I'm GIVING UP... Premiere Pro for DaVinci Resolve

[Music] I guess you were expecting he's away on vacation can you be that six seven years here on YouTube and it's his first vacation in years so you have me if you didn't know I'm Captain Kirk I'm the wizard of post I edit the videos that you see on this channel I am the captain I am the danger me and Pete have been working together for four almost five years now right oh he does this thing right when he looks off camera that's me so look right we work five five six years together yeah yeah yeah yeah and the whole time we've been working with um Adobe Premiere Pro if you've been loyal to Premiere Pro I'm I'm wearing purple Premiere okay but in the past few months maybe even years we've been struggling with Premiere and everybody seemed to be switching over it's like you know what I'd like to challenge myself he's decided to learn new things with me and he's just he [Music] foreign I basically screwed myself over by deciding to just jump ship Premiere and just import everything into DaVinci and start editing I chose one of our most involved videos a very complicated video where we shot with Peter Andrew that was a multiple day shoot with multiple cameras and before you know it after one day I got too far to turn back and switch over to premieres like screw it I guess I'm switched over to Da Vinci now editing with Premiere Pro has been a muscle memory at this point to lay out the interface the buttons the shortcuts everything so switching over to Da Vinci was difficult I tried my best to switch over the same shortcuts I had in Premiere but still Da Vinci was a whole nother Beast what am I doing guess I'm trying new things an easy reason to switch is the price DaVinci Resolve is free with 90 95 of the features of the full paid version and even then the paid version is like 300 400 for one time purchase no subscription DaVinci is owned by Blackmagic who sells Hardware like cameras switch panels and if you buy Hardware which can be as cheap as five hundred dollars you get a free license Pete and I were so excited to learn DaVinci that we each picked up one of the speed editors and the micro panel we're still figuring things out but I think we got the basics down apparently you can edit your whole video just by using all these shortcuts and this turn knob here pretty cool and this this is for coloring all the little knobs and dials and little doodads for controlling Shadows mids highlights tones I gotta say I suck at color grading I I do know how to use it but it felt intuitive enough that I was able to manage to pull some decent colors I don't know how that happened but something's working so maybe we can do a tutorial on these things as everybody knows Premiere always crashes [Music] now that's not to say da Vinci doesn't crash I've had a few crashes myself but the big advantage of DaVinci is it has live save so every button press every change every little thing you do in DaVinci is save the moment you do it unlike premiere's autosave which is set to 20 minutes default useless I set it down to five and even then every five minutes Premiere just freezes [Music] okay now you can get back to editing so Da Vinci is great because it doesn't slow you down speaking of slowing you down Da Vinci is also pretty fast when it comes to rendering speed and timeline speed we edit on M1 Max Studios which are pretty powerful so we were able to Brute Force Premiere to perform well but from what I've learned online DaVinci is simply faster than Premiere even on slower machines so there's that a typical 10 minute video on Premiere exports four to six minutes and that's on a powerful M1 Max studio but on DaVinci it takes about two to three minutes almost half the time to render the same video now where everybody sings the Praises bye now where everybody sings the Praises of Da Vinci is in the timeline speed because when you're dropping 4K footage in Premiere it chugs but when you drop in Da Vinci it has a smoother playback but again I edit on a Mac Studio so I couldn't feel the differences in performance only because the Mac Studio Brute Forces Premiere into performing well but I have to say in DaVinci I have experienced slowdowns specifically when I change the clip speed especially in the especially in the especially in our recent videos with the product shots you know just on that Lazy Susan that's where I use a lot of the speed ramping some of the clips have been cranked up to ten thousand percent which is minutes of footage cramped into a few frames that's how we get that fast stutter effect we've been liking that a lot okay okay we get we get it the resolve is fast but you know what else is fast building a website with squarespace.com you heard the captain moan about how hard it was to switch from Premiere to DaVinci well you won't have any problem with Squarespace because it's an easy to use all-in-one platform with plenty of award-winning templates to choose from foreign to record all his lines to make this video it's been an hour by the way and we're still halfway there I've already built a website because it's just so easy you want an online store where you can sell prints Lightroom presets and even some products and plenty of other things easy easy you think DaVinci Resolve is packed with features Squarespace has portfolios and galleries where you can show off your work membership areas where you can have members only exclusive content and for all the clients that you're getting from showing off your amazing work using the portfolio and galleries Squarespace has appointment scheduling you know everything's so hassle free so go to squarespace.com captaincup what fine [Music] go to squarespace.com for 10 off your order or click the link in the description how do you like my tan just got back from Hawaii took lots of bangers anyway let's get back to the captain I know you miss him now one of the most intimidating things about opening Da Vinci is the UI it's just because as a premier user I'm used to having all my tools laid out you got your timeline here your monitor effects panels your media control panels right there you got everything and how DaVinci does it is it breaks up your editing into phases first you import footage cut the footage then you edit the footage together then you put some effects on it color it then you finish up the audio then you render your footage but once you get used to it you soon realize how smart these different tabs are I'm still getting used to it I still suck now my favorite thing my favorite thing about DaVinci the default effects that were built in a lot of effects that I used to do with Adobe in Premiere and after effects I built from scratch for example if I wanted a clip to look analog in After Effects or Premiere I add effects like glow blur unsharp mask Pro memoration some lens Distortion all that and then I'd have an analog looking clip but in DaVinci all I have to do is select one effect drag it onto a clip what oh it's unfair if you want to know what effect that is along with some of my other favorite effects in DaVinci just leave a comment below and say hey Pete can we have Kirk back please can we have the captain show up sometime you know teach us a bit of a da Vinci magic get some of that Captain Kirk hot sauce Spice in there let us know below I don't really want to be here I'm held against my will right who knows I might be able to do this thing in the next five years when he takes another vacation [Music] how long was that recording [Music] did you know I decided to do this on my own free will Pete didn't go on vacation say Hey you know while I'm gone you could maybe record a video edit it and upload it yourself aside the Party City wig and bandana and some Sharpies this looks not bad you know

Channel: Peter McKinnon

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Length: 9min 10sec (550 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 14 2023