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Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:14 pm
by Toussaint Brown
When I add a blank timeline to the workspace, even though my timelines are all numerical, the list does not show up in numerical order.

Can the list of timelines show up in chronological order according to alphabetical and/or numerical?

Version: DR 16.1.1

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:01 am
by Mel Matsuoka
This issue has been discussed many, many, many times in this forum.

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=97681

I'd suggest purchasing Igor's awesome timeline sorting utility, if you really need this feature.

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:51 am
by waltervolpatto
Keep hammering that bent nail to the grave!!!!

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:41 pm
by Jim Simon
Perhaps a Timeline Sort option in the Timeline Viewer menu, with options like Date Modified, Date Created, Alphabetical, etc.

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:49 pm
by Peter Cave
Jim Simon wrote:Perhaps a Timeline Sort option in the Timeline Viewer menu, with options like Date Modified, Date Created, Alphabetical, etc.


This is an excellent suggestion. +1

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:35 pm
by waltervolpatto
Peter Cave wrote:
Jim Simon wrote:Perhaps a Timeline Sort option in the Timeline Viewer menu, with options like Date Modified, Date Created, Alphabetical, etc.


This is an excellent suggestion. +1


I also would like to see the folder structure like the lut folder presentation.

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:35 pm
by Toussaint Brown
Mel Matsuoka wrote:This issue has been discussed many, many, many times in this forum.

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=97681

I'd suggest purchasing Igor's awesome timeline sorting utility, if you really need this feature.


Apologies, I was unaware of the thread.
But it seems to me that if its been discussed so many times perhaps it should just be implemented. Why should I have to purchase a script for something so basic when I've already purchased the studio version?

Not trying to debate. Just trying to find the logic. Thanks for your initial response.

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:43 pm
by Mel Matsuoka
Toussaint Brown wrote:it seems to me that if its been discussed so many times perhaps it should just be implemented. Why should I have to purchase a script for something so basic when I've already purchased the studio version?


I don't think anyone here, nor BMD engineering, would disagree with you.

That said, software development on a product with as much legacy cross-platform code as Resolve does isn't as simple as it may seem to most end-users. It's probably not a simple, quick "fix" to implement this, as doing so could have negative ramifications on other properly functioning parts of the software (referred to by developers as a "regression"), if not done carefully.

I'm sure if it was an easy fix, it would have been done long ago. But the fact that it still exists indicates to me that it's not as simple as one would think. BMD is most certainly aware of this complaint, so I doubt they are ignoring it.

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:36 pm
by waltervolpatto
Mel Matsuoka wrote:
Toussaint Brown wrote:it seems to me that if its been discussed so many times perhaps it should just be implemented. Why should I have to purchase a script for something so basic when I've already purchased the studio version?


I don't think anyone here, nor BMD engineering, would disagree with you.

That said, software development on a product with as much legacy cross-platform code as Resolve does isn't as simple as it may seem to most end-users. It's probably not a simple, quick "fix" to implement this, as doing so could have negative ramifications on other properly functioning parts of the software (referred to by developers as a "regression"), if not done carefully.

I'm sure if it was an easy fix, it would have been done long ago. But the fact that it still exists indicates to me that it's not as simple as one would think. BMD is most certainly aware of this complaint, so I doubt they are ignoring it.


I cannot agree, for the most part we are not asking to do 300 lines of code, but one. To make the current list for the timeline, you query the database, you get a list of n items and then you have two choices:

1) present the list as is, FIFO Style
2) do a simple ListOrder() (whatever the function is) and present the same number of element.

make a list at least alphabetically ordered will not break the code, and it a couple of lines at most.
the programmer can fit a million of lines of code for Fusion, they can fit a couple to tidy up the list...

The issue with (non) alphabetical ordered list is widespread in the software....
(alphabetical, alfanumerical, whatever order you want, but not just FIFO)

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:09 am
by Darius Family
No doubt this is probably more than just a quick fix and im sure every change goes through a long QA process.

But seriously, I think people would have preferred this kind of old school long asked for feature be implemented rather than the time they spent on the Boring Detector...

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:17 am
by kinvermark
+1. To keep your project orderly, you need to put things in... order. Bins, timelines, CLIPS! - another nudge for "user sort order" or even better, the equivalent of Adobe's "Freeform View" for clips in bins.

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 8:57 pm
by waltervolpatto
Darius Family wrote:No doubt this is probably more than just a quick fix and im sure every change goes through a long QA process.

But seriously, I think people would have preferred this kind of old school long asked for feature be implemented rather than the time they spent on the Boring Detector...


Wholeheartedly agreed!

Re: Timeline list Order

PostPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 5:52 am
by Josef Pöllmann
This is an excellent suggestion. +1 :)