Jul 1, 2025 · 0 Comments
I don’t understand how people can work with DaVinci Resolve, I did some projects back with Resolve 16 and encountered hard bugs, crashes, file corruption… It doesn’t look good for a professionnal software, but I put that on the fact it was “““new”"”, maybe they needed to iron out the bugs and it will be good.
Now, 6 years later I went back to try Resolve 20 and… the exact same problems occur.
- The renderer engine is completely broken, what you see in Fusion is totally different from what you are going to get on the Edit tab AND again at the final encoding. You can see 3 different renders and you have to constantly encode your file to see what you’ll get. Sometimes the live preview show an erroneous image, other times it doesn’t even display anything.
- The file save system is also broken… Sometimes you reopen your project and it lost tons of parameters and animations, or it shifted the animation in time. For some nodes you have to redo everything all over again each time you reopen the file, the only solution is to let your project open until you have finished it. If you reopen it you have to reanimate some parameters all over again.
- It. Is. Slow. As. Fuck. It is very frustrating because it slows down all the time and combined with the viewport not updating in some cases, you never know if the software is calculating or just being stupid and doing nothing. Oh and don’t even think about having Houdini and Resolve open at the same time.
- There were huge audio sync problems in Resolve 16, I didn’t test it on Resolve 20 but it may still be there.
The base architecture of the software is rotten, if it can’t even manage file projects reliably and you always fear you lost your data… how can you even use it professionally? And add on that the playskool UI completely frozen in place and impossible to customise, it makes for a software with very good ideas but the execution makes it impossible to use and recommend.
The sad thing? Premiere was perfect for UI customisation but they are slowly putting non-removable useless toolbars taking huge part of the screen for nothing.
/rant