Enhancing DaVinci Resolve 18 for a Better User Experience

I suggest that you make the UI and UX experience more user-friendly, similar to CapCut. This would make it easier for users to navigate the software and access the features they need. Some specific suggestions include:

- Simplifying the interface to make it more intuitive
- Adding more visual cues to guide users through the software
- Improving the organization of features and tools to make them easier to find
- Streamlining the workflow to reduce the number of clicks required to complete tasks

I recommend that you implement all the comprehensive features of Cleanvoice AI into voice isolation. This would improve the quality of audio recordings and make it easier for users to edit and enhance audio tracks. Some specific suggestions include:

- Adding noise reduction and echo cancellation features to improve audio quality
- Implementing voice isolation to separate vocals from background noise
- Enhancing the equalization and compression tools to make it easier to adjust audio levels
- Adding a feature to automatically adjust audio levels based on the user's preferences

Overall, I believe that these changes would make DaVinci Resolve 18 a more user-friendly and comprehensive software for video and audio editing.

These are all very generic, and thus meaningless, requests.

How specifically do you define "intuitive"? And how do you know that would be "intuitive" for everyone?


I'm thinking that training would solve your issues here batter and faster than waiting for this one to come true.

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I'm with Jim on this.

CapCut is a useful tool that fits a specific niche of video post-production. While it's interesting to see how editing platforms in browsers are advancing and it's great that such apps are available, they're aimed squarely at social media, Resolve includes tools to facilitate that kind of production too but its scope is far, far wider.

Perhaps you could explain what parts of the UI you feel are too complex?

As for the audio features you've requested, all but one ("Enhancing the equalisation and compression tools") are present in DVR now.

I get it, ease of use is high on my list of priorities too, but there's a balancing act between "user friendly" and keeping all the functionality that pro's need to do their job readily available in the UI.

I suggest that you make the UI and UX experience more user-friendly, similar to CapCut. This would make it easier for users to navigate the software and access the features they need.

I don't see the need to dumb down Resolve to make it more palatable for amateurs and wedding videographers. If you asked Avid or Baselight or FCPX or Premiere to do the same thing, I think you'd get the same answers.

If you want resolve to be easier to access and navigate, do what the rest of us did: read the manuals, take the training, watch the tutorials, and practice. As a great man once sang: "there's nothing you can know that can't be known." All of this is learnable: it just takes time and effort.

I think the "Cut" page is the simplest we're probably gonna get for a while.

While BMD's added a lot of social media integrations like YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok, I think their primary audience has been film and TV professionals for much longer. With enough background in Avid, Premiere, or FCP (the "Big Three" NLEs), the Resolve UI is pretty standard and doesn't need much explanation to people transferring from those programs aside from a cursory "what's the menu item for XYZ"?. Similarly, node-based layouts like Fusion's are common in other programs like Flame and Nuke.

I'm gonna agree with Jim and Andrew - training or some kind of crash course is gonna be really useful. The way you wouldn't operate a piece of heavy machinery without some basic understanding of how it works and when/where/how to use it, you shouldn't jump into every piece of software without some kind of basic training. I'd also add learning the keyboard shortcuts - not five minutes go by when I'm not using a keyboard shortcut instead of the mouse.

Maybe a better feature request for this and the other topic I've seen about this would be "better promotion and documentation of the training materials in Resolve and on the BMD websites." The Zoom courses that come up from time to time aren't publicized that well unless you're on a mailing list, but they also follow the PDF guides along with some additional tips and tricks from the instructors.

If anything, Resolve could use some deeper workflow features. A macro recorder. An echo command for the console. Maybe some verbosity settings. Keyboard shortcut everything. Any command or feature should be accessible by keyboard. Some jobs are very repetitive and being able to use a keyboard instead of a mouse going to the other side of the screen would be a big step.
Coming from Premier, Resolve is very straight forward. They did a pretty good job at making the edit page work like it should but you can feel the level differences when you go to the color page. Tons of shortcuts, batch processes, repetitive action automation.
I've told many people who are new to vfx and post production just to follow the process order as it's laid out at the bottom of Resolve. If they can keep the bugs under control it's a superior platform.

If anything, Resolve could use some deeper workflow features. A macro recorder. An echo command for the console. Maybe some verbosity settings. Keyboard shortcut everything. Any command or feature should be accessible by keyboard. Some jobs are very repetitive and being able to use a keyboard instead of a mouse going to the other side of the screen would be a big step.

Oooooh... a MORE complicated user interface! That's an interesting idea.

Keyboard shortcut everything.

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As a non professional hobbyist user I've had no problem learning Resolve. Plenty of training materials are available including Blackmagic's own and YouTube videos. As to the audio tools in Fairlight, there are plenty of third party VSTs available that may fit your needs better.
I'm with others. Rather than dumbing down the software, up your knowledge on how it works and how to use it.

If anything, Resolve could use some deeper workflow features. A macro recorder. An echo command for the console. Maybe some verbosity settings. Keyboard shortcut everything. Any command or feature should be accessible by keyboard. Some jobs are very repetitive and being able to use a keyboard instead of a mouse going to the other side of the screen would be a big step.

Oooooh... a MORE complicated user interface! That's an interesting idea.

Em, which one of these adds any complexity to the UI?

Em, which one of these adds any complexity to the UI?

I thinking adding five more complex features will add more things to the Resolve interface. None of the features the o.p. describes are deal-killers for me, but I have suggestions going back to Resolve 11 or 12 that still haven't happened. Me, I just grit my teeth and plow ahead and work anyway, because that's the way working in post is for many of us in LA.

The other thing to consider is that Resolve is much, much better now than it was 10-12 years ago. I remind everybody of how the user interface was in 2008...