Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rividium. Today we are looking at Blackmagic, Designs, DaVinci Resolve, and what the differences are between the free version and the paid studio version. So Resolve has been around for quite some time now. It started out as specifically a color grading application. It's added visual effects with the edition of Fusion. It's added some pretty sophisticated sound, authoring capabilities with the inclusion of Fairlight. And it continues to improve on its editing capabilities. Most people know it comes in two flavors, the the free version, which is free. All you need to do is register on the Blackmagic website. And a more expensive $300 studio version that enables the more sophisticated grading and VFX features. So what I thought I'd do today is go through what those are and whether or not I think it's worth the step up to DaVinci Resolve studio. So there are a couple of things in DaVinci studio that are probably worth the price of the upgrade. The first one is hardware acceleration. Because once you upgrade to studio, you are able to now use your GPU for media playback. So in my normal copy, in my normal copy Resolve, I got about three frames per second. And as you can see in the studio version, I get actually a little bit jelty, but pretty close to real-time playback. But I want to show you some other things. I'm going to add a node here between my normalization and my grade. I'm going to go open effects and write face, face refinement. Drag that across and hit analyze. In this node, I can turn that overlay off because it's distracting. And then I have all these amazing controls. I have this basic one here, which is smoothing. I can add or subtract detail. I can add or subtract contrast. And again, it's just on the face. But what's probably the fine controls? I can increase or decrease saturation. I can tint it, purple or green. I can desaturate just the shadows. I can take the shine away. Then we can get into the eyes. I can sharpen just the eyes. I can brighten just the eyes. Good HCI look. I can add a light not just to the pupils in the whites, but to the entire eye area, which is a really great way of making adding a beauty light. And I can even take away the blur out the bags and the people's eyes. And you know, if you're working in any kind of beauty space, if I click Apple D, I'm turning on this enhancement and look, it's really striking. And what's great is that then follows her through the entire shot. It's cheaper than Botox. You can change the color of the lipstick or just generally increase the saturation. You can smooth the upper lip. You also have controls in the blush and the cheeks. Face retouching is pretty huge and Premiere doesn't have anything that comes close. But let's look at some other effects. This is the other one I use the most. So here's a clip of a color some under an eye working on our red test. And if I go into 300% here, you can see that it is really noisy. This was shown in a before. Look at the the brick battery of the red is just crazy, crazy noise. Now it was in the shade. It was shown in it before. We got out another node. And here in my motion effects tab, I'm going to go for two frames and turn this up to 20 and the spatial up to 10. It's gone. And it'll even play back in something close to real time. See the battery that was kind of a looks like fireworks. It was so noisy. It is now clear as day. If I toggle this on and off, you can see how much work that noise reduction is doing. And how fast even on my pretty crappy 2015 iMac, it's playing back in pretty close to real time. And in the wide, everyone's face is still smooth. There's still plenty of sharpness. DaVinci Resolve Studio also has a bunch of added options. It can accept high efficiency video codec or h265 and edit with it. It can output in all kinds of other flavors, all kinds of other sizes and scopes. Then the regular can do other frame rates, including above 60p. So 120 and 300p timelines. You can handle with Resident DaVinci Resolve Studio. It does seem like a lot of money. But if you think about Premiere and Photoshop, the Creative Cloud Suite, being about 25 or 26 dollars a month, in a single year, you can get DaVinci Resolve Studio and convert yourself to a non-subscription model editor and grading and visual effects and audio editing things. So you'll basically buy it once and you'll never have to pay for it again. That is my look at the added features you get in DaVinci Resolve 15 Studio Edition. For my workflow and the jobs that I work on, it is almost a necessity for me. I really, really love these features, especially the face grading tool, the noise reduction. But most of all, the GPU acceleration, because it increases the speed at which I'm able to grade and output my videos exponentially. Hopefully, that was helpful for someone out there. Definitely check the links in the description to find out more about DaVinci Resolve, the different panels that you can get to go with this, the different accessories that I use. But I encourage everyone out there to investigate this more, watch other reviews and find out whether or not the upgrade is going to work for you. Thank you very much for watching. I will see you next time.