Yes, you read that right. Once-off, and no Cloud membership. If you’re looking to splurge some dollars, there’s a studio version available for a once-off cost of $300. It used to be a program primarily used for grading purposes, but in recent years they’ve made some major improvements and added an NLE (Non-Linear Editor) functionality. And best of all it’s free. Now DaVinci Resolve wasn’t always used as an editor. However, this time I thought I’d give it another go since Blackmagic Design (who you might know from their impressive line of cine-cameras and are the company that owns DaVinci Resolve) updated Resolve, I downloaded and installed the software and since launching it for the first time I haven’t looked back.

I suddenly remembered using a program called DaVinci Resolve in the past for grading footage for a specific project, but since using it once, I never really gave it any thought again. My time was running out as that deadline was approaching, and I didn’t know what to do until a light went on in my head.

I had to come up with a new plan, or try to explain to the client why the project wouldn’t be done in time. Halfway through the project, I abandoned Premiere Pro. Now, this is not supposed to be a blog post of me just ranting on about Adobe not sorting their problems out (there are enough of those blog posts out there), but earlier this year I was busy working on a project when Premiere decided to bail on me with no intent on recovering itself. I'd had enough. While I loved Adobe Premiere through all these years of working on it, the number of issues seemed to grow. But since Creative Cloud and Dynamic Link were introduced, along with other changes, a lot of users have started complaining about the software becoming less stable over time along with performance that never seems to be getting any better. I’ve been editing content in Adobe Premiere Pro for the last decade or so.

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