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- Real Name: Timo Teubert
I am very frustrated with the way that Blackmagic Design handles feedback from the community.
Part of the reason why I have become mostly inactive on the forums is, because none of the bugs I reported and features I requested years ago have been addressed in any way. And that is despite the fact that many of the issues that I mentioned are extremely important to a lot of people and many of the solutions that I proposed received unanimous approval from the community.
For example, 3 years ago I reported that Davinci Resolve's Render Cache is almost useless.
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=123372
I wrote, quote:
3 years later, the render cache in Davinci Resolve is still almost useless and extremely unintelligent.
And that is despite the fact that everyone agreed that it was a big issue and needed improvement. These are some of the comments in that thread:
All the other reactions are the same. There is not a single person that disagrees.
Did anything change? Nope.
Did any of the decision-makers even read that thread? No idea. There is no way to know if anything reaches Blackmagic Design.
As all other threads, that one got buried and thereby disappeared as if it never existed.
So, the problem with the forum structure is that if something like this is brought up where every single person agrees it's a problem and there are 0 dissenting voices, people don't have anything to add anymore and then the thread disappears.
What we would need is a rating system, where we can upvote feature requests and bug reports.
This way, developers could see which issues are most important to the community. Adobe already lets users upvote bug reports and feature requests since many years ago.
I'm sure that if a rating system would exist, getting a smart Render cache for Resolve would be in the top 10 of the ranking, because it is so important to every Resolve user. Everyone needs a good, intelligent render cache.
Part of the reason why I have become mostly inactive on the forums is, because none of the bugs I reported and features I requested years ago have been addressed in any way. And that is despite the fact that many of the issues that I mentioned are extremely important to a lot of people and many of the solutions that I proposed received unanimous approval from the community.
For example, 3 years ago I reported that Davinci Resolve's Render Cache is almost useless.
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=123372
I wrote, quote:
If you do any changes whatsoever, even changes that don't affect how a certain clip will look, it rerenders the whole clip. So, for example, if I just move a clip that is already cached 1 frame to the right, it will rerender the whole clip. If I put an image that lasts for 1 frame on top of a clip, it will rerender the whole clip. If I make track 1 invisible, and then visible again, it will rerender all clips (!) on track 1. If I move the whole timeline 1 frame to the left or right, it will rerender the whole timeline. (!!!)
Basically it's so unintelligent, that it's useless to me and I have to turn it off completely. Otherwise my computer renders nonstop.
3 years later, the render cache in Davinci Resolve is still almost useless and extremely unintelligent.
And that is despite the fact that everyone agreed that it was a big issue and needed improvement. These are some of the comments in that thread:
mpetech wrote:Agreed. It needs major improvements.
tclark513 wrote:+1000
Derek Howard wrote:Improvements in the cache system would be really appreciated. It has slowed me down on my most recent project in particular.
Lucas D. wrote:Sad thing is that Avid DS had intelligent rendering 20 years ago.
brediknight wrote:This isn't a feature request. THIS IS A BUG.
It does NOT work as intended. Not only a bug, but a showstopper.
TechManiacHD wrote:Yes, this is frustrating. I am running OCed 12c/24t CPU with RTX 3090Ti and whatever I changed I need to do anything else for 20 minutes for all cache to catch up.
All the other reactions are the same. There is not a single person that disagrees.
Did anything change? Nope.
Did any of the decision-makers even read that thread? No idea. There is no way to know if anything reaches Blackmagic Design.
As all other threads, that one got buried and thereby disappeared as if it never existed.
So, the problem with the forum structure is that if something like this is brought up where every single person agrees it's a problem and there are 0 dissenting voices, people don't have anything to add anymore and then the thread disappears.
What we would need is a rating system, where we can upvote feature requests and bug reports.
This way, developers could see which issues are most important to the community. Adobe already lets users upvote bug reports and feature requests since many years ago.
I'm sure that if a rating system would exist, getting a smart Render cache for Resolve would be in the top 10 of the ranking, because it is so important to every Resolve user. Everyone needs a good, intelligent render cache.