Why Blender is a Better Free Video Editor Than DaVinci Resolve

Can you do a test of secondlife on Linux? Also saying what distro used?

You also can't use GPU computing for exporting. My 5 min video with a small effect I created with the nodes took 3 days to render. And that's on my PC

Blender does not have strip thumbnails. Not being able to see every frame on the strip in Blender when precision cutting strips absolutely destroys my workflow. The shortcut keys are very counterintuitive (although apparently similar to Final Cut / Adobe Premiere). Blender VSE also has trouble with seeking any lossy libx encoded media which leads to audio sync and framerate issues that don't show up in the preview proxy but only after rendering the final video. This is such an easy bug to fix. Even using ffmpeg directly can do a better job at cutting encoded streams losslessly - if you have hours to read through its command line option documentation. This is why I feel the need to switch to another solution and DaVinci seems like the only other viable free option, at least for Windows users.

Seriously, what video editing feature does Blender lack, that most cinematographers would consider essential? I don't mean "ease of use"...I mean completely lacking.

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I couldn't get DR to work, can't use OBS generated files and mp4 clips come out black! I did come across those useless support message on the DR forum, I thought it was pathetic.

sure that's why most artist swimming to blender 🙂🙏

I am suspecting you should make an updated video as Blender has had loads of issues since 2.78+ with the AMD GPU lineup that does not seem to exist in Resolve.

Sane, logical and honest.

Pretty new to Linux, but committed, have just discovered that Ubuntu Studio exists after having lots of problems getting video editors to work on a 2012 iMac running Ubuntu 20.04 (missing packages). Love your clarity and focus. Thank you!

DaVinci Resolve is exceptionally good for one thing, which is video post-production and compositing, and it is closer to unix philosophy despite being closed source. While Blender is aiming at being great at the whole stack but only aiming for the foreseeable future. Maya is better for modelling, ZBrush is better for sculpting, Substance is better for shading and texture painting, and Resolve is better for video editing and compositing. That’s why they are the industry standard, and not Blender. Blender is certainly more universal than Resolve, but if we are talking about a _better free video editor_, it’s obviously not Blender. Any arguments about Blender running on Raspberry Pi, or about its free version being less annoying because all paid Blender content is on gumroad are not exactly the arguments for Blender being a better free video editor.

Blender Win

Blender is worse actually, cuz it keeps messing up my footage

Everytime I try DaVinci resolve it mention I need to activate some type of key

A decisive video for my question ! Thanks ! You earned a subscriber !

The download size difference of JUST 147 MB for blender 2.90 vs a whooping 2 GB for Resolve 17 can be an issue for some people as well. Most imp thing is that knowing Blender also helps in delving into 3D modeling in addition to the video editing it allows whereas Resolve is (in my opinion) a 2D video editing software with some great features for that, obviously!

Good video

"Forum members telling Linux users to use a different Linux distribution when things failed"
This reminded me of when Lutris said they weren't going to support anything other than Ubuntu/Debian from now on, and when other Linux users that don't use that family of distros got angry, out of the woodworks came leagues of people saying "well, what do you expect from using stupid niche distributions? maybe use a distro that actually works." It almost feels like there's been this weird push to make Ubuntu/Debian the Linux.

waow blender is so awesome have all that stuff and open source but the title should be Why Blender is a Better Free Video Editor Than DaVinci Resolve ON LINUX

Just use olive editor

I currently use blender, but would like some normal video stabilisation (like DaVinci Resolve has), not complex marker tracking stabilisation that cant fix panned shots (pretty much most hand held footage)

If there's a single piece of bloated software out there, it's Blender xD
Nothing bad about it being bloated though.

If blender fits someone's needs for video editing - very fine (and in its main territory it's just incredible!).
But even the free version of Resolve offers so much more regarding editing. And to call the pro-version "expensive" is a joke (sorry, no offence)...

Thinking of using blender. Thank you friend.

I love the FOSS community, but describing the pro version of DaVinci Resolve as "expensive" is so childish it caused me to not subscribe (and I was going to).

You are 100% right. The ONLY beef I have with blender is that the video sequence editor doesn't have gpu acceleration. Neither does the renderer.
Furthermore, the video renderer does not efficiently, and fully utilize all cores of the cpu.

Hopefully future versions will improve on those areas.

Sorry but blender is nowhere near being an actual usable video editor like Resolve. Sure, it can associate audio with images, but that's pretty much it. And the features that you complain are hidden behind a paywall in Resolve, simply aren't there in blender. They tried to incorporate a video editor in blender but stopped halfway through, and for anything other than cutting a video, it simply doesn't have the features. In that way, you can't compare the two. Also, most of the people watching this are not on linux and will be able to install and run it just fine. You seem to be comparing the ports of the programs on Linux, instead of just the programs themselves and their capabilities. Also, your judgement is clearly biaised because it looks like you didn't even try to understand how Resolve works. You should have put "Linux" somewhere in the title.

This really sucks, and here's why: I really love doing motion-graphics work in Blender, but I also love laying in clips in Resolve and creating transitions between them in the compositor in the same project file. Unfortunately, neither can I do the latter in Blender, nor can Resolve support basic codec-support on my Linux machine. So much productivity is lost just because the devs themselves wouldn't care to add the needed features that could make Linux viable for media production, especially considering how stable and smooth it already runs out of the box.

