Challenge 2: "Free Must Mean Missing Features" — Solution Walkthrough

Why this assumption doesn't hold up:

Per this chapter's own warning box, DaVinci Resolve's free version is
genuinely used in real professional film and TV post-production
pipelines — not a deliberately limited tool built to push people
toward a paid tier the way many other "free" products are designed.
The core editing, color, and audio experience most people would ever
actually need is fully present in the free version.

What the free/paid split actually covers instead:

Per this chapter's own material, the real difference between
Resolve's free and paid Studio tiers is mostly about enterprise-scale
collaborative features — multi-user project sharing, some advanced
noise reduction and resolution tools — not the fundamental editing,
color correction, or audio capabilities this course actually teaches.

Why this matters for the colleague's specific concern:

If the colleague is comparing Resolve to a paid editor expecting the
free version to feel obviously limited in its core functionality,
that expectation is misplaced — the limitations that do exist are
mostly relevant to large studio/enterprise workflows, not the kind of
individual creator work this course is built around.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This exercise directly applies this chapter's own warning box to a
realistic assumption, correctly identifying that the free/paid
distinction is scoped to enterprise features rather than core
capability.