DaVinci Resolve 16 vs Premiere Pro 2019: Which Is The Better Video Editor?

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DaVinci Resolve 16 vs Premiere Pro 2019: Which Is The Better Video Editor? In this video we're taking a look at the differences between Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. These two pieces of video editing software are loved by many and can both help you to create amazing videos! We're going to take a look at the pros and cons of both Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve to see what video editing software might be best for you!

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0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Price
2:55 - Marketing
4:45 - Performance
9:02 - Stability
9:40 - Timeline
13:20 - Workspace
15:00 - Color
15:30 - Peripheral Products
20:50 - Final Recommendations
25:11 - Outro

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[xjet]

I used to use Vegas (until Magix bought it and stuffed it up) so I tried both Premiere Pro and Davinci Resolve.


For some reason, Premiere just felt wrong and I had trouble getting my head around it. Although the learning curve for Resolve was also quite steep it was a far more pleasant process (maybe because I wasn't worried about a time-limited free trial running out).


After using the "free" version of resolve for a couple of months I spent the $300 to buy the studio version and have never regretted it. Actually, I bought Fusion 9 Studio but the dongle used for that also works for Resolve so I got both programs for just $300 which is an absolute bargain.


As for Fusion... I love it! The version that is baked into Resolve is nowhere near as fast as the stand-alone version so I'd recommend getting the stand-alone for serious compositing but the baked-in version is fine for simple stuff like titles and basic stuff.


If you're going the Resolve way, just make sure your GPU is up to the task. I'm only using a GTX1060/6GB but it works perfectly well for 1080p timelines and the occasional 4K work. For those more focused on 4K stuff you'd be better off with a GPU that has at least 8GB of RAM (GTX1070 and up). Right now the AMD cards work okay (aside from some driver issues with the 5700 and 5700XT) but be aware that some of the OFX components in the studio version rely on CUDA cores to work so you're probably better off with NVIDIA hardware. Even with my lowly GTX1060/6, Resolve Studio version will render a simple HD timeline to H265/HVENC at around 180-200FPS. The free version will be much slower though because only the paid version takes advantage of the H264/265 hardware decoding/encoding found in modern GPUs.


But as the man says... DOWNLOAD IT NOW! :-)

[ipadize]

i would rather pay 299 once than 21 per month for ever

[jamesblack]

Used Premiere for years and watched it become an overpriced piece of garbage constantly crashing with virtually no customer support. Switching over to Davinci was the smartest thing i ever did because now I can actually work without having to deal with adobe's technical glitches. Not even a contest!

[psychosis]

ok! now its time for you to upload "learn DaVinci Resolve 16 in 20 minutes ". and i need it tomorrow :P

[cliquemediaproductions]

I started my transition to DaVinci Resolve 4 months ago and totally happy I did. PPro CS6 was more stable than CC. I continued to use Au, however, because I didn't fully understand Fairlight but Fairlight is easy to use if you just spend a little time with it. For compositing, I continued to use Ae as I fully understood it. So, I am now venturing into Fusion as I want to be completely off of Adobe by end of year. Fusion tutorials would be VERY helpful. I mean, I would pay for a full course on just Fusion if it was offered.

[toxotis]

the shortcuts you mentioned in Premiere (Q and W etc ) exist in Davinci too... just go to the shortcut keyboard manager and put them where you want!

[SwapnilPhulse]

This was good! Its a bit ironical too.


Seeing how Davinci is being hailed in the video, I think it deserves a dedicated playlist on your channel. Most of your content is still geared towards Adobe Suit.

Please make some videos on:
- Davinci video/audio basics
- How to use templates, presents, LUTs

Just go through ANY video editing software comparison video on Youtube and you'll understand how many people want this. Long live Free Software!

[JacAug]

Thanks for the very first unbiased comparison of the 2 software I’ve EVER seen. It’s amazing how different a review is when you don’t have to push a product because you have received some sort remuneration for your “totally unbiased opinion”. “Subscribed”!!!

[Dan-twyn]

"first, the price"
We pirates: >>10

[LeNnsenSe]

10 years on premiere. Cant stand crashing anymore..

[multiversescriptutes]

To save 25:41 minutes of your life.
Da Vinci Resolve the end.

