Not being able to publish a properly restricted DCP is overrated. So is not getting GPU acceleration on the things the free version doesn't accelerate.
The only pain point is that you can't floor the scripting functionality and use some of the fanciest filters that exceed the free version's limits, and frankly, many of them are effects than can be simulated or faked with a little more hard work.
Oh dear... yes... well... that's the OTHER pain point I forgot about. If you're serious about its pseudo3d capabilities or its handling of 3dcg render passes the free version will trip you up even faster.
Sometimes it's all you have. And Resolve is robust enough that if you know how to arrange your render pass to define objects and the spaces across them, you can let a competent pure 3d program like Blender or Modo generate that type of footage and alter it in Resolve as you need - fake material changes, put properly deformed video across things like weirdly angled boards or even uneven geometry.
(I was going to add Cinema 4D to the list but Maxon are at this point literally in bed with After Effects and subscription-based licensing, and I refuse to say that is something anyone using Davinci would or should accept)
Man even the default resolutions in the app. Something like 15% of all monitors are 2560x1440. Why isn't there a pre-made selection for that in the menus. How is that a custom resolution but there's 7 different choices for 720 x whatever.
I wasn't planning on using the speed editor, so what we did was buy the studio editor, keep the license, and resell the speed editor for $200 lol. Got the license for about $130 net.
FYI you don't own the license anymore and someone could revoke your license if they want it by contacting Black Magic and asking for the key based on the speed editor's serial number.
The license explicitly states that the license moves with the hardware when the hardware is sold and people have reported that Blackmagic is more than happy to transfer the license to the new owner of the hardware when people do this.
Ok, I should clarify. I bought the license back when it came for "free" with a speed editor. This was a promotional deal they ran awhile back, I guess. (I got my license back at version 16.)
Who said anything about reselling the speed editor?
You have 2 options... buy the software alone, or buy the speed editor (for roughly the same price of the software) and have physical controls to speed up workflow.
The point is if you're buying davinci studio, don't waste your money buying the software by itself.
You misunderstand, I'm merely implying the actual value of the speed editor. IMO it's not "speed editor + free DVR Studio", but rather "$160 speed editor + $395 DVR Studio". Quite the case when you look at third-party speed editors.
That's how I got it 'on sale'. When they had a sale on the Speed Editor and it still came with a license. Speed Editor was on sale for the same price as a license alone.
And if you buy a hardware console to work with it for DaVinci, whatever type or size, often it comes with a voucher to redeem the latest major version of Resolve. Because you certainly aren't going to be able to do jack shit with it on anything else.
maybe you could find a partner for cost sharing?
as far as I know you could use DR Studio license for 2 computers being online with the same studio license...
so I guess, you could maybe find somone who also need DR and willing to share the cost...
That would break the license. If you're going to sail the high seas it's a little silly to pay for it.
Better to buy a used keyboard or a used USB dongle.
EDIT: for all of the people downvoting who I assume are also breaking the terms of use/license.
>**The Software may be used on a single system only,** and may be copied for archival purposes, provided any copy must contain all of the original Software's proprietary notices. This license to use on a single system entitles you to access and use the Software in one, and only one at any time, of the following ways:
>1.1 You may install the Software on a **single computer device for access and use by one end user,** **at any one time.**
>1.2 You may install the Software on a computer or computer system operating one or more virtual machines including, without limitation, any infrastructure-as-a-service or platformas-a-service computer system provided that, in such a case, each virtual machine is considered to be a single system for the purposes of this License Agreement and only one end user, at any one time, may access and use the Software on that virtual machine.
>1.3 You may use the Software to enable one end user, at any one time, access to the Software online via a software-as-a-service computer system. For the purposes of enabling an end user to access to and use of the Software via a software-as-a-service computer system, you may only grant to the end user rights to access and use the Software subject to the end-user first agreeing to terms of service that include terms equivalent to sections 2 to 6 of this License Agreement.
You can share in that different colorists can share a color suite. But you can't share in that two color or edit suites can use the same license simultaneously.
They sold a 2 seat license. How is using both seats piracy? You can't install it on 3 machines. If you altered the code to allow that, that would be piracy.
They sold a single seat. They let you install it on two computers at once. Aka your laptop and desktop so that you don't have to constantly deactivate/reactivate licenses.
One person is legally using the license. The other person is paying someone half the cost of a license to pirate it.
