I use other apps also, and not one of them can out-guess your issues with that app without information as to what your system, media, and effects are.
I use Resolve regularly, btw ... but can't even look at FCP as of course that's totally Mac-centric. I do attend quite a few programs at the Avid booth at NAB every year, and also look at Baselight and other things. I get a hoot at someone saying I'm an Adobe sycophant ... if you go back through this and the SpeedGrade forum, I'm quite free at sharing my displeasure when they do something stupid. As they have done on occasion. Several occasions, in my opinion.
And the engineers for PrPro/Ae/Audition/Ae see me coming into their booth every year at NAB, and get a fresh load of my thoughts ... I do give credits for things that are improved, but ... they know every problem I see in the app. And they still smile when they see me, which I find intriguing. They get a detailed earful, and during my discussions, other users passing by tend to stop and kick in their 'Amen!'s" to my critiques.
Such as the um ... decision, let's leave it at that ... to drop SpeedGrade rather than re-building it. And publicly suggesting that anyone for whom Lumetri wasn't adequate should just XML/EDL out to Resolve ... owned by a competitor who was being an incredibly busy beaver building an internal system similar to what Adobe had been providing, with NLE, grading, fx, and audio apps all linked together.
There is still no intelligent logic in that decision that I can see .... though from an internal short-sighted view it probably saved a few bucks at the time in development fees. Companies that make major decisions on a short-term basis don't tend to be around long enough for long-term things to kick in, do they?
They are trying to make Lumetri useful for a lot more things, I'll give them credit for that. And the comparison view and shot-matching were a long-overdue and badly needed step forward. But there are other things needed with Lumetri ... quite a few.
And that's not even talking about open/closed captions ... yowza, that ain't ... good.
I could give you quite a list of things that should be vastly different than they are.
Noting that a rant is a rant isn't attacking it in any way, btw ... as I've said, I've certainly posted my share.
But in general, I'm basically a person far more interested in the ​practical​ way things work, than the ​theoretical​ way I wish they would work. Hence, ​theoretically​ one might wish that the engineering team all spent hours a day going through this forum. However, the ​practical​ reality is they don't. So ... rather than just waving a banner, when I want to complain, I go to where it actually ​matters​.
So, I'll post a rant here or on the other appropriate forums, both just to vent a bit and also well, attract others irritated about the same thing. But I'll also post on the place that gets to the team.
As I recognize the difference between a need to publicly vent and the practical nature of getting something to the attention of those that can change things (possibly ... ) within the practical framework of the system as it is, you bet I do both.
And ... just as a final note, I've needed to give system/media specs for most of my help needs for Resolve. I don't know how it could work otherwise.
Neil
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