Considering DaVinci Resolve — need wisdom

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Lon Waitman] “–How does it work with Windows 7?”

Resolve is officially supported only on Windows 10. It might work with 7 but there are some features on OS side that Resolve uses.

[Lon Waitman] “–If I am used to using Premiere Pro, how difficult a transition will moving to DaVinci Resolve be?”

Download the free version and try it.

[Lon Waitman]

Hey Tero, thanks for your help! I am sorry to hear about it not working with Win 7.

I have found a place to download Resolve and it says it works for Win 10, 8 and 7, but this site is probably confused and incorrect. But on the DaVinci website, I can find no info about preferred OS for Resolve. Can you show me where it is mentioned on their website?

Thanks!

[Lon Waitman]

In my previous post, I said “but this site is probably confused and incorrect. ” What I meant by that is that the download site that says Resolve works with Win 7 is confused and incorrect.

[Lon Waitman]

Hey Tero,

I just found out (from DaVinci support) that the latest version of Resolve that will work with Win 7 is version 11.3.1 — and this is available for download on their site, so i will get this and check it out. thanks for your help!

[Michael Gissing]

Resolve is up to version 16 and it has vastly improved since 11. I would not consider using version 11 and Win 7.

The edit side of 11 was poor as was real time performance so you are comparing Premiere to Resolve when it was a Color grade program with basic edit functionality, almost no audio capability. You are wasting your time in my opinion.

Only download software from Blackmagic’s support site https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion
Configuration guides are in the support notes.

[Pat Horridge]

Windows 7 is about to go end of support there is no sense in in sticking with that. But my main worry would be your hardware. If you need Windows 7 I’m guessing your hardware isn’t current and resolve does need a suitably powerful system.

Pat Horridge
Broadcast & Post Consultant, Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor
Free online Tutorials at VET digital media academy online https://vimeo.com/channels/752951
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[Lon Waitman]

Thanks, Michael!

[Lon Waitman]

Thanks, Pat!

My plan is not to stick with 7. I just want to see if Resolve will work for me or not before I move to 10.

As far as my hardware. It is an older system, but when I got it, it was pretty good: Nvidia Quadro5000, 64 GB RAM, 2 Quad Core Intel Xeon E5420 processors.

Hopefully this still works.

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Lon Waitman] “Nvidia Quadro5000”

In GPU terms this is a really old card and is not supported with the latest version.

[Lon Waitman]

I meant to say Nvidia Quadro K5000, not Quadro 5000…