


I do keep Photoshop around but I rarely open it and really should cancel my Adobe subscription for those last few apps. I’ve also given up on Lightroom for Capture One, which is better in every conceivable way for me. Oh, and not for nothing, I’m editing on a Mac Pro, and Davinci runs great on it, which I can’t really say the same for with virtually anything from Adobe. It’s too powerful and no other video editing suite that I’ve used comes close. I don’t think I could give up on the color page in Resolve. After Effects definitely has the upper hand when it comes to plugins, but I’ve enjoyed figuring out how to achieve the same results with the tools built into fusion. The integration of the cut and edit pages feels really great to work with, and I’m finding that fusion is very capable, and working with node based editing is more enjoyable for me than timeline based editing.

I ultimately decided to go with Davinci (and paid for it) and I’m very happy with it, but nothing’s going to be perfect.Īs an NLE, I prefer it to Premiere. As someone who used Premiere and After Effects for client work in the past and is returning to video as a hobbyist, I struggled a lot with the decision, mostly because I was so familiar with After Effects.
