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Please, a Cancel Button for "The clip(s) have different frame rate than the current project settings" dialogue. It's not much to ask, and it would alleviate an unnecessary source of stress.
The box confronts users with a binary decision from which they cannot opt-out. On top of that, it supplies no information to inform the user's choice. There's no way to check your project settings without closing it, but don't choose wrong, because if you set the framerate incorrectly, you can't change it later without deleting any (and all) timelines.
But suppose I *think* I know what my project settings are: Seeing the box tells me *that* I'm wrong. But worse, it doesn't tell me *why* I'm wrong. It doesn't show which values are mismatched. Did I accidentally drag in a low res proxy, or was I wrong about my project settings? No way to tell. Source size, destination size, source speed, destination speed. Four variables, one choice, zero input. Wait. Does audio sample rate mismatch trigger the dialogue, too? Again, no way to know.
What if I *intentionally* start with a mismatch? Say I start off with a low-res proxy on purpose, full of conviction and determination:
First, I'll second-guess myself out of reflex, because that's what the box has conditioned me to do. Then, I'll reassure myself, "no, you expected that, remember?" But before I can commit to a direction, I'll dwell on the thought that I could've made a mistake, and there's nothing in the interface to reassure me that I haven't. And while I'm SURE (sure?) that the resolution is correct because I wanted proxies in the first place, the whole unable-to-retroactively-change-framerate thing will really start to gnaw at me. Maybe I should back out to the project settings and check. No cancel button. Ain't no turnin' back here, son.
But most of the time, I find that box staring me down with it's beady, cockeyed, heteroaromatic buttons because I'm anxious to start sorting through media. The media is unsorted, of course, and so mostly full of mixed resolutions and framerates. I'll dump a heaping boatload of junk into the media pool, and as if summoned by magic, up pops that little devil whispering promises of helpfulness. "Click 'Change'" he says. "I'll set up your project for you, trust me" he says. But what will that devil change my project to? Does he select from the mismatched files alphabetically? By date added? Randomly? No way to know, but it can't be good.
So, please, BlackMagic, a cancel button to slay the Faustian devilbox. Thanks.
The box confronts users with a binary decision from which they cannot opt-out. On top of that, it supplies no information to inform the user's choice. There's no way to check your project settings without closing it, but don't choose wrong, because if you set the framerate incorrectly, you can't change it later without deleting any (and all) timelines.
But suppose I *think* I know what my project settings are: Seeing the box tells me *that* I'm wrong. But worse, it doesn't tell me *why* I'm wrong. It doesn't show which values are mismatched. Did I accidentally drag in a low res proxy, or was I wrong about my project settings? No way to tell. Source size, destination size, source speed, destination speed. Four variables, one choice, zero input. Wait. Does audio sample rate mismatch trigger the dialogue, too? Again, no way to know.
What if I *intentionally* start with a mismatch? Say I start off with a low-res proxy on purpose, full of conviction and determination:
First, I'll second-guess myself out of reflex, because that's what the box has conditioned me to do. Then, I'll reassure myself, "no, you expected that, remember?" But before I can commit to a direction, I'll dwell on the thought that I could've made a mistake, and there's nothing in the interface to reassure me that I haven't. And while I'm SURE (sure?) that the resolution is correct because I wanted proxies in the first place, the whole unable-to-retroactively-change-framerate thing will really start to gnaw at me. Maybe I should back out to the project settings and check. No cancel button. Ain't no turnin' back here, son.
But most of the time, I find that box staring me down with it's beady, cockeyed, heteroaromatic buttons because I'm anxious to start sorting through media. The media is unsorted, of course, and so mostly full of mixed resolutions and framerates. I'll dump a heaping boatload of junk into the media pool, and as if summoned by magic, up pops that little devil whispering promises of helpfulness. "Click 'Change'" he says. "I'll set up your project for you, trust me" he says. But what will that devil change my project to? Does he select from the mismatched files alphabetically? By date added? Randomly? No way to know, but it can't be good.
So, please, BlackMagic, a cancel button to slay the Faustian devilbox. Thanks.
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