Suggestion: "Show or Hide" of timelines in timeline pulldown

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Michael Sin

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Suggestion: "Show or Hide" of timelines in timeline pulldown

PostWed Oct 17, 2018 5:06 pm

Hi,

Resolve 15.1.1, Sierra 10.12.6, MacPro Late 2013 64G RAM, Dual display setup (full timeline in main display)

Regarding the Edit page with Tab enabled, the pull-down selection of the timelines

1. The timelines listed in the pull-down selection are in some kind of "random" order, instead of alphabetic or "user preferred arrangements".

2. The order of the list should be "remembered" for the next selection

3. Will it be possible to keep the timelines listing with the folder/bin structure, instead of a plain long listing. Or provide an option to show in the long list or in folder view - for fewer timelines, the plain view is better, for a long film with a lot of timelines, a folder view with only showing preferred timelines is better.

4. A "Show / Hide" option for timelines and folder (dim it in the Source windows), for controlling the which folders (with timelines inside this folder) and timelines to be shown or not.

Please refer to the attached screenshots for my editing timelines folder arrangements.

Regards,

Michael
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A long list of timelines, not in folder or alphabetic order
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Timelines arranged in folder structures
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Re: Suggestion: "Show or Hide" of timelines in timeline pull

PostThu Oct 18, 2018 1:19 am

Michael Sin wrote:The timelines listed in the pull-down selection are in some kind of "random" order, instead of alphabetic or "user preferred arrangements".

I believe the timelines are shown in creation order. As far as I know, there's no way to change this yet. It would be fantastic if we could manually change the order of the timelines in the Edit Page, and then whatever order we sort in would be shown in the pull-down timeline menu on the Color Page.
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Re: Suggestion: "Show or Hide" of timelines in timeline pull

PostThu Oct 18, 2018 1:45 am

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Re: Suggestion: "Show or Hide" of timelines in timeline pull

PostThu Oct 18, 2018 3:09 pm

User adjustable sort would be the best option.

Alphabetical would be second best.

No other option is acceptable.
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Re: Suggestion: "Show or Hide" of timelines in timeline pull

PostThu Oct 18, 2018 3:28 pm

Jim Simon wrote:User adjustable sort would be the best option.

Alphabetical would be second best.

No other option is acceptable.


Drag and drop reordering would be great not just for timelines but the content of all bins, and stray media in the media pool. But, in projects with dozens of timelines, putting all timelines in one bin or location isn't the greatest organizing principle.

So alphabetical and other options would still be needed. That, or some alternative to that drop down listing.

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