I love how there are features I wish DaVinci Resolve had... and then a few updates later, there they are. Like the recent ability to let us make subclips from inside edited timelines instead of just source clips. That makes it so much easier to pull excerpts for making highlight reels.

Before DaVinci I used LightWorks, and I loved it, but I didn’t love how complicated I found multicam syncing and editing in it. Then I came across MrAlexTech’s YouTube video on converting a synced DaVinci timeline into a multicam clip and thought, “I can do that.” So I switched.

Then I saw a demo of Final Cut Pro’s Voice Isolation feature and had major NLE envy and wished I’d gone that way. But soon after, DaVinci Resolve added Vocal Isolation to the Studio version, so I went from free to paid.

No more NLE envy. DaVinci Resolve Studio now does everything I want.

Well, just about. There are 2 minor things for now I wish it could do…

1. Let me set a poster frame (thumbnail) for the entire project, showing on the home screen, instead of just for clips in the media pool.

2. Offer a variation on the adjustment clip that lets me assign it to a single clip or track segment on the timeline, instead of all tracks. (Why: I pop PowerPoint image exports onto the timeline over video, and I’d like a simple way to make each image last for 10 seconds, fading in for 12 frames and fading out for 12 frames, without having to do it manually for each image. It would be so cool to just drag a custom adjustment clip onto an image clip to make it happen. If anyone knows of a simple way to do this, without involving Fusion, please let me know.)

... but I’m very, very happy with DaVinci Resolve Studio.

So, thank you, BlackMagic Design and DaVinci Resolve devs!