Performance, clipboard behaviour, and file browser persistence seem like fairly typical OS-specific issues. Obviously not great if they're not properly testing macOS, but I don't think it's an "even bigger red flag" for those to be OS-specific.
Grouping close-together changes of the same control for undo sounds probably intentional to me, like how Ctrl+Z in a textbox doesn't go one character at a time, and if I move something with arrow keys I'd expect that to be one "movement" once I stop rather than one per key repeat. Whether it's grouping too aggressively to the point of being recognized as an issue is probably down to personal preference, though I would lean towards agreeing that less grouping would be better.
> Grouping close-together changes of the same control for undo sounds probably intentional to me
I explained how it happens. Intentional or not, it just takes us between buggy software and poorly designed software and even then losing changes (not all of what is undone is redone and you are left in an inconsistent state) remains a bug.
> Ctrl+Z in a textbox doesn't go one character at a time
Retyping text is not comparable to readjusting different fine color controls on different pages of the UI across different nodes.
By comparison, the aforementioned RawTherapee (despite being powered by Qt and looking pretty barren) in fact works more reliably with no such issues, and it’s also cross-platform software that is free to boot.
> The aforementioned RawTherapee has no such issues
I don't mean to claim that the mentioned issues are unavoidable or that some piece of software is more likely than not to have these issues, just that when there are OS-specific issues it's this kind of thing I expect. Clipboard handling is pretty much an entirely different implementation on each platform unless you're using something like Electron that already handles it for you, for instance.
There’s no use case for system clipboard, given it’s a monolithic piece of software that doesn’t allow multiple projects to be simultaneously open in different instances. There’s nowhere else to paste except the same window.
Meanwhile, open-source, non-Electron, multi-platform software that handles copy-paste via system clipboard exists just fine (VCV Rack comes to mind).
There are many things it makes sense to copy/drag-drop between applications. There are cases where you might not need to, but using the system clipboard is still common.
> Meanwhile, open-source, non-Electron, multi-platform software that handles copy-paste via system clipboard exists just fine (VCV Rack comes to mind)
VCV Rack seems to just use GLFW to handle it, but again I'm not claiming these issues are unavoidable or more likely than not to occur. For any given issue with some software, 99% of other software will not have that same issue.
That’s a terrible analogy because you’re describing bugs and not usage patterns.
• UI freezes for a second or two when you switch to Fusion.
- that’s weird
• If you adjust speed in a Fusion node, timeline clip remains the same length, so if you slow it down 2x you can only see the first half. To say Fusion in general is half-baked is to be very, very generous.
- Again never had this issue
• Export location gets reset every launch.
- It remembers my last export settings per project
• Can’t copy-paste a node or its settings, in case you want to test between two different configurations.
- I have copy pasted many fusion and color nodes without issues
Have you reported these issues to Black Magic?
I have used a lot of editing software like old school Final Cut Pro, premiere, Sony Vegas (yuck!) and even movie maker. Resolve in my opinion has the least amount of friction to use. What do you use to edit?