Didn't put much B-roll in this one! How was it? Should I do more like this? 😊 Oh, and if you like the color, it was graded with my presets that you can get here - courses.whoismatt.com/luts
Didn't like it. If you talk about the speed difference, show me. If you talk about the terrible FCPX layout, show me. I'm a Premiere Pro editor and have these stability issues, even on a new Mac Studio, but for me to be persuaded to switch, I need to see a good reason. Use B-roll.
I enjoyed it without b roll you present important information very well, I enjoyed how you mentioned the history of editing softwares from 2010, I had seen mercury playback but never knew how revolutionary it was.
You were very descriptive to the point where B-roll wasn't necessary. I'm a brand-new filmmaker and I've used DaVinci Resolve (the free version); I can attest to the fact that it's very awesome, and VERY fast.
I didn't even notice the lack of b-roll so I guess it wasn't a problem. But I kept waiting for you to mention another big reason to switch, which is the need to roundtrip to Davinci anyway because it's so much better on color grading. That's why I'm considering the switch.
Kind of off topic, but it's been a while since I've watched any of your videos and it looks like you've lost a bit of weight. Right on. For me, the straight-up talking head worked in this case, and that's because your message was dense enough and paced well. I found myself quite engaged with your presentation. Whichever teleprompter speed that is, keep using it even though I know from experience it probably feels too fast and you're barely keeping up.
I would say an extra bonus reason #5 is workflow. DaVinci Resolve allows you to work on your project completely in one application. You edit on the CUT or EDIT tab. Then, if you want to composite or do VFX you can utilize Fusion. Time to color grade, now you utilize the Color tab (and BTW, Resolve is regarded as the best color grading tool - major film studios still use it). Time to adjust the audio, use the Fairlight tab. With Premiere you have to send your project off to the various modules through dynamic links. This is time-consuming and less efficient as well as less intuitive.
Exactly, was going to write this. I never liked the approach of dynamic link as it was slow, didnt work very well at all. Then the different program looked and was constructed very diffrently. Sure adobe later streamlined the creative suit alitte later. Then again I was running premiere 2014 instead of 2019 since it was more stable and had better playback. You really start to wonder why you pay for the subscription. I had already used davinci since version 12 but not at scale until v14. But it took a few years to fase out adobe. Its really great to not be locked in by subscriptions.
It was quite a while of doing editing before I had a go in After Effects and I was surprised by how unintuitive the controls were. Even just manipulating the timeline for any reason is just terrible and confusing for no reason. I know people can do some awesome things in there. But at this point, with just starting with trying VFX, I’d rather spend the effort to learn Fusion (despite there being less tutorials and plugins) or Blender
Also this is random but just want to say well done on this explanation. You didn’t have to cut to b-roll a lot to help break up your flow and give you a chance to gather your thoughts. You stayed on topic, didn’t flub up any words, and jumped between different talking points seamlessly and basically a one take. That’s impressive and not easy to do. Any way just wanted to give you kudos since it may be an under appreciated aspect of your content 👌🏼👍🏼
Resolve looks like an amazing application and I have considered possibly switching multiple times. The one thing that keeps me with Adobe is all the other Adobe applications. For example, I may design a graphic for my video in Illustrator or Photoshop, import the AI or PSD file into After effects and animate it, and then import the AE comp into Premiere. To switch would require learning a whole new workflow.
Yeah I couldn’t afford Premier so I started (serious) editing in DaVinci and I’m really glad I did. Blackmagic seems like an underdog that is determined to become top dog in what it does and that’s great to see. Competition makes companies better for sure.
I'm in a bind watching all the editors recommending Davinci Resolve as a beginner. Every experienced video editor outside of RUclips is recommending Premiere instead for the easy learning curve and tutorials. Ah, what to choose. This video confused me even more.
I switched this month! So happy to see that I’m not alone in this. So tired of the subscription business model, especially for a software product that’s frequently giving me error messages.
For studios or even individuals like me who collaborate with different studios, it is difficult to move to Davinci completely as everyone is on Creative Cloud. Premiere Pro is definitely subpar but the other Adobe apps make the whole deal quite sweet. But newer editors should definitely start editing on Davinci, and hopefully, in a few years, it might become an industry standard. Also, the mention of Mpeg Streamclip kicked in massive nostalgia...was not a great time.
This is a point FOR Resolve Studio. Multiple people can work on the same project at the same time. No saving required. Much more streamlined than CC. I understand you're saying they already have CC, but the expense is negligible for studios.
Stoked to see your Resolve journey! I'm approaching my 1 year anniversary of my switch and I'm feeling great about it overall. BIGGEST things I miss are Premiere's "transform" effect (so good for motion blur zooms/transitions) and Premiere's masking functions (way easier than resolve IMO). LOVE YA BLESS YA
@@sebasfilmedit The paid version does have motion blur You can still make a less accurate motion blur in the free version, there was a tutorial I saw the other day You can also use third party plugins for motion blur
I tried switching to Resolve about 3 years back. I built a custom PC and didn't add Windows as Resolve works on Linux, but I couldn't get used to Resolve. Maybe I could get as efficient with Resolve as I am with Premiere, but being a professional, I needed to complete projects now and not wait for the learning curve. No monthly expenses and no slow downs from Windows was why I tried to switch. I've not had Premiere crash on me in a long time and have not struggled with it since I've been editing on my custom built tower PCs. Having the right machine makes a big difference.
The one big gripe I have with DR (actually 2) is that 1) the power window control point interface is completely unique in both color and fusion. When you switch between the two, the mousing and control keys are like speaking two languages. Also, 2) I think Pr is more robust with transitions, especially getting smoother zooms and cuts, etc. I still love DR.
I started using Resolve since version 16 and haven’t looked back. Although I will say the one thing I really do miss from Premiere is the titler. This is one area I find Resolve to be lacking is a more intuitive and easier to use title generator. Resolve’s basic titler is quite clunky at best. I’d really like to see BMD revamp this area.
Also consider that Adobe is a publically traded company that's incentivized to get new users to satisfy shareholders, whereas Blackmagic is a private company that makes a lot of revenue from their hardware sales in the long run. Also, not having to roundtrip for color grading is amazing.
You probably know this but I would like to mention that you can export a .XML file from Premiere and open it up on Resolve. I've used it on a few project and everything worked without any hiccups. Although I must admit that there weren't any transitions on the Project, so I can't say how well those would transfer over.
Eh I had a million issues doing this with a music video recently and had to prep a whole separate timeline and it turned into an organizational mess of nested clips, pre-rendered shots, etc. That experience is what's pushing me to transfer my editing workflow into Resolve. The color tools are so superior that I'd rather learn the new workflow then deal with roundtripping. Going to experiment on my own band's next music video in Resolve since it's not client work and probably buy the Pro version if all goes well like I expect.
Indeed. Premiere can also output .AAF, which is similar to .XML, but .AAF is good for if you need send audio too. Particularly if your workflow involves Protools.
Resolve is an ecosystem of its own. It has Fusion, for After Effects style editing/programming. The Fairlight tab is essentially Adobe Audition on steroids. The Deliver tab is like Adobe Media Encoder, with more features. The Media tab is like Adobe Sync. But I can never find a replacement for the Content-Aware tool in Photoshop.
Matt, I have been super frustrated lately with Adobe's timeline speed. I just dropped $3,500 on a new computer to try and make my editing higher resolution footage faster. Honestly I didn't see much at all in the way of increased editing work flow except render speed. This was interesting to hear your take on this. I was even considering moving to apple to help with timeline speed with 4k footage. I am going to look into DaVinci for sure after watching this video. I just hate the idea of learning a whole new software after I have 10 years of editing in premiere pro. Is it worth learning the new software? By the way, you are by far the best channel on camera/hardware and video editing tutorials. No question. Clear and easy to understand. Thank you.
Matt, I was in the same boat as you. I’d used premiere for a long time and I didn’t want to learn a new ‘language’. But 3 years later, I’m very glad I did. The learning curve isn’t as tough as I thought it would be and I’ve saved a lot of money by not paying every month. Give it a go, you won’t be disappointed.
I have 13700k, rtx 3060, only ssds, Motherboard ddr5 128gb, IT goes Like Butter through multicam edits with 4k, 6k braw and Sony a7iv Material. How can your PC be slow??????
Are you me? My $3500 dollar computer arrives tomorrow because my quite fast gaming laptop can't cut it. I have also been editing for 10 years and I know Premiere SO WELL. Right now I am in the middle of a big project and it takes 4 hours to render out a 9 minute video. ...if it i renders at all and no matter what I do now, I can't see my footage in real time if there are too many effects on it.
I'm jumping between both, working with other people / agencies premiere is still the most used program by far (unfortunately) for any direct client projects I do my self I'm doing them all in resolve. It's just mind blowing how much better and easier to use it is on all fronts.
I've used several of the main video editing programs and I must say that the experience of switching does me a lot of good creatively. I usually manage to change in less busy times, with few projects in progress… I started editing in Sony Vegas many years ago. After that I went to the premiere and felt great progress back there! A few years ago I tested the daVinci and just loved it. The only problem for me was the long learning curve. When I finally switched from Windows to Mac, I could cancel my Adobe subscription I bought Final Cut that I have been using daily. For some moths I just forgot Da Vinci in the dock accumulating dusty. Recently I went back to college and got an Adobe subscription through college. So I was able to go back to premiere and check how is it after years. I found pretty much the same thing! With is good that I was not lost, but compared to the constant evolution that I follow in other softwares, feels like Adobe is stopped in time. New smaller editors including mobile and with AI (Filmora, Luma Fusion for example) are gaining ground in the new generation and it is difficult to compete without innovation.
All DaVinci Resolve really needs at this point is the kind of infrastructure Adobe has, with its sheer number of plugins and stock media. Oh yeah, and the ability to import vector graphics natively would help, too.
Matt, your thoughts were really well put together and delivered. As an author and blogger myself, your ease of flow from one topic to the next is so nice to see and hear. I also needed to know all the great information you provided, so I received a double portion of goodness here. Thank you sir.
For several reasons, I edit some projects not on a SSD, but from harddrives in a NAS. Internal SSDs are only used for Cache. And even this network based editing is blazing fast.
That instant save was brilliant. I did about an hour worth of editing and got the dreaded "not responding" then dead. I opened it up and it was exactly where I left it. Was incredibly happy and surprised.
Excellent breakdown, Matt. In the last few months I’ve made the switch, and it’s like a breath of fresh air! One thing (I think) you didn’t exactly cover, is the fact that Resolve is essentially Premiere, After Effects, Audition, and Media Encoder all wrapped into one, and for FREE?! I love how I can just stay inside a single software for my work. It’s absolutely amazing :)
Yeah, the main reason I'm switching is to encourage myself to use Fusion. I hated Ae, because it felt so clunky and slow. Hoping to get into node based editing
Switched to Resolve for the first time 2 years ago. Went back on a few projects because of familarity with Premiere (and After Effects). When I am in a hurry its a bit frustrating to re-learn some things like software. I overcame the hurdle and fully switched to everything about a year ago. Since I am now using Fairlight and Fusion a lot as well, its kind of crazy to think how much I used to defend Adobe/Premiere und how many people still use it, just because they are used to it. Its insane how frustrated so many people are with Premiere and still dont make the switch.
That’s the most encouraging reply I’ve read here. I’ve used Premiere forever and just bought DR. I just need to bite the bullet and force myself to switch. Thanks!
