RESOLVED TO MOVE TO DAVINCI RESOLVE

We're changing our editing software to Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 18. After reviewing the news and reviews on video editing programs, we've found Blackmagic's Davinci Resolve 18, and given its clever design and extraordinary functionality we're moving to it.

There are many video editing programs in the world today, everywhere, and video and video editing itself is going like wildfire.  More and better programmers and programs, video makers, video editors and video software educators everywhere.  Video, and especially YouTube, has become the global communications tool of choice, more so every day

We've found that there is a huge burst of enthusiasm in the editing community for Davinci Resolve.  There are two versions, one is free and the other, Resolve Studio, for a relatively modest one-time price.  Both versions have great interface design with different pages for editing the timeline, creating motion graphics on the timeline, doing color correction on the timeline, and doing audio improvement on that same timeline. 

There are remarkable functions and effects on each on each of those pages, and each page immediately improves your editing on the underlying timeline  Some of the most powerful audio effects on the market, like Dialogue Leveler and Voice Isolation, somehow acquired from the audio leader, Izotope, are included in the audio page, which is called Fairlight.

You can share your work with others in the cloud, which is a tremendous advantage for teams like we have at ThinkTech.  And you can render the final video of your work directly to YouTube and DropBox, and that's a huge time-saver for us.

We can't think of any editing program that would do better for us, especially at this low cost.  Our management and staff have  been familiarizing ourselves with its design, functions and effects, and we are more and more impressed.  It's different from Adobe and yes there is a learning curve, but in many ways it's easier and more efficient than Creative Cloud, where you have to do "round-trips" among Premiere, Audition, Photoshop and After Effects. It's great to have all those things in one program.

So for us and an emerging video editing community, this seems to be the cutting edge, beyond Final Cut and Premiere Pro, and likely to go much further going foward.  That said, we're working to make it our primary editor in the next few weeks.  Stand by for better looking videos and production values coming soon, which is right in line with where we want to go.

ThinkTech, Staying Up

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