Sounds like you are in the best position to give it a shot and see if it works. You have source material, you have iMove...

What hoops are there to jump through besides the forced registration? It’s a one click installer.

Mostly learning curve and time to render optimized previews (considerable).

My needs are very lightweight and perfect for the iMovie use case beyond it's inability to handle what I consider not uncommon quality with today's rise of higher resolutions and frame rates.

Why not just Buy Final Cut Pro or screenflow? I’d rather pay $149 (screenflow) for for a product that just works vs wasting hours of my time trying to get something setup.

Resolve is fine and it’s free. I work in the moving pictures industry and Resolve has been used at some step for 99% of the films you see out there.

I highly doubt that claim. Most end to end pipelines are still heavily driven by Avid and Final Cut.

For smaller ventures, Resolve has gained a lot of traction. Especially for its color workflows.

But a claim that the vast majority of films use resolve is highly unlikely IMHO

The claim you are responding to is that Resolve is used "at some step" in the vast majority of films, not that it is used specifically for cutting the vast majority of films. For example, Resolve might be used on a DIT cart for on-set color work, or it could be used for color grading in post—even if the film is actually cut on e.g. Avid or Final Cut.

Resolve's editing features are newer and less established, but I personally really like them.

For anyone interested in trying Resolve, I strongly suggest taking a look at Blackmagic Design's own oft-overlooked training material, which is put together by professional trainers and does a great job of working in useful concepts, workflow tips, and keyboard shortcuts at just the right times. The free video tutorials are a good place to start, and the free PDF books offer more of a deep dive. Project files to follow along are also included.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/tra...

(I've posted about Resolve once or twice before; for the record, I do not work for BMD, I just enthusiastically like them.)

Yep. Resolve is used for DIT and dailies at Company 3 which has done the post and colouring for a lot of the biggest movies out there.

Source: I have friends there.

You are of course completely wrong. I have friends at Company 3 (one of the best colourist companies in the world) and they use Resolve for DIT and dailies all the time, including for such small films as Not Time to Die, Wonder Woman 1984 and the next Jurassic Park.

But of course this is the typical HN attitude of “I know better”.

I literally said I work in the industry, and your first claim is “there is no way that’s true”.

edit it’s also revealing that you think there are post pipelines set up around Final Cut. In my experience, there is no Final Cut at the high end (with extremely rare exceptions).