Subclip Bugs

Page 376 of the new Resolve 17 manual describes the creation and use of subclips:

1. Select any clip in the Media Pool to open it into the Viewer.
2. Set In and Out points to define the section you want to turn into a subclip...

A new subclip appears in the Media Pool, automatically selected so that you can immediately edit its metadata in the Metadata Editor.

Once created, subclips appear and work like any other clip in DaVinci Resolve...

Once created, you can right-click any subclip in the Media Pool or a timeline and choose Edit Subclip to open a dialog in which you can turn on a checkbox to use the subclip’s full extents, or to change the start or end timecode of the subclip via timecode fields, before clicking Update to modify the subclip.

However, there appear to be a couple of bugs when the selected clip is a multicam clip. The sub clip parameters cannot be edited as stated in the manual. The edit function only appears to work with standalone clips.

The other bug is that the newly created Subclip is not automatically selected in the Media Pool for metadata editing. In fact, when you select it from the media pool, it gets loaded into the viewer but does not change the clip name in the view's title bar! Once you discover that, you have find the long clip among the rather long list of subclips that appears in the viewer's drop-down list. It really slows down the process of choosing selects from a multicam interview.