I've been using. Adobe Premiere Pro since version. Six five way back in 2010. But in the last several. Years
I've also been learning DaVinci Resolve. And in this video
I want to give you my thoughts. On DaVinci Resolve. From a Premiere Pro users perspective. Also, if you've been thinking about. Learning DaVinci Resolve. Especially if you. Are a wedding filmmaker, I want you
to know that I have a brand new course that I just released called Wedding Film
Framework for DaVinci Resolve. And this course is going to show you
literally everything that you need to know to be able to quickly. Edit story
driven wedding films in Resolve. So if you have been considering. Switching from Premiere Pro
or Final Cut Pro. Or any other editor to DaVinci Resolve,
this course is going to show you how to easily do it. And I'll be with you through every step, showing you my proven
and efficient system for editing. You can check out Wedding Film Framework. For DaVinci Resolve
in the description down below. Now coming from. Premiere Pro and learning DaVinci Resolve. The first thing that I noticed
when using Resolve was just how similar. It felt to Premiere Pro. If you're someone that's worried
about needing to take a long time to learn resolve,
I would fight against that fear. Because once you open resolve
and get into it, as long as you know. Your way around Premiere Pro. You should be able to pick up. Using resolve fairly quickly. Let me put it this way. What you're going to. Discover like. I did is that DaVinci Resolve makes sense
in the same way that Premiere. Pro makes sense. For example. In both programs, of course,
there is a timeline that you're going to be editing
and cutting video on. These. Timelines that you're editing on are going
to have tracks that feel very familiar. And I would say that going. From Premiere Pro to DaVinci.
Resolve is significantly. Easier than going from Premiere Pro to,
say Final Cut Pro, for example, because. With Final cut you have to learn the magnetic timeline,
which is definitely a slightly different. Way of doing things. Now, getting away from the. Similarities of these two programs for a. Second, easily
one of the biggest differences. Between Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Is that Adobe has built. Premiere Pro to work. In an app ecosystem. Where you have Premiere Pro to edit. Your videos, you have Adobe audition
to do advanced sound mixing in Adobe. After Effects to do advanced graphics
work. You'll have to open each of. These programs separately. To use them. But one cool feature of Adobe apps. Is called Dynamic. Link, which will allow you to edit
a video clip that you're. Editing in Premiere in After Effects
or in Adobe Audition in real time. Unfortunately,
Dynamic Link is not always the. Most reliable. Which you can leave me a comment down
below if you agree with that take or not. But that does lead. Us into talking about how DaVinci Resolve. Is different. See with DaVinci. Resolve on the other hand, you. Can basically think of it
as having all of these. Separate apps that Premiere Pro has,
but they're all in one. And you just toggle
between different pages. To access them. So if you want to edit your video,
you use the edit page or the cut page. If you want to add effects. To your video, you use the fusion page. And if you want to mix the audio
in your video, you use the Fairlight page. There's no separate programs
or dynamic link to worry about. Because you never leave The Da Vinci. Resolve program.
It's all there. It's great. And if you think about resolve as an all. In one program that. Replaces many of the Adobe Creative. Cloud programs, resolve
is going to make a lot of sense to you. Now, that said, I have heard. Plenty of feedback from. Other editors. That while it is great. The resolve has all of these features like
the fusion page and the Fairlight page. They are still not quite. As robust as having the full after Effects program
or the full Adobe audition program. This is something that I've seen. Blackmagic working on and. They are constantly adding new features
to the Fusion. And Fairlight pages. But I do. Want you to know. That if you do advanced
after Effects motion graphics work. Or really in-depth audio editing,
you may still find. Resolve lacking in some aspects.
