Between the choice of being crippled in my ability to edit video in OpenShot/ShotCut/KendLive, and being crippled in the choice of output formats in Davinci Resolve, I think the output format is the lesser issue. I have outputted FHD video with audio with no problem with just the basic free version of Resolve, and if I have to transcode it, the work there is minimal compared with the effort I saved and the result I was able to achieve from using Resolve.
I had started using FOSS video editors due to ideological reasons (I use GIMP/Inkscape/Audacity regularly) and loathed to have my video edits be locked in a proprietary format, but at some point I had to admit that the end result means much more than the intermediate process, and switched to a commercial product.
I had started using FOSS video editors due to ideological reasons (I use GIMP/Inkscape/Audacity regularly) and loathed to have my video edits be locked in a proprietary format, but at some point I had to admit that the end result means much more than the intermediate process, and switched to a commercial product.