A huge bummer for Resolve is that unless you get the Studio package, you can't edit over 4K 60fps or 10-bit colour videos (Which every modern camera has nowadays). I don't think paying $475USD even though it's lifetime is better than paying $70USD a month for ALL ADOBE APPS is a win to save a 15-20mins of editing time for videos, and which editor doesn't hit 'CTRL + S' every 20 seconds?
I looked at Da Vinci. Very stable. Big reason I didn't stick with it was the motion graphics/titles are not as robust as Premiere and FCP. It can do some sophisticated animation and special effects, Like making your own titles and re-using them without having to edit and re-animate.
Fusion is quite powerful once you get to know it and there are a few tutorials on making presets for titles from, check Patrick Sterling and Mr Alex Tech.
When our production house switched 3 years ago we thought we would have to keep Premiere Pro for legacy projects but after a few months we got to the point we would rather do a complete re-edit in Davinci Resolve than mess around in PP. Also you are correct Mac users have it so much worse with PP, even DR seems to have some more issues than PC.
@@Nocturnal_1111 No and that could well be the problem :) Although my 6 year old HP Laptop works flawlessly with DR while our 3 year old iMac's constantly have trouble. Personally I think it has more to do with how they interact with our NAS.
@@Nocturnal_1111 I think Black Magic redid Resolve completely for Apple Silicon and i think that's the flagship code base for them now. It's so insanely fast and efficient on the Apple chips.
Very cool, good to see people try new things. I Ditched DR for FCPX but very nice to see updates. FCPXs speed right now is just unmatched so it been no real motivation to use anything else at this time.
Totally true and sad. I still have to stick to Premiere because my work uses it, and also it makes it easier to dynamic link with AE since I do a lot of motion graphics. But other than that, I really hope Adobe steps up their game. It's embarrassing at this point.
I used to rely on AE for motion graphics as well but after finally wrapping my head around Fusion I will say I can create higher quality motion graphics in less time on the Fusion page than I ever did with the dynamic linking of AE and PP. Dynamic linking didn't always work perfectly for me anyway. But Fusion is built right in. No need to link anything or leave the app at all. It's not the smoothest learning curve coming from AE, but Fusion is definitely just as capable! 😉
@Matt McCool I can understand the dynamic linking being buggy. It works most of the time for me, but it can get annoying sometimes when things get unlinked. However, and I don't speak from experience so taoe my words with a grain of salt, aren't layer based compositors way easier by nature when it comes to motion graphics? For VFX and compositing Fusion is probably the way to go, but motion graphics is a breeze in AE. At least from what I've seen, but I'm willing to change my mind!
@@Dano-Media There's a really great blog from a guy named Matic called "Fusion: My PEN & PAPER". His whole site is worth a look for the inspiration for what can be done with nodes. I think "easier" really depends on what you're used to. Having spent some time with both, I find nodes harder to learn but easier to master. I can think through a mograph I see in my mind with less friction using nodes. I think this is mostly thanks to the infinite node playground you have to experiment with. By contrast, layers feel claustrophobic. I know this is what precomping is for, but nodes eliminate the need to precomp while keeping the benefits. And nodes are inherently more visual. You can tell what's happening without looking at the viewer. Don't get me wrong, AE is a great piece of software and of course there's things that it does better... (converting a text layer into a shape layer, bringing in PSDs or AIs, the plethora of educational resources). Ultimately I think we should use whatever tool is right for the task. But just speaking personally, Fusion has changed the way I shoot, edit, and think about storytelling.
@@Dano-Media I've worked professionally in both the Adobe and BM ecosystems for quite a while and I can chime in in terms of motion graphics. 1. Fusion's only option for vector graphics are CSVs which are really bad compared to a complete layered workflow from Illustrator or especially dreadful when comparing with plugins like Overlord. It would be nice for BlackMagic to expand the library of compatible formats. 2. Fusion's playback has improved with every update, but DaVinci's timeline performance with Fusion effects is not on par with AE / PP integration. Simple effects are finally realtime in DaVinci, but having even two simple text effects on top of each other kills realtime playback. For reference, I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max with 64GB RAM. I haven't tried the new version with my PC yet, though (12core, 2080TI, 64GB RAM). 3. There are no official align tools in Fusion yet. Here's a link to a plugin tool that works ok (ruclips.net/video/f2wwp1CRqWI/видео.html). In general, moving objects and aligning things is more difficult in Fusion compared to AE. You can't grab objects in the viewer for example. 4. Keyframes are in some ways better in Fusion and at the same time controlling them is harder. The spline editor is really powerful and has nice hotkeys + fast buttons for repeating animations for example. Also controlling the splines feels more intuitive than in AE. But you can't copy keyframes across objects. You can modify only one keyframe spline at a time (you can easyease everything at once, but manual editing is limited to one keyframe). The keyframe window is very rudimentary and doesn't look intuitive. There are no distinguishing graphical icons for different types of keyframes. 5. Fusion is more buggy and not as fleshed out than AE. This might get fixed quite quickly when looking at the rate of updates BM is doing, but currently Fusion has weird quirks in some tools and it crashes Resolve quite often. Even ready templates may freeze resolve or just stop working for some reason. It doesn't happen so much that I would hate it, but it's a nuisance nonetheless. 6. Creating templates in AE is a breeeeeeeeze compared to Fusion. In AE you drag and drop your desired modifiers into the Essential Graphics panel and name your template. Also, creating expressions in AE is just way more comfortable with large expandable text fields and nice lasso tools. Fusion's expression interface is way more clunky with single row text fields and a limited lasso tool. Creating a template in Fusion requires you to use a massive panel with every possible modifier of the whole composition displayed for you at the same time, which you then have to sift through to find the ones you want to save to the tool. There are also hidden rules you need to follow to keep the editability of the template and make your template display in the right way. The best simple example to describe the difference between AE and Fusion: If you want to change the order of modifiers in AE template -> just drag & drop. If you want to do the same in Fusion: find the .setting file on your system -> open in text editor -> learn the coding language and copy paste rows of text around a large text wall. 7. Nodes vs. layers doesn't really matter, just different logic. All in all... Fusion is powerful, but still has growing pains in terms of motion graphics (and no guarantees if it will get fully grown). AE is ready, super powerful and has incredible plugins to help you get even further faster.
I’d really love to see more videos about how to replace After Effects with programs like Apple Motion or DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion… the 3D tracking you can do for VFX in After Effects seems to be unrivaled at this point but I don’t want to pay for creative cloud just for that.
Ease of entry in AE's 3D tracker is very nice. Basically drop the effect and wait & majority time it works if it's not too complex. It's definitely not as robust of a 3D tracker as some other apps though if things don't go smoothly on that initial track. I myself am "trying" to transition from Nuke to Fusion, but it has been very painful thus far. I went through the same thing (to a much lesser extent) in transferring skillsets from Premiere to Resolve too though -- but it was very much worth the effort.
As a designer, mainly used to creating/editing 2d and 3d, I've dabbled in Adobe's video products and found them to have a steep learning curve (but that's probably just me!), not to mention performance issues. Now that I have a YT channel, I've been using Davinci Resolve for all my video needs, and it's brilliant. Highly recommended. Thanks for the video 😀
Trust me when I say the steep learning curve isn’t just you. It’s all of Adobe’s programs. Learning Premiere is probably one of the easier ones but still it will takes a few years to actually have a workflow down. Then you have After Effects which is stupidly unintuitive. Then Illustrator and Photoshop which share so many tools yet the keyboard shortcuts between the 2 programs are completely different lol. I’m a creative director focused in video mainly and I hate having to use premiere and AE. My art director friend always makes fun of how dumb the Adobe design programs are. It’s a mess.
As an FCPX editor, people balked at how it thought of its future, but it did the one thing that no one wanted to do. change the underlying code to work better for the future. You knocked pretty hard on FCPX, but I think that point should be stated because its now the reason why Premiere is falling on its face. and its also one of the ways resolve was able to get its feet off the ground in editing. they took a lot of the ideas FCPX was playing with. always saving, database management. I understand everyone hates FCPX, and da Vinci is an awesome program...but give credit where credit is due.
I'd like to point out that Team Projects Collaboration is included in the Creative Cloud for Individuals Subscription. And that "change" (as it DID used to be in Creative Cloud for Teams or above) was introduced during the Covid-outbreak to help users work from home. So it's been in all Creative Cloud Memberships the past 2.5 years or so.
I might be alone, but I love working in Premiere Pro! I agree with many of these points , especially about the new import/export windows -- that update did not speed up my workflow. But, some updates have been great! As of 2020, teams projects are included in the creative cloud subscription, and I use that feature regularly. I love adobe productions, especially when I need to access footage from an entire year's worth of filming. I love the new captions workflow (adobe will automatically transcribe an interview/sequence for you). I love the essential graphics panel and master text styles. I love adobe's recent integration with frame.io. Obviously, I would love for adobe to fix stability issues, but they are doing *some* great things.
These are all underrated features that no one highlights. A new feature that I use a lot recently is the ability for Premiere Pro to blend song cuts to make it play smoothly like one audio, and their ability to use third-party plug-ins. Premiere Pro to me, is the more professional and diverse software compared to Resolve
Overall, I like working in premiere too. I do a lot of music/audio-heavy videos and premiere has the easiest and most powerful audio interface to work with (that I’ve used). I’m not opposed to switching, but I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my editing speed in order to learn a new program. But if I could learn how to edit as fast in resolve as I do in premiere then I would definitely give it a go.
Hollywood, while always looking for faster more efficient methods, moves relatively slowly in the post production side of things. I remember when it NLEs in the pro world were only Avid. Then Final Cut started making inroads. Then Premiere finally broke through a few years back and now it’s pretty much Avid and Premiere, with Premiere just getting better and better. It’ll take a lot for DaVinci to make a serious dent IMO, but alternative NLEs are welcome and competition makes them all better 😊
I'm with you. I agree that the stability needs changing for sure but I had to use FCPX for a bit and it crashed way more than PP does. I love the flexibility of the windows in premiere pro and I love that it has all the features I could ever want and the few plugins I have all work really well. I've used resolve too and I enjoyed it quite a bit on my laptop as it was easier to run than PP but I could never adjust it how I liked it on my main editing machine. FCPX on the other hand was horrible. The core mechanics are horrible and just seemed so backwards to me. I also found it was missing so many features that should be simple and I was constantly trying to find work arounds.
This topic always gets to me. I definitely see the reasons for switching from premiere to davinci. It is amazing software, and I own it and love it (the little I have used it). BUT having been using premiere (and all of the adobe software) for nearly 15 years, It just doesn't seem to make sense for me. The amount of time it would take me to build a workflow in davinci that matches the decade and a half that I have had in adobe, just seems like a chore. Also, as a Mac user, I think premiere crashed on me, MAYBE 6 times in all of 2022, and I am on it DAILY. (hope I dont jinx myself). All that said, I have been mostly happy with adobe, minus the subscription model. I'd love to get proficient in Davinci, but as long as the work keeps flowing in, my time is better spent using what I know. Maybe one day tho…we shall see.
I think another cool thing to mention is if you buy a Black Magic camera, they throw in the full version of DaVinci Resolve for free! I think it's the same if you buy other items like their editor keyboard as well. But I don't know that for 100% certainty.
