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DaVinci Resolve
Raised as a usability problem by 33 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 22 threads.
People raised many different problems with DaVinci Resolve, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 38 complaints
- Slow and bloated, and the UI cannot be customized2026-10-25
- Fusion comps silently downgrade to timeline resolution and break unpredictably2026-09-09
- Spends forever figuring out simple tasks, needing long video tutorials2026-09-08
- Fusion speed change leaves timeline clip length unchanged, so only half the footage shows2026-06-05
- Undo grouping merges nearby control changes, so undoing loses changes and leaves inconsistent state2026-06-05
- Steep learning curve; beginners need hours of tutorials to do basic editing2026-06-04
- UI freezes for a second or two when switching to Fusion tab2026-06-04
- Interface is worse to use than Darktable and Lightroom, per the commenter2026-06-03
- Tools are split across separate pages, so users must switch tabs to reach them2026-06-03
- Steep learning curve and a cluttered, hard-to-use interface2026-06-03
- Feature-rich but basically unusable for newcomers because user experience is poor2026-06-03
- Undo reverts an unpredictable number of changes, and redo only restores one2026-06-03
- Getting it to run on Ubuntu is a very bad experience; audio never works2026-04-14
- Couldn't make sense of the dark table UI and found it too hard to use2026-04-14
- Confused by interface; spent 15 minutes unable to find photo masking2026-04-14
- Can't find bullet-point technical specs for the product on the site2026-04-14
- Fine rotation is hard without shift-drag and cropping avoids black corners poorly, forcing repeated numeric adjustments2026-04-14
- Interface is unintuitive; can't find color grading, which opens to a video view2026-04-14
- Feels like it gets in the way of the user's workflow compared to Kdenlive2025-07-14
- Hard to figure out how to do things; features hidden behind menus and icons2024-11-11
- Effects UI crammed into tiny panes and generally obtuse; effects stop working and must be deleted and re-added2024-10-27
- User can't figure out how to do anything in it2024-05-19
- Video editor UI is hard to understand for occasional users2024-05-19
- Node-based workflows are a hellscape compared to simpler layer-based tools; DaVinci feels jack-of-all-trades2024-03-26
- Spent hours failing to install it on Linux, leaving the user miserable2024-01-17
- Render-job interface is shambolic and the timeline on that page is misleadingly inaccurate2023-12-11
- Tools feel awkward to use and are painfully slow2023-09-30
- Commenter couldn't find the buttons they needed after switching from Premiere2023-06-25
- Video playback was very laggy and crashed too often2023-03-27
- Basic editing tasks have a huge learning curve; workflow is hard to grasp2022-10-21
- Desktop interface is inappropriate and hard to use with fingers on touchscreen2022-10-20
- Free Linux version won't import MP4, so clips must be re-encoded first2022-04-24
- New accounts can't post links, and posts wait days for moderator approval, so they sink unseen2020-11-08
- Steep learning curve makes it too much for simple video editing workflows2020-05-19
- Trimming GoPro clips at 2.7K took hours in the software2020-04-04
- Spent about four hours repeatedly failing to get Resolve working on Linux2019-04-23
- AMD driver install scripts failed, forcing manual dependency resolution2019-03-13
- Finds Resolve less intuitive to use than Kdenlive2018-02-01