The Definitive Guide to Running DaVinci Resolve on Linux
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- There's no better video editor on Linux than DaVinci Resolve, but it's still a royal pain to get working. I'm going to break down what's needed to install it, using containers, the quirks of its DRM, and some ongoing problems.
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Chapters:
0:00 The State of Linux Video Editors
1:59 The Codec Conundrum
4:36 Distro(box) Choice
6:59 Outdated Libraries
8:22 Reverse Engineering Resolve's DRM
11:03 Linux machine-id
12:45 Discrete GPU Problems with Distrobox
14:10 Download My Stuff! - Наука та технологія
UPDATE: Please visit the project davincibox instead of using my awful scripts. We've ironed out Nvidia dGPUs and AMD ROCm is on the way: github.com/zelikos/davincibox/
Davincibox is a valiant effort. But it doesn't work with an NVIDIA GPU.
Why can't Black Magic just make it into a Flatpak at this point?
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Agreed. Flatpak is the way forward.
@@TheKuKontinuum not if you have a low end system.
@@bhargavjitbhuyan9394 What do you mean?
@@TheKuKontinuum flatpaks are inefficient. I have tried some flatpaks and they consume more ram and cpu. The flatpak version of kdenlive, shotcut, brave, chromium, gimp, darktable etc. All of them are worse than native rpm on fedora. I don't oppose flatpaks but they need to be faster.
MPEG-LA is now part of Via-LA, Via Licensing Corp. The cancer grows.
I hate both! They are indeed cancer.
Thanks for making the script it worked perfectly, usually scripts don't work for me but this one did!
Excellent Breakdown !! 👍👍
Wow thank you for making this video, very informative.
oh, oh, ohhhhh, I needed this.
Excellent. Just started watching this and will save it. I run Linux Mint Cinnamon and have been using an Appimage of Shotcut to edit videos for our channel. I downloaded DaVinci over a month ago, read up a little on it, but it seemed a bit daunting so haven't pursued it yet. Not sure if my GPU will handle it. It's integrated in an i7 11700k desktop with 32 GB of RAM. Subscribed.
Ok, the only way I can see using that thing is in a VM running Win 10, which I do occasionally for a GIS program. I'll give it a try. Win 10 in VMWare usually only uses about 9 GB of RAM along with a couple of other things running, so should be no problem with that. Still don't know about the GPU, but guess I'll find out.
Ok, just tried that. Win 10 in VMWare wouldn't run it because it wanted drivers. Gonna stick with Shotcut. It works, and don't need to get too fancy anyway. I just edit videos of caving fieldwork here in Jamaica.
Had same issues on linux mint and as well I use Shotcut. It's simple but can do a lot of things with it
i liked AND subscribed because of the Affiniy/Bottles threat you made 😁😁
Hey, I just found your channel and have been really enjoying your content. Do you have or plan on making a video on how you created and control your Vtuber model on linux? I'd be really interested. Thanks for your work. 🙂
Perhaps, but some alternative solutions are appealing. I also want to invest in researching Inochi2D, but it's going to require either money or time investment out of me to do so...
I got it working on Garuda Linux (Arch-based) simply by running the normal installer. No messing around at all. It's a bummer the lack of codecs on the free version but Shutter Encoder is a handy GUI for converting files to editing formats. Handbrake can convert to H264-5 formats at the end if necessary.
I advocate using ffmpeg. Every video editor must learn ffmpeg.
There is needs to be this hacker mask meme.
I've gotten Resolve to work in Zorin 17, but had to use Shutter Encoder to convert MP4 to MOV and then render back to MP4 in 4K before I upload to YT. I did have to update the package manger, but it wasn't hard.
Interesting… 🤔🤔🤔 Thank you for sharing your workaround!
Ok so i managed to get davinci working, but when i select a video i just recorded with OBS to test it, there is no audio or video in the Editor view in davinci. what could be the issue? When you use the ffmpeg are you using it for Media pool / source videos? i understood its for after exporting the video. what should i do? i have nvidia gpu - fedora 38 --nvidia container.
