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Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by mrhottakes » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #130

swatcoder wrote: post #32

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> Most video is going to be AI in the near future That's like saying all fine art would be photography, all film would be CGI, or all music would be synthesized electronica. That's not how aesthetics seem to work. Artists will make more or less good use of generative AI in their work, and it will probably seep into most media in some way or another, effecting them, but arts mostly don't get replaced and AI doesn't re…

It's saying most art will be created with AI. Like saying most pictures will be made with digital cameras. Like saying most music will be captured and edited digitally. You guys have an anti-AI bug and it's eating you alive and blinding you to the future that is unfolding. It's toxic and you're all 100% wrong. Your hate makes it impossible to see all of the improvements. I've been a filmmaker for decades. This tech i…

It seems like you have trouble handling the idea that people disagree with you. You should try listening instead of immediately jumping to being reactionary.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by Floppyrom » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:28 PM UTC

Blows my mind how weak the competition for Adobe still is after all these decades.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by boppo1 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:32 PM UTC

justinator wrote: post #170

boppo1 wrote: post #166

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>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 .

This is a fair criticism. I was lucky enough to grow up on blender and spend lots of free time with it, so all of this stuff is second-nature to me. I am not the standard case, but when software insists on holding my hand and abstracting stuff away it feels patronizing and frustrates me so much I will change my life to avoid using the software.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by jayd16 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:33 PM UTC

tehbeard wrote: post #99

odsodsods wrote: post #8

people complaining about AI features have clearly never wasted hours editing video or lost time and money discovering a technical flaw in a rush shot three days ago. For actual workflows, these tools are lifesavers

Because those people see the phrase "AI features" and the first thought is those sloppy generative AI stuff where things shift. Where as marketing at all these corporation is trying to genericize "AI features" into anything using an algorithm. "Content aware fill", something we've had for over a decade is now "AI object removal" "Noise suppression" is "AI voice extraction" Motion unblur is now "AI motion unblur".

Seriously. "AI search"? Oh you mean "search"?

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by jayd16 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:38 PM UTC

jscheel wrote: post #40

I really don't understand why people are complaining about the AI features. These all mostly seem like solid quality of life enhancements and CGI-like tweaks.

If it works, it shouldn't be called AI.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by goblin89 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

p0nce wrote: post #230

goblin89 wrote: post #132

I tolerate Resolve, essentially it’s just inertia. It is hard to imagine software could be commercial and so poorly made. My favorite glitch that has persisted for many versions is how if you background it while it is launching, the GUI becomes frozen and the only way to use it is to kill the process and then launch it again making sure to not switch to any other apps while it loads. The worst one that comes to mind,…

Mmm I have a different experience. For me other NLE tools were more crashy than Resolve. Resolve also has an incredible feature set and with a one-time payment is a terrific deal. But years ago, it was very much bug-ridden for sure.

I mean, I just used it last month whatever the latest version was. It didn’t freeze at startup but all the other issues were still there.

I can’t see myself paying for that. What I do now can be done using a mix of free software (ffmpeg, etc.) and if I were to go pro and have less time for tinkering then it’d be FCP for me…

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by jscheel » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC

starkparker wrote: post #60

jscheel wrote: post #40

I really don't understand why people are complaining about the AI features. These all mostly seem like solid quality of life enhancements and CGI-like tweaks.

some of these genuinely excite me, like the slate recognition (chore-reduction), clip search (although I'd want to see how reliable it is), and deblur (a typical PITA post fix). anything that makes masking, tracking, and level-matching easier saves hours on hours, but only if they're either reliable or easy to fix what the automation gets wrong (and it'll always get something wrong by the director, no matter how good…

Yeah, I definitely agree with your concern about getting sloppy in production. But to be fair... "we'll fix it in post" has been a thing for a while.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by vjvjvjvjghv » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

Daub wrote: post #221

Auracle wrote: post #201

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Capture One, however, does.

Thanks for pointing that out. You are indeed correct. However, from what I can see DaVinci's tools still have the edge. With Capture One the feedback on what hues have been selected is far vaguer than I would like. Moreover, the node-based workflow is far more suitable for complex adjustments. Repeating a point I made in another comment: in DV it is possible to edit hue to hue, hue to saturation, hue to luminesce, lu…

You seem to be very focused on color. There are quite a few other areas where the traditional editors like Lightroom or C1 have more to offer.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by kranke155 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

l33tbro wrote: post #147

odsodsods wrote: post #8

people complaining about AI features have clearly never wasted hours editing video or lost time and money discovering a technical flaw in a rush shot three days ago. For actual workflows, these tools are lifesavers

> wasted hours editing Editing is a craft. You have to watch everything, otherwise you don't know what you have. A machine organising stringouts and selects can work for interviews, but not for action. But even then it is only parsing your media for semantic intent. It misses the way things are said, which often imparts a different meaning. You can use AI features for editing. But it is unlikely you will be making an…

I work professionally in commercials. You literally wrote the very solid counter argument into your own comment.

For interviews, this saves hundreds of hours. Giant amounts of social content are now interview-like, including podcasts.

Your argument makes little sense to me. For narrative editing, this is a minor help. For interview-like content it cuts work by 30-70% maybe. its probably a gamechanger.

Re: DaVinci Resolve 21

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Post by jackofalltrades » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #162

sbarre wrote: post #141

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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!

RAW files from my Lumix S9 are working without problems with the latest free beta in Linux.