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DaVinci Resolve 21

545 points by pentagrama 4mo ago

Lalabadie 4mo ago
The whole first section: 9 features, 9 titles with "AI" in them. I don't think their use of it is bad at all, I'm just tired.
- miniman1337 4mo ago
  Its all local if that helps?
  - Lalabadie 4mo ago
    I think they've made lots of great practical choices! 100% in agreement with running local models for these tasks. My opinion is that, for end users, if you name your feature "AI" to market it, you kind of already failed to read the room. You're writing to VCs while hoping it convinces customers. Name what the feature does, what it gains them. Call it "smart" if you must imply some black box treatment. Naming AI as the selling point for everything feels a lot like that Android tablet ad circa 2010: "Your wife will love the new dual core Tegra™ chipset!"
    - Sohcahtoa82 4mo ago
      > My opinion is that, for end users, if you name your feature "AI" to market it, you kind of already failed to read the room. You're writing to VCs while hoping it convinces customers. 100% this. Maybe I live in a bubble, but consumer sentiment regarding AI seems extremely negative. Boasting "AI" features is more likely to lose sales than to create them.
      - scottyah 4mo ago
        But their target audience are creators, not consumers. Creators love AI.
        Sohcahtoa82 4mo ago
        Good point, though I think it depends on the creator. Professional creators working at a corporation probably love AI. Amateur independent creators that weren't making any money from their art hate AI and use it as a scapegoat. They weren't getting commissions before, and now they're claiming it's because AI is replacing commissioned art.
        scottyah 4mo ago
        Ah, but true artists just need to wait till they die before their work turns really profitable ;)
        rezonant 4mo ago
        Are you sure about that? Creators aren't too excited about all of their content being hoovered up and used without compensation or permission, or the AI industry manufacturing economic pressure that devalues quality and the skills they've developed for a craft they are passionate about.
        embedding-shape 4mo ago
        > Creators love AI This is way to broad, there is a whole slew of creators, at different scales with different motivations and what not, you can't really say that such a large group loves/hates anything. Personally, I see video professionals loving AI features that save them boring work, same as for me as a programmer and hobbyist video editor, yet we want to manually do the interesting stuff.
  - embedding-shape 4mo ago
    And each is very specific to a use case, not a "general chat prompt for triggering API calls" but things like "ML model to categorize video clips and assigning tags + names, so you can find it faster" and similar. I'd also get tired if it was "AI ala Microsoft/Google" where the goal is to get you to write forever with a chat bot somewhere else, but these features are very different from that.
- zuminator 4mo ago
  They could remove the word "AI" from each one of those feature titles, and the titles would be just as descriptive without them. At this point, it's just marketing noise, more distracting than informative. Maybe like "cyber" in the 1990s. Would you like some AI tea with your cybercrumpets?
  - dist-epoch 4mo ago
    "Background removal" or "Face aging" without AI were done before, and they were shit. Putting "AI" into the feature title means "this time it actually works"
- Papazsazsa 4mo ago
  You're right to be tired of it, and of course I haven't tired these specific features yet, but Davinci was already lowering the barrier to entry for filmmakers, and if 21 works as they say it will, then you're looking at a major lowering of said barrier.
akatsutki 4mo ago
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- billti 4mo ago
  The release announcement on the forum at https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=236904 https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2369... lists what is new. AI is obviously a lot of the focus when it comes to talking about the product, (and in the current environment that is no surprise), but is still only a small portion of what is new in this release.
wavemode 4mo ago
Eventually, in moviemaking, generative AI is going to be seen the way CGI is. That is, how people complain about CGI when it's obvious/distracting/noticeable, but the best usages of it won't be noticeable.
- swatcoder 4mo ago
  Sure, and like CGI, it will change the nature of the media entirely. Different stories shown with different treatment. With CGI, scenes zoomed out to wider shots and effects swelled even louder over lighting, intimacy, acting, etc. Old styles didn't disappear or stop evolving entirely, of course, but the center of attention profoundly shifted and the "big" production money went with jt. Generative AI will likely drive some kind of analogous shift in dominant film aesthetics. I don't know where, but I'm not particularly excited by it myself yet.
  - zerobees 4mo ago
    Maybe, if there's anything left to change? If you look at the ten top-grossing films in the past 15 years, it's almost exclusively computer animations or SFX showcases with some token, quip-based acting thrown in every now and then (all the Marvel universe stuff). Basically, I'm not even sure if replacing actors with AI would be stylistically perceptible for the average moviegoer. There are interesting films still being made, but almost no one is watching them, because you have the option to watch some SFX explosions and flying superheroes in Avengers VII.
  - paulluuk 4mo ago
    I don't know much about the movie industry, but I think the biggest commercial successes for early CGI was possibly Jurassic Park? I don't think it would have been nearly as good if it had all just been done with puppets. Likewise, there's been a ton of movies since that could in theory have been done purely with SFX instead of VFX, but which is probably must better from having used VFX/CGI, titles like The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Inception, Avatar, etc. Obviously there was also charm in titles like E.T. and Gremlins, and I think there might still be a market for movies like that, such as the 2019 Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (I loved the 1982 version as a child, though this sequel wasn't for me). I guess the question is: will generative AI allow new movies to be made, the same way that CGI has? Or will it just be an economic shift: the same quality CGI but at a fraction of the price? There may still be people out there who believe that AI will never be able to create CGI as good as humans can, these might be the same people who used to say that CGI can never look realistic. And if you work in VFX, I bet that you can spot a fake mountain with the slightly incorrect shadows in the distance easily, but as a simple movie watcher, I really don't see it, especially when it's only on screen for like 3 seconds.
neko_ranger 4mo ago
could use a little more AI. have they considered replacing users altogether?
- addandsubtract 4mo ago
  dAvInci Resolve
antirez 4mo ago
Got a copy of the Studio version a few months later I opened my YouTube channel: among the best money spent in software of my life.
- gbraad 4mo ago
  I felt the same when I got Vegas and Sound Forge, but they never got released on any platform other than Windows, so eventually outgrew them. I totally understand what you mean; I use it, but also happy with Blender!
- ncfausti 4mo ago
  What do you like most about it?
  - embedding-shape 4mo ago
    One really neat thing is that you get free major updates. I bought a Blackmagic camera back when resolve was version 14 I think, and today I still use the very same license with Resolve 21. Not that I spent any extra money on the license compared to what the camera itself costed, but I also feel like the 0 money I spent was well spent :) Harder about the time commitment to move from something you know really well to something new, but the time I spent on that was very well worth it too.
odsodsods 4mo ago
people complaining about AI features have clearly never wasted hours editing video or lost time and money discovering a technical flaw in a rush shot three days ago. For actual workflows, these tools are lifesavers
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- tehbeard 4mo ago
  Because those people see the phrase "AI features" and the first thought is those sloppy generative AI stuff where things shift. Where as marketing at all these corporation is trying to genericize "AI features" into anything using an algorithm. "Content aware fill", something we've had for over a decade is now "AI object removal" "Noise suppression" is "AI voice extraction" Motion unblur is now "AI motion unblur".
  - ComputerGuru 4mo ago
