{"slug": "davinci-resolve", "name": "DaVinci Resolve", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "Professional video editing, color grading, VFX and audio post-production application by Blackmagic Design.", "recommenders": 9, "commenters": 24, "warners": 3, "score": 8.732, "rising": 1.04, "first": "2025-11-11", "latest": "2026-09-09", "why": "HN commenters recommend it as a capable desktop video editor that many say runs well on Linux, including with the free version.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 9, "neutral": 11, "compare": 1, "warn": 3}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["Linux support", "Video editing"], "caveat": "Linux codecs", "short_quote": "Have been using Davinci Resolve as my desktop video editor for years, and it's great, can highly recommend it as well.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["DaVinci Resolve"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters recommend it as a capable desktop video editor", "cites": [{"id": 764177264, "item_id": 47761079, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761079", "by": "bryanhogan", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Have been using Davinci Resolve as my desktop video editor for years, and it's great, can highly recommend it as well.", "excerpt": "This is an amazing announcement! I've been looking for a good replacement since the Affinity betrayel. Have been using Davinci Resolve as my desktop video editor for years, and it's great, can highly recommend it as well.", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764283152, "item_id": 47767697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767697", "by": "miladyincontrol", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "while I love davinci for video", "excerpt": "Wish it supported more raw formats that most libraries (ie libraw) support. Lens corrections are also a big question mark, and if they are using something like lensfun I really do hope they allow user imported db/corrections rather than whatever is compiled into it. Neat that they try to support JXL compressed raws but colors render very off. Seems some promise, while I love davinci for video I'm not sure this will b", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 765928977, "item_id": 47870561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870561", "by": "arecsu", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Personally, I use Affinity, Resolve, Darktable, Blender, and Figma.", "excerpt": "Hey! Author here. Glad we're feeling the same. At the very end I've linked to another page where I maintain an organic list of software and interesting bits of internet that I admire and find useful as a creative, for other creatives alike. Just today for the purposes of ending my blog post in a good light I created the Software category in the directory, to list every alternative I found interesting to Adobe's offer", "context": "creative", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Adobe Is Cooked"}]}, {"text": " that many say runs well on Linux, including with the free version.", "cites": [{"id": 793788304, "item_id": 49611769, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611769", "by": "VeryAnonymous", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using it in Linux for >2 years, including their special cutting keyboard (blanking on the name). Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc I use it on Manjaro, installed via AUR. That said, IIRC it only works with nvidia GPUs and requires X11, and is supposedly finicky to get the environment right for (but the AUR gets it right for me)", "context": "Manjaro user, installed via AUR", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 793032901, "item_id": 49564556, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564556", "by": "embedding-shape", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "works amazingly on Linux, better than Windows in fact, like Houdini, Unreal Engine (the runtime, not the Editor), DaVinci Resolve and Blender", "excerpt": "Well, when this alcoholic is the only one that works properly for the sort of audio and 3D/VFX work I do, and a bunch of tools are only able to run (well) on Windows (Yes, I've tried WINE and everything else under the sun, for a decade), so dual booting is really the only option here, unless I wanna throw out a bunch of licenses I've paid thousands for and stop accepting that sort of work. Ableton is probably the big", "context": "audio and 3D/VFX professional", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "O&O ShutUp10 \u2013 The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"}, {"id": 764210256, "item_id": 47763141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763141", "by": "dtf", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was really impressed by how well it worked for me on Linux.", "excerpt": "I recently used Resolve (just the free version) for a project. It was my first time seriously using the software but I ended up spending a lot of time with it - lots of timeline editing, keyframe animation, some simple Fusion compositions, and a fair bit of work in the Fairlight page, rendering out daily . I did all this on my beloved Arch Linux workstation, and frankly it was rock solid, apart from exactly one crash", "context": "Arch Linux user", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764254289, "item_id": 47765893, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765893", "by": "cowmix", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can run multiple versions of Resolve on the same computer.", "excerpt": "I use this project to run Resolve Free/Studio on Linux: https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve It helps you build and run Resolve in a Docker or Podman container. I\u2019ve personally used it on Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch-based setups (well, CachyOS), and it\u2019s worked great for me. Right now it supports Nvidia very well. I\u2019m also personally working on adapting it for AMD GPUs so I can run Resolve on my Strix Halo workstation. O", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764176400, "item_id": 