WHY WE ARE LEAVING Premiere Pro for Davinci Resolve

As a filmmaker, there aren't all too many program choices when it comes to editing. Be it too high demands on the hardware, for example with Avid Media or the compatibility-issues, that the program only runs on a particular operating system - as is the case with Final Cut.

Due to the freedom offered and the sheer scope of the program, many people decide to go with Adobe Creative Suite and we too had for a long time, decided to go with Premiere Pro.
Unfortunately however, for some time now many filmmakers have had problems with Premiere, which seem to be impossible to solve.

As a result of this, we found ourselves forced to find an alternative solution. We came across a former colour-grading program, which has meanwhile developed into a serious all-in-one editing software: Davinci Resolve Studio 16. This video shows us trying it out for the first time...

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[colinire]

Give Davinci a week or so - it's incredibly easy to learn. Little tip here - once you import your clips, select them all, right click and choose 'Create Optimized Media". The level of optimization can be chosen by clicking on 'Project Settings' and then on "Master Settings". Scroll down and you'll find the settings for Optimized Media and Render Cache". This gives super smooth playback even on an underpowered laptop. Good luck and to hell with Adobe!

[mattparker]

Charging me a monthly fee to work on my footage...when it doesn't even work...
..is unacceptable.

[darkanglenow]

4 minutes in, still no clue what isn't working.

[olsonspeed]

Premier Pro went to hell when it went offshore and required a monthly subscription, Adobe's management killed a great product with cooperate greed and incompetence.

[dimitrije]

I installed and uninstalled resolve like 5 times until i managed to accept it and learned it 😂 but we are in love now.

[tonyhailstone]

Switched to Davinci Resolve Studio few years ago. Performance is night and day compared to Premiere. Renders are magnitudes faster. Colour tools are second to none. I can edit 4k without proxies. Scrubbing is buttery smooth. Powerful audio tools. Only negatives, I prefer After Effects to Fusion. Titles are slow. Interface lacks the same amount of customisation as Premiere. Overall though, Resolve is THE software to own if you are a video pro.

[carcamacademy]

Once you have become one with the node. Magic things happen.

[DavidSkok]

I switched to Davinci Resolve, and have never looked back. So many things to like. One of them is how fast they are developing the software. Every year you get a huge new upgrade - and it's free if you bought the Studio license in the past. Then their color tools are so far ahead of Premiere Pro or Final Cut, and to me being able to get my footage looking EXACTLY how I want it, with tools that I now consider to be better than those in Lightroom, is worth its weight in gold. I also love Fusion and Fairlight.

BTW - the reason why the tracker didn't track your head very well is simple, you included too many areas that were outside of your head. To do it best, make the circle track points inside the outline of your head, and after the tracker has finished, then increase the size of the circle (Power Window) to include any other areas you want adjusted.

[palfrey]

We switched to Resolve earlier this year, never going back. Everything works so much better.

[aliruane]

Swearing at premiere is part of life these days

[GavinSeim]

I was just trying to get into Resolve again today. I'm so fed up with premiere. It seems to get worse with every update.

[ThePiones]

I'm literally uninstalling my whole adobe suite right now. I'm tired of this

[jrkettleman]

I cut the cord to Adobe a year ago. I use Davinci Resolve for video editing. Affinity Photo and Affinity Design. I haven't looked back towards Adobe at any point. Luminar 4 looks like a good Lightroom replacement. Viva the revolution

[ChrisHolzer]

When I see such videos I always wonder why I don't run into any of these major issues with Premiere.
That said, I love what Blackmagic does with Davinci because a monopoly is bad for the users. In every industry we need competition to drive innovation. Just look at the CPU space and what AMD is doing there with intel! :D

[dougtalks]

"I'm so angry I said it in German." Oddly this happens in our house too...but we're native english speakers who learned German as a second language.

[KaarloMedia]

Hey, just chiming in on the video to let you know that you're making the right choice :D.

I've worked with Resolve professionally for years now and feel pretty confident with the software. It has its quirks and bugs, still, but the hardware optimization and color grading power make it overwhelmingly good.

As you were wondering about the different pages/tabs, let me give you a rundown:
1. Media page: I never use it, since you can drag and drop files on the Edit page, create virtual folders and just keep your stuff organized that way. Maybe if your projects get incredibly large the Media page proves itself useful.
2. Cut page: This is a very new feature to Resolve and to be honest, quite unfinished. Despite its "freshness" to put it kindly, the Cut page offers two really cool features. The first one is a film strip view of all your source footage. So every source clip you have for the footage is displayed as one video and you can scroll through, insert in/out points and insert clips to your timeline without having to select individual source files and waste time. The second cool feature is in Resolve 16.3 Beta, and that is footage synchronization based on audio/timecode/whatever, without having to create multicam clips for it. The Cut page has a separate button, layout and automization for footage synchronization and this will make it super easy to get your footage in sync.
3. Edit page: Has everything you'll need to create a video, file management, powerful cutting tools and some quick audio mastering and editing. As a highlight I'd mention the trim tool, that covers pretty much 4 tools in Premiere very intuitively. As a negative, the Title tools are way worse than in Premiere (why I still use After Effects, see below).
4. Fusion page: Fusion is much worse than After Effects in Motion graphics. You CAN create motion graphics but when you get into it, it's immediately apparent that it wasn't built for that. Fusion is, however, much better than AE in 3D compositing and tracking. The Fusion tracking tools demand a lot from the user, but also give a lot in return. I still use AE for every video edit I've created in Resolve, 100% because of the motion graphics work I do.
5. Color page: Too much to talk about. Industry standard. Better than anything else. Incredible, love it, no negatives, honestly.
6. Fairlight: Very powerful audio editing tool. I'm not the most experienced audio tech, but I know my way around equalizers, compressors and noise reduction. The good thing is that it's built into Resolve, the bad (at least as far as I've understood) is that it's missing some cool Audition tools like automatic click remover. So whenever my LAV microphones are hastily put on the talent and the audio has some weird scratches and clicks on it, I need to take it through Audition before Resolve.
7. Deliver page: Pretty straight forward. I love the hardware optimized render times. Fuck off Adobe with your "multiple

All in all, I dislike Premiere, love Resolve and After Effects and keep Audition as a backup.

My full workflow is: Resolve for everything else -> Render out a DNxHR / ProRes master (or several depending on layer complexity) -> After Effects for compositing, Motion Graphics -> Media Encoder for final delivery.

Cheers!

[GeorgeAJohnson]

This NEEDED to be said - thank you! I have contacted Adobe a dozen times about these exact same issues, and I have seen NO results! Every update makes the software WORSE! Thanks for making this video.

[AnthonySpencer]

It just blows my mind how something like LumaFusion running on an iPad Pro is out-performing my current high end laptop running Premiere Pro. Even something simple like just playing a 5.7k clip. LumaFusion just plays works and exports are super fast.

[RodovalPTY]

I'm glad you guys have taken the Red Pill =) Welcome to Resolve!

[BASEDinMaine]

When I started diving into video editing, I used Lightworks free version and eventually upgraded to their full version. Messed around with Fusion for graphics stuff before I got a job editing real estate video tours and had to learn Adobe Premiere and After Effects -- I liked the integration and abandoned Lightworks and other free models. I lost my video editing job and could only afford to pay for the single premiere app but seeing that more and more prominent figures are willing to take a look at Fusion makes me want to take my money away from adobe's exploitative pricing model.