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Posted by pentagrama 4 hours ago

DaVinci Resolve 21(www.blackmagicdesign.com)
190 points | 109 commentspage 2
fishgoesblub 3 hours 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.
samuell 2 hours 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 2 hours 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 1 hour 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.
flexagoon 2 hours ago|||
Resolve was a much better experience for me than kdenlive. But you can easily try it out for yourself because most of it is completely free (in fact you probably won't ever need the paid features for what you do)
samuell 1 hour ago||
Great to hear.
billti 2 hours 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).

samuell 1 hour ago||
Wanted to expand on the animation part, so will check this up for sure, thank you.
srameshc 1 hour 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 ?
wmf 2 hours ago||
Discussion from April when this was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529
goldenarm 2 hours 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.
bensyverson 2 hours 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 2 hours ago||
Face search? What do you mean?
rafram 2 hours 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.
anon7000 1 hour 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
throwaway240403 1 hour ago||||
I think you're right in this case, but Illinois lawmakers are generally extremely silly, so I wouldn't put it past them.
rightbyte 1 hour ago|||
Why would the law make exemptions for running the search on on a computer that has the database.
rafram 11 minutes ago||
Because outlawing the local facial recognition that software like Lightroom and Apple Photos has offered for decades would be extraordinarily silly?
dist-epoch 2 hours 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-info...

gbraad 3 hours ago||
Still a public beta?! Not sure why this is news ... the AI features?
billti 2 hours ago||
I think it actually released today. I keep an eye on the forums to see the updates - https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2369...

(Can confirm - I just opened it on my laptop (I had the latest beta installed) and it prompted me to download the release version)

NBJack 3 hours ago||
The Lightroom competitor would be a big (and welcome) change to the market if it delivers.
alfanick 2 hours 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 2 hours 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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.

Avenassh 2 hours 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.
pcurve 2 hours ago||
so, it looks like all the AI features run locally (via DaVinci AI Neural Engine)?
neko_ranger 3 hours ago|
could use a little more AI. have they considered replacing users altogether?
addandsubtract 1 hour ago|
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