DaVinci Resolve

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1. One $300 USD purchase and you have resolve studio (premiere), fairlight (audition but admittedly not as feature rich/stable), fusion (after effects)

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “State of Kdenlive”

2. It's the de-facto "standard" for color grading and it's getting more and more capable for things like editing, audio mixing and VFX.

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

3. I spent a little while trying. My knowledge of lightroom didn't really carry over. I couldn't work out how to do things like masks.

   Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

4. There are excellent video editing tools: on the desktop from paid ones like Premiere to free (as in beer) ones like DaVinci Resolve

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support”

5. it was valuable for me to use for a month to evaluate if the Studio features warranted the investment in the permanent license

   Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21”

6. The settings are a bit daunting at first; some are what you expect in a regular photo editor, and others are... weird for me.

   Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe”

7. the free version of DaVinci Resolve does not include H.264/H.265/AAC support on Linux due to codec licensing issues

   Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor”

8. that kind of pricing model makes me want to buy a license just to make sure that companies like this stick around

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

9. Resolve is clearly the superior NLE with a company that has thus far maintained pretty stellar business practices

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor”

10. I've just installed DaVinci and pointed it at my photos from this year and so far it's been frozen for 8 minutes

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor”

11. I've had DaVinci Resolve reproducibly crash on Intel Arc GPUs when hardware acceleration was on during rendering

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “State of Kdenlive”

12. Davinci/Premiere is great software, but for beginners it is still a very high barrier to learn the software.

    Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “Show HN: Palmier Pro – open-source macOS video editor built for AI”

13. even for just cutting together clips, adding text, and using keyframes it's hard to beat how nice Resolve is

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor”

14. The speed/time remapping controls are quite good; here's a clip I made that demonstrates how deep you can go

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

15. my partner and I have had great luck replacing AfterEffects and Premiere with Blender and DaVinci Resolve

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed”

16. On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Which editing tool using in 2026?”

17. Resolve is extremely RAM hungry. For 4K video I wouldn't want to be editing with less than 12GB of VRAM.

    Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

18. I was pleasantly surprised when I had to start 4k video editing work and could just use Davinci Resolve

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux”

19. Ever since I made the jump from Premiere Pro, I've been positively surprised with how good Resolve is.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

20. this is software for professionals, most of which highly appreciate most of the features BMD puts out

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21”

21. The biggest issues are the supports of video cards (nvidia is the king) and different popular codecs.

    Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

22. I've got my resolve studio license activated on my mac laptop and linux workstation at the same time.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

23. You will save so much time and energy using the free/shareware DaVinci Resolve instead of OpenShot.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor”

24. $295 one time permanent license with free upgrades and can be migrated between different computers?

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

25. Davinci Resolve is probably competitive with Premiere, but while free it's not actually open source

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Blender 5.0”

26. It is also a lot less crash happy than premiere which I ditched for resolve and never looked back.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21”

27. I just used it last month whatever the latest version was. It didn't freeze at startup but all the other issues were still there.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21”

28. Can they support something like modern linux? Every single youtuber talks sh/t about davinci and they still do not care

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

29. trying to use DaVinci on Linux with eGPU still ends up with "Not enough GPU" errors and constant crashes

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM”

30. some of these genuinely excite me, like the slate recognition (chore-reduction), clip search (although I'd want to see how reliable it is), and deblur

    Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21”

31. yes to agents! how i had wished i could just point an agent at my footage and instruct "do something sensible with color grading and audio cleanup"

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

32. Video editing in DaVinci Resolve using my MacBook Pro w/ Mac Virtual Display helps a ton with workflows where I need the extra space

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?”

33. I was able to get to a point of being able to do some basic video editing/export with it in a few hours of watching YouTube videos

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21”

34. DaVinci is cool but it doesn't unlock anything like "make my photo look like VHS" that hasn't existed for decades by now.

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor”

35. one of the audio channels from the camera footage on the motorcycle is never good enough for this feature to work for me

    Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

36. there is enormous value in the community, ecosystem, and learning materials centred around Reaolve as it is right now

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

37. I'm no expert, but I never found Resolve materially more difficult to learn or use than Final Cut Pro or Premiere.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

38. Doing it myself with little effort using davinci or premiere takes ~30 minutes but the results are 5 times better

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing”

39. You vastly underestimate how much work goes into "polish" when software with huge surface area is decades old.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21.1”

40. The Python scripting later is poorly documented and only supports a subset of the functionality of Resolve.

    Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “DaVinci Resolve 21”