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More than once I've returned to an hour-plus-long render to find that the generated files are essentially useless to me because they're named wrong.
This can happen easily for two reasons:
1. When you select "individual clips," the default is NOT to use the source names for the destination names; it's to generate new names. This does not make sense. In many cases, you've selected "individual clips" so you can relink your editing timeline to the color-corrected version of your footage. For that to to work, the clips must have the same names. I can't see any downside to having Resolve use the source name by default.
2. The render-settings pane allows you to select the destination file location and "single clip" or "individual clips," but the rest of the file settings are not visible by default; they're obscured from view on a tab. This means that you're even less likely to discover the unexpected default naming scheme.
Therefore I request that the Location setting and the single/individual-clip setting be moved to where the rest of the file settings are, so we can set all destination-related options at once and be assured of seeing them. For those who want these visible at all times, I'll go one better: Let's have a summary pane, akin to the ones you find on some other applications with rendering functions. Then you can see the video, audio, and output settings that are in effect in a glance, at all times.
The good news is that it doesn't even need to take up more screen real estate than the current pane!
Check it out:
Oh, and please use "source name" as the default when we select "individual clips."
This can happen easily for two reasons:
1. When you select "individual clips," the default is NOT to use the source names for the destination names; it's to generate new names. This does not make sense. In many cases, you've selected "individual clips" so you can relink your editing timeline to the color-corrected version of your footage. For that to to work, the clips must have the same names. I can't see any downside to having Resolve use the source name by default.
2. The render-settings pane allows you to select the destination file location and "single clip" or "individual clips," but the rest of the file settings are not visible by default; they're obscured from view on a tab. This means that you're even less likely to discover the unexpected default naming scheme.
Therefore I request that the Location setting and the single/individual-clip setting be moved to where the rest of the file settings are, so we can set all destination-related options at once and be assured of seeing them. For those who want these visible at all times, I'll go one better: Let's have a summary pane, akin to the ones you find on some other applications with rendering functions. Then you can see the video, audio, and output settings that are in effect in a glance, at all times.
The good news is that it doesn't even need to take up more screen real estate than the current pane!
Check it out:
- suggested render-settings pane
- Resolve render settings.png (392.29 KiB) Viewed 3641 times
Oh, and please use "source name" as the default when we select "individual clips."
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4 GHz Intel Core i7
32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB
Areca Thunderbolt RAID