caveport , i was able to save, the problem is i need to go 2 or 3 saved session in past and open it up, as the final saved project had tracks the were edited deleted by mistake

no unfortunately

That depends where your Resolve database is set up. I set mine to an extra drive to keep system and data seperate, but the default is the system drive (at least on Mac).

So you might get back the old version of your project if the database is included in the backup.

@G3550D interesting comment about the stabilization - I have tried now to stabilize footage in the latest beta DVR14 as well with the default settings and it works really well! I usually use Premiere Pro Warp Stabilizer for this, but Resolve seems to work very good now (with my BMPCC footage). I will have to test with my Sony A7s II now (as it has much higher rolling shutter issues).

Could be the time now to switch over to Resolve and abandon PPro!

@Vitalit_Kiselev I cant blame them, really. Its amazing to me that it has lasted as free software with such complete features as long as it has. And now with the full version at only $300 its a pretty good situation.

@Vitaliy That really doesn't make sense. Resolve is a high end grading tool for professional productions - H.264 is a side effect for hobby video or very special cases. Its only a nice-to-have feature, far far away from basic.

If you need to work with H.264 material, just transcode it (I think its called "optimised media" in Resolve, which you would need anyway as soon as you start adding effects).

@Vitaliy

If you do a raw cut of your material, no transcodeing should be needed - thats right (but programmers are way to lazy these days...or underpaid...both).

But if you add debayer+noise reduction+colour correction+several layers of video and audio+effects+tracking/stabilizing+... there is no way arround intermediate rendering, even on top hardware (with Resolve free you are limited to one GPU anyway). And if you don't do all those things, there is no point in using such a beast of software like Resolve.

Its a stellar product to offer for free. Sure, Id love for it to not be crippled, but the paid version is not all that expensive for what you get, so Im not going to complain about it. They need to keep profit margins up. If I want to use H264 material, Ill just spend the prep time to convert it to prores and not worry about it. You're thinking way too much about this @Vitaliy_Kiselev.

Yeah, those leeches at Blackmagic. Ripping us off by dropping the price from $1200 to $299 while adding cool features. How dare they not give us everything for free! Bloody capitalist pigs! I REALLY need those features for my cat videos. ;-)

@joethepro @caveport

I am always amazed how even such though can come to someone head.
It is like slave asking his owner to add 20 lashes because yesterday he saw his beautiful daughter.
Instead you need to find good rope and hang him. And what to do with daughter you know without me.

Idea to protect such actions is insane. It is not big amount of developers and suppliers of libraries and third party tools who decide to cripple software. It is just one or two owners who make small calc in their minds and figure out that by inducing public damage they personally can gain more money.

@caveport

Last time I checked everyone in capitalism want to get goods for as cheap as possible. And free is cheapest possible price. :-)

Oh yes, of course, that is in fact the description of a slave-owner. Ho hum....

Google must be real bunch of slaves, especially top management. Wait... No... Shit perverted logic sample.

@Psyco

My position is simple. The closer free version is to full one - the better. Such basic thing must work identical in free and Studio version.

I use BM cameras, and thats what Resolve is really good at, working with there cameras. If it doesn't work well with your iPhone videos... get other software, you don't have to use it.

More than 90% of all corporate, wedding and other non amateur videos are H.264. And with widely adapting of higher bitrate and 422 and 444 options this percentage becomes only bigger and as it all moves to H,265 with 12-16bit native support it'll be even more.

Compare that to... say Adobe: Adding useless features all the time, forcing users to upgrade with new save-formates, subscription only!, cheaper versions of the software is mostly kids stuff, not fixing basic bugs and problems,...

With Adobe it is all simple. They always have full functioning free version available... on torrents.

Thing that BM does not understand is that same can happen with Studio version.
For years BM successfully negotiated with scene using mix of stimulus and threats. But this can change overnight.

And Google is making its money with adds - do you want to have popup-adds in your NLE?

Black Magic is also making money with free version as they push it in film schools and universities to get people who ask to buy full version after graduations.
Same approach with free or 90% discounted versions is used by CAD/CAM companies and developer tools companies.