy etc keyframes in the keyframe timeline (the button right next to the keyframe graph) but it still is really janky. I personally find myself in the cut version as it runs smoother for me when cutting the raw video into clips. The hardware issues (I too run into blackscreen during playback and fusion never rendering except when delivering) can be slightly mitigated with the timeline feature but when i start using like 4-5 clips at the same time with each a color effect and sometimes even fusion applied I can only sit there and work with a frame by frame view or delivering it every time... Many "effects" i use don't require the fusion page as there are a lot of presets of simple effects (like color key framing or fisheye (also called dent)) already build in.
Lol I have the same laptop and use it for some hitfilm projects. I've been on 2021.2 since it released. Unfortunately I don't do video editing, I do character animations and vfx stuff, so I'm likely going to be forced onto AE if I want to keep making money.. .-. It's an absolute shame what happened to HF, bar a few missing features it's pretty much perfect for my workflow.
Seriously try any m series macbook, I'm editing a 4k 20 minutes plus festival film with some vfx and honestly works just fine on my base m1 macbook air
Dude. You're on a 6 year old computer with a 10-series Nvidia card and a 128 GB main drive. There's your problem, with ANY editing software. Aside from 3D simulations in Houdini, Video Editing is like one of the most taxing things you can do on your computer. Resolve is world-class software, but you need a decent rig to run it. Could it be optimized? Sure. But you don't even meet minimum specs.
I've used Adobe, Final Cut, and DaVinci, and I'd say DaVinci is the best choice for most people. The fact that it's free or just a one-time purchase is huge. For me, it also runs super smoothly. I had so many issues with Adobe over the years, which is why I switched to DaVinci. In the three years I've used DaVinci, I've had maybe only one or two crashes. With Adobe, I dealt with crashes almost every time I worked on a video. That being said, in terms of features, I do pretty much no keyframing or complex animations, so I can see where that might be a downside for some. But for anyone doing basic editing, I'd recommend DaVinci.
Adobe Premire and Sony Vegas have caused me so many hours of pain from crashing. Going to try out davinci resolve
I have tried overwhelming fusion and couldn't do it. On the other hand when I have premiere and after effects open at once and one of them hits render, my whole system just freezes and both programs completely crash. That is also on a medium-high end pc. Having editing and vfx/motion graphics in one thing is great
fusion is one of the best for keyframig and animations they got everthing in studio version and dont even need multiple apps
@@itzrohith6257how does it compare to regular premiere? Are the ease functions there?
With the right mindset every video editing software is free
My man has the mindset
this is the right answer
What ?
@@Eywhatwithyourattitudebruh my man has never sailed the seas 💔
sailing seas?
The timing of this video is incredibly bizarre. I recently switched to editing using Davinci Resolve. After worrying about the longevity of Wondershare Filmora, I've been editing in Resolve almost exclusively for about 2 months.
The notification of your video interrupted me from installing the brand new CPU I was going to install specifically because I needed to upgrade my system for Resolve.
But the weirdest similarity to your experience is the conclusion. Through the pains of editing in Resolve, I realized that the thing that I wanted to focus on the most was the writing. This has given me a patience with Resolve that is priceless. Now that I've focused on writing and better organizing my thoughts, I have patience with Resolve. I don't know why, but I just do. So it's weird that your conclusion was eerily similar.
8:25 that unsmoothness has actually been bugging all of us and the community finally figured out youre supposed to keyframe the anchor point not the position
explain
@@Obbsnja patrick stirling made a video of it a month ago
@@MINIPRO27 thank you
@@MINIPRO27 what's it called?
@@LEYTHLEGACYit’s titled “zooming in Davinchi resolve is broken”
unsubbing cause u said jif instead of gif. feel free to use this comment as an excuse to make a video on why people are split on the pronunciation
Np bro
came to say this 😭
Hi im the nerd and erm actually the creator of the acronym said it was pronounced, and I quote, “jif like the peanut butter”
@@SpaceNuggets He was WRONG ☺😏
It’s pronounced juh-iyfe
7:52 you can move and reposition keyframes by enabling the diamond keyframe button at the right edge of every clip. You can also add ease in and out of each keyframe by right-clicking on the diamond icon next to zoom, position etc. on the inspector.
8:09 Correction. You can ease in and out keyframes for OpenFX effects in Resolve 19. Currently, the only types of effects that don't let you ease in n out keyframes on the edit page are just Fusion effects.
8:20 That keyframe issue is a bug, the current workaround is to keyframe zoom only and move your anchor point to where you wanna zoom in instead of keyframing position, but that bug will most likely be solved before the stable version of Resolve 19 comes out. Or you can use the transform OFX as well instead of going to Fusion or just use the free Magiczoom plugin.
hey should i download resolve 19 or 18.6? apparently 19 is faster and has more features but 18.6 is more stable.. I'm just tryna edit let's play gaming type of content, what do you think is better?
