Please no new Features - Waiting for release

Sean, I'd like to remind you, that for example you have been one of the strongest proponent of having VST side chaining support in Fairlight for years- and finally BMD did implement that with DVR 19.

Yep, I am aware of that. However, I would say that VST sidechaining was a new feature and Blackmagic seems to be more interested in adding more things to their "feature list" instead of fixing what is already there. I guess they figure it's not as "sexy" to release a new update only to say, "All the stuff we already had works now!"... but that is exactly what we need.

I had actually stopped mentioning VST sidechaining before they added it. I figured I should focus on my other problems that were much higher priorities to me, because I had a nice workaround for sidechaining... which was exporting the audio at the end of the editing and importing into Reaper. Previously I tried using Reaper for audio editing as well, but that was too much of a pain because Reaper doesn't support AAF or OMF (one of the very, very few complaints I have about Reaper). So I gave up on trying to do all of the audio editing/mixing this way... however, waiting until the end of the edit and then exporting the full audio tracks for sidechaining in Reaper is only a minor inconvenience. And as it turns out, Reaper works better for this anyways. For example, when using Soothe2 to sidechain in Resolve there is a very noticeable delay between the sidechain signal and the original. Setting up the same tracks and configuration in Reaper, AISO drivers with the same buffer size on my Audient interface, etc. there is absolutely no delay at all. It is perfectly in sync.

I have far bigger problems with Resolve and unfortunately, I do not have any alternatives to any of these problems except to stop using Resolve, which is what I'm looking at doing now.

One thing that’s awesome so far though is their forum moderator. I told the group what I was doing - evaluating Vegas compared to Resolve - and he immediately chimed in to start helping. Clearly he’s somehow official - he’s the moderator - AND he’s reaching out to help. And I’m not even reporting a bug.

That's awesome! I had the same experience on the Magix Samplitude forum years ago. And that was all on the paid customers section of the forum, they weren't even attracting any new customers as you had to verify your license to get access to this section of the forum. This was only taking care of their existing customers and it was awesome.

I am also getting a great impression from Left Angle, the creators of Autograph, which I'm testing out in order to replace Fusion. The CEO himself, Alexandre Gauthier personally responds and answer's questions on the forum. I've received one response from him regarding a feature request and he let me know it had been suggested and it was already implemented for the next release. Awesome!! Before I downloaded the free version I had also asked a question about it on one of their youtube videos (before I found their forum) and I got a reply from them on youtube answering my question. I've also seen them responding to other feature requests, asking clarifying questions about how they wanted it to work, and then came back letting them know it was done and would be in the next version. This is customer service! They are even very open about new features they are working on, including a system to have both nodes and layers that work together. Wow!! Meanwhile Blackmagic won't even tell us if they are working on the making the keyframe editors work with Fusion effects... this shouldn't be top secret information, but still nothing!

In just the few days I've been demoing it, I've found several features I've personally asked for here already implemented in their application... the biggest one being the "Expose Parameter" (or "Publish to Edit Page" as I called it for Resolve), which has been one of my top feature requests for Resolve. But just working with the keyframes, they have implemented many things I've wanted in Resolve... lots of keyframe easing options that update in real time as you hover your mouse over them, a selection box to draw around multiple keyframes and stretch/compress them all together, value fields to type in precise parameters for the control points of the keyframe (not just the keyframe itself), etc.

Now is it perfect? Nope. It's a very new program and it feels like it in some areas. But I love that they actually listen and implement requests. I feel like testing and working through the kinks with this software is going to be far more productive than beating my head on the wall with Resolve.

If Blackmagic would get their act together I think Autograph and Resolve would be a great combo, so I'd probably still get it anyways. Autograph even shows up as a node in Fusion, which would great if Fusion would actually work well on the Edit page. Masking/coloring/etc from Fusion/Resolve combined with the animation and keyframe tools from Autograph, and then controlling all of this from the Edit page would be incredible.

It's just sad how much potential Resolve has, but Blackmagic is unwilling to utilize it!