Yes it is. Last week, I bought the Blackmagic Design Speed Editor and it came with DaVinci Resolve 18 Studio for free. Now I'm learning how to use them both together 😊.
I tried to switch from Resolve (which I started with) to Premiere, but I found it very old fashioned looking and just more difficult to edit with. I'm glad to see more people moving to Resolve now, hopefully that means we'll get more plugins for Resolve!
@@peterwilson9699 yeah, I left the window system quite a long time ago and I haven’t looked back. And these days the Apple ecosystem is just amazing for me.
Fortunately, I made the leap to Resolve by accident. I used to edit on premiere, and then I took the plunge and got myself a bmpc6k to start shooting with and it came with a resolve license. I resisted until about 2 months ago, and now I couldnt go back. Resolve + BRAW is literal heaven to me.
While I whole heartedly agree with nearly all of this, I feel like the price part is a bit misleading. The $53/mo price tag is for all of CC, you can just get Premiere Pro for $21/mo. Also, if like me, you're a multi-disciplined creative, you're also getting AfterEffects, Audition, Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign and more with that same $53. The value is quite incredible even if you only use 3 or 4 of the programs. Having said all that, I'm still dabbling a bit into Resolve to see how much I like it, and could see myself using it for some or even most of my video work. I'd love to see some evolutionary grown in Premiere addressing the issues you've put forth. Great video Matt!
loved it! Especially the part where you've mentioned the failure of FCP10, I am one of those editors who ditched FCP for the same reason. Adding to all you said, speaking about people outside of America, who live in developing countries and such, the thing with the price is obvious. So at the end what companies like Black Magic and Blender did, is planning for the future, by profiting of the idea of a larger fan base.
Davinci system used to cost 800k back in 90s and you had to buy giant consoles to use resolve to grade the highest end movies, slowly they only started releasing the software and still being used in only movies and tv shows but it used to cost like 25k and now it's literally free or $300, crazy.
I'm about to switch. I'm having constant problems with editing on both of my PCs. And so are both of the editors/contractors I work with. Adobe will say that all three of us are the problem, but we are all on separate systems with an Intel, AMD, and Apple M1 system. The only reason I don't switch is because of fear of not being able to meet my schedule but I got to just do it and stop making excuses.
It's 'tempting' to switch. Have thought about it myself....I'll keep watching your progress to see how your doing. Just feel like I'm so invested in Premiere Pro and my knowledge in that application. Just not sure I want to re-live the learning curve. Additionally, Adobe has it's whole suite of software (After Effects, Media Encoder, photoshop, etc.). Keep us posted...looking forward to see how your progression goes Matt...
Well done! I switched about 2 years ago and I am happy I did. One additional “Bonus” reason I would add is the workflow piece of it. Many editors were doing the bulk amount of work in premiere and then having to export to Davinci for color work. That extra process is time consuming and often troublesome. Having the color tools in DR but also keeping editing there too makes the whole process so much faster and reliable :)
@@kgeo753 I don’t use Fusion for much except for basic compositing and object removal. I do know that I have seen a few comparison videos where they say anything done in after effects can be done in fusion. People struggle a bit with Fusions node based system (instead of layers) but it has some advantages once you get use to it.
Would love to see videos of you learning about Da Vinci. I would like to make the switch but feel so comfortable in Premiere that it seems scary to switch to something completely unknown
I found it painful at first, for sure. Nice thing about editing, though, is that since it's so repetitive in the tools you use...the transition happens fairly quickly -- assuming you force yourself to stick with it. I'm having a harder time going from Nuke to Fusion (both node-based compositors), but am trusting the same thing will happen. I started using Resolve about 4 years ago and haven't missed Premiere at all.
I switched about 2 years ago. It was painful at first! There are still some things that I think were easier in Premiere, like masking or managing keyframes, but there isn't anything I could do in Premiere that I can't do in Resolve now.
@@KK-lg8uz I haven't used final cut in so long that I wouldn't be able to give you an honest opinion. I know that FCX is far better than it used to be (it was a mess on release, but that was many years ago & they've refined it a lot since then). If you're always going to be on Mac & no chance of PC...then FC might be a solid (and one-time-buy) choice. I myself use Resolve for editing, but editing isn't my day-in / day-out profession.
I much prefer Davinci Resolve for the workflow and slickness design of the interface >> the CUT page is a speed editing dream for a rough cut timeline >> love the transitions interface and the colour grading is just excellent compared to my experience in PP for some reason... I still use both for collaborative reasons and yet much prefer Davinci Resolve 👌💯👀🎯🎥😎🌟
Even with everything Resolve has to offer, the fact that it doesn't support ProRes RAW is simply a dealbreaker for me. Also Dynamic Link with After Effects is a HUGE boon to my workflow. Stuck with Premiere for now.
I'm a photographer. After Adobe switched to subscription I went and bought FCX and now I'm really glad I made a switch cause I can whip up a simple video for my clients and add it to my package without no added cost
NEVER had a problem with Premiere crashing (I'm on Macbook 16" M1 Max) or issues with playback so I think this is a bit of a myth that i keep hearing repeated... I sometimes edit with 8K and very happy with the performance. My main complaint with Premiere is sometimes getting the 'media pending' error - but this is very rare - and only with After Effects linked comps. Also, I am on Premiere 2022 as 2023 is much slower - Adobe should ALWAYS INTERNALLY FULLY TEST RELEASES PRIOR TO RELEASE - as the latest versions are usually a bit buggy and this is extremely annoying... If Premiere is good enough for James Cameron and legendary editors like Walter Murch - and so many contemporary filmmakers, then this should be noted. Finally, I do sometimes use Resolve for grading - but not for editing so I am following these developments so could change my mind later if Resolve continues to improve. With Adobe's financial clout it is buying out AI companies and integrating into their system - so Adobe is going to offer a lot of new stuff soon so I would suggest its risky to leave the Adobe eco-system completely in this new AI lead revolution...
It’s the herd mentality that causes it to be fashionable to knock Premiere Pro. It’s a pathetic way to try to be accepted by peers. Unfortunately for them, they would be far more likely to be accepted by doing good work than lip smacking the number one NLE.
@Jim Snow you should change your name to John... then the "You know nothing" sentence would be even more appropriate (but what do I expect from an Adobe fanboy loser🤣)
I've had premiere crash on me over 50 times in a couple of hours. Especially when I added effects like Noise reduction from Neat video on 6K RAW footage. That was annoying. I'm kind of done with premiere pro, and this video pushed me over the edge. I'd rather spend my money with a company that has video producers on their mind every step of the way.
I wish you the best in your transition to Resolve. I've been using it for a couple years now. I remember the bright eyed days of looking at Resolve but oh boy. Crashes are more frequent and the really bad part is that crashes will regularly corrupt projects. This is compounded when you use a lot of Fusion but don't use a very specific, yet not defined, method of creating your comps. You can make a big old ugly comp and Resolve will let you do it that way...until it doesn't. And it stops responding. And it starts to crash every time you open Resolve. I've lost literally hundreds of hours of work due to this. I've restarted a now almost 3 year (no, seriously) edit because of this. Weirdly, reverting to back ups of the database or the project does not help. Resolve somehow writes errors but ignores them for a while. Yeah, that's confusing and I'm not explaining it as a dev because I'm not one. Resolve timeline speed can be really good but if it's H.264 or something else that is really compressed, it's not. That said, they have an excellent proxy system that is essentially automated. But also, if there is any nr or color grading or really any effects, it won't play back under many circumstances. Many of the features are strictly marketing. For example, I am building a Fusion comp with 3 stills. That's it. I used a depth map on one of the stills which is still...not even animated. Completely crashed the project. My main gripe with Resolve is that it is a loss leader. They sell the best version for $300 lifetime. They aren't making any money on it. They are a hardware company so they made a decent editor to package along with the nice cardboard box. So because they aren't making any money, they have zero support. They do not listen to users at all, despite their reputation for doing so. We've been yelling for versions for things like basic UI customization like Premiere has and float 32 audio editing. I don't know if Premiere has a help desk of any sort but I do know that Resolve doesn't. I would VERY gladly pay twice the Premiere subscription price to be able to get Resolve working again when it does its normal crash and my client is yelling for his video. Very hopeful that a Resolve killer comes out soon. I don't mean to be a negative nilly, I just wish that somebody had been forthright about the Resolve issues before I switched over. I would have stayed.
@@emileravenet Ooh. I will have to look into that. I do bag on Resolve a lot but that’s because I know they can do better. They can offer a higher priced platform to afford support and more testers. But they don’t. They just pump out marketing-friendly features like vertical video and a boring detector while ignoring their faithful user base.
Davinci Resolve is literally the best software I have used, hands down. Period. My workflow is 10x faster, my cuts and edits are done insanely faster and i love how it immediatly closes the gaps in the timeline, I love the title effects, and all the cool effects like "camera shake" on a tripod shot to give it some movement - and not to mention color GRADING is the most AMAZING way to grade and create looks to your footage.......BUTTT - I shoot with my Ninja V in ProRes RAW. Which Davinci....does not support. My only work around to this the cheaper way is I color "correct" my footage in Final Cut, then export in ProRes, put it in Davinci, then color "grade" in resolve, then cut and edit. Too much added to my workflow. Now I know Mac has a software thats called "RAW Converter" where I can convert my ProRes RAW to CDNG and I get my RAW settings in Davinci. Again, still kind of inconvenient. I understand Blackmagic has their own raw called "BRAW" and they want you to go buy their own products to have RAW capability in their own software. But they would make SO MUCH more money in selling Resolve Studio - if they accepted ProRes RAW. I know soooooo many people who do the same as me and all shoot in ProRes RAW and just wont switch to resolve SOLEY for that purpose. I really wish Davinci would cave into implementing ProRes RAW into Davinci Resolve Studio. At that point if that ever happened, It would stop using the free version, and give Blackmagic the money that is deserved to them and buy the studio version. I think if Blackmagic saw this comment, this is my feedback as a Marketing Managers standpoint....Give us ProRes RAW - but ONLY in the paid "studio" version. If blackmagic implemented this - I would not hesitate wipping out my wallet, and pay for Studio. I wouldnt even stop to think about doing it.
I believe it doesn’t have to do with Blackmagic wanting you to buy their cameras for BRAW. I’ve read somewhere that it has to do with Apple licensing and needing to pay them to use ProRes Raw. Basically Blackmagic doesn’t want to have to pay Apple royalties for their RAW implementation when they already have their own.
Sorry Matt, never had a stability problems and will continue use PP. Btw...I have a MAC. Usually it's operator error. Regarding 'saving'...my workflow is such that each time I execute and series of edits and am happy, I methodically save the project myself. I don't wait for the program to do so.
100% accurate. Forget even throwing 4K or 6K footage at Premiere, good luck editing multiple tracks of .wav or other audio files even. Laggy and buggy af.
For me, (I started to make amators videos long time ago and tried a lot of softwares), the day I tried DR (Version 14 when I first tried it), I adopt it. Never regret it. It's the only one I use now!
What’s weird is that no pro was complaining about the new document or export windows but everyone was complaining about speed. How could Adobe not know this?
