DaVinci Resolve

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Video editing in DaVinci Resolve using my MacBook Pro w/ Mac Virtual Display helps a ton with workflows where I need the extra space, and is definitely what I find the most helpful for it”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “huge fan of Davinci Resolve. Its free version carried me for a long time!”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “it was easy to use other advanced tools such as Davinci Resolve”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-19

• “have to first convert the audio track to MP3 for Davinci Resolve to support it”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-19

• “With Davinci Resolve I have to intentionally plan on making a video to be willing to use it, because it's much heavier, doesn't support the audio in most of the source videos I am using, so I have to convert that first, and does a lot more than what I usually need.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “ATEM Mini Extreme does not capture the transitions when recording to disk and opening in DaVinci Resolve (you only get the tracks)”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “my partner and I have had great luck replacing AfterEffects and Premiere with Blender and DaVinci Resolve, respectively”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-07

• “What's the problem with Apple's .mov files and DaVinci? I just ran into this last night.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-08

• “pleasantly surprised when I had to start 4k video editing work and could just use Davinci Resolve”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-28

• “I got sick of editing my kids sports videos for highlights in Davinci Resolve”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-27

• “Audio is still broken pretty regularly in davinci resolve on Linux. Sometimes I need to restart the application to make audio work. And I can't record sound within resolve at all.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-12-30

• “We got frustrated trying to accomplish simple tasks in video editors like DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro. Features are hidden behind menus, buttons, and icons”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-11-19

• “Alt+click is a thing in davinci resolve for adding keyframes. Urgh.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-22

• “it really feels to me like kdenlive is getting in the way of my flow much less than davinci”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-14

• “Davinci Resolve require GPU and doesn't always recognize it - so it doesn't even start”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-07-14

• “Even DaVinci Resolve is ready to run in a few short seconds.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-06-15

• “With DaVinci Resolve, I can fine-tune my cuts to check the flow of movement and maintain continuity of the audience's eye in frame to ensure I am not unintentionally jarring their experience of the narrative I help shape with the director.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-19

• “it's still possible to make the PC freeze by either doing encodes in AV1 in DaVinci Resolve”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-05-16

• “Davinci resolve for my youtube video but its too tough so shifting to capcut or something else”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-14

• “I'd recommend learning DaVinci Resolve if you're just starting out trying to edit. You'll have a much easier time in a program built for editing than with AE. You can even animate text in Resolve or Premiere the same way you did. It's completely free and I switched to it years ago from Adobe because I think it's actually a better program.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-11

• “I use Davinci resolve - which has a native Linux install. But I need to use some weird tool to convert it to a dpkg to install and run it. It doesn't have a window bar - so the only way I can change the size of the window is by right clicking in the task bar”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-04-12

• “I succeeded running Davinci on Wayland on latest 6.13 Kernel”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-02-19

• “Davinci Resolve AI features (game changers for my photo/video editing)”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-12-05

• “Davinci Resolve is so far ahead of Premiere that it makes me wonder why Premiere is still used by anyone regardless of other considerations”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2024-10-16

• “In DaVinci Resolve, unpredictable brightness shifts will occur throughout the image.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2024-09-05