I Switched From Windows to Linux – It Only Took Me 20 Years (Including Davinci Resolve Setup) (www.youtube.com)

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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 hours ago

It's mainly a learning curve for most people. Getting used to it, find good open source replacements. And voila la, you will be happy using Linux.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago

Man everything I hear about resolve makes me glad I don't use it. People are always bringing up installation or packaging issues, it not properly utilising graphics cards, or instability.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 11 points 11 hours ago

As someone who uses it; it really is an exceptional video editor, and IMHO is worth the hassle (which is much less of a hassle now due to DavinciBox, which the video author sadly was not aware of).

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

I didn't know about it either, sweet!
I wonder if running a heavy app like this on a container harms performance in any way?

[-] Zookeeper@programming.dev 5 points 11 hours ago

Have you tried KdenLive ? I am learning Davinci and learned about Kdenlive froma com below. Wantzd to know your opinion

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 3 points 8 hours ago

My issue with Kdenlive is that no matter what I do it never uses my GPU (7900 XTX) for rendering. I've tried multiple rendering presets and configs, codecs, made sure all the libs and related packages are installed but it never works

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 points 7 hours ago

I use the Flatpak and here's how to get VA-API working:

Run the following command: ls -lah /dev/dri/render* and note down the number behind renderD
Create a project
Go to Project -> Render
Select VAAPI AMD H264 and click Save current preset as new custom preset
In the new preset, replace renderD129 with the result of the command in step 1, e.g. renderD128

You should now be able to hardware encode with the custom preset. Since you have an 7900 XTX you can also use H265 and AV1 to encode. For that you can copy the preset again and replace h264_vaapi with av1_vaapi or hevc_vaapi. When using AV1, you also have to switch the audio codec to opus instead of aac.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm not using the flatpak but rather the one straight from Arch repos. I did notice all the presets I had were using renderD129 and I found out I only have renderD128 as well so I changed that, but now it barely uses my GPU and CPU during render.

❯ ls -hal /dev/dri/render*
crw-rw-rw- root render 0 B Sun Feb 23 09:47:45 2025  /dev/dri/renderD128

Here's the render settings and outputs of btop, amdgpu_top and LACT:

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

It feels basic but it gets the work done. As long as you don't need a complex array of effects and graphics, it fits. Most of simple amateur video needs are easily covered.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I've tried it a number of times, but never could stick with it due to how buggy it was, though the last time I tried it was about 3 or 4 years ago, so it might be in a better state today.