Once that tedious task was done, organizing the footage into bins was a breeze...

BUT...trying to arrange the order of those bins within the media panel proved to be impossible. Strangely enough while you can sort your bins and footage within the main media panel, trying to rearrange them in the sidebar where you are constantly going to navigate to your media was not happening. Apparently that's a feature that's been oft-requested for a while now. Kind of left me scratching my head...isn't that a pretty BASIC feature to include?

So you must create your bins in the exact order that you want them to appear and hope to god that you never have to rearrange them or add one in the middle later.

STEP 3: Syncing video and audio (aka Bend over...)

This is where the proverbial shit really hit the fan. So Resolve is supposed to have this handy autosync feature where you simply select all of your video and audio assets, click a magic button and it will sync all of your audio to your video based on either timecode (we didn't jam sync timecode on set so...) or the audio waveform of each.

A bit of background: I've always hated PluralEyes for not being reliable so never use it. FCPX syncs video/audio incredibly well...but I'm not about to use it for a feature. Premiere (as much as I love it) work very well when it comes to syncing, but unless you're using multicam it merges your clips and thus destroys the original metadata making roundtripping to other programs later a royal pain.

So when I heard about Resolve's autosync and how well it supposedly worked, I was thrilled. And sure enough it does have some good things going for it. For instance, when you autosync you are given the option to append or replace the audio tracks on the camera footage. So you can choose to remove the guide tracks or hang on to them (which I usually do just in case). Also, it attaches your recorded audio to your video clips and retains all of the metadata of each. High-five for problem-free roundtrippin'!

The downside...IT DOESN'T WORK!