Hello everyone,
- forgiveness for spelling and grammar mistakes, English is not my native language. -
I read all the messages before posting mine.
I understand the arguments of both sides. My goal is not to contribute to the debate in terms of "for or against". My goal is to humbly testify to the solution I have adopted, maybe some will be interested.
I make video-editing by passion. I make music by passion. I can not afford to constantly invest in expensive hardware and expensive software.
I fell in love with Da Vinci Resolve for a few years. I thank Black Magic Design for offering a free software so powerful, so smart and so ergonomic. The software is constantly evolving. The user community is very dynamic. It's easy to find great tutorials. In short : everything I like.
Da Vinci Resolve is resource hungry. I'm not sure I can properly use version 15 with my aging hardware (because fusion). So I have on my workstation three partitions, with three windows 7 64 bits. Da Vinci resolve 14.3 + Da Vinci resolve 15 (and a third partition for music production).
For video production: I shoot videos in 1080P, h264, 24fps with a canon DSLR 700d and a TASCAM 60D for the sound with Thomann microphones. I have an second hand HP workstation Z400 with processor Xeon L5640, some hard drives SSD + HDD raid 0. My GPU is an old GTX 750 that I expect to change soon. My sound system consists of an old DELTA 44 MAUDIO asio. Audio Monitoring: behringer truth b2031a.
I have two cheap screens philips 27p 1920x1080@60hz.
I am not a professional. I am passionate. And me too, I like to view my timeline on a second monitor, in full screen.
I contacted the BMD support. They answered me (thanks !!). They explained to me the solution for having a full screen VIEWER for my Workflow.
I bought, for 60 euros, on Ebay, an old Black Magic Design Intensity Pro PCIe HD model. My monitor is limited to 60hz ( i can't directly monitor @24fps : out of range ). So in Da Vinci's OUTPUT settings, I'm using 1080i60. I can edit video on my timeline at 1080p 24fps and view live result, on my second monitor, in full screen. The solution is not perfect but it works. When I need the VIEWER in full screen, I change the monitor input to HDMI, the rest of the time I switch to DVI, and I go back to my Windows dual-screen. So: by pressing ONE button on my monitor.
In conclusion, Da Vinci Resolve - free version - cost me 60 euros. It's my choice and I'm satisfied.
I understand the arguments of both sides. My goal is not to contribute to the debate in terms of "for or against". My goal is to humbly testify to the solution I have adopted, maybe some will be interested.
Thanks to the community, thanks to BMD. Long life Da Vinci Resolve !
Best regards from France.