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When closing a tab that was opened with a "Open in timeline" (compound clip for example), I would like to get back to where the timeline that contain the compound that was just closed.

Enable the tabs feature in the timeline options. On my phone now so can’t get a screenshot but top left of the timeline panel, there’s some display options. One of them shows timelines as tabs. Then when you open a compound or multicam or whatever, it just opens as a new tab, so when you close it, you’re back where you started.


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I'm talking about tabs already, so I'm obviously using them
I have 12 tabs, "Open in timeline" will open one at the right of all the tabs, closing it will focus then on the last one, which is very often not the one from which the compound clip was opened.

I would like to see new tabs being opened (from a timeline) in a tab next to it.
Exactly like Internet Browsers do.

(It obviously a FR for when there are 2+ tabs)

ah, sorry missed the "tabs" in your first mention.

In the meantime, you can kind of re-create this behaviour by combining some hotkey functions. In the Timeline Viewer, we have functions called Next Clip / Timeline and Previous Clip / Timeline. These cycle through the history of timelines / clips that have been opened in either the Timeline Viewer or Source Viewer, depending on which is active.

So if you map a hotkey to Workspace > Active Panel Selection > Timeline Viewer, and then map a hotkey to Next Clip / Timeline. You'll be able to press both of those hotkeys in succession and go back to your previously opened timeline.

If you use a macro tool, you can map both of those hotkey presses to a single hotkey of your choosing, which will make this even easier. I personally use Keyboard Maestro for MacOs, but there's also AutoHotkey for Windows. Keyboard Maestro has been a game changer for me. It opens up a lot of subtle functionality like this that isn't currently in DaVinci Resolve.

This is a good idea.

+1 - I think this would be especially useful in Dolby Vision projects.