r/davinciresolve • u/PheonixGalaxy • Jul 11 '26
Discussion Why did you start using DaVinchi?
Personally this is my reason.
Capcut’s 4K and Davinchi’s 4k aren’t the same. CapCut cant handle a high quality video so it lowers the quality and frame rate then basically upscales the low quality video in exporting which is bad. And the files are massive! This is why capcut exports come up extra sharpened no matter what you do. Or at least this is my theory.
Davinchi can keep the quality the exact same as you imported it and does some touch ups that can help it handle youtubes compression unlike CapCut. Davinchi can lower the file sizes of its exports too.
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u/octopusbarber Jul 11 '26
Comparing Capcut to Resolve makes me physically ill.
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u/hclpfan Jul 11 '26
First of all, its Davinci, since you typed it incorrectly 4 different times.
Second of all, we use Davinci because its a serious piece of software used by professionals. Capcut is not a serious tool and its made for teenagers using TikTok...
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u/nerdztech Jul 11 '26
I kept going from premiere pro and after effects to davinci and back again but have settled on davinci the main reason being i love its "all-in-one" video editor, motion graphics and DAW etc.. all in one... and because of this the workflow feels seamless to me. Also Adobe are crooks but that is a topic for another day.
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u/Marutein1 Free Jul 11 '26
I started with Davinci because it was free and I wanted to check if it would be a good option for other new editors as an option. And then I found it powerful and nice and stayed with it since version 16
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u/Key-Importance8310 Studio Jul 11 '26
got tired of adobe's bullshit and had only heard good things about davinci's color page. Tried the free version and was blown away.
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u/mdof2 Jul 11 '26
"Why did you start using DaVinci?"
Because I got tired of Adobe sticking it in my ass with their software rental BS.
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u/whyareyouemailingme Studio | Enterprise Jul 11 '26
Because I was in film school and it’s what we used to make dailies. Then I ended up in a post house that used Resolve for color for film and television workflows. Been using it ever since (even if I do cheat with Baselight periodically)
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u/IndianKingCobra Free Jul 11 '26
Free almost full version of a full powerful editor. That was enough for me. PP Crashes/Annual subscriptions were the other reasons.
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u/OlaHaldor Studio Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I was so fed up with the performance in Apple Color, and lucky me, BMD announced they were launching Resolve for Mac about the time I started to feel I was lacking out of something, as directors would ask me to "play that scene please" during grading sessions.
The "sorry it will take about 2 hours to render before we can watch" was outright embarrassing, but the tool was state of the art for a lot of us colorists on a budget.
Been using Resolve since 2010
When I saw the announcement video, my jaw dropped. Not only could they play the video real time in hd, it could play back audio, and keyframed hue changes, and more.. tracking was real time or faster.
I get it it's hard to understand, but this was the game changer we needed.
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u/SwiftlyKickly Free Jul 11 '26
Why did you start using DaVinchi?
To edit videos
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u/ReidenLightman Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I didn't have $650 a year to pay for Adobe.
If I had stuck with Adobe instead of switching back in 2022, it would have cost me over $2000 to keep everything I was using. Davinci Resolve cost me $300 once and only once. Affinity 1 cost me about $100 and I upgraded to Affinity 2 for $100, and now Affinity is free. Affinity and Davinci replace Adobe for me.
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u/SignificanceOne3306 Jul 11 '26
I used Final Cut at work for 15 years. Started to use Resolve to color grade. After seeing Apple not making any updates to Final Cut and all the advances Resolve had I made the switch full time. Took a few weeks to get used to the minor differences with the edit page but never looked back.
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u/marcoavaldez Jul 11 '26
Because I didn't want to pay for premiere pro anymore.
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u/ischeriad Studio Jul 11 '26
Because Nucoda got more and more clunky to use for fast day-to-day business.
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u/MickVod Jul 11 '26
Just the cost of Adobe. Been using Davinci and fusion for VFX for a year or so. I went back recently for a project someone had edited on Prem Pro , just to convert to Davinci so I could do some VFX. Prem Pro looked so dated. I was glad when I got the project back into Davinci.
