Resolve 17.2.2 Unable to change length of multiple clips

Hi,

Is this only me but I can no longer alter the length of multiple clips as demonstrated in this video

No matter what I try, it only changes the length of the clip I hover and then mouse click on.

Any ideas?

Cheers

UPDATE : I uninstalled 17.2.2 and reinstalled 17.2.1 and same issue

I'm seeing the same in Studio 17.2.2 for Windows.

I found a workaround.

Select all the clip boundaries in the usual way.
Use the 'U' key to select between incoming/outgoing/both clip boundaries depending upon your needs.

On Mac, hold the Command key and select one of the clip boundaries. It will deselect only that clip boundary. Keep holding the Command key down and reselect that same clip boundary. Keep the Command key pressed and drag the mouse to adjust the clip length.

I found a workaround.

Select all the clip boundaries in the usual way.
Use the 'U' key to select between incoming/outgoing/both clip boundaries depending upon your needs.

On Mac, hold the Command key and select one of the clip boundaries. It will deselect only that clip boundary. Keep holding the Command key down and reselect that same clip boundary. Keep the Command key pressed and drag the mouse to adjust the clip length.

Thanks for this potential workaround, I have tried this and the U key is not even selecting any boundaries when I have a multiple selection (Have used Ctrl-A to select all clips). Doesn't work even if select 2 clips. Like Jim I'm also on Windows, there is either a setting that has changed the behaviour here or its a big bug

This change/bug has caught me out too. A few weeks ago I had a need to resize a bunch of photos at once, just like in that YT video, and couldn't figure out why I couldn't do them all at once. I had to resort to dragging them on top of each other so I could be sure they were all the same length, before dragging them back into sequence on a single track. Quite irritating.

I'm on macOS and I tried Peter's workaround but couldn't get it to work reliably or usefully. A couple of times I managed to resize all clips at once, but it didn't seem to do it in such a way that they all converged on the same size, like shown in the video. And it took me about 10 attempts to even get it to work - most of the time trying to drag an edge with Cmd held down just deselected that single edge. Maybe I'm still doing something wrong.

This was a useful feature and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be possible to resize multiple clips at once, so I hope this is fixed before too long.

This change/bug has caught me out too. A few weeks ago I had a need to resize a bunch of photos at once, just like in that YT video, and couldn't figure out why I couldn't do them all at once. I had to resort to dragging them on top of each other so I could be sure they were all the same length, before dragging them back into sequence on a single track. Quite irritating.

I'm on macOS and I tried Peter's workaround but couldn't get it to work reliably or usefully. A couple of times I managed to resize all clips at once, but it didn't seem to do it in such a way that they all converged on the same size, like shown in the video. And it took me about 10 attempts to even get it to work - most of the time trying to drag an edge with Cmd held down just deselected that single edge. Maybe I'm still doing something wrong.

This was a useful feature and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be possible to resize multiple clips at once, so I hope this is fixed before too long.

I have definitely done this multiple times in the past when creating photo slideshows and it caused me a massive amount of a headache (basically need to create handles for the transitions for 200 photos), in the end the only way I could sort of do it, was to CTRL-A and then apply default transition and say Trim to the dialog which says there are no handles do you want to create them (or something similar to that). It isn't ideal though as it didn't clip them quite enough

Here's a video describing my method:

Here's a video describing my method:

Thanks Peter, I'll try this later today, but when I was trying this yesterday, pressing U does absolutely nothing, I had a bunch of other keys which did nothing also such as pressing Y to select all tracks forward of the playhead, only Alt-Y would work. Also , and . would not shorten the clips, something very odd going on, I need to go and review what is different in my setup to yours, maybe I didn't have V1 greyed out like it is in your video (the little box with V1 in)

Thanks Peter!

I eventually got it to work following your steps. It's so fiddly! But at least we have a workaround. Thanks for taking the time to explain it.

I do hope BMD restore the original behaviour.

It is working for me in the windows version of free Resolve 17.2.2.

I select all clips, then switch to Trim Edit Mode, right-click and choose "Change Clip Duration", change the duration, then all clips have the duration changed.

It is working for me in the windows version of free Resolve 17.2.2.

I select all clips, then switch to Trim Edit Mode, right-click and choose "Change Clip Duration", change the duration, then all clips have the duration changed.

Yeah I did find this particular workaround as well but I was reporting the fact that something had stopped working which had previously worked. Also doing it this way, you cannot add handles to the beginning of the clip which was something I needed to do for the Cross Dissolve transition

Still broke in 17.3.

18 and still broke

Still hasn't been fixed for the "Edit" section, however I've found that it works in the "Cut" section of Davinci

Will this be ever fixed? or davinci is not interested?

It's working fine for me.
The important thing that many miss is to use the Trim Tool to make the selection of edit boundaries and then the "U" key to toggle between the in/out or both edit boundary selection. Then use the mouse or keyboard entry to make the adjustment.