Tekkerue wrote:I am working on a detailed feature request post for some my most pressing editing issues and solutions for how to fix them.
...And I am concurring with another experienced editor; from the perspective of someone who has not only spent over 25 years as a
legitimate professional involved in non-linear editing, and some 40 overall; but 12 years teaching the subject to young
professionals at college level.
I've no objection to you raising a feature request - I simply (more or less) concur with Jim.
Tekkerue wrote:@jim simon - if you used music clips in your videos underneath a series of video clips that you continue to edit, you will have encountered this problem. If you have found a solution to this problem, please share that with other users. If you don't use music clips, then I would politely suggest that your usage pattern is not relevant to this discussion.
I can also tell you that if you were completing a video edit for assessment purposes - at what was one of the UK's most successful MCI colleges, or indeed any other place delivering to the same academic standard you would be required to avoid this issue by other means - for the simple reason that we teach people
to edit in a disciplined way; not to just 'drive' one particular program.
You wrote;
I have to believe that this problem exists for every editor, and in pretty much every project.
No... not 'every editor' not 'every project'; that's the point Jim made.
"Coming from Vegas Pro I'm surprised to see how many basic editing features are missing in Resolve given that there are many advanced features that blow Vegas out of the water.
'Vegas Pro' eh? - Nuff said!
One of the points Jim made was that he felt the feature in FCP was 'wrong'. I tend to concur (to a point)... as an educator and business owner, one major time and resource waster is the need to disconnect new entrants to the industry from bad habits (i.e. 'unconventions') they've picked up during their amateur phase; and the reason that happens is that they've become used to equipment and software offering automations that are neither required nor desirable in a professional context.
By all means do feel free to campaign for features that
you feel may be useful. However please don't assume that the 'problems' you (and perhaps others) are having because of the way
you work are universal.
Does it not actually occur to you that NLE has been the mainstream edit process in professional television production for over a 1/4 century, and that its history goes back to the early 1980s? And that in all that time, innumerable programmes of all types have been successfully edited (on Resolve and other platforms) with music clips etc... So, if this were a basic need, or a common problem ('to all editors') why wasn't it addressed, across the board, decades ago? - Rhetorical question!