Jim Simon wrote:That's not normal. Your display may not be very good, or well calibrated.
You're right it's
not normal. My display is calibrated and good (enough), and I agree with brediknight: It should AT LEAST be an option. I'm not sure why BMD thinks they should dim the timeline at all. There is no need since we have the bar at the top marking the In/Out range. When I first experienced this I thought it was SO weird, that is, after I spent several minutes just figuring out WHAT was going on!
Indeed, there are MANY things in the Resolve UI that makes me think the design team at BMD haven't had much experience using modern SW,
or they intentionally try to make the UI as unintuitive as humanly possible, just to mess with us. By far, I've never used a piece of SW that is so unintuitive, where, seemingly, all logic is thrown to the wind in the UI design. And I've been using/developing/designing SW since the 80s.
Like the Main Menu items that disappear/reappear (OK for context menus, but NOT on the menu bar - who thought that was a good idea?). Or the various differing options in panels depending on the Page (like the viewers). Or like, why do I have to go to the File menu to create a New Timeline,
and NOT the Timeline Menu, where logic indicates is where I would find that option. A Timeline is not a file. And then there are the Keyframe options found in the Mark Menu. I suspect a lot of this is due to developers trying to maintain historical context with the hardware panels, where Keyframes are considered Marks, and are moved by buttons/knobs? Not helpful.
Now that Resolve is the all-inclusive app, I hope BMD spends a little time working on improving integration and UI design and logic to improve the seamless experience before just bolting on new features
where ever they can find space.