Peter Chamberlain wrote:Muted tracks do and should continue to process so you can instantaneously un-mute a track and re-mute.
It sounds like you would like a disable track feature which we currently don't have.
TL;DR to your last sentence - Yes (so if it needs to be a FR, this thread could be moved there?)
Well, that's not good or even logical because it's the same principle with video tracks.
I was mostly talking about the delivery page. It means that when an audio track or audio clip is deactivated or muted, Resolve shouldn't process the effects during the render process. Because that is my (our) intend, I'm on the delivery page, I want to render my file as quick as possible.
Mute or un-mute a track with voice isolation and dialogue leveler, for example, will still have a slight delay when it goes from on to off and vice versa (same with any other "heavy" effects).
My render time shouldn't be twice as long because I have a mute/deactivated audio track with all my effects on it. (I always bounce my tracks, and I keep the original tracks with the effects just in case I have to tweak something.) I say twice, but when using StoryToolKitAI (which renders only the audio), I go from 1700 "fps" (with my bounced track with no effects), to 200-300 if a keep my original audio track, but on mute.
I say that because I just tested deactivating (keyboard shortcut D) an audio clip. The effects are still processed (from the delivery page when I render anything). Only deleting the track, the clips, or the effects work (which is a pretty destructive way to work lol, and that's not good).
And it doesn't make sense to work that way on the edit page either.
If I have effects on a video and I go in the inspector during the playback to toggle an effect on and off for example, it will affect the playback anyway while I'm toggling between the two states.
Anyway, I really think this shouldn't happen,
at least when using the Delivery page.
I guess it's not a "bug" per say, but maybe a poor implementation of something that is affecting other parts of Resolve.