@@LEYTHLEGACY 19 beta 4 is rock solid. Surprised it's still in beta tbh.
@@StuartHetzler beta 4 better than beta 5?
@@LEYTHLEGACY I haven't upgraded to 5 yet. I'm speaking to what I know.
@@LEYTHLEGACY 10 is in beta yet but it's pretty solid, I've been using it to edit client videos no problem.
As someone who has worked exclusively in DaVinci and has literally no experience in other softwares and therefore have no idea what I’m really talking about, davinci is a pretty damn good software, it just takes a while to learn it proficiently. *(also you can move keyframes in the edit page there’s a tab immediately to the right of the button you click to enter the easing menu)*
Pirating adobe is always morally correct
it always says I don’t have a license or something
As someone who's only ever used DaVinci...it's must easier to start with it and learn over time than transitioning to it. I'm on the opposite side of the argument where other programs just do not look appealing to me. There's so much to learn and...IT'S FREE. DaVinci is incredible to start with. It's unfortunate that AE has a chokehold on the industry :(
I think this is probably the case for most big feature rich creative software (photoshop, blender, protools, etc). These programs are so complex and the workflows we develop so specific, personal and (often times) convoluted that transitioning feels like one of the most mentally taxing things you've ever done. I recently... eh hem... "acquired" photoshop after more than a decade of using GIMP. And man, it's a struggle. Even for tasks where PS obviously does it better/easier, something in my head just recoils at the notion of having to do it differently.
This mirrors my experience with Davinci Resolve. Very good and ease to use for simple editing, but I can't imagine doing advanced editing with it. Fortunately I'm not a professional editor
I'm doing professional editing with paying clients, I use resolve on a daily basis, and also I do tons of keyframing and animations, transitions, VFX etc. for each video. Most of what he said is him not knowing how to use the software and running a slower than recommended computer specs.
In my case, I learnt resolve as my second editing software, soon after I stopped using HitFilm free as I found it very clunky and buggy back then and not capable of what I wanted to do. Though maybe some of that was how bad I was at editing back then. (It was certainly very buggy though)
With resolve, I can do literally anything I want to do. I love fusion and I love the keyframing because I'm used to it and I've learnt it. I can use dozens of fusion nodes without my computer lagging as well (I never even realized 32GB of ram is recommended, I run on 16,) and I don't have any reason to switch.
I'd say that his low-spec computer was definitely getting into his way of enjoying the program and utilizing it fully.
@@rano12321 ^ exactly bro, you can do a lot of advanced editing on davinci resolve, it just takes time to know the program, he should watch a lot of advanced editing tutorials on the program, it took me maybe 1-2 years to become fully accustomed to it and now it's my favorite editing software ever, it's like the middle ground being something like adobe and more easy to use and free stuff like movie maker and filmora which I started editing on.
How can you imagine doing an advanced edit in Resolve if you aren't a professional editor? What do you think makes Resolve hard to use as a professional editor? Most of the issues JHXC64 has relates to running Resolve on an older, less powerful laptop - which is not the target PC-type for this program in the first place.
I started with DaVinci Resolve and later learned Premiere Pro to meet different client needs, but I always find myself returning to DaVinci.
Perhaps it’s because I prefer the company behind it, or maybe it’s the supportive community of people teaching it.
Additionally, mastering all the pages in DaVinci feels like having a superpower at your fingertips. XD
That said, I do understand the negative aspects you mentioned.
Great editing, by the way! 🙂
I am a huge Resolve advocate and I 100% agree with literally everything. Gaming laptop can’t run it properly, the keyframe system is inefficient, the whole program is unintuitive. I’ve experienced firsthand the horrors of trying to export a 30-minute HD short film for hours only for it to crash because storage space couldn’t keep up with the cache. The effects that delete themselves unless you re-apply them separately for every export. For most of my small-scale projects, I just use Filmora cuz it runs better.
And yet, I will defend Resolve to my death. I will die on this hill, because even considering all that, it’s just miles better than any other program. Especially if you’re a filmmaker. Gosh, if you’re a professional, please for the love of god use Resolve! I haven’t been in this space for long, but I’m already fed up with having to work with Adobe software just because it’s been the industry standard for so long!
Yeah I actually edit with resolve using a Thinkpad p series I got used with a quadro and it runs fantastic, but I absolutely cannot imagine doing it with a regular gaming laptop.
Also like he said it's editing style, I don't mind learning fusion nodes and editing is great once I learned to stack timelines, but I know for some it's a deal breaker.
