Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

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Mel Matsuoka

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Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostWed Nov 06, 2019 10:14 pm

If I select "Open in Timeline" on a nested timeline clip in my master timeline, I would like the playhead to be parked on the same frame that I was seeing in the master timeline when I invoked the "Open in Timeline" option.

I'm editing a longform project where I have separate nested timeline for each numbered section of the script, and when I get a client note in Frame.io to make a change to something, and I drill into the nested timeline, the playhead in the nested timeline is parked on wherever it was placed last while in that actual nested timeline. I'd like the option for that playhead position to move to the frame that was visible when the "Open in Timeline" command is invoked.

Obviously this behavior should either be a mapped to keyboard-shortcut modifier, or as an Editing preference, as I'm sure there are editor's who don't want this type of playhead behavior. But because it's the expected (and most generally logical) default behavior in both Premiere and After Effects, I'd like for Resolve to also do the same.
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Re: Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostThu Nov 07, 2019 4:07 pm

Yeah, the current behavior seems like an oversight in design. To my thinking, Open in Timeline should always include a Match Frame operation.
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Re: Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostMon Dec 21, 2020 2:03 am

Bumping this feature request, as--very disappointingly--you still cannot do this in 17 beta.
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Re: Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostMon Dec 21, 2020 4:29 pm

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Re: Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostThu Aug 05, 2021 9:05 pm

This continues to be a huge omission in 17.2.2
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Re: Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostSat Aug 07, 2021 9:04 am

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Re: Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostSat Aug 07, 2021 12:14 pm

Yeah this would save so much time, and would surely be quick and easy to add. +10
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Re: Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostMon Apr 29, 2024 12:32 am

+1
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Re: Synchronize playhead when opening nested timelines

PostTue Apr 30, 2024 6:13 am

+1 low-hanging fruit
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