Matt Jones | Multimedia Specialist

Tag: video editing

  • A Note About Running DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu 18.04

    A Note About Running DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu 18.04

    A follow-up to my previous post Earlier this week I decided to run DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu 18.04. This was a terrible idea. I spent the last 3 days banging my head against a wall and scouring countless forums, blogs, articles, and all for nothing. Here’s my situation. I have an AMD Threadripper with a…

  • How to Fix Write Permissions For DaVinci Resolve

    How to Fix Write Permissions For DaVinci Resolve

    Here’s how to fix write permissions for DaVinci Resolve. To fix this, just open a terminal and run: chmod -R 766 /your/problem/drive/or/directory What’s Going On? On linux, security is brilliantly built in. By default, files and folders that you create have a set level of permissions (defined by the umask command). Typically, the default is…

  • Transcode Files for Davinci Resolve 16

    Transcode Files for Davinci Resolve 16

    Today I learned that you only have to transcode files to import them into the free version of Resolve. If you’re rocking the full version, then this shouldn’t really apply, unless you have an absolutely crazy file format on your hands. Didn’t We Already Cover This? So this stems off a previous blog post from…

  • Flowblade Review: Most Capable NLE on Linux?

    Flowblade Review: Most Capable NLE on Linux?

    Flowblade 2.0 Released Janne Liljeblad and other contributors released Flowblade 2.0 recently and I thought I’d try it out. I edited a quick 1 minute video from about 10 drone clips shot in 4k. The first impressive feature was how easily I was able to render proxies. It was just as easy to replace them…

  • Using DaVinci Resolve 15 on Ubuntu

    Using DaVinci Resolve 15 on Ubuntu

    Default Experience If you’re like me, you’ve been on a quest to find the best video editing software that you can run on your Ubuntu Linux PC build. If you’ve been in the video world for any amount of time, you’ll probably know that Resolve 15 is arguably one of the most robust tools in…

  • Free Software That Could Replace Your Adobe Subscription

    Free Software That Could Replace Your Adobe Subscription

    If you’re like me, you’ve probably second-guessed how much you’ve shelled out to companies like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and others…