Updating/Refreshing files in Resolve Timeline

Mac, 18.5b1. Still an issue, 2023. (Same as above -- relinking, deleting selected clip cache, even reimporting the clip anew (!). The ONLY thing that works for me is restarting Resolve. (PSD files.) Cheers!

SIX years later and this is still an issue! I'm speechless. And yes I'm running Studio.

In another thread it was mentioned that BMD didn’t necessarily know there was operating system support for doing this efficiently - ie without constantly polling all the files to see if they’ve been modified.

Now they know.

Perhaps this awareness will help move fixing this issue along.

It's soooooo wired.So many years,such an important function.Pr and FCP almost all edit software have this function.Why Resolve not to solve this problem....

2024 and the problem still persists

The problem here in DavinciResolve is forcing it to update its cache... But as any CS student knows:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science:

• Cache invalidation
• Naming things
• Off by one error

attributed to Phil Karlton (and Leon Bambrick for the third one )

The way to signal DR to invalidate its clip cache is using the Media Pool right click operation "Replace Selected Clip...". So here's my workflow in DR 18.6 (tried in macOS and Ubuntu):

1. Externally edit a clip (modifying image or sound)
2. Save the new version alongside the original one, with a slight name modification
3. Back in DR: Find In Media Pool + Replace Selected Clip...
4. Chose the new modified clip
5. Tadaa! Refresh is done!
6. If another external modification is needed, save under the original name
7. And alternate back and forth between the two names for each refresh

Is this working for you?

Raymond Lutz

7 years from first message and still no fix.

I am really loving Resolve. But its many simple little things that I'm finding the developers for some reason just ignore that are driving me nuts and keeping me from purchasing the studio edition.

Each item I run across I find people asking for many years with no responses at all is so discouraging.

To be clear, the refresh is working but if the sequence changes it's length then you have to reload the whole thing