Is Davinci Resolve Good For Editing?

today we're taking a look at DaVinci Resolve but not for grading as an editor and I keep hearing more and more about it so I did want to take it for a test drive myself now full disclosure a Blackmagic did hook me up with a copy and what comes next are my early impressions as I've only been using it for a few weeks but as always it's my true and honest opinion but I also want to thank Nvidia studio for being a part of this episode they've been working with hardware manufacturers and software developers to improve your workflow through GPU acceleration and of course we've partnered with them before if you remember back when we were doing their comes at knocking we use the RTF studio laptop for pre-production with creating my boards and animatics and in production we used it for di T to edit while we shot and in post I was working on the trailer and doing temp effects while Lucas was editing and as we showed Lucas and I were both working off of end video cards in our desktops as well and if you want to know more about that check out their other gear links and the notes for that as well right off the bat one of the most interesting things about DaVinci Resolve is that you can get a free version to start out with and honestly after starting with that free version first just to see what it felt like it really is one of the best if not the best free editors that I've used especially since you're getting resolved color suite right in there as well of course the free version does have restrictions but even when you're ready to upgrade to the full version it isn't subscription-based it's only a one-time cost of $299 and we actually have a full studio copy to give away to one of you guys for a chance of getting that just check the notes for a link to sign up for our newsletter and we're gonna be picking someone at random from there but jumping right into the software one of the things I love the most are the tabs you find down here that take you through the complete post process which we'll get to the design is just sexy too it's really sleek and clean feels more modern than any other editor in my opinion the layout takes some getting used to of course but it wasn't long until I was bouncing around easily overall it's pretty intuitive but let's get right into the editing tab of course they have the new cut page here where you can get a zoomed in and a full Timeline view at the same time and although I haven't cut a ton in the new final cut this age does feel similar to that sort of methodology to me so it's pretty interesting to have those two taps and of course I've already brought my footage in and I've been cutting and for this I'm sort of replicating an edit I did of a piece that we did for the Blackmagic pocket cam back in Vegas and actually something I really love and use a ton already is cut detection which cut detection is really great if you have a finished exported piece and you're bringing that in to do your grading on but I'm often needing to take something like a trailer or an old episode and pull the footage out of that to make a new edit out of so if we wanted to edit off of this piece but not the original footage instead of doing it manually when I'm going to import the file I can just right click then choose scene cut detection then down here I'll choose to auto scene detect and let it do its thing as you can see here resolve is automatically going through and breaking out all of the separate Clips it does a really great job but you can also still just scrub through and add breaks where it missed or removed ones that should or shouldn't be a cut then select add cuts to media pool and resolve imports them as separate clips for you to edit with it's smart time saver stuff like this that I really really love but jumping back over to that editing tab and again like I said before it's all very intuitive if you are coming from other software it will take some time before they get used to of course I'm still getting there but really after about just a week I was jumping around pretty easily you'll find yourself googling things here and there like you would with any software and of course you have some room to adjust like over here we have our timeline options to select how we want to view our timeline including the ability to see project tabs or not then of course we have our media pool here then our different libraries our monitor which we can toggle right here our mixer which we could pop out over here and then something I really love the inspector in here you'll find the basic attributes for your clips that you can adjust a lot of things that you would expect and have and everything else but then some great ads like cropping which is a really nice thing to have right here instead of having to use as a plugin since I use cropping all the time then you have dynamic zoom which is gonna let you add a really smooth and filming zoom to your Clips very easily stabilization which works incredibly well and then retime and scaling and that is one of the coolest things here so let's a closer look at that and of course this is going to alter the speed of your clip in the clip that I'm using is actually from the new Blackmagic pocket 6k we had it for a few days to check out long story short it's everything I love about the 4k while fixing everything I didn't like about the 4k it's incredibly solid and that larger sensor size is just all the things just all of them but if we take a simple clip like this and we want to slow it down a lot more we'll select a clip and hit command R or ctrl R depending if you're on a Mac or PC or just right click and go to change speed or if I want to remap I can keyframe that by hitting command R and then click to add a speed point then remap my speed or again just change the overall clip now to make this deliciously smooth we'll go back into the inspector and I'll set to optical flow and speed warp and the results are insane since speed warp is using AI to dramatically improve the results when using optical flow to generate new frames between existing video frames and of course I'm still at home working in my home office off of my laptop but this is that same r-tx studio laptop I was talking about earlier so I have that NVIDIA GPU inside N and Vidya has worked with black magic to help enable that acceleration so the two combined is pretty impressive and it's incredibly easy to get these solid slow-motion results off of all kinds of different shots it's a little bit like twixtor but a billion times less complicated and overall the editing just felt like it should once I was cutting it was really fluid again I was adjusting for where the buttons and tools were but for the most part it all just felt familiar now let's jump in to the next tab which is our fusion tab this is a node-based compositor and I haven't really messed with it enough to really dive in here but so far I'm really digging it I'm definitely a fan of node workflows and this comes with really solid built-in effects like there film grain and what I really love most is that I can apply some effects here then jump back to my editor and there they are right in my edit and that goes for color too so let's jump over to the color tab and we'll get into this in another episode all about color grading and resolve because by far one of the coolest things about editing in resolve is that you are one click away from the best color grading software there is full stop this is industry standard color grading and the denoise in here is also hands the best I've ever used it's honestly like demon magic but I can do my tweaks to my clips here and just like with fusion I jump back and there it is in my edit which not to beat a dead horse here but the same goes for our next tab with audio and like the other tabs I really love what black magic has done here the mixer is great I love how it's integrated into this area how simple it all feels it just works like you would expect with the mixer here adding the plugins here and the built-in plugins are very solid with really simple interfaces it's just all really well designed another thing I love about the audio is the real-time waveforms making an adjustment and then seeing that waveform react immediately is really helpful but again I can make my tweaks here and then jump back over to the Edit tab and we have it all right there and honestly that's one of the biggest selling points for me never having to round-trip anything going from software to software having every bit of the project stay right inside of one piece of software that lets me jump back and forth between points in the process making it all incredibly fluid again I'm still new to this but I needed to find out what all the hype was for myself and I have to say I really love it I'm gonna keep toying around this to really wrap my head around it but it's incredibly fast especially with Blackmagic footage it's really solid I haven't had a single crash while using it not one the editing feels fluid and familiar you have a node-based compositor built in an audio editor built in and industry-standard color grading software not bad for negatives to be honest I don't really have any just yet I mean don't get me wrong no software is perfect I am positive that as I continue using it I'm gonna find things I don't love that's just the nature of all software but over the course of the last few weeks other than the normal learning pains I don't have any complaints yet once I come across them maybe I'll do a follow-up to discuss those but for now it's just been great and again one of the greatest things is the fact that you can go get the free version right now and start editing and it's a fully functioning editor there's stuff missing that's in the studio version of course some great things like the denoiser but it's still an insanely good editor especially for the fact that it's free so you can go jump over that and try it out right now it's definitely worth your time but honestly the full is absolutely worth the cost even just for the color grading and de noising alone and of course speaking of the studio version as I said at the start we are giving away one copy so make sure to check the link in the notes below to find out how you can be entered into that we're gonna be picking a winner on the 9th and again a big thank you to black magic and and vidya for helping make this episode happen check the links below for more on them and until next time don't forget to write shoot edit repeat [Music] [Music]

Channel: Film Riot

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Length: 9min 37sec (577 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 02 2020