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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/davinci-resolve-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/davinci-resolve-profile/alternatives/) # DaVinci Resolve User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.8/5 - Total reviews: 273 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.0/5 - Customer support: 4.3/5 - Value for money: 4.8/5 - Functionality: 4.8/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 225 reviews (82%) - 4 stars: 43 reviews (16%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (1%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It integrates editing, effects (Fusion), and sound (Fairlight) into a single workspace, eliminating the need to switch between multiple programs and saving time. - No other post-production suite comes close in terms of listening their customers and making features that are benefitting them the same way Blackmagic Design have done with Davinci Resolve. - The most important thing is that the free version itself has great capabilities, so it is an excellent choice for anyone working alone or a small company that wants high quality without paying a lot of subscription money. ### Most mentioned cons - Moreover, DaVinci Resolve offers not flexible enough Workspace Customisation and can mislead the user. - It will take time to master Fusion's Nodes system or understand how Fairlight works, which can be frustrating at first. - The Fusion tab is pretty intimidating coming from layer-based editing. ## DaVinci Resolve customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 273 (page 1). ### Davinci Resolve - Excellent, effective and easy to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aaron L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall I think it's a great, inexpensive peice of software that pretty much covers all my video editing needs #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Davinci Resolve is not only some of the best color correction softwear, it also allows you to edit video in the same style of software you may already be familiar with. Plus the standard version is free to use. #### Cons It's not quite as versatile as Premier that has a whole suite of software that you can transport media between --- ### By far the best free video editor in the market. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vasilis K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I use the free version of DaVinci Resolve mostly for editing social media and YouTube videos. I'm really satisfied so far but I wish it had some more pre-installed effects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The free version is really generous and powerful. Also I really like the color grading system a lot. #### Cons The interface has a steep learning Curve but if you watch a few tutorial you'll be comfortable with it. Also, sometimes it can be a bit slow when the project is too big. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve DaVinci Resolve handles big projects better and in general is a lot more powerful. --- ### Become Professional for free - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rasoul H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Strong product with a lot of capabilities which everyone who creates/edits videos must use ! It's free #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's an amazing tool where you can edit videos from super simple style to production style in just one app. It has nice transitions and supports several media layers. it also supports green screen removal which is so cool. #### Cons Some minor features are not available in free version and you must buy the paid product. I would have prefered also to have more classic transitions --- ### A good editing tool but not user friendly - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Angelo G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I was an Avid media composer user for long time then convinced by a friend I switched to DaVinci Resolve in 2017. The learning curve it's very steep and after these years I still need to go back to the user manual for finding functions not so easy to discover. It's a great gear for colorists but not so easy for making simple editing. It can be improved under many points for instance is not backward compatible so must keep a backup of your project in case of. Difficult to use in a laptop and I use it in a 17" FHD laptop. Anyhow as any software cannot satisfy everyone. I go on use it because at least the updates price (zero) is still fitting my pocket. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The price was why I choose it at first, then after using it for a while I found it having a plenty of tools in the same box. I still use it since 2017. I Use the studio version which has good tools and permit me to complete a work even I'm alone. #### Cons It's not very user friendly. The UI is not very easy to understand and to much tools are fit in a single screen. Unless I'm not able to discover it the different UI sections are not detachable so Timeline area results sacrificed unless do you have two monitor and move timeline to one of them. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve Because of cheap cost and some friends recommendations --- ### high powered professional video editing software... for free! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Cushi M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I enjoyed using DaVinci Resolve, although at this point I have decided to move back to Final Cut Pro as I am more familiar with the software and interface. DaVinci resolved has allowed me to create high quality videos for free which was a necessity as my budget did not allow for the purchase of Final Cut Pro for some time. I use the software to make YouTube videos, Instagram reels and other forms of social media video content as well as filming eCourses. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The best thing about DaVinci Resolve is that it is a free software. It is extremely rare to find such a powerful professional grade software available for free. It is worth noting that not all features are available in the free version, although essentially every necessity is available. This is not iMove or Windows Movie Maker. This is actual world class editing software available for you to download today. There is a significant learning curve though, so if you are already used to another software, the time investment to learn a new software may not be worth your while. i.e, if you will easily use up over $299 of your time to learn this software in a basic way, so if you're already a master at Final Cut Pro, it would make more sense to pay the $299 to purchase it. #### Cons In general, there are not many cons to this software. It has everything I could ever think of needing to make high quality video edits and much more than I'd ever use. The learning curve is probably the most difficult thing about using this software. It isn't as user friendly as Final Cut Pro, for example, but if one takes the time to do the necessary tutorials or takes a course, they will overcome that difficulty in due time. #### Reasons for choosing DaVinci Resolve Ultimately the free price tag was what prompted me to choose Resolve. It's a great option for newbies or people who need a cheap solution for their business. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve I learned FCP in college. I did not have the budget to purchase it as a business expense, so I utilized the free version of DaVinci Resolve. FCP is still my personal preference, but Resolve is an excellent option overall that I'm sure I'd have no issue with using had I learned and practiced with it as much as I have with FCP --- ### DaVinci Resolve: The Next Industry Standard - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jeremy D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been unhappy with Final Cut Pro and (especially) Premiere, so I was shocked when I downloaded DaVinci Resolve and it was so powerful! And the Fairlight audio editor is light years beyond anything else in the industry, offering full multitrack mixing, output busses, and more. I cannot recommend this software enough. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Firstly, the free version of DaVinci Resolve is so good, I would wager most amateur video editors would never need to upgrade to the Studio version. It's shocking that BlackMagic gives away an editor this good for free, and I would be surprised if DaVinci Resolve does not replace Adobe Premiere in the next 5-10 years. #### Cons DaVinci Resolve has some quirks that take getting used to, especially when it comes to the animation workflow. This is a confusing interface where you hook up nodes in a nebulous flowchart that just does not make sense to a newcomer. #### Reasons for choosing DaVinci Resolve Gives me all the features for free. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve Adobe Premiere is simply an outdated, buggy program, and Apple Final Cut Pro can be confusing and tedious to use (despite its optimization). DaVinci Resolve just works. --- ### Davinci Resolve customer support - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Steve J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I’d like to give special thanks to the DaVinci Resolve technical support team, especially [sensitive content hidden] , for his outstanding assistance. He went above and beyond to help me recover my activation code for my new laptop after I had lost the original hard copy. [sensitive content hidden] was extremely helpful in validating my details and promptly confirming the activation. His professionalism and support were exceptional — he’s an absolute legend! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I purchased DaVinci Resolve Studio in February 2023, and I have to say it’s easily one of the best — if not the best — video editing software available. The continuous software updates and improvements are truly beneficial and show how much the developers care about their users. #### Cons Please make sure not to lose your activation ID if you received it as a hard copy. I was fortunate to have excellent technical support who helped me recover mine. --- ### DaVinci Resolve giving you Hollywood style Results. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Briannah H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Its one of the leaders in video creations and the results speak for themselves. This is why the experienced video creators use this tool. The free version can give you the experience to learn through the many tutorials available before purchasing the paid version. There is a excellent training video on utube that is a must see for anyone interested in starting out. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros DaVinci Resolve is one of the best video creation tools around, however you need to have previous experience in video creation to use it. This is a advance video creation system, from colour grading, project creation, and a wide selection of features that gives Hollywood style results. The customer support gives a large tutorial library that does require a lengthy learning period, while the value for money is also excellent, there is a free version that is easily uploaded, or the Davinci Studio which gives you more fancy features at a one time payment of around $500 all upgrades after are free. Like a lot of systems you can add a security password to protect all your work. #### Cons Has a lengthy learning curve, but the results are Hollywood style quality. The advance version being Davinci Studio with a much large selection of features available is a reasonably cost but at a one time payment with a life time upgrades for free the initial cost out weights the amount you are receiving. --- ### Our top pick for color grading and editing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Emanuel C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This equipment has helped us raise the production value of our content, allowing our storytelling to be more powerful and visually refined for our audience. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros DaVinci Resolve is where I gain professional-level control over color correction, which is critical for the kind of documentary and storytelling work we create. I appreciate that it’s a single platform, combining editing, color, audio and effects. #### Cons There was a steep learning curve at first, particularly with color grading tools, so it took some time to unleash its power. --- ### The only video editing software you'll ever need - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Peter R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospitality - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Davinci has incredibly powerful tools built into a user interface that is still usable for new editors. They provide educational videos on how to use those tools that are an unbelievable quality for a free product #### Cons davinci resolve has a steep learning curve. this is mitigated by a wide selection of informational videos, but can be intimidating for new users. --- ### DaVince Resolve: a powerful software! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alessandro D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am a videomaker and I find DaVinci Resolve to be a very complete software. I love how rich it is in functions and possibilities. It could be the best choice for both amateurs and professionals, who are looking for a powerful tool to create videos. However, the software requires a time to learn how to use it. It isn't simple if you don't have an experience with video editing software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros A lot of interestings tools, functions and effects, that every videomaker needs. #### Cons It isn't easy to use, and the user interface is hard to learn at the first. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve I was looking for a more professional software and I think that DaVinci is the best choice. --- ### The Underdog that Runs the Industry - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rumbani N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Resolve has been an excellent software. No weird crashes, smooth playback with the system I have. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The stability of Resolve is why I switched to it. The Color Grading capabilities is 2nd to none. #### Cons I cant use my Red Giant plugins and that just sucks. It leaves the need for Adobe products. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve Premiere crashed a whole lot and had lackluster color grading capabilities compared to Resolve. --- ### Davinci is an in depth editing software for many budgets - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jeremy G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Games - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I mostly use the editing page features of Davinci and premade effects and they are great for things like trailers and non-professional videos. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Davinci is fast and full featured even in it's free tier #### Cons Davinci requires more learning and knowledge to get full use out of compared to other editing software #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve Wanted a more modern video editor that was cheaper --- ### From small to big, an essential tool for the media creator. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use it to integrate VFX and 3D CGI for small shorts, but some times I had to create medium length media and it's also a pleasure to work for these projects. Also in art schools I like teaching this software because it makes students feel like they progress fast on their creative solutions. It is not a class of teaching the tool, but a class of using a tool for media creation. Which is something that you cannot say of other software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I really love how DaVinci is able to accommodate all kind of projects and workflows. Having professional-grade software ranging from free to full-paid with advanced options is a killer. This is very useful as the software to go for schools and students. And it can get as big as needed. The learning curve for newcomers is very fast, and I have only had some trouble trying to explain how a project media library differs from what you see at the OS file level. But nothing wrong or bad with it. #### Cons I think the interface may seem to be complex when you see it the first time, but the tutorials that come in the documentation make this barrier to disappear fast. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve I like the way DaVinci makes this tooling really accessible for my students and hobbists. --- ### Literally the best, and for free - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Allen V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Resolve is the best video editing software on the market hands down. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The free version of this software is almost 100% of the what the paid version offers. No watermarks or sly ways of getting you to pay. Simply great. #### Cons It has a learning curve, but nothing that is greater than any other software of this caliber. #### Reasons for choosing DaVinci Resolve Price and the ability to use varying OS platforms. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve I switched to have a device "agnostic" video editor that doesn't require specialized knowledge for each OS platform. --- ### The BEST VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE Money Can't Buy- IT'S FREE - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mersen G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Industrial Automation - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, I love it! It has everything a $0 film maker needs to put their creativity into fruition. It gives small filmmakers like us a tool that professionals still use and that has never happened before. Minus the major movie stars, we're almost on the same playing field now. I've edited videos on it for 3 years and I don't think I'll be switching anytime soon- if I do it will probably be to the full paid version Davinci Resolve Studio. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Firstly, it's free. It has everything anyone would ever need to make a film. From sound editing to colour correcting, all the tools it provides are professional and easy to use. Did I mention that it's free? Another great thing about the software is that it actually uses your GPU. I also particularly like its trimming tools as I find that there aren't many free video editing softwares that give you the ability to make such precise cuts on a video. This is especially useful if you're a video creator who HAS TO cut 'that scene' at just the right moment else the whole film is terrible. Yes, I'm that video creator. Visual playback isn't too shabby either- it does lag sometimes but a feature called optimized media reduces that. Lastly, the thing I probably like the most is the endless options for editing the actual video appearance. You can zoom in on it, crop it, stretch it and keyframe each change to create an animated effect. #### Cons It's system requirements. The software needs AT LEAST 16GB of DDR4 RAM to run smoothly. I currently run it on just 8GB which is fine if you don't mind lag and random software crashes. Davinci Resolve also comes with the default settings for Autosave being off. I learnt that one the hard way. It also sometimes has problems with audio output, particularly when you use more than one output device (like headphones and external speakers). Sometimes it doesn't automatically change to the system device. Another thing I noticed is that, for some odd reason, it randomly outputs mono audio from a stereo audio file but this does eventually fix itself. