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by archerx 7 days ago
I’ve haven’t had anywhere near as much friction as you are reporting so I have no idea what is happening on macOS.
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I know people who never use undo. If you haven’t run into these issues, that does not tell me much, unless you use this software the same way I do.
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?

> Again never had this issue

Again, if Fusion implementation on Windows is different that this is not an issue, that is an even bigger red flag.

> Have you reported these issues to Black Magic?

No, there’s too many, and I can’t be bothered. Pretty old threads about it can be found online. Nothing changes.

So what do you recommend for video editing?
What I do now can be done using a mix of free software (ffmpeg, etc.) and if I were to go pro and have less time for tinkering then it’d be FCP for me.
>FCP

Yea, that’s a hard pass for me.