• aname
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    152 months ago

    Correct me if I am wrong but DaVinci Resolve is not really free software, right? It is just free to use proprietary software. Freemium or some such

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Yes it’s freemium, but it’s very usable for free. I’d estimate 95% of non professional users don’t care for the difference between free and paid. Also if you want to pay it’s a perpetual license for the current version, not a subscription like increasingly common.

      It’s competitive with Adobe in terms of features and usability UX/UI, perhaps even better than Adobe in some parts.

      It’s probably the best choice if you want to do video, movie maker and the like are to weak for your use case, and your not an ffmpeg magician. Because you can download it for free and get used to it quickly, and it can likely do everything you want for free. Except GPU rendering.

    • @slickgoat
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      2 months ago

      I believe that it is free for non-commercial purposes.

      • aname
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        52 months ago

        But that doesn’t make it free software. Free software is free as in freedpm, not free as in price.

        • @slickgoat
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          22 months ago

          Well, it’s free to me, but whatever…

          • aname
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            02 months ago

            Yes, but that is not what free software means.

            • @slickgoat
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              22 months ago

              Feel free to define it any way you want, but if I am permitted to download it and use it without payment, it’s free, my man.

                • @slickgoat
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                  12 months ago

                  No doubt you are correct in a technical sense, but to a ordinary man in the street, free be free.