    I’m not sure I agree? For each of your examples there are algorithmic approaches and neural network approaches. Companies have certainly been loose and wild with how they market these, but there remain distinct approaches and implementations for each. Very generally speaking, the neural network based approaches (aka “generative AI”) perform better but with much worse degenerative cases and a higher baseline rate of unwanted side effects (that are normally not immediately visible but tend to cause issues down the line). My bigger concern is that these neural network based solutions have taken the place of the former rather than supplemented them. Many tools no longer provide the algorithmic/kernel-based approach at all, and have marketed the “AI” (née ML) alternative as a strict superset/upgrade, despite its potential drawbacks. (Interestingly while the inference-based implementations generally have higher latency (or infinitely worse, cloud and pay-as-you-go requirements), for some computationally difficult kernels the inference-based approach is actually faster!
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bbatha 4mo ago
For all the potshots about AI, this update is huge even if you take away the AI features. They basically added lightroom to this release. There's some polish before you'd want to change your subscription, but its really tempting. It may be the best photo management/editor on linux. Yes, I know about darktable and rawtherapee and I stand by what I said. They also added a ton of motion graphics stuff which from the beta seem to be enough to undercut a lot of basic uses of after effects out. The later two features are in the free release as well!
- cjonas 4mo ago
  I made the switch from premier to resolve a few years ago and it feels like such a breath of fresh air. Being able to do the same with Lightroom would be amazing so can't wait to check this out. I've been using the free version and honestly never needed the pro features but I think I'll make the one time purchase today just to support a non-subscription based product of this caliber
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- echelon 4mo ago
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  - VladVladikoff 4mo ago
    God I hope not. That’s depressing.
  - CyberDildonics 4mo ago
    "AI makes real world obsolete." I think that's enough hacker news for today.
  - Geezus_42 4mo ago
    Even more reason to check out.
  - 13hunteo 4mo ago
fishgoesblub 4mo ago
For all the issues with AI, these features aren't so bad. The "AI" search is possibly one of the more useful ones. That'll save me a fair bit of time.
gbraad 4mo ago
Still a public beta?! Not sure why this is news ... the AI features?
- NBJack 4mo ago
  The Lightroom competitor would be a big (and welcome) change to the market if it delivers.
  - alfanick 4mo ago
    The Lightroom competitor working on Linux is a huge news. (Darktable doesn't count, it's a scientific software with some wobbly UI).
    - alfanick 4mo ago
      Edit: Still garbage, required 100-lines script and LD_* shim to make it even run at Linux Mint 22.3 on AMD CPU + GPU. UX is even worse than Darktable, don't bother, not even close to Lightroom. At this point we need a Kickstarter campaign to make Lightroom run in Wine/Proton (no, no matter how much you try, it will not work so far). Edit: or GSOC to support Darktable to improve their UX.
    - stuxnet79 4mo ago
      The Darktable hate is real. I guess scene-referred workflows (vs display-referred popularized by Lightroom) are too difficult for most people to grok.
      - alfanick 4mo ago
        I don't hate it. I'm just not compatible with it I guess. It's like GIMP in its early days - has most of the features of competition (Lightroom vs Darktable, Photoshop vs GIMP), even more features, and tweaks, and more knobs. But it misses USER EXPERIENCE part, it's basically unusable, unless you use it since early days. If Darktable had a grant/GSOC just to improve UX, it could be a valid competitor to Lightroom. Currently, it's not. It's bunch of Python/Lua scientific code with some UI, that processes pictures.
bluelightning2k 4mo ago
So much respect for Black Magic. They are absolutely World Class and their business model is extremely generous. Having said that, for all the AI features, the big one would be setting key frames etc. with an agent, driving the general editing workflow with text,etc. I realize this is non trivial but it's certainly viable for a team of this calibre. I think if BM added a paid for agent which helped execute their traditional video editing tools (even if it "only" supported a subset) then that's a subscription a lot of people would be willing to pay for, especially as their core tool is so generous.
- rstupek 4mo ago
  You might be interested in a tool we're working on which does some of what you're wanting https://sparkfxstudio.com/ https://sparkfxstudio.com/ It's presently in beta but is an AI tool for helping speed up video workflows using agentic AI.
  - bluelightning2k 4mo ago
    Respectfully no, thank you. I know a lot of people are/will build this. I would be specifically interested in Black Magic doing it first party.
- MoonWalk 4mo ago
  BlackMagic does quite a few innovative things. I have one of their cameras, and thus a paid license for Resolve. It's my primary editing tool. I've even done a music remix in Fairlight just to see if it could be done. But their priorities are not always well-set. In Resolve, significant problems remain while more and more functionality is hastily slapped on. The so-called "integration" with Fusion remains very poor. Compositions' presence in timelines is extremely fragile, and inexplicably degrades source material's resolution to that of the target timeline. This means that if one of your timelines is HD but you bring UHD clips into Fusion, they will be degraded to HD upon ENTRY to your Fusion comp, before they ever get to the timeline. So in Fusion all of your keys and other selective image processing will be chunky garbage. Also: If you start a project, import your footage, and then drag a clip to the timeline... Resolve will offer to change the frame rate of the timeline to match. But NOTHING ELSE. Every other major NLE offers to match the timeline to the first incoming footage in ALL regards. But not Resolve, despite years and years of vociferous complaints in their forum. This is a basic, expected feature but ignored by BMD. And finally a core issue: multiple, unrelated node views scattered about. Resolve needs to consolidate them into a single node view for all processing. That would flesh out Resolve's half-assed "integration" of four or five other products and provide a game-changing workflow that is long overdue.
wmf 4mo ago
Discussion from April when this was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529
samuell 4mo ago
For people using Resolve, would you recommend someone already quite well-versed in KDenLive to switch, for some non-profit work on cutting together educational content with some animations, some talks etc? Will it allow me to drastically improve my workflow (save time for some tedious tasks), increase quality of the outputs etc?
- embedding-shape 4mo ago
  If you're organizing/having hundreds of clips you want to put together, or overall want a more opinionated workflow, then I'd say give it a try at least, the free version doubles as a trial :) I'm a Premiere migrant to Resolve (Studio) some years ago, biggest hurdle is the opinionated workflow, it basically wants you to use the tabs in the bottom to go from "Media > Cut > Edit > Color > Fusion > Audio > Deliver" (simplified) so different tools available in different areas, made for different use cases, but in general once you've learnt the overall and high-level concepts, it makes editing really easy and smooth. Besides, it's probably the most stable video editor that runs natively on Linux since ever, I think I've had it crash once, and the Fusion 3D text doesn't work properly for me, but besides that, runs like a dream and UX is miles ahead anything else available.
  - samuell 4mo ago
    Stability sounds interesting. While KdenLive has worked OKish for me, certain versions have broken my projects, and there are some long-standing bugs, like subtitles disappearing if I do a specific operation in the wrong moment. While the latter is fixed by a simple Ctrl+Z it is giving me second thoughts about using this for really large projects.
- billti 4mo ago
  I'm no expert (relatively new to the field myself), but I was trying to put together some simple videos with animations in Final Cut Pro and decided to try DaVinci Resolve, and I'm glad I did. The Fusion stuff bundled into it is incredibly powerful for animations. It does take some getting used to, but the amount of tutorial content on YouTube is another reason I'm happy I made the switch. A lot of really good stuff on there. (Search on 'DaVinci Resolve Fusion' to see some examples of it in action if you want to get a feel).
Avenassh 4mo ago
Wrong kind of “resolve” haha. This one is more “please don’t let my AI-generated code leak keys before deploy” than video editing.
goldenarm 4mo ago
Resolve is an incredible tool, and I wish they improved the Linux support especially on AMD. It's the last reason why I have a windows machine, and Win11 made it unbearable to use.
jscheel 4mo ago
I really don't understand why people are complaining about the AI features. These all mostly seem like solid quality of life enhancements and CGI-like tweaks.
- dist-epoch 4mo ago
  Artists HATE AI. I fully expect some sort of DaVinci Resolve backlash, artists refusing to cooperate with those using this software.
  - gigatree 4mo ago
    “WE WANT TO DO THINGS THE HARD WAY AND WE WON’T BUDGE”
    - cindyllm 4mo ago
