Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:02 pm
For the most part, I've really loved Da Vinci Resolve. But the curve and keyframe icons on the timeline is a real problem! It's a terrible UI. (NOTE: I like the icons being on the timeline, but there has to be a better place to put them.)
I have a feeling that DaVinci's solution to the problem is to use CUT mode, but CUT mode is cumbersome, limiting, not intuitive, and not at all the way editors have been editing for nearly two decades. I want to cut everything in edit mode (and there's no reason I shouldn't be able to - I can't tell you how many editors I've worked with who scratch their heads at Resolve's CUT mode and ask, "Why is it even there?") The ability to easily select cuts is crucial to being able to edit rapidly. I'm a very speedy editor, except when it comes to adding transitions in Resolve. I'm constantly having to enlarge my timeline, hover over the side of the cut I want to select, and hope that I'm able to jump into trim mode without accidentally activating the keyframe menu. It's infuriating.
Having edited professionally since 1999 on pretty much every NLE system that's been on the market, I'm kind of shocked this issue hasn't already been addressed.