Today video editing is more than a requirement to be in the virtual world. Platforms incorporate a small video editor so that the content we offer is of quality and we give free rein to our most artistic branch. But if we want something more complete and professional we must resort to alternatives such as DaVinci Resolve.

The ideal tool to edit your videos

DaVinci Resolve comes from Blackmagic design, an Australian company based in the port of Melbourne dedicated exclusively to the entire world of video. From its creation through camera manufacturing, to the creation of software for creating FX effects and video editing. DaVinci Resolve has been gaining market share within the professional and semi-professional world and is that within a single program we find almost the entire Adobe suite. On the one hand, we find an excellent video editor, color corrector, audio mixer and even visual effects composer. So it makes it one of the best in the post-production world.

Main features

Some of the best features of this professional video editor are:

• Create scenes with its exclusive video cutting tool.
• Scroll through their two timelines to increase your productivity.
• Optimize your time by reviewing your clips with their quick review.
• Export your videos prepared for platforms.
• Add animations and visuals like you couldn’t do before.
• Edit your videos from your laptop thanks to its interface designed especially for these cases.
• Boost your creativity and personalize with 12 new audio plugins.
• Automatically replace dialogs for shots you don’t like.
• Import your sound library quickly and easily.
• Subtitles through its own tool.
• Create the cover of your videos from its creator.
• Open and work with multiple timelines simultaneously.
• Corrects multiple clips simultaneously.

Supported formats

DaVinci Resolve supports the following formats:

• Video : QuickTime, AVI, R3D, MXF, Prores, DNxHD, MXF, DPX, CIN, EXR
• Audio : wav, aiff, mp3, aac / m4a, flac, mov, mp4, among others.
• Image : heic, j2c, jpg, nef, png, psd, tga, tiff.

Create your own montage professionally

When starting DaVinci Resolve for the first time, we find a series of configurations with an intuitive interface for any type of user. Initially it asks us to select the resolution of our project, although later we can change the resolution of our project again.

The interface of DaVinci Resolve is very similar to that of any other video editor, and so much so that from Blackmagic design they have incorporated the different shortcuts of the most popular programs such as Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro X.

On the other hand, they offer us the possibility of buying a keyboard with the different shortcuts and even a wheel to scroll through the video without the need to touch the mouse.

DaVinci Resolve is divided into tabs to divide each of its functionalities, and that is why any type of edition begins with adding all the digital media with which we are going to work, be it audio, video or even image using the method click and drag to the bottom.

Once added, we move to the next tab called montage, which offers us the possibility of placing all our clips and audio fragments, in addition to trimming them , to have a first version of our project.

When we already have our rough project, it’s time to shape it, and this part is in charge of the editing part of DaVinci Resolve, offering us a library of effects, which include title generators , audio effects, transitions between the different clips … already existing in the program, in addition to our library of sounds that we would have already imported from previous projects.

Well, we have our clip almost to the end, it is time to apply the color corrections if we have used different cameras, lenses or objectives, since each one provides a different representation of the colors, such as excessive saturation, or simply add a little more lighting to a specific clip, as well as being able to make all these corrections to several clips simultaneously. In addition, the color tab gives us the possibility of reducing the existing noise in clips obtained in adverse lighting conditions such as videos taken at night.

We are almost done. On the one hand, we already have our project almost finished in the absence of correcting the audio tracks if at any time we have had problems when recording any part of the video, giving us the possibility of overwriting that part with externally recorded audio .

Finally, from the delivery tab we can select the format of the video to which we want to export if we had not previously selected one and start with the rendering process. This process will take more or less time depending on parameters such as the number of clips added, effects, corrections, and other parameters that more affect our hardware such as our graphics card and RAM.

Where can we get DaVinci Resolve?

DaVinci Resolve in its version 16 offers us two types of versions according to what we need. For the general public, the free version would be more than enough. However, if we need a more advanced option for the treatment of HDR videos, 3D videos, etc. DaVinci Resolve Studio would be your option with a price of $ 299 without monthly subscriptions as there are in other alternatives. Its latest available version is 16 .

We can download it from its website through the following link .

Alternatives to DaVinci Resolve

Adobe premiere pro

Who does not know Adobe Photoshop for image editing. Well, Adobe Premiere is the key to video editing. It is cross-platform, and we can access it through a subscription, at a cost of € 24.19 per month. We can access this alternative through its website .

Vegas Pro

Fighting for the first position in the world of professional video editing we find Vegas Pro. It provides us with a friendly interface for 3D video editing, in addition to 4K and stereoscopic videos. It has a price of € 299 through a special offer that you can get at the following link .

Filmora Pro

Not so far away we find the Pro version of Filmora in a semi-professional way, that we can access it with a price of € 149.99, highlighting among other features motion tracking within video clips, adding entry and exit points of clips using their zoom option.