First time I used Premiere was 2000 when I was an editor for a news network and I still remember the daily frustration when it was crashing. And it still crashes today. It’s a shame because it’s such a great software…
I remember the 2010 switch. I started with Avid DV, then Avid Pro, and drafted into Avid Media composer. The converting footage before editing was exhausting and I didn't want to jump to the new iMovie Pro AKA "Final Cut X". Yes Adobe Premiere Pro was the savior back then and I made the switch. Fast forward to 2023, Adobe did me good but is so frustrating with the instability and I feel so trapped being in the Adobe ecosystem because as jobs come I have to quickly push out the products and I feel like I don't have the time to learn a new software. I dabbled with Davinci Resolve and made a couple of wedding videos. However, the time to create and learn takes too long for me. Plus I really love Adobe Audition to tweak up audio. I haven't tested the full power of Fairlight yet but not sure if it compares to Audition. You are right on all those reasons you mentioned in this video. Eventually as time permits I will be learning more and more of Davinci until I can get it down to create videos easily. The color correction node system is another thing I need to get familiar with as well. Maybe you can do a video about this sometime. As for your b-roll, I think some b-roll is good. I really wanted to see the difference when you were explaining about the updates both softwares had made. Keep up the great content Matt, my fellow Texan!
I started with Premiere 4.2 before it was even Pro way back in the late 90's and loved it, right up to CS6! Had all my KBD shortcuts mapped for a really efficient personal workflow, all joy. Then, things got rather nasty and very frustrating, lots of crashes, little or no support, and having to pay blood money every month to the Whore of Babylon in that Adobe ivory tower, was added insult to the injury. Come 2019, I switched to Resolve at Version 15, never looked back and am now running the Studio version, life is sweet🍷
Matt, even the mention of using 4K videos, making proxies, gives me PTSD. What a nightmare. I was working for 8 weeks on a pitch video with over 300 hours of footage. Had a final video edit on the timeline. When I rendered it out, every clip was wrong. After countless hours trying to find an answer, I ended up having to send my entire files to a friend in LA to edit it on an AVID. If Resolve can handle 4K natively, I’m in.
amateurs - yes, switch to da Vinci, but it is still more convenient to mount complex projects in the Premiere. Da Vinci remained a program for color correction
As someone who hates spending money Ive been using Davincis free version from the start, the fact that they offer a free version makes it so accessible, and the free version works perfectly fine for basic editing.
when in a pinch the ability of Premiere to create a large text file of subtitles that I can search to find points on the timeline has been invaluable. Its probably this and dragging an AE comp in stopping me jumping.
Love how you talked about the history of CS5 and FCPX - it’s before my time, and I’ve always been curious how Premiere rose to power. Now I’m happy i get to see another ‘revolution’ I suppose you could say!
I'll stick with final cut. Fast, has never crashed on me, saves everything as I go, magnetic is no issue, it's actually quite helpful but does take 10 seconds to figure out ways to stack things to edit exactly how other programs do or to use the 'insert gap' function and then stack clips. In fact any of the negative things people have said have been non issues. Audio editing is great, it has all the logic pro plug ins (most of the time when people complain about audio, its because they didnt record it right it in the first place) Color grading works great, but I added Cinema grade and If I was ever working on something so critical, I could not handle it, I would outsource it to a professional grader. Piece of cake. I tried DaVinci briefly and didn't love the work flow but I will try it again - a lot of hype so I want to take a deeper look , but I do not get that much FOMO. Found something great and will keep on working it until it doesn't meet my needs. I lasted a week with Premier when I first started. It was utterly terrible, crashing and bogging down. All Adobe products seem to be slow. I feel like they use the Facebook model of problem solving. That is, if something isn't working, let's not actually build something new. Let's write a corrective code, program, GUI that goes on top of the existing one (= slow, cumbersome, bad user experience).
I'm just a budding hobbyist, but OBS Studio and Davinci Resolve 18 seems to be all I need. I made a little 2 minute game video yesterday, and hit render when I was done. I went to the kitchen, got a banana and came back to my pc, and it was already uploaded to youtube. The banana wasn't even peeled. : P
One of my favourite features in DaVinci Resolve is the Super Resolution. If you ever have a video that is "lowres" you can just import it into Resolve, enable Super Resolution and upscale it with flawless quality. Your boring 720p video can become a great 2160p video with literally just a few seconds using a single tool.
I was almost sold on DR except it’s painfully awful for VFX. What should’ve took me 5 minutes took 4 hours. If it gets to the level of AE, I will make the full jump. However, I can’t deny that the coloring is world class.
Painfully awful for VFX? are you sure about that? Node based softwares are and have been industry standard for VFX not AE. Every VFX studios are using either Nuke or Fusion working in the movie industry. Fusion has been literally used in thousands of Hollywood movies and used to cost thousands before BM bought it and implemented in Resolve. Maybe you are new to node based compositing so you are struggling with the workflow but all I can say is this, once you go nodes, there's no going back. The insane flexibility and speed of reusing nodes and not getting lost in precomps is just few of many reasons why nodes have been the go to for pro VFX.
Hey Matt! That's all nice and cool! The only reason, though, why we've not switched away from Adobe is our Mogrt library. We use customized and branded animations. How would we redo those in DaVinci Resolve?
Black Magic is also a hardware company with high end industry leading products. They offer Resolve with many of their hardware, which not only makes sense, but is a powerful incentive.
Well executed video man, thatkS for sharing. I wanted to share my thoughts: I started using DaVinci Resolve few months ago and I was scared at the beginning, but after 3 months I started to learn the basics, and now I have all my projects in DaVinci Resolve. It is hard to switch, because it's like to learn to walk again. But they have tutorials on their website which is AWESOME!. I like DaVinci Resolve so far, and I like when companies give you the opportunity to grow as a creator for free and then let you choose whether or not to upgrade to the full version of the software. If I grow as a creator I will definitely buy the full version of DaVinci Resolve to support Black Magic. Thanks for the video!
A minor reason can be file format support. DV-AVI files are the only file format which provides a lossless data copy from DV tapes (miniDV, DVCAM, Digital8 and a few others) including embedded metadata such as time/date information. But Premiere Pro CC 2018 Version 12.1.0 onwards lost support from DV-AVI, for no apparent reason. Every other popular editing package, including DaVince Resolve, supports DV-AVI.
Premiere user for 6 years or more and the most recent update has made me switch completely over to Resolve and the difference is freaking amazing. I was completely fed up of the timeline performance in Premiere even on a powerful PC, and Resolve just makes everything easier. Never switching back!
It's funny I have been against Adobe since it came back on the scene. The subscription model, the bloated feature set, the instability are all reasons I stuck with FCPX and persevered for a long time. FCPX now is all the things you mentioned about Resolve. Its super fast, SUPER stable, and has all the pro features needed for films and broadcast. My New Years resolution this year is to become more familiar with Resolve and get as efficient as I am on FCPX now. As corporate companies still grapple with Adobe and AVID as their platforms I've always been outside the box and would choose FCPX and now Resolve over any of those NLE's.
I make VERY basic RUclips content and Resolve has been my go-to since I started. I know it can do so much more than I use it for, but it's nice that it does what I want now and I can grow into using so much more of it's functionality if/when I want to.
I would say I was on this path to switch from PP to Resolve when on Intel, that all changed when the Silicon chips were introduced to Mac. Now it's *chefs kiss
I started on CS4 and CS5, and it’s incredible to see where we’re at now in regards to competition and the ebbs and flows of the marketplace. Full disclosure: I actually teach video editing via Adobe Premiere Pro to high school students, but even I have been thinking about switching to DaVinci after the epic Adobe/Apple/Catalina OS destruction a few years ago. Timeline speed, not crashes, is my main gripe. I’ve got a maxed Intel MacBook from the final gen of those, and it stumbles more on timeline playback than anything else. As a RUclipsr, it’s very frustrating.
I work as an editor for a gaming channel so ever since I started working with 4K footage, even with SSD my life got miserable. Finally RUclips algorithm helped me, I will give DaVinci Resolve a trail as my yearly premier pro plan coming to an end in march. And also nice video and explanation :) Edit : After using the free version I can definitely say the timeline playback is really smooth, however you might need some time to adjust into the layout.
Thanks Matt, totally agree Davinci is awesome. Been using it for years now since version 16 and it gets better and better. The network collaboration with multiple editors in a project at the same time is why we use it for our studio.
I was with Premiere Pro for 17yrs and switched about 4 months ago to Resolve and have not looked back. I escaped and made a clean break. I quit my Adobe subscription and have felt liberated since.
![FNAF Into the Pit has A LOT of Unused Graphics | LOST BITS [TetraBitGaming]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6YhZCRdipl4/mqdefault.jpg)
Didn't put much B-roll in this one! How was it? Should I do more like this? 😊
Oh, and if you like the color, it was graded with my presets that you can get here - courses.whoismatt.com/luts
Didn't like it. If you talk about the speed difference, show me. If you talk about the terrible FCPX layout, show me. I'm a Premiere Pro editor and have these stability issues, even on a new Mac Studio, but for me to be persuaded to switch, I need to see a good reason. Use B-roll.
I enjoyed it without b roll you present important information very well, I enjoyed how you mentioned the history of editing softwares from 2010, I had seen mercury playback but never knew how revolutionary it was.
You were very descriptive to the point where B-roll wasn't necessary. I'm a brand-new filmmaker and I've used DaVinci Resolve (the free version); I can attest to the fact that it's very awesome, and VERY fast.
I didn't even notice the lack of b-roll so I guess it wasn't a problem. But I kept waiting for you to mention another big reason to switch, which is the need to roundtrip to Davinci anyway because it's so much better on color grading. That's why I'm considering the switch.
Kind of off topic, but it's been a while since I've watched any of your videos and it looks like you've lost a bit of weight. Right on. For me, the straight-up talking head worked in this case, and that's because your message was dense enough and paced well. I found myself quite engaged with your presentation. Whichever teleprompter speed that is, keep using it even though I know from experience it probably feels too fast and you're barely keeping up.
I would say an extra bonus reason #5 is workflow. DaVinci Resolve allows you to work on your project completely in one application. You edit on the CUT or EDIT tab. Then, if you want to composite or do VFX you can utilize Fusion. Time to color grade, now you utilize the Color tab (and BTW, Resolve is regarded as the best color grading tool - major film studios still use it). Time to adjust the audio, use the Fairlight tab. With Premiere you have to send your project off to the various modules through dynamic links. This is time-consuming and less efficient as well as less intuitive.
THIS. I hated compositing vfx in Adobe. From premiere pro than you open after effects etc etc.. Davinci is soooo much better! :D
Came here to say this ^^^
Exactly, was going to write this. I never liked the approach of dynamic link as it was slow, didnt work very well at all. Then the different program looked and was constructed very diffrently. Sure adobe later streamlined the creative suit alitte later. Then again I was running premiere 2014 instead of 2019 since it was more stable and had better playback. You really start to wonder why you pay for the subscription. I had already used davinci since version 12 but not at scale until v14. But it took a few years to fase out adobe. Its really great to not be locked in by subscriptions.
It was quite a while of doing editing before I had a go in After Effects and I was surprised by how unintuitive the controls were. Even just manipulating the timeline for any reason is just terrible and confusing for no reason. I know people can do some awesome things in there. But at this point, with just starting with trying VFX, I’d rather spend the effort to learn Fusion (despite there being less tutorials and plugins) or Blender
Well said!
