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   Tom Forsyth (tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 21:43:04 JST Tom Forsyth

   Still boggles my mind that DaVinci Resolve is free. Such an awesome bit of kit - I don't use half of it, and yet... free! I have no idea how they plan to make money, but could every other company in the world please adopt that business plan?

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 21:43:03 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @TomF it’s incredible. They clearly only care about making money from the high end hardware buyers and the software is more of an ad for that. I hope they never go public and get managers who want to sweat everything to death

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     Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 21:48:29 JST Aras Pranckevičius

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     • The Seven Voyages Of Steve

     @sinbad @TomF I think it strikes perfect balance of features that "any studio would want" vs "free users don't care about" (like 10/12 bit videos), so that the free version does not "eat into the revenue" of the paid version. Meanwhile, free version is great for anyone who's not making a "professional" film. It's a tricky balance! E.g. at Unity it was always a very unstable balancing act, which features should be in the free version.