A lot of people have asked me why I stopped using filmora recently and I think there's been a lot
of misconceptions about the exact reason I did that I wanted to take a second to talk about
that I stopped using Filmora and I moved on to using DaVinci Resolve and I think the initial
reaction to that was sort of a idea of somehow me sticking it to filmora and I wouldn't use
their product ever again and that really wasn't the case that entire lifetime license Saga the
only thing that I really wanted to do through all of that was to get them to reconsider and
actually allow people who had lifetime licenses to start using the newer versions and to their
credit they did so in my head that issue had somewhat been resolved no pun intended but I
had been moving away from filmora for a while for a bunch of reasons some of the reasons were
that some of the features that were in filmora really weren't working the way I wanted them to
with every update I started noticing that when I pushed that software as far as it could go there
were little things like the 16x9 ratio never never quite filled the screen properly when
I uploaded things onto YouTube sometimes I'd see a tiny pixel black line on one side of the
other of the frame when I was watching some of my YouTube videos back on replay it seemed to get a
little worse when I was doing things like doing extreme crop and zooms and moving things around
my Image Screen especially when I was using aspect ratios that were higher than just the normal 16x9
it just had a weird fluke to it and even things like the white balance when I would do things
like use a white balance card and have it select that white from my image using the Color Picker it
never seemed to give me a True Light balance and that might not be a big issue for someone else
but little things like that with every update that never seemed to get fixed started making me have
to work harder to get the kind of look I wanted in my videos there were certain limitations to
things like the color correction and especially the audio controls that didn't have the things I
really wanted to see in my video editing software and forced me to use third-party software to do
things like Master my audio and get it to sound just the way I wanted it to sound now that being
said I've always felt that filmora was a pretty good daily working software for doing fast edits
and kind of getting most of the work done that you would need to do to make a YouTube video and
I think when I stopped using it it started making people who still use it feel bad about using it
and they would say things to me in the comments section like I'm sorry Daniel but I'm gonna keep
using it because it works from me you shouldn't feel sorry at all I've always said regardless of
whatever software you're using don't let anyone tell you that's not the right software for you
you should always pick tools that do the thing you need them to do and that you feel comfortable
using for your workflow whether that's just simple daily edits or something a little more complex and
it's not like DaVinci Resolve isn't without its own share of problems it's got a pretty steep
learning curve and it takes a while to really understand how to use some of the functionality
even to do some fairly basic editing my biggest problem with DaVinci Resolve is that the layout
in the user interface has got really tiny text especially when you're using it on a fairly decent
screen like a larger 4k monitor it's really hard to see some of the little features and buttons
you need to push then that's really apparent often when I try to use that software in a live stream I
have to use big magnifying extensions and things so that you can see a little better because it's
hard to follow along with but considering the amount of functions that it actually has that's
a small price to pay it's also a little bit funky when you install it figuring out exactly
how you're supposed to sign up and get the paid version it's got no easy way to just kind of
click a button if you already have it installed and say hey I'd like to pay for the license and
do that quickly and a lot of people will ask me those questions like which one is better Daniel
is DaVinci better than filmora and that's kind of a tricky question because it's almost like asking
someone what's better a pickup truck or a Ferrari now a lot of people would immediately say Ferrari
because it's a more expensive Italian sports car but if you're someone who's everyday tasks involve
going to the store and maybe picking up bags of concrete and maybe having to move furniture then a
Ferrari is pretty useless for those kind of tasks that being said if you're someone who needs to get
somewhere super fast probably the Ferrari is the better car for you I think I just advocated for
speeding but the upside of using DaVinci Resolve for me was really a workflow thing I was already
at the point that I had not really been using filmora all that that much when I was working on
my edits I was looking for something new before the whole license thing happened and I've been
testing out Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro and looking at DaVinci Resolve and what it really
came down to is I just like the idea of DaVinci Resolve it had that completely free version which
let you install it and get working with it no watermarks or anything like that that did a really
great job and it had a ton of functionality so it was kind of hard not to like it and there was
something about the fact that it was a pro level video editing software there are plenty of really
good resources out there to help me find the kind of things that I wanted to do but that's actually
the reason I wanted to start doing some tutorials and some shorts on the subject of DaVinci Resolve
because I think it is such a daunting software that making it easy for someone to learn how
to do it seemed to be something that a lot of people weren't doing well on YouTube it seemed
wherever I turned everybody was really Technical and getting very deep into all the details and
there weren't a lot of great videos that just this one hey here's how to use it in its most
basic form but when it came down to it making the move from filmora over to DaVinci Resolve
was really about finding a software that had a lot of Headroom so that if I spent time learning
that software I wasn't going to ever hit the point where I would run out of options that I
could do with the software I always wanted it to be smarter than I am so whenever there was
something that I really wanted to do I would know the software could handle it it was just a matter
of me figuring out how to learn to do it on that software and I felt with filmora I had already
hit that ceiling I had pretty much taken it as far as it was going to go and I did some fairly
Advanced editing techniques on it but my needs and what I wanted the software to do exceeded
what it was currently able to do and what I saw it being able to do in the foreseeable future and
I'll be fair I was a little let down with the way they treated their lifetime licensed users but I
really don't tend to hold a grudge on things like that they came around they did the right thing and
I still have it installed I'll still use it for things like screen capturing every now
and then and maybe some fast quick little edits on the side if there was a project I had already
built in filmora but I've got to say now that I've really been using DaVinci Resolve more frequently
once you get past that sort of initial hurdle where Everything feels a little foreign and it
seems a little tough to find the buttons and the options and the features to do the things
you want to do once you find those things and you get into your flow suddenly you feel like you've
moved into a new home that doesn't just feel like a house anymore it actually feels like a home and
I feel much more comfortable using the software and when I want to do things I know enough of the
basics that finding that next level isn't such a daunting task that is except for Fusion I don't
know how many of you have played around with the fusion page yet but I've been working in and out
of that and I understand it but I tell you that page is tricky I'm going to be talking about that
in the not too distant future I just want to get a better handle on it so that if any of you ask me
any questions I want to be able to feel like I have some answers that are actually useful
that being said I'm going to get back to my edit that's my fuzzy head-on screen right over there
and I hope you get back to editing with whatever software makes you comfortable keep creating peace