Do I look in the cameras, or? Oh, at you. So, I was sitting in the office, editing, an early winter morning. I was thinking, are there better ways
to do this? Can we be more efficient? And, you know on Youtube and stuff, everybody is
raving about Davinci Resolve and how great it is and, I thought, could this be something for us? Could our team switch to DaVinci Resolve? I had made up my mind.
I was gonna make this happen. But, I needed a plan, and I needed a partner in crime. I've worked a bit on Resolve in my previous job. So when Morten suggested that we
make the switch, I thought: Why not? So one of the big argument in favor of Resolve
is its stability. A lot of people are tired of Premiere constantly crashing, causing them to make the switch. In terms of coloring, Resolve blows
Premiere out of the water. There's not even a competition. It's just fantastic. So, all of these things are nice,
but there's one thing that really convinced us to switch over. The Blackmagic Cloud. We are often five, six people editing at the same time. It's just super efficient for a team like us
to be able to work in that way. This was the beginning of the Resolve
Infiltration Alliance. R.I.A for short. Our aim was to make the whole team
switch over to DaVinci Resolve. So, we needed a strategy. Our biggest challenge was Anders. Self proclaimed the fastest editor in Norway. And he's old, old people don't like change. Therefore, we had to start somewhere else. First, we needed more members in the R.I.A. Someone who wasn't too attached to Premiere. It was obvious. I used to like Premiere a lot,
but um, yeah, now I like Resolve a lot better. I really like Resolve splash screens, it's different
every time and has cool cameras on them. The girl with the noodles, that's my favorite. One down. Emma is our intern and she has to do as I say, so... she's on board. Now we needed one more for the majority. Mathias... He was an interesting case. You know it has even better curves in Resolve, right? We had the majority. I spent 20 years of my life learning Premiere. Maybe not 20 years, but... Why change? Like, it works. Well, yeah. The group has decided, so,
I think we just, I just need to start using it. The R.I.A. was a success. We had successfully switched the entire team to Resolve. We had promised a lot. But, we were off to a rough start. Emma, what happened? I've used it for like an hour now
and it has crashed like 2 times. And it's gonna keep going I think. I wanna die. What happened? It looks like I lost everything. Great start to the morning. I think Philip you lost, You just lost your internet. False alarm then. So you lost connection to the server. All right, so I gues we will just... I mean that's good news I guess. One of the things people say about Resolve
is that it's so stable. This was not the case for us. Actually it crashed so much,
we decided to make some statistics. From this day on, we would make a mark
each time Resolve crashed. Already 2 for Juni Marie in, like, 3 hours. Not too bad. What happened Emma? It crashed like 5 times in 10 minutes, I think. It's so frustrating because it's such a
small thing I have to do and it's taking me hours. It was so frustrating because it kept crashing, like, so much. This has happened around ten times. Found the solution, or so I thought. And then, it just wouldn't render the whole video.
Just half of it. I remember one of the things Morten told me was that, one of the reason we should go for DaVinci is that, It's so flawless, it doesn't crash. I don't know if we're just unlucky or not,
I don't know, but it crashed all the time. I didn't really experience a lot of crashing. Yeah, it's been... It's been good, for me. You know, maybe I'm not using DaVinci
as heavily as other people here at the office. I like to do simple adjustments. And, yeah. F*ck this f*cking software, I'm tired of this
f*cking sh*t and you know what? F*ck all of you! Yeah, this was... This was not good. Not good at all. You're in the lead of crashes. We started these statistics on February 15th. Now it's March 3rd so we've been going for a couple
of weeks and a couple of days. As you can see there's been tons of crashes. We have in the lead,
we have Emma. She has... 34 crashes so far,
which is mainly due to one project. Same with Anders, 14.
