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Tom Early wrote:

Vit Reiter wrote:Dear BM team, can you make the Plain mode in Video View Options, which minimizes all track height and displays each clip as a solid color along its length without animation of timeline, please?

Please don't. If this is to become an option the it should be an option for all viewing modes not just one, and neither would I want a particular clip viewing option to be forced without animation.

Vit Reiter wrote:

Tom Early wrote:

Vit Reiter wrote:Dear BM team, can you make the Plain mode in Video View Options, which minimizes all track height and displays each clip as a solid color along its length without animation of timeline, please?

Please don't. If this is to become an option the it should be an option for all viewing modes not just one, and neither would I want a particular clip viewing option to be forced without animation.

Animations for users who love thumbnails in the timeline, no animations for users who use DaVinci for work. That's fair, isn't it?

Vit Reiter wrote:Dear BM team, can you make the Plain mode in Video View Options, which minimizes all track height and displays each clip as a solid color along its length without animation of timeline, please
Animations for users who love thumbnails in the timeline, no animations for users who use DaVinci for work. That's fair, isn't it?

Tom Early wrote:And what about those who use Resolve for work but want thumbnails? Let's not pointlessly restrict things, animations are an entirely separate thing to clip view or track view settings.

Vit Reiter wrote:

Vit Reiter wrote:Dear BM team, can you make the Plain mode in Video View Options, which minimizes all track height and displays each clip as a solid color along its length without animation of timeline, please
Animations for users who love thumbnails in the timeline, no animations for users who use DaVinci for work. That's fair, isn't it?

Tom Early wrote:And what about those who use Resolve for work but want thumbnails? Let's not pointlessly restrict things, animations are an entirely separate thing to clip view or track view settings.

I can imagine that it would not be bad.

brediknight wrote:Just like Apple allows one to turn off "Motion".

Tom Early wrote:

brediknight wrote:Just like Apple allows one to turn off "Motion".

What do you mean?

atmosfar wrote:Something that tripped me up recently is the UI animation for yanking in/out sections. The waveform of the affected audio track to the left of the playhead visibly moves, in a way that made me fear I was deleting something else entirely.



The flying keyframe/spline icons are very distracting too.

atmosfar wrote:Something that tripped me up recently is the UI animation for yanking in/out sections. The waveform of the affected audio track to the left of the playhead visibly moves, in a way that made me fear I was deleting something else entirely.



The flying keyframe/spline icons are very distracting too.

brediknight wrote:

atmosfar wrote:Something that tripped me up recently is the UI animation for yanking in/out sections. The waveform of the affected audio track to the left of the playhead visibly moves, in a way that made me fear I was deleting something else entirely.

Rick van den Berg wrote:this is for me also very distracting. it's practically showing that something goes wrong.