Keyframes - The hardest thing to adapt to coming from Adobe

We're in dire need of Edit Page Keyframes 2.0. By far, the roughest thing to adapt to when coming to Resolve from an Adobe workflow is the Edit page's overall keyframe workflow. Adobe's basic concept is a powerful, easy-to-use, and more importantly FAST TO USE keyframe system that works on every attribute.

Once you know it, you feel like you can quickly do just about anything. Resolve's keyframing is functional for the most part, but it feels pretty clunky, and the easing control is very, very limited. Not to mention being able to only view one type of keyframe.

Before you say it, yes, I KNOW you can do anything that you can dream of in Fusion. I'm just pointing out the biggest difference in the editing experience. This is ESPECIALLY relevant to everyone that works in online video, and greatly benefits from being able to do keyframing quickly.

This is, by far, the biggest hurdle I face in recommending Resolve to other fellow online video editors.

I think this is a fair (a frequent) comment.

+1 This is def one of the big weaknesses of Davinci.

+1 !!!

Thank you! Always glad/relieved (and a wee bit hopeful again) whenever this is brought up. My work consists entirely of 1-3-hour long 8K multicam recordings from which I do camera movements in post (classical music). For such applications, Fusion simply will not do. Not for the foreseeable future (believe me, I have tried). By necessity, I’ve become quite the master with the available Edit keyframe functionality.

The dream, of course, would be for the developers to apply just a tiny bit of their “magic” to reimagine this perhaps unsexy, yet essential tool. (I would have plenty of ideas…)

In any case, I would already be thankful (beyond description) to at least receive a SHIFT function for Bezier handles to be able to move on a single axis.

PS: while I’m dreaming: separate keyframes for X and Y positions

+1 It is the biggest weakness of Resolve unfortunately.
I get the shakes every time I think about doing anything that requires keyframes.

+1

Bumping to give others a chance to see this. My apologies if thread bumping isn't allowed here.

On the contrary, the more this really basic and important shortcoming gets mentioned the better!

Two wonderful plugins were just released, MrAlexTech's "MagicAnimateV2" and MotionVFX's "mCamRig", both of which I had high hopes in. Unfortunately, both do rely on Fusion to do their magic, bringing us back to that one remaining sphere I wish/hope/pray Blackmagic could somehow solve the grave performance issue for.

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