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DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More (petapixel.com)
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[–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Another to try in my wheelhouse of free RAW editors. Now I’m mostly chill to just use RapidRAW. After that Darktable. Then RawTherapee. Still got to try ART (Another RawTherapee)

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    • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Why not just use Darktable?

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I desperately want to switch from lightroom but darktable isn't even close to being an efficient replacement for quickly sorting through, tagging and editing a day's shooting of 50mp raw files.

    It's an order of magnitude slower and with way more clicks to do anything

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Are you using assisted culling in Lightroom for culling? As yeah, thats just missing from Darktable and you would have to use another (opensource) tool to do that.

    However if you are still manual, I dont agree once you have learned the keyboard shortcuts, that's as fast for me in both, or in my current tool of choice, photolab. Even just using 1 to 5 to do basic culling with auto advance is a game changer for manual review.

    Editing really depends on your workflow, if you have a lot of similar shots you can just copy and paste a working set across everything thats similar and then manually tweak. Even if the shots aren't the same just applying the usual set of modules with some sensible defaults across photos is very helpful. I used to keep one back from my last set as a template.

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    • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I was surprised to see the camera tether feature.

    Photoshop is much easer to use for photo editing. Still this might be free. There are typically resolution restriction on the free version of resolve. We’ll have to see if that applies to photos.

    Resolve is notoriously bad with high resolution video. I wonder how well it will handle 40Mp and above images.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Is it? I've had no problems with hi res video on resolve studio

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Depends on how deep your node graph gets. My friend who does video has a pair of beefy gpu’s(4090?). To get fully smooth and interactive video.

    Resolve is the only application that I see 128gb or more of ram as actually making a difference.

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    • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Sweet. Do they have a Linux version?

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    yes, but

    • installing it can be not so straightforward. this is a good resource for guidance/troubleshooting
    • the free version is limited in the codecs it can process (licensing issues some say, but kdenlive can work with them, so…). you can look up the supported codecs rather easily, but being unable to use h264, h265, and aac can be a pain in the butt.
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    • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I wonder if the tethering is any good. Lightroom is pretty bad compared to Capture One and I'm not aware of many other alternatives.

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