The REAL Reason I switched from Filmora to DaVinci Resolve

A lot of people have asked me why I stopped using  filmora recently and I think there's been a lot of misconceptions about the exact reason I did  that I wanted to take a second to talk about that I stopped using Filmora and I moved on to  using DaVinci Resolve and I think the initial reaction to that was sort of a idea of somehow  me sticking it to filmora and I wouldn't use their product ever again and that really wasn't  the case that entire lifetime license Saga the only thing that I really

wanted to do through  all of that was to get them to reconsider and actually allow people who had lifetime licenses  to start using the newer versions and to their credit they did so in my head that issue had  somewhat been resolved no pun intended but I had been moving away from filmora for a while  for a bunch of reasons some of the reasons were that some of the features that were in filmora  really weren't working the way I wanted them to with every update I started noticing that when I  push

ed that software as far as it could go there were little things like the 16x9 ratio never  never quite filled the screen properly when I uploaded things onto YouTube sometimes I'd  see a tiny pixel black line on one side of the other of the frame when I was watching some of my  YouTube videos back on replay it seemed to get a little worse when I was doing things like doing  extreme crop and zooms and moving things around my Image Screen especially when I was using aspect  ratios that were higher

than just the normal 16x9 it just had a weird fluke to it and even things  like the white balance when I would do things like use a white balance card and have it select  that white from my image using the Color Picker it never seemed to give me a True Light balance and  that might not be a big issue for someone else but little things like that with every update that  never seemed to get fixed started making me have to work harder to get the kind of look I wanted  in my videos there were certai

n limitations to things like the color correction and especially  the audio controls that didn't have the things I really wanted to see in my video editing software  and forced me to use third-party software to do things like Master my audio and get it to sound  just the way I wanted it to sound now that being said I've always felt that filmora was a pretty  good daily working software for doing fast edits and kind of getting most of the work done that  you would need to do to make a YouTube vid

eo and I think when I stopped using it it started making  people who still use it feel bad about using it and they would say things to me in the comments  section like I'm sorry Daniel but I'm gonna keep using it because it works from me you shouldn't  feel sorry at all I've always said regardless of whatever software you're using don't let anyone  tell you that's not the right software for you you should always pick tools that do the thing  you need them to do and that you feel comfortable usin

g for your workflow whether that's just simple  daily edits or something a little more complex and it's not like DaVinci Resolve isn't without its  own share of problems it's got a pretty steep learning curve and it takes a while to really  understand how to use some of the functionality even to do some fairly basic editing my biggest  problem with DaVinci Resolve is that the layout in the user interface has got really tiny text  especially when you're using it on a fairly decent screen like a l

arger 4k monitor it's really hard  to see some of the little features and buttons you need to push then that's really apparent often  when I try to use that software in a live stream I have to use big magnifying extensions and things  so that you can see a little better because it's hard to follow along with but considering the  amount of functions that it actually has that's a small price to pay it's also a little bit  funky when you install it figuring out exactly how you're supposed to sign u

p and get the paid  version it's got no easy way to just kind of click a button if you already have it installed  and say hey I'd like to pay for the license and do that quickly and a lot of people will ask me  those questions like which one is better Daniel is DaVinci better than filmora and that's kind of  a tricky question because it's almost like asking someone what's better a pickup truck or a Ferrari  now a lot of people would immediately say Ferrari because it's a more expensive Italian s

ports car  but if you're someone who's everyday tasks involve going to the store and maybe picking up bags of  concrete and maybe having to move furniture then a Ferrari is pretty useless for those kind of tasks  that being said if you're someone who needs to get somewhere super fast probably the Ferrari is the  better car for you I think I just advocated for speeding but the upside of using DaVinci Resolve  for me was really a workflow thing I was already at the point that I had not really been

using  filmora all that that much when I was working on my edits I was looking for something new before  the whole license thing happened and I've been testing out Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro  and looking at DaVinci Resolve and what it really came down to is I just like the idea of DaVinci  Resolve it had that completely free version which let you install it and get working with it no  watermarks or anything like that that did a really great job and it had a ton of functionality so  it

was kind of hard not to like it and there was something about the fact that it was a pro level  video editing software there are plenty of really good resources out there to help me find the kind  of things that I wanted to do but that's actually the reason I wanted to start doing some tutorials  and some shorts on the subject of DaVinci Resolve because I think it is such a daunting software  that making it easy for someone to learn how to do it seemed to be something that a lot of  people were

n't doing well on YouTube it seemed wherever I turned everybody was really Technical  and getting very deep into all the details and there weren't a lot of great videos that just  this one hey here's how to use it in its most basic form but when it came down to it making  the move from filmora over to DaVinci Resolve was really about finding a software that had a  lot of Headroom so that if I spent time learning that software I wasn't going to ever hit the  point where I would run out of options

that I could do with the software I always wanted it  to be smarter than I am so whenever there was something that I really wanted to do I would know  the software could handle it it was just a matter of me figuring out how to learn to do it on that  software and I felt with filmora I had already hit that ceiling I had pretty much taken it as  far as it was going to go and I did some fairly Advanced editing techniques on it but my needs  and what I wanted the software to do exceeded what it was

currently able to do and what I saw  it being able to do in the foreseeable future and I'll be fair I was a little let down with the way  they treated their lifetime licensed users but I really don't tend to hold a grudge on things like  that they came around they did the right thing and I still have it installed I'll still use it  for things like screen capturing every now and then and maybe some fast quick little edits  on the side if there was a project I had already built in filmora but I'v

e got to say now that I've  really been using DaVinci Resolve more frequently once you get past that sort of initial hurdle  where Everything feels a little foreign and it seems a little tough to find the buttons and  the options and the features to do the things you want to do once you find those things and you  get into your flow suddenly you feel like you've moved into a new home that doesn't just feel like  a house anymore it actually feels like a home and I feel much more comfortable using

the software  and when I want to do things I know enough of the basics that finding that next level isn't such a  daunting task that is except for Fusion I don't know how many of you have played around with the  fusion page yet but I've been working in and out of that and I understand it but I tell you that  page is tricky I'm going to be talking about that in the not too distant future I just want to get  a better handle on it so that if any of you ask me any questions I want to be able to feel

like  I have some answers that are actually useful that being said I'm going to get back to my edit  that's my fuzzy head-on screen right over there and I hope you get back to editing with whatever  software makes you comfortable keep creating peace