if i buy davinci resolve can i put it on my desktop a

I know this sounds crazy, BUT, if you have a strong backup plan ahead of time, then it’s truly the only way to see if what you’re testing is viable in a professional workflow environment under looming deadlines and client demands. In my personal experience over the years, the best way to really see the strengths and pitfalls of any software or hardware is to throw real-world, client-paying projects at it. “I already had roughly 40 to 50 videos edited in Resolve under my belt since Resolve 12 beta” Part of the interest was to (A) see if Resolve could run smooth, stable, and fast enough to actually be used as a primary NLE and (B) to see if the process of proxies and round-tripping could truly be a thing of the past using Resolve as an NLE. With Adobe Premiere as our #1 primary NLE (and AVID Symphony as #2), I wanted to really see how DaVinci Resolve would stack up. In other words, I’ve been around the NLE block a few times and back. I was even able to hack FCP 1 to work with my Media100 hardware.

I even dabbled with the //FAST Video Machine VM Studio system for a bit (a hybrid linear/non-linear editor… anyone remember that?). For some quick background, I edited video linearly in the 80’s and 90’s and ultimately went the NLE route in the mid-90’s, starting with Premiere, then owning a Media100 system for many years, then FCP 1-7 (where I was a beta tester for part of FCP’s growth), AVID Symphony, and ultimately back to Premiere as our primary NLE. It was at that I point I decided to really see if the software was matured enough to really work as a stand-alone NLE (non-linear editor).

The public beta version of Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve as version 12 was released around August of last year. Is DaVinci Resolve truly a viable solution to use as an NLE? Read on. With a year into using DaVinci Resolve as a non-linear editor, Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media shares his thoughts and experiences along that journey.

If i buy davinci resolve can i put it on my desktop a