

Or you can click onto a part of the image and tweak the settings for that colour individually. The Offset wheel adjusts the whole image. The primary color wheels let you adjust balance and brightness are called Lift, Gamma and Gain – which some call shadows, midtones and highlights. DaVinci makes it as easy as other NLEs by allowing tweaks via conventional sliders or colour wheels which adjust contrast, colour temperature, midtones, saturation and more. The edit page also has basic audio controls and quick exports.įrom here, the Color page is a full-on Hollywood-level colour correction and grading tool including Wide Gamut and HDR images. As is working with multicams, selecting transitions, or adding the built-in 2D and 3D titles, cropping, speed ramping, image stabilisation and more. Trimming is similar to other NLEs (no-linear editing programs), too.

Then drag it to the timeline or use the editing overlay, which allows you to insert, overwrite, replace or other editing options. You double click a clip to load into the inspector, drag the playhead to where you want your clip to start in the time line, mark clips with in and out points, or use traditional I and O as in and out points. If you are used to Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X, this is where you will feel most at home as it’s similar. The Edit page features drag and drop editing, smart trimming tools, fast proxy editing, live previews of any effects and has a huge library full of effects and transitions. It's also the only way to process B-Raw files from Blackmagic cameras. It’s the only single programme that has not just editing and colour correction but professional audio, motion graphics and visual effects built in.

So with DaVinci Resolve 17 or full Studio version varying between free and $295/£225, it’s far cheaper than any other full-spec editing software packages you can buy. Blackmagic ATEM Mini review (opens in new tab).Blackmagic Ursa Mini Pro 12K (opens in new tab).Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K Pro (opens in new tab).Best vlogging cameras (opens in new tab).Best 4K cameras for video (opens in new tab).Best video editing software (opens in new tab).
