I work for/with teach pro colorists. Been "around" the uppers of the pro colorist community really since NAB 2014. So I work in Resolve, have since ... 12? something like that. And I teach colorists how to work with Premiere's color management, do conform/out of Pr into Resolve ... and even some things in Resolve, especially as far as using Tangent Elements panel and their new Warp Drive software. I've got a lot of experience in both, shall we say? And major time with power users of both, way above my skills. And yes, I've always used the "Studio" full version of Resolve. They both have good things and not so good. Resolve is probably never going to accept ProRes RAW, don't even try to discuss it with their staffers ... that pretty much ends any discussion. And they're never going to allow any user customization of workspaces. If you like their standard UI fine, if you don't, tough. Premiere allows a ton more user customization, and has still quite a few more user settable keyboard shortcuts (especially in editing work) than Resolve. That said, Premiere's got some pro media misses too. It's a pick your troubles thing. While Resolve has a marvelously detailed 4,000 plus page manual, much bigger and more detailed than Premiere ... there isn't any index, and BlackMagic uses as many "in-house" terms for things as anyone I've ever seen. So if you don't know what they call a generally used tool, good luck ... you might be reading the odd hour or five to find it. "Masks" .... no, you have to go to power windows. Right. Whatever. Both those apps, and Baselight, the other top-end grading app, and Avid, and Nuke and whatever ... all have long and steep learning curves. For many newer to video editing, Capcut and Premiere Elements and other similar things are faster as they automate so many things for the user. And therefore are fast to use, for what they can do. The pro apps do not automate most things, that's just starting to come in, as pro workers have normally wanted absolute total control of everything and every effect. This startles most noobs, as they expect the pro apps to be even more automated, rather than it being the other way around. But you can do things in all the pro apps way past what any of the prosumer apps can do. All of these are simply tools, though ... fancy hammers is what I call them. I don't care about the brand on the hammer if it does the job I want, and I don't yell at hammers. Pick your hammer, and be happy with it. And yes, Adobe is actually increasing paid customers rather handsomely ... as is Resolve.
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