47761025, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761025", "by": "raincole", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've been using Resolve for years without paying for it", "excerpt": "How do they actual make money? I've been using Resolve for years without paying for it (and without thinking about its business model too much). It seems that they sell quite expensive professional hardware so I assume the software users are just compensated by hardware users?", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is missing codec support on Linux, such as no H.264 in the free tier and AAC needing workarounds,", "cites": [{"id": 765055616, "item_id": 47815976, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815976", "by": "vladde", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Resolve didn't support h.264 on their free tier on Linux", "excerpt": "has someone here moved from DaVinci Resolve to Kdenlive? how was that experience? i just was a bit shocked to find out Resolve didn't support h.264 on their free tier on Linux, and i don't want to re-encode all my footage to AV1", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "State of Kdenlive"}, {"id": 787686768, "item_id": 49230423, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230423", "by": "emn4tor", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too", "excerpt": "On Mac I haven't decided between Davinci Resolve and FinalCut, even tho Premiere is great, it's Adobe so meh. On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Which editing tool using in 2026?"}, {"id": 793958834, "item_id": 49622427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622427", "by": "josephg", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "reverse engineer the linux version of resolve to add support for AAC media", "excerpt": "A few weeks ago I used claude to reverse engineer the linux version of resolve to add support for AAC media. The patch is here, and it works great: https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix AAC streams are decoded and sent to ffmpeg.", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}]}, {"text": " along with a finicky Linux setup that some could not get working.", "cites": [{"id": 764207568, "item_id": 47762973, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762973", "by": "googie", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "getting it run is a very bad experience on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04", "excerpt": "I wish they (authors of DaVinci Resolve and the Photo Editor) paid more attention to Linux platform. Theoretically DaVinci Resolve runs on Linux, but getting it run is a very bad experience on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04. I even paid for the DaVinci license, as I read somewhere that for Linux it's necessary in order to have all codecs supported. It did not help. Fortunately there were no problems with refund. There are whol", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 793788304, "item_id": 49611769, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611769", "by": "VeryAnonymous", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using it in Linux for >2 years, including their special cutting keyboard (blanking on the name). Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc I use it on Manjaro, installed via AUR. That said, IIRC it only works with nvidia GPUs and requires X11, and is supposedly finicky to get the environment right for (but the AUR gets it right for me)", "context": "Manjaro user, installed via AUR", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Linux support", "summary": "Several users report it runs reliably on Linux, including GPU acceleration and multi-monitor setups.", "quotes": [{"id": 793788304, "item_id": 49611769, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611769", "by": "VeryAnonymous", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using it in Linux for >2 years, including their special cutting keyboard (blanking on the name). Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc I use it on Manjaro, installed via AUR. That said, IIRC it only works with nvidia GPUs and requires X11, and is supposedly finicky to get the environment right for (but the AUR gets it right for me)", "context": "Manjaro user, installed via AUR", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 764210256, "item_id": 47763141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763141", "by": "dtf", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was really impressed by how well it worked for me on Linux.", "excerpt": "I recently used Resolve (just the free version) for a project. It was my first time seriously using the software but I ended up spending a lot of time with it - lots of timeline editing, keyframe animation, some simple Fusion compositions, and a fair bit of work in the Fairlight page, rendering out daily . I did all this on my beloved Arch Linux workstation, and frankly it was rock solid, apart from exactly one crash", "context": "Arch Linux user", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 793032901, "item_id": 49564556, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564556", "by": "embedding-shape", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "works amazingly on Linux, better than Windows in fact, like Houdini, Unreal Engine (the runtime, not the Editor), DaVinci Resolve and Blender", "excerpt": "Well, when this alcoholic is the only one that works properly for the sort of audio and 3D/VFX work I do, and a bunch of tools are only able to run (well) on Windows (Yes, I've tried WINE and everything else under the sun, for a decade), so dual booting is really the only option here, unless I wanna throw out a bunch of licenses I've paid thousands for and stop accepting that sort of work. Ableton is probably the big", "context": "audio and 3D/VFX professional", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "O&O ShutUp10 \u2013 The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"}]}, {"label": "Video editing", "summary": "Users highly recommend it as their main desktop video editor and an Adobe alternative.", "quotes": [{"id": 764177264, "item_id": 