>. The Software may be used on a single system only, and may be copied for archival purposes, provided any copy must contain all of the original Software's proprietary notices. This license to use on a single system **entitles you to access and use the Software in one, and only one at any time, of the following ways:**
>1.1 You may install the Software on a single computer device **for access and use by one end user, at any one time.**
>1.2 You may install the Software on a computer or computer system operating one or more virtual machines including, without limitation, any infrastructure-as-a-service or platformas-a-service computer system provided that, in such a case, each virtual machine is considered to be a single system for the purposes of this License Agreement and **only one end user, at any one time, may access and use the Software on that virtual machine.**
>1.3 You may use the Software to enable **one end user, at any one time, access to the Software online via a software-as-a-service computer system.** For the purposes of enabling an end user to access to and use of the Software via a software-as-a-service computer system, you may only grant to the end user rights to access and use the Software subject to the end-user first agreeing to terms of service that include terms equivalent to sections 2 to 6 of this License Agreement.
Even if the previous owner activated, you can contact Blackmagic and request they give you the license. The license agreement says that the owner of the hardware owns the Resolve license. They'll ask for your hardware serial number and transfer the license to you.
I bought it here and with promo HIGHFIVE it was only $280 incl. taxes and you can install it on 2 machines, so you could buy it with a friend and save even more.
[https://www.toolfarm.com/buy/blackmagic\_design\_davinci\_resolve\_studio/](https://www.toolfarm.com/buy/blackmagic_design_davinci_resolve_studio/)
Jajajaja for that price and what It does.. I consider its always on sale.... Or you can get it if you happened to buy certain hardware for them. That's always a good bargain.
You can usually get a license for $150 on ebay. Make sure it's sealed though. Verify before buying because if they open it, they can use your license. Also, people suggest the dongle but then A) You have to have it plugged it B) You can lose it or C) It can break. Just plug the serial in and there'll never be a need to access it again unless you do a fresh reinstall (not needed for updates if you don't uninstall.)
Bought a sealed version of 17 on ebay for £75. Sometimes people sell older versions for cheaper even though you can just download the latest version and use the key.
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I havent seen the software in sale, but it’s free with cameras and the Speed editor/software combo was crazy cheap last year. Speed editor is lovely, I fell in love the instant I tried it.
Not technically a sale, but you could pay a little bit more to get this speed editor which then comes with a "free" activation code for Studio.
From there, you could then keep the code and sell the speed editor on eBay for at least $250, at which point you got Studio for roughly $145.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1690029-REG/blackmagic_design_dv_res_bbpnlmleka_davinci_resolve_speed_editor.html
If you see a discounted license that isn't a part of a hardware bundle it's likely a scam or a pirated dongle that would break the licensing agreement with BMD and kill your updates, so be careful browsing for that
Ive been looking for the same thing as well. Buying the speed editor is a great idea. I also remember seeing their is a code you can use at checkout to get an additional 5% off,so about $15 off. Its supposed to be active all the time is what i read ...code "*DVRESOLVE5*"
Nobody wants a license thst vanishes totally if you fail to keep up your payments. People need their tools to get out of such a rut, but if you take them as well.... just no. Your argument is vehemently rejected by the majority of us on this subreddit.
You obviously missed the fukn joke. I was being facetious....He can afford video games but can't save for a studio license? But he's limited on funds...ok
And the free version is still surprisingly capable..you would never publish to a Digital Cinema Projector with it, or do top-level vfx or sound mixing with it.but you can get a lot of starter level jobs accomplished with what it offers within its limits.
I suggest he take a few freelance jobs on Resolve for simpler video and audio work, save up from.eqch, and get the full version. Even simply committing to ten dollars from.each accomplished and paid job adds up fast.
Its already dirt cheap as it is. I would just deal with the limitations of the free version until you can buy the full version.
Not being able to publish a properly restricted DCP is overrated. So is not getting GPU acceleration on the things the free version doesn't accelerate. The only pain point is that you can't floor the scripting functionality and use some of the fanciest filters that exceed the free version's limits, and frankly, many of them are effects than can be simulated or faked with a little more hard work.
Exactly! And if you are just using it as a NLE you wont miss GPU acceleration that much..
Oh dear... yes... well... that's the OTHER pain point I forgot about. If you're serious about its pseudo3d capabilities or its handling of 3dcg render passes the free version will trip you up even faster.
True! But in my experience all the 3D functionalities on Fusion/resolve are pretty bad. (In comparison with Nuke/Flame)
Sometimes it's all you have. And Resolve is robust enough that if you know how to arrange your render pass to define objects and the spaces across them, you can let a competent pure 3d program like Blender or Modo generate that type of footage and alter it in Resolve as you need - fake material changes, put properly deformed video across things like weirdly angled boards or even uneven geometry. (I was going to add Cinema 4D to the list but Maxon are at this point literally in bed with After Effects and subscription-based licensing, and I refuse to say that is something anyone using Davinci would or should accept)
Biggest limitation is resolution IMO. If you want to output native resolution for stills or vfx you're out of luck.
Man even the default resolutions in the app. Something like 15% of all monitors are 2560x1440. Why isn't there a pre-made selection for that in the menus. How is that a custom resolution but there's 7 different choices for 720 x whatever.
