We'll start on the product page for Resolve, and right up front,
I'm going to be covering how you'll do thi s if you already have the free version installed. It
will work for a fresh install as well though, there will just be a couple obvious steps in
here which you don't have to do. Part 1: Get this thing on your PC
If you are new to resolve I'd highly recommend reading and exploring on this page, but for this
tutorial, we are going to stop once we get to these two buttons. This install button covers
both the free version and the studio version and it's the one you'll use if you are upgrading a
previously installed copy or if you already have a product key because you bought the speed editor
or the pocket cinema camera or something like that but if you are coming in fresh and need
to buy a license, this second button is where you will do that. For this, we'll go through
the route that the top button provides us. Once we click it we will get this popup which allows
you to select your product AND your operating system. Make sure you get both of these right.
For me, on this machine, I want Resolve Studio 17 and I'm using Windows. Click your corresponding
button and it'll bring us to this registration page. Fill in all of this info then press Register
and Download to start downloading our installer zip file! Once that's done, navigate to your
download location, if you are on Chrome you can come up and click this menu or if you are big into
hotkeys like me just press Ctrl+J. Find your zip file in here then give it the ole one-two click.
Part 2: Unzipping your installer After you've delivered that double
click to your downloaded zip file it'll open in whichever extractor you use.
I'm privy to WinRAR myself and if you want to grab WinRAR I go through the full process in
my installing resolve video so I'll have that linked in the description in case you need it.
I already have it though, so I'm going to click our installer in here and press Extract To.
That'll pop up this window and I'll tell it where I want it to extract to which will be the desktop.
It'll go through this process and then the installer will be ready to go right there on the
desktop! We'll double click it to open it up and it'll say extracting and give us this loading bar.
Then we'll get our isolated prompt and since we trust Blackmagic we'll press allow. Then if we
already have a copy of resolve installed we'll wait a couple of seconds and get this error
message if you don't already have a copy or you just don't get this error, go to this timestamp.
Part 3: Out with the old For those of you who didn't skip ahead, we'll
need to come down to our search bar, type control panel, and open our control panel. In here there
are a few things we need to uninstall. We'll go through and get rid of everything from Blackmagic.
In my experience, every time I've done this, I've come out the other side with my databases
intact but that does nothing for how scary this feels when you have a project you are working on.
If you are super worried about this grab a thumb drive and back up your projects.
Once all of our Resolve associated programs are uninstalled we'll go back to our desktop
and double click our installer again. Part 4: In with the new
Once the extracting bar goes away we'll get these options here. Go ahead and leave all
of these checked, or if they aren't, go ahead and check them all. You may not need them right
now but you'll have to do most of this process again if you want to get them in the future...
so just get them. Then click Install and it will get going. A bunch of different loading
bars will pop up and then go away. When they are all done we'll be here and we'll click
Next. Read this if you want to or just lie and say you did like you normally do. Click Next,
then set your install location I'm going to leave this one right here. Once you have your location
Next again. Last chance to double-check your install settings by pressing back,
but I'm going to confidently click Install without a second thought.
We'll get a few more loading bars and this button will ominously change back to saying Next.
Once those loading bars are done doing their thing it'll change its mind about making us click Next
again and instead let us click Finish. Part 5: Existential dread
Now that we've clicked finish we have this new fresh Resolve shortcut here,
and if we had previous projects going this is the part where we're pretty sure all of
our hard work has been deleted. So we'll open it up and cross our fingers. Once it's open,
and we can see that our projects are fine we can breathe a sigh of relief and then watch this video
which will show you how to do a cool demon eye effect inside Fusion! I'll see you over there.