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve Editing functionality and overall U.I is much more professional and user-friendly. --- ### The best free and the best paid - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Klavs K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I'm really fond of Davinci Resolve, it contains everything I need and I love the workflow of the program. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The fact that it's free to use and you get a free studio license if you buy a camera, is just amazing. But the main reason for using this product is that they update it quite often and I my system doesn't get breakdowns. #### Cons The audio editing in Resolve is not as great as it could be. BUT for me the video editing is the most important. Non-movable windows within the program. #### Reasons for choosing DaVinci Resolve It's generally easier to work in Resolve with the Blackmagic ATEM recordings. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve cheaper, easier workflow, ATEM switcher project workflow (makes my day) --- ### Why DR is the best free editing software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros flexibility of the software as it contains Edit page , cur page , fusion tab and coloar page within itself . #### Cons 10 bit footage is not available in free version and fails to run 4k footage smoothly without proxies . --- ### Davinci rocks - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It’s been excellent. With my Mac m4 I was able to render. 9 minute video in sub two minutes. I find it incredibly powerful for a home user #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ease of use and the editing capabilities are phenomenal. You can also export in many different formats to create professional #### Cons I think it needs more transitions but over all they are great. Granted I’m just a hobbyist and post my videos to my website and you tube. --- ### A pro video editor available for all - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nikolas K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A pro video editor that have a free version that can cover most individuals' needs without the need to buy the paid version. There are a lot of functions available in the free version and it doesn't feel like a big demo, it really looks like they just made the basic functions available for someone who just want to edit some videos with his family and the more advanced features that doesn't concern everyone, are reserved for the paid version. The app is fast and responsive even in low end hardware for 1080p that I use, I do believe there are a couple of things in the UI/UX that feel weird but seems like "this is how the pro video people are used to" so yeah I don't know how to feel about it. I mean if the people who pay you require the UI to be that weird, who am I to say "make it simple for me" eh? All in all there are a lot of tutorials that can help you get the results you want and the one off license system is a blessing those days. I hate subscription models and the cost for the paid version is not going to bankrupt you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Even on the free version it is a very powerful video editor, and the paid version is not asking anything extraordinary. Also no Subscription is always a plus. #### Cons Learning curve is a bit step, at least there are a lot of tutorials out there to teach you what you need. #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve Resolve is better and have no subscription --- ### Davinci resolve, an oscar-worthy video editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Cristhian Josue J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Davinci resolve, meets all my needs, it's a powerful editor that doesn't require a lot of effort to learn how it works, but it can help us to create very large projects, it's good, cheap, and powerful. A great video editing software #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Davinci resolve is not expensive, compared to other alternatives, this video editor gives us the software license and updates FOR LIFE, for a single payment, maybe the initial investment isn't cheap, but it will last forever. This video editor has been used in great movies and projects, so it will undoubtedly help us to create the best version of our final cut, this video editor also offers us the opportunity to use a downgrade version with the essentials to create good montages. Davinci resolve is an alternative that everyone should try at least once. #### Cons This being such a powerful software can have its disadvantages, Davinci is designed for video editing professionals, so it may be too much for you, if you are looking for a simple software, which only occupies to cut and paste video sequences, there are much cheaper alternatives that will meet what you are looking for, so I invite you to look for more basic video editors before buying this one. --- ### A professional video editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tibor K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Entertainment - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It's a top ranking video app but requires good understanding, usually used by professions. