DaVinci Resolve 21.1 • Hacker News Board

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by echelon » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

darksaints wrote: post #99

jasomill wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only are the upgrades free, the full license is still only $295 and can be freely migrated between macOS, Linux, and Windows (unless something has changed, serial numbers can be activated on two systems at a time and transferred freely so long as you have Internet access). I'm no expert, but I never found Resolve materially more difficult to learn or use than Final Cut Pro or Premiere. And if you're doing anythin…

$295 one time permanent license with free upgrades and can be migrated between different computers? I don't have a single reason to do any form of video editing, let alone professional video editing, but that kind of pricing model makes me want to buy a license just to make sure that companies like this stick around.

They make their money from hardware (and hopefully will continue to be able to do so).

This is commoditizing Adobe for them.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by W3cUYxYwmXb5c » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:29 PM UTC

VeryAnonymous wrote: post #60

raincole wrote: post #30

Off topic, but can anyone share their experience with DaVinci Resolve on Linux? It seems that they only officially support Rocky.

I’ve been using it in Linux for >2 years, including their special cutting keyboard (blanking on the name). Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc I use it on Manjaro, installed via AUR. That said, IIRC it only works with nvidia GPUs and requires X11, and is supposedly finicky to get the environment right for (but the AUR gets it right for me)

I'd be happy to buy if it they add proper linux support. I have an AMD card and I don't feel like fighting with the install process.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by pier25 » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC

This team ships.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by Danox » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC

darksaints wrote: post #99

jasomill wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only are the upgrades free, the full license is still only $295 and can be freely migrated between macOS, Linux, and Windows (unless something has changed, serial numbers can be activated on two systems at a time and transferred freely so long as you have Internet access). I'm no expert, but I never found Resolve materially more difficult to learn or use than Final Cut Pro or Premiere. And if you're doing anythin…

$295 one time permanent license with free upgrades and can be migrated between different computers? I don't have a single reason to do any form of video editing, let alone professional video editing, but that kind of pricing model makes me want to buy a license just to make sure that companies like this stick around.

Black Magic supports all three platforms and they’re not exactly a large company. They show every day that there is no excuse/reason not to support multiple platforms. Anything else is just an excuse by a lazy developer. The developer for Blender is also the same. A user of both programs.

Black magic also make a program that support/ties into the camera hardware on smartphones and they support both Android and iOS.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by sph » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

bensyverson wrote: post #31

strideashort wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty soon there will be no need for recording and editing . IIRC House MD was one of the first shows to use digital (5D mkII). Soon there will be AI generated shows. Perhaps entirely personalized. Youtube, generate me a TNG episode.

It's already possible, but in my opinion it will never be popular. In some ways this has already been proven through other media; ChatGPT can easily generate a novel, but how many people are reading pure-AI novels?

Replace “novels” with music and go check YouTube for slop playlists and people happily eating it up.

The problem of AI “art” has never been that it cannot pass for the real thing. There are plenty of people buying slop ebooks on Amazon today. People will gladly generate a new episode of TNG.

And it will be popular because the discerning ones are the minority. Netflix is a multibillion dollar company serving a lot of mediocre stuff that people happily pay for just to turn off their brain for 2 hours every night.

Hence why I don’t care to justify why I avoid AI generated content at all costs, no matter how good it might look, with most people. It might sound snobbish to say, but they just wouldn’t get it.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by fred_ » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC

cnj wrote: post #16

I've had Claude Code drive DaVinci Resolve before in three ways: - Generate .otio files that are imported. Unfortunately, .otio doesn't fully support everything Resolve can do. - Resolve has a scripting engine. Claude can write Lua scripts, then execute the script (through UI Automation) - Computer Use. It's quite token intense, but it works. I didn't try it, but for the paid version, someone also built a MCP server…

I helped my girlfriend use the MCP server as she had a project where all the media files had been moved to a new source location, and using Codex, it managed to hunt down all the files and stitch it all back together. Ended up saving quite a lot of manual boring labour, and was quite cool to see it work in real time:)

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by moffkalast » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC

xinayder wrote: post #36

embedding-shape wrote: post #2

Not even BMD is safe from the agent apocalypse: > DaVinci Resolve 21.1 now supports integration with AI assistants such as Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex, allowing customers to analyze projects, organize media, adjust settings and batch render using everyday conversational language. Customers can ask their AI assistant to create highlight edits from long form video, remove unwanted clips and render deliverable…

They'd rather add agentic AI support instead of adding proper codec support on the free Linux version (which is already supported on Windows). smh

Haha yeah was about to post this very comment. I'm glad to see they have their priorities in order instead of checks notes supporting MP4 on Linux, the most common type of goddamn encoding. GoPro footage literally does not work with Resolve outside Windows.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by fred_ » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

Have anyone tried using this as a substitute for CaptureOne/Lightroom? Any experiences? I'm aware it's a quite new feature added to the suite, but would love to one day stop paying the pricey subscriptions the other two alternatives demand

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by rasz » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

xinayder wrote: post #36

embedding-shape wrote: post #2

Not even BMD is safe from the agent apocalypse: > DaVinci Resolve 21.1 now supports integration with AI assistants such as Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex, allowing customers to analyze projects, organize media, adjust settings and batch render using everyday conversational language. Customers can ask their AI assistant to create highlight edits from long form video, remove unwanted clips and render deliverable…

They'd rather add agentic AI support instead of adding proper codec support on the free Linux version (which is already supported on Windows). smh

Someone was posting recently how it cost him tens of dollars of LLM Agent time to reverse engineer Linux Davinci and add codec he wanted back in.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by TheOtherHobbes » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:59 PM UTC

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #71

bel8 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ...but for serious work, it will never be a sure shot job handled entirely by AI. Maybe not entirely handed by AI but when AI starts doing it better than most and in a fraction of the time, for a fraction of the cost, why do you think it wont be at least partly delegated to AI? the "never" is what gets me here.

> the "never" is what gets me here. The process is the point for any passionate creative. And yes, for every passionate creative you have a burned out creative who's trying to make ends meet who will use more AI centric tools because both that creative and the people paying them likely do not care how things look when they're completed, only that they're completed, on-time, and under budget. However, again, an actual…

No, the process is the point for you.

For me, the point of creativity is play, exploration, and experimentation. I've always jumped on new technology and new media because they're the best place to find those.

From what I've seen, a lot of the "it's a process" people are more interested in craft than art.

They're not creating anything unique, novel, or personal. They 'create' like an engineering problem - master this skill, copy this style, reproduce some acceptable and recognisable version of this popular imagery/content/genre.

There's a huge gap between competent craft and work that has a voice and is surprising - no matter how it's made.

People with that original voice are rare, and many aren't afraid of AI.

That's not to say that AI doesn't it make even easier to make uninteresting, unoriginal content. But the 'process' can also be fighting the default output quality to transcend that.