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  - thewebguyd 4mo ago
    I doubt it. Artists hate fully AI generated slop. Artists appreciate and use time saving tools. The AI features in Lightroom, for example, are very well received by photographers (myself included). Automatic subject, background, sky, body part masking, content-aware/generative fill and generative remove are genuinely helpful and time saving.
    - beering 4mo ago
      Photographers have already delegated their art to pushing buttons on a machine. They are the most receptive to AI tools, but not representative of artists in general.
    - gmueckl 4mo ago
      These tools are very specific and keep the artist in control. Slop generators aren't reallly controlable.
bensyverson 4mo ago
Hey Blackmagic, just be sure you're not in violation of Illinois BIPA with the face search thing. They can and will come after you.
- nullbyte 4mo ago
  Face search? What do you mean?
- dist-epoch 4mo ago
  Doesn't seem to apply here. > BIPA establishes standards for how companies must handle Illinois consumers’ biometric information. In addition to its notice and consent requirement, the law prohibits any company from selling or otherwise profiting from consumers’ biometric information. https://www.aclu-il.org/campaigns-initiatives/biometric-information-privacy-act-bipa/ https://www.aclu-il.org/campaigns-initiatives/biometric-info...
- rafram 4mo ago
  Pretty sure that does not cover a face database indexing your own photos/videos, running locally on your own computer. If it did, that would be extremely silly.
  - throwaway240403 4mo ago
    I think you're right in this case, but Illinois lawmakers are generally extremely silly, so I wouldn't put it past them.
  - anon7000 4mo ago
    Yeah, that’s been a thing in photo software for at least like 20 years. I remember using it as a teenager for my parents
  - rightbyte 4mo ago
    Why would the law make exemptions for running the search on on a computer that has the database.
pcurve 4mo ago
so, it looks like all the AI features run locally (via DaVinci AI Neural Engine)?
- Joel_Mckay 4mo ago
  Makes sense, as Netflix grade 12k RAW broadcast quality video already takes up a lot of storage space. It would be ridiculous to Ape that into a cloud SaaS. =3
Mickelby 4mo ago
I just pulled in 10 iPhone RAW files. It did a really nice job of processing them, I did the usual pulling-up shadows and highlights, and played with some of the sliders. Noise reduction and sharpening tools are primitive. Yet the photos look great. I finally managed to export ("render") them. It's a baffling process flow if you're coming from Lightroom or a manual ACR workflow. But I'm excited to see where this goes. Quite simply, the output results are great. And free!
- jon-wood 4mo ago
  Resolve is very much professional software, by which I mean there's a huge amount it can do but you're going to have to dig into the documentation to work out how any of it works, it won't just present it to you. I'm personally quite onboard with that because I'd much rather have some software that's designed to be used efficiently by people who know what they're doing than software which makes it easy for someone who's never launched it before to do a few tasks. (I also love that Blackmagic are ultimately a hardware company, and covet the various input devices they have for specific tasks that I can't even slightly justify buying)
- Schiendelman 4mo ago
  Would you recommend a particular guide or course to help one learn Resolve?
rglover 4mo ago
One of the rare pieces of software that actually gets you excited with each new release. Moved to Resolve from Final Cut a few years back and I've never been happier. Looks like this release just continues the already great experience.
srameshc 4mo ago
Does someone know if Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a good camera since it comes with the resolve studio ? Instead of buying a separate camera in the same price rangen (sony) for studio or indoor recording ?
- jon-wood 4mo ago
  Blackmagic hardware is fantastic and I doubt that particular camera is going to be an exception to that rule. Having said that the free version of Resolve is incredibly generous, and they have a professional grade camera app for iOS which will probably allow you to get quite a long way without buying a whole camera at all.
doctorpangloss 4mo ago
who is going to use all this stuff to make what movies... where is the audience for any of it?
peterbell_nyc 4mo ago
Anyone using this headlessly got a read on how much of this an agent could do without human intervention? Would love to have a gut check on "sure, spend the $295 and you'll get some benefits for free if you have an agent run your videos through this before shipping them" To be clear, my use case is making weekly online videos suck a little less - not grading feature films :)
- gregsadetsky 4mo ago
  You can use the free version (no need to pay), and it should be possible to drive Resolve using the Python API -- see this MCP server built on top of that API: https://github.com/mhadifilms/dvr/ https://github.com/mhadifilms/dvr/ You can also try pointing Claude to the API surface directly. The result might be chaotic, but you should be able to automate editing... maybe. :-) Ha. (You'd need a good loop to make sure Claude can see what it's doing..? Beyond screenshots I mean - ie how would Claude know its doing a good job editing?)
dllu 4mo ago
There's a Linux amd64 version and a Windows arm64 version. However, I use a Linux arm64 machine, and arm64 machines are going to be a lot more common going forward. I wonder if there are plans to release a Linux arm64 build?
- emilbratt 4mo ago
  Unless you are on Apple silicon, then im not sure the ARM cpu and hardware is powerful enough for you to get a decent experience. It is heavy software, after all. Still, I would expect them to release Linux ARM builds when we inevitably move over to ARM as the common arch. :)
  - OliverGuy 4mo ago
    Ampere make some big 32-128 core server ARM chips that are somewhere around Zen4c ish in performance, although they aren't commonly used outside of the server context. But they do at least exist.
  - dllu 4mo ago
    The NVIDIA DGX Spark that I use has a fairly decent ARM CPU that's roughly on par with the M3 Pro and AMD AI Max 395+ according to Geekbench, plus a GPU that's very powerful (RTX 5070 level). I'm sure it will be more than powerful enough for me to get a decent experience. I also have a Macbook Air M2 running Asahi Linux.
justinator 4mo ago
The only thing wrong with Resolve is there is no "just get out of my way and let me get something done" mode. No easy/beginner mode. This is a very sizable, complicated piece of a software that has little bounds on what you can do with it. The learning curve is as steep and tall as the granite walls of El Capitan. That's not really a critique on the software -- it's not trying to be what it's not. But the criticism of the software is painted by the fact that it's hard to get good at it. Well ok I will critique it: the user interface is garbage. Like they studied old versions of Gimp and thought, "let's do even worse". The metaphor isn't perfect, but it's got some of that ol' TIMTOWTDI Perl feeling to it.
- boppo1 4mo ago
  >just get out of my way and let me get something done Funny, that's how I think of easy/beginner modes: "in the way, preventing me from getting something done".
  - justinator 4mo ago
    Haha, fair enough. Perhaps a more insightful take from me is that the app makes you understand the underlying process a little more than many other options. For example, color space, color correcting. It gets complicated quickly and since the internet is the source of most of the guidance for noobs about it, there are opinions.
    - boppo1 4mo ago
      This is a fair criticism. I was lucky enough to grow up on blender and spend lots of free time with it, so all of this stuff is second-nature to me. I am not the standard case, but when software insists on holding my hand and abstracting stuff away it feels patronizing and frustrates me so much I will change my life to avoid using the software.
- kuschku 4mo ago
  > The learning curve is as steep and tall as the granite walls of El Capitan. Have you read the beginners guide? https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci-Resolve-20-Beginners-Guide.pdf https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci-R... At 643 pages it's surprisingly short for how many subjects it introduces. Going further you'll of course want to read In the Blink of an Eye.(978-1879505629) and the Color Correction Handbook (978-0133435542). And the actual Resolve manual is also really really good. https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci_Resolve_20_Reference_Manual.pdf https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci_R...
Voultapher 4mo ago
I despise AI generated no-effort art as much as the next person but what they are offering here is fine-grained application of AI tools which is completely different to one-shot do the art for me. Does anyone have experience with the processing cost it takes to run these effects locally? Topaz takes a minutes to do superresolution on a single picture and this has to work for many frames so I'd assume it is faster? Also excited about the picture stuff. I'm on an aging Lightroom version and wouldn't mind something that works well on Linux. Also huge plus point is the licensing model.
