Suggestions: Edit<->Color clip color and positioning

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Michael Sin

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Suggestions: Edit<->Color clip color and positioning

PostWed Oct 17, 2018 4:48 pm

Hi,

Resolve 15.1.1, Sierra 10.12.6, MacPro Late 2013 64G RAM, Dual display setup (full timeline in main display)

I switch quite often between Edit and Color pages during the editing process. However, there are some annoying behaviors of Resolve which slow down my operations and I find it quite confusing for everytime I switch from Edit to Color.

1. After a clip is selected in the Edit page and switch to Color page, Color always selects the topmost clip instead of the previously selected clip in Edit. It's very confusing and quite easy to edit the color of other clips instead of the previously selected one in Edit. It's even more confusing with a long timeline, short clips, a lot of layers with a lot of disabled clips (both disabled tracks and individual disabled clips) in the Edit and then switch to Color

2. After switched from Edit to Color, the selected clip is always located in the leftmost of the timeline, the playhead always parks to the leftmost instead of placing everything in the middle with similar or identical scaling as in the Edit.

3. In Color page, the disabled clips are not shown in disabled color as in the Edit.

4. In Color page, the disabled tracks are now shown in disabled color.

The above behaviors cause very annoying operations, especially with a long timeline.

Please refer to the attached screenshots.

Regards,

Michael
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Screen Shot 2018-10-17 at 10.47.07 PM.png
Full timeline in Edit page, please noted that there are some very short clip (3 frames), will be hard to selected after switch to Color in different scaling of the timeline.
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Screen Shot 2018-10-17 at 10.45.54 PM.png
Playhead is moved to the left most. Timeline position and scale different from Edit, topmost long clip is selected instead of the selected clip as in Edit. Disabled track and disabled clips are not showing in "dim" color.
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Screen Shot 2018-10-17 at 10.45.54 PM.png
Selected clip with disabled clips besides it and a long clip on top, notice that there is short clip (3 frame only) in orange too.
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Re: Suggestions: Edit<->Color clip color and positioning

PostThu Oct 18, 2018 3:12 pm

I think the best solution here might be a shift in work flow.

Do all the editing first, do your coloring second. This will limit the switching back and forth.
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Re: Suggestions: Edit<->Color clip color and positioning

PostThu Oct 18, 2018 3:21 pm

I do think that you should have the ability to disable/reenable the clips in color page. Often i have multiple versions of the same shot stacked (vfx) and I would like to disable/reenable them to showcase them to the client.
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Re: Suggestions: Edit<->Color clip color and positioning

PostThu Oct 18, 2018 10:33 pm

waltervolpatto wrote:I do think that you should have the ability to disable/reenable the clips in color page


You can disable tracks for quick comparison purposes.
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Re: Suggestions: Edit<->Color clip color and positioning

PostThu Oct 18, 2018 11:52 pm

Jim Simon wrote:
waltervolpatto wrote:I do think that you should have the ability to disable/reenable the clips in color page


You can disable tracks for quick comparison purposes.


Not the same, you might have to play the sequence with shots before and after (because the client want it) and you will disable other objects that are in the same track.
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