If the cut page scares you, don’t worry! Don’t use it. Not a perfect analogy, but you can think of the edit page as Premiere Pro or Avid – offering your traditional track-based editing experience, and the cut page is more like Final Cut Pro featuring a magnetic style timeline.

When it comes to editing, Resolve has a bit of a split-personality, offering two different editing experiences via the cut and edit page. Essentially, Resolve blows Lumetri out of the water! But that’s a topic for another video. Resolve is the industry standard for color grading, used on films costing 100’s of millions of dollars. Although comparing Resolve’s color grading functionality to Lumetri is a bit of an understatement! If you’re used to Adobe’s Creative Suite you can think of this as Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Media Encoder and Lumetri all packed into one program. Resolve used to be a one trick pony, focusing on color grading but its feature set has grown to include editing, compositing, audio, 3D and encoding. If you don’t feel the need to customize the UI, you won’t miss the ability to. Software like Premiere does offer more customization, but Resolve’s interface feels more polished. It’s similar to most NLE’s workspaces, each configured for a different task. Media management, editing, VFX, color correction, plus grading, audio and delivery. Resolve’s feature set is divided into 7 pages, and each page is dedicated to a different part of the post production workflow. The interface is clean and well organized. Its refreshingly simple, a small detail we like that allows you to focus on creativity. drp format, by default Resolve stores project files in a database allowing you to access them via it’s own interface. While it is possible to export Resolve projects in the. Unlike other NLEs that require you to choose where to store your project files, Resolve manages these internally. And finally, we’ll answer the big question…should you start using it? The Interface, Features, Integration & Cost

Then, we’ll summarize Resolve’s strengths and weaknesses. We’re going to start with a look at the Resolve user-interface, its feature-set, how it integrates with the rest of your post-production workflow and its cost - spoiler, it’s free!

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