DMKAlex
Veteran Member
With the lockdown, like everyone else, I have plenty of time on my hand. I decided to process a project from scratch, instead of importing the timeline from Premiere.
Sure I am not too familiar with the keystrokes and menu of Resolve, but there is nothing that a simple youtube/google search would not find the answer easily. And after a few clips, I am able to move along well enough.
I maybe biased when I said some of the keystrokes are more intuitive in Premiere, like the keyframe/effect/mask functions. Premiere has its own function in its own panel all in one place. Resolve's is a bit hard to find. In Premiere, I can select forward a single track instead of all the tracks forward. I having figure out how to do that in Resolve. You will select forward all tracks.
One thing that really bothered me is the video transition. For some reason, the default duration of the transition is like 10 frames. I can adjust the duration. But unless you save a preset, it is 10 frames, which is way too sudden. Also the dip to color default to white, instead of black that most people would do.
Resolve seems to require rendering when I added effect to the clip. A 5 second clip may take 20+ seconds to render. Sometimes I was wondered what happened to the effect I'd just added. This lag time is very annoying.
The windows/panel arrangement is also unfriendly. Unlike Premiere which you can move and size each panel, Resolve is pretty much fixed. The display is right on top of the tracks (in the edit panel). If you have to work with the track and enlarge the height, the display has to shrink to to make room for the tracks. I guess that's how they make you purchase their video hardware for a separate display.
Since I am doing this from scratch this time, I am staying in Resolve a lot longer than I had before. I find Resolve has a tendency to "eat up" the resource gradually and cumulatively. The scrubbing in the trim and edit panels started out smoothly, but then it hiccuped and stuttered. Sometimes when I move the playhead to a new clip, the display would stay on the old clip for 1 or 2 seconds before jumping to the new clips. I also run into error message "your GPU memory is full". It seems these issues could be resolved by restarting Resolve. I guess exiting it would release the hoarded resource.
I don't have any resource issue with Premiere. The entire project would have the same smoothness throughout.
My conclusion is, Resolve is not a bad video editor, but ii would require a machine with at least 50% more power then with Premiere. And my project was only 6 minutes long. I can't imaging a more complicated project with a lot more effects and clips and tracks.
My machine:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x 8 cores 16 threads
GPU: GTX 1060 6 gb vRam
64 gb DDR4 3200 MHz
Nvme SSD 1 tB
Seagate 2 TB HHD 7200 rpm
Sure I am not too familiar with the keystrokes and menu of Resolve, but there is nothing that a simple youtube/google search would not find the answer easily. And after a few clips, I am able to move along well enough.
I maybe biased when I said some of the keystrokes are more intuitive in Premiere, like the keyframe/effect/mask functions. Premiere has its own function in its own panel all in one place. Resolve's is a bit hard to find. In Premiere, I can select forward a single track instead of all the tracks forward. I having figure out how to do that in Resolve. You will select forward all tracks.
One thing that really bothered me is the video transition. For some reason, the default duration of the transition is like 10 frames. I can adjust the duration. But unless you save a preset, it is 10 frames, which is way too sudden. Also the dip to color default to white, instead of black that most people would do.
Resolve seems to require rendering when I added effect to the clip. A 5 second clip may take 20+ seconds to render. Sometimes I was wondered what happened to the effect I'd just added. This lag time is very annoying.
The windows/panel arrangement is also unfriendly. Unlike Premiere which you can move and size each panel, Resolve is pretty much fixed. The display is right on top of the tracks (in the edit panel). If you have to work with the track and enlarge the height, the display has to shrink to to make room for the tracks. I guess that's how they make you purchase their video hardware for a separate display.
Since I am doing this from scratch this time, I am staying in Resolve a lot longer than I had before. I find Resolve has a tendency to "eat up" the resource gradually and cumulatively. The scrubbing in the trim and edit panels started out smoothly, but then it hiccuped and stuttered. Sometimes when I move the playhead to a new clip, the display would stay on the old clip for 1 or 2 seconds before jumping to the new clips. I also run into error message "your GPU memory is full". It seems these issues could be resolved by restarting Resolve. I guess exiting it would release the hoarded resource.
I don't have any resource issue with Premiere. The entire project would have the same smoothness throughout.
My conclusion is, Resolve is not a bad video editor, but ii would require a machine with at least 50% more power then with Premiere. And my project was only 6 minutes long. I can't imaging a more complicated project with a lot more effects and clips and tracks.
My machine:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x 8 cores 16 threads
GPU: GTX 1060 6 gb vRam
64 gb DDR4 3200 MHz
Nvme SSD 1 tB
Seagate 2 TB HHD 7200 rpm