Idk what your saying about gaming laptops not running resolve because it's worked perfectly on my gaming laptop
@@RandomGreenKirb No, it's fine, I'm not jealous, you're jealous ;--;
If you are a resolve advocate and going to defend resolve to death, then why haven't you called him out for all of the things he got wrong in this video?
why does it not run good on gaming laptops though..
My man starting off with Legend of Dragoon music. What a gamer
6:53, ye, everything about keyframes in resolve is true. I found it reeeeally confusing and hard to work with - when I switched to premiere it was such a relief
So much effort into one video I really appreciate it
damn, even your old laptop is lightyears ahead of the one I use for editing
This video perfectly encapsulates my mood too. I desperately want to distance myself from Adobe, but whether it’s just being too ingratiated into Premiere and After Effects or not, Resolve’s keyframing and edit page is too painful for me to easily transfer over.
Let's fucking go! Davinci's really good.
I used hitfilm express for years but when it became shitty i switched to Davinci resolve and i feel like i still havent gotten used to it
I loved hearing about your experience with resolve as someone who has been editing with it for the past 4 years. I feel like a lot of your criticisms regarding your own editing style and the program are completely valid, and my own experiences cannot invalidate that experience you had with it, however I want to share a few of my personal thoughts and anecdotes. Da vinci was the first editing software I learned, and although it was daunting to understand at first, it really only gave me as many problems as your average software would to learn, maybe even less, it felt somewhat intuitive.
Most of my learning was done by just grinding out videos and learning increasingly complicated edits to the point where I learned a lot of fusions' capabilities and was making videos with lots and lots of effects I couldn't have ever thought of making. But the thing is that a lot of the cool stuff I could do in fusion I was only able to figure out by watching lengthy tutorials, I never ever would have been able to learn how to make some of the fusion effects I do now just by looking around the software. I think almost every software has this problem but I do think that da vinci resolve could be more simple in that regard.
In terms of keyframes, I have only ever used da Vinci, but even when I spline almost every keyframe, I don't have any issues, but it would be nice to have spline graphs that maybe can pop up if you right click on any keyframe button just to speed up the process. I do think some parts of da vinci are unnecessarily laggy but that might be my pc being a problem as well lol.. but they are always releasing new updates getting rid of bugs and reducing lag and I rarely ever have crashes so I'm honestly really happy with the program.
I respect you a lot though for trying the program out several times, I myself am very stingy when it comes to switching to a new program when I have already spent so much time learning another one. Still, after all of my time with the program, I personally feel like once one becomes familiar with da vinci resolve, it becomes a very efficient and expansively functional tool that is able to do a variety of things most softwares can't do at all, all for free.
I appreciate all of the thought and effort you put into your videos, I hope you give da vinci some more time and hopefully you can get a better computer soon lol :).
For me I have started my youtube channel with capcut, and today Im thinking of switching to davinci.
My reasons are many
1.I was working on a video and after having spent almost a month on the video, the whole video kind of corrupted because of some capcut bug that I have never ever seen and I have tried informing myself but I havent seen anybody have it and when I say corruption Im talking about a global slomo speed curve what has messed up all of my small cuts.
When I tried fixing it I also realised that all of my cuts are now linked and synced for no reason.
2.Capcut keeps on stabbing me in the back by making free features paid from one day to the other and then they reverse it when people complain, but then try it again which is why I just cant trust capcut anymore.
3.I dont see a future with capcut and I wanted to do some advanced stuff which is only really possible with a monthly pay or switching off capcut.
4.Davinci is hard to learn but it will be worth it. and when I have enough money I could buy davinci for a huge 1 time pay, which capcut doesnt offer.
truth
I started on Premiere in the 90s, then FCP for 10 years, then back to Premiere for 7 years. I have spent the last 4 years using Davinci, it is really awesome if you get time to learn it but nodes are tricky to learn.
I only edit in (..ehm.. pirated) Vegas and DaVinci is too complicates for me 😅, but ill try to get better at it.
I use davinci almost everyday for client work and I do agree, edit page key framing is HORRIBLE, but for me probably quickly heading over to the fusion page and add a transform node isn't too bad.
Yeah, I think that when you get used to the Fusion page, your life in DaVinc just become much easier
You’re absolutely right about the keyframes. I wish davinci had a better optimized way of using keyframes
you can use proxy in fusion by right clicking on 0 frame in timeline where we scrol for preview and select any resolution from 1 to 30 and enable proxy and disable high quality and motion blur by right clicking on or near pause button
or you can render a node for preview by right clicking on node that you wanna see preview than select Create/ play preview on then select the veiwer you wanna see preview on and select resolution and wait for render and good see effect in real time and allset
extra info: this feature doesnt exist in v19! BM found out about it i guess..
