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One of Resolve's great strengths is a unified playhead, meaning whatever page you're on, the playhead is parked on the same frame.

(With one exception, which I'm still hoping will be corrected soon.)
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I would find it very useful if that also applied to the timeline In and Out points. Change them on one page, and they change on all pages.

Are there work flows that would be made more difficult were that true? Does it make more sense to have this as an option, rather than a global change?

If an option, would you prefer it at the project level, or a User preference for all projects? (I like the latter myself. I wouldn't change it once set.)

Opinions?

+1

I very much want this as well. If it's added as an option I would like to see it at the program preferences level so it applies to all projects unless turned off (which I would never do lol).

I'm ok with this being an option. I use separate in/out marks across pages regularly.

+1, but I agree that there should be an option to disable this behavior, because there’s probably a lot of legitimate edge cases when you wouldn’t want unified in/out points.


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+1

I think it'd be especially useful for the deliver page, but yes an option to turn it off would be a good thing.

So my thinking now is to have this as a Preference under User>Editing>General Settings, off by default so that current users aren't stymied by it.

Those of us who want it would manually turn it on.

I would want this as an option. I might be working on specific things in Fairlight with I/O points set up differently than someone working on the Edit or Deliver page. Could be useful in some cases, could be a pain in others.

Egad, I know I already +1'ed this, but after having to deal with the the nightmare of having to pick up the pieces from the failed overnight transcode queue I just posted about here, I finally realized just how annoying it can be to not have "unified" In/Out points between the Edit and Deliver page.

I was transcoding a 14 hour long timeline, and it bombed out about 1 hour into the transcode. So this morning when I went to resume the transcode, I figured out where it bombed out, then set new In/Out points in the Edit page (I needed to utilize the Edit Index to find the location of the errant clip), and re-rendered the job with "In/Out Range" selected in the Deliver Page.

Of course, this ended up with Resolve trying to render a whole different set of clips, because I had forgotten that the Deliver page uses its own In/Out points, independent of the Edit Page. Luckily I had stopped it before it tried re-rendering other previously rendered clips, but unfortunately the first clip it tried to render was a TEN-friggen-minute long drone clip, so I had to let it at least re-render that clip, which was a big time-waster.

So yeah, we really need to be able to have unified In/Out points between the pages, at least as a user preference.

+1

Pleeeeeeaaassse add this as an option

+1 but my preference is that three timeline editing pages just get merged instead of retaining an arbitrary separation between them. Of course this wouldn't apply to the Deliver page.

We got a little bit of this one in 17.

In/Out points set on the Edit or Cut pages are duplicated automatically on other pages, including Deliver.

Doesn't go the other way, though. Set them on Deliver and they don't change on Edit or Cut.

I like it.

Jim Simon wrote:We got a little bit of this one in 17.

In/Out points set on the Edit or Cut pages are duplicated automatically on other pages, including Deliver.

Doesn't go the other way, though. Set them on Deliver and they don't change on Edit or Cut.

I like it.

Yayyyyyy!

OUR LONG (INTER)NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS FINALLY OVER!

Jim,

You said you don't see the In/Out points reflecting back in the edit page for the same timeline if you set them in Deliver / Color. Is that correct? Can you give us a link to a project export where you can see this issue?

Thanks
Shrinivas

There's a bug at the moment though with Deliver where if I set in/out points in the Edit page, although it will look like this is being respected in the Deliver page, it will still render the whole timeline. To fix this I have to go back to the Edit page, re-set my in/out points, and try again (or of course just re set them in the Deliver page, but that defeats the point of unified in/out points). Anyone else seeing this?

Here you go Shrinivas.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b188t808u1ixt ... t.drp?dl=0

Changing the In/Out points on any page sees them updated on all other pages. The exception is changing them on the Deliver page, which changes them on no other pages.

I do get them on the edit page after setting it on the deliver page.

Is there a way to disable this?

franciscovaldez wrote:I do get them on the edit page after setting it on the deliver page.

Is there a way to disable this?

No. Are you saying that you don't want unified ins and outs at all, or that you only want them to carry across depending on what page you set them? The latter is never going to happen, the former would at least be possible via a user preference.

This might be a Windows issue, Francis.

Another oddity is that if I set In/Out points on Deliver, having moved to that page with none set at all, going to the Edit page sees the In/Out cleared, and moving back to Deliver sees them still cleared. The In/Out I just set are now gone.

Tom Early wrote:

franciscovaldez wrote:I do get them on the edit page after setting it on the deliver page.

Is there a way to disable this?

No. Are you saying that you don't want unified ins and outs at all, or that you only want them to carry across depending on what page you set them? The latter is never going to happen, the former would at least be possible via a user preference.

What I don't want is the in and outs of the deliver page to reflect back to the timelines... I tend to export a lot of fragments and don't want these to set new in and out points on my working timelines.

Will check on preferences.

There's still some odd behavior here in the Beta 2 (at least for Windows).

We actually got this feature in 17 ( ) but it doesn't always work, even in 17.1.1. Needs a fix.

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