47761079, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761079", "by": "bryanhogan", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Have been using Davinci Resolve as my desktop video editor for years, and it's great, can highly recommend it as well.", "excerpt": "This is an amazing announcement! I've been looking for a good replacement since the Affinity betrayel. Have been using Davinci Resolve as my desktop video editor for years, and it's great, can highly recommend it as well.", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764283152, "item_id": 47767697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767697", "by": "miladyincontrol", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "while I love davinci for video", "excerpt": "Wish it supported more raw formats that most libraries (ie libraw) support. Lens corrections are also a big question mark, and if they are using something like lensfun I really do hope they allow user imported db/corrections rather than whatever is compiled into it. Neat that they try to support JXL compressed raws but colors render very off. Seems some promise, while I love davinci for video I'm not sure this will b", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 765928977, "item_id": 47870561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870561", "by": "arecsu", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Personally, I use Affinity, Resolve, Darktable, Blender, and Figma.", "excerpt": "Hey! Author here. Glad we're feeling the same. At the very end I've linked to another page where I maintain an organic list of software and interesting bits of internet that I admire and find useful as a creative, for other creatives alike. Just today for the purposes of ending my blog post in a good light I created the Software category in the directory, to list every alternative I found interesting to Adobe's offer", "context": "creative", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Adobe Is Cooked"}]}, {"label": "Free version", "summary": "The free version is enough for long-term use and substantial projects.", "quotes": [{"id": 764176400, "item_id": 47761025, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761025", "by": "raincole", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've been using Resolve for years without paying for it", "excerpt": "How do they actual make money? I've been using Resolve for years without paying for it (and without thinking about its business model too much). It seems that they sell quite expensive professional hardware so I assume the software users are just compensated by hardware users?", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764210256, "item_id": 47763141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763141", "by": "dtf", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was really impressed by how well it worked for me on Linux.", "excerpt": "I recently used Resolve (just the free version) for a project. It was my first time seriously using the software but I ended up spending a lot of time with it - lots of timeline editing, keyframe animation, some simple Fusion compositions, and a fair bit of work in the Fairlight page, rendering out daily . I did all this on my beloved Arch Linux workstation, and frankly it was rock solid, apart from exactly one crash", "context": "Arch Linux user", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 793981680, "item_id": 49623855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623855", "by": "rldjbpin", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "As a free user for several years, the MCP integration was exactly something I was looking forward to", "excerpt": "As a free user for several years, the MCP integration was exactly something I was looking forward to for getting a rough cut! Sadly, things are not quite as straightforward for non-Studio. For one, you need to be a paying customer to get access to the new feature. Moreover, a community-based solution [1], which previously worked for all users, have now artificial limitation in implementing automation for Free users. ", "context": "free-version user for several years", "use_case": "video editing rough cuts", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}]}, {"label": "Workflow automation", "summary": "Users have built agents and subtitle-based cutting workflows around it to speed up editing.", "quotes": [{"id": 793800482, "item_id": 49612530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612530", "by": "artdigital", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Resolve then creates a video version that\u2019s cut based on the subtitle changes", "excerpt": "I used IntelliScript a lot. I give Claude a subtitle export, ask it to cut it and import the cut subtitle track with IntelliScript. Resolve then creates a video version that\u2019s cut based on the subtitle changes Works pretty well!", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 793827841, "item_id": 49614240, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614240", "by": "TYPE_FASTER", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "make a super simple agent outside of Resolve", "excerpt": "I used Google's Agent Development Kit to make a super simple agent outside of Resolve that I can use to say \"take a 10s clip from file1.mp4 starting at 00:01:25 and a 20s clip from file2.mp4 starting at 00:02:00\" then tell it to preview and render. Speeds things up.", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Linux codecs", "summary": "On Linux the free tier lacks H.264 support, and AAC and other codecs need tricks or patches.", "quotes": [{"id": 765055616, "item_id": 47815976, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815976", "by": "vladde", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Resolve didn't support h.264 on their free tier on Linux", "excerpt": "has someone here moved from DaVinci Resolve to Kdenlive? how was that experience? i just was a bit shocked to find out Resolve didn't support h.264 on their free tier on Linux, and i don't want to re-encode all my footage to AV1", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "State of Kdenlive"}, {"id": 787686768, "item_id": 49230423, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230423", "by": "emn4tor", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too", "excerpt": "On Mac I haven't decided between Davinci Resolve and FinalCut, even tho Premiere is great, it's Adobe so meh. On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Which editing tool using in 2026?"