chillywilson wrote:Why can't we just save a project file, FFS. After years of using this program, I thought surely by now we would have this capability in 2024.
I save individual Resolve project files
every single day, and I've done it for decades (going back to daVinci 2K). I keep them in a "Color" folder on the source drive for all our projects. That way, I can see at a glance how many days (or weeks) I've spent on a specific project. (In fairness to BMD, I can count the number of times I've had to use any of these backup files on the fingers of both hands, going back to 2010 -- maybe 6 or 7 times. And the crashes or session problems were due to bad hardware, a crashed drive, or a real mistake I did (like accidentally deleting a piece of a timeline and not realizing it for several hours).
I suggest you try to adopt more of a "Zen" attitude in not fighting the software so much. Instead of trying to force it to work the way you want, try to adapt your own working style to the way
Resolve works. You'll get a lot more done that way. (What's the line? Better to bend like a willow in a storm than break like a tree limb.)
Suggestions on the "Resolve Suggestions" forum are fine, but bear in mind there are millions of Resolve users in the world who have used the software a thousand times more than you have. If BMD changes the program just for you, then they'll have a million complaints from the people who've already adapted and understand how Resolve works now.