I used to edit in resolve, hoping that these "teething issues" would be fixed quickly, but after a while i went with premiere/avid again, and use resolve primarily for grading. resolve is a great tool, but there are still quite some things which makes editing a little less of a smooth experience (together with some big issues IMO) compared to it's competitors, at least for me. With some small/hobby projects i sometimes give it another go.
Lots of "there's stuff missing / stuff doesn't work" but nobody (except IvanTheEditor who is quite comprehensive about it) is really explaining what's missing or what doesn't work for them.
-i think currently this is for me the biggest thing: i have used many high end/mid range systems, linux, mac, windows, and all of them sooner or later had this very weird issue where the audio cross dissolves in your timeline just suddenly got ignored for some reason by resolve. Only way to solve it was to delete the dissolves and re-apply them. This happened way too often and is a big show stopper, especially with long, complex timelines.
-Then there is the alpha channel weirdness. Hard to explain, i guess you get confronted most of the times with it when using compound clips/nested timelines and some alpha channels / transitions. Try the push effect on a generator, make it a compound clip, move it up a track, add something underneath and see the result.
-Talking about compound clips, you cannot deliver from a nested/compound clip. why?
-"smart" caching.. move all clips 1 frame and you can re-render the entire timeline again.
-you cannot insert a clip from the source viewer with a shortcut without the embedded audio if that clip contains 2 or more channels.
-try adding a stroke to your subtitles.
-The undo system feels very random, sometimes it works, sometimes not, especially with effect plugins, raw settings, luts, etc.
-keyframes/easing in the edit page is maybe the most famous thing
-In/out on the timeline, and then ripple delete works 50% of the times correctly, at least for me.
-The retime process doesn't work on compound clips.
- IMO, the project file system still doesn't feel very efficient when it comes to backing up, but this is quite personal to be fair.
-when dragging a compound clip into the source viewer with the option "decompose compound clip on edit" enabled, the place on top shortcut doesn't actually decompose. It's a small thing, but it adds up.
-playing back a timeline in the source viewer always plays the audio in mono, even if the mix inside that timeline is stereo.
-I love the adobe "productions" feature. This makes multi-episode management easy to handle while keeping flexible. I just added this to this list because it played a big factor when choosing the NLE for some projects.
-multicam is still very basic, i cannot make the multicam viewer bigger, undock it, or send it to a external monitor. When working with a director next to me, this is almost embarrassing.
Or if i want to quickly change an angle, while the source viewer is active, i first have to set it to multicam view, and then i can click on an angle to change it. why can't i change an angle when clicking in the "normal" source viewer? This last thing isn't huge, but it's just the "why"
-MXF OP1a..
It is the broadcast standard for delivery. And it's completely unreliable. This is not system related anymore, i tested this with a lot of different computers. In one resolve version it seemed to be fixed, and the next version the issue was back, and then it was fixed, and then it came back.. I'm not taking the risk anymore.
I think i can go on a little more, but these came up the quickest. Some are minor things, no big deal, but all of them together, it adds up if you are working as a full time editor. For some there are workarounds, for some not. Don't get me wrong, i enjoy using resolve, also the edit page. but editing hasn't been the most reliable/predictable experience for me. which is why i'm using the old round-tripping way again for more serious projects.
But hey, it's a great thing that we can choose our tools!