}, {"id": 793958834, "item_id": 49622427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622427", "by": "josephg", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "reverse engineer the linux version of resolve to add support for AAC media", "excerpt": "A few weeks ago I used claude to reverse engineer the linux version of resolve to add support for AAC media. The patch is here, and it works great: https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix AAC streams are decoded and sent to ffmpeg.", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}]}, {"label": "Linux setup", "summary": "Getting it running can be difficult, with reported Nvidia-only and X11 requirements and audio problems on Ubuntu.", "quotes": [{"id": 764207568, "item_id": 47762973, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762973", "by": "googie", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "getting it run is a very bad experience on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04", "excerpt": "I wish they (authors of DaVinci Resolve and the Photo Editor) paid more attention to Linux platform. Theoretically DaVinci Resolve runs on Linux, but getting it run is a very bad experience on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04. I even paid for the DaVinci license, as I read somewhere that for Linux it's necessary in order to have all codecs supported. It did not help. Fortunately there were no problems with refund. There are whol", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 793788304, "item_id": 49611769, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611769", "by": "VeryAnonymous", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using it in Linux for >2 years, including their special cutting keyboard (blanking on the name). Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc I use it on Manjaro, installed via AUR. That said, IIRC it only works with nvidia GPUs and requires X11, and is supposedly finicky to get the environment right for (but the AUR gets it right for me)", "context": "Manjaro user, installed via AUR", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}]}, {"label": "Learning curve", "summary": "It is a complex editor that can be slow going for inexperienced users.", "quotes": [{"id": 762328866, "item_id": 47645554, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645554", "by": "alin23", "date": "2026-04-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It would have taken me days to do the same with DaVinci Resolve because of my inexperience with complex editors.", "excerpt": "Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money? The recent video I did for Cling for example (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) I\u2019ve had many people ask about how I did it because it has just the right amount of motion and highlighting. I did it in a few minutes of editing in the ScreenStudio UI. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a great video, but people say it conveys the info well enough and that\u2019s what", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}, {"id": 789262819, "item_id": 49328926, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328926", "by": "Liftyee", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "other software like Blender or Darktable (or even Davinci Resolve)", "excerpt": "I don't get everyone's complaints about the interface. I've been using it for years, once you learn where things are I can get what I need done. The learning curve (finding where functions are, the right tools for each job, etc.) wasn't much different from other software like Blender or Darktable (or even Davinci Resolve). The panels concept might be the most intuitive part of it, but Blender also has different panel", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GIMP Development Update"}]}, {"label": "Paywalled features", "summary": "The new MCP integration requires the paid Studio version, and automation is restricted for free users.", "quotes": [{"id": 793981680, "item_id": 49623855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623855", "by": "rldjbpin", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "As a free user for several years, the MCP integration was exactly something I was looking forward to", "excerpt": "As a free user for several years, the MCP integration was exactly something I was looking forward to for getting a rough cut! Sadly, things are not quite as straightforward for non-Studio. For one, you need to be a paying customer to get access to the new feature. Moreover, a community-based solution [1], which previously worked for all users, have now artificial limitation in implementing automation for Free users. ", "context": "free-version user for several years", "use_case": "video editing rough cuts", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}]}, {"label": "HDR display", "summary": "One user measured version 20 showing HDR content about 20% too dark.", "quotes": [{"id": 775291986, "item_id": 48455749, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455749", "by": "andrew2025", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "DaVinci Resolve 20 shows HDR content 20% too dark", "excerpt": "HDR Color Meter for Windows. This reads the HDR RGB values (scRGB where 1.0 = 80 nits). It also displays in Linear BT2020 (100.0 = 100 nits). I use it to debug the rendering behaviour of different apps. (E.g. Chrome shows a green tint on HDR videos due to YUV to RGB conversion error, DaVinci Resolve 20 shows HDR content 20% too dark) https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nftnff5sdnt?hl=en-GB&gl=AU Free trial is availabl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}]}], "who": [{"by": "rldjbpin", "context": "free-version user for several years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623855", "date": "2026-09-09"}, {"by": "VeryAnonymous", "context": "Manjaro