# DaVinci Resolve after 3 days of usage
After hacking on [Flexbeats](https://flexbeats.studio/) for a while now, we have reached to the point where we have to market our product. We decided to start with social media marketing via TikToks, Instagram Reels, and YouTube shorts. Our thinking is to make short videos that introduces people to our platform and also provide insights on how to use it. We are a small team with no funding so the dev team is now the marketing team.

We brainstorm video ideas, wrote scripts, record videos, edit them, and post them. For editing software, we had two contenders [CapCut](https://www.capcut.com/) and [DaVinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve). We decided to go with DaVinci resolve because my previous experience with CapCut for windows was not great. But I still think it has potential because its simple and designed for social media content creation edits like the ones we are trying to do so would definitely give it another go in the near future.

DaVinci resolve on the other hand it was pretty great on the first try. Now one thing to know about me is that I have an extensive experience working with creative tools because I used to do graphics designing, a little bit of motion graphics, and 3D sculping so picking up DaVinci resolve was fairly easy for me because I knew what I was looking for.

Although I can't speak much on it's learning curve I can safely say that it has an intuitive user interface that if you have an experience using other video editing softwares you will be able to find your way around it easily. I can even say that DaVinci resolve is well thought of and deliver the best user experience compared to other video editing softwares I have used that are in the same features and complexity range.

It runs so smoothly on my HP Probook 11th Gen core i5 with 16 gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of space remaining out of 475 gigs. Maybe its because the videos I am editing are small, less than 100 MBs or maybe its just fast because I remember CapCut shitting on itself with the same workload and Adobe Premiere Pro maxing my machine's resources on launch.

Features that I have been using include importing files of course, clip and audio editing; things like trimming, splitting, muting or removing audio from a clip, and also doing some audio effects on audio channels mostly equalization to remove unwanted voices and sometimes echo that is caused by our weird cheap chinese mixer during recording.

One thing that annoys is me is that in some places in the UI you can't input exact number that you want and you have to turn those knobs or adjust those channel faders to get the exact value you want. I find that so annoying, I like to just double click on the amount value shown and input the amount I want.

But all in all, DaVinci resolve is fucken awesome and if you are looking for a video editing software that won't disappoint I highly recommend it. It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Not sure what distros are supported but I am looking to try it on Manjaro soon.