That's true even for beginners because of the app's classic interface. The Basic features - like creating a project, joining clips together, trimming, adding a soundtrack, and even using color looks for mood and tone - are fairly easy to use.
Bottom lineĭaVinci Resolve 15 is a pro-level app that's free to use for anyone who wants to give it a try. In many cases, a simple Undo, or several in sequence, failed to remove an errant viewer or box that popped up while I was doing something else.
While simple editing moves are intuitive, the sheer volume, variety and complexity of controls available make it easy to click on a mysterious button without realizing its consequences - and then find yourself struggling to return to the previous state.
Premiere Elements allows rendering of 4k-footage at 100 MBit/s, so the final quality is what I expect when I have very good original footage-quality.Going through tutorials and the manual requires a hefty time investment that casual users may not be up for. after applying FX and color-corrections) disturbed me very much.
So the quality-loss (pixelations/blurring etc. I used Pinnacle studio 15/16/now 20 (upgrade was super-cheap here) and had to find out that 4k-rendering in Pinnacle Studio is limited to 40MBit/sec max. Premiere ELEMENTS 15 does this job almost as good as DaVinci with using the auto-corrections and a little bit playing around with filters and manual saturation-settings (remember: regarding drone-video-cut I am HOBBYIST, professionally I am only excellent in cutting and producing educational videos of my surgeries ) mov-quality (bit-rate) is not so brilliant. when special LUTs are applied) but only available export is as. I found it much easier to color correct the raw video than DaVinci.Ĭorrect: color correction in DaVinci is supreme (esp. I do like the color enhancement screen that pops up when you click on the raw footage.
There seems to be a serious lack of help with how to optimise videos (from what I can see) so if anyone has any procedures/tips/advice on how to get the best quality videos (clarity/detail/colour balance) please LMK!!!Īngelo, I am a long time user of Pinnacle Studio and was wondering how the rendered 4K video looked to your eyes? I see that you thought Premiere Elements did the best job, but how did the Studio results compare?ĭue to weather, I have a lack of Mavic footage to experiment on. If I'm right just change it from default youtube and go with apple H.264 and cop the extra file size for the extra quality. The way i see it a 50MB file can't have that much detail in it.
I want to stress tho that your video looks pretty good for a 1080p production and the only real issue i noticed was the pixelation from the youtube compression defaults. Another thing I noticed was that if you change the frame rate from 29.9X it seems to affect the way the videos will respond to movements. Again, don't know if this is actually true but its just an observation. I found that if you just hit the "YouTube 2160p" in the Deliver stage instead of the Custom Apple H.264 2160p it will reduce the size of the file significantly but the added compression will cause it to pixelate when there is a lot of detail like trees and water. Secondly, are you shooting in D-Log and applying LUT file to file? Im not actually sure this is what your meant to do. Im a beginner trying to understand how to maximise the quality of my videos too.