__mharrison__ 4mo ago
Just last week I made some automations for my recording and editing process in Resolve. Using Python to script initial editing. It works pretty well. I tried it this morning and in about 15 minutes I had recorded and edited a three minute video. (I've used AI transcription in resolve before, not this is actually editing the transcript with an llm and then inserting the clips. I also did breath detection and b roll placement. The Python scripting later is poorly documented and only supports a subset of the functionality of Resolve.)
system2 4mo ago
Do they need to say AI for everything? I am so sick of even a basic plugin being named AI. The word has lost its meaning. Give up already.
goblin89 4mo ago
I tolerate Resolve, essentially it’s just inertia. It is hard to imagine software could be commercial and so poorly made. My favorite glitch that has persisted for many versions is how if you background it while it is launching, the GUI becomes frozen and the only way to use it is to kill the process and then launch it again making sure to not switch to any other apps while it loads. The worst one that comes to mind, because it happens all the time when I am using it, is when you hit undo once it could undo multiple recent changes (never know how many exactly, just have to guess), and if you then redo in panic it would only redo one of them, so you have to manually do it (fun when it involves fine color adjustments). For my own sanity will not try remembering all the other ones. In addition, a lot of counter-intuitive design choices, messy color management, etc. Proprietary cross-platform software for multimedia production tends to be polished but Resolve genuinely feels worse than an Electron app, with subtle delays and micro-freezes in many interactions. To be fair now with all those “AI” features they could probably say it is optimized for “agents” or something…
- archerx 4mo ago
  I have been using resolve since they added editing functionality (it used to only be for color correction) and I have never had any of those issues. I have the paid studio version and have used it for commercial and private work. It is also a lot less crash happy than premiere which I ditched for resolve and never looked back. Maybe there is something wrong with you system?
  - goblin89 4mo ago
    Unlikely. This has been the case on 3 different laptops and multiple macOS versions and Resolve versions. I use it pretty infrequently nowadays and I admit I didn’t see the startup freeze in a couple months (either I am lucky or they finally fixed it in a recent update), the undo glitch is alive as ever though. Some other things off the top of my head: • UI freezes for a second or two when you switch to Fusion tab. • If you adjust speed in a Fusion node, timeline clip remains the same length, so if you slow it down 2x you can only see the first half. To say Fusion in general is half-baked is to be very, very generous. • Export location gets reset every launch. • Can’t copy-paste a node or its settings, in case you want to test between two different configurations. Even the aforementioned RawTherapee (which is made using Qt I think and which is far from a shining example of usability) is more pleasant to use for me.
complianceowll 4mo ago
I think this is my sign to learn video editing.
darkteflon 4mo ago
Those who have moved to Resolve from FCP: would you share a few words about your experience? I’ve used FCP for a long time but have never loved it. I also have some experience with non-destructive workflows like Blender geonodes and have heard that Resolve adopts a similar paradigm. Definitely curious!
- zarmin 4mo ago
  I moved to Resolve from Premiere and wanted to commit seppuku. Of course, Premiere also made me feel that way.
- l33tbro 4mo ago
  Just get Resolve. It is similar to what FCP was before Apple turned it into glorified iMovie. Only it is far more powerful than FCP 7 was back then. Industry-standard NLE's like Premiere or Avid are probably the closest to Resolve. But even those are legacy programs that rest on their moats, whereas Resolve takes far more chances and does far less dumb shit than Adobe and Avid. The seamless integration with industry-standard grading software is also... um mindblowing. Premiere has Lumetri and FCP has it'd colour correction tab, both of which are like MS Paint compared to Resolve's colour capabilities. It's also free. The paid version unlocks mostly things to do with grading.
- sonar_un 4mo ago
  I use both in my workflows. Though with all of the features of Resolve, I still use FCP for most of my content. FCP is just faster to edit and has a smoother end-to-end workflow. Resolve is still best for colorgrading and fine details, but if you just want to get a project released on time, nothing beats FCP.
- alper 4mo ago
  I felt that FCP was underpowered for compositing and grading so I switched from paid FPC to unpaid Resolve. But I don't really edit that much. Resolve is good enough for me for now.
adzm 4mo ago
Excited to see Resolve continue to improve. Hopefully this encourages more improvement in the wider ecosystem as well. Adobe really could do some amazing stuff with Premiere and After Effects.
kkukshtel 4mo ago
The audio-driven animation stuff here is so nice. A year ago I went on a journey to produce a video podcast waveform based off the audio track, and the process was incredibly painful for no obvious reason. My hope here is that I can now just do this all within Fusion and not need to render this in an external tool. Also nice is built in loop (ping pong) animations! No more duplicating keyframes! https://kylekukshtel.com/building-video-podcast-resolve-audio-waveform-reactive https://kylekukshtel.com/building-video-podcast-resolve-audi...
ConanRus 4mo ago
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tobyhinloopen 4mo ago
I like that it runs on Linux but coming from Lightroom, it is a challenge to use. I don’t even know how to import photos that are added to a previously imported folder
- entropie 4mo ago
  I used lightroom over a decade and besides the initial quirks i fucking love darktable. After 6 month I actually like it more than lightroom and never looked back.
  - tobyhinloopen 4mo ago
    I tried Darktable a few times and I just couldn’t stand it hah. I’ll try it again, hah, Tnx!
    - entropie 4mo ago
      Yes, it sucks at the beginning. But eventually it clicks. It did for me.
Andrex 4mo ago
Anecdote time. I couldn't get Resolve to run on my discrete-GPU-less PC running Fedora. First the lack of RPM or Flatpak were lame, but integrated graphics was the real killer. I started learning Blender VSE and walked away super impressed. Finally found my editor. (Spent years getting used to Premiere on Mac and PC.) It runs good even though I don't have a dedicated GPU yet, unlike Resolve. (And Blender is a full-on 3D modeller, I should note.) I'm going to scale up my hardware eventually, but right now my editing needs aren't huge. Just chopping and splicing up stuff for YouTube. Blender's VSE is incredibly good for my use case.
- bragr 4mo ago
  How are the learning resources for Blender VSE? I've tried several open source editors (openshot: not fit for any serious purpose, shotcut: would be great if not bugged out) and ended up on Resolve for the combination of being free for my purposes and good community resources. I've looked at Blender for 3D before and found the good resources tend to be out of date. Is that still an issue? edit: I may need to give the OpenShot 3.x a chance. The OpenShot release history [1] makes the claim that they have addressed many of my complaints [1] https://www.openshot.org/blog/ https://www.openshot.org/blog/
  - tim-projects 4mo ago
    Try kdenlive for basic video editing. It's better than openshot
    - samuell 4mo ago
      I'll second looking at KdenLive. You might want to stay away from very recent major versions for stability, but it is a very capable editor that is also much more robust and performant than openshot. I haven't compared with Blender VSE though.
  - Andrex 4mo ago
    I tried Kdenlive, OpenShot, Shotcut, Pitivi and others. It's a personal thing but I just could not get used to their UIs. Well except for Pitivi, but that one is way too buggy. I even briefly considered using ffmpeg and bash to get the edits I wanted... Blender has a complicated UI but at least it feels completely consistent and thought-through. And also like it wasn't designed 20 years ago. I just have more confidence using Blender than others because it's so big, respected and known. My learning process is basically "How do I do this thing I did in Premiere?" and basic Googling/YouTubing. I needed a tutorial video to get started but otherwise if you know NLEs it shouldn't be too hard.
constantlm 4mo ago
I still can't believe this software is free.
totetsu 4mo ago
Extreme Quality AI UltraSharpen is a Bourgeois Concept
tim-projects 4mo ago
Does it support phone recorded video without conversion? That was the blocker for me. Kdenlive does
Floppyrom 4mo ago
Blows my mind how weak the competition for Adobe still is after all these decades.
Cilvic 4mo ago
Best release notes I have seen in a while. I don't even work with movies/pics, but this was so easy to understand. Well done