I am not super experienced with video editing and content creation, but I use DaVinci Resolve, and I've been happy with it for my purposes.
Ye it's cracked for simple edits
I’ve used Davinchi for the whole time I’ve made YT videos or anything, even some thumbnails actually. Best software ever, but yes, I am now experiencing my PC getting weaker the longer I’ve been using Davinchi (the same slow lag thing you mentioned). Which sucks because keyframes that you visualized in your head you cannot execute due to the inconsistency in frames. I’ve had to render videos to really see what I’m doing, which is annoying because then I also worry about my space.
I remember being so excited when Davinchi made a VERY SMALL update to keyframes that made it ever so slightly easier to ease in keyframes. I hope they still improve it the keyframes of even improve the performance. Yes, buying a better PC will solve most/some problems, but I believe we would rather buy essentials, then improve our FPS by like 30+.
As always, great video 😃👍
I agree with everything you said! But I also believe that blackmagic listens to its users the most and they will keep making improvements :-)
PC is not getti ng weaker form Davinci kid, it's getting weaker with old age, less storage space, dust in the pc, and much more.
I gotta say man, I really like your content. I saw your first video a while ago I I got immediately hooked, especially on your editing style and your animations. I really hope you can find your perfect editing software be it hitfilm or Resolve, although if you end up switching to resolve please don't give up too much. Keep up the good work and good luck for the future
Yea, as a resolve fusion, i fully believe fusion needs a ton of work. it's the heaviest part of the program that bugs down so quickly by doing so little. they've made some strides in efficiency but i think they can do more for sure
10:36 I remember Davinci Resolve can be install in other drive or direction. It was in the install progress, you can choose the direction you where want Resolve to install. And also the cache file direction can be change in the software settings.
you get it, davinci needs help....
He's dead though
no, he needs to unlearn premiere and realize that's not the only way to do things.
So true, some of my expreience as a commercial editor :
1. Keyframes are so clunky to handle just like mentioned in video.
2. Warp stablizer is not as good as premiere pro and not giving stable result.
3. Motion blur when time remapping have a weird glitch between the cut.
4. If u have some technical or advanced questions ( other than Color which they are truly amazing people even in CZcams) nobody wants to answer that.
5. Tutorials are so outdated, they only teach some basic things not advanced or professional things.
however i can say for editing documentries or short films Resolve is a good option.
Made a GreenScreen and a mask to disable what you don't need is juste 10 times hardare that the same thing in After effect.
There is 3 way to do that in Davinci, there is only one in After effect, but the good and efficient one..
Davinci is a mess for so many things...
You cannot simply double click to open and enter in compound clip.
In most of the case, you need turorial to do a news things in DVR, but in Premier or in After Effect, you can find most of this new things by yourself.
As an avid Davinci Resolve believer, it was awesome getting to hear about your experience with it! Mad respect with your opinion.
The only thing I can agree with you on about this video is the keyframe part on the edit page. Blackmagic needs to redesign that area.
At least they are working on it. They added easing to keyframes to OFX plugins on version 19.
I also have a laptop with similar specs to yours, but the difference is that I have 32 RAM and the Studio version. Compared to Premiere (which I have used for over 6 years), I felt like I got a whole new system when I installed Resolve.
I have been using Resolve on my laptop for 4 and a half years now. Performance never gave me any issues to the point where I couldn't even work. I even managed to work with 6K footage, obviously using efficient workflows with certain codecs and compression.
Resolve can vary a bit on Windows depending on your hardware, drivers, and how clean your OS is.
I have a colleague who had no smooth playback in Resolve due to a lack of disk space and an OS riddled with junk programs, viruses, and background processes. He did a clean install of Windows and everything worked without any issues.
Resolve is an amazing program, keyframes on the edit page are not a big deal for me right now, because you can automate almost everything with the Fusion integration. I'm also creating my own plugins within Resolve even without having extensive coding knowledge.
And there are some useful tools like MagicAnimate from MrAlexTech that can speed up your workflow.
I hope you can continue using Resolve and find a workflow that works well for you and your system.
10 years into premiere pro and I just don't see myself giving it up. It's really only the grading in resolve that attracts me. If adobe pulled their finger out (they won't) and upgraded lumetri's support for RAW footage and some of the features in the colour grading, I'd be set.
Just watched your ludwig video and wanted to say I’m proud of you bro, keep doing your thing 👍
Never thought my favourite krunker parkour map maker would make a variety channel
I use resolve, but fair critiques!
and the fusion page, although powerful, is very clunky and easy to loose overview
the reason why yor resolve runs slower is because you have free version.only studion version has hardware acceleration,properly utilizes gpu in fusion and also support multiple gpu.