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This is a very sophisticated app but only recommended for professional editors, it is a complex app that requires fairly considerable time to figure out and a good understanding in both video and sound editing. It has features anyone can use in the media and film industry and even many popular films such as King Kong (2005) was edited with this program. It is great for professional video editors. #### Cons Definitely more time consuming to learn, many companies even have several people working different part of it, use as color graders, video editors, sound editors. This is a complex program to use just by one person. --- ### Davinci Resolve free is all you need for most small to medium scale video editing projects - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Cody S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The free version of Resolve is by far the most functional and feature rich video editing software out there. It beats out Adobe Premiere in the overall feature set you get, especially when you start to get into building effects in Fusion. Each update has helped Resolve take more advantage of powerful GPUs so when you're working with VFX you're rewarded by having a high end GPU during playback and rendering. The color modification options are rich and can do incredible things with your footage. You can easily take non-log footage and apply pre-existing effects and layers to get the look you want. Fairlight is their audio editing suite, which is how this application started out as so you can imagine that the audio editing tools are amazing, and they are. One of the most convenient tools is the ability for Resolve to use audio analysis to automatically line up multiple clips from different cameras that filmed the same scene. If you find yourself often using a clapboard to align your footage, say good bye (assuming you're capturing audio from each camera). The community of creators on Resolve is massive and you can find tutorial son how to do almost anything online. It's how I got started learning how to use the software and I'm still scratching the surface of it's capabilities. #### Cons The software is huge and cumbersome to learn. Luckily there's tons of tutorials on youtube from many creators that can show you how to do simple to super complex tasks. If you're moving from Adobe Premiere, you're going to miss the ability to import content from other apps directly inside of your project. Resolve doesn't support integration into Photoshop and whatnot so you can't go from editing an image in PS then open it up in Resolve like you can in Premiere. If you're someone who heavily relies on the Adobe apps, this will be the hardest thing to get past, but once you've adjusted your workflow it doesn't really add that much time to your projects. You're more so losing out on the convenience. In previous versions it had a tendency to crash randomly. Sometimes effects you create would go corrupt or prevent the project from successfully rendering or the Resolve to crash during rendering. This would require you to pinpoint what part of the video where the failure occurred, find the offending effect, delete and recreate it from scratch. This could be caused by something as simple as a scrolling text box. It was impossible to know what would prevent a video from rendering, which was super frustrating especially when considering the error message doesn't give you any info into what caused the render to fail. They've since made fixes to prevent this from happening, but just something to keep in mind when working in large projects: save often and test your exports. --- ### Da Vinci Resolve!! The Best Colour Grading Software Out there!! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Abhilash C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Video editing application that facilitates production with tools for color correction, visual effects, motion graphics, and post-production audio.Resolve is tremendous, and is fortunately separated into different 'Pages'. There's one to actually look at your 'Media', one more to plan and 'Cut' your recording, one more to 'Alter', despite the fact that you can likewise do altering in 'Cut'. 'Combination' allows you to collect and apply impacts to cuts through a hub based interface (it's more befuddling and less direct than how different editors work with enhancements, but on the other hand it's hugely strong). 'Variety', is where your variety evaluating happens, 'Fairlight' is for escalated sound work and control, and 'Convey' focusses on sending out your completed item.Regardless of not being a significant jump in rendition numbers, this cycle of Resolve actually packs a decent lot of upgrades, from the unobtrusive connection point change, to the huge in the engine execution improvements. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Best in the colour Grading softwaresUser Freindly UIThe software is pretty smooth and responsive in terms of rendering the FootageBasic System Requiremennts are enough to run the software SmoothlyAll the tools required to edit a video is built in the software itself which makes it easier for the user to complete the project in one software itself #### Cons Noise Reduction is only available in paid versionWhile it has all the features ...all of them are not well integrattedpaid version costs a bit higher #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve easy to use and better colour grading --- ### Davinci Resolve is a powerhouse tool in the video editing fraternity. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Golden C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Food & Beverages - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. This a the best video editing software for me. Davinci Resolve has got a well structured workflow, from adding media, to editing it, to adding and modifying Fusion effects, Color grading, a variety of video transitions, Open FX plugins. This software is a real gem. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The advantages of Davinci resolve is that its always being updated to a higher version, which makes it ever relevant in the game. I really liked its abilty to combine multi cameras or combining several videos into one. Color grading is very easy using Davinci Resolve. It has so many video editing tools which are user friendly. Its user interface is very modern and sleek. I can also edit my audio in Davinci Resolve and it has 3D sound effects. A wide variety of transitions and effects enables me to produce quality videos. Resolve is not difficult to master and use. Above all, the software is free and can be upgraded easily. #### Cons Davinci Resolve 17 requires a machine with a bigger working capacity. Sometimes it just crashes and you lose your work. Sometimes rendering takes a lot of time if your machine has a low capacity. However, all these challenges are most common in the unpaid version only. #### Reasons for choosing DaVinci Resolve DaVinci Resolve helped me take my videos to the next level! #### Reasons for switching to DaVinci Resolve Davinci is user friendly and it has many video editing tools. The transitions are so many and easy to apply. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/davinci-resolve-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- DaVinci Resolve Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice