DaVinci Resolve - A Premiere Pro Editor's Perspective

Does anyone using capcut for weeding videos?

You Make some excellent points, one point you did not mention is DaVinci Resolve lets you set up you keyboard to match Premier Pro, However never have used Premier pro I do not know how effective that option is.. Your videos a very comprehensive thank you for sharing your time and talent !

Before switching to Mac I used premiere on my pc that ai built(really powerful) and premiere always crashed then i switched to Davinci which helped a lot. Now on Mac it barely crashes. 1 thing I would love Davinci to have is the remix option to extend background music.

Switched to resolve a few years ago and it’s the best decision I’ve made for my editing workflow. I know that premier will catch up but it would take a lot for me to switch at this point since Resolve is so convenient and they are always improving.

Thanks Matt for the information. I appreciate the concise presentation on a topic that is so full of all kinds of nuances and personal preferences.

Okay this feels like an obvious question, why on earth are you using both of these programs still?

Wait a minute I have a PC that I built that is a beast and I have issues with premier crashing and being buggy as hell. I didn't know it was even worse on a Mac! Wow

You mentioned that DaVinci is lacking in respect to not being able to render and work at the same time. But it's great to know that DaVinci renders faster at least :-) also Adobe is so buggy I would be scared to do too much work while rendering. For example, for over a year now Photoshop makes my computer crash when I'm rendering a video simultaneously. And I have a very robust system. It's crazy the bugs that come with Adobe

If you could give me a proper file to import into DaVinci that will give me the same Adobe keyboard shortcuts I could probably transition right away. Please tell me you have this and you will give it to us. Everything I do in premier is so second nature without thinking that every time I go into DaVinci I'm like I don't want to figure this out. And the last time I tried to get into DaVinci I realized I can add Adobe shortcuts but for some reason the one they have available is trash. So I would have to manually reconfigure it or something. Surely somebody has already done this properly and can just give it to us so we can jump right in. I spend so much time on the computer editing the last thing I want to do is try to fiddle around and make DaVinci resolve work for my old brain lol

The biggest joke about adobe products is the dynamic link, it has never worked for me meanwhile working in resole and moving between edit, fusion, color, fairlight is the most seamless experience I've ever had. and coming from a vfx background yes Fusion is miles better and more powerful than AE especially if you are doing more compositing, it's literally built for movie level compositing and has been used in 1000s of Hollywood movies for VFX and motion graphics although ae would be a bit easier to work with if all you are doing is basic mograph and comp and the biggest pros of using AE are the plugins, that's basically what's keeping AE alive, good thing is there are a lot of plugins for Fusion as well, like Reactor which is a plugin manager for Fusion and since it's node based, you can chain up multiple nodes to create your own macro without needing plugins in Fusion.

Hey man you really don’t have to plug your course that many times in the video😃 just saying😃

I'm certified in After Effects and I love the Fusion page! I can do majority of what I did on After Effects on Fusion. I also like that, unlike AE, I don't have to download a plugin to export 3D cameras into Blender. I just use the FBX exporter to export from Fusion to Blender.

Just gave up after premier crashing twice on me. DaVinci is downloading as I write this.

PP 2024 version is very stable

I sort of agree about the Media Encoder thing but there's so many problems with ME that I don't blame them for abandoning the idea of a standalone solution.

Just a heads up Premiere Pro has gotten better with saving your project when it crashes they had a update and ever since anytime Premiere Pro crashes it starts back from where it left off not losing anything. Since you been using DaVinci Resolve you may not know that but the latest updates from Premiere Pro fixes that problem.

filming my first wedding editing with premier pro. multicam 4k canon footage in long gop is tough to edit without crashes. Premiere Pro crashes And opens Right back up now. There really is no loss of time. I don't know what Adobe did but it seems to be fixed.

I’m on a Mac studio ultra… I’ve been on resolve for over two years and it crashed one time in two years.

That’s your complaint? That you can’t render and continue working? You sound like a whiny old grandmother. Get over it… It’s not a big deal. Da Vinci resolve is better than Premier pro in just about every possible way.

I'm pretty happy with fcpx I feel like I've almost mastered everything I need from workflow & even colors & droppers. I don't feel like I'm missing anything because non of my work has heavy effects aside from transitions. Is there any fcpx veterans that can convince me DaVinci is worth a spin? Are the color tools really so great? Once I learned the secret sauce with color match I can't see how DaVinci is leagues above? Am I missing out. Everytime I watch a yt video on the colors I lose interest any good content creators you suggest watching?

Premiere Pro has a new auto save feature for crashes. Lately every crash my work has been regardless of whether I hit save or premiere auto saved in the program.

May have to take this course! i havent switched bc every tutorial i see is for people who only shoot 3 clips and spend 20 mins color grading each of them. I dont see how the workflow could be possible for event shooters.

Not sure why, but my premiere only crashes a few times per YEAR. And now Premiere improved its backup, and should open where we were. A good media and cash management is the key. I also use Resolve and it also crashes... maybe less times but it does, and sometimes it also has a slow playback, not sure why. Both have pros and cons. But the fact that in Resolve I can't select multiple timelines to export is crazy. I work with big projects where sometimes I need to export 300+ timelines... now imagine setting them up on a queue list one by one ahah nuts. Hope they solve that soon

I tried premiere and i hated it. The subscription is also a joke to me. Davinci resolve really is better in almost every way and its a one time paymen!

I'm quite an advanced premiere pro user and my only issue with trying out resolve deeply is that it might get annoying when I wanna do something that is straightforward in premiere but takes an extra click in resolve..I take those kinds of things pretty seriously lol. and also plug-ins that I use in premiere. I'm not sure if there will be an equivalent in resolve

I still use premiere only because I’m used to it, but I’ve started purchasing software that will allow me to cut my subscriptions. I spent a year on Resolve Free when I couldn’t afford Adobe straight out of college, and it is a fantastic piece of software. I bought the Studio version. The only thing really keeping me around at this point are lightroom and photoshop. I’m trialing the use of Darkroom for iOS, and once Apple updates their supported camera raw file list to include the newer Sony cameras, I should be good to go. I’ve got a few more months left on my Adobe contract, so I’ll keep it around.

I have no doubt Davinci is my favorite program for editing my wedding videos...The only gripe and thing I miss Premier Pro is the Plural Eyes link import which works so well and helps me sync my files without a problem. On DR on the other hand multicam intimidates me and time time-consuming as sometimes the Auto Sync function is grayed out or not even there and the file system arrangement in the Master Bin just makes things worse 😮‍💨. I need a tutorial that can help me understand that part otherwise everything else I love the flow. I too have an AMD custom-made PC and crushes are things I hardly get only if I do heavy graphics but am cool.

Made the switch in 2023 and have not yet looked back. I've become a faster and more efficient editor. My biggest issue with Davinci is their audio tools, in particular the auto-synch by waveform. I find myself having to synch audio manually much more often than Premiere.

I think ill wait for Davinci to add those little key bits premiere has. E.g. encoder and vertical editing screen etc.

LOL, fun fact, I'm still using PP CS5. It was the last version I purchased. I am using DaVinci full time now though. It's pretty cool, I just can't get used to the 'nodes'.

Lets see, get resolve studio for free when I buy a piece of black magic gear... Or pay monthly for an inferior product.... 😂

I made the jump several years ago and will never go back.

One important difference is the UI personalization, DaVinci can't be optimized or used on a small monitor, it's just impossible to work, but in premiere you can adjust to vertical video or hide every other panel and focus only for the one you arr working for, like editing audio...

Any idea why or how premiere does not have any denoise option by default?
BTW I did not have any crash in both these softwares for s few months now. On m1 mac studio

On a custom PC here and I had a ridiculous amount of crashes in PP! Got so sick of it I bought Davinci without even trying it. It's so much more solid and the color page alone is enough for me to never go back. I've been very happy with my switch and I've been on PP since like 2008.

Renting premiere for the rest of my life has zero appeal to me.

That being said, if you are thinking of getting a black magic camera most of them come with a free studio license, I wish I had known that before buying studio

Currently going through the resolve course. Please do yourself a favor and buy this course! You will not regret it

For me, the #1 reason I ditched Premier is because of it’s subscription platform that charges WAAAAAY too much! I’ve been enjoying the one-time payment to Resolve and I’m never going back.

The one thing I find really annoying in Resoilve is no guide lines that you can just easily drag out. The grid on an adjustment clip option sucks. Other than that I love it

Hehe I’m a fcpx editor

Would you say Justin Porter “made” you switch?

I've noticed not having an encoder in Resolve doesn't do anything to slow down my project. Premiere is missing a VFX package. If you want to have After Effects and Premiere Pro together, you're spending about $46/month to do so. Way more expensive than the one time cost of $295 for the studio version of Resolve.

As far as crashes go, I've had that happen twice since I started using Resolve with version 14.2. I use the Mac version of Resolve. Most issues/bugs in Resolve tend to fall on the Windows version. Resolve was originally designed for Mac. And like many programs, programs tend to work better in the OS they were originally designed for. I see that with most programs, not just Resolve. Because of this, I stay on Mac when working in Resolve.

In the past two years plus, I've heard more stories of people switching to Resolve from Premiere than visa versa. I've heard more people complaining about their projects lagging in Premiere the larger the project gets. I've worked with Adobe After Effects and Premiere. I'm sticking with Resolve.

I tried davinci and is WAY slower to edit for me, too many clicks to do simple stuff like fast reframing

It might just be me, but Adobe has made HUGE strides when it comes to crashes within Premier over the past year or so. It has also gotten much better about recovering at/close to where it crashed for me, esp on my MacBook. My PC still has its moments but I've held off paying for Davinici simply because it feels like Adobe has started to listen to our complaints with recent updates.

Also because I pay them way too much money every month and will likely continue to do so even if I switch video editing software XD

Davinci's crashes are for sure less frequent and dramatically less catastrophic. As you said, you simply re-open and you're exactly where you left off. Sometimes I am back up and running within 15-20 seconds. With Premiere, it has to take you through the most annoying step of all time "we will attempt to save your project" (which never ever ever actually works) but then it also forces you to save a copy of the project file which also makes new project folders for auto saves and cache. So over the course of a video you're making, if Premiere crashes multiple times, then the amount of crap data that piles up in your hard drive is absurd. Couldn't be more happy I left for Resolve at version 16.

It’s interesting that you compare the 2 from a perspective of a film maker.. I can see video editors trying to decide between the 2 but as a film maker, the choice should be pretty easy. Resolve is for you. Color grading is very important to film makers and nothing color grades better than Resolve. Their whole color base system is leagues above the rest.

Leaving adobe was one of the best decisions I made as a creator

I run a four camera podcast and find PP can lag even on M1 Max machine but concerned with comments below re DR performance for multicams, audio syncing and audio bit rate limits. Any thoughts welcome 🙏