I had a similar process.
Hitfilm -> Dacinci Resolve -> pirated premiere
How you got pirated adobe?
Fairlight is unreasonably powerful, it's almost a DAW
Not everyone likes Davinci... Most people try to convince and reassure themselves that they made the right choice because of the price.
I make a video every week... I'd much rather create them in After Effects ^^
And I've just switched to Affinity Photo 2, but I'm clearly missing the polygonal lasso tools to work with.
Been using Davinci for 3-4 years, or maybe more, and I happily never used Adobe Premiere or Effects. I have a really beefy PC, and I totally agree with your review. Same pros, and same cons.
About the writing for the video, personally, I tend to mostly listen to your video, I don’t watch that much, although it is nice to see.
Bro explained why people pirate
Came from Vegas and say the least i was confused as hell but im starting to learn
you are... 100 percent right, its more about the script AND YOU, think about it people come here to see you so if you invest in yourself, the script, the community, then your gonna have growth no matter what, theres people on here that sit and eat food in there car..... and thats it, no music no crazy edits and they get insane life changing views. So just remember that with all this said its nice to have some editing skills but like anything els in life you cant have to much of everything, YOU need to have a well balanced system at play!
Have you tried using a fast external SSD for the cache files? Resolve allows you to set destinations for proxy, cache and render files separately.
this video's script was really good and conclusive, genuinely.
I think a lot of the issues you experience with DaVinci Resolve are due to the software you learned video editing with. Any change from that will be hard to adapt to. Personally I got really used to Vegas Pro keyframes and it's hard to get used to other software, but it's just a matter or spending more time on it I think.
I mean, sailing the seas with premiere is technically possible
In the case of the Lag problem, i can only say that Premiere and AE have it worse, although the cache is transferrable, it still fills up very fast with very little editing and on low resolution. Whenever I try to edit a video, after a certain point, the audio just cuts out and i have to restart the playback or the audio plays and I get no video. Honestly I have a better time in the blender Video editor, at least for VFX and audio sync, or stuff like that.
But i totally agree, that Premiere and AE have the best Keyframe handling, hands down. The blender Graph editor is not yet GPU accelerated so it still lags when there are too many effects.
honestly, i also tried to switch to davinci resolve because of all the problems i was having with hitfilm (scrolling through a 2+ mb project causes the editor to act funny), but honestly i just can't seem to comprehend a lot of the functions, specially the node system that fusion uses for effects, and most of the time i just end up making worse looking videos overall
(also, i'm used to the keyframe easing presets that hitfilm has)
It's def more stable and faster on AMD graphics cards, but i just don't have the same patience/adapting skills when i use davinci resolve, so i just ended up not liking it
my best option will probably be an older version of hitfilm express, or waiting for an open-source version if the stars align
In the process of trying to switch from hitfilm to resolve. Currently failing
I use CapCut on PC for video editing, but when I tried it on my 2020 PC… It crashed
I also use Capcut Desktop. I switched from Shotcut (a really simple editor). Capcut has been serving me well because of it's ease of use.
i feel the exact same but the other way around. i learnt davinci resolve, used it my whole life so far, started to go to work and university and was suddenly forced to use premiere pro and no matter what i do, i just can't get it right. premiere pro just does everything so... differently? like yeah ofc it does, its a different program, but it just feels so weirdly clunky to use to me. not saying it's bad, but when you get into a video editing program, it'll take you a loooong time to be able to switch to another one
Found this very interesting cuz I thought I was the only one with the performance issues due to a bad laptop. For my channel I make edits which needs lots of advanced editing skills and you always have to keep learning more to improve. When I used hitfilm, it also ran way smoother but it also felt limited because I didn’t have any tutorials on how to do advanced stuff. The hitfilm community is also falling apart because they deleted their whole forums system which made it even harder to learn advanced effects. Yes davinci resolve is very complicated but if you really need advanced effects and go all out, davinci resolve is your best bet. If you want simple editing for videos that don’t require a lot of effects, then hitfilm is the best option. I has to switch to davinci resolve because hitfilm had a bug where it would crash on rendering. Davinci resolve has a way bigger community than hitfilm and has a working forum which allows me to do so much more.