545 points by pentagrama 4mo ago

The whole first section: 9 features, 9 titles with "AI" in them. I don't think their use of it is bad at all, I'm just tired.

miniman1337 4mo ago
Its all local if that helps?
- Lalabadie 4mo ago
  I think they've made lots of great practical choices! 100% in agreement with running local models for these tasks. My opinion is that, for end users, if you name your feature "AI" to market it, you kind of already failed to read the room. You're writing to VCs while hoping it convinces customers. Name what the feature does, what it gains them. Call it "smart" if you must imply some black box treatment. Naming AI as the selling point for everything feels a lot like that Android tablet ad circa 2010: "Your wife will love the new dual core Tegra™ chipset!"
  - Sohcahtoa82 4mo ago
    > My opinion is that, for end users, if you name your feature "AI" to market it, you kind of already failed to read the room. You're writing to VCs while hoping it convinces customers. 100% this. Maybe I live in a bubble, but consumer sentiment regarding AI seems extremely negative. Boasting "AI" features is more likely to lose sales than to create them.
    - scottyah 4mo ago
      But their target audience are creators, not consumers. Creators love AI.
      - Sohcahtoa82 4mo ago
        Good point, though I think it depends on the creator. Professional creators working at a corporation probably love AI. Amateur independent creators that weren't making any money from their art hate AI and use it as a scapegoat. They weren't getting commissions before, and now they're claiming it's because AI is replacing commissioned art.
        scottyah 4mo ago
        Ah, but true artists just need to wait till they die before their work turns really profitable ;)
      - rezonant 4mo ago
        Are you sure about that? Creators aren't too excited about all of their content being hoovered up and used without compensation or permission, or the AI industry manufacturing economic pressure that devalues quality and the skills they've developed for a craft they are passionate about.
      - embedding-shape 4mo ago
        > Creators love AI This is way to broad, there is a whole slew of creators, at different scales with different motivations and what not, you can't really say that such a large group loves/hates anything. Personally, I see video professionals loving AI features that save them boring work, same as for me as a programmer and hobbyist video editor, yet we want to manually do the interesting stuff.
- embedding-shape 4mo ago
  And each is very specific to a use case, not a "general chat prompt for triggering API calls" but things like "ML model to categorize video clips and assigning tags + names, so you can find it faster" and similar. I'd also get tired if it was "AI ala Microsoft/Google" where the goal is to get you to write forever with a chat bot somewhere else, but these features are very different from that.
zuminator 4mo ago
They could remove the word "AI" from each one of those feature titles, and the titles would be just as descriptive without them. At this point, it's just marketing noise, more distracting than informative. Maybe like "cyber" in the 1990s. Would you like some AI tea with your cybercrumpets?
- dist-epoch 4mo ago
  "Background removal" or "Face aging" without AI were done before, and they were shit. Putting "AI" into the feature title means "this time it actually works"
Papazsazsa 4mo ago
You're right to be tired of it, and of course I haven't tired these specific features yet, but Davinci was already lowering the barrier to entry for filmmakers, and if 21 works as they say it will, then you're looking at a major lowering of said barrier.

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billti 4mo ago
The release announcement on the forum at https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=236904 https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2369... lists what is new. AI is obviously a lot of the focus when it comes to talking about the product, (and in the current environment that is no surprise), but is still only a small portion of what is new in this release.

wavemode 4mo ago

Eventually, in moviemaking, generative AI is going to be seen the way CGI is. That is, how people complain about CGI when it's obvious/distracting/noticeable, but the best usages of it won't be noticeable.

swatcoder 4mo ago
Sure, and like CGI, it will change the nature of the media entirely. Different stories shown with different treatment. With CGI, scenes zoomed out to wider shots and effects swelled even louder over lighting, intimacy, acting, etc. Old styles didn't disappear or stop evolving entirely, of course, but the center of attention profoundly shifted and the "big" production money went with jt. Generative AI will likely drive some kind of analogous shift in dominant film aesthetics. I don't know where, but I'm not particularly excited by it myself yet.
- zerobees 4mo ago
  Maybe, if there's anything left to change? If you look at the ten top-grossing films in the past 15 years, it's almost exclusively computer animations or SFX showcases with some token, quip-based acting thrown in every now and then (all the Marvel universe stuff). Basically, I'm not even sure if replacing actors with AI would be stylistically perceptible for the average moviegoer. There are interesting films still being made, but almost no one is watching them, because you have the option to watch some SFX explosions and flying superheroes in Avengers VII.
- paulluuk 4mo ago
  I don't know much about the movie industry, but I think the biggest commercial successes for early CGI was possibly Jurassic Park? I don't think it would have been nearly as good if it had all just been done with puppets. Likewise, there's been a ton of movies since that could in theory have been done purely with SFX instead of VFX, but which is probably must better from having used VFX/CGI, titles like The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Inception, Avatar, etc. Obviously there was also charm in titles like E.T. and Gremlins, and I think there might still be a market for movies like that, such as the 2019 Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (I loved the 1982 version as a child, though this sequel wasn't for me). I guess the question is: will generative AI allow new movies to be made, the same way that CGI has? Or will it just be an economic shift: the same quality CGI but at a fraction of the price? There may still be people out there who believe that AI will never be able to create CGI as good as humans can, these might be the same people who used to say that CGI can never look realistic. And if you work in VFX, I bet that you can spot a fake mountain with the slightly incorrect shadows in the distance easily, but as a simple movie watcher, I really don't see it, especially when it's only on screen for like 3 seconds.

neko_ranger 4mo ago

could use a little more AI. have they considered replacing users altogether?

addandsubtract 4mo ago
dAvInci Resolve

antirez 4mo ago

Got a copy of the Studio version a few months later I opened my YouTube channel: among the best money spent in software of my life.

gbraad 4mo ago
I felt the same when I got Vegas and Sound Forge, but they never got released on any platform other than Windows, so eventually outgrew them. I totally understand what you mean; I use it, but also happy with Blender!
ncfausti 4mo ago
What do you like most about it?
- embedding-shape 4mo ago
  One really neat thing is that you get free major updates. I bought a Blackmagic camera back when resolve was version 14 I think, and today I still use the very same license with Resolve 21. Not that I spent any extra money on the license compared to what the camera itself costed, but I also feel like the 0 money I spent was well spent :) Harder about the time commitment to move from something you know really well to something new, but the time I spent on that was very well worth it too.

odsodsods 4mo ago

people complaining about AI features have clearly never wasted hours editing video or lost time and money discovering a technical flaw in a rush shot three days ago. For actual workflows, these tools are lifesavers

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tehbeard 4mo ago
Because those people see the phrase "AI features" and the first thought is those sloppy generative AI stuff where things shift. Where as marketing at all these corporation is trying to genericize "AI features" into anything using an algorithm. "Content aware fill", something we've had for over a decade is now "AI object removal" "Noise suppression" is "AI voice extraction" Motion unblur is now "AI motion unblur".
- ComputerGuru 4mo ago
  I’m not sure I agree? For each of your examples there are algorithmic approaches and neural network approaches. Companies have certainly been loose and wild with how they market these, but there remain distinct approaches and implementations for each. Very generally speaking, the neural network based approaches (aka “generative AI”) perform better but with much worse degenerative cases and a higher baseline rate of unwanted side effects (that are normally not immediately visible but tend to cause issues down the line). My bigger concern is that these neural network based solutions have taken the place of the former rather than supplemented them. Many tools no longer provide the algorithmic/kernel-based approach at all, and have marketed the “AI” (née ML) alternative as a strict superset/upgrade, despite its potential drawbacks. (Interestingly while the inference-based implementations generally have higher latency (or infinitely worse, cloud and pay-as-you-go requirements), for some computationally difficult kernels the inference-based approach is actually faster!
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bbatha 4mo ago