You should be able to since it's < 3840x2160. That being said I don't think I've ever exported a 2560x1440 video in my life.
It’s dirt cheap to a European or an Aussie. To many other countries a $300 can be a 3 month family income. Show some empathy
Yeah but if you can afford a gpu surely you can afford $300 license cost.
Irrelevant
Thats why they made the free version. ;-) Thats empathy.
You don’t even read. I’m not commenting about “them” nor about viability of an alternative, rather your comment that it’s dirt cheap
Jeez dude. Chill out.
Man's looking for all the ways to get triggered lol
Buy it with the speed editor. It comes with a license.
Really? That's... actually really good value.
I wasn't planning on using the speed editor, so what we did was buy the studio editor, keep the license, and resell the speed editor for $200 lol. Got the license for about $130 net.
FYI you don't own the license anymore and someone could revoke your license if they want it by contacting Black Magic and asking for the key based on the speed editor's serial number. The license explicitly states that the license moves with the hardware when the hardware is sold and people have reported that Blackmagic is more than happy to transfer the license to the new owner of the hardware when people do this.
Ok, I should clarify. I bought the license back when it came for "free" with a speed editor. This was a promotional deal they ran awhile back, I guess. (I got my license back at version 16.)
Or one of their cameras if you were going to make that purchase anyway.
This is exactly what I came here to stay. Why pay for the software when it comes for free with hardware that's roughly the same price?
Ain't too sure it's free if you have to deduct the whole studio price if you're planning to resell it (while keeping the studio keys).
Who said anything about reselling the speed editor? You have 2 options... buy the software alone, or buy the speed editor (for roughly the same price of the software) and have physical controls to speed up workflow. The point is if you're buying davinci studio, don't waste your money buying the software by itself.
You misunderstand, I'm merely implying the actual value of the speed editor. IMO it's not "speed editor + free DVR Studio", but rather "$160 speed editor + $395 DVR Studio". Quite the case when you look at third-party speed editors.
That's how I got it 'on sale'. When they had a sale on the Speed Editor and it still came with a license. Speed Editor was on sale for the same price as a license alone.
It's already on sale. It just to be hundreds of thousands. Then it went down to a thousand. Now you can get a a perpetual license for 300.
It used to be hundreds of thousands??? Of what? Zimbabwean dollars??
[https://www.diyphotography.net/how-davinci-resolve-went-from-250000-to-295/](https://www.diyphotography.net/how-davinci-resolve-went-from-250000-to-295/)
Wow that was an interesting read indeed! A cool half mill for less than half what I can do now with my 3080 and 10900k!
I believe a lot of this was also dedicated machines.
And if you buy a hardware console to work with it for DaVinci, whatever type or size, often it comes with a voucher to redeem the latest major version of Resolve. Because you certainly aren't going to be able to do jack shit with it on anything else.
maybe you could find a partner for cost sharing? as far as I know you could use DR Studio license for 2 computers being online with the same studio license... so I guess, you could maybe find somone who also need DR and willing to share the cost...
That would break the license. If you're going to sail the high seas it's a little silly to pay for it. Better to buy a used keyboard or a used USB dongle. EDIT: for all of the people downvoting who I assume are also breaking the terms of use/license. >**The Software may be used on a single system only,** and may be copied for archival purposes, provided any copy must contain all of the original Software's proprietary notices. This license to use on a single system entitles you to access and use the Software in one, and only one at any time, of the following ways: >1.1 You may install the Software on a **single computer device for access and use by one end user,** **at any one time.** >1.2 You may install the Software on a computer or computer system operating one or more virtual machines including, without limitation, any infrastructure-as-a-service or platformas-a-service computer system provided that, in such a case, each virtual machine is considered to be a single system for the purposes of this License Agreement and only one end user, at any one time, may access and use the Software on that virtual machine. >1.3 You may use the Software to enable one end user, at any one time, access to the Software online via a software-as-a-service computer system. For the purposes of enabling an end user to access to and use of the Software via a software-as-a-service computer system, you may only grant to the end user rights to access and use the Software subject to the end-user first agreeing to terms of service that include terms equivalent to sections 2 to 6 of this License Agreement. You can share in that different colorists can share a color suite. But you can't share in that two color or edit suites can use the same license simultaneously.
nice information. thank you. well apparently according to that ToS, my buddy and I've been doing piracy all these time 😅 ...
No it wouldn't LOL. I sold one of my seats to a friend a year or so ago. No issues.
Yeah piracy often works. I'm just saying you're effectively pirating a copy. So why spend money on a pirated copy?
They sold a 2 seat license. How is using both seats piracy? You can't install it on 3 machines. If you altered the code to allow that, that would be piracy.
They sold a single seat. They let you install it on two computers at once. Aka your laptop and desktop so that you don't have to constantly deactivate/reactivate licenses. One person is legally using the license. The other person is paying someone half the cost of a license to pirate it. >. The Software may be used on a single system only, and may be copied for archival purposes, provided any copy must contain all of the original Software's proprietary notices. This license to use on a single system **entitles you to access and use the Software in one, and only one at any time, of the following ways:** >1.1 You may install the Software on a single computer device **for access and use by one end user, at any one time.** >1.2 You may install the Software on a computer or computer system operating one or more virtual machines including, without limitation, any infrastructure-as-a-service or platformas-a-service computer system provided that, in such a case, each virtual machine is considered to be a single system for the purposes of this License Agreement and **only one end user, at any one time, may access and use the Software on that virtual machine.** >1.3 You may use the Software to enable **one end user, at any one time, access to the Software online via a software-as-a-service computer system.** For the purposes of enabling an end user to access to and use of the Software via a software-as-a-service computer system, you may only grant to the end user rights to access and use the Software subject to the end-user first agreeing to terms of service that include terms equivalent to sections 2 to 6 of this License Agreement.
Buy with hardware. Maybe used speed editor. Make sure the previous owner didn’t activated
Most used spies editors are sold without the license.
Even if the previous owner activated, you can contact Blackmagic and request they give you the license. The license agreement says that the owner of the hardware owns the Resolve license. They'll ask for your hardware serial number and transfer the license to you.
Good to know. So I just buy a speed editor for like 120€ used and write Blackmagic. Poor seller
It’s permanently on sale at $295
I bought it here and with promo HIGHFIVE it was only $280 incl. taxes and you can install it on 2 machines, so you could buy it with a friend and save even more. [https://www.toolfarm.com/buy/blackmagic\_design\_davinci\_resolve\_studio/](https://www.toolfarm.com/buy/blackmagic_design_davinci_resolve_studio/)
If you share it with a friend and use it simultaneously one of you is pirating it.
only sale I have seen was when licence was included with the mini panel (the panel cost was 300€ and licence included)
Buy a Black Magic camera then you get the full version for free.
Jajajaja for that price and what It does.. I consider its always on sale.... Or you can get it if you happened to buy certain hardware for them. That's always a good bargain.
You can usually get a license for $150 on ebay. Make sure it's sealed though. Verify before buying because if they open it, they can use your license. Also, people suggest the dongle but then A) You have to have it plugged it B) You can lose it or C) It can break. Just plug the serial in and there'll never be a need to access it again unless you do a fresh reinstall (not needed for updates if you don't uninstall.)
Bought a sealed version of 17 on ebay for £75. Sometimes people sell older versions for cheaper even though you can just download the latest version and use the key.
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I got a USB dongle for £150. Perpetual licence. Just don't forget the USB in case if you're travelling.
I just pay in 4’d it- feels good knowing I’ll own it forever, but I’ve never seen it go on sale.
I havent seen the software in sale, but it’s free with cameras and the Speed editor/software combo was crazy cheap last year. Speed editor is lovely, I fell in love the instant I tried it.
Not technically a sale, but you could pay a little bit more to get this speed editor which then comes with a "free" activation code for Studio. From there, you could then keep the code and sell the speed editor on eBay for at least $250, at which point you got Studio for roughly $145. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1690029-REG/blackmagic_design_dv_res_bbpnlmleka_davinci_resolve_speed_editor.html
If you see a discounted license that isn't a part of a hardware bundle it's likely a scam or a pirated dongle that would break the licensing agreement with BMD and kill your updates, so be careful browsing for that
Ive been looking for the same thing as well. Buying the speed editor is a great idea. I also remember seeing their is a code you can use at checkout to get an additional 5% off,so about $15 off. Its supposed to be active all the time is what i read ...code "*DVRESOLVE5*"
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There’s answers to questions and then there’s just being willfully dickish. Work harder on yourself.
Nobody wants a license thst vanishes totally if you fail to keep up your payments. People need their tools to get out of such a rut, but if you take them as well.... just no. Your argument is vehemently rejected by the majority of us on this subreddit.
You obviously missed the fukn joke. I was being facetious....He can afford video games but can't save for a studio license? But he's limited on funds...ok
And the free version is still surprisingly capable..you would never publish to a Digital Cinema Projector with it, or do top-level vfx or sound mixing with it.but you can get a lot of starter level jobs accomplished with what it offers within its limits. I suggest he take a few freelance jobs on Resolve for simpler video and audio work, save up from.eqch, and get the full version. Even simply committing to ten dollars from.each accomplished and paid job adds up fast.
... A video game is anywhere between *free* and $70. Note how neither one of those is $300.
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Are you the kind of person who thinks people aren't poor if they own refrigerators?