Edit: i tried mp4, mkv, fragmented mp4, fragmented mov (none are usable in davinci, but i can view them with vlc on host OS)
You might need to use AV1 and WAV audio (in ffmpeg, it's the codec pcm_s16le). I believe that Resolve right now doesn't let you import both AV1 and WAV in a MKV file, but if you do it separately it works. Because of the patent reasons I mentioned, you must use Studio to use MP4. An alternative is to use the Avid codec DNXHD, but it's much heavier than AV1.
What happens when the Fedora installation we use in the container becomes outdated? Does that become a security risk?
As I mentioned, Resolve doesn't budge much and barely makes any network calls. Ideally, one you get it registered, you could edit the container to cut it off from the internet once set up and install updates at your own leisure (don't know how to do that). Unless you think someone will hack you by exploiting Resolve on Linux, but even then, I doubt that's a concern for most.
I think I'll just use kdenlive
same
It's objectively worse when it comes to performance and in features and render speed.
Have you any experience installing 2 exactly the same Linux distros with unified EFI partition? One with hardware acceleration drivers / configurations for AMD, another for Nvidia? Do you have to buy 2 licences then?
You are allotted "2" active seats at once per license. I quote 2, because if you activate it once, then cut that device or Resolve from the internet, that device will retain being activated and you can activate more.
If you use 2 identical distros, you will be using 1 seat for each one. A container also counts against your seats because it's treated as a new device.
I got stuck before any chance of getting it installed. I got distrobox with podman though Pamac in Manjaro, then followed the steps to allow podman to work rootless and then proceeded to install Davinci in the container. But I can´t get into the installation because it says that ¨It can´t be executed. File does not exist¨, like bash can´t found it, even if the .run file is recognized in the folder when I use de ls command and also I use ./ as it recommended in the video. As well I did the chmod +x procedure. May you know what is the problem? Anything seems to work
It sounds like the container doesn't have access to your home folder. Probably a Manjaro problem.
Actually laptop runs Davinci Resolve just fine. At least on my machine (haha...). The way to deal with this dGPU problem is finding a way to disable iGPU. Whether in BIOS or using env variables.
Another tip is that distro like Linux mint and Pop OS don't need to go through that much process with dependencies. Usually one can just install DVC and run it. Only thing need to pay attention to is whether the GPU driver is installed or not. (for nvidia users)
The environment variables do not work; Resolve crashes and will not launch. I have reported the bugs to other projects on GitHub.
Have you tried installing the program through the nix package manager? It’s probably not as secure, however it might be more convenient
Nvidia has not been reliable with Nix in my experience. That's the biggest barrier to me and it's not even their fault...
@@Trafotin alright mostly just curious because the nix packages are distro agnostic. To be fair their documentation isn’t t that great either
coming back to this months later as I plan to swap back to an AMD GPU at some point: AMD requires the AMD-PRO drivers for hw accelerated rendering, correct? So in that case I can use distrobox to set up a Fedora box to house Resolve and install the AMD-PRO drivers there while keeping the open source Mesa for the rest of my system. Do I have that right?
there's a project called davincibox. it's better put together and automates my machination. I've been helping test dGPU acceleration and some people are working on rocm support.
@@Trafotin I'll try that out, I'm swapping GPUs once my tax refund comes in
Hi i am new to linux. and to run those scripts should i have distrobox with fedora in it ? and if yes, will the script from my system or should we run it in distro box?
If you use a laptop, run my scripts. If you use a desktop machine, davincibox is way better and it's on GitHub. See the pinned comment.
@@Trafotin I tried running your scripts. they install dependencies but im getting some -- no directory found errors. im thinking its unable to access the .run from my main location in distrobox? and some execv error at the end.
Didn't watch the video but read your article instead. Good one. Hopefully some day Resolve will be usable without those (license) workarounds. Find it very annoying and either time or space consuming. Still my #1 reason why I did not switch to Resolve yet.
The license works without my workarounds. My workarounds are workarounds for security hardening I use personally.
Ah sorry. I was not clear enough. I meant the video licensing issues.@@Trafotin
@@Blueye555 Here's to hoping for that AV1 future.
Im running resolve studio on Ubuntu lts and I havent had any issues so far.
If you have an NVIDIA GPU, Resolve does not work with Distrobox on any distro.