For all the potshots about AI, this update is huge even if you take away the AI features. They basically added lightroom to this release. There's some polish before you'd want to change your subscription, but its really tempting. It may be the best photo management/editor on linux. Yes, I know about darktable and rawtherapee and I stand by what I said. They also added a ton of motion graphics stuff which from the beta seem to be enough to undercut a lot of basic uses of after effects out. The later two features are in the free release as well!

cjonas 4mo ago
I made the switch from premier to resolve a few years ago and it feels like such a breath of fresh air. Being able to do the same with Lightroom would be amazing so can't wait to check this out. I've been using the free version and honestly never needed the pro features but I think I'll make the one time purchase today just to support a non-subscription based product of this caliber
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- VladVladikoff 4mo ago
  God I hope not. That’s depressing.
- CyberDildonics 4mo ago
  "AI makes real world obsolete." I think that's enough hacker news for today.
- Geezus_42 4mo ago
  Even more reason to check out.
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fishgoesblub 4mo ago

For all the issues with AI, these features aren't so bad. The "AI" search is possibly one of the more useful ones. That'll save me a fair bit of time.

gbraad 4mo ago

Still a public beta?! Not sure why this is news ... the AI features?

NBJack 4mo ago
The Lightroom competitor would be a big (and welcome) change to the market if it delivers.
- alfanick 4mo ago
  The Lightroom competitor working on Linux is a huge news. (Darktable doesn't count, it's a scientific software with some wobbly UI).
  - alfanick 4mo ago
    Edit: Still garbage, required 100-lines script and LD_* shim to make it even run at Linux Mint 22.3 on AMD CPU + GPU. UX is even worse than Darktable, don't bother, not even close to Lightroom. At this point we need a Kickstarter campaign to make Lightroom run in Wine/Proton (no, no matter how much you try, it will not work so far). Edit: or GSOC to support Darktable to improve their UX.
  - stuxnet79 4mo ago
    The Darktable hate is real. I guess scene-referred workflows (vs display-referred popularized by Lightroom) are too difficult for most people to grok.
    - alfanick 4mo ago
      I don't hate it. I'm just not compatible with it I guess. It's like GIMP in its early days - has most of the features of competition (Lightroom vs Darktable, Photoshop vs GIMP), even more features, and tweaks, and more knobs. But it misses USER EXPERIENCE part, it's basically unusable, unless you use it since early days. If Darktable had a grant/GSOC just to improve UX, it could be a valid competitor to Lightroom. Currently, it's not. It's bunch of Python/Lua scientific code with some UI, that processes pictures.

bluelightning2k 4mo ago

So much respect for Black Magic. They are absolutely World Class and their business model is extremely generous. Having said that, for all the AI features, the big one would be setting key frames etc. with an agent, driving the general editing workflow with text,etc. I realize this is non trivial but it's certainly viable for a team of this calibre. I think if BM added a paid for agent which helped execute their traditional video editing tools (even if it "only" supported a subset) then that's a subscription a lot of people would be willing to pay for, especially as their core tool is so generous.

rstupek 4mo ago
You might be interested in a tool we're working on which does some of what you're wanting https://sparkfxstudio.com/ https://sparkfxstudio.com/ It's presently in beta but is an AI tool for helping speed up video workflows using agentic AI.
- bluelightning2k 4mo ago
  Respectfully no, thank you. I know a lot of people are/will build this. I would be specifically interested in Black Magic doing it first party.
MoonWalk 4mo ago
BlackMagic does quite a few innovative things. I have one of their cameras, and thus a paid license for Resolve. It's my primary editing tool. I've even done a music remix in Fairlight just to see if it could be done. But their priorities are not always well-set. In Resolve, significant problems remain while more and more functionality is hastily slapped on. The so-called "integration" with Fusion remains very poor. Compositions' presence in timelines is extremely fragile, and inexplicably degrades source material's resolution to that of the target timeline. This means that if one of your timelines is HD but you bring UHD clips into Fusion, they will be degraded to HD upon ENTRY to your Fusion comp, before they ever get to the timeline. So in Fusion all of your keys and other selective image processing will be chunky garbage. Also: If you start a project, import your footage, and then drag a clip to the timeline... Resolve will offer to change the frame rate of the timeline to match. But NOTHING ELSE. Every other major NLE offers to match the timeline to the first incoming footage in ALL regards. But not Resolve, despite years and years of vociferous complaints in their forum. This is a basic, expected feature but ignored by BMD. And finally a core issue: multiple, unrelated node views scattered about. Resolve needs to consolidate them into a single node view for all processing. That would flesh out Resolve's half-assed "integration" of four or five other products and provide a game-changing workflow that is long overdue.

wmf 4mo ago

Discussion from April when this was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529

samuell 4mo ago

For people using Resolve, would you recommend someone already quite well-versed in KDenLive to switch, for some non-profit work on cutting together educational content with some animations, some talks etc? Will it allow me to drastically improve my workflow (save time for some tedious tasks), increase quality of the outputs etc?

embedding-shape 4mo ago
If you're organizing/having hundreds of clips you want to put together, or overall want a more opinionated workflow, then I'd say give it a try at least, the free version doubles as a trial :) I'm a Premiere migrant to Resolve (Studio) some years ago, biggest hurdle is the opinionated workflow, it basically wants you to use the tabs in the bottom to go from "Media > Cut > Edit > Color > Fusion > Audio > Deliver" (simplified) so different tools available in different areas, made for different use cases, but in general once you've learnt the overall and high-level concepts, it makes editing really easy and smooth. Besides, it's probably the most stable video editor that runs natively on Linux since ever, I think I've had it crash once, and the Fusion 3D text doesn't work properly for me, but besides that, runs like a dream and UX is miles ahead anything else available.
- samuell 4mo ago
  Stability sounds interesting. While KdenLive has worked OKish for me, certain versions have broken my projects, and there are some long-standing bugs, like subtitles disappearing if I do a specific operation in the wrong moment. While the latter is fixed by a simple Ctrl+Z it is giving me second thoughts about using this for really large projects.
billti 4mo ago
I'm no expert (relatively new to the field myself), but I was trying to put together some simple videos with animations in Final Cut Pro and decided to try DaVinci Resolve, and I'm glad I did. The Fusion stuff bundled into it is incredibly powerful for animations. It does take some getting used to, but the amount of tutorial content on YouTube is another reason I'm happy I made the switch. A lot of really good stuff on there. (Search on 'DaVinci Resolve Fusion' to see some examples of it in action if you want to get a feel).

