Professional production engineer here — Resolve has been a really interesting journey over the years. Until Resolve 15, nobody was really taking it very serious

Professional production engineer here — Resolve has been a really interesting journey over the years. Until Resolve 15, nobody was really taking it very seriously as an editing tool. Adobe has an extreme advantage, in codec support and the fact that After Effects is basically ubiquitous in the industry when it comes to graphics work. Resolve 15/16 made it a very viable alternative though, capable of some of the most demanding workloads. And tomorrow, Resolve 17 will be announced. I use Resolve personally. Adobe Premiere on Creative Cloud has become relatively unstable. Crashes, bugs that have been present for 4-6 years now, lost work in their ridiculous auto save process, and slow/laggy timeline playback when coloring/effects are applied, it adds up. Frequent updates are a complicated thing in fine tuned production environments as well. And until recently, next to no real shared work environment solutions. Resolve has had a pretty great server setup for multiple users for awhile now. Granted, it has a lot of room for improvement. Overall, it's been a night and day difference for me coming off Adobe. Last year we had three edit bays in Premiere and one on Resolve. All PC, pretty close to the same builds. The editors on premiere had between 50-60 crashes between them in 3 weeks. The resolve station had 1 which was most likely a Windows issue at the time and just needed to be restarted. But the best part. One time purchase for Resolve Studio, for life.