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Everywhere else in Resolve (and Fusion) when you move an image up/down, left/right you refer to X and Y transforms. BUT in Color you are doing Pan and Tilt?

And why use the word Zoom?? We are not actually zooming anything. We are scaling it. Especially now that Fusion is integrated and it has a real 3D environment where you really can zoom via the 3D camera, having the word zoom elsewhere makes no sense.

Can we please just use X, Y, Scale (or size) for things? If I want to change the width of something, I am changing the scale on X. Make something taller, I am scaling on Y. Want to create a fake zoom? I lock the X and Y scale together and animate them.

Resolve is fantastic and as someone who's used Fusion since around 1997, I'm happy to see it integrated. But it's so frustrating when some of the simplest things, things that Adobe figured out years ago, are still not quite right in Resolve.

And, as I mentioned in another thread. Please oh please get rid of the existing curve editors in Resolve's timeline view and bring over what Fusion has. Fusion has always had an excellent FCurve editor, so why settle for clunky when you have one of the best right there?

Sorry for the semi-ranting post, but I'm trying to work on a project and keep stopping to figure out why Resolve won't do X, Y or Z (pun intended).

-Paul

Digital Zoom is scaling.
If you are talking about 3D, you are probably referring to dollying in or out, which is a different industry norm

Hi Paul,
Adobe is not fully consistent with conventions across all it’s products. Blackmagic has them all rolled in to one which I find quite convenient. You seem to be quite across the inconsistencies. I have always assumed that the color transform menu has been left for history’s sake. DaVinci being such a pillar of color grading tradition. If you prefer the curve editor in Fusion, can’t you just do it there? I know when you are behind the 8 ball it is good to have somewhere to vent. When I drive some cars the indicator control is on the left side of the steering wheel, on others it’s on the right! Now Mercedes have created a gear selector that could just as well have been an indicator switch on the right side of the steering wheel. OMG!

there is quite a lot of legacy that need to be cleaned up. mostly cosmetic: saturation start at [50].....

waltervolpatto wrote:there is quite a lot of legacy that need to be cleaned up. mostly cosmetic: saturation start at [50].....

It drives me crazy that on some parts of the GUI, "normal" (unity gain) is 0, on others it's 1, on still others it's 100, and in saturation, it's 50. Absolute madness, particularly when you compare Curves vs. LGG vs. Log vs. Sizing.

It's clear the software was designed by many different people over a long period of time. I would love for the on-screen readouts to change to something consistent -- like "100" is normal and you could vary all the way to 0 and to 200 (or beyond for sizing) -- but also offer legacy users the ability to keep the numbers where they are now. The adjustments themselves wouldn't change: only the displayed number would change.