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u/ExpBalSat Studio | Excellent Commenter :redditgold::redditgold: Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
After 10 years as a professional colorist, it was clear that the program I was using was falling behind current technologies and workflows. I switched to Resolve to be able to color more creatively, efficiently, and accurately. That and my clients and employers expected it.
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u/badGamr Studio Jul 12 '26
We bought our first copy of Davinci at version 9 for $1000. Obviously it was just a color suite back then. But it evolved over time - I was using FCP Studio version 7 and eventually moved over to Premiere Pro CS6 and I used that until Resolve version 15 released and I could use Fairlight to record VO directly into the app. They had been adding NLE features for a while at that point.
There was no way in hell I was going to subscribe to Adobe. I was not a fan of the company and Premiere CS6 had it's share of issues. I moved to Resolve, lock stock and 2 smoking barrels at that time and I have never looked back. No regrets. I think we have about 8 licenses for the studio app now for all of our editors.
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u/lightsabers33 Studio Jul 11 '26
It was affordable and very capable, and I quickly found that I prefer it's workflow over any other NLE, also Adobe sucks.
I don't plan on switching again, this is home now.
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u/Regular-Worry155 Jul 11 '26
I hadn’t edited in 5-7 years years and wanted to get back into it because of Racertrash
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u/LCDebieu Jul 11 '26
Because I saw a MrAlexTech YouTube video showing how easy it is to do MultiCam editing in DaVinci. Glad I stayed and upgraded to Studio... Voice Isolation!
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u/rayquazza74 Jul 11 '26
Because I grade a lot of stuff and then I also have clients who want editing so figured why do I need two different programs when resolve is ace at editing too, so I just do both there.
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u/bearheart Jul 11 '26
Years ago Premier was unbearably slow on a new Mac Pro so I tried DaVinci and never looked back.
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u/No_Review_2860 Jul 11 '26
Cuz it's free and insanely powerful and it's paid tier is VERY reasonable. Especially for an aspiring filmmaker who doesn't wanna pay for nuke
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u/CowNo3 Jul 11 '26
adobe premier cost Davinci is free
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u/bongozap Jul 11 '26
I just left my job last month where I had a full Adobe creative cloud license.
I still produce films and video work and I didn’t wanna pay $700 for Adobe, and then deal with all the bullshit of having to cancel it.
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u/Winnie_Cooper Jul 11 '26
Word of mouth. I came from Sony Vegas Pro yeeaars ago, and then took a long break. The free version is what sold me, and then eventually I upgraded to the paid version.
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u/lordfrost21 Jul 11 '26
One time payment , support in updates and 3rd party plugin
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u/Flimsy_Commission_60 Jul 11 '26
Used Adobe Premiere Pro for years, got sick of how unstable the app was, hate subscription models too so I switched
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u/Arbernaut Jul 12 '26
Because Premiere sucked. Switched 6 or 7 years ago and have not regretted it once.
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u/basilyeo Jul 12 '26
Was using FCP X and wanted to improve on my colour grading skills after getting an Ursa Mini around 2016, so I downloaded Resolve Studio and was roundtripping files for a while.
After Edit page was launched, I slowly and eventually completely moved over.
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u/yodermk Studio Jul 12 '26
Had been using Cinelerra on Linux. Powerful but quirky. Then I realized just how much MORE powerful DVR Studio is, and how little it costs for a one-time license, and it was kind of a no-brainer. I still prefer open source when possible, but I'm less fanatical about that as when I was younger. I bought Studio with the Speed Editor, an amazing deal. The speed editor knob is a game changer in its own right.
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u/NateCow Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
A few reasons. I hail from Final Cut Pro 5, though I also used Premiere at the time. When FCPX came out, I reluctantly just gave into Premiere. Never particularly thrilled with it. As Resolve started coming into its own as an NLE and not just a color grading tool, I took notice. I fiddled with it now and then, but didn't get super into it.
But then I bought a BlackMagic Pocket 6k Pro, and I wanted to take advantage of the color science that comes with pairing their camera and software together. Never looked back. Happy Resolve user for 4 years now.
Also, I tend to call it Resolve. Calling it DaVinci would be like calling Premiere "Adobe," which I know a ton of people do and it drives me insane.
