I edited over 100 podcast episodes with DaVinci Resolve 17. It's a really great tool not just for video editing but audio editing too. Unfortunately Resolve 17

I edited over 100 podcast episodes with DaVinci Resolve 17. It's a really great tool not just for video editing but audio editing too. Unfortunately Resolve 17 was never able to export mp4s for me without introducing both video and audio artifacts into the final video that didn't exist in the timeline when editing so I can't use it for editing video even though I want to. The issue might be hardware related but I'm not interesting in buying an entirely new computer for a chance that 1 application might work. I will give 18 a shot tho, I have a reproduceable video (a few minute 1080p screencast clip) that always produces the artifacts but it happens in every video I export with varying degrees of severeness (in all cases it makes the final video unusable). Their support didn't acknowledge the bug report I submit since I was using the free version of Resolve. Everything else about the product was great tho, I would buy the pro version in a second if I knew it would export mp4s without artifacts on my machine but there's no way to trial the "pro" version as far as I know.