DaVinci Resolve Reviews and Ratings

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DaVinci Resolve is main problem solver in video related quarries , I do video editing and color grading in this this is a one stop solution for my video making process I do transcoding, video editing and finally color grading in this. Includes editing promotional content, educational videos, and corporate communications. Specifically, it covers media management (transcoding/proxies), non-linear editing, motion graphics/VFX (Fusion), professional audio mixing (Fairlight), and industry-leading color correction.

Likelihood to Recommend

DaVinci Resolve is a one-stop solution for video post-production for me; it has all the functionality that needs to be done in video editing and mastering. I am pretty much impressed by how they are evolving this day by day.

But when it comes to motion graphics, I use After Effects and Adobe suites because of their wide range of toolsets, like Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects. DaVinci also has Fusion, but I feel a little uncomfortable to using it .

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used to finish edits for clients. A real workhorse.

Likelihood to Recommend

working in color grading. Just the best there. I have no complaints whatsoever

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Social media content creation. Anything from photos to video and audio manipulation. It facilitates the workflow by allowing the preparation of content in multiple formats, resolutions, localization, amongst many other settings. Subtitling and color grading, in addition to basic script creation. Broadcast and publishing in multiple platforms can also be completed from the app.

Likelihood to Recommend

First, it's free. Second, if you decide to pay for the complete version, it's a one time payment forever. That tells you how much value you are getting. Then you have a very trustworthy software that seldom breaks, there is a lot of content online to learn how to use it, and it has so many capabilities a person could dedicate their professional careers to understanding and using them in multiple scenarios.

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DaVinci Resolve is used for any video creation in our organization now. Both for internal use and for anything public (Youtube). The sheer features that it gives is amazing. I have used other tools (free and paid both) but have not found so rich features anywhere. It creates really professional grade videos. My earlier videos were good but it lacked a professional touch. Using DaVinci Resolve that problem solved. Of course, we are learning every day new features as the tool has a lot to offer and probably we are not even using 50% of what we can use potentially.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are looking for a professional grade video, go for it. If you are new to the whole video making process and want something quick, use something else. If you are going to use it recurringly , learn it and it's worth it. In my view, no other tool can match the width and depth of this tool.

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We use DaVinci Resolve to put together a Broadcast Television show. The biggest one for us the collaboration across multiple users and more recently colour grading features. Also that DaVinci Resolve houses the full editing workflow in the single program expediates workflow and collaboration tenfold. As a Premier user previously, I can't imagine not utilising DaVinci Resolve for my future project going forward.

Likelihood to Recommend

DaVinci Resolve houses the full suite for editors in the one program. It is extremely well thought out and intuitive to use. It is more advanced in my opinion that Adobe Premiere.. which for longform and broadcast editing makes sense. For shorter, social editing I think I might prefer Premiere as it has all I would need, but is nice to have access to more advanced audio, transcription and grading features in the one program.

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I use DaVinci on a daily basis as part of my employer's post-production team for video marketing. Although we use several editing applications in our work, DaVinci is easily the one that is needed the most, especially with its motion graphic and color correction capabilities.

Likelihood to Recommend

Unlike Adobe where one needs to use several apps to do editing, motion graphics, and sound editing, DaVinci has all these capabilities in one app. In addition, the tool is free—save for a one-time purchase for additional features—allowing one to avoid being trapped in a subscription. The app runs smoothly and rarely has bugs in new updates.

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I learned so much from this instructional exercise, and I appreciated how the educator is an expert all-day colorist. The section on sound reduction was particularly instructive. I noticed a few inconsistencies between certain methodologies in this instructional exercise and approaches suggested in the Advanced Color Grading in Resolve 15 instructional exercise (e.g., where to place sound reduction in the hub tree), but this is to be expected given that there is no one right way to do any of this. I also learned a lot about Resolve's "Restoration" modules for working with authentic film. This instructional exercise will come up again and again in my work.

Likelihood to Recommend

I learned so much from this instructional exercise, and I appreciated how the educator is an expert all-day colorist. The section on sound reduction was particularly instructive. I noticed a few inconsistencies between certain methodologies in this instructional exercise and approaches suggested in the Advanced Color Grading in Resolve 15 instructional exercise (e.g., where to place sound reduction in the hub tree), but this is to be expected given that there is no one right way to do any of this. I also learned a lot about Resolve's "Restoration" modules for working with authentic film. This instructional exercise will come up again and again in my work.

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We rely on DaVinci Resolve for most of our major video production needs. In 2018, while running low on funding and could no longer afford to outsource development of our extension videos and other project educational materials, I took on the challenge to brush up my skills and train other staff as well. Currently, DaVinci Resolve is one of 8 software products all new mid-level staff have to learn within the first 3 months of joining. Over the last few years, as our scope of work has increased, so have our uses of DaVinci Resolve. Our Outreach Team now use it to create stunning video documentaries of our projects, as well as for promotional content for upcoming events.

Likelihood to Recommend

<div>DaVinci Resolve is great for working on projects where the source or original audio is not great. With Fairlight, you would be able to do so much work to improve the quality of the audio from right within DaVinci without the need to switch to audio enhancing software. Final output rendering in DaVinci is also very stress free. It does not take as long, and rarely ever produces glitchy content.

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Nope. Continually getting errors and snafus on output. This is intolerable especially after we switched to [editing] from others. There is a reason why professionals use AVID to edit and Resolve ONLY for color [correction]. The rest is garbage. We are so let down by the entire environment. Enough. Enough. Avid for cuts your color house et Al will handle the rest. If you’re on your own, chances are you’ll lose money and time with this platform. We are delivering currently. Today. And it’s failing us. Done with this crap.

Likelihood to Recommend

There is a reason why edits are done in AVID and color corrected perhaps with the color correction on resolve these days. Other than that edit, fusion, Fairlight and deliver are worthless in our 25-year experience. We have cut in film, tape and seen the technology change. We are sticking to what works and won’t kill our business when we attempt to deliver projects using anything Balckmagic except for Color.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using DaVinci Resolve to edit some marketing videos, and I am not a professional video editor.

Likelihood to Recommend

Frankly, I think DaVinci Resolve is absolutely amazing and I'm shocked that it's free. The people at Blackmagic Design are very generous to give away a free version-- especially in light of how powerful the free version is. I used to use Sony Vegas, CyberLink PowerDirector, and Adobe Premier Elements, but I may go full-time to just using DaVinci Resolve. In using it for only a few hours, I felt it was already more intuitive and powerful than any of those other programs.