Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/davinciresolve/

A video editor.

Fuck me this is awkward as all hell.

• 2021-02-27 - 17.0.0.0039 on Windows 10

• 2021-02-23 - 17.0.0b.0033 on Windows 10

2021-02-27 - 17.0.0.0039 ∞

• Takes a long time to start up.

2021-02-23 - 17.0.0b.0033 ∞

(17.0b9)

Tired of Vegas Pro 15, I wanted to try something else. Everything else sucked so I've landed here. It's professional yet free, so I'm curious.

Oh, I'll try the beta. I may as well since I'm completely new. The beta seems tested enough (beta 9) that it ought to not destroy projects. Using the beta is

It's always strange to get a .zip file of a compressed .exe file.

• [_] DaVinci Control Panels
• [_] Blackmagic RAW Player
• [_] Fairlight Audio Accelerator Utility

• [x] DaVinci Resolve 17.0.0b.0033

Although they look awesome, I won't need any of those other things for this test.

Oh my, they have a ReadMe.rtf .. proper nerds!

The free DaVinci Resolve 17 includes all of the same high quality processing as DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio and can handle unlimited resolution media files. However it does limit project mastering and output to Ultra HD resolutions or lower. DaVinci Resolve 17 only supports a single processing GPU on Windows ...

Well that's not too terrible. I wonder if I can rig things to force it across multiple CPUs..

If you need features such as support for multiple GPUs, 4K output, motion blur effects, temporal and spatial noise reduction, de-interlacing ...

Oh. No motion blur, noise reduction or de-interlacing?

The fuck is that font..

• That popup is forced on-top and can't be moved.

• Mousing over any of the items animates its icon. Why?

--

• It asks for network access. Fuck off.
• THEN it begins loading.. and takes a long time during "looking for control surface".
• I was given a warning about my version of the NVIDIA driver, and warned to update. Fine.
• I guess it's one of these dark themes to save my eyes.
• When mousing over the bottom icons, it takes too long for the text popup to appear.
• Why is there a black box in the top-left?
• I can't drag and separate clips. I have to switch to "Edit" mode (a botton icon) then I can move them around again. Then when I switch to clip, I can move them and they can't separate. Why?
• I'm able to middle-click and drag everything when I'm in Cut mode, but in Edit mode, I can't properly move everything so I can play stuff at the beginning. I have to drag the red line.
• Why does a cross dissolve fuck with the audio?
• I can't figure out how to fix the audio in a fade-out. It worked in a fade-in..
• I had to un-lock the audio and video in a track then I can fiddle with the fade..
• I really don't understand how to apply a transition. What the fuck is going on? I want to drag-and-drop the thing into my video track and have it snap across two clips.

• Exporting

  • Has no H.265
  • Defaults to QuickTime.. haha.
  • It has presets for YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter. It can upload to YouTube!
    -- The upload failed instead of asking me for the necessary credentials.
• It took me a while to figure out how to recover from playing around in Fusion mode.
• God it's annoying to have to manually drag that red line around. I want to click in the big space underneath the ruler.
• I can drag-and-drop a dissolve in.. but I can only do it on the right-hand side of a track, never on the left. For the life of me I can't figure out how to fade into the next track.
• Sometimes when I press space to preview, nothing happens.
• I made a marker and now can't remove it without removing all markers.
• I'm watching a tutorial video now.. and why ever would there be a separate source viewer? I've got the clip in my timeline and I can just fiddle with it there.

• Okay what the fuck.. where the fuck is it saving things? It uses a database? Oh god, it's super-advanced. Fucking hell I have to figure out how to move it because C: is not set up for nonsense like this.

  • DaVinci Resolve > Media Storage

• I started a new project from scratch and the shape of things is different so I can drag my timeline around easily, and I'm able to drop transitions between two clips, but not to the right-hand clip.

  • Later, I lost the ability to drop transitions between clips, and I don't know why. I leaned on control-z to undo for a while, and the ability never returned.
• After starting a new project, I have no idea where the second preview box above is, and I don't see zoom controls.

• I don't know how to move clips around properly, or copy and paste. Things go in random places.

It's just so unintuitive and inconsistent.