I was really hesitant to switch to DaVinci Resolve back in the day. I used lightworks for years on my old laptop. I tried to used DR and it would black screen my laptop when trying to boot. After my old laptop died I put out the money to get a MSI gaming laptop and I slowly started to used DR but my sister insistent. I now used it as my go to. My laptop has 16GB but I pretty sure i have it downloaded to my D drive. I'll check and update this comment when I get home. So DR'S slowness might be a GPU problem for you
Tbh, as a davinchi user i agree, its kind of has a inconsistant style and each thing like fusion the color page, fairlight all have a big learning curve to it and it doesnt help that the layout is a bit complicated. But its honestly better than spending money on different programs to do the same job, and my style suits it (probably because i learned davinchi beffore anything else). For the fusion page point, nodes thing wasnt that hard to learn after i watched a video on it tbh it makes sense to me as person who didnt ever use nodes beffore. This is a very good video btw it has great points and good storytelling and good editing
13:39 that music came out of nowhere
I'm a full time editor that uses Davinki and it's frickin sweet lois. I can do virtually any 2d, 3d, 4d effects I want, all except for waveform visualizers. I have to switch to ae for those.
I highly recommend getting a new SSD, a 1, or 2 TB one. (1,000 or 2,000 GB). And installing it. It should be easy to install and use for your main drive. There are tools to clone your current C drive to the new one, you can plug the new one in through a SATA to USB adaptor, and clone your old SSD to the new one, and swap out the old SSD for the new one, and that will fix that problem.
Same can be said for the RAM. I'm assuming you have DDR4 RAM, and that is likely upgradable to 32 GB, or 64 GB. It's worth a try. See what the maximum RAM your laptop supports.
6:32 If using Free and you record with a Sony camera, like my A7IV, you need to record in XAVC S 4K, if you got Studio, you can use XAVC HS 4K.
The only problem I have with Davinci Resolve is that you need quite a powerful graphics card, and without it is painful to use.
Davinci Resolve was build with GPU rendering in mind. If you don't have a decent dedicated GPU fusion it's almost unusuable.
I Used Premiere cs5 for years on an stupidly old PC (i5 core 2450M 2nd gen) and When I tried Davinci it was impossible to do anything. (not that it ran too good with premiere, but at least it would open)
Later I got a GTX 1650, and now a RTX 4060.... and it works fantastic. The better your GPU, the better your overall experience with resolve will be
I have the same experience with Fusion and Edit. I've got AMD Threadreaper 32 core, 64GB RAM, GPU is 2080Ti 11GB VRAM. What davinci resolve version have you been using? Do you use free or paid DR? Cheers!
exactly. resolve is heavily gpu based, so if you have an older gpu, it's not the software's fault.
I have Ryzen 5 2600 + GTX 1060 and Fusion is super smooth and have fast render cache compared to After Effects and I even like node base system just the keyframe panel inside Fusion is not something that I like.
@@TeamA-f2i Hey. Can i ask if you are on a free or paid version of DR? Cheers!
@@3DAndDigitalArt Free Version the only issue I have with performance is when I try to edit H264. mp4 files because free version don't use gpu for decoding that file format or limit it if I remember well and fairlight tab is little bit laggy even if I have only 1 audio track with no plugins. Maybe what I do in fusion is very simple compared to your workflow I use a lot of texts, glows, shapes with keyframes.
I'm Using Davinci Resolve 18 and I feel Good about it
tbh most people say that davinci's performance is way better then premiere's, my ram is half of what you have and fusion is okay for me my specs are worse in general too, if you really want to use premiere just get the cracked one for free, 100% agree that the key frame tab in edit page is terrible just use fusion for that.
2:52 CHIITAN MENTIONED!!!! *insert joseph ohmygod*
honestly. i agree with you so much bro
Im a quite beginner editor, learning a little bit of fusion caused me a lot of mental pain, i dont wanna even try doing something slightly advanced
it will click for you bro trust me
I tried to switch back to Davinci but ironically had to switch back due to crashes. And things like creating split screens, keyframing, creating track mattes are so needlessly complicated compared to PR and AE.
I think Davinci has potential, but compared to competitors I think it’s just clunky and overcomplicated
I don't know how it compares to anything else in terms of workflow and performance, but I've been using Kdenlive for video editing for a while now and have found it to work pretty well for me. Granted, I certainly don't make complex video edits. But in any case, I'd love to hear your perspective on it!
How in the world are you better at editing, on the software I use everyday - and it's not the one you mainly use ???
Also Plug-ins go crazy on DaVinci.
Would absolutely love one about affinity
I have a 2070 super, Ryzen 7 2700x, and 32gb of 3600mhz ram and Davinci's Play-back still lags sometimes (lmao) and yea it has a kind of ass key-framing system. Absolute banger program tho, especially for someone like me who mostly does simple edits. I have used it for 5 years and have no plans to switch.
I love DaVinci's Fusion page, and the edit page for editing. But for anything with animation I almost always find myself turning to Blender or the Fusion page. The animation in the edit page is so... bad lol
Dude, I REALLY hate the way DaVinci handles keyframes, and especially easing. The fact that you can't make elastic/bounce animations without pretty much doubling the steps is nonsense.