I've attempted to use Resolve on Windows, saw the UI and had no idea wtf I was looking at. I've used Kdenlive (Win/Linux) and iMovie (on Mac) for years, and even used Windows movie maker in its hayday back in the early 2000s. All that said, I have no idea exactly WHAT makes Resolve a better video editor compared to others (though I haven't done much beyond patching clips together, fade transitions, overlays, pan/zoom, etc). Considering you have a knack for explaining things, would you be willing to do a comparison between Resolve and Kdenlive?
Resolve easily beats Kdenlive. Despite its flaws, it actually works. I swear someone at Red Hat or Fedora admitted to using Resolve years ago internally. Just watch every UA-camr complain about how Kdenlive crashes all the time or corrupts recordings. iMovie is also a total joke; even Windows Movie Maker let you move frame by frame.
@@Trafotin Kdenlive has gotten a ton of updates in recent years. Are these videos current? My projects are never big enough to run into such issues so I’m genuinely curious. And yeah, agreed on iMovie but it does make certain small jobs way easier to do, but in VERY specific cases.
With an Nvidia 4090 I have this error: "DaVinCI Resolve could not initialize OpenGL. Please ensure that the latest graphics drivers are installed."
I use blender for 2d vfx
and olive for video editing & honestly they doing great keep in mind that (olive still beta)
DaVinci in other hand is #1 for now but i don't use it due old dependencies and trust issue.
Approve of Blender, but it's way too complicated. Also I have a 60% keyboard, so using number pad keybindings is really bad...
On Olive, they have been struggling to get money and development.
I already have a Manjaro linux up and running can't switch.. can Resolve be installed and run with AMD GPU?
Yes, you just need ROCm, but this is why you can just use a container.
Yes. With Mesa 24.1, set rusticl and linux kerner 6.7.3 or newer. Even without ROCm.
I am watching for to motivate me to switch back to Liniux But I don't to much hell of work and don't even know it work for me. and It will delay video schedule. Thanks for the info .
Since you seem to be big on Adobe and Figma, maybe a Mac would be a better pick.
For the record, I get the gpu memory full message on nobara on a laptop too. And I also don't know how to fix it :P
In the GNOME version, you can secondary click and select "Launch with discrete GPU." This is the switcheroo thing I was talking about.
Hello and thank you for this video and the scripts! Sadly script 1 fails with:
dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
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No match for argument: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
Error: Unable to find a match: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
I habe created the container like so:
distrobox create -i fedora:38 --nvidia -n f38
Do you have any idea what could be wrong?
Jesus, christ, what a pain
amazing but very diffivult for me
Will try that - I wasn't able to get it running under Kubuntu 23.10 with Nvidia RTX 3070 (8GB) - even after copying missing libraries, I'm getting Your GPU memory is full (no matter what I do) and there is no media preview etc. Seems useless in this state. This is NOT how the support for Linux should look like.
The only viable option right now for laptop users is Fedora (there are some reports of SUSE Tumbleweed and Void online if you are willing). To be fair, BMD said they only support Rocky Linux, not any other distro and it is documented. With discrete GPUs right now, installing locally is the best approach rather than using a container.
@@TrafotinYou're right - I managed to find system requirements but only via Google search and from BMD page. From my perspective it should be stated near the download button that trying to run it on other OS than Rocky/CentOS is near to impossible.
not be getting worried about needing to use distrobox before realising I already plan on using Fedora xD
Even if you use Fedora, it's a good way to control versioning. Double that if you are an AMD user because full support requires the proprietary AMD driver.
I was writing a one-click Davinci Resolve auto-installation script for F39 that included fixes for AMD GPUs, pixbuf, mp4 export plugins etc, but by the time I was almost done, I realized that having to jump through all these hoops to run a single piece of software on Linux is morally degrading to everyone and thus, lost interest in finishing it. I currently use Lightworks, which has a beautiful UI (similar to DR), offers a .deb and .rpm package, has active support for Linux and most of all, its Create plan is half times cheaper than DR.
I chose Resolve because it's the industry standard for video editing. They will continue to support Red Hat and Rocky Linux because Black Magic and various businesses sell servers or products with their raw player and utilities. I have encountered a DVR machine that runs CentOS and uses Black Magic's video tools.
it runs on my system, but i can't import any videos, images and audio. it just shows blank on every distro. (rx 5700xt)
That might mean your videos are not compatible. You need to convert them into AV1 and use another audio format like "pcm_s16le" or "libmp3lame" in ffmpeg. With AV1, the videos need to be standalone and can't be in mkv. Also, if you use the Studio version, you can get H264 and H265 decoding.
