"... but people get paid to improve this software and they do a terrible job."
Very much a matter of perspective, of course. As it depends on how many of your deepest wishes get sated by the development team. Every editor I've ever known or heard of works differently. Even when one editor has trained several others, they all work very differently.
They have different workflows even when doing nearly exactly the same thing. They want the app to have different features and options. They DON'T want the developers "wasting time" with things other editors want, as clearly what's most needed are the things they would use.
By the bye, there are major LA post-houses still on 15.x Resolve because they have not felt stable on any 16.x version of Resolve they've tested. I'm fine with 16.x versions of that app. But all apps, for some workflows, have issues. And some systems for whatever reason have more troubles than others.
I have quite a number of things that I feel are MAJOR problems, that have sat there for several versions without being changed. Such as the fact that the Lumetri panel allows for multiple instances on a clip, but ... all control surfaces only affect the last (bottom) instance, no matter which instance is "up" in the Lumetri panel.
So once I apply multiple instances (which I only do what, 95% of the time?) ... any changes to earlier instances have to be done with the mouse or pen-tab. Vastly slower, and of course, there are many places you can get while applying multiple tools simultaneously that you can't get one tool at a time. Using a mouse for color is vastly inferior for both time and results.
Yea, I've filed the bugs on UserVoice numerous times. There was one version, back I think in the 2017 series, that actually had it right. It was glorious! And in the next update to that version, the blasted bug was back. And has been since. I've got this glorious Tangent Elements panel. I use it not only for color but for many other things, as they've added functionality to all those knobs, buttons and wheels with other tools of Premiere ... such as audio track mixing with those twelve knobs! Awesome stuff, that.
And even with graphics, you can now change sizes with things, apply options with buttons, it's amazing.
Yet ... you still can't affect earlier instances of Lumetri with it.
Tangent has appealed to them to fix this, as have other partner vendors. They know at every 'live' event like NAB/Vegas or Adobe MAX that when they see me coming to the booth, they're going to get to talk about this (and other things of course) with me.
It's still there, and yea, it bugs me royally.
But I still vastly prefer Premiere to say Resolve, which I do work in some. I hate editing in it, as to me that GUI is gross and allows not hardly any user customization. Premiere allows an amazing amount of user customization of the UI, and boy howdy have I made use of that.
Oh ... and Resolve is from BlackMagic, right? You know their main profit model for software is to supply the software cheap to get you to buy their hardware. They want you to buy their control surfaces, so yes, they did create a mapping for the Tangent Elements panel in Resolve ... but it leaves fully half the panel "dead" at any one time, you have learn how to step through button after button to get anywhere, and many, many tools of Resolve are not 'on' the mapping. You can't add them.
Well, that's their model.
So in all, I am bugged about the control surface/Lumetri panel issue, but ... I work around it daily. Not near ideal, but better than the alternatives. And yea, I grouse at them about it in person, in bug reports, and here.
Yea, I can rant too. But at the same time, I give credit for the things that I do like and work with. Such as to me a vastly better UI than Resolve.
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