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On paper at least this is the bargain of the century: a formidable editing and colour-grading package that’s available to download free of charge, and the upgrade it’s received has made it look even more attractive. I’m posing this intriguing conundrum because this is a scenario that’s just arisen in real life, with the launch of the latest version of Blackmagic Design’s (BMD) DaVinci Resolve software. If you want the real thing then it’s going to cost you a shed load of money. Your suspicions would be naturally aroused, and you would either assume that the claims your chosen tool is ‘professional’ have been overstated and that, in reality, it’s a mere husk of the real tool that will do the job properly, or that what you’ve picked up is, in fact, just a demonstration model. How many times have you walked into a shop, picked up a beautifully crafted professional tool that will do everything you need it to do, and have then taken it to the shopkeeper and asked ‘how much will this cost?’, only to be told ‘don’t worry, that’s free’. Can something that’s free be useful? That’s the intriguing question raised by the launch of the new DaVinci Resolve 12 software package, so we set out to find exactly what it has to offer