@@Trafotin got it working on arch, but after installing opencl-amd it says "davinci resolve quit unexpectedly". it broke only because of the kernel update. downgrading linux and linux-headers cause system freezing at systemd start
If it weren't for the scripts at the end I'd think this vid was a tongue in cheek way of saying don't use davinci resolve XD
Like for explanation and... what a mess... I go to another video as you said it will not work on my Linux
Hey Trafotin, i have been exploring fedora in a virtual machine since yesterday and i wanted to test out your script from a few videos ago. thing is, i have never used linux before. how can i run that script? is there also a way to make Fedora run faster inside my vm? i use Oracle virtual box to explore fedora. anyway, amazing work as allways
edit: figured out how to run the script on linux, wasnt paying attention to a couple seconds to start the script XDDD
virt-manager or Cockpit on Linux. UTM on Mac. VirtualBox on Windows, but HyperV is an option.
@@Trafotin ty for the info
I went from Premiere Po and AVID and Final Cut Pro. Davinci kills them!
I agree, but many people I know are held back by the collaborative stuff. 😞
dude, if you make somehow Affinity work in linux, holy shit. I will keep using gimp, but i wanna try.
Or you can just get all the paid features for free on iPad (if you can stand working on iOS) 😂
I have a 2020 iPad, non-M1 😞
Davinci Resolve Free cant even play my AV1 Opus Matroska Files. Will stick to Kdenlive. Definitely not going to pay 300 bucks for something I cant proper test first, especially as you can't just give your license back...
Unfortunately, the same is true with the paid version and on Windows/Mac. You could import them separately, but I also found Opus confusing because there are multiple codecs compatible with Opus, like Floatp and Vorbis. You could also break up the audio and video and import them as individual files. It's still early days for AV1, but looking better every year.
@@TrafotinOpus and vorbis and flotp are different things wdym. I think it's bad that blackmagicdesign doesn't ship proprietary codecs on Linux but doesn't support open ones either
Need help😢
Too many hoops for folk who are just switching from windows.
I agree and that's why it's a nightmare.
@@Trafotin I'm a long time Davinci user and complete linux newb. I think I'll keep these two separate for now.
Several videos on installing da vinci resolve on linux.. but very few on people actually using it professionally.. what gives?
Think about it: Linux is ~4% of all desktop computing and of that 4%, there needs to be people who want to use it. Compared to Mac especially, or even Windows, it's incredibly niche.
Heh, first
Yes, I've liked my own comment XD
Anyway: Nice videos on ur channel, keep it going ❤
The linux version is malware, sorry, but they are lying all the way: nothing is working.
Either the program is freezing the entire OS (and even if you switch TTY, you can't have you desktop environment back). (I precise that i've downloaded the official version).
And once you have killed the process and rebooted, sometimes it started (after 10 minutes of loading on a core i9 -64GB of ram and RTX 3090 LOL).
And you found out that half of the features are not working.
So you close the software, hoping that a restart of the software will fix issues ...
You go back to step one: System freeze, reboot etc...
I suspect them to have put a malware or a crypto miner in their software.
NEVER USE THAT CRAP
I recommend you take a deep breath and consider trying another method rather than trying the same one over and over; that's going to lead to frustration. It was also to help to know what Linux distro you are using or whether or not you are using a laptop, so people can help you.
I presented 2 methods to install Resolve: natively and through a container. If you are having trouble running it natively, consider using a container through Distrobox. Distro choice is very important if running Resolve is necessary to you. So far I have seen Fedora, but also others mention Arch, Void, SUSE Tumbleweed, and Ubuntu (with a lot of extra work).
@@Trafotin I just downloaded the official .deb, and installed it with dpkg, it freezes for somes reasons always on a fresh start, and if i manage to run it, the software doesn't decode any video format.
I'm on debian with xfce as desktop environement, ffmpeg is installed and a lot of other libraries.
The official installation isn't flawless, and it's a shame for a company like BlackMagic which make millions for their product, and you can't even try a demo version.
My best option is to try another software, or write my own editing tool with libavformat & libavcodec from ffmpeg and cpp, because it's very frustrating to have no proper editing video software on linux