Philip... I only have one crash. So in terms of the computers we have,
we have a wide variety ranging from quite mediocre machines to some powerful ones,
both Windows PCs and Macs. While the machines with the most powerful GPUs
were a little bit more stable, they all experienced crashing way
more than we had with Premiere. This persisted through different versions of Resolve,
both with local databases and with the Cloud. But the crashing wasn't the only thing we struggled with. Eventhough we have really strong computers,
I definitely experience a lot of lagging. If we have 6K or 8K footage I will definitely
need to make proxies in order to work with them. Especially when you have clips on multiple tracks,
the render cache just doesn't really work as it should. That is one thing I really miss from Premiere,
it's the render in to out function. So the built-in stabilizer in Resolve is awful,
basically. No matter how much you change the settings, which method you use,
it's, it's not good. It's nowhere even close to Warp Stabilizer. And I've seen some people online saying like
"Oh it's actually pretty good, you just..." No, it's not. Like, what are you drinking,
it's horrible. It's really bad. It's really bad. Also one of the things about Resolve
that is the most annoying, Is the people that are using it,
and loving it, and worshipping it. For example, zooming in the cut page.
It's not possible, but the people are saying "You don't need to zoom in the cut page,
that's the whole point of the cut page." But like, I wanna f*cking zoom on the cut page. Yeah, we were really starting to doubt if this
thing was a good idea after all. As time went by, projects started to crash less. I don't know why, but there was still some
a projects that crashed a lot. But overall things got better. So 3 months ago we started using DaVinci and, I think I was the person that was the most against it
because I've been using Premiere for so long. And when I started playing around with DaVinci
I saw new things which I like quite a lot. So after a week, or two I think it was.
I was kind of Premiere, DaVinci, 50/50.
I like them the same. But, then we started using the Cloud. The collaborative way of using DaVinci
where you can have things in the Cloud, And we can actually be 2 people working
on the same project. That's a huge benefit. There's one thing I miss and that's
the Warp Stabilizer. When we edit a video that Morten and I filmed
it's nice to have Warp Stabilizer. As far as I've seen it's a little bit better than Premiere. We have a problem. We have a traitor. I just saw Kim using Premiere. Kim?
- Yeah. They wanted italic on the title, but the font that they want, it doesn't
have italic. But in Premiere it's actually possible to
do the title in italic, Eventhough you don't have the font installed. Yeah... As we got more and more into the program,
we really started to like the new workflow. Resolve is divided into seven different pages
all covering different parts of the process. So the media page is simple, it's just for importing media,
there's nothing to be said about it. I think it's a decent page,
it does what it's supposed to do. No bells and whistles. It's fine. The cut page was not really for us. Personally, I just find it too restrictive. I like to be able to move around more
and just do more, even if I'm just doing very ground work. I also got to test out the speed editor
which is specifically made to be used in the cut page. but, to be honest I find it just as efficient
to just use my normal keyboard shortcuts. And you can't really customize the speed editor so
it's quite locked and restrictive in my opinon. There's not much to say about the edit page,
it's quite similar as Premiere. Having the inspector page on the right side,
and the media on the left side, and you can just show it and you can hide it really easily. And that you have all the controls for the video,
and audio and effects in one box. I realized after some days that this must have
a better interface than Premiere, in the editing page. To talk about fusion, I think we should
bring in someone way more qualified than us. So I started using Resolve about 2 years ago, or so. So my preferred one is definitely Nuke,
and Nuke is the industry standard in visual effects, in general, and for good reason. But, it is prohibitively expensive. Oh, boy. It was unintuitive. A little bit clunky. Using Fusion you can't really do it out of the box,
you need plug-ins and scripts for it. And until you figure that out, you're kind of
ripping your hair out trying to figure out why things are not working. But for more indie studios I think that's
way more affordable than a single Nuke license, which is insanely expensive. So Fusion is awesome to have built into an NLE
like Resolve, just because it's convenient for some really
simple things you want to put together. But learning it from scratch
can be a bit of a hurdle. But Resolve as a whole is pretty solid. I feel like in After Effects you're able t
accomplish so much more than in Fusion, and the playback speed and
the performance of Fusion is also something we have a really
bad experience with. We're still definitely using After Effects
and we're not gonna switch. As I said the coloring is amazing. The main reason probably why
we switched to Resolve. And I think the thing that changed the most
for us is just being able to add groups and to add a LUT or a color space transform
to all the clips of one camera and not having to use all those adjustment layers
as you would do in Premiere. I think it's a really efficient way of working, It makes it a more fun program to use,
