Resolve is free and Premiere rents you your own job every month. That is basically the whole debate. Learn Resolve first and you learn real editing for zero; buy Premiere only if your clients and your After Effects muscle memory say you must.
- Price: DaVinci Resolve Studio costs $295 once, Premiere Pro bills monthly forever, and three years of that is around $900. - Free tier: Resolve's free version includes pro color tools, Fairlight audio, and Fusion effects. Not a trial, actually free. - Ecosystem: Premiere's only real edge is the Adobe workflow. If you live in After Effects and Photoshop, switching hurts. - Beginners: most people should start on Resolve and never look back. The skills transfer. - Teams: per-seat subscriptions multiply fast, which is where Premiere starts to feel like a hostage situation.
If you need to flip an image into another format while you decide, PicConvert converts, resizes, and compresses images free forever. Just try it only.