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Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by Melatonic » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

switchbak wrote: post #152

qmr wrote: post #144

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Absurd to let them affect you so. There are powerful alternatives many of them open source.

Absurd? What's with you folks and your strongly charged language? Please recommend these "powerful alternatives", because I have explored the space and found nothing that replaces Lightroom in a way that I find acceptable. Please omit Darktable and Rawtherapee as I've already evaluated those.

Lightroom mobile (only) is pretty cheap (still a subscription obviously) and does RAW. Depending on your workflow and device its not bad.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by Melatonic » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

sbarre wrote: post #141

omnimus wrote: post #107

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They mentioned in notes the support will come. They support lumix videos.

Oh I missed that, thank you! That's good to know.. Yeah I've used previous Studio versions to edit videos from my camera without any trouble. I'm just excited to finally ditch my Adobe subscription ASAP. :-)

Hope they add the Lumix support soon too!

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by alfirous » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

gglanzani wrote: post #79

bbatha wrote: post #9

For all the potshots about AI, this update is huge even if you take away the AI features. They basically added lightroom to this release. There's some polish before you'd want to change your subscription, but its really tempting. It may be the best photo management/editor on linux. Yes, I know about darktable and rawtherapee and I stand by what I said. They also added a ton of motion graphics stuff which from the bet…

Laat time I checked, deleting an image on DaVinci didn’t delete on disk. That’s something I’m really missing

If I remember correctly, Davinci is Non-linear editing which doesn't affect the original file. Unless you mean there's copy of original file somewhere on disk?

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by Melatonic » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

dofm wrote: post #62

jackofalltrades wrote: post #21

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I was not aware that we could edit photos in DaVinci Resolve in Linux. Thank you for this info, I'll certainly give it a try!

Output size is limited to 4K in the free version, I think. Which is not nothing (8MP or something, good for a reasonably large print) but it might make you question how much editing belongs inside Resolve.

Seems odd to limit photo output also to "4K" resolution. Although I suppose if they did not someone could probably do workarounds like outputting an EXR sequence of an edited video file.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by rezonant » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

scottyah wrote: post #108

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #64

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> My opinion is that, for end users, if you name your feature "AI" to market it, you kind of already failed to read the room. You're writing to VCs while hoping it convinces customers. 100% this. Maybe I live in a bubble, but consumer sentiment regarding AI seems extremely negative. Boasting "AI" features is more likely to lose sales than to create them.

But their target audience are creators, not consumers. Creators love AI.

Are you sure about that? Creators aren't too excited about all of their content being hoovered up and used without compensation or permission, or the AI industry manufacturing economic pressure that devalues quality and the skills they've developed for a craft they are passionate about.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by boppo1 » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

justinator wrote: post #123

The only thing wrong with Resolve is there is no "just get out of my way and let me get something done" mode. No easy/beginner mode. This is a very sizable, complicated piece of a software that has little bounds on what you can do with it. The learning curve is as steep and tall as the granite walls of El Capitan. That's not really a critique on the software -- it's not trying to be what it's not. But the criticism o…

>just get out of my way and let me get something done

Funny, that's how I think of easy/beginner modes: "in the way, preventing me from getting something done".

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by Joel_Mckay » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

pcurve wrote: post #65

so, it looks like all the AI features run locally (via DaVinci AI Neural Engine)?

Makes sense, as Netflix grade 12k RAW broadcast quality video already takes up a lot of storage space. It would be ridiculous to Ape that into a cloud SaaS. =3

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by tobyhinloopen » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:21 PM UTC

I like that it runs on Linux but coming from Lightroom, it is a challenge to use. I don’t even know how to import photos that are added to a previously imported folder

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by Andrex » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

Anecdote time.

I couldn't get Resolve to run on my discrete-GPU-less PC running Fedora. First the lack of RPM or Flatpak were lame, but integrated graphics was the real killer.

I started learning Blender VSE and walked away super impressed. Finally found my editor. (Spent years getting used to Premiere on Mac and PC.) It runs good even though I don't have a dedicated GPU yet, unlike Resolve. (And Blender is a full-on 3D modeller, I should note.)

I'm going to scale up my hardware eventually, but right now my editing needs aren't huge. Just chopping and splicing up stuff for YouTube. Blender's VSE is incredibly good for my use case.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by justinator » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

boppo1 wrote: post #166

justinator wrote: post #123

The only thing wrong with Resolve is there is no "just get out of my way and let me get something done" mode. No easy/beginner mode. This is a very sizable, complicated piece of a software that has little bounds on what you can do with it. The learning curve is as steep and tall as the granite walls of El Capitan. That's not really a critique on the software -- it's not trying to be what it's not. But the criticism o…

>just get out of my way and let me get something done Funny, that's how I think of easy/beginner modes: "in the way, preventing me from getting something done".

Haha, fair enough. Perhaps a more insightful take from me is that the app makes you understand the underlying process a little more than many other options. For example, color space, color correcting. It gets complicated quickly and since the internet is the source of most of the guidance for noobs about it, there are opinions.