Feature request for Resolve 14...
There are many bugs in Beta - and some even get carried over into the Release Version.
After a while - the forums are filled with hundreds of complaints and observations - about something not working right. The eyes tend to glaze over...
What I propose is a simple procedure...
01. Run Resolve.
02. The 'Project Manager' appears.
03. In the bottom footer - there is a new button called "Record Session". Press to make 'Active'.
04. Load a project and work on it. You have a microphone connected to the computer - and you talk.
05. You already know there is some weird thing happening, so this session is meant solely - to just capture it.
06. Make it short and sweet...
07. The error occurs - as expected. Great.
08. If Resolve has not crashed, then there is a menu item called "Send Session".
09. This automatically produces a zip file which contains: the master Log File, System Specs, a downsized (800x600)~ screen capture, and the users Audio Recording.
10. Since BMD knows how to deal with "Time Code", all the components inside the zip file - are precisely interlocked and so marked.
11: This zip is automatically sent to a BMD server.
12. This particular Resolve session now ends and one "Exits" the program.
13. One can then try to record another session - to reproduce another bug, or just continue working on footage in a normal fashion...
14. The programmer now has "Direct Evidence" of the system state, they can also "See and Hear" the actual steps that were done, and they can see what the program was really doing in the background.
15. All the recorded data is in one fairly complete package, and should be a Big help - in solving some bug/problem...
16. Finding bugs and reporting them - SHOULD be easy and painless.
17. I basically want the Bug forums to be empty and obsolete. Currently - a one or two sentence of complaint - is useless.
18. This early morning idea is called the "Equalizer"...
19. To take what the User wants to happen, to what the Programmer expects to happen and what the Program actually does - and to get all 3 to "match"...