nested timelines in davinci resolve are fundamentally broken and have been for over four years. i am just learning this on my eighth hour or so into editing the largest project i've ever done, which really needs nested timelines. they simply don't work, and bmd hasn't even acknowledged it. they do have AI transcription though! definitely a higher priority
this program is the worst video editor on the earth except for all the other ones, but the thing that really amazes me is how consistent the forum response is. you can look up any years-long showstopper issue with this program and you will find exactly the same thing:
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a string of forum threads, going back years, from people who just came in from other editors - any one, be it vegas, edius, premiere, hell, kdenlive - who are shocked and appalled that fundamental, advertised functionality is missing or unusable
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every single thread getting shut down by a user, not an employee, but a user who systematically mocks and insults every single person who complains about that particular feature.
it's not even the same guy, it's different guys, each with a pet bug they're inexplicably defending. it's like they hang out on the forum all day long just watching for threads about the specific broken feature they've adopted, just so they can jump in and insult the poster. it's incredible.
for this particular timeline issue, it's some fuckwad named Jim Simon who has been replying to every single one of these posts for four years, condescendingly telling the poster that they simply should not want nested timelines, and that they only want nested timelines because they're used to bad editors that suck. the mind reels.
who the fuck are these people? what animates them? why do they get up in the morning? 2/3 of FOSS projects are ruled over by scumbags who act exactly like this, but I understand that: they're fiefdoms. Of course some miserable friendless piece of shit will set himself up as king and entertain himself by pissing on the peasants, but what is the gain here? this is a commercial app! these people aren't actually in charge of anything! why are they logged on 24 hours a day? why do they post?
this guy's a real piece of work, too. love his signature where he makes it clear that if you haven't paid for schooling and bought a $3500 monitor, he's going to insult you. because you aren't doing it right, and that's unforgiveable. or, more accurately: it's an opening, and he's going to use it to bully you, and he's been here longer, so he's going to succeed, and he knows it.
