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I can't understand the negative comment, It works great for me! True I am NOT a beginner, in fact as a retired electronics engineer I have been around Video Editors since they we nothing more than 2 beta cam players and a beta cam recorder doing cut edits with 5 second pre-roll just to get the tapes in sync. Since I retired about 15 years ago I have continued to use NLE's as a hobby and am familiar with most common versions, except Adobe's PP, I just never liked it but that's just my personal taste. So far, and I've been using DaVinci Resolve since Ver.14, I find it amazing.
It can be intimidating for a beginner and there are so many hidden features that I am sure even experts get confused sometimes. I have had a few crashes, but upon investigation it is usually related to hardware rather than the software itself. One common issue is using an external SSD as the scratch disk, if it does not respond instantaneously it can cause a crash.
I currently use a 2017 iMac 3.4 GHz i5 with a 1TB Fusion drive and 48Gb RAM which (apart from the RAM) is nothing special. I edit mostly 4K footage and downsample to 1080p for output. If I include and still images in a project then I may have LR and PS open as well and I still enjoy smooth playback.
As to Value for Money... well, if you don't need the additional effects and codec's of the Studio version you can't get much cheaper than FREE! |
