hey welcome back to the channel so today's video is going to be a little
bit different I'm gonna talk about why I switch from Adobe Premiere to DaVinci
Resolve studio so here we go so for the majority of the videos on this channel
I've been using Adobe Premiere I had the Creative Cloud subscription the full
subscription they gave me they'll be premiere Photoshop After Effects all
that other stuff and it's been fantastic I've been really happy with it the thing
I'm not happy about is not software related it's that subscription model and
they just bumped up the price a little bit so I started doing a search for
another video editor that would satisfy what I wanted to do now the stuff I do
on my channel is relatively basic I do some basic color correction some audio
work obviously the video editing but I also like to do stuff like custom
effects like my intro I made that custom and also some motion tracking I was
doing that in After Effects that has a really good sync with Adobe Premiere so
I wanted to find something that would kind of replicate that now in my quest
to find another editor the first thing I tried was Final Cut Pro but I loaded
that on a 2013 iMac that I have in Final Cut Pro actually worked excellently with
the 4k video off my lumix g7 camera everything works fluidly I didn't have
to create any proxy files or anything like that now the problem with Final Cut
Pro is although it's a great editor any of the extra stuff you want to do like
the automated motion tracking you have to buy a plugin for it and there's all
these plugins there's tons of plugins that you can get but they're pretty much
all cost money sure you can get transitions and effects and stuff like
that but for me it was still just a little bit too limited I was so used to
all the things I could do with the combination of premiere and After
Effects now the next thing I tried was DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve was
really appealing to me because it's a really great editor some of the best
color correction tools in the industry the version 15 which is the newest
version integrated fusion which is an effective editor it's similar to some of
the stuff you can do with After Effects but it's node based versus layer based
in After Effects and a Fairlight audio so it's got some really great tools and
there all built right into the software
there's not even integration with outside applications it's all built in
there now there's two versions with DaVinci Resolve there's the free version
and there's the studio version now the free version has almost all of the
features available to you now the problem that I had with that free
version is with these files off my Lumix G seven that are mp4 h.264 files it was
really really laggy even on a i7 8700 K based coffee-like bill that I did with
16 gigs of ram in a GTX 1060 card the scrubbing was slow the playback was
really slow and honestly was not a great experience but at the same time I saw
everybody raving about how great and how quick DaVinci Resolve was so I started
doing some searching now from what I was reading the studio version was much more
efficient with those h.264 files but I couldn't really find any concrete
evidence to that and the studio version is $300 which is a great price because
of the features of the software but I was not really willing to jump in and
pay that $300 until I found some concrete information so cut to the chase
long story short the free version of DaVinci Resolve
uses the h.264 decoder that comes in Windows and that default decoder does
not use the hardware decoder on the GPU so it doesn't use those hardware
decoding capabilities so it's extremely slow it's all doing it all in software
and with a 4k h.264 software it just couldn't keep up with it
now the studio version does take advantage of that hardware GPU so once I
found that out I decided to jump in slap down my 300 bucks and got the studio key
now the difference between the free and the studio version is night and day all
the issues that I had with the free version went completely away with the
studio version scrubbing is completely smooth the playback is smooth I don't
have to create any proxy files or anything I could take the files right
off my camera dump them on my computer pull them in to resolve and edit till my
heart is ten effects color correction all the
tracking and any of the other stuff that I want to do infusion all works really
really well now that $300 that you pay for the studio version also includes
future updates so basically you're paying that $300 one time and you get
free updates going forward as against to the Adobe Premiere before they even
raise the price I was paying about six hundred bucks a year for that now
obviously I don't get access to Photoshop but I use GIMP more than
Photoshop anyway it's not a better tool necessarily I'm just more used to it so
I don't really miss having Photoshop there's a little bit of a learning curve
transitioning from After Effects that's all layer based to fusion that's node
base node base is kind of a different mindset but once you get used to that
the transition is great the actual editing transition from Premiere to
DaVinci Resolve is super simple you can even tell the vichy resolve to use the
Adobe Premiere shortcuts in resolve when you first launch the software all in all
I couldn't be happier I have software that works really great
on the existing some hardware that I already had I don't have to switch over
to Mac OS to use Final Cut Pro although Final Cut Pro is great software Adobe
Premiere is great software I love both of those pieces of software but for me
DaVinci Resolve is going to work better and the bonus is that it's also
available on Linux if you have any questions about it please leave a
comment below or come see me on Twitter Instagram and Facebook hit me up on
those ask any questions you have I'm happy to answer it black magic is not
sponsoring this video in any way I'm just really happy with the software and
wanted to tell you all about my experience so thanks for stopping by and
I will see you in the next video