I had the same experience. Wasted time with resolve, because everwhere you read this is a pro tool. But it has the worst installation procedure. It tries to force you to switch your OS or even your GPU. It doesnt even support any codec except dnxhd which just blows up file size. And blender shows how it is done right. works out if the box on any PC and with all GPUs, no matter if its intel, amd or nvidia. Blender is the pro software. Resolve is just proprietary.

I have been a Linux user for over a decade and have tried and experimented with various video editing software packages such as Kdenlive and Blender. I do however now use Resolve as my editor of choice (on Kubuntu). I also use Blender for any 3D or animation work that I need. What I have done is create a workflow using the right tools for the right job. IMO Resolve is a far better video editor than anything else currently avaible on Linux, but Blender does what it was primerily designed for very well. 3D modeling and rendering.

A corrective is needed to this skewed opinion. If you are running the wrong operating system for a piece of software, the simple solution is to get the correct OS. Not to blame the application! Blackmagic are explicit about what they do and don't support. Resolve is not only "interesting" and "cool", it's a massively capable pro-quality video editing and VFX suite that you can use for free. But yeah, you might want to get a capable computer and ensure you meet the minimum requirements first.

Here are some of the limitation of Blender, even today, that make it a poor substitute for Resolve:
* no media manager or understanding of camera meta data
* no fades, must instead animate opacity
* no proper colour grading, with only minimal colour controls
* no timeline with independent resolution settings etc. (this means the timeline takes on the characteristics of the clip, which is broken)
* titling so limited as to be useless
* non-standard terminology in use, since it's a 3D render program not a video editor
* even basic tools (eg. colour) first need to be manually added to a clip, hence inefficient

These are not minor details, but critical fails.

How is that does it have effects this blender

I'm going to have to try this I've never used Blender for video editor. I only started looking because Resolve is so buggy.

To be fair you are not really talking about video editing so much in this video. Resolve is such a good software, even on Linux, the freemium aspect might be "meh" for some, but not really limiting (if you know Fusion then you don't need the fancy non-fusion effects, and so far the complete Fusion is within the free Resolve), the h264 mitght be a problem, but if you shoot with black magic products then you user their raw, so it's not a problem, just your hardware selection. Then comes colorgrading tools, where I doubt Blender will do the job as good as Resolve (please correct me if you think I'm wrong). When it comes to 3D modelling, Blender gets the first place, cause Resolve does only simple things, even tho Fusion is a really nice environment, easy to use and quite powerfull, but can't (yet) be as advanced as Blender, but I'm sure it will at some point. About the audio, fairlight is not so good in my opinion, depending on your usage I guess, quite limited but enough for simple stuff. Overall, the best (in my opinion) seem to be a combination of Resolve, Blender and any DAW you're familiar with. Blender is a better 3D software, Resolve remains a better video editor in my opinion, then it's up to you to built your multimedia edition environment to withdraw the best from it.

when it comes to rendering , blender takes a very long time!!!i use it for 3D , but for editing movies , i prefer DR.Installation is not a problem anymore it works nicely on ubuntu and derivatives...

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This is embarrassing for Chanel that is called LinuxStudio. We daily use Resolve Davinci on CentoOS Linux on our Profesional VFX studios and is working very good.

For me anything is fine as im windows...and i dont do like extensive editing so davinci does the work but ye blender is good too

Just one word, colors. I used Blender for a couple of times for video editing since it's there already. Perhaps I am not using it right but I have issues with colors in Blender video editing. Afterward, I never opened that section of Blender again. I am not a Unix user but I can understand the frustration. However, I think you need to separate your feelings with facts. Even as a new Davinci Resolve user still learning the software, I think it's really a stretch to comparing the two. I mean unless I am a complete nut, why would I spend time and effort to learn new software if the compatible level of functionality is already there in Blender?

what about Kdenlive

Shotcut is doing the bizzness for me in Ubuntu 2020. DaVinci and the whole 'make Deb' / 'install CentOS' rigamarole, is annoying! Would be great to have it in my toolbox, but the whole 'Snap' restructuring of Ubuntu make it hard to know what to do about install/running Resolve.

Not 'Resolved' sadly :/

This video needs the viewers of Resolve team.

Kudos! The exact words I was trying to express after seeing CentOS with special patches are required in Vinci. I just laughed for an hour and get back to my work.

Natron is cool

I can hear your frustration and I agree that not all ported software succeed. However your title is misleading as DaVinci on Mac or even Windows (including the free version) is by FAR more capable than Blender is as a NLE as that is what is is designed for. Your title should've rather read: "Why Blender is a Better Free Editor for Linux than DaVinci Resolve"...

I am happy you find it good, but IMO use blender as video editor is simply nonsense, there are a lot of things missing.

Bro, Does Blender have the Auto Audio Sync feature ?
Like the one in Adobe Premiere pro where you can sync the audio from the camera file with the externally recorder audio from a shotgun mic or any other mic.
Audio sync a H.264 file with a wave file ?
Is this possible in blender?
I shoot with canon 200d and use a zoom mic to record audio.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.

Biggest deal-breaker is no h.264 import support. It is simply unacceptable that, with the availability of open-source, permissively licensed encoders and decoders, such a fundamental feature is missing.
I was seriously considering downloading Resolve because Blender is missing the ability to easily import video containers with multiple audio tracks (also a fairly fundamental feature for a video editor), however I would have to do an equal or greater amount of work remuxing my video files in order to use them with Resolve. Inexcusable when comparing something that is first and foremost a video editor with software that only has one as an afterthought.