Also this is random but just want to say well done on this explanation. You didn’t have to cut to b-roll a lot to help break up your flow and give you a chance to gather your thoughts. You stayed on topic, didn’t flub up any words, and jumped between different talking points seamlessly and basically a one take. That’s impressive and not easy to do. Any way just wanted to give you kudos since it may be an under appreciated aspect of your content 👌🏼👍🏼
Doing that whole rant without teleprompting … if the weddings gig gets tiresome, TV is waiting for you ! Awesome presentation !
because the economy is in the toilet and nobody can afford premier anymore
Because resolve is free, or $300 if you want/need the studio version, for a lifetime license instead of a subscription
Resolve looks like an amazing application and I have considered possibly switching multiple times. The one thing that keeps me with Adobe is all the other Adobe applications. For example, I may design a graphic for my video in Illustrator or Photoshop, import the AI or PSD file into After effects and animate it, and then import the AE comp into Premiere. To switch would require learning a whole new workflow.
And that is why you fail. Affinity + Resolve is like a $400-$500 in total and then you own it for life.
You can import PSD files into Resolve and manipulate the layers separately in Fusion.
@@rutchjohnson and that's why you fail? Are you twelve?
@@onlysublime lol
Yeah PSD overlays and AE back and forth are clutch
Yeah I couldn’t afford Premier so I started (serious) editing in DaVinci and I’m really glad I did. Blackmagic seems like an underdog that is determined to become top dog in what it does and that’s great to see. Competition makes companies better for sure.
Whole adobe bundle cost like 30 USD a month…
VEGAS is also a very good option these days as well.
I use V18 and its like a rock - one crash in a year.
@@handznet Some people can't afford that, that money can be spent on food, bills etc. You've clearly never experienced any form of financial hardship.
I'm in a bind watching all the editors recommending Davinci Resolve as a beginner. Every experienced video editor outside of RUclips is recommending Premiere instead for the easy learning curve and tutorials. Ah, what to choose. This video confused me even more.
It's unbelievable how much better it is
I switched this month! So happy to see that I’m not alone in this. So tired of the subscription business model, especially for a software product that’s frequently giving me error messages.
For studios or even individuals like me who collaborate with different studios, it is difficult to move to Davinci completely as everyone is on Creative Cloud. Premiere Pro is definitely subpar but the other Adobe apps make the whole deal quite sweet. But newer editors should definitely start editing on Davinci, and hopefully, in a few years, it might become an industry standard.
Also, the mention of Mpeg Streamclip kicked in massive nostalgia...was not a great time.
I don't want any industry standard. I want standardized project files.
@@llothar68 That will never happen
This is a point FOR Resolve Studio. Multiple people can work on the same project at the same time. No saving required. Much more streamlined than CC.
I understand you're saying they already have CC, but the expense is negligible for studios.
Stoked to see your Resolve journey! I'm approaching my 1 year anniversary of my switch and I'm feeling great about it overall. BIGGEST things I miss are Premiere's "transform" effect (so good for motion blur zooms/transitions) and Premiere's masking functions (way easier than resolve IMO). LOVE YA BLESS YA
Hey question, does Resolve not have motion blur effects at all?
@@sebasfilmedit The paid version does have motion blur
You can still make a less accurate motion blur in the free version, there was a tutorial I saw the other day
You can also use third party plugins for motion blur
But Resolve has Transform effect also! With motion blur slider (Animation tab). It works in the free version too.
I tried switching to Resolve about 3 years back. I built a custom PC and didn't add Windows as Resolve works on Linux, but I couldn't get used to Resolve. Maybe I could get as efficient with Resolve as I am with Premiere, but being a professional, I needed to complete projects now and not wait for the learning curve. No monthly expenses and no slow downs from Windows was why I tried to switch.
I've not had Premiere crash on me in a long time and have not struggled with it since I've been editing on my custom built tower PCs. Having the right machine makes a big difference.
The one big gripe I have with DR (actually 2) is that 1) the power window control point interface is completely unique in both color and fusion. When you switch between the two, the mousing and control keys are like speaking two languages. Also, 2) I think Pr is more robust with transitions, especially getting smoother zooms and cuts, etc. I still love DR.
I started using Resolve since version 16 and haven’t looked back. Although I will say the one thing I really do miss from Premiere is the titler. This is one area I find Resolve to be lacking is a more intuitive and easier to use title generator. Resolve’s basic titler is quite clunky at best. I’d really like to see BMD revamp this area.
Very true. Although the title plugins by motionVFX are great ways to work around that.
Final cut never fails me 🤷🏾♂️
Also consider that Adobe is a publically traded company that's incentivized to get new users to satisfy shareholders, whereas Blackmagic is a private company that makes a lot of revenue from their hardware sales in the long run. Also, not having to roundtrip for color grading is amazing.
and not round tripping for VFX or audio!
They’re like the Valve of the production industry
Going public ruins good companies.. theu become overly profit driven.
You probably know this but I would like to mention that you can export a .XML file from Premiere and open it up on Resolve. I've used it on a few project and everything worked without any hiccups. Although I must admit that there weren't any transitions on the Project, so I can't say how well those would transfer over.
easy answer. no transitions will work. just hard cuts... in most of the cases i didnt use xml anymore. scene cut detection does the job quicker :-)
Transitions like dissolves or dips do transfer over fine when importing a premiere xml to Resolve
Eh I had a million issues doing this with a music video recently and had to prep a whole separate timeline and it turned into an organizational mess of nested clips, pre-rendered shots, etc. That experience is what's pushing me to transfer my editing workflow into Resolve. The color tools are so superior that I'd rather learn the new workflow then deal with roundtripping. Going to experiment on my own band's next music video in Resolve since it's not client work and probably buy the Pro version if all goes well like I expect.
Indeed. Premiere can also output .AAF, which is similar to .XML, but .AAF is good for if you need send audio too. Particularly if your workflow involves Protools.
Resolve is an ecosystem of its own.
It has Fusion, for After Effects style editing/programming.
The Fairlight tab is essentially Adobe Audition on steroids.
The Deliver tab is like Adobe Media Encoder, with more features.
The Media tab is like Adobe Sync.
But I can never find a replacement for the Content-Aware tool in Photoshop.
Matt, I have been super frustrated lately with Adobe's timeline speed. I just dropped $3,500 on a new computer to try and make my editing higher resolution footage faster. Honestly I didn't see much at all in the way of increased editing work flow except render speed. This was interesting to hear your take on this. I was even considering moving to apple to help with timeline speed with 4k footage. I am going to look into DaVinci for sure after watching this video. I just hate the idea of learning a whole new software after I have 10 years of editing in premiere pro. Is it worth learning the new software? By the way, you are by far the best channel on camera/hardware and video editing tutorials. No question. Clear and easy to understand. Thank you.
Matt, I was in the same boat as you. I’d used premiere for a long time and I didn’t want to learn a new ‘language’. But 3 years later, I’m very glad I did. The learning curve isn’t as tough as I thought it would be and I’ve saved a lot of money by not paying every month. Give it a go, you won’t be disappointed.
Hey Matt! I would definitely give davinci a try. It’s pretty similar to premiere in many ways and I think you’ll be able to pick it up quickly. 👍
I have 13700k, rtx 3060, only ssds, Motherboard ddr5 128gb, IT goes Like Butter through multicam edits with 4k, 6k braw and Sony a7iv Material. How can your PC be slow??????
Are you me? My $3500 dollar computer arrives tomorrow because my quite fast gaming laptop can't cut it. I have also been editing for 10 years and I know Premiere SO WELL. Right now I am in the middle of a big project and it takes 4 hours to render out a 9 minute video. ...if it i renders at all and no matter what I do now, I can't see my footage in real time if there are too many effects on it.
@@ozzmanzz Thanks for the advice!
For me personally at least, i rarely have any crashes. the only thing i would like is to have a more advanced color correction panel.
I'm jumping between both, working with other people / agencies premiere is still the most used program by far (unfortunately) for any direct client projects I do my self I'm doing them all in resolve. It's just mind blowing how much better and easier to use it is on all fronts.
I've used several of the main video editing programs and I must say that the experience of switching does me a lot of good creatively. I usually manage to change in less busy times, with few projects in progress… I started editing in Sony Vegas many years ago. After that I went to the premiere and felt great progress back there! A few years ago I tested the daVinci and just loved it. The only problem for me was the long learning curve. When I finally switched from Windows to Mac, I could cancel my Adobe subscription I bought Final Cut that I have been using daily. For some moths I just forgot Da Vinci in the dock accumulating dusty. Recently I went back to college and got an Adobe subscription through college. So I was able to go back to premiere and check how is it after years. I found pretty much the same thing! With is good that I was not lost, but compared to the constant evolution that I follow in other softwares, feels like Adobe is stopped in time. New smaller editors including mobile and with AI (Filmora, Luma Fusion for example) are gaining ground in the new generation and it is difficult to compete without innovation.
Filmora has better usability and good interface but it sucks under the hood.
All DaVinci Resolve really needs at this point is the kind of infrastructure Adobe has, with its sheer number of plugins and stock media. Oh yeah, and the ability to import vector graphics natively would help, too.
ummm, here you go my good man. ruclips.net/video/GA4-Apid1eg/видео.html
Stock media is way easy to find for davinci. There are plugins galore as well. It is nothing like 7 plus years ago.
Matt, your thoughts were really well put together and delivered. As an author and blogger myself, your ease of flow from one topic to the next is so nice to see and hear. I also needed to know all the great information you provided, so I received a double portion of goodness here. Thank you sir.
For several reasons, I edit some projects not on a SSD, but from harddrives in a NAS. Internal SSDs are only used for Cache. And even this network based editing is blazing fast.
That instant save was brilliant. I did about an hour worth of editing and got the dreaded "not responding" then dead. I opened it up and it was exactly where I left it. Was incredibly happy and surprised.
Excellent breakdown, Matt. In the last few months I’ve made the switch, and it’s like a breath of fresh air!
One thing (I think) you didn’t exactly cover, is the fact that Resolve is essentially Premiere, After Effects, Audition, and Media Encoder all wrapped into one, and for FREE?! I love how I can just stay inside a single software for my work. It’s absolutely amazing :)
Yeah, the main reason I'm switching is to encourage myself to use Fusion. I hated Ae, because it felt so clunky and slow. Hoping to get into node based editing
Switched to Resolve for the first time 2 years ago. Went back on a few projects because of familarity with Premiere (and After Effects). When I am in a hurry its a bit frustrating to re-learn some things like software. I overcame the hurdle and fully switched to everything about a year ago. Since I am now using Fairlight and Fusion a lot as well, its kind of crazy to think how much I used to defend Adobe/Premiere und how many people still use it, just because they are used to it. Its insane how frustrated so many people are with Premiere and still dont make the switch.
That’s the most encouraging reply I’ve read here. I’ve used Premiere forever and just bought DR. I just need to bite the bullet and force myself to switch. Thanks!
A huge bummer for Resolve is that unless you get the Studio package, you can't edit over 4K 60fps or 10-bit colour videos (Which every modern camera has nowadays). I don't think paying $475USD even though it's lifetime is better than paying $70USD a month for ALL ADOBE APPS is a win to save a 15-20mins of editing time for videos, and which editor doesn't hit 'CTRL + S' every 20 seconds?
I hit CTRL+S so much that I don't even notice anymore. It's involuntary, like breathing.
I looked at Da Vinci. Very stable. Big reason I didn't stick with it was the motion graphics/titles are not as robust as Premiere and FCP. It can do some sophisticated animation and special effects, Like making your own titles and re-using them without having to edit and re-animate.
