

It’s free and includes editing, visual effects (Fusion), audio post-production (Fairlight, a DAW) and professional color grading. It’s not a trial, it doesn’t have a watermark. Fusion was acquired and fully integrated as well as Fairlight.įrom version 14 onward, DaVinci Resolve became not only a viable editor but a full post-production suite and best of all it is free. Davinci Resolve became free, not just lite.

Then Blackmagic Design started to add more editing features, opening up the possibility of it becoming a viable video editor. Suddenly this legendary color grading suite was available to anyone.ĭevelopment continued, a Windows version was released with more features continually being added while the interface was overhauled to be more user-friendly. Eventually, a free “lite” version for Mac was released. Soon the price dropped and development changed. It was focused on color grading only and not fully featured as we know it now. At this point, DaVinci was still the domain of high-end film productions and very, very expensive. Around 2009 DaVinci Systems was acquired by Blackmagic design who made DaVinci Resolve their focus for development. Once you have exported the final product and you are happy with it you can go in and delete the clips you rendered in place to get that storage space back without deleting the original footage and edits.Before we get to the business end of what’s the difference between the free and studio version of DaVinci Resolve, it’s worth looking at its evolution. If it ends up you need to change something in a clip you already rendered in place, right click the clip on the timeline and choose “deconstruct to original” to get the original clip back on the timeline with all the edits you did to it before you rendered in place. Now you don’t have to spend the time to rerender those clips every tine you export. In the deliver dialogue there is an option that is enabled by default that is “skip reencoding if possible.” This means that if a clip on the timeline has no edits and it is already in the render codec Resolve won’t encode it again it will just append the clip to the render during export which will be the case for the clips you rendered in place. This way you only render the clip once and if you have to go back and change something else you don’t have to render that clip again. It will render that clip and then replace it on the timeline with the rendered version. Right click a clip on the timeline and then select “render in place.” Choose your export codec as your “render in place” codec when prompted. Click to expand.You should look into “render in place” in Resolve.
