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DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by Gigachad »

nickjj wrote: post #164
HDBaseT wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

H.264 isn't efficient though. AV1 (and even H.265) are anywhere from 20-50% more space efficient for the same visual quality. AAC vs Opus is a little bit more debated, but on average should outperform AAC.

The problem with AV1 is it requires a massive amount of compute resources. This affects both recording (encoding) and playback (decoding) and certainly affects editing. My AMD RX 480 (8 GB) card doesn't even support AV1 encoding too. Being able to edit without lag is really important, also keeping your CPU load reasonably low when recording is important to avoid dropped frames, or your recording streams becoming out…

On a low power machine you should use proxies. Davinci Resolve free version only supports patented codecs if the OS supports them. Microsoft and Apple pay licensing fees to use these codecs.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by Gigachad »

bensyverson wrote: post #33
jameshart wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of professional skill nowadays is misdirected from ‘knowing how to do the thing’ into ‘learning how to use a computer to do the thing’. The role of music producer includes a large chunk of ‘knowing how to program synths and samples and drums and effects’. The role of industrial designer includes a lot of ‘knowing how to model things in CAD’. Even roles like academic researchers require skills like ‘formatting L…

Completely agree. How many people over the past 20 years have been musically gifted, but found ProTools or Logic impenetrable? The AI unlock is about enabling that creativity, not replacing it.

And now those people are crushed by a wave of AI slop music

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by Gigachad »

dbspin wrote: post #89
szszrk wrote: post #86

Anyone knows if there os support for Intel integrated graphics in Resolve now? I tried it a few times but I think it didn't work at all with those cards.

Resolve is extremely RAM hungry. For 4K video I wouldn't want to be editing with less than 12GB of VRAM. I'm guessing that excludes most integrated graphics. Source - I work as a professional editor (amongst other things). Please commenters, do not come at me with your five minute low bit rate projects that required only a LUT and some contrast and 'worked fine' in DaVinci on a potato.

Integrated graphics use the main system ram so they basically all have access to more memory than the average GPU.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by VerifiedReports »

neovive wrote: post #23

I've been using it for many years, and it's grown in power and functionality with every release. BMD has offered free upgrades to Pro users (with no subscription) for many years, which is refreshing given the current state of software licensing. For those upset with the new agent integration, keep in mind that one of the big knocks on DaVinci Resolve is that it's hard for beginners. Powerful tools like color grading…

Resolve is not any harder to use than any other NLE.

Although... BMD has actually made it harder, by adding bloat like the Cut page. I have attempted to find value in it a couple of times, and didn't. Now I disable it.

BMD needs to stop throwing crap into Resolve and buckle down and do two things:

1. Fix bugs, including UI defects. The Deliver page is a mess. The clip selection between the Edit timeline and the Fusion page makes no sense. And lots more.

2. Unify the node views. Resolve is a bunch of stuff BMD bought and threw together on different pages. The "integration" is janky and can, especially for the beginner, seriously degrade your work. Once example is how Fusion compositions inexplicably downgrade everything to timeline resolution. So you can bring 4K footage into a Fusion comp, but if your output timeline of the moment happens to be merely HD, the entire composition (including keys) will be degraded to work at that resolution. I mean... really? And beyond that, the relationship between Fusion comps and the timeline events they wind up in is extremely fragile and breaks arbitrarily and unrecoverably all the time.

A single nodeview for all operations would be a long-overdue game-changer for editing software.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by dasyatidprime »

amarshall wrote: post #170
nickjj wrote: post #152

I really wish the Linux version supported h264 video and AAC audio. These are extremely disk space efficient codecs and even on 12 year old hardware you can edit 1080p videos without any CPU bound lag. Having to re-encode your source material and re-encode your exports is too tedious to do in practice. On Windows I edited 100+ podcasts with Resolve and it's so good. Video editing on Linux for the last 9 months with K…

H.264 is supported on Linux in DR Studio, it’s just not in the free version.

And to bring up a likely reason: my impression is that H.264 and AAC still have active patents that apply to the major implementations, and those are not licensed gratis for all uses, and that applies more heavily to the encoding side. Raspberry Pi used to (and might still, I don't know) offer add-on license keys to unlock certain video codec support for what I assume was a similar reason. A lot of individual Linux desktop users just do their small-scale FFmpeg runs under the radar, but commercial software delivery is different.

With proprietary operating systems, the commercial entity behind the OS can negotiate for licensing. Some commercially-associated Linux distributions have efforts in similar directions, like Fedora for instance has some special secondary-repo stuff around H.264 support, but that's at minimum much more fragmentary as a target for an application developer concerned with the legalities.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

Venn1 wrote: post #24

I've edited well over a thousand hours of video on my (Debian) DaVinci Resolve workstation. It's a rock-solid video editor that I can spend a day in without having to worry about a crash. But I desperately wish Blackmagic would bring support for VST3 plugins and JACK to Linux. Or, at the very least, allow me to use my MIDI control surface in Fairlight on Linux. As it stands, I have to do all of my audio production in…

Question: does it allow easy speed ramp/curved time remapping and what is the effect on the audio when making gradual playback speed changes?

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by dasyatidprime »

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #11
faangguyindia wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've added it as people are opting for stuff like Palmier Pro, FableCut, and likes, which can edit videos using AI.

I can imagine the conversation with Studio lawyers about contaminating IP with uncopyrightable generative content liabilities. =3

I'm not an experienced video editor, but I don't think the bulk of video editing involves generating new content on the fly except for narrow cases like adding titles, which is where an AI would easily be able to lean on scripting the existing tooling. There's a ton of grunt work involved in fixing up cuts and figuring out where everything is and so forth.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by dasyatidprime »

rasz wrote: post #119
xinayder wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is one of the the cases where “the language model won't necessarily respect IP law” is really relevant. Individual users may be able to get away with this because they're too scattershot to sue, and users in some jurisdictions may actually be fine regardless, but broadly, the patent licensing around things like H.264 is not something BMD can afford to ignore. AFAIK the biggest reason Google was pushing WebM in the first place was because they, a huge corporation, were balking at being under the thumb of the MPEG LA!

I appreciate that it can be confusing for users that patents can still apply to techniques where implementations exist that are both libre and gratis from a copyright perspective, but this has been an issue for Linux-adjacent software distribution for ages—like, see how Debian used to put certain stuff that was encumbered by patents in the US but not in other jurisdictions in special “non-US” repository sections, that sort of thing. It's not Black Magic's doing that the codec space is like this. I wish people wouldn't make so many mocking assumptions sometimes.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21.1

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Post by ctippett »

jameshart wrote: post #37
bensyverson wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely agree. How many people over the past 20 years have been musically gifted, but found ProTools or Logic impenetrable? The AI unlock is about enabling that creativity, not replacing it.

Joe said it right in Halt and Catch Fire : > Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing. That was that character’s take on Jobs’s ‘bicycle for the mind’ concept.

Just finished watching the series. What a great show.
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