Absolutely. In my view, it's not that Resolve is a $300 professional app with a free dumbed-down version—Resolve is a free professional app with a $300 amped-up

Absolutely. In my view, it's not that Resolve is a $300 professional app with a free dumbed-down version—Resolve is a free professional app with a $300 amped-up version. Many of the features added by Resolve Studio are super awesome things that most people don't need and that other NLEs don't have. I bought the Studio version for the realtime lens distortion removal filter, which saved me a lot of time on a project.