What are your favorite new editing features of 12.5?

I'm not nearly through Alexis' great new Ripple tittle demonstrating what's new in 12.5 but I have to say
Being able to edit sections of 1 timeline into another while unnesting (meaning using original clips ) is killer

Long Ago I heard an avid guy comment that was one of FCP's weakness (which it finally got). But I'm not sure if avid let's you drag in the original clips. I could see having an assistant editor making timeliness just with multiple takes of the same same shot, nicely trimmed back to back. Pull it up in your viewer, run them all, set i/o and option drag to the time line to cut in the selected take. I just wish there a keyboard shortcut for it.

Of course I'm happy the added paste insert.

Editing wise, it's the Retime-Curve for me. So conveniant for proper retiming for a conform. Finally a retime based on Timecode, yes
Also I like the edit-connection with Fusion, mighty tool!

CTL scripting. .. (nerd...)

For me,
1-The new 2:3 Pulldown insertion in the Delivery page. Going from 23.98 or 24 to 29.97 frame rate
independently from the Timeline set up.

2- The new Color Management contextual menu for independent gamma and gamut set up among all supported formats.

3 - The ability to export audio only: stereo. 5.1, group of channel or single.

Unfortunately, no that much news in audio waveform sync improvement.

William I sent you a PM. Thought it might be a good to know of other NYC people using resolve for editorial.

Hi William,
I didn't expect too much in audio syncing, PluralEyes is miles ahead of any NLE.

Other than that, such an impressive upgrade!

Separate Gamut and Gamma management, and support for Sony XAVC S with audio.

It will be great to add some additional Sony Gammas (not just S-Logs), like Hypergammas from old cameras and CINE1/CINE2/CINE3/CINE4 from modern one, like Sony a7 series and a6300. For now many people around the world prefers this gammas over S-Log2/3 on their 'mirrorless' cameras because of 8-bit XAVC S banding issue.

Hi William,
I didn't expect too much in audio syncing, PluralEyes is miles ahead of any NLE.

Other than that, such an impressive upgrade!

The fact with PluralEyes is that it doesn't work with raw footage, then transcoding a 2 hours film just for syncing is another added pain in the neck in post, a thing producers don't want to hear about it.

William I sent you a PM. Thought it might be a good to know of other NYC people using resolve for editorial.

Thanks! I just replied to your PM.

Finally! You can now export clips with alpha channels to ProRes4444 (or other codecs that support alphas). You can also do this with clips that you've added an alpha output to in the Color page.

This is really "yuuuge" because you can:
a) correct footage delivered with an alpha channel and give it back with the alpha intact
b) use Resolves excellent masking/tracking tools to create garbage masks that can be exported with dailies or finals.

This feature now fixes a broken link in the VFX chain. Hear hear!

The refinements to titling and the expansion of the ease-in/ease-out controls are much appreciated.

Is it possible with the tracker additions to do a proper match move? I want to place an image over someone's face, for example, and have it track with them.

Among all other improvements, I like the included FX in the color page. These can be used as some cool transitions.

I must say Fusion Connect is a nice feature and the node tree being easier to work with. Looking forward to the next update!

The refinements to titling and the expansion of the ease-in/ease-out controls are much appreciated.

Where are those controls located? I'm trying to eas in a title and I'm not able to click the Bezier handles when I select a point?

Finally! You can now export clips with alpha channels to ProRes4444 (or other codecs that support alphas). You can also do this with clips that you've added an alpha output to in the Color page.

This is really "yuuuge" because you can:
a) correct footage delivered with an alpha channel and give it back with the alpha intact
b) use Resolves excellent masking/tracking tools to create garbage masks that can be exported with dailies or finals.

This feature now fixes a broken link in the VFX chain. Hear hear!

Definitely + 1 !
I've was asking for it for months and months, for example in every BMD form on the DR download page

This also a way not to be forced to roundtrip for a basic - or well shooted - green BG key.