One of the key advantages of the studio version over the free version is its use of GPU acceleration, including being able to use multiple GPUs. The studio version has GPU accelerated encoding and decoding of the widely used H.264 and H.265 formats that can greatly speed up editing and rendering performance.
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- [Instructor] One of the confusing aspects of DaVinci Resolve, especially if you're new to the software and don't have someone to guide you, is that there are two versions, the paid version, and the free version. The paid version adds the word Studio, DaVinci Resolve Studio. The free version is simply called DaVinci Resolve. This movie is here to help you understand the significant differences between the paid and free versions. But also, how they're precisely the same. The first thing to know, the studio version is a physically different download from the free version. They are two different pieces of software. In this series, I'm working with DaVinci Resolve 16.1, public beta three. A common question I get is should I download the latest version of DaVinci Resolve to follow along with this training? My answer, yes, but not the public betas. I'm using it here because by the time you watch this, it'll be out of beta. As a beginner, I suggest you start with the most recent stable version of Resolve. That means if you have to, scroll down past the public betas, to the most recent non-beta version, got it? Good, let's keep moving. If you decide to purchase DaVinci Resolve Studio, then you have three options. There's the legacy option. Back in the day when you bought Studio, one of the things you bought was this, a USB dongle. You insert this dongle into your computer and it stays inserted the whole time DaVinci Resolve Studio is running on your machine. The good thing? It's portable. Any machine with this dongle can run Resolve Studio. But dongles are no longer sold. You can find them online, but be careful. Many sellers are fraudsters. I suggest you only buy a dongle directly from someone you know who is a legit user. Or better yet, how about this next option? You can buy DaVinci Resolve Studio and get a license key, which you enter on the splash screen the first time you launch it. This is how all new versions of Resolve Studio are now sold or bundled. The license entitles you to run two computers, usually a work station and a laptop. Now there's a third alternative for Mac users, you can buy DaVinci Resolve Studio on the Mac app store, then you can run studio on any computer logged into your app store account. No dongle, no license. But it's a bit of an offshoot from the other two options. You can't migrate this license to a PC, and it has some restrictions that don't allow the nifty collaboration features of other Studio licenses. If it were me, I'd buy a license key, since that gives you total flexibility and no compromises. But, app store integration may be more important to you, and that's fine now that you know what the compromise is. If you don't have a dongle, if you don't have a license key, if you don't buy it on the Mac app store, then you must download and use DaVinci Resolve, the free version. This brings us to the real topic of this movie, what's the difference between Resolve and Resolve Studio? Here are my top five reasons to upgrade and pay for Resolve Studio. Reason one is the single most useful standout of Resolve Studio, integrated noise reduction. You can buy third party noise reduction plugins, but none render faster than the native tool. For me, it solves 90% of my problems. Reason number two to upgrade to Resolve Studio, are the various restrictions it places on the free version, including restricting larger than UHD frame sizes for rendering, plus, no deinterlacing or adding 3:2 pulldown on rendering. You can't use Resolve's new machine learning feature to automatically detect and group faces and people, high dynamic range tools including Dolby Vison are not accessible. Using more than one graphics card to accelerate real time playback and rendering is not possible on the free version, but on the Mac app store version, you can use two GPUs with the free version, if you have a new Mac Pro running Resolve free. Reason number three for considering Resolve Studio, Resolve effects plugins that only work in Resolve Studio. My five favorites, film grain, lens flare, color stabilizer, object removal, that one is big, and face refinement. These are just my highlights, there are many, many more. If you're thinking of buying a few open effects plugins for those operations, it may be cheaper to purchase Resolve Studio and unlock all those features we're discussing, all of which, are GPU optimized and playback and render pretty quickly. If you decide to buy a third party open effects plug in, and it's being sold as Studio only, then you know they're taking advantage of special programming features that won't work in the free version. What happens if you try one of these features in the free version of Resolve, will they work? Well, first you'll see this dialog box, informing you that the tool you're using won't work. Then, after closing the dialog box, you'll see this big old watermark. That watermark will render if you leave the plugin or feature active. So no, you won't be able to use those features in the free version. Now very quickly now, my last two favorite reasons for upgrading to Resolve Studio, but which may or may not matter to you, Studio lets you collaborate with other artists in the same project simultaneously. Think colorist, editor, assistant editor, fusion artist, and audio mixer all working on the exact same project on the exact same timeline, at the exact same time, it's brilliant. But, due to Mac app store limitations, this feature won't work on the Mac app store version of Resolve Studio. Finally, there's remote grading. Unlike collaboration, which happens entirely on an internal network in the same building, remote grading lets you drive DaVinci Resolve Studio located somewhere else in the world. It's amazing for in demand freelancers. And that's it. The main differences between the free and Studio version of DaVinci Resolve. Now, there's one cool concept I want to leave you with. The project files between Resolve and Resolve Studio are literally identical. You can work with Resolve free, have a friend who has the dongle for Resolve Studio come over and install Studio. You can then say set your noise reduction, a studio only feature, and render it out. After rendering, you can then reinstall Resolve free so you can keep working and reopen the project. But, what's the drawback there? Well, those shots with noise reduction enabled, will be re-watermarked. But then your friend could come back, reinstall, re-render. The point I'm trying to make, Resolve free isn't some severely hobbled version of DaVinci Resolve Studio. The projects created by both versions are identical, and you can freely swap between the two installs. So hopefully now, you have the information you need to decide if DaVinci Resolve Studio is right for you, or if you're fine using the free version of DaVinci Resolve. 2ff7e9595c
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