Fusion is quite powerful once you get to know it and there are a few tutorials on making presets for titles from, check Patrick Sterling and Mr Alex Tech.
@@mdhalbrook I went around the horn with it a while back and found it couldn't do what I can do with Motion and FCP.
When our production house switched 3 years ago we thought we would have to keep Premiere Pro for legacy projects but after a few months we got to the point we would rather do a complete re-edit in Davinci Resolve than mess around in PP. Also you are correct Mac users have it so much worse with PP, even DR seems to have some more issues than PC.
Have you used DR in Mac (M1 chip) ?
@@Nocturnal_1111 No and that could well be the problem :) Although my 6 year old HP Laptop works flawlessly with DR while our 3 year old iMac's constantly have trouble. Personally I think it has more to do with how they interact with our NAS.
My friend told me that with M1 pro it works fluently. On the other hand the M1 pro chip is also a revolutionary invention by Apple
Mac Air M1, no problems and works amazingly running DR 18. Can't believe I can edit, color, etc, all from my Mac anywhere, anytime on client projects.
@@Nocturnal_1111 I think Black Magic redid Resolve completely for Apple Silicon and i think that's the flagship code base for them now. It's so insanely fast and efficient on the Apple chips.
Very cool, good to see people try new things. I Ditched DR for FCPX but very nice to see updates. FCPXs speed right now is just unmatched so it been no real motivation to use anything else at this time.
Agree. FCP all the way!
@@photowinz facts Apple gets me worth their exports speeds that are just incredible with Pro Res in FCPX.
The background of past video editing programs was a great addition to the breakdown of the current market for video editors.
Totally true and sad. I still have to stick to Premiere because my work uses it, and also it makes it easier to dynamic link with AE since I do a lot of motion graphics. But other than that, I really hope Adobe steps up their game. It's embarrassing at this point.
I used to rely on AE for motion graphics as well but after finally wrapping my head around Fusion I will say I can create higher quality motion graphics in less time on the Fusion page than I ever did with the dynamic linking of AE and PP. Dynamic linking didn't always work perfectly for me anyway. But Fusion is built right in. No need to link anything or leave the app at all. It's not the smoothest learning curve coming from AE, but Fusion is definitely just as capable! 😉
@Matt McCool I can understand the dynamic linking being buggy. It works most of the time for me, but it can get annoying sometimes when things get unlinked.
However, and I don't speak from experience so taoe my words with a grain of salt, aren't layer based compositors way easier by nature when it comes to motion graphics? For VFX and compositing Fusion is probably the way to go, but motion graphics is a breeze in AE. At least from what I've seen, but I'm willing to change my mind!
@@Dano-Media There's a really great blog from a guy named Matic called "Fusion: My PEN & PAPER". His whole site is worth a look for the inspiration for what can be done with nodes.
I think "easier" really depends on what you're used to. Having spent some time with both, I find nodes harder to learn but easier to master. I can think through a mograph I see in my mind with less friction using nodes. I think this is mostly thanks to the infinite node playground you have to experiment with. By contrast, layers feel claustrophobic. I know this is what precomping is for, but nodes eliminate the need to precomp while keeping the benefits. And nodes are inherently more visual. You can tell what's happening without looking at the viewer.
Don't get me wrong, AE is a great piece of software and of course there's things that it does better... (converting a text layer into a shape layer, bringing in PSDs or AIs, the plethora of educational resources). Ultimately I think we should use whatever tool is right for the task. But just speaking personally, Fusion has changed the way I shoot, edit, and think about storytelling.
@Matt McCool Fair enough, I'll for sure check that out! Thanks for the recommendation 👌🏼👌🏼
@@Dano-Media I've worked professionally in both the Adobe and BM ecosystems for quite a while and I can chime in in terms of motion graphics.
1. Fusion's only option for vector graphics are CSVs which are really bad compared to a complete layered workflow from Illustrator or especially dreadful when comparing with plugins like Overlord. It would be nice for BlackMagic to expand the library of compatible formats.
2. Fusion's playback has improved with every update, but DaVinci's timeline performance with Fusion effects is not on par with AE / PP integration. Simple effects are finally realtime in DaVinci, but having even two simple text effects on top of each other kills realtime playback. For reference, I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max with 64GB RAM. I haven't tried the new version with my PC yet, though (12core, 2080TI, 64GB RAM).
3. There are no official align tools in Fusion yet. Here's a link to a plugin tool that works ok (ruclips.net/video/f2wwp1CRqWI/видео.html). In general, moving objects and aligning things is more difficult in Fusion compared to AE. You can't grab objects in the viewer for example.
4. Keyframes are in some ways better in Fusion and at the same time controlling them is harder. The spline editor is really powerful and has nice hotkeys + fast buttons for repeating animations for example. Also controlling the splines feels more intuitive than in AE. But you can't copy keyframes across objects. You can modify only one keyframe spline at a time (you can easyease everything at once, but manual editing is limited to one keyframe). The keyframe window is very rudimentary and doesn't look intuitive. There are no distinguishing graphical icons for different types of keyframes.
5. Fusion is more buggy and not as fleshed out than AE. This might get fixed quite quickly when looking at the rate of updates BM is doing, but currently Fusion has weird quirks in some tools and it crashes Resolve quite often. Even ready templates may freeze resolve or just stop working for some reason. It doesn't happen so much that I would hate it, but it's a nuisance nonetheless.
6. Creating templates in AE is a breeeeeeeeze compared to Fusion. In AE you drag and drop your desired modifiers into the Essential Graphics panel and name your template. Also, creating expressions in AE is just way more comfortable with large expandable text fields and nice lasso tools. Fusion's expression interface is way more clunky with single row text fields and a limited lasso tool. Creating a template in Fusion requires you to use a massive panel with every possible modifier of the whole composition displayed for you at the same time, which you then have to sift through to find the ones you want to save to the tool. There are also hidden rules you need to follow to keep the editability of the template and make your template display in the right way. The best simple example to describe the difference between AE and Fusion: If you want to change the order of modifiers in AE template -> just drag & drop. If you want to do the same in Fusion: find the .setting file on your system -> open in text editor -> learn the coding language and copy paste rows of text around a large text wall.
7. Nodes vs. layers doesn't really matter, just different logic.
All in all... Fusion is powerful, but still has growing pains in terms of motion graphics (and no guarantees if it will get fully grown). AE is ready, super powerful and has incredible plugins to help you get even further faster.
I’d really love to see more videos about how to replace After Effects with programs like Apple Motion or DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion… the 3D tracking you can do for VFX in After Effects seems to be unrivaled at this point but I don’t want to pay for creative cloud just for that.
Also, I've seen some freaking amazing stabilization (hyperlapse, etc) with After Effects that I don't think DR can touch. I've tried. A lot.
Tracking 3d in After Effects is easily beaten by cinema 4d or blender
Ease of entry in AE's 3D tracker is very nice. Basically drop the effect and wait & majority time it works if it's not too complex. It's definitely not as robust of a 3D tracker as some other apps though if things don't go smoothly on that initial track.
I myself am "trying" to transition from Nuke to Fusion, but it has been very painful thus far. I went through the same thing (to a much lesser extent) in transferring skillsets from Premiere to Resolve too though -- but it was very much worth the effort.
As a designer, mainly used to creating/editing 2d and 3d, I've dabbled in Adobe's video products and found them to have a steep learning curve (but that's probably just me!), not to mention performance issues. Now that I have a YT channel, I've been using Davinci Resolve for all my video needs, and it's brilliant. Highly recommended. Thanks for the video 😀
Trust me when I say the steep learning curve isn’t just you. It’s all of Adobe’s programs. Learning Premiere is probably one of the easier ones but still it will takes a few years to actually have a workflow down. Then you have After Effects which is stupidly unintuitive. Then Illustrator and Photoshop which share so many tools yet the keyboard shortcuts between the 2 programs are completely different lol. I’m a creative director focused in video mainly and I hate having to use premiere and AE. My art director friend always makes fun of how dumb the Adobe design programs are. It’s a mess.
As an FCPX editor, people balked at how it thought of its future, but it did the one thing that no one wanted to do. change the underlying code to work better for the future. You knocked pretty hard on FCPX, but I think that point should be stated because its now the reason why Premiere is falling on its face. and its also one of the ways resolve was able to get its feet off the ground in editing. they took a lot of the ideas FCPX was playing with. always saving, database management. I understand everyone hates FCPX, and da Vinci is an awesome program...but give credit where credit is due.
I'd like to point out that Team Projects Collaboration is included in the Creative Cloud for Individuals Subscription. And that "change" (as it DID used to be in Creative Cloud for Teams or above) was introduced during the Covid-outbreak to help users work from home. So it's been in all Creative Cloud Memberships the past 2.5 years or so.
@Whoismatt150 Why is the W capitalized and when did you grow that 150 on the end?... and you don't have any videos and have only 12 subscribers...
I might be alone, but I love working in Premiere Pro! I agree with many of these points , especially about the new import/export windows -- that update did not speed up my workflow. But, some updates have been great! As of 2020, teams projects are included in the creative cloud subscription, and I use that feature regularly. I love adobe productions, especially when I need to access footage from an entire year's worth of filming. I love the new captions workflow (adobe will automatically transcribe an interview/sequence for you). I love the essential graphics panel and master text styles. I love adobe's recent integration with frame.io. Obviously, I would love for adobe to fix stability issues, but they are doing *some* great things.
These are all underrated features that no one highlights. A new feature that I use a lot recently is the ability for Premiere Pro to blend song cuts to make it play smoothly like one audio, and their ability to use third-party plug-ins. Premiere Pro to me, is the more professional and diverse software compared to Resolve
Overall, I like working in premiere too. I do a lot of music/audio-heavy videos and premiere has the easiest and most powerful audio interface to work with (that I’ve used). I’m not opposed to switching, but I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my editing speed in order to learn a new program. But if I could learn how to edit as fast in resolve as I do in premiere then I would definitely give it a go.
Premiere Pro works great for me
Hollywood, while always looking for faster more efficient methods, moves relatively slowly in the post production side of things. I remember when it NLEs in the pro world were only Avid. Then Final Cut started making inroads. Then Premiere finally broke through a few years back and now it’s pretty much Avid and Premiere, with Premiere just getting better and better. It’ll take a lot for DaVinci to make a serious dent IMO, but alternative NLEs are welcome and competition makes them all better 😊
I'm with you. I agree that the stability needs changing for sure but I had to use FCPX for a bit and it crashed way more than PP does. I love the flexibility of the windows in premiere pro and I love that it has all the features I could ever want and the few plugins I have all work really well.
I've used resolve too and I enjoyed it quite a bit on my laptop as it was easier to run than PP but I could never adjust it how I liked it on my main editing machine.
FCPX on the other hand was horrible. The core mechanics are horrible and just seemed so backwards to me. I also found it was missing so many features that should be simple and I was constantly trying to find work arounds.
You perfectly described the FC7 to FCX to Premiere migration timeline. Living through those days was extremely frustrating.