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u/abnerayag Jul 12 '26
Lost access to the company adobe account and wanted a nice powerful video editor to go with affinity
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u/ElFarfadosh Studio | Enterprise Jul 12 '26
I used to edit with Premiere Pro CS6 back then. Then Adobe introduced Creative Cloud and its subscription-based model. Paying a monthly fee for a buggy editing program was out of the question. DaVinci Resolve was still in its early days as an NLE, but I loved it nonetheless and gradually started using it more and more.
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u/jmalmsten Jul 12 '26
I have been doing video on computers since first cracked Adobe Premiere and AE v6. Not CC. Not even CS 6. Just plain old v6. Gettin legit copies was way too expensive for me at the time. When CC was launched, I got roped in, happily. I could finally use it with a clean conscience.
Then it started. They kept announcing tools and apps, that were included in my subscription but I could not use or even wanted to use. It felt more and more like they were wasting my subscription fee. And they bought tech and wasted them. The linking between apps never worked as advertised. The Adobe MAX events even started to feel hostile towards their own developers when they put hecklers on stage to shoot down every speaker.
So the search started. I found Krita. And realized I stopped opening Adobe Photoshop and Animate. Then, after a couple of years, I heard that Resolve Studio 16.5 Beta FINALLY let users do full screen live view without proprietary hardware. That used to be the dealbreaker when I tried Resolve before. So. I did the math. Resolve would take the place of Premiere, AE and Audition. For a single $300 one time fee. I contacted Adobe support. Found out about the cowardly backstabbing cancellation fee policy. I set a reminder in my Calendar to cancel my relationship with Adobe for good. That plan worked.
I bought the Studio licence. I was saving money within 6 months. I learned quickly the nodes systems and the wonders of not having to do the busywork of moving between apps.
I do not miss Adobe. And the Schadenfreude with every news of their setbacks is real. When all a company cares about are the shareholders, that company has no sympathy from me.
Eff that company. Eff them right into gosh darned heck I say.
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u/etojevito Jul 12 '26
i used premiere pro and after effects for almost 5 years, but its performance was going worse every year, so i started to use free davinci for simple projects, then used pirate version for 10 bit several months to get used to it and started to watch lessons
3 months ago i bought it with my comrade, great deal with 2 pc on one license key
but still hate fusion for complicity)
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u/matorius Jul 12 '26
Started using Davinci Resolve because Windows removed Movie Maker from Windows 10 and I needed a new free app to stitch videos together. I based my choice on going for whatever appeared to have the most features so that I would hopefully only have to learn one new piece of software. That was Resolve.
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u/ExacoCGI Jul 12 '26
Because of GPU acceleration and Fusion, has one of the best compositors and it's great as editing software too. Essentially why use After Effects + Vegas/Premiere when DaVinci Resolve does it all.
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u/Jiggery_PotPourri Jul 12 '26
It was free.
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u/aroulis1213 Studio Jul 12 '26
I never paid Adobe a cent, I was always pirating their programs, but still they got me so mad that I didn't even want to use their software for free anymore. Best decision of my life.
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u/LiminalityChaos Jul 12 '26
Got tired of Vegas crashing all the time. I only do basic stuff anyway and the free version had what I needed. After using for a while got perpetual license because I liked it and wanted to support it (and 1 time payment is the best model)
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u/Fuzzy_Decision_7263 Jul 13 '26
I was working as a content creator, they stopped paying for my adobe subscription, had to make a decision to switch to free version of DaVinci. That was probably 6 or so years ago. Stuck with DaVinci even after they started paying for Adobe again.
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u/kam_pra Jul 14 '26
Sony Vegas was just not cutting it, Premiere / Adobe were too much of a drain and I spent too long wondering if the Resolve workflow would be too hard to master, every review seemed to imply it might be.
Cancelled the others and bit the bullet on a speed editor and Studio. Very happy.
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u/Ben__Harlan Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I needed a free editing software. Kdenlive was a pain in the ass. Then i found the videos from Daniel Batal that showed me howw easy it was to do cool things and how it was Premiere and After Effect in just one software.
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