I am not seeing any issues with 16.2.7 and 17.

Hopefully i don't have a need for it, but if i do, i'll have to use v16 on one of the power tools I have v16 co-existing on the v17 machines as well, not recomended but given the issues not being able to open a v16 show anymore, it's a tradeoff worth takeing as the 'v16 only' machine may not able to deal with a show - it's a 2圆c/GTX1070/48g, so pretty dire when asked to open a DDCi4k film with temporal effects, more like instant / endless GPU Errors.

I can't open my v16 projects in v17 as the color has huge issues (ACEScct +L*a*b), so it's not possiable to in my case to tweak a v16 project in v17 I've hit a timeframe where a number of films have shipped, and new one's are starting up, so i switched to v17 for my front line machines this weekend, leaveing one machine on v16 in case any older projects need extra lurve Only go back to the upgraded v17 library for legacy projects. To get the maximum performance benefit of v18, start a new project library and create all your new project there. end game is can make abetter film with these tools and owe it to my clients to give them access now, not later From the pinned thread: New v18 project libraries are much different to previous generation databases. for those uses v17b has been rok solid, and the color tools are worthy and then some, i'd not want to grade in v16 as the limitations are pretty massive once one is happy with the new tools - i also use Baselight so was already familiar with the concepts and workflow involved, not much of a learning curve beyond figureing out what functions are called in Resolve for me. I only do conform / color / fixes / deliver.

Is davinci resolve 18 beta stable