If you want the ultimate performance, this is still true. Up until very recently, high end video post production tools such as Resolve required high end workstation class computer hardware, with multiple dedicated GPU’s and ideally, hundreds of GB RAM. Those days of million dollar suites that only large commercial post facilities could afford are long gone, and computer technology has raced ahead in performance to the point where almost anybody with the desire to learn, can now have access to these tools. Through the latter half of the 1980’s to early 2000’s DaVinci was a specialized color corrector tied to telecine and film scanners, it required dedicated hardware costing many hundreds of thousands of dollars.

DaVinci Resolve has a long history in high-end film and video finishing, starting long before it was acquired by Blackmagic Design, and long before it was a software solution. I originally started compiling this guide in 2015 with Resolve 11, and as of my latest update to this post, Resolve 17 has been with us for over a year already. As with all things tech, change comes quickly.

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