user, installed via AUR", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611769", "date": "2026-09-08"}, {"by": "embedding-shape", "context": "audio and 3D/VFX professional", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564556", "date": "2026-09-04"}, {"by": "arecsu", "context": "creative", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870561", "date": "2026-04-22"}, {"by": "cowmix", "context": "Linux user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765893", "date": "2026-04-14"}, {"by": "dtf", "context": "Arch Linux user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763141", "date": "2026-04-14"}], "tags": ["for Linux users", "free tier available", "Adobe alternative", "for hobbyist footage"], "use_cases": ["video editing", "video editing on linux", "video editing rough cuts", "raw photo editing on linux", "desktop video editing"], "compared": [{"slug": "kdenlive", "name": "Kdenlive", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "darktable", "name": "Darktable", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "blender", "name": "Blender", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "adobe-lightroom", "name": "Adobe Lightroom", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gimp", "name": "GIMP", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "ffmpeg", "name": "ffmpeg", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "affinity", "name": "Affinity", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610181", "title": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529", "title": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449187", "title": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562895", "title": "O&O ShutUp10 \u2013 The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456851", "title": "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326156", "title": "GIMP Development Update", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"compare": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 6, "warn": 2}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 5}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 793981680, "item_id": 49623855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623855", "by": "rldjbpin", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "As a free user for several years, the MCP integration was exactly something I was looking forward to", "excerpt": "As a free user for several years, the MCP integration was exactly something I was looking forward to for getting a rough cut! Sadly, things are not quite as straightforward for non-Studio. For one, you need to be a paying customer to get access to the new feature. Moreover, a community-based solution [1], which previously worked for all users, have now artificial limitation in implementing automation for Free users. ", "context": "free-version user for several years", "use_case": "video editing rough cuts", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 793958834, "item_id": 49622427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622427", "by": "josephg", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "reverse engineer the linux version of resolve to add support for AAC media", "excerpt": "A few weeks ago I used claude to reverse engineer the linux version of resolve to add support for AAC media. The patch is here, and it works great: https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix AAC streams are decoded and sent to ffmpeg.", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 793827841, "item_id": 49614240, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614240", "by": "TYPE_FASTER", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "make a super simple agent outside of Resolve", "excerpt": "I used Google's Agent Development Kit to make a super simple agent outside of Resolve that I can use to say \"take a 10s clip from file1.mp4 starting at 00:01:25 and a 20s clip from file2.mp4 starting at 00:02:00\" then tell it to preview and render. Speeds things up.", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 793800482, "item_id": 49612530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612530", "by": "artdigital", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Resolve then creates a video version that\u2019s cut based on the subtitle changes", "excerpt": "I used IntelliScript a lot. I give Claude a subtitle export, ask it to cut it and import the cut subtitle track with IntelliScript. Resolve then creates a video version that\u2019s cut based on the subtitle changes Works pretty well!", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 793792000, "item_id": 49612000, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612000", "by": "tonyarkles", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use DaVinci Resolve for editing GoPro, Canon DSLR, iPhone, and Drone FPV footage.", "excerpt": "I think there's a really interesting tension between what you're saying and what the parent post is saying, and it's something that's been discussed for a long time but LLMs are throwing a new wrench into it: a given user probably only uses 5-10% of the features of a piece of software, but across the whole body of users you get close to full coverage. I use DaVinci Resolve for editing GoPro, Canon DSLR, iPhone, and D", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 793788304, "item_id": 49611769, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611769", "by": "VeryAnonymous", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using it in Linux for >2 years, including their special cutting keyboard (blanking on the name). Works without a hitch, including multi monitor, gpu acceleration etc I use it on Manjaro, installed via AUR. That said, IIRC it only works with nvidia GPUs and requires X11, and is supposedly finicky to get the environment right for (but the AUR gets it right for me)", "context": "Manjaro user, installed via AUR", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"}, {"id": 793032901, "item_id": 49564556, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564556", "by": "embedding-shape", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "works amazingly on Linux, better than Windows in