Hello, at 14:42 you talked about the writing / script of your videos. Here is my personal opinion on it (for details see the response I will make) :
1) Regarding the utility / meaning of your videos I think that you are mistaking. You wanting to talk about something is purpose / meaning enough for doing a video, therefore it will never be pointless.
2) I agree when you say that you sometimes feel as if your scripts are inconclusive. Not the video in itself but more for small things inside it.
3) Concerning “what” to write about, as said previously anything is fine as long as you want to talk about it (so no forcing yourself) but I think there needs to be a distinct difference for various types of videos as it might slightly confuse people making the video a bit less enjoyable. Because deferent type of videos will have deferent scripts / vibes.
P.S. : I really loved how your username moved in the outro of your previous videos, is there any chance to have that “gimmick” back ?
Details :
For 1)
I have two good examples that come to mind.
The french twitch streamer Etoiles doing on regular basis streams about the culture TV show “Question pour un champion” (equivalent of the TV show “Going for Gold” in the UK) and time to time streams where he visits museums etc. One might think that because gamers and young people are not known for being fond of cultural stuff it would be pointless but many people still love what he does.
Then a youtuber named City Planner Mismanages, he has autism and is in love with maps (and drawing them). At first he did videos about the game city skylines but recently he did a lot of videos that are way more personal with sometimes heavy topics. In my opinion it was so he doesn’t feel so lonely about his obsessive passion and to get stuff out off his chest. One might think that nobody would care but it was the complete opposite. People hearty welcomed those videos and it helped him feel better.
For 2)
I personally see your video style as an essay / presentation about a subject. Hence it is like exploring a tree, you go from the big trunk (the intro) to the very top of it (the outro) and the more details you have in your video the more branches your tree has.
However it always feels a bit weird when you begin exploring a branch but it doesn’t have an end. I would suggest that each time to go explore a branch that you put a small conclusion to it (even if the branch if very small). It doesn’t really matter if the conclusion is useful to the video / final conclusion, what matters is that it has one (it can even be just a word or two).
For 3)
For now there seems to be almost only videos about youtube but at one point, whether or not it is out of fear to feel again trapped in a certain subject like your previous channel, you might want to change / variate subject just like with your Spyro speedrun video.
However people tend to have habits especially about what they consume (always same food, same series, same video games etc) and it will be the same for your videos. People will already have a certain mindset before watching one of your videos and have expectations. No matter how good your video is, if those expectations are not exactly met then it will fill a bit confusing / shitty.
Therefore I would suggest to classify your videos under various categories (or vibes) and have a distinct deference between categories. It might be a slightly deferent scripted intro, a slightly deferent visual intro (can be a text appearing or a colour palette deference) or thumbnail.
This would put people into a deferent mindset before clicking on the video or before going deep into the subject of the video.
I have a 3070, 32 gb ram and can confirm resolve gets really choppy once there's an animation or two on screen. There's ways of getting around it like waiting to add performance heavy animations but it's pretty lame
I do a lot of keyframing on my videos, and it really is hard and time consuming on resolve.
I also have the same issue with playback, and my setup is in the mid range.
We just have to pick our poison because all editing programs have their own con. I choose to poison myself with Resolve because it does a lot of great things. Just got to be extra patient in using it.
davinci has its issues for sure. God forbid you want to use a lot of text - even the fancy "text+" doesnt support word wrap. Like, the tech for word wrap was figured out 40 years ago - its ridiculous. But once I got used to rendering out clips and then using those clips in place of heavy effect stacks in resolve, things have been going pretty well with it for me. I suggest turning off cache entirely and using timeline resolution > quarter though - performance is ok enough like that for me! Just remember Davinci BOUGHT both Fusion and Fairlight - they were not developed by Blackmagic but 3rd party apps that they purchased and integrated.
If they solve all the solve, the only con that they have is a learning curve. Which is basically neglected easily thanks to tutorials. They really need to prioritize fixing their performance.
The key key frame argument is iffy💀there’s a key frame timeline to the right of the graph u see the clip. The easing is mediocre through the edit tab but there IS a key frame timeline
Key fram, a dedicated ruler and not going to fusion for simple yt shot/reel/tiktok transition. Resolve is soo close to killing Pr
only if davinci had an option to switch between layer and node layout in fusion it would have blown already ya know
10:58 You can set the render cache to a drive other than your C drive...
I've recently switched from Adobe to Davinci resolve 18, it was hard at first, but it was kinda the same like premiere except the fusion editing with the nodes, which was new for me but I took some time and learnt it by tutorials and turns out it's kinda simple.
