Resolution Agnostic... the worst feature of Resolve

I love Resolve, and I'm so proud of where the BM team have got to this year in particular - I just jumped onto a Studio license to show my support... But there's one thing that i'm constantly fighting... Time for a moan!

I hate that Resolve is resolution agnostic. It causes CONSTANT problems, with no apparent benefit. Even simple tasks become complicated or worse unreliable because of this feature.

I have no idea who is benefiting from this way of working (and have no doubt that you are all about to jump in on that) but it's not me. Am I alone?

My (personal) dream list:
- Make the timeline resolution absolute
- Make compound clips behave like normal clips
- At the very least give me a way to ask Resolve to treat what I'm seeing as all that exists

Some quick and painful examples:

- Try scaling a clip up to 6x larger than normal and placing a power window onto it. At first you might think the power window is not there because it appears SO large that it's out of bounds, and now adjusting the control values (like scale) by 1% makes the box grow by 200px

- Create a compound clip with a graded video and title over the top, drop it into another timeline and apply a blur... did that behave like you expected? Nope, the blur is being applied as if BEFORE the grade took place

- Work with graphics. Almost anything with on screen graphics. It could be so easy. Even positioning a graphical element is a mysterious black art when you can't work in pixels. As an exercise, try and put two 100px squares exactly side by side.

OK!... So am I completely alone out here?!

As an exercise, try and put two 100px squares exactly side by side.

If I'm understanding you correctly I think the way to do this would be to enter the same specific values for both squares into the Inspector panel.

I hear you, the whole resolution independent aspect of Resolve threw me for a loop when I first started using it coming from Premiere Pro. But I think I'm getting used to it...

This certainly makes some things I do harder in Resolve and can be frustrating at times. In Premiere I used to just work at the native resolution of the largest source file and scale on export.

Totally Mike! We would generally export a master 4K img seq and render versions from that. The painful truth is that in my experience changing timeline resolution in Resolve generally messing things up anyway...