How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

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How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

PostWed Nov 28, 2018 10:27 am

(Sorry, I assume the answer is obvious and I'm just stupid, but have spent over an hour in menus and Google and searches of the Blackmagic Forum and documentation first)

I have "Timeline 1". I want to call it something else. My understanding is that it is stored in the database, not the Mac OS file system. So my expectation is that there should be some means to set the name of the timeline. But the only place I can find any sort of timeline naming freedom is when creating a *new* timeline.

Does everyone just suffer along with "Timeline 1" once they've been dumb enough to spend energy editing it? Why does it seem that nobody else has this problem?
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Re: How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

PostWed Nov 28, 2018 6:46 pm

Select the timeline in the Media Pool, click on the title, rename the timeline.
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Re: How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

PostWed Nov 28, 2018 10:50 pm

xunile wrote:Select the timeline in the Media Pool, click on the title, rename the timeline.


Wow. Thanks! I guess I would vote for making that slightly more obvious, but such is the price of being a newbie.
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Re: How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

PostWed Nov 28, 2018 11:24 pm

I agree BMD should make things more obvious. They like to be stealthy with functions.
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Re: How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

PostThu Nov 29, 2018 8:39 am

It works the same as file naming has worked in Windows and MacOS since.... forever. Not exactly obscure.
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Re: How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

PostThu Nov 29, 2018 3:55 pm

You'll find a lot of options in right clicks menus...
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Re: How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

PostSun May 03, 2020 1:46 pm

Now in DaVinci 16 right click rename option on the tabs would be nice and much faster ;-)
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Re: How to rename a timeline in DaVinci 15?

PostTue Jun 09, 2020 10:11 am

I've worked out through experimentation that to rename Timelines and clips you need to:
Ctrl-click any number of clip/timelines but not folders
Ctrl-click one of the clips/timelines you've previously selected, which then allows you to edit names amongst those selected.

This means that you need to have at least 2 clips/timelines in your bin to rename things.

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