So you are saying that DaVinci is good. Can I do smooth animation and motion graphic?
@@astrn5620 Yeah it's really good with the pro version, but the free one is also good, It's about the same as premiere pro and AE combined and yes you can do smooth motion graphics, there's a blur effect like the one from AE that makes it really smooth and really easy to apply.
Keep it up! I love your videos
I use DaVinci Resolve and it's great for my novice skills. However, the fusion page confuses me so I don't use it
Are you close to being able to afford a new pc with the success of this new channel?
NO NO NO, there's so much wrong with this video. I can understand you've had certain experience with Resolve, but I've been professionally editing with Resolve and by professionally, I mean I make a living editing with Resolve.
I personally prefer Resolve's way of keyframing way more than premiere or any other editor as since it's on the timeline, and not on a separate view you'd need to look to match everything, so it's much faster and easier. You can literally click on the diamond button at the end of every clip to see the key frames and adjust the timing of it, you only need to open the graph view if you wanna change the animation graph. Now you are saying some of the time it lets you change the graph like ease in and sometimes it doesn't. It only happens if you are using a Fusion transition on the edit page but you can switch to Fusion page if you wanna do that. Usually if you wanna easing two things at once, it offsets the anchor point, trying setting up it properly and it would work.
When it comes to performance, Resolve has a much higher bottom point than any other editor even tho it has a free version a lot of people would associate it with being a cheap or inferior editor but this same software a decade ago without editing, fusion fairlight, used to cost upwards of $25K and since now it's basically 4-5 programs in 1, it makes sense why it has so much system requirement. Unlike PP, Resolve heavily relies on GPU, even on the free version so if you have an older GPU and low VRAM, then you are not gonna have a good time unless you are using a lot of proxies both in edit and fusion page.
Most people don't matter what type of videos they are making, doesn't need to use every single page. Resolve is a professional program and each page is basically a separate program with indepth tools and workflows, a lot more than what adobe programs have to offer, but that doesn't mean you'd need to learn every single page fully to use Resolve, most people use max 1-3 pages to get everything done and having different pages to do different things makes a lot more sense to me and much much faster than constantly opening and closing different programs and importing and exporting files and the dynamic link crash constantly breaking the moment you change something in one program.
Cool video but in conclusion a lot of the problems you've had were not necessarily problems with Resolve but you not fully knowing the program you're talking about and your computer not matching the recommended specs to run the software to begin with. I mean for god’s sake, you were using FL studio while accusing Resolve to be hard to learn and having different interfaces and learning curve with Fusion and color page when FL studio is known for being the most awkwardly different daw in the world, and people who learn fl first have a really bad time learning another daw since it's so different and odd compared to everything other daw.
On hindsight, if you are doing a lot of zooms and doing a lot of animations on the edit page, I'd recommend the Magicanimate and Magiczoom plugins for Resolve. They basically bring the power of Fusion in the edit page and makes it very easy and quick to do easy animations and zoom stuff with just a few clicks and you can save your custom zooms and animations and reuse them over and over.
can i ask why u dont use AE for animation stuff instead of hitfilm then u can use both Premiere and AE
Honestly in my experience you can move, copy etc keyframes in the keyframe timeline (the button right next to the keyframe graph) but it still is really janky. I personally find myself in the cut version as it runs smoother for me when cutting the raw video into clips. The hardware issues (I too run into blackscreen during playback and fusion never rendering except when delivering) can be slightly mitigated with the timeline feature but when i start using like 4-5 clips at the same time with each a color effect and sometimes even fusion applied I can only sit there and work with a frame by frame view or delivering it every time...
Many "effects" i use don't require the fusion page as there are a lot of presets of simple effects (like color key framing or fisheye (also called dent)) already build in.
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being a pirate is alright with me!
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free
Lol I have the same laptop and use it for some hitfilm projects. I've been on 2021.2 since it released.
Unfortunately I don't do video editing, I do character animations and vfx stuff, so I'm likely going to be forced onto AE if I want to keep making money.. .-.
It's an absolute shame what happened to HF, bar a few missing features it's pretty much perfect for my workflow.
Seriously try any m series macbook, I'm editing a 4k 20 minutes plus festival film with some vfx and honestly works just fine on my base m1 macbook air
Would you reccomend it to a beginner? Assuming their PC is good enough
Dude. You're on a 6 year old computer with a 10-series Nvidia card and a 128 GB main drive. There's your problem, with ANY editing software. Aside from 3D simulations in Houdini, Video Editing is like one of the most taxing things you can do on your computer. Resolve is world-class software, but you need a decent rig to run it. Could it be optimized? Sure. But you don't even meet minimum specs.
Real
Kdenlive + blender + DaVinci Resolve
Nice Video