Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:58 am
I totally agree regarding the need for:
a) Specifically, the ability to have a larger source viewer, up to at least the full size of one monitor
b), Generally, more UI flexibility, which has always been one of my major wishes for Resolve. It's made some improvements in recent releases, eg the Video Clean Feed. But in general its UI is still quite limited in terms of options and flexibility, and behind the competition in this regard.
In this specific example:
What I do as a multi-monitor user, is use Dual Screen + Full Screen timeline, moving the viewers to the second screen and make the Timeline take the whole of your main screen. On the second screen you can then drag down the Media Pool (which unfortunately you cannot hide completely - another frustrating UI limitation) down to about 30% of the screen height.
On my system, with my second monitor being 1920x1200, this gives me a Multicam viewer which is 960x540, ie exactly half the width and height of my 1920x1080 project resolution.
Is that what you're doing already?
I actually managed to trick Resolve into giving me a full 1920x1080 Multicam viewer on my second monitor:
1. With Dual Screen + Full Screen Timeline enabled as usual, I then opened macOS' Mission Control and dragged the Resolve window on the second screen, onto my main 4K screen
2. This resized it to 4K
3. I then used Mission Control to drag it back to the second screen, where it remained resized to 4K and therefore only the top left 25% was visible. Fortunately this top 25% is exactly what's needed to see the Source/Multicam viewer, which now took up nearly the entire screen.
4. I could not therefore see the Timeline viewer, but I could have used Video Clean Feed for this.
A dirty trick and I don't know if it would be possible on Windows, but theoretically useful to other macOS dual-screen users. A further downside is once I put the Resolve windows back to normal, I could no longer resize the partition between the viewers and Media Pool; a Resolve UI bug that I've experienced once before as well. I had to use Workspace -> Reset UI Layout (again, something I've had to do several times before in other UI bug situations), which is always a bit irritating as it resets a bunch of things that have to be configured again. Possibly the re-config could be avoided by using a Workspace Layout, which I need to get around to setting up.
Anyway, totally agree regarding more UI flexibility. Very much needed. Fingers crossed for v17, though I won't be getting my hopes up too high.
Resolve Studio 17.4.3 and Fusion Studio 17.4.3 on macOS 11.6.1
Hackintosh:: X299, Intel i9-10980XE, 128GB DDR4, AMD 6900XT 16GB
Monitors: 1 x 3840x2160 & 3 x 1920x1200
Disk: 2TB NVMe + 4TB RAID0 NVMe; NAS: 36TB RAID6
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