Spent 6 months editing in Premiere Pro before trying DaVinci Resolve and wow what a difference

I run a small youtube channel doing gaming clips and vlogs, nothing huge but I take it serious. For the longest time I used Premiere Pro because everyone said it's the industry standard. Paying $25 a month for it and dealing with constant crashes. After my third render failed in one week last month I snapped and downloaded DaVinci Resolve for free. The color grading alone is night and day better. It took me about 2 days to figure out the layout but now I cut my editing time by almost half. The noise reduction tool saved a clip I filmed in a dark room that I would have trashed. Has anyone else made the switch and felt like they were wasting money the whole time?

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hall.nina2d ago

Oh yeah, "industry standard" is just code for "we got them hooked on paying monthly." I snorted when I saw you mention the third render fail in a week. Classic Premiere move, it waits until you're on a deadline to throw a tantrum. The noise reduction alone is worth the switch, I had a clip filmed at like 2am in a dimly lit office that looked like garbage in Premiere but DaVinci made it look almost like daytime. It's wild how people will defend paying Adobe rent when the free software just flat out works better.

evan_burns952d ago

Paying for software that actually crashes less isn't the worst tradeoff though.

taylor.amy2d ago

Oh have you tried the official DaVinci training videos on their site? They're boring as heck but saved me about a week of frustration. @hall.nina is right about people defending Adobe like it's a personality trait or something. The free version does 95% of what you need unless you're doing Hollywood stuff. Just remember to turn on auto-save in Resolve because I learned that lesson the hard way after losing an hour of work.