In doing so, it’s essentially handed consumers a professional-grade editor capable of achieving serious movie magic for literally $0. Okay, so in case you haven’t heard, the team over at Blackmagic Design seriously upped its game earlier this year and they did it with the release of DaVinci Resolve 15-the world’s first solution combining offline and online editing, color correction, audio post-production, and visual effects all in the one piece of software.Īs part of this game-changing software release, Blackmagic Design also tacked on a free version of Davinci Resolve (huzzah!) which only lacks a few of the features its paid counterpart offers.

But should you ever find yourself needing more than this, you can easily upgrade to the Lightworks Pro license for $24.99/month through which you can benefit from the full range of output formats, plus a few extra goodies like Boris Graffiti and FX packages. Lightworks only supports the export of stock standard web compatible files and Vimeo/YouTube 720p. The only downside: the program’s limit on output formats. The fact that Lightworks has been used on some of the biggest and bested film productions to roll out of Hollywood over the past few years (think The Wolf of Wall Street, The King Speech, Road to Perdition), provides all the proof you need. It offers virtually all the features one would find on a paid professional NLE, from world-class trimming to multi-cam editing to a fully-customizable interface.īut you really don’t need to trawl through the specs to see why this application is so awesome. This post-production powerhouse is widely-adored in the filmmaking biz and it’s easy to see why.

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