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- Real Name: Lucas Filips
Good morning Peter and the Resolve team. Firstly congratulations! Out of the hundreds, my company also finally made the switch from Adobe to Resolve. So now that I’m back to complain (after 3 years, see my original post: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=91509), can we finally fix some of the most basic functions that will make us peasants that lack a control panel or multiple monitors not suffer? You, the development team keep adding new magical features that the marketing department surely congratulates you for, but you ignore for YEARS some of the most basic functions that would give us peasants a peace of mind.
1. Make it possible to disable the cinema viewer ‘’player controls overlay’’. Every dam time you go to Cinema Viewer, you have to raise your hand off the mouse before pressing spacebar to Play, because a single pixel move with the mouse will trigger the player controls overlay to pop up. It takes 5 seconds to disappear again. Could you fix this or is the solution ''just keep your mouse hand perfectly still''? Sometimes people edit with one screen. Even the Resolve pros like Marc Wielage will some day open Resolve on a laptop, and would benefit from this fix. Just add in settings a checkbox: ‘’Disable player controls overlay in Cinema Viewer’’.
2. Edit Page - Retime Curve: Make a setting that enables choosing Retime Speed as default! It currently takes 4 clicks before any re-timing can occur. Why make majority of users waste valuable time changing it every single time from Retime Frame?
3. Make Snapping on the timeline work without the Playhead snapping!
Example: Right click on the Snapping icon (checkboxes):
- Disable Playhead Snapping
- Fade Handles Snap To Playhead
- Low Sensitivity Mode (Currently when moving a clip towards another clip it snaps way too early for percision moves, Premiere Pro snapping is at least two times less sensitive).
4. Fix the dam undo. In posts after posts of peasants complaining about this for years, someone in your team keeps jumping in to comment about how the undo works exactly PERFECT because it was designed to work for those who have the shiny balls of a control panel in front of them. Over 90% of your users don't use a control panel! Please make a settings checkbox for both options. ''classic undo'' and ''simple undo''.
Screenshot is from this discussion: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=145896
Gentlemen, the issue of undo isn’t only in the color wheels. The issue persists on curves, noise reduction values, blur, etc. on and on… Undo doesn’t even work on Camera Raw controls AT ALL! You can’t change color temperature, exposure, saturation, etc. in Raw controls and undo it to the previous value.
I repeat. There is no undo in the Camera Raw tab. For the past 10 years. How can you keep pretending that the undo feature works well?
Also, undo does not work at all during playback on Color page. So no professional colorist wants to see before and after, undo/redo while playing the timeline? Yet again, undo works fine during playback on Fairlight and Edit pages.
My original video from three years ago showing the buggy undo to those who don’t know:
Gentlemen, we peasants you started marketing your software to A: can’t afford the panels, or B: Don’t want a panel in front of us because we are mainly editors or something else, not professional colorists.
Four wishes! Four from the peasants that work in your kingdom day and night. On this forum literally thousands of people have viewed the posts where these problems are described.
So next time the Marketing Balrogs come to you with their whips, find your courage and tell them to go back to the shadow, as for the next weeks you shall be focusing on the design instead of the magic.
1. Make it possible to disable the cinema viewer ‘’player controls overlay’’. Every dam time you go to Cinema Viewer, you have to raise your hand off the mouse before pressing spacebar to Play, because a single pixel move with the mouse will trigger the player controls overlay to pop up. It takes 5 seconds to disappear again. Could you fix this or is the solution ''just keep your mouse hand perfectly still''? Sometimes people edit with one screen. Even the Resolve pros like Marc Wielage will some day open Resolve on a laptop, and would benefit from this fix. Just add in settings a checkbox: ‘’Disable player controls overlay in Cinema Viewer’’.
2. Edit Page - Retime Curve: Make a setting that enables choosing Retime Speed as default! It currently takes 4 clicks before any re-timing can occur. Why make majority of users waste valuable time changing it every single time from Retime Frame?
3. Make Snapping on the timeline work without the Playhead snapping!
Example: Right click on the Snapping icon (checkboxes):
- Disable Playhead Snapping
- Fade Handles Snap To Playhead
- Low Sensitivity Mode (Currently when moving a clip towards another clip it snaps way too early for percision moves, Premiere Pro snapping is at least two times less sensitive).
4. Fix the dam undo. In posts after posts of peasants complaining about this for years, someone in your team keeps jumping in to comment about how the undo works exactly PERFECT because it was designed to work for those who have the shiny balls of a control panel in front of them. Over 90% of your users don't use a control panel! Please make a settings checkbox for both options. ''classic undo'' and ''simple undo''.
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Screenshot is from this discussion: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=145896
Gentlemen, the issue of undo isn’t only in the color wheels. The issue persists on curves, noise reduction values, blur, etc. on and on… Undo doesn’t even work on Camera Raw controls AT ALL! You can’t change color temperature, exposure, saturation, etc. in Raw controls and undo it to the previous value.
I repeat. There is no undo in the Camera Raw tab. For the past 10 years. How can you keep pretending that the undo feature works well?
Also, undo does not work at all during playback on Color page. So no professional colorist wants to see before and after, undo/redo while playing the timeline? Yet again, undo works fine during playback on Fairlight and Edit pages.
My original video from three years ago showing the buggy undo to those who don’t know:
Gentlemen, we peasants you started marketing your software to A: can’t afford the panels, or B: Don’t want a panel in front of us because we are mainly editors or something else, not professional colorists.
Four wishes! Four from the peasants that work in your kingdom day and night. On this forum literally thousands of people have viewed the posts where these problems are described.
So next time the Marketing Balrogs come to you with their whips, find your courage and tell them to go back to the shadow, as for the next weeks you shall be focusing on the design instead of the magic.
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