I think your phrasing is confusing answers. If I buy an activation key do I still need a dongle? Is it worth getting a dongle anymore? Can you buy a used dongle off eBay and just plug it in and have it work?

I'm getting mixed signals about the need for a dongle or I can choose and activation key.

The best of my understanding is that if I drop a clip or edit a clip in the timeline, it will be rendered in the playback almost instantly and be smooth with no freezing of frames while I'm trying to watch my preview.Īlso I wanted to know how to purchase the studio version. I could not find any actual examples of what this actively improves. my question is what exactly does this affect? like will it be only when I hit render, or will it be when I'm actively editing? people say it is buttery-smooth, but I don't know what exactly it is that they are referring to being buttery-smooth in comparison. I see a lot of people talking about the h264 (de?)encoder being way faster because the encoding goes off of the GPU, not to Windows OS decoding. I had questions about the free version vs.

Davinci resolve free vs studio