and makes the experience of editing a lot more fun when you have these coloring capabilities. We did buy the Blackmagic mini coloring panel. And I think it's important for people to realize like, okay the coloring page works fine with
the mouse and keyboard. The Fairlight page, not as much. You should have a Fairlight panel to
be able to edit properly. I think what is important for people to notice
when they criticize Adobe for their pricing is that If Adobe charged $300 for Premiere forever, They would be bankrupt really, really soon. Blackmagic can charge such a low price
because they are mainly selling hardware. That's where they make their money,
not in their software. Eventhough it's cheap, to get the most out of
their program you still need to buy really, really expensive stuff. That's much more expensive than
Premiere is. My experience working with Fairlight,
I was actually quite impressed. It had a lot of the professional features
that I was used to from Nuendo. And it was quite easy for me to get
my mind around how the software worked and how sort of the buses worked
and how you process audio. For me using Nuendo with just mouse and keyboard
is super quick and really intuitive So swithing to Fairlight and still only using
mouse and keyboard felt a little bit more troublesome to me. So I think if I were to switch completely to Fairlight I would need a proper mixing desk
with faders and other controls. A few of the highlights I found in Fairlight
that I don't have in Nuendo is it has a really good voice isolator So it can actually do quite a bit of noise
and reverb removal. It also has a really good dialogue leveler which makes it easy to level up audio
when people are using more voice and then, speaking lower again. You can even it out quite easily
without doing too much work. So my biggest drawbacks compared
to using Nuendo is, I don't like all of the automation functions. I feel like they're a little bit hard to use sometimes. And I also don't like how they do fades. Some of the fades sort of lock to the track
so that when you try to move them, The fades either change length or they just disappear. Some of that I don't like how they have solved. If you're starting out with Fairlight
and are working on smaller projects Like vlogs or Youtube content or
even small commercials It would work perfectly for most cases. My biggest concerns are working on larger projects, I feel like I don't have that much control
over everything in the project, And also I like the routing options
and the sub mixing that I can do in Nuendo that's a little bit harder in Fairlight. I've actually enjoyed using Fairlight,
it's great for just quick adjustments and to export something for the web. But for all type of fiction or short films
or commercials that we're gonna do, I'm still gonna continue using Nuendo. I'm not a huge fan of the delivery page, you have a lot of options and you have a queue,
but I still like Adobe Media Encoder better. And you are able to continue editing when
you are exporting so I actually prefer the Adobe Media Encoder
over the Resolve delivery page. Actually my favorite thing about Davinci is the Cloud. I know that Premiere has some collaboration
thing, we tried it once but it didn't work. it was a bit frustrating. But the Cloud is awesome and, I think that was the first biggest thing
I liked about Davinci was the Cloud. It was a project where we had to
deliver five different videos, So Juni Marie started working on one video,
I was working on the second video, in the same project file. And whenever we added something into the project
it showed up in all the PCs. And Juni Marie was color grading something for me, I was editing while she was color grading so
it just updated the sequence. So that's really cool, it's really... That's really efficient and that's something
that we as a film production company especially has a huge benefit of. The Cloud system is such a
game changer in my opinion and it even has a chat function so you can
talk to the people you're collaborating with without having to go up or disturb them too much which I think is nice. Yes, I have. Mostly because it's fun. And sometimes to tell Anders that the edit is done. We want to expand the Resolve Infiltration Alliance and that is why we made our very own R.I.A merch. So, head over to vjus.no or we also
put a link down in the description if you want some of these really cool clothes. We made several different colors like
the white or the black t-shirt. or a grey sweater. And we might also make some other stuff so head over to the shop to see everything that we have. And we hope you will join the revolution. Yeah you just have to adapt what you are
using and then it works. When you understand the color page
it's really awesome. Yeah, it's just a nice workflow. It's more and more fun editing in Davinci
for everyday, I think. So yeah I think I'm happy with the transition. It was the right choice. Yeah, I think despite the challenges we faced we came out on the other end, and the adjustment period was
a bit rough but it all worked out. The switch has been a wild ride but
I now think that we are all quite satisfied. Premiere is by no means as bad as
people make it seem to be. It is actually a very stellar software. But I think for us right now, Resolve is
probably the better choice. The integration of color and
edit is the main driver of this. That is something that really enhances
the films we make. And I think the way Blackmagic
is putting out software that this is gonna be a software that
we can grow with and to be able to make really amazing
films with in the future. All right yeah, that's it. Cool. Thank you. I still edit in Premiere eventhough
how much they try to force me.