Avenassh 4mo ago

Wrong kind of “resolve” haha. This one is more “please don’t let my AI-generated code leak keys before deploy” than video editing.

goldenarm 4mo ago

Resolve is an incredible tool, and I wish they improved the Linux support especially on AMD. It's the last reason why I have a windows machine, and Win11 made it unbearable to use.

jscheel 4mo ago

I really don't understand why people are complaining about the AI features. These all mostly seem like solid quality of life enhancements and CGI-like tweaks.

dist-epoch 4mo ago
Artists HATE AI. I fully expect some sort of DaVinci Resolve backlash, artists refusing to cooperate with those using this software.
- gigatree 4mo ago
  “WE WANT TO DO THINGS THE HARD WAY AND WE WON’T BUDGE”
  - cindyllm 4mo ago
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- thewebguyd 4mo ago
  I doubt it. Artists hate fully AI generated slop. Artists appreciate and use time saving tools. The AI features in Lightroom, for example, are very well received by photographers (myself included). Automatic subject, background, sky, body part masking, content-aware/generative fill and generative remove are genuinely helpful and time saving.
  - beering 4mo ago
    Photographers have already delegated their art to pushing buttons on a machine. They are the most receptive to AI tools, but not representative of artists in general.
  - gmueckl 4mo ago
    These tools are very specific and keep the artist in control. Slop generators aren't reallly controlable.

bensyverson 4mo ago

Hey Blackmagic, just be sure you're not in violation of Illinois BIPA with the face search thing. They can and will come after you.

nullbyte 4mo ago
Face search? What do you mean?
dist-epoch 4mo ago
Doesn't seem to apply here. > BIPA establishes standards for how companies must handle Illinois consumers’ biometric information. In addition to its notice and consent requirement, the law prohibits any company from selling or otherwise profiting from consumers’ biometric information. https://www.aclu-il.org/campaigns-initiatives/biometric-information-privacy-act-bipa/ https://www.aclu-il.org/campaigns-initiatives/biometric-info...
rafram 4mo ago
Pretty sure that does not cover a face database indexing your own photos/videos, running locally on your own computer. If it did, that would be extremely silly.
- throwaway240403 4mo ago
  I think you're right in this case, but Illinois lawmakers are generally extremely silly, so I wouldn't put it past them.
- anon7000 4mo ago
  Yeah, that’s been a thing in photo software for at least like 20 years. I remember using it as a teenager for my parents
- rightbyte 4mo ago
  Why would the law make exemptions for running the search on on a computer that has the database.

pcurve 4mo ago

so, it looks like all the AI features run locally (via DaVinci AI Neural Engine)?

Joel_Mckay 4mo ago
Makes sense, as Netflix grade 12k RAW broadcast quality video already takes up a lot of storage space. It would be ridiculous to Ape that into a cloud SaaS. =3

Mickelby 4mo ago

I just pulled in 10 iPhone RAW files. It did a really nice job of processing them, I did the usual pulling-up shadows and highlights, and played with some of the sliders. Noise reduction and sharpening tools are primitive. Yet the photos look great. I finally managed to export ("render") them. It's a baffling process flow if you're coming from Lightroom or a manual ACR workflow. But I'm excited to see where this goes. Quite simply, the output results are great. And free!

jon-wood 4mo ago
Resolve is very much professional software, by which I mean there's a huge amount it can do but you're going to have to dig into the documentation to work out how any of it works, it won't just present it to you. I'm personally quite onboard with that because I'd much rather have some software that's designed to be used efficiently by people who know what they're doing than software which makes it easy for someone who's never launched it before to do a few tasks. (I also love that Blackmagic are ultimately a hardware company, and covet the various input devices they have for specific tasks that I can't even slightly justify buying)
Schiendelman 4mo ago
Would you recommend a particular guide or course to help one learn Resolve?

rglover 4mo ago

One of the rare pieces of software that actually gets you excited with each new release. Moved to Resolve from Final Cut a few years back and I've never been happier. Looks like this release just continues the already great experience.

srameshc 4mo ago

Does someone know if Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a good camera since it comes with the resolve studio ? Instead of buying a separate camera in the same price rangen (sony) for studio or indoor recording ?

jon-wood 4mo ago
Blackmagic hardware is fantastic and I doubt that particular camera is going to be an exception to that rule. Having said that the free version of Resolve is incredibly generous, and they have a professional grade camera app for iOS which will probably allow you to get quite a long way without buying a whole camera at all.

doctorpangloss 4mo ago

who is going to use all this stuff to make what movies... where is the audience for any of it?

peterbell_nyc 4mo ago

Anyone using this headlessly got a read on how much of this an agent could do without human intervention? Would love to have a gut check on "sure, spend the $295 and you'll get some benefits for free if you have an agent run your videos through this before shipping them" To be clear, my use case is making weekly online videos suck a little less - not grading feature films :)

gregsadetsky 4mo ago
You can use the free version (no need to pay), and it should be possible to drive Resolve using the Python API -- see this MCP server built on top of that API: https://github.com/mhadifilms/dvr/ https://github.com/mhadifilms/dvr/ You can also try pointing Claude to the API surface directly. The result might be chaotic, but you should be able to automate editing... maybe. :-) Ha. (You'd need a good loop to make sure Claude can see what it's doing..? Beyond screenshots I mean - ie how would Claude know its doing a good job editing?)

dllu 4mo ago

There's a Linux amd64 version and a Windows arm64 version. However, I use a Linux arm64 machine, and arm64 machines are going to be a lot more common going forward. I wonder if there are plans to release a Linux arm64 build?

emilbratt 4mo ago
Unless you are on Apple silicon, then im not sure the ARM cpu and hardware is powerful enough for you to get a decent experience. It is heavy software, after all. Still, I would expect them to release Linux ARM builds when we inevitably move over to ARM as the common arch. :)
- OliverGuy 4mo ago
  Ampere make some big 32-128 core server ARM chips that are somewhere around Zen4c ish in performance, although they aren't commonly used outside of the server context. But they do at least exist.
- dllu 4mo ago
  The NVIDIA DGX Spark that I use has a fairly decent ARM CPU that's roughly on par with the M3 Pro and AMD AI Max 395+ according to Geekbench, plus a GPU that's very powerful (RTX 5070 level). I'm sure it will be more than powerful enough for me to get a decent experience. I also have a Macbook Air M2 running Asahi Linux.

justinator 4mo ago

The only thing wrong with Resolve is there is no "just get out of my way and let me get something done" mode. No easy/beginner mode. This is a very sizable, complicated piece of a software that has little bounds on what you can do with it. The learning curve is as steep and tall as the granite walls of El Capitan. That's not really a critique on the software -- it's not trying to be what it's not. But the criticism of the software is painted by the fact that it's hard to get good at it. Well ok I will critique it: the user interface is garbage. Like they studied old versions of Gimp and thought, "let's do even worse". The metaphor isn't perfect, but it's got some of that ol' TIMTOWTDI Perl feeling to it.

boppo1 4mo ago
>just get out of my way and let me get something done Funny, that's how I think of easy/beginner modes: "in the way, preventing me from getting something done".
- justinator 4mo ago
  Haha, fair enough. Perhaps a more insightful take from me is that the app makes you understand the underlying process a little more than many other options. For example, color space, color correcting. It gets complicated quickly and since the internet is the source of most of the guidance for noobs about it, there are opinions.
  - boppo1 4mo ago
    This is a fair criticism. I was lucky enough to grow up on blender and spend lots of free time with it, so all of this stuff is second-nature to me. I am not the standard case, but when software insists on holding my hand and abstracting stuff away it feels patronizing and frustrates me so much I will change my life to avoid using the software.
kuschku 4mo ago
> The learning curve is as steep and tall as the granite walls of El Capitan. Have you read the beginners guide? https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci-Resolve-20-Beginners-Guide.pdf https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci-R... At 643 pages it's surprisingly short for how many subjects it introduces. Going further you'll of course want to read In the Blink of an Eye.(978-1879505629) and the Color Correction Handbook (978-0133435542). And the actual Resolve manual is also really really good. https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci_Resolve_20_Reference_Manual.pdf https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/DaVinci_R...

Voultapher 4mo ago

I despise AI generated no-effort art as much as the next person but what they are offering here is fine-grained application of AI tools which is completely different to one-shot do the art for me. Does anyone have experience with the processing cost it takes to run these effects locally? Topaz takes a minutes to do superresolution on a single picture and this has to work for many frames so I'd assume it is faster? Also excited about the picture stuff. I'm on an aging Lightroom version and wouldn't mind something that works well on Linux. Also huge plus point is the licensing model.