[AndroSpud]

Would love to see this channel start doing Resolve tutorials

[BigBearBoi]

This has convinced me to:
1. Upgrade from Resolve 15 to 16
2. Stick with Davinci Resolve

(also I'm a poor boi so free version for me)

Thanks a lot for the vid, was very insightful!

[myownfriend]

Just a comment on Fusion vs After Effects.

After Effects was the only compositing software I had any experience with for 15 years and the by far the most advanced thing I ever did with it was a title that was about 15 layers. One was a 3D plane, the rest were 2D assets I made in Photoshop and the end result was really just a title.

I had long wanted to move to a node-based compositor because of all the pre-comping and visual clutter in After Effects. When Fusion was finally implemented in to Resolve, I gave it a try, and within the first 3 weeks I had made a 3D island, ocean, beach, and skybox without any outside assets. The geometry and textures were made in Fusion. I did this after watching only one tutorial.

Obviously that doesn't mean that it would click with others just as well. I have experience programming so they idea of look at things as a process wasn't as foreign to me. Because of that, that may not be the best person to judge the ease of use of either program but I do think there's some Fusion has over AE that would help people learn despite the relative lack of learning resources and that's Templates and Fusion titles.

Inside Fusions effects list there are templates for particles, backgrounds, generators, and shaders that get imported as node trees that you can just integrate into your own compositions. You can use these as examples and see how they work and mess with them yourself. There are also templates that are meant to work like tutorials that are grouped into a How To section that show you howspecific nodes work.

Fusion titles are pre-made motion graphics titles that come with program that you can modify very simply from the Edit page or you can switch to the Fusion tab and see how they were made. Obviously, Fusion titles are a lot like Essential Graphics in the Creative Cloud but there are two reasons I cite them as a learning advantage. Essential Graphics can't be open in After Effects by just right clicking them in Premiere and selecting "Open in After Effects". You actually have to open AE, find the folder they're stored in (something like Users/App Graphics on Windows), then find the graphic by name, extract it, update it, save it somewhere else, and THEN you can see how it works. If someone gets that far then that leads to me to reason number 2. Someone looking at an Essential Graphics title in After Effects would have to click through each layer of each composition to see which effects or masks are applied to each layer, then look at how things are parented, and even then it doesn't mean that they'd grasp what things like Null objects are. One of the big advantages of nodes is that they read like flow charts. It's very easy to open someone else's project and see what effects are being used and how things are connected with having to dig through layers of abstraction.

[gevanlappido]

11:30
Resolve has *extend* *edit*, also on e
and ripple *head/tail* (q and w on premiere), but needs to put on a shortcut and is called "start to playead" and "end to playhead"

And I totally get you, premiere is made by programmers and lately by a marketing department and Resolve is made by video editors 😊

[curtiselder]

Love this video... Great presentation. One thing, though - Nobody ever mentions Premiere Pro's ability to continuously play/loop around an edit while you are trimming it! That is priceless to me. Otherwise, you make a trim, play it back, make a trim correction, play it again, blah, blah, blah. With Premiere, double click a cut point, press spacebar, then use shortcuts to trim one (or five) frames at a time... all while hearing the results right away. This is particularly powerful for dialogue trimming. Loose a breath from the outgoing, pick up a breath on the incoming. Can't find that on Resolve, or Final Cut (Avid has done it for years!). By the way, I change the pre - post rolls to one second in the preferences, otherwise each playback loop is way too long. Hope this was helpful.

[alexmm]

Excellent video. I find that many of the "we left Premiere" or "Resolve is the greatest video editor since sliced bread" videos are also commercials for you to buy their FX packages that they made in Fusion. I think many realize that Fusion is quite complex and most users will never figure out how to fully utilize it on their own. If anything, Resolve is the undisputed winner in price.

[piperski_blavor]

Soo basically DaVinci Resolve is better? :)

[xeviusUsagi]

lol buying adobe premiere and after effects,
what are you? a good civilian?


go crack that s***t and use it for fr-


*FBI OPEN UP!*


Me:"ho... *HO* NO"

[andrewelder]

These videos are incredibly helpful, thank you so much! Literally, the first PPro tutorial I ever saw was Jordan's 5-part Ultimate PPro Tutorial series. The production value, entertainment/information balance, and quality are all top notch. I truly cannot understand how the Motion Array tutorials don't get 10 times the views!