We welcome you with open arms new Resolve users 😄
This topic always gets to me. I definitely see the reasons for switching from premiere to davinci. It is amazing software, and I own it and love it (the little I have used it). BUT having been using premiere (and all of the adobe software) for nearly 15 years, It just doesn't seem to make sense for me. The amount of time it would take me to build a workflow in davinci that matches the decade and a half that I have had in adobe, just seems like a chore. Also, as a Mac user, I think premiere crashed on me, MAYBE 6 times in all of 2022, and I am on it DAILY. (hope I dont jinx myself). All that said, I have been mostly happy with adobe, minus the subscription model. I'd love to get proficient in Davinci, but as long as the work keeps flowing in, my time is better spent using what I know. Maybe one day tho…we shall see.
Divinci is hands down the best editing platform on the market. It’s nice to see others taking the jump
the best is when you try to export and get a random error, so the 1 thing media encoder is designed to do, it just cannot
I think another cool thing to mention is if you buy a Black Magic camera, they throw in the full version of DaVinci Resolve for free! I think it's the same if you buy other items like their editor keyboard as well. But I don't know that for 100% certainty.
Yes it is. Last week, I bought the Blackmagic Design Speed Editor and it came with DaVinci Resolve 18 Studio for free. Now I'm learning how to use them both together 😊.
I tried to switch from Resolve (which I started with) to Premiere, but I found it very old fashioned looking and just more difficult to edit with. I'm glad to see more people moving to Resolve now, hopefully that means we'll get more plugins for Resolve!
I use both, I still love FCPX over resolve. I couldn’t even tell you why. I do love the magnetic timeline. Maybe one day I’ll fully use DaVinci.
Agree! But if you are inside the Windows system, you cannot choose. Final Cut is lovely!
@@peterwilson9699 yeah, I left the window system quite a long time ago and I haven’t looked back. And these days the Apple ecosystem is just amazing for me.
FCPX FTW. Mine never crashes. Always auto saves.
@@crawfoproductions4418 same.
Final Cut Pro is the best editor if you're in the Mac ecosystem. Handsdown
Fortunately, I made the leap to Resolve by accident. I used to edit on premiere, and then I took the plunge and got myself a bmpc6k to start shooting with and it came with a resolve license. I resisted until about 2 months ago, and now I couldnt go back. Resolve + BRAW is literal heaven to me.
While I whole heartedly agree with nearly all of this, I feel like the price part is a bit misleading. The $53/mo price tag is for all of CC, you can just get Premiere Pro for $21/mo. Also, if like me, you're a multi-disciplined creative, you're also getting AfterEffects, Audition, Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign and more with that same $53. The value is quite incredible even if you only use 3 or 4 of the programs. Having said all that, I'm still dabbling a bit into Resolve to see how much I like it, and could see myself using it for some or even most of my video work. I'd love to see some evolutionary grown in Premiere addressing the issues you've put forth. Great video Matt!
loved it! Especially the part where you've mentioned the failure of FCP10, I am one of those editors who ditched FCP for the same reason. Adding to all you said, speaking about people outside of America, who live in developing countries and such, the thing with the price is obvious. So at the end what companies like Black Magic and Blender did, is planning for the future, by profiting of the idea of a larger fan base.
Yeah, me too. I stayed with FCP 7 even when I had to use Retroactive to make it run, until it was no longer possible.
Davinci system used to cost 800k back in 90s and you had to buy giant consoles to use resolve to grade the highest end movies, slowly they only started releasing the software and still being used in only movies and tv shows but it used to cost like 25k and now it's literally free or $300, crazy.
I'm about to switch. I'm having constant problems with editing on both of my PCs. And so are both of the editors/contractors I work with. Adobe will say that all three of us are the problem, but we are all on separate systems with an Intel, AMD, and Apple M1 system. The only reason I don't switch is because of fear of not being able to meet my schedule but I got to just do it and stop making excuses.
It's 'tempting' to switch. Have thought about it myself....I'll keep watching your progress to see how your doing. Just feel like I'm so invested in Premiere Pro and my knowledge in that application. Just not sure I want to re-live the learning curve. Additionally, Adobe has it's whole suite of software (After Effects, Media Encoder, photoshop, etc.). Keep us posted...looking forward to see how your progression goes Matt...
I use AE a ton and that alone makes it so hard for me to switch. But man do I hate Premiere.
Well done! I switched about 2 years ago and I am happy I did. One additional “Bonus” reason I would add is the workflow piece of it. Many editors were doing the bulk amount of work in premiere and then having to export to Davinci for color work. That extra process is time consuming and often troublesome. Having the color tools in DR but also keeping editing there too makes the whole process so much faster and reliable :)
Any opinion on Fusion? After Effects is the primary thing holding me captive in Creative Cloud.
@@kgeo753 I don’t use Fusion for much except for basic compositing and object removal. I do know that I have seen a few comparison videos where they say anything done in after effects can be done in fusion. People struggle a bit with Fusions node based system (instead of layers) but it has some advantages once you get use to it.
Would love to see videos of you learning about Da Vinci. I would like to make the switch but feel so comfortable in Premiere that it seems scary to switch to something completely unknown
I found it painful at first, for sure. Nice thing about editing, though, is that since it's so repetitive in the tools you use...the transition happens fairly quickly -- assuming you force yourself to stick with it. I'm having a harder time going from Nuke to Fusion (both node-based compositors), but am trusting the same thing will happen. I started using Resolve about 4 years ago and haven't missed Premiere at all.
I switched about 2 years ago. It was painful at first! There are still some things that I think were easier in Premiere, like masking or managing keyframes, but there isn't anything I could do in Premiere that I can't do in Resolve now.
@@KK-lg8uz I haven't used final cut in so long that I wouldn't be able to give you an honest opinion. I know that FCX is far better than it used to be (it was a mess on release, but that was many years ago & they've refined it a lot since then). If you're always going to be on Mac & no chance of PC...then FC might be a solid (and one-time-buy) choice. I myself use Resolve for editing, but editing isn't my day-in / day-out profession.
I agree with Matt. I've already switched to DaVinci Resolve. DaVinci Resolve has captured my heart. 🙂
A subscription means you need internet which also means they can mess with it any time. Resolve also crashes a lot. All the programs do
I much prefer Davinci Resolve for the workflow and slickness design of the interface >> the CUT page is a speed editing dream for a rough cut timeline >> love the transitions interface and the colour grading is just excellent compared to my experience in PP for some reason... I still use both for collaborative reasons and yet much prefer Davinci Resolve 👌💯👀🎯🎥😎🌟
Even with everything Resolve has to offer, the fact that it doesn't support ProRes RAW is simply a dealbreaker for me. Also Dynamic Link with After Effects is a HUGE boon to my workflow. Stuck with Premiere for now.
I'm a photographer. After Adobe switched to subscription I went and bought FCX and now I'm really glad I made a switch cause I can whip up a simple video for my clients and add it to my package without no added cost
NEVER had a problem with Premiere crashing (I'm on Macbook 16" M1 Max) or issues with playback so I think this is a bit of a myth that i keep hearing repeated... I sometimes edit with 8K and very happy with the performance. My main complaint with Premiere is sometimes getting the 'media pending' error - but this is very rare - and only with After Effects linked comps. Also, I am on Premiere 2022 as 2023 is much slower - Adobe should ALWAYS INTERNALLY FULLY TEST RELEASES PRIOR TO RELEASE - as the latest versions are usually a bit buggy and this is extremely annoying... If Premiere is good enough for James Cameron and legendary editors like Walter Murch - and so many contemporary filmmakers, then this should be noted. Finally, I do sometimes use Resolve for grading - but not for editing so I am following these developments so could change my mind later if Resolve continues to improve. With Adobe's financial clout it is buying out AI companies and integrating into their system - so Adobe is going to offer a lot of new stuff soon so I would suggest its risky to leave the Adobe eco-system completely in this new AI lead revolution...
It’s the herd mentality that causes it to be fashionable to knock Premiere Pro. It’s a pathetic way to try to be accepted by peers. Unfortunately for them, they would be far more likely to be accepted by doing good work than lip smacking the number one NLE.
@Jim Snow you should change your name to John... then the "You know nothing" sentence would be even more appropriate (but what do I expect from an Adobe fanboy loser🤣)
@@simoz78 Thanks for proving my point. Now, 'everyone' will like you.
I've had premiere crash on me over 50 times in a couple of hours. Especially when I added effects like Noise reduction from Neat video on 6K RAW footage. That was annoying. I'm kind of done with premiere pro, and this video pushed me over the edge. I'd rather spend my money with a company that has video producers on their mind every step of the way.
I wish you the best in your transition to Resolve. I've been using it for a couple years now. I remember the bright eyed days of looking at Resolve but oh boy. Crashes are more frequent and the really bad part is that crashes will regularly corrupt projects. This is compounded when you use a lot of Fusion but don't use a very specific, yet not defined, method of creating your comps. You can make a big old ugly comp and Resolve will let you do it that way...until it doesn't. And it stops responding. And it starts to crash every time you open Resolve. I've lost literally hundreds of hours of work due to this. I've restarted a now almost 3 year (no, seriously) edit because of this. Weirdly, reverting to back ups of the database or the project does not help. Resolve somehow writes errors but ignores them for a while. Yeah, that's confusing and I'm not explaining it as a dev because I'm not one.
Resolve timeline speed can be really good but if it's H.264 or something else that is really compressed, it's not. That said, they have an excellent proxy system that is essentially automated. But also, if there is any nr or color grading or really any effects, it won't play back under many circumstances.
Many of the features are strictly marketing. For example, I am building a Fusion comp with 3 stills. That's it. I used a depth map on one of the stills which is still...not even animated. Completely crashed the project.
My main gripe with Resolve is that it is a loss leader. They sell the best version for $300 lifetime. They aren't making any money on it. They are a hardware company so they made a decent editor to package along with the nice cardboard box. So because they aren't making any money, they have zero support. They do not listen to users at all, despite their reputation for doing so. We've been yelling for versions for things like basic UI customization like Premiere has and float 32 audio editing. I don't know if Premiere has a help desk of any sort but I do know that Resolve doesn't. I would VERY gladly pay twice the Premiere subscription price to be able to get Resolve working again when it does its normal crash and my client is yelling for his video.
Very hopeful that a Resolve killer comes out soon. I don't mean to be a negative nilly, I just wish that somebody had been forthright about the Resolve issues before I switched over. I would have stayed.
this makes me wanna just commit to FCPX forever hahahahaha.... honestly i bet capcut is gonna take all these companies money in 2 years.
@@emileravenet Ooh. I will have to look into that. I do bag on Resolve a lot but that’s because I know they can do better. They can offer a higher priced platform to afford support and more testers. But they don’t. They just pump out marketing-friendly features like vertical video and a boring detector while ignoring their faithful user base.
nesting is just so bad, you nest a large section of audio and half of it just mutes randomly
We just made the switch ourselves. Can't wait to keep learning more from you, homie!
