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Over time, I've become aware of features that are hidden for which there are no GUI indiction that they exist.
For example, to edit the style of individual letters of a word, one has to right-click the text-field to reveal the menu, then select "character level styling".
There is nothing in the GUI or menus of the Text+ node to suggest that this feature is there. The way it gets discovered in the Davinci Resolve online YouTube community is that someone puts out a tutorial, and then it catches on, followed by several tutorials by others. Then it becomes widely known.
But for such hidden features, until that first one person puts out the initial tutorial, the feature remains hidden.
I'm guessing there must be numerous other hidden features that new-players are unaware even exist. For example, recently, I saw a tutorial that pointed out that there are "Ease In" and "Ease Out" fields in the Spline panel. But there is no indication that it is there. The tutorial told us that it requires pressing the T keystroke to cause these features to appear. There seems no indication that this feature existed.
I am guessing there are numerous other features for which there are no GUI indication.
As a relatively new Davinci user, it took me some time to realise that certain words (but not all words) in panels could be right-clicked to reveal sub-menus. For instance, I never would have guessed that the text panel in the Text+ node could be right-clicked until someone pointed this out in a tutorial.
Hence, my suggestion is to adapt the GUI to indicate the existence of hidden features.
I realise one doesn't want to clutter the GUI. What about a dot beside things that can be right clicked? Maybe there could be a Preference item where people could turn on these visual indications, and then experienced users could turn these off to make the GUI less cluttered.
For example, to edit the style of individual letters of a word, one has to right-click the text-field to reveal the menu, then select "character level styling".
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There is nothing in the GUI or menus of the Text+ node to suggest that this feature is there. The way it gets discovered in the Davinci Resolve online YouTube community is that someone puts out a tutorial, and then it catches on, followed by several tutorials by others. Then it becomes widely known.
But for such hidden features, until that first one person puts out the initial tutorial, the feature remains hidden.
I'm guessing there must be numerous other hidden features that new-players are unaware even exist. For example, recently, I saw a tutorial that pointed out that there are "Ease In" and "Ease Out" fields in the Spline panel. But there is no indication that it is there. The tutorial told us that it requires pressing the T keystroke to cause these features to appear. There seems no indication that this feature existed.
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I am guessing there are numerous other features for which there are no GUI indication.
As a relatively new Davinci user, it took me some time to realise that certain words (but not all words) in panels could be right-clicked to reveal sub-menus. For instance, I never would have guessed that the text panel in the Text+ node could be right-clicked until someone pointed this out in a tutorial.
Hence, my suggestion is to adapt the GUI to indicate the existence of hidden features.
I realise one doesn't want to clutter the GUI. What about a dot beside things that can be right clicked? Maybe there could be a Preference item where people could turn on these visual indications, and then experienced users could turn these off to make the GUI less cluttered.