Grids and guides in the viewer

+1 Very useful and needed feature!

+1 Very useful and needed feature!

Yep, almost 2 years for a basic function on a tool used to edit "images"

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+1

Grid and guideline features with snap function is much needed.

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An absolute necessity

Just adding my vote to have this in as well.

Thought I was an idiot for not finding where to enable this, now I know why it was so difficult to find.

+1 some smart snapping like in Photoshop would be really useful!

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I looked for this feature for a while before realizing it simply isn’t there.

Grids with snapping are so useful for graphics.

+1 !

Gruß, Andreas

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+1 here

Plus I would like to have a ruler tool: when active I can click to insert two virtual points connected by a line, showing me the coordinate's distance in pixels and angle. The angle value should get stored into the copy buffer so I can insert it into the clip rotation angle value box for leveling the horizon of an image.
That's something you have been able to do in Photoshop for 25 years.

+1 here

Plus I would like to have a ruler tool: when active I can click to insert two virtual points connected by a line, showing me the coordinate's distance in pixels and angle. The angle value should get stored into the copy buffer so I can insert it into the clip rotation angle value box for leveling the horizon of an image.
That's something you have been able to do in Photoshop for 25 years.

Yes.. that!

+1 here

Plus I would like to have a ruler tool: when active I can click to insert two virtual points connected by a line, showing me the coordinate's distance in pixels and angle. The angle value should get stored into the copy buffer so I can insert it into the clip rotation angle value box for leveling the horizon of an image.
That's something you have been able to do in Photoshop for 25 years.

I would add alignment, top, center, bottom, and left, center, right as well..

Grids + Guides + Plus Rulers in the Fusion Page would be a very needed tool - and the ability to snap to them.

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Yes, I was really surprised to find out Resolve has no rulers and guide lines too. These are such basic tools every editor should always have. Why is it not there? +1!

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+100 here. My workaround is to go to View > Safe Area > On (for all lines). Then go to View > Select Aspect Ratio > 1.33. It gives a box that can almost be used as a guide:

Its been 3 years asking for this feature but seems like that development team doesn't think grids as an essential feature for alignment.

18.5 released 2 days ago still doesn't have this implemented.

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My actual workaround is an OFX Grid effect on a timeline node at 35% opacity. I just des/activate it when needed.
If you have a streamdeck or alike, you can set a macro.

Still, a real Grid and (magnetic) rulers would just be nice.

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This would be really, really useful.

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Guess what? free video editor like Capcut I requested the grid feature & they gave me something to begin with & have promised to implement my suggestion for full grid with snapping & ruler feature soon.

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As of now many cheaper & free video editor has better snapping & grid overlay but Resolve team thinks that current "work around" are good enough.

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I have a working solution.
Using the edit page Smart Reframe tool in inspector.
Select reference point provides a resizable, movable box that can be used as a toggled reference point to adjust frame rotation, and eyelines.
The trick is to never hit the Reframe button.


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Is BM listening to us? I don't think so. This simple request is for MORE THAN 3 YEARS and sitll not in the software. That is so sad BM..

Is BM listening to us? I don't think so. This simple request is for MORE THAN 3 YEARS and sitll not in the software. That is so sad BM..

Time is not an indication, there are plenty of requests that are a decade older and they were never addressed...

but we got the "boring detector"!!!!

Happy 2024 everyone, looks like we still don't have this very basic functionality.

Happy 2024 everyone, looks like we still don't have this very basic functionality.

2028 is around the corner

Happy 2024 everyone, looks like we still don't have this very basic functionality.

After the [boring detector] the new and improved [EXCITING detector] will be introduced before any other meaningful functionality!!!

(Sarcasm…)

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I think BM needs to send their developers to edit houses for three months to be assistant editors. Make them have to do the repetitive grunt work for a while. You'd see alignment and grid after having to redo titles four or five times because they weren't correctly spaced. Let an art director stand over their back telling them to move it to the right five pixels because it's not centered.

+1 for a basic grid display, especially with shortcut key to toggle on and off.. I too have used the adjustment layer workaround, but it’s clunky and prone to accidental rendering as others have said. This seems super simple but I can’t code so what do I know.

Jeremy, can you describe what you consider to be a 'basic grid display'? How many grids, what kind of configuration etc?

I have a working solution.
Using the edit page Smart Reframe tool in inspector.
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In my opinion the solution with "Adjustment clip" + "Grid" effect is much better. I can define it for the entire timeline at once and can define it exactly.

The smart reframe tool I can only position roughly in the window and don't even have any indication of exactly where the corner points are.

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I used to be a Lightwave user way back when, and man I'm getting de ja vu. The way that BM don't listen to their users crying out for basic tools and instead coming up with shiny irrelevant toys is exactly how Newtek went down the gurgler with Lightwave.
They even use the same ancient forum software, like it's 2003.

Jeremy, can you describe what you consider to be a 'basic grid display'? How many grids, what kind of configuration etc?

Just... something. Center points, thirds, title safe (I guess that's still a thing) etc. Customization would be nice but that goes beyond "basic." Avid's is pretty basic and that's what I'm used to. Snapping would be great too but, again, beyond basic. I just wish that like other software there was a way to toggle it on/off in the display without actually having to do anything in the timeline like creating adjustment layers.

Jeremy, if you're just looking for center points and title safe without customization, have you ever tried the already builtin guides? Just move your mouse in the viewport and press CTRL+G and you get those.
As for the other ones, I'm thinking of a way of doing these, but I'm not sure yet if that would have to be a modified transform tool or what shape I'd like a tool like that to have.

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+1000!

Ideally they'd be similar to Premiere / After Effects with rulers and guides and ability to snap to them.

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+1 And mirror the cropping on both sides with control keys.

What does mirrorring the crop mean?

After the [boring detector] the new and improved [EXCITING detector] will be introduced before any other meaningful functionality!!!
(Sarcasm…)

Let say that the Boring Detector is strange, because being boring is very subjective depending the film, the idea behind it and the way the editor/director want their result. Being boring is not a technical thing, it's a human thing.
So maybe it's not the most useful attribute to put inside a technical object as Resolve.

I digress now...
But some can say that most films made today are boring due to unecessary slow paced editing and serious actors with a straight boring face. Jeeze, when we watch cinema from 50's to 80's, it was so much more alive and engaging.

When I discovered «Daybreak» (1939, Marcel Carné with Jean Gabin, a masterpiece), I was stunned how intense it is from the start without effects (just watch the 10 first minutes), without words, with a precise editing not too fast not too slow. Just beauty, guts and feelings. Some old black&white films are way faster than modern cinema.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031514/reference/

Let say that the Boring Detector is strange, because being boring is very subjective depending the film, the idea behind it and the way the editor/director want their result. Being boring is not a technical thing, it's a human thing.
So maybe it's not the most useful attribute to put inside a technical object as Resolve.

Conversely, the said function is entirely technical and arguably more useful than many other features in Resolve, depending on who you are and what you cut... the name given to the function (the 'Boring Detector' ) was perhaps a bit shortsighted though, as is/was restricting its use to the cut page.

+1 to guides and grids in the viewer (regardless of page)

+1 for sure!