Davinci Resolve is literally the best software I have used, hands down. Period. My workflow is 10x faster, my cuts and edits are done insanely faster and i love how it immediatly closes the gaps in the timeline, I love the title effects, and all the cool effects like "camera shake" on a tripod shot to give it some movement - and not to mention color GRADING is the most AMAZING way to grade and create looks to your footage.......BUTTT - I shoot with my Ninja V in ProRes RAW. Which Davinci....does not support. My only work around to this the cheaper way is I color "correct" my footage in Final Cut, then export in ProRes, put it in Davinci, then color "grade" in resolve, then cut and edit. Too much added to my workflow. Now I know Mac has a software thats called "RAW Converter" where I can convert my ProRes RAW to CDNG and I get my RAW settings in Davinci. Again, still kind of inconvenient. I understand Blackmagic has their own raw called "BRAW" and they want you to go buy their own products to have RAW capability in their own software. But they would make SO MUCH more money in selling Resolve Studio - if they accepted ProRes RAW. I know soooooo many people who do the same as me and all shoot in ProRes RAW and just wont switch to resolve SOLEY for that purpose. I really wish Davinci would cave into implementing ProRes RAW into Davinci Resolve Studio. At that point if that ever happened, It would stop using the free version, and give Blackmagic the money that is deserved to them and buy the studio version. I think if Blackmagic saw this comment, this is my feedback as a Marketing Managers standpoint....Give us ProRes RAW - but ONLY in the paid "studio" version. If blackmagic implemented this - I would not hesitate wipping out my wallet, and pay for Studio. I wouldnt even stop to think about doing it.
I believe it doesn’t have to do with Blackmagic wanting you to buy their cameras for BRAW. I’ve read somewhere that it has to do with Apple licensing and needing to pay them to use ProRes Raw. Basically Blackmagic doesn’t want to have to pay Apple royalties for their RAW implementation when they already have their own.
Sorry Matt, never had a stability problems and will continue use PP. Btw...I have a MAC. Usually it's operator error. Regarding 'saving'...my workflow is such that each time I execute and series of edits and am happy, I methodically save the project myself. I don't wait for the program to do so.
100% accurate. Forget even throwing 4K or 6K footage at Premiere, good luck editing multiple tracks of .wav or other audio files even. Laggy and buggy af.
For me, (I started to make amators videos long time ago and tried a lot of softwares), the day I tried DR (Version 14 when I first tried it), I adopt it. Never regret it. It's the only one I use now!
What’s weird is that no pro was complaining about the new document or export windows but everyone was complaining about speed. How could Adobe not know this?
The Fairlight audio editing tools are also fantastic.. I switched from PP to Resolve in 2016 and never looked back.
First time I used Premiere was 2000 when I was an editor for a news network and I still remember the daily frustration when it was crashing. And it still crashes today. It’s a shame because it’s such a great software…
I remember the 2010 switch. I started with Avid DV, then Avid Pro, and drafted into Avid Media composer. The converting footage before editing was exhausting and I didn't want to jump to the new iMovie Pro AKA "Final Cut X". Yes Adobe Premiere Pro was the savior back then and I made the switch. Fast forward to 2023, Adobe did me good but is so frustrating with the instability and I feel so trapped being in the Adobe ecosystem because as jobs come I have to quickly push out the products and I feel like I don't have the time to learn a new software. I dabbled with Davinci Resolve and made a couple of wedding videos. However, the time to create and learn takes too long for me. Plus I really love Adobe Audition to tweak up audio. I haven't tested the full power of Fairlight yet but not sure if it compares to Audition. You are right on all those reasons you mentioned in this video. Eventually as time permits I will be learning more and more of Davinci until I can get it down to create videos easily. The color correction node system is another thing I need to get familiar with as well. Maybe you can do a video about this sometime. As for your b-roll, I think some b-roll is good. I really wanted to see the difference when you were explaining about the updates both softwares had made. Keep up the great content Matt, my fellow Texan!
I started with Premiere 4.2 before it was even Pro way back in the late 90's and loved it, right up to CS6!
Had all my KBD shortcuts mapped for a really efficient personal workflow, all joy.
Then, things got rather nasty and very frustrating, lots of crashes, little or no support,
and having to pay blood money every month to the Whore of Babylon in that Adobe ivory tower, was
added insult to the injury.
Come 2019, I switched to Resolve at Version 15, never looked back and am now running the Studio version,
life is sweet🍷
Matt, even the mention of using 4K videos, making proxies, gives me PTSD. What a nightmare. I was working for 8 weeks on a pitch video with over 300 hours of footage. Had a final video edit on the timeline. When I rendered it out, every clip was wrong. After countless hours trying to find an answer, I ended up having to send my entire files to a friend in LA to edit it on an AVID.
If Resolve can handle 4K natively, I’m in.
amateurs - yes, switch to da Vinci, but it is still more convenient to mount complex projects in the Premiere. Da Vinci remained a program for color correction
As someone who hates spending money Ive been using Davincis free version from the start, the fact that they offer a free version makes it so accessible, and the free version works perfectly fine for basic editing.
when in a pinch the ability of Premiere to create a large text file of subtitles that I can search to find points on the timeline has been invaluable. Its probably this and dragging an AE comp in stopping me jumping.
Love how you talked about the history of CS5 and FCPX - it’s before my time, and I’ve always been curious how Premiere rose to power. Now I’m happy i get to see another ‘revolution’ I suppose you could say!
I'll stick with final cut. Fast, has never crashed on me, saves everything as I go, magnetic is no issue, it's actually quite helpful but does take 10 seconds to figure out ways to stack things to edit exactly how other programs do or to use the 'insert gap' function and then stack clips. In fact any of the negative things people have said have been non issues. Audio editing is great, it has all the logic pro plug ins (most of the time when people complain about audio, its because they didnt record it right it in the first place) Color grading works great, but I added Cinema grade and If I was ever working on something so critical, I could not handle it, I would outsource it to a professional grader. Piece of cake. I tried DaVinci briefly and didn't love the work flow but I will try it again - a lot of hype so I want to take a deeper look , but I do not get that much FOMO. Found something great and will keep on working it until it doesn't meet my needs. I lasted a week with Premier when I first started. It was utterly terrible, crashing and bogging down. All Adobe products seem to be slow. I feel like they use the Facebook model of problem solving. That is, if something isn't working, let's not actually build something new. Let's write a corrective code, program, GUI that goes on top of the existing one (= slow, cumbersome, bad user experience).
Yeah, I’d say another reason is that BM Studio comes free if you buy one of their cameras new.
I'm just a budding hobbyist, but OBS Studio and Davinci Resolve 18 seems to be all I need. I made a little 2 minute game video yesterday, and hit render when I was done. I went to the kitchen, got a banana and came back to my pc, and it was already uploaded to youtube. The banana wasn't even peeled. : P
One of my favourite features in DaVinci Resolve is the Super Resolution.
If you ever have a video that is "lowres" you can just import it into Resolve, enable Super Resolution and upscale it with flawless quality.
Your boring 720p video can become a great 2160p video with literally just a few seconds using a single tool.
I was almost sold on DR except it’s painfully awful for VFX. What should’ve took me 5 minutes took 4 hours. If it gets to the level of AE, I will make the full jump. However, I can’t deny that the coloring is world class.
Painfully awful for VFX? are you sure about that? Node based softwares are and have been industry standard for VFX not AE. Every VFX studios are using either Nuke or Fusion working in the movie industry. Fusion has been literally used in thousands of Hollywood movies and used to cost thousands before BM bought it and implemented in Resolve. Maybe you are new to node based compositing so you are struggling with the workflow but all I can say is this, once you go nodes, there's no going back. The insane flexibility and speed of reusing nodes and not getting lost in precomps is just few of many reasons why nodes have been the go to for pro VFX.
Sorry, I tried to work with DaVinci, but my machine couldn't handle the consumed memory. With Premiere I don't get any trouble.
Hey Matt! That's all nice and cool! The only reason, though, why we've not switched away from Adobe is our Mogrt library. We use customized and branded animations. How would we redo those in DaVinci Resolve?
Black Magic is also a hardware company with high end industry leading products. They offer Resolve with many of their hardware, which not only makes sense, but is a powerful incentive.
Well executed video man, thatkS for sharing. I wanted to share my thoughts: I started using DaVinci Resolve few months ago and I was scared at the beginning, but after 3 months I started to learn the basics, and now I have all my projects in DaVinci Resolve. It is hard to switch, because it's like to learn to walk again. But they have tutorials on their website which is AWESOME!. I like DaVinci Resolve so far, and I like when companies give you the opportunity to grow as a creator for free and then let you choose whether or not to upgrade to the full version of the software. If I grow as a creator I will definitely buy the full version of DaVinci Resolve to support Black Magic.
Thanks for the video!
A minor reason can be file format support. DV-AVI files are the only file format which provides a lossless data copy from DV tapes (miniDV, DVCAM, Digital8 and a few others) including embedded metadata such as time/date information. But Premiere Pro CC 2018 Version 12.1.0 onwards lost support from DV-AVI, for no apparent reason. Every other popular editing package, including DaVince Resolve, supports DV-AVI.
i did escape Adobe in 2019 and was one of the First German Davinci Resolve Trainer. And it was a Gamechanger for me.
Premiere user for 6 years or more and the most recent update has made me switch completely over to Resolve and the difference is freaking amazing. I was completely fed up of the timeline performance in Premiere even on a powerful PC, and Resolve just makes everything easier. Never switching back!
It's funny I have been against Adobe since it came back on the scene. The subscription model, the bloated feature set, the instability are all reasons I stuck with FCPX and persevered for a long time. FCPX now is all the things you mentioned about Resolve. Its super fast, SUPER stable, and has all the pro features needed for films and broadcast. My New Years resolution this year is to become more familiar with Resolve and get as efficient as I am on FCPX now. As corporate companies still grapple with Adobe and AVID as their platforms I've always been outside the box and would choose FCPX and now Resolve over any of those NLE's.
Blackmagic actually listens to their customers. There are so many things that are no-brainers in Resolve that I used to wonder about in PP
I make VERY basic RUclips content and Resolve has been my go-to since I started. I know it can do so much more than I use it for, but it's nice that it does what I want now and I can grow into using so much more of it's functionality if/when I want to.
I would say I was on this path to switch from PP to Resolve when on Intel, that all changed when the Silicon chips were introduced to Mac. Now it's *chefs kiss
I honestly loved Premiere Pro, but they lost me when they went to a subscription model.
Switched to Resolve last year and will never go back. It's awesome, and FREE!
I started on CS4 and CS5, and it’s incredible to see where we’re at now in regards to competition and the ebbs and flows of the marketplace. Full disclosure: I actually teach video editing via Adobe Premiere Pro to high school students, but even I have been thinking about switching to DaVinci after the epic Adobe/Apple/Catalina OS destruction a few years ago. Timeline speed, not crashes, is my main gripe. I’ve got a maxed Intel MacBook from the final gen of those, and it stumbles more on timeline playback than anything else. As a RUclipsr, it’s very frustrating.
I work as an editor for a gaming channel so ever since I started working with 4K footage, even with SSD my life got miserable. Finally RUclips algorithm helped me, I will give DaVinci Resolve a trail as my yearly premier pro plan coming to an end in march. And also nice video and explanation :)
Edit : After using the free version I can definitely say the timeline playback is really smooth, however you might need some time to adjust into the layout.
Yeah, got a strong feeling everyone will be switching - until Resolve ALSO introduces a monthly subscription lol.
They absolutely will. I'm not a huge fan of Adobe but at least I get AE, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. with my subscription.
Thanks Matt, totally agree Davinci is awesome. Been using it for years now since version 16 and it gets better and better. The network collaboration with multiple editors in a project at the same time is why we use it for our studio.
Switched @ the end of 2019 and never looked back. Upgraded to Studio in early 2021!
I was with Premiere Pro for 17yrs and switched about 4 months ago to Resolve and have not looked back. I escaped and made a clean break. I quit my Adobe subscription and have felt liberated since.