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I am a hobbyist and, admittedly, the professional Studio version of Resolve is more than I need. And too, it's overwhelming and way over my head. (As are most of the discussions among you professionals in the Resolve forum.) Even the BM promotional video for R 16 talks about a professional feature reminiscent of old film editing days, which we newbie hobbyists know nothing about. (We don't think in terms of "bins.")
So while I can afford to buy the Professional version of Resolve, I won't. For me, it would be like buying a Cray supercomputer to make a one minute video. I would spend more time trying to get the Cray to work than I would working on my video.
But with the advent of Resolve 16 (and now 16.1 with the potential for a full-screen viewer on a second display without custom hardware), I was thinking that a trimmed-down version of Resolve - a Prosumer version - that sold for $89.99, that offered the faster mp4 rendering of Studio and the 2nd display, with less feature clutter, would be perfect for hobbyists like me. (It would have to run on Win7 64 again, because Win7 still is almost 50% of the installed base.) It will ready for the masses when the User Guide is not necessary or only 50 pages, max. (As opposed to the monster it is now.)
In fact, with the advent of Resolve 16, I've noticed a lot of heavy-weight youtuber's now recommending Resolve 16 to their viewers. As are the reviews titled "Best Free Video Editing software for 2019."
I don't mean to irk the professionals and purists here with this idea. (I understand the purist's position (and sometimes scorn?) that mp4 is a terrible format for editing. (And for Delivery.) But the reality is, it's what we hobbyists use. And Resolve is getting better at supporting it.) But if the purpose of running a business is to make money - and it is - then there are a lot more hobbyists to sell Resolve to than professionals. (Sorry.) It seems to me that DaVinci could make more money selling a Prosumer version of its flagship product than it does now giving away its free version.
I don't know enough to suggest what could be trimmed out of the Professional version to make a Prosumer version. But things that I've never heard about before as a hobbyist - debayer, Red Rocket, etc. sound like candidates. Even the color scopes, while cool to look at, are overwhelming. (Just give us Auto. We hobbyists don't really care about perfect color calibration, 'cause we're making videos for fun that will be viewed on (tiny) screens (sometimes washed out in sunlight) which we have no control over. But we do care about fast renders so that we can get our cat videos uploaded faster. (Not me on cats. But you know what I mean.)
Don't need collaboration. Don't need facial recognition for drone footage and cat faces.
Once a Prosumer version were available, DaVinci could change its business model so that a free version of Resolve Prosumer was limited to making 3 minute videos. Purchase would make it unlimited. I already pay $50 to $90 for existing video software. Resolve 16's new editing features are so much better, I would be willing to spend $90 for them - along with fast mp4 rendering.
For the lawyers, I give DaVinci this idea for free.
So while I can afford to buy the Professional version of Resolve, I won't. For me, it would be like buying a Cray supercomputer to make a one minute video. I would spend more time trying to get the Cray to work than I would working on my video.
But with the advent of Resolve 16 (and now 16.1 with the potential for a full-screen viewer on a second display without custom hardware), I was thinking that a trimmed-down version of Resolve - a Prosumer version - that sold for $89.99, that offered the faster mp4 rendering of Studio and the 2nd display, with less feature clutter, would be perfect for hobbyists like me. (It would have to run on Win7 64 again, because Win7 still is almost 50% of the installed base.) It will ready for the masses when the User Guide is not necessary or only 50 pages, max. (As opposed to the monster it is now.)
In fact, with the advent of Resolve 16, I've noticed a lot of heavy-weight youtuber's now recommending Resolve 16 to their viewers. As are the reviews titled "Best Free Video Editing software for 2019."
I don't mean to irk the professionals and purists here with this idea. (I understand the purist's position (and sometimes scorn?) that mp4 is a terrible format for editing. (And for Delivery.) But the reality is, it's what we hobbyists use. And Resolve is getting better at supporting it.) But if the purpose of running a business is to make money - and it is - then there are a lot more hobbyists to sell Resolve to than professionals. (Sorry.) It seems to me that DaVinci could make more money selling a Prosumer version of its flagship product than it does now giving away its free version.
I don't know enough to suggest what could be trimmed out of the Professional version to make a Prosumer version. But things that I've never heard about before as a hobbyist - debayer, Red Rocket, etc. sound like candidates. Even the color scopes, while cool to look at, are overwhelming. (Just give us Auto. We hobbyists don't really care about perfect color calibration, 'cause we're making videos for fun that will be viewed on (tiny) screens (sometimes washed out in sunlight) which we have no control over. But we do care about fast renders so that we can get our cat videos uploaded faster. (Not me on cats. But you know what I mean.)
Don't need collaboration. Don't need facial recognition for drone footage and cat faces.
Once a Prosumer version were available, DaVinci could change its business model so that a free version of Resolve Prosumer was limited to making 3 minute videos. Purchase would make it unlimited. I already pay $50 to $90 for existing video software. Resolve 16's new editing features are so much better, I would be willing to spend $90 for them - along with fast mp4 rendering.
For the lawyers, I give DaVinci this idea for free.