DaVinci Resolve vs. Final Cut Pro

DaVinci Resolve

104 Reviews and Ratings

Final Cut Pro

120 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DaVinci Resolve	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Australian company Blackmagic Design offers their video editing application DaVinci Resolve for a wide range of high quality ultra HD effects, render queue, and video uploading options among other features.	$0 Free
Final Cut Pro	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Apple offers Final Cut Pro, a video editing platform featuring optimized for a high performance machines and supporting a wide range of quality effects.	$299.99 per license

Pricing

DaVinci Resolve

Final Cut Pro

DaVinci Resolve 17: $0.00
Free
DaVinci Resolve Studio 17: $295.00
perpetual license

Final Cut Pro X: $299.99
per license

Pricing Offerings
DaVinci Resolve	Final Cut Pro
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	DaVinci Resolve	Final Cut Pro
Considered Both Products	Blackmagic Design Jason Burke Customer Marketing Manager in Marketing at ClearCompany Talent Management Software (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve Davinci Resolve is MUCH cheaper than Adobe's video tools, but is harder to learn and lacks the rest of Adobe's image editing and design tools. Pricing is comparable to Final Cut Pro X, but Final Cut is Mac-only, and you have to purchase motion graphics and compression tools … Incentivized Helpful? Shubham Verma Video Editor in Information Technology at SpiceUp Media (Media Production, 11-50 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve I am selecting this for cool transitions, effects, and titles. I can export my files to any of the formats such as mp4, mov, mpeg, etc. DaVinci Resolve workspace is very easy to use. I can edit the video in very easy steps with sound, effect, color touch-up, and HDR Grading. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose DaVinci Resolve For a small business, DaVinci's price point (free / $300) makes it a strong competitor to Adobe Premiere. FCP costs roughly the same, but then DaVinci's color correction is better. If you do not need all the color correction options, then even the free version could be an option. Incentivized Helpful? Dan Talvi Audio / Visual Coordinator at GST BOCES (Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees) Chose DaVinci Resolve DaVinci Resolve is a fantastic free option. For a while, we utilized DaVinci Resolve as our primary video editing software as it allowed us to produce high-quality videos for our marketing and services with low start-up cost. However, as our needs progressed, we eventually made … Incentivized Helpful?	Apple Brendon Brown Marketing Technologist in Information Technology at Island City Media (Retail, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro I find that many users have some iMovie experience when approaching Final Cut Pro X, and thus segue quickly to it. Premiere is also a good product, timeline-based, with a very mature expansion market, possibly with a cluttered interface. DaVinci Resolve is the free product from … Incentivized Helpful? Frankie Heath Director of Social Marketing in Marketing at Mid-America Christian University (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro X has all the same features that the other two have. The price point for both Final Cut Pro X and Premier Pro are very comparable and DaVinci Resolve is a free software but I found it to not be very user friendly. We have access to both Premier Pro and Final Cut … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Dancy video editor in Marketing at Think Video (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Price, price, price. DaVinci may be free, but the learning grade is a bit higher, and you need a high-end machine to make it sing. Premier Pro is a subscription service bloated with tools you'll never use. FCPX is priced decently and is easy to learn. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Final Cut Pro The magnetic timeline, live previews of effects, and general ease of editing. In other words, I think it works. Incentivized Helpful? Hilary Hobbs Senior Video Editor at Spear Education (Entertainment, 201-500 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Premiere and Final Cut are very similar is usage. Final Cut has less crashing and lag, but does not work well with Adobe products. You'd basically have to use all different softwares to use it best. Davinci is a different beast with a color grading portion that is unmatched by … Incentivized Helpful? Joel McAfee Producer in Professional Services at lilDRAGON (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro I first learned to edit on Adobe Premiere Pro, and then FCP7. Comparatively, FCP7 just worked. Adobe crashed all the time (back in the day). Apple clearly also had the edge on the user interface - not just doing what NLEs had been doing for years but making improvements to the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Final Cut Pro I prefer Final Cut because of the magnetic timeline and the simplified way to edit clips. In my experience with other editing software, FCPX changed some basic things about editing to make them simpler. Often, editors who are engrained in the classic ways to edit don't like … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	DaVinci Resolve	Final Cut Pro
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (20 ratings)	8.9 (34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.9 (3 ratings)	8.6 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	1.4 (5 ratings)	8.8 (5 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)