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I recently used Resolve (just the free version) for a project. It was my first time seriously using the software but I ended up spending a lot of time with it - lots of timeline editing, keyframe animation, some simple Fusion compositions, and a fair bit of work in the Fairlight page, rendering out daily . I did all this on my beloved Arch Linux workstation, and frankly it was rock solid, apart from exactly one crash when using the timeline keyframe editor - something that was solved by upgrading Resolve to the latest version.

I was really impressed by how well it worked for me on Linux.

I think these things might have helped:

- I use an X11 desktop (Cinnamon), not Wayland. I've tried it out on a GNOME Wayland desktop but it seemed quite a bit more clunky and froze frequently.

- PipeWire runs the system's audio routing, so Resolve just appears as another ALSA client, and I can then use wiremix to send to my preferred speakers or headphones. (I haven't tried any audio input yet)

- I didn't try to install Resolve natively, I used davincibox [1] to install and update it within a container (it uses distrobox, which then uses podman).

I'll now be purchasing the studio version, which hopefully will work as well.

[1] https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox

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#!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail INPUT_DIR="${1:-}" TARGET_FPS="${2:-30}" if [[ -z "$INPUT_DIR" ]]; then echo "Usage: $0 <directory with clips> [target fps (defaults to 30)]" exit 1 fi if [[ ! -d "$INPUT_DIR" ]]; then echo "Error: directory does not exist: $INPUT_DIR" exit 1 fi OUTPUT_DIR="$INPUT_DIR/conv" mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR" EXTENSIONS=( mp4 avi wmv mpg mpeg mov mkv m4v flv webm ts mts m2ts 3gp ) shopt -s nullglob nocaseglob for ext in "${EXTENSIONS[@]}"; do for file in "$INPUT_DIR"/*."$ext"; do filename="$(basename "$file")" name="${filename%.*}" output="$OUTPUT_DIR/${name}.mov" echo "Konwersja: $file -> $output" ffmpeg -y -i "$file" \ -map 0:v:0 -map "0:a?" \ -vf "fps=${TARGET_FPS}" \ -vsync cfr \ -c:v prores_ks -profile:v 1 \ -pix_fmt yuv422p \ -c:a pcm_s16le -ar 48000 \ "$output" done done echo "Results in: $OUTPUT_DIR"

#!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail INPUT="${1:-}" CRF="${2:-21}" PRESET="${3:-slow}" if [[ -z "$INPUT" ]]; then echo "Usage: $0 <input file> [crf=21] [preset=slow]" exit 1 fi if [[ ! -f "$INPUT" ]]; then echo "Error: file does not exist: $INPUT" exit 1 fi DIR="$(dirname "$INPUT")" FILE="$(basename "$INPUT")" NAME="${FILE%.*}" OUTPUT="$DIR/${NAME}_h265.mp4" ffmpeg -y -i "$INPUT" \ -map 0:v:0 -map '0:a?' \ -c:v libx265 \ -preset "$PRESET" \ -crf "$CRF" \ -pix_fmt yuv420p \ -tag:v hvc1 \ -c:a aac \ -b:a 192k \ -movflags +faststart \ "$OUTPUT" echo "Ready: $OUTPUT"