 Welcome to the Crimson Engine, my name is Rubidium. 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 addition 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 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 some 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 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 OpenFX and write Face, Face Refinement. Drag that across and hit Analyze. In this node I can turn the 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. Give it an HDR look. I can add a light not just to the pupils and the whites but to the entire eye area which is a really great way of adding a beauty light. And I can even take away the or blur out the bags under people's eyes. And 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. 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 to 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 Carlos Armando and I working on our red test. And if I go into 300% here you can see that it is really noisy. This was shown in it before. Look at the brick battery of the red. It's just crazy, crazy noise. Now it was in the shade. It was shown in it before. We're going to add 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 you know kind of a looks like fireworks. It was so noisy 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 you know pretty crappy 2015 iMac it's playing back in you know pretty close to real time and in the wide everyone's face is still smooth. There's still a lot of 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 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 you know in a single year you can get DaVinci Resolve Studio and convert yourself to a non-subscription model editor in grading and visual effects and audio editing thing so you'll basically you 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