Stabilization Lock

Stabilized clip. Extend it a few frames or add a transition. The added section isn't stabilized despite being on a stabilized clip.

If a clip is stabilized and extended or split, the whole clip should stabilize without babysitting.

Stabilized clip. Extend it a few frames or add a transition. The added section isn't stabilized despite being on a stabilized clip.

No, if you extend a stabilized clip, the extra section has yet to be stabilized.

Think about it: let's say you have a 10-minute take. You use a :30 second subclip of that in the show and stabilize it. Is the entire 10-minute take stabilized? No -- only the :30 seconds that you actually used.

I'm generally not in favor of the NLE doing things on it's own. I usually prefer it only does what I tell it.

That said, I do recognize the issue here, and some kind of solution is needed.

Maybe a warning that Stabilization needs to be redone?

This is a request to mimic the feature characteristics of what happens in Premiere. If you have stabilization on a clip in the timeline and extend it, the clip restabilizes the clip automatically. It's not stabilizing the whole media the clip came from, just the extra frames. Because Premiere is a timeline based renderer it just redoes the frames that have changed.

This is one of my "kinda" gripes with Resolve. The layer based rendering is great in some respects but sucks in others. When it has do do heavy calculations on something like motion graphics or alpha'ed layers it's not great. Stabilization shouldn't tax it too much so auto-stabilization on an addition bit of clip while your editing is entirely reasonable. I just had the two editors I work with gripe about this exact thing while doing documentary interview cuts. Extending B-Roll and having to find out that it wasn't stabilized only after watching it again since there's no indication of stabilization on the timeline.