fact, like Houdini, Unreal Engine (the runtime, not the Editor), DaVinci Resolve and Blender", "excerpt": "Well, when this alcoholic is the only one that works properly for the sort of audio and 3D/VFX work I do, and a bunch of tools are only able to run (well) on Windows (Yes, I've tried WINE and everything else under the sun, for a decade), so dual booting is really the only option here, unless I wanna throw out a bunch of licenses I've paid thousands for and stop accepting that sort of work. Ableton is probably the big", "context": "audio and 3D/VFX professional", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "O&O ShutUp10 \u2013 The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"}, {"id": 791558514, "item_id": 49472407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472407", "by": "coldtea", "date": "2026-08-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The most expensive apps I use (Lightroom, Resolve, Photoshop), are available for Windows too", "excerpt": ">.. so that I can never switch to anything ever due to vendor lock-in, What exactly prevents you? I use macOS, but have used Windows and still also use Linux, and can jump at a moment's notice if I wish. While keeping iPhone, or ditching that too for Android. I'd lose the App Store bought apps, but I don't use that many of those, and the non-cross-platform apps would be an issue if I jumped away from any other OS too", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2"}, {"id": 789262819, "item_id": 49328926, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328926", "by": "Liftyee", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "other software like Blender or Darktable (or even Davinci Resolve)", "excerpt": "I don't get everyone's complaints about the interface. I've been using it for years, once you learn where things are I can get what I need done. The learning curve (finding where functions are, the right tools for each job, etc.) wasn't much different from other software like Blender or Darktable (or even Davinci Resolve). The panels concept might be the most intuitive part of it, but Blender also has different panel", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GIMP Development Update"}, {"id": 787686768, "item_id": 49230423, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230423", "by": "emn4tor", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too", "excerpt": "On Mac I haven't decided between Davinci Resolve and FinalCut, even tho Premiere is great, it's Adobe so meh. On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Which editing tool using in 2026?"}, {"id": 775408562, "item_id": 48463035, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463035", "by": "alexcaza", "date": "2026-06-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use davinci resolve", "excerpt": "Two that I use pretty frequently: 1. https://shopmath.app - I got tired of converting decimal to fraction for woodworking/renovations, and I wanted to round calculations to the nearest 16th, so I prompted this. 2. https://youtubetimestamps.app/ - I use davinci resolve and wanted an easy way to convert my EDL markers into timestamps for youtube.", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 775291986, "item_id": 48455749, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455749", "by": "andrew2025", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "DaVinci Resolve 20 shows HDR content 20% too dark", "excerpt": "HDR Color Meter for Windows. This reads the HDR RGB values (scRGB where 1.0 = 80 nits). It also displays in Linear BT2020 (100.0 = 100 nits). I use it to debug the rendering behaviour of different apps. (E.g. Chrome shows a green tint on HDR videos due to YUV to RGB conversion error, DaVinci Resolve 20 shows HDR content 20% too dark) https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nftnff5sdnt?hl=en-GB&gl=AU Free trial is availabl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 766800050, "item_id": 47925003, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925003", "by": "MrDrMcCoy", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Darktable, RAWTherapee, DaVinci Resolve, AfterShot Pro, and the unhelpfully named \"Art\"", "excerpt": "By photo editing, do you mean a RAW editor alternative to Lightroom? Darktable, RAWTherapee, DaVinci Resolve, AfterShot Pro, and the unhelpfully named \"Art\" [1] [1] https://artraweditor.github.io/Book.html", "context": "", "use_case": "RAW photo editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "After three months on Linux, I don't miss Windows at all"}, {"id": 765928977, "item_id": 47870561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870561", "by": "arecsu", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Personally, I use Affinity, Resolve, Darktable, Blender, and Figma.", "excerpt": "Hey! Author here. Glad we're feeling the same. At the very end I've linked to another page where I maintain an organic list of software and interesting bits of internet that I admire and find useful as a creative, for other creatives alike. Just today for the purposes of ending my blog post in a good light I created the Software category in the directory, to list every alternative I found interesting to Adobe's offer", "context": "creative", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Adobe Is Cooked"}, {"id": 765055616, "item_id": 47815976, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815976", "by": "vladde", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Resolve didn't support h.264 on their free tier on Linux", "excerpt": "has someone here moved from DaVinci Resolve to Kdenlive? how was that experience? i just was a bit shocked to find out Resolve didn't support h.264 on their free tier on Linux, and i don't want to re-encode all my footage to AV1", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "State of Kdenlive"}, {"id": 764283152, "item_id": 47767697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767697", "by": "miladyincontrol", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "while I love davinci for video", "excerpt": "Wish it supported more raw formats that most libraries (ie libraw) support. Lens corrections are also a big question mark, and