psilocervine

but wife city is two words

56k warning


cohost (arknights)
cohost.org/arkmints

cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

davinci resolve has no method for copying color node keyframes

you just can't do it. i am beyond flabbergasted.

edit: sorry, sorry, as usual it's even worse than that. you can do it manually (the "copy keyframes" dialog checkbox exists but does absolutely nothing) but if you highlight all tracks and copy/paste, this is what you get

how did it pick which keyframes to dump on corrector 2? i have no idea.

the really bizarre thing is that I tried copying the entire node graph, and it brought over everything except the keyframes. why?? surely that was harder than just doing it? surely the keyframes are part of those data structures?? surely the code has to deliberately wipe the keyframes in order to do this? why not just not do that???


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

every single time i try to do a new thing in davinki it leads to this situation, a fundamentally broken thing that's so jawdropping that i actually just have to walk away and play solitaire and watch a TV show for a while because i can't just effortlessly accept the amount of effort that was just unceremoniously dumped onto my plate. it's too much. it doesn't matter if in practice it's only a few minutes, it's just the realization that the mental burden, the pilot workload arithmetic for my project just skyrocketed, turning what should have been a trivial operation into one that will repeatedly require me to carefully think and plan and tediously replicate a bunch of data and tediously check and recheck it to make sure it's lined up correctly because the app not only refuses to help me with that but deliberately and maliciously interferes with any attempts at labor saving. and it's just too much, it's too overwhelming, i can't just sigh and keep going, i have to in some way distance myself from this fucking time vampire, even if later i have to come back and let it sink its goddamn fangs into my neck. so every project, everything i do, involves these massive speed bumps where i lose 45-120 minutes because i can't get myself to stop doing a thing i actually enjoy and that respects me and go back to this fucking trainwreck.

i would go back to premiere overnight if premiere did not crash every 15 minutes like clockwork and lose work every single time. every single editor using premiere simply considers this part of their job, but i never managed to integrate it into my habits, and i lost too much work. there's almost nothing else keeping me on resolve other than the fact that it just simply does not crash for me.



You must log in to comment.

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

I've had a lot of friends tell me how much they love Davinci, but every time I try it it just feels like a dumpster fire. I'm glad to hear there are others who also run into issues.

It sucks because I've gotten used to Premiere Pro because my work offers it and it handles some things extremely nicely. However I hate Adobe and subscriptions, so I've tried getting back into Vegas Pro, but there are things about it that also just grind my gears (though, I do have Vegas Pro 14 I think, so maybe it's gotten better). Almost makes me want to look at Avid again to see how their editor is now

Every post about this just keeps making me wonder more and more how this thing is still afloat. Also I think it gets highly praised? But I'm not too familiar with the space around the topic ^^"

... Either they deliberately skip keyframes or it is somehow a secondary info structure floating just enough aside. Neither of which is excusable. And can't really go and blame legacy on things because, well, checkboxes are a thing?

And damn you weren't kidding about the forums and the random reply guys popping up years later who go "oh this isn't the way to do it" and then a billion convoluted ways to do something that might get you the approximation of the end result of what people were asking about in first place.

I'm convinced that Resolve's (relative) stability as far as not crashing is concerned is as big a factor in it being used over Premiere as its price is. if it had a reasonable interface and toolset like Premiere with the stability it has now? it'd be perfect. people would marvel at its excellence. it'd be like that "society if X" meme but for real

instead it's just... like this

resolve is a newer codebase than everyhting else, less dependant on crusty old garbage from the 90s, and as a result i think it has enormous potential, but BMD has done absolutely nothing in the years I've been using it other than add piddling little nothing features for 1% of the userbase. they do not seem to be fixing any bugs. there are major showstoppers everywhere that are just being ignored. what do they do all day? do they have employees?

I feel like they've gotta be putting all their real resources into their hardware stuff or something. the feature additions without fixes have always reeked heavily to me of "tech company that just made it out of the startup phase a couple years ago" where they keep adding things to attract additional investors though