__mharrison__ 4mo ago

Just last week I made some automations for my recording and editing process in Resolve. Using Python to script initial editing. It works pretty well. I tried it this morning and in about 15 minutes I had recorded and edited a three minute video. (I've used AI transcription in resolve before, not this is actually editing the transcript with an llm and then inserting the clips. I also did breath detection and b roll placement. The Python scripting later is poorly documented and only supports a subset of the functionality of Resolve.)

system2 4mo ago

Do they need to say AI for everything? I am so sick of even a basic plugin being named AI. The word has lost its meaning. Give up already.

goblin89 4mo ago

I tolerate Resolve, essentially it’s just inertia. It is hard to imagine software could be commercial and so poorly made. My favorite glitch that has persisted for many versions is how if you background it while it is launching, the GUI becomes frozen and the only way to use it is to kill the process and then launch it again making sure to not switch to any other apps while it loads. The worst one that comes to mind, because it happens all the time when I am using it, is when you hit undo once it could undo multiple recent changes (never know how many exactly, just have to guess), and if you then redo in panic it would only redo one of them, so you have to manually do it (fun when it involves fine color adjustments). For my own sanity will not try remembering all the other ones. In addition, a lot of counter-intuitive design choices, messy color management, etc. Proprietary cross-platform software for multimedia production tends to be polished but Resolve genuinely feels worse than an Electron app, with subtle delays and micro-freezes in many interactions. To be fair now with all those “AI” features they could probably say it is optimized for “agents” or something…

archerx 4mo ago
I have been using resolve since they added editing functionality (it used to only be for color correction) and I have never had any of those issues. I have the paid studio version and have used it for commercial and private work. It is also a lot less crash happy than premiere which I ditched for resolve and never looked back. Maybe there is something wrong with you system?
- goblin89 4mo ago
  Unlikely. This has been the case on 3 different laptops and multiple macOS versions and Resolve versions. I use it pretty infrequently nowadays and I admit I didn’t see the startup freeze in a couple months (either I am lucky or they finally fixed it in a recent update), the undo glitch is alive as ever though. Some other things off the top of my head: • UI freezes for a second or two when you switch to Fusion tab. • If you adjust speed in a Fusion node, timeline clip remains the same length, so if you slow it down 2x you can only see the first half. To say Fusion in general is half-baked is to be very, very generous. • Export location gets reset every launch. • Can’t copy-paste a node or its settings, in case you want to test between two different configurations. Even the aforementioned RawTherapee (which is made using Qt I think and which is far from a shining example of usability) is more pleasant to use for me.

complianceowll 4mo ago

I think this is my sign to learn video editing.

darkteflon 4mo ago

Those who have moved to Resolve from FCP: would you share a few words about your experience? I’ve used FCP for a long time but have never loved it. I also have some experience with non-destructive workflows like Blender geonodes and have heard that Resolve adopts a similar paradigm. Definitely curious!

zarmin 4mo ago
I moved to Resolve from Premiere and wanted to commit seppuku. Of course, Premiere also made me feel that way.
l33tbro 4mo ago
Just get Resolve. It is similar to what FCP was before Apple turned it into glorified iMovie. Only it is far more powerful than FCP 7 was back then. Industry-standard NLE's like Premiere or Avid are probably the closest to Resolve. But even those are legacy programs that rest on their moats, whereas Resolve takes far more chances and does far less dumb shit than Adobe and Avid. The seamless integration with industry-standard grading software is also... um mindblowing. Premiere has Lumetri and FCP has it'd colour correction tab, both of which are like MS Paint compared to Resolve's colour capabilities. It's also free. The paid version unlocks mostly things to do with grading.
sonar_un 4mo ago
I use both in my workflows. Though with all of the features of Resolve, I still use FCP for most of my content. FCP is just faster to edit and has a smoother end-to-end workflow. Resolve is still best for colorgrading and fine details, but if you just want to get a project released on time, nothing beats FCP.
alper 4mo ago
I felt that FCP was underpowered for compositing and grading so I switched from paid FPC to unpaid Resolve. But I don't really edit that much. Resolve is good enough for me for now.

adzm 4mo ago

Excited to see Resolve continue to improve. Hopefully this encourages more improvement in the wider ecosystem as well. Adobe really could do some amazing stuff with Premiere and After Effects.

kkukshtel 4mo ago

The audio-driven animation stuff here is so nice. A year ago I went on a journey to produce a video podcast waveform based off the audio track, and the process was incredibly painful for no obvious reason. My hope here is that I can now just do this all within Fusion and not need to render this in an external tool. Also nice is built in loop (ping pong) animations! No more duplicating keyframes! https://kylekukshtel.com/building-video-podcast-resolve-audio-waveform-reactive https://kylekukshtel.com/building-video-podcast-resolve-audi...

ConanRus 4mo ago

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tobyhinloopen 4mo ago

I like that it runs on Linux but coming from Lightroom, it is a challenge to use. I don’t even know how to import photos that are added to a previously imported folder

entropie 4mo ago
I used lightroom over a decade and besides the initial quirks i fucking love darktable. After 6 month I actually like it more than lightroom and never looked back.
- tobyhinloopen 4mo ago
  I tried Darktable a few times and I just couldn’t stand it hah. I’ll try it again, hah, Tnx!
  - entropie 4mo ago
    Yes, it sucks at the beginning. But eventually it clicks. It did for me.

Andrex 4mo ago

Anecdote time. I couldn't get Resolve to run on my discrete-GPU-less PC running Fedora. First the lack of RPM or Flatpak were lame, but integrated graphics was the real killer. I started learning Blender VSE and walked away super impressed. Finally found my editor. (Spent years getting used to Premiere on Mac and PC.) It runs good even though I don't have a dedicated GPU yet, unlike Resolve. (And Blender is a full-on 3D modeller, I should note.) I'm going to scale up my hardware eventually, but right now my editing needs aren't huge. Just chopping and splicing up stuff for YouTube. Blender's VSE is incredibly good for my use case.

bragr 4mo ago
How are the learning resources for Blender VSE? I've tried several open source editors (openshot: not fit for any serious purpose, shotcut: would be great if not bugged out) and ended up on Resolve for the combination of being free for my purposes and good community resources. I've looked at Blender for 3D before and found the good resources tend to be out of date. Is that still an issue? edit: I may need to give the OpenShot 3.x a chance. The OpenShot release history [1] makes the claim that they have addressed many of my complaints [1] https://www.openshot.org/blog/ https://www.openshot.org/blog/
- tim-projects 4mo ago
  Try kdenlive for basic video editing. It's better than openshot
  - samuell 4mo ago
    I'll second looking at KdenLive. You might want to stay away from very recent major versions for stability, but it is a very capable editor that is also much more robust and performant than openshot. I haven't compared with Blender VSE though.
- Andrex 4mo ago
  I tried Kdenlive, OpenShot, Shotcut, Pitivi and others. It's a personal thing but I just could not get used to their UIs. Well except for Pitivi, but that one is way too buggy. I even briefly considered using ffmpeg and bash to get the edits I wanted... Blender has a complicated UI but at least it feels completely consistent and thought-through. And also like it wasn't designed 20 years ago. I just have more confidence using Blender than others because it's so big, respected and known. My learning process is basically "How do I do this thing I did in Premiere?" and basic Googling/YouTubing. I needed a tutorial video to get started but otherwise if you know NLEs it shouldn't be too hard.

constantlm 4mo ago

I still can't believe this software is free.

totetsu 4mo ago

Extreme Quality AI UltraSharpen is a Bourgeois Concept

tim-projects 4mo ago

Does it support phone recorded video without conversion? That was the blocker for me. Kdenlive does

Floppyrom 4mo ago

Blows my mind how weak the competition for Adobe still is after all these decades.

Cilvic 4mo ago

Best release notes I have seen in a while. I don't even work with movies/pics, but this was so easy to understand. Well done