Davinci Resolve - any users here at HomeRecording.com?

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Hey fellow video people.
I recently downloaded the free version of Davinci Resolve.
Wondering if there are any others using it.
It is a complex app.
I'm running it on :
System Model OptiPlex SFF Plus 7020
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700, 2100 Mhz, 20 Core(s), 28 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB
OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
I've made a couple of videos of birthday parties.
One is of stills with a sound track I composed.
The audio part seems to be oddly unstable.
I have to reboot the PC every time before DR settles down.
There is a sample rate that is set at the onset of a project, and it is unchangeable after that.
Any imported audio is converted if needed.
Anyway, yea let's talk Davinci
 
I downloaded it when I got my Win11 system. I've done a bit of editing of some video, basically just cuts and pastes, but it seemed very straightforward. I just haven't had much video to edit this year.

I've used Cyberlink's Powerdirector for so long that I need to relearn a system.
 
I have Davinci, but have only played with it. I use Vegas Pro for my video editing. If there is an audio track, I edit it in Reaper. Works better for me, I don't really want to learn another piece of software when I am happy with what I've been using.
 
Yes, I hear you.
Davinci is deep.
I watch YT videos.
One thing I didn't anticipate is the concept of film making.
I recently shot a lot of short videos for a birthday party.
Then editing them together to form a coherent film was not as easy as I'd imagined.
In the past I'd just use my phone and make one long shot and call it a day.
But now I'm thinking more about storyline.
Another thing is making vids for YT.
YT allows certain audio limits. -14 LUFS and -1 peak. DR has an analyzer that will show you your numbers.
If you exceed the YT limits. YT reduces your volume by 24db I think.
That's what happened to my first DaVinci film.
So, then I spent time using the audio tools in Davinci to get the overall LUFS's and peak db down to the YT max.
That was not as easy as I expected either because my audio had lots of spikes like when someone would drop a pan or something.
DaVinci has built in compression and limiting so there is that.
Carry on.
 
I use Premiere, but have lots of friends who swear by Resolve. I do have it on the system, but it's just different enough to need serious work to learn the differences, so I'll stick with what I know. I asked two and they say 100% stable, NO audio issues. It is no help I know, but your computer spec is better than one of them, and their is stable. My thought is that maybe it's a driver issue with your interface. In the studio I have a machine that works mainly on Premiere, but also has Cubase installed. If I load Cubase up and run that, if I also start Adobe Audition - which is called from within premiere if you want to do a quick process on a video audio track - odd things sometimes happen. Sync might be lost and the audio track in premiere has slipped during the journey out and back. It does NOT do this if cubase is not running. Yesterday, after closing audition, pressing record in cubase refused to record the left channel. It took a reboot to fix this. Maybe your system is having similar issues making it unstable?
 
Hey Rob, Yea I have had many issues with the audio in Resolve.
I just restart my PC and that seems to fix most of them.
Davinci helped is no help because they want you to buy the full version.
I'm on 19.0.3 now.
I suppose I need to RTFM, it is over 4000 pages.
But hey I'm retired - what else am I gonna do. :)
 
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