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The free Resolve version is ridicolously powerful for it being freeware. BMD has been adding features and improving the package at a pace that is imho truly unprecedented in the industry.

The full version (notable features are a proprietary GPU-based h.264 codec and support for framerates beyond 60 Hz and resolutions beyond 4K (the free version does 4K) is still only 300 bucks or so.

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That's really cool, I didn't realise the free version did 4K! As with most of these specialist types of applications (thinking of music software, with which I am more familiar), the GUI and concepts can take quite a lot of getting used to as they are so specialised, but Resolve actually seems reasonably user friendly for doing simple edits. No idea how to use all the Fusion stuff, etc, but seems really powerful!

Absolutely. In my view, it's not that Resolve is a $300 professional app with a free dumbed-down version—Resolve is a free professional app with a $300 amped-up version.

Many of the features added by Resolve Studio are super awesome things that most people don't need and that other NLEs don't have. I bought the Studio version for the realtime lens distortion removal filter, which saved me a lot of time on a project.

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