if they are using something like lensfun I really do hope they allow user imported db/corrections rather than whatever is compiled into it. Neat that they try to support JXL compressed raws but colors render very off. Seems some promise, while I love davinci for video I'm not sure this will b", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764254289, "item_id": 47765893, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765893", "by": "cowmix", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can run multiple versions of Resolve on the same computer.", "excerpt": "I use this project to run Resolve Free/Studio on Linux: https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve It helps you build and run Resolve in a Docker or Podman container. I\u2019ve personally used it on Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch-based setups (well, CachyOS), and it\u2019s worked great for me. Right now it supports Nvidia very well. I\u2019m also personally working on adapting it for AMD GPUs so I can run Resolve on my Strix Halo workstation. O", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764210256, "item_id": 47763141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763141", "by": "dtf", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was really impressed by how well it worked for me on Linux.", "excerpt": "I recently used Resolve (just the free version) for a project. It was my first time seriously using the software but I ended up spending a lot of time with it - lots of timeline editing, keyframe animation, some simple Fusion compositions, and a fair bit of work in the Fairlight page, rendering out daily . I did all this on my beloved Arch Linux workstation, and frankly it was rock solid, apart from exactly one crash", "context": "Arch Linux user", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764207568, "item_id": 47762973, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762973", "by": "googie", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "getting it run is a very bad experience on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04", "excerpt": "I wish they (authors of DaVinci Resolve and the Photo Editor) paid more attention to Linux platform. Theoretically DaVinci Resolve runs on Linux, but getting it run is a very bad experience on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04. I even paid for the DaVinci license, as I read somewhere that for Linux it's necessary in order to have all codecs supported. It did not help. Fortunately there were no problems with refund. There are whol", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "video editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764177264, "item_id": 47761079, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761079", "by": "bryanhogan", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Have been using Davinci Resolve as my desktop video editor for years, and it's great, can highly recommend it as well.", "excerpt": "This is an amazing announcement! I've been looking for a good replacement since the Affinity betrayel. Have been using Davinci Resolve as my desktop video editor for years, and it's great, can highly recommend it as well.", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 764176400, "item_id": 47761025, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761025", "by": "raincole", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've been using Resolve for years without paying for it", "excerpt": "How do they actual make money? I've been using Resolve for years without paying for it (and without thinking about its business model too much). It seems that they sell quite expensive professional hardware so I assume the software users are just compensated by hardware users?", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"}, {"id": 762328866, "item_id": 47645554, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645554", "by": "alin23", "date": "2026-04-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It would have taken me days to do the same with DaVinci Resolve because of my inexperience with complex editors.", "excerpt": "Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money? The recent video I did for Cling for example (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) I\u2019ve had many people ask about how I did it because it has just the right amount of motion and highlighting. I did it in a few minutes of editing in the ScreenStudio UI. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s a great video, but people say it conveys the info well enough and that\u2019s what", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"}, {"id": 743340483, "item_id": 46458780, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458780", "by": "MerrimanInd", "date": "2026-01-01", "stance": "compare", "quote": "They're mostly /fine/ but it's one of the weaker software categories in FOSS-alternatives IMO.", "excerpt": "I love this. I spent my holidays hearing non-technical family members complain about their ever deteriorating Windows experiences, issues that make me righteously angry at Microsoft. IMO the next important unblocker for Linux adoption is the Adobe suite. In a post-mobile world one can use a tablet or phone for almost any media consumption. But production is still in the realm of the desktop UX and photo/video/creativ", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it"}, {"id": 734176722, "item_id": 45886045, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45886045", "by": "ErroneousBosh", "date": "2025-11-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "These days I use DaVinci Resolve on Linux", "excerpt": "If you have a lot of Video8 or Hi8 tapes to digitise, get a Digital8 camcorder. It will most likely play them back quite happily and emit DV over its Firewire port. Digital8 is just DV on a different tape! I still use DV/DVCAM tapes because I like shooting with old cameras, and I capture the same way I have for about 25 years when I used a VX2000 to shoot DV for a commercial digital streaming company that did all sor", "context": "", "use_case": "video editing", "switched_from": "Premiere", "story": "Automating our home video imports"}]}