

I enjoy editing as much as anyone, but faster means less time waiting. With the Studio version you have access to GPU hardware accelerated encoding on certain H.264 and H.265 codecs (which is much faster than the free version’s CPU encoding).

While both the free and the Studio versions will use a GPU for processing, the Studio version will recognize up to nine GPUs, scaling with you as your needs grow. The time saved through faster processing and the extra features will allow you to create the finest possible product in the shortest amount of time.īlackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve Studio 16 - $295 (MSRP) I've messed around in the past having Stills that had different converter nodes, nodes to desaturate the shadows/highlights, the Glow OFX plugin, etc etc.Besides the extra features in ResolveFX effects, export options and sound effects, the DaVinci Neural Engine is by far the strongest reason to upgrade to the lifetime option of DaVinci Resolve Studio. For example, did you know that in the Colour tab you can highlight any number of clips, and then right-click on a graded clip and select Apply Grade (I think that's what it's called) and it copies the entire grade onto the highlighted clips.Īlso worth noting is from a Still you can choose Append to node graph, so you can have stills that have parts of a grade and you can just build a grade from there bit by bit.

Watching a good 10-20 minute walkthrough video showing you all the controls for colour will pay dividends almost immediately. It's a ton of work to learn a new package so I can understand not moving from FCPX, but what I would suggest is getting familiar with the colour tab and what you can do there. I can’t see myself completely using Resolve as an NLE but as an intermediary before bringing the footage into FCPX, definitely!ĭefinitely suits the aesthetic, nice work I also just realized that I can copy a grade from a still I grabbed. but that’s a topic for another thread.Īnd I’m really just starting to scratch the surface of the cool tricks Resolve can do. I’m having some display issues where I cannot get the exported image to completely replicate what I’m seeing in the timeline. Before I applied it, my actor didn’t look nearly as weathered. Here’s a still I grabbed in Resolve from a shot I used Midtone Detail fairly liberally.
