Please disable "Hide Extension" on render output on macOS
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 3:33 pmResolve is the only video editing software out there that for some reason is explicitly enabling Hide Extension when outputting .movs on macOS. This is incredibly annoying.
NO. Turning on "Show all filename extensions." in macOS preferences is not a solution to this. Resolve is outputting files with the extension, and then specifically scripted to enable 'Hide Extension" on the file it is outputting. This is something Resolve was specifically programmed to do when rendering. This is non-standard for the OS and should not be happening. There used to be a checkbox in the location popup dialogue to enable/disable "Hide Extension" but it didn't do anything, so it looks like it may have just been removed instead of this issue being fixed. I would imagine it's just a flag Resolve is setting in the encoding framework.
Again, turning on "Show all filename extensions." is not a solution. So if you read this post please resist the urge to type that out. The way Resolve is specifically ticking this setting on the file after it completes rendering is different than any other professional app out there. FCP does not do this, Premiere does not do this, After Effects, Avid, Nuke, etc.
Please fix this it is incredibly annoying. Resolve does so many things incredibly well, this is a very low hanging fruit QOL fix that has been brought up a few times here before.
NO. Turning on "Show all filename extensions." in macOS preferences is not a solution to this. Resolve is outputting files with the extension, and then specifically scripted to enable 'Hide Extension" on the file it is outputting. This is something Resolve was specifically programmed to do when rendering. This is non-standard for the OS and should not be happening. There used to be a checkbox in the location popup dialogue to enable/disable "Hide Extension" but it didn't do anything, so it looks like it may have just been removed instead of this issue being fixed. I would imagine it's just a flag Resolve is setting in the encoding framework.
Again, turning on "Show all filename extensions." is not a solution. So if you read this post please resist the urge to type that out. The way Resolve is specifically ticking this setting on the file after it completes rendering is different than any other professional app out there. FCP does not do this, Premiere does not do this, After Effects, Avid, Nuke, etc.
Please fix this it is incredibly annoying. Resolve does so many things incredibly well, this is a very low hanging fruit QOL fix that has been brought up a few times here before.