I usually overlay quite a bit of stuff on top of my footage, like images, incrustations, text, or icons, and these things add up in terms of performance. It only taxes your CPU, and it makes it really hard to use in some cases. Not for previewing your video, not for rendering. Kdenlive is powerful, but it doesn’t use your GPU, at all. Why did I feel I needed to try something else than Kdenlive? The main reason is performance. Kdenlive was a strong step up, and taught me a lot about video editing I used it for one full video, and I created many mini projects in it to try and reproduce stuff I could do easily in Kdenlive. Davinci Resolve was making bedroom eyes at me from the corner of the room, and since I now have an Nvidia GPU, I thought it could be a good time to try my hand at it. Still, after about 2 years, it felt like it was time to try something new. I liked it so much that I even made a few tutorial videos to show people it’s actually a great piece of software. In terms of effects, whether audio or video, in terms of available transitions (through custom wipes), and compositing, and now with a much better tool to handle audio levels, it’s a fantastic open source tool. It has a bit of a learning curve, and getting it to run without crashing can be a hassle (hint: use the flatpak version), but it offers a lot. I started the first few ones with Pitivi, which is great as well, but I wanted to use something that had a bit more possibilities, and try to step up my game.

Unzip makeresolvedeb_XX.Y.Z-X.sh.tar.Nick Youtuber, writer, video maker, and Linux enthusiast Tue, Jul 21, 2020ĭavinci Resolve is a powerful video editorįor most of the life of the channel, I’ve used Kdenlive to edit my videos.

Download script with same version as your downloaded Resolve.

Unzip DaVinci_Resolve_XX.Y.Z_Linux.zip archive.

Start Resolve by searching for it in your applications Unzip DaVinci_Resolve_XX.Y.Z_Linux.zip archiveĭouble click DaVinci_Resolve_XX.Y.Z_n and follow installation guide This guide will help you to get started with Davinci Resolve on Linux (Ubuntu) in no time.

But installing and using the software on Linux can be quite painful at first.

Davinci Resolve is one of the most powerful free video editing software out there.

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