From my research of Davinci, it is proprietary software, that can be installed with a very limited “FREE” version or one can purchase a very expense license for the full version. Again we see Linux trying to use Windows based software. If one was to get Davinci to install on Linux, it would just be another piece of pirated software.
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Yes. I can and can edit videos in it without crashing. Only rendering takes a bit longer. I capture and create videos in 1080p at 60fps max only as neither my GPU nor my monitor support 4k videos. And honestly 4k videos are very big files and uploading them requires significant bandwidth which I don’t have right now.
The "very limited FREE version’ is capable enough for editing and producing a full fledged video for a non-movie producer and this single software has everything, video editor, sound editor and mixer, colour correction. Only 3D animation is not available in the FREE version.
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Wrong, at least 3 times.
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The very limited free version still offers much more than I can use.
Well, some restoration effects would have come handy in the past, which is not in available in the free version. There’s the “video celan feed” option that I would like to have (full screen preview on a 3rd monitor), as mí sight gets more and more aging.
So if anything, that option will push me to buy the very expensive licence.
I don’t need 4K output (for which I’d need the studio version), and as input, the media, as well as the timeline can be higher resolution than fullHD, I did use 4K timeline because of zooming-in capability before… -
That very expansive licence costs $300 (approx.) for a life long. How does that compare to an Adobe subscription?
Wrong here again. Davinci Resolve is crossplatform. You get native binaries for Linux, as well as for Mac or Windows.
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OK, then the bottleneck is your PC!!! I have the same issue with some of my older PC’s, just not worth spending a ton of money!!!
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Absolutely right you are but the bottleneck is not my PC but the GPU. If I would have even a RX 6400 GPU, none of these problems would occur but that also very expensive in my currency.
I understand, but the GPU just makes up one piece of the puzzle that makes a PC work and how much will a new GPU cost versus the cost of newer hardware in a newer build.
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OK, I stand corrected, but your insight is Linux only, and that is why I keep Windows on my PC,s.
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You are right.
And storage performance (epsecially when working with multicam shots) matters too.
Yes, that’s why I asked.
DR is known to be very picky regarding graphics drivers, and it would be informational to see, how the very new DR19 operates on Windows with the very old nVidia.
You will need huge lot of storage, performant GPU, and a CPU that can feed the GPU. Davinci heavily taxes the GPU.
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Yeah, a newer build would be a little bit costly than a high-end GPU in my country. As an example, I am giving you a cost break-up here.
Asus Dual RX Radeon 6600 8GB DDR6 costs INR 21,990, rounded off to INR 22,000 i.e. 262.05 USD.
PC components:
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600 - INR 11,120 = 132.45 USD
- MSI MPG B550 motherboard - INR 13,339 = 158.87 USD
- G.Skill Ripjaws 3200MHz 8GB x 2 = INR 3,150 = 37.52 USD
- Coolermaster MWE 650 Bronze V2 non-modular SMPS - INR 5,998 = 71.44 USD
(All Amazon prices as of today)
Storage and cabinet I have and I am not including a high-end CPU cooler and a GPU as Ryzen already has a GPU in-built. So, the total cost will be INR 33,607 = 400.28 USD. So, you see a new built (almost) is not much higher than a new GPU and this is an AMD GPU. In case of a Nvidia, the GPU cost will be much higher. And my PC is more than 10 years old. So… I think I should give it a proper farewell, soon.
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I hope you can start with this, and later you can get a real GPU if you need.
I’m afraid the 16GB will run out quickly, as the vRAM must be grabbed from the system memory.
Add another 4 GB at least to that 16GB.
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I am wondering what you video editing people think of the ‘Openshot’ video editor mentioned in this weeks newsletter
How does it rate against Davinci Resolve?
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I personally prefer Shotcut over this.
And I dont think it is as good as davinci, davinci is far mire advanced.
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I installed Openshot once. It may compete with Shotcut or Kdenlive but it cannot come any closer to Davinci Resolve. DR is made for real pro work like movie editing (I am not talking about ‘video’). DR even crashed Adobe Premier Pro’s market.
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Can I install a RX 6400 4GB DDR6 on my existing 970A-DS3P motherboard? This motherboard has pcie 2.0 slots. Though pcie slots are built with backward compatibility but I am not sure whether this card’s power requirement would fry my motherboard or not.
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Mine is pcie3. It is OK with that.
Check how many watts it draws
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These powerful cards have dedicated connector to the PSU. So it draws the big power from the PSU directly, PCIE is for control / driving “only”.
Checi if your PSU has a “PCIE” or similar labelled 12V connector(s). There are 6 and 8 pin such connectors, some of them are convertible: you can detach 2 pins from the 8 pin, and get the 6 pin if needed.
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No. This RX6400 doesn’t need external power source, though it is a pcie 4.0 card. 
The cards type you have mentioned, are out of my budget and they are for gaming mainly. I am not a gamer. I need a budget GPU for editing 1080p60 videos, that’s all and this card just fit in that place.
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This surprosed me! Indeed, you are right, I did not check it before, just assumed it is a similar but somewhat weaker card than my…
It does not need external power.
Now I checked, the specs say it requires 53W.
The GT730 is rated to 49W:
So that difference is not significant, I don’t think it would cause problems.
The GT730 seems to perform at 268 GFLOPS, while the RX6400 does 3.565 TFLOPS, which is HUUUUUGE difference! Outperforms 13 times the GT730.
My RX6600XT is told to have 10.6 TFLOPS performance, so based on a raw estimate, where I get 170 frames / second render speed, you will see 57 frames / sec render speed.
I’m not either 
I just know on my past experience that I usually need at least 2 times real time performance.
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RX6600 XT outperforms RX6400 in every way along with the price. It is priced more than double than RX6400. I don’t have that budget. So, RX6400 then.
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