Last time I looked at it the free version didn't use your GPU for playback during editing. Has it changed since then?

It depends on the host OS and codec. On Windows if your OEM didn't include the H.265 license with your default installation you have to buy it for $1 from the Windows store (this is a Windows thing, not a Davinci thing). On Linux I think you have to pay for the Pro version which includes the license.

I think if you're working with DNxHD files you don't have to worry about this.

I did some semi-serious work in Linux on the free version earlier this year. Performance was pretty good, and I believe that it did use the GPU.

The only big annoyance for me was the lack of a h265 codec. I had some FFMPEG shell scripts for the final exports, but it was a pain and I eventually paid for the full version, which I am very happy with considering it is a lifetime license. Some premium features like speech transcription, where you can select a video segment by simply selecting dialog from a text box, were a big time saver too.

With my last editing experience being Adobe Premiere in the early 2000s, Resolve was simply amazing.

Similarly, I use Shutter Encoder as an early stage of my pipeline to convert to less painful codecs.

...but it asks for all your identifying information so their sales team can email, phone, snail-mail solicit you to upgrade...until their shit gets hacked and then they are paying out a multi-million dollar privacy settlement/fine :/

There is a link in the bottom right or left of that form that allows you to download without registering.

And for macOS it’s on the App Store, so no forms.

You do know that you can just write gibberish in the download form, right?

You never know, some vendors send you the download link / license file via email, so at least that part needs to be legit.

Just use a temporary email from some temporary email generator like https://temp-mail.org/ (use an AdBlock, I'm sure the site is littered with ads, but I wouldn't know cause I use uBlock)

Those are often blacklisted though, same as any mails on free TLDs.

That's what I thought too, but it's just a datawall, the link is available right after submitting.

So go ahead and John Doe it.

Just try once to check if they send the email?

you can use a disposable email https://temp-mail.org/

Or just maintain a personal throwaway email that's not tied to your real life identity

You can just write whatever in that form. It doesn't get checked. That's why some distros have packages for davinci resolve - they just POST random data to the website. For example

NixOS:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/781e2a9797ecf0f146e814...

Arch:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=davin...