But for the. Majority of video editors out there,
I think you'll be. Very happy with the amount of features
the resolve has with these pages. Speaking of. Features,
we need to talk about two big things that you're going to notice if you start. Using Resolve coming from Premiere. One of them is something
that. Resolve has. Added that is different than Premiere, and the other is something
that in my opinion, is missing. Let's start with what Resolve has added. One of the biggest. Differences
between DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro. Is both the color page as well as the
fusion page and resolve use nodes instead. Of layers when applying effects. This is easily
one of the most intimidating. Parts of going from Premiere Pro
to resolve, but once your. Brain gets it, you will. Understand. I actually. Spend a lot of time in my wedding film framework for DaVinci Resolve,
of course, explaining how nodes work to. Make it easy for you to understand. But for the sake of this video,
just know that nodes are a different way of thinking when it comes to editing,
and you're going to have to. Learn them if you want to use the color
or fusion page in resolve. Let's also talk about something
that is missing from resolve now. And this is really fascinating
because I consistently see people sharing such positive opinions. Of DaVinci Resolve. And so whenever I say
that Premiere Pro has a feature, the. Resolve is lacking. People tend to be rather surprised,
this feature that you. Will find yourself missing if you switch
from Premiere Pro to DaVinci Resolve. Is the lack of an Adobe Media. Encoder equivalent. Basically what this means is that
if you want to export a video into. Vinci resolve. You can queue up
multiple videos to export. But whenever you click. Render. Resolve
is not going to let you do anything. Else in the program
until the videos are exported. This is significantly different. From Premiere Pro, where you can. Queue up videos in Adobe Media Encoder
and then go. Back to Premiere and. Continue editing. Other videos
to stay productive with resolve. You better make sure that you have time
to render because you're. Not going to be able to do anything else. And while Black Magic has. Started to introduce programs that can render videos in the background
like the Black Magic Proxy Generator app. That not many people know. About, but it's actually really awesome. That's actually another thing that I cover in the wedding film
framework for DaVinci Resolve Course. Anyways, Da Vinci does not have
a dedicated standalone video. Rendering app like Adobe. Media Encoder,
which I think most filmmakers. Would really. Appreciate it
because it will. Help us stay productive
even when we're rendering video. Speaking of staying productive, we. Need to take a moment to talk about
one of the biggest productivity. Runners you may have experienced when you edit in Premiere Pro,
and that is bugs and crashes. In short, the sentiment from most video. Editors that have used Premiere Pro
and then switched to DaVinci Resolve. One of the main contributing reasons
that many of them switched was that they found. Premiere to be prone to crashing at the worst times,
which would then cause them to lose work. Now I have two thoughts about this. First,
and this is purely anecdotal in. My experience being someone that edits. On a custom built, powerful. PC, I have not. Experienced. Nearly as many. Crashes as friends of mine
that edit on a mac. I'm not sure why that is,
but at least in my experience and hearing feedback from other
filmmakers. Premiere tends to crash more on Mac. And I'm not sure why. So this leads into my second thought,
and this may be a bit. Of a hot take here, but in my experience. I have found that
I've had a pretty similar. Amount of. Crashes in both. Premiere Pro
and DaVinci Resolve Heartache. I know, but it's true. When I'm editing video in either one of. These programs,
I deal with a few crashes per month. This is usually not a huge deal,
but it is interesting. The both of them are pretty
even in this aspect. But that does lead us into the final. Difference
that we need to talk about the experience. If you are switching from Premiere Pro
to dive into your resolve. And that is well, yes, in my experience,
both of these. Programs. Crash at roughly the same rate. The difference in the way that these. Programs
handle crashing is dramatically different. Let me explain, because this may blow
your mind if you've never used resolve. I'm not going to go super deep
into explaining the. Intricacies of results, data based system. I saved that for you in the Wedding film
Framework course, and it's super helpful, by the way. But here's one of the biggest. Benefits of resolve Using a database. Unlike Premiere Pro, which uses a DOT PR project file to save all of your project
information into. A nice little file, Resolve instead uses a database which has a ton of benefits,
one of the largest. Being a feature called Live Save. Here's the difference If Premiere
Pro crashes while you're editing a video project. And you. Reopen your. Project, you are going to be at the mercy. Of the last. Time
you either manually saved or. That you had Premiere Auto saved, which. By default
is anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes. Between auto saves. Alternatively with. DaVinci Resolve and their database magic. Because it has this live save feature
every single click and. Button press do you make
when editing is instantly saved. So in the event the resolve does crash,
whenever you reopen the program, you are going to be able
to pick up exactly. Where you left off when it did crash
and you're not going to lose any work. This is a huge benefit. And the first time that I experienced
it was off Crash and then I. Reopened it. It was magical because everything
was right where I left it. I knew that I would have been losing
a significant. Amount of work in Premiere, but
I didn't do with any of that in resolve. So above all, I'm really impressed
by what Blackmagic has created with DaVinci Resolve.
And while I still see myself using both. Premiere Pro and DaVinci
Resolve into the future, especially because I know that Adobe's
working to improve failure to catch up to resolve
and I like to see that competition. I really do feel like so many filmmakers. Are intrigued by DaVinci resolve
and what it has to offer. So if that is you,
if you've been intrigued. By DaVinci Resolve. Especially if you are a wedding filmmaker
and maybe you currently edit. In Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. I would love for you to check out my. New wedding
film framework course for DaVinci Resolve. It's going to show you
how to quickly edit story. Driven wedding films in Resolve. And even if you have never used. The program before. I'm going to be with. You every step of the way,
showing you how to edit Fast Hack. Speaking of editing fast, maybe. You're already editing in DaVinci Resolve,
but you're wondering if there's a. Faster way of doing things. In that case, I would say, give. This course a chance.
Try it. Out. I'm betting that you're. Going to learn some things. And what's great is that the course comes
with a 60 day money back guarantee so you can watch the course. And if you don't learn anything, it's
no sweat. I will give you. Your money back. There is no risk to you. All right. A link to. Wedding film
framework for DaVinci Resolve down. Below. Let me know if you have any questions
about. The course or if you have thoughts about
either DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro. Thanks so much for watching
and have a great day.
