I'm not professional video editor by any degree, but a free time "creativists" (or whatever you wanna call it, I do animation, vfx, music production, video editing and more), and since something like 2010 I was using Adobe Premiere but since ~one year ago moved to DaVinci Resolve. Here are the reasons why Resolve beats Premiere today (in a hobbyist's view):
- Premiere sucks for handling 4K footage, even with a powerful CPU/GPU. Either you live with stutters in the editor, or use Proxy clips which requires "downsampling" tons of videos. If you got a semi-large project, most of the time will be spent on just converting clips. Contrast with Resolve which just handles 4K footage directly imported into the editor.
- UX of color grading in DaVinci is miles ahead of what Premiere does.
- OpenFX support!
- Use the free version or buy one version ($299) you'll get to keep forever, compared to forced subscription model of Premiere (~$20/month)
- Resolve beats Premiere in render speed, at least on a powerful desktop computer (i7-7700K @ 4.20 Ghz - RTX 2080Ti - 32GB RAM)
- Every workflow I'm used to is much faster to execute in DaVinci than in Premiere. Feels like the UX team over at DaVinci has a bit more thought behind their UX than Premiere, which just seems to put features wherever nowadays.
- Non-linear and procedural workflow with nodes (similar to how Houdini does it) saves so much time as well
- Premiere sucks for handling 4K footage, even with a powerful CPU/GPU. Either you live with stutters in the editor, or use Proxy clips which requires "downsampling" tons of videos. If you got a semi-large project, most of the time will be spent on just converting clips. Contrast with Resolve which just handles 4K footage directly imported into the editor.
- UX of color grading in DaVinci is miles ahead of what Premiere does.
- OpenFX support!
- Use the free version or buy one version ($299) you'll get to keep forever, compared to forced subscription model of Premiere (~$20/month)
- Resolve beats Premiere in render speed, at least on a powerful desktop computer (i7-7700K @ 4.20 Ghz - RTX 2080Ti - 32GB RAM)
- Every workflow I'm used to is much faster to execute in DaVinci than in Premiere. Feels like the UX team over at DaVinci has a bit more thought behind their UX than Premiere, which just seems to put features wherever nowadays.
- Non-linear and procedural workflow with nodes (similar to how Houdini does it) saves so much time as well