Peter Cave wrote:Resolve 17.2.2 updates Clip Usage automatically so there is no update option anymore.
On my system Clip Usage shows the total number of times the clip is used in the Project across all timelines. It does take a few seconds to update. Clip usage shows video and audio as seperate instances, so a combined video/audio clip will show as "2" in the Usage column.
It definitely does not work like this on my system.
Firstly, the right-click Usage menu will only show instances of the clip in the currently open timeline, which is pointless, because we already have the Edit Index for that, that does the same job with a significantly better UI. For the word
Usage to have any meaning, the clip's entire presence across the project needs to be shown in this menu, with each timeline appearing as a sub-menu. Otherwise, BM need to rename this to
Usage in Currently Open Timeline.
Secondly, on a fresh start of Resolve, it will only ever update the Usage column once you open a timeline containing that clip. Try restarting your session of Resolve and see if the Usage column reports the correct usage. My guess is that — if you're on Windows at least — it will not.
Below is a recording to show that in action. On clip C0454, I have opened multiple timelines containing that clip, and it shows me a usage of 338. When I simply restart Resolve, that same clip is now reported as 113 because only one timeline was loaded. In fact, all the clips in that bin now show a different usage count.
https://imgur.com/0rDpk37The system blows and needs fixing. The logic of only updating the count on loading a timeline into memory is baffling. There needs to be a counter that is actively updated every single time a clip is used or removed and that needs to persist as a readable, updated, and
reliable value at any state of the project. Right now, it's useless except in the simplest projects.