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- Real Name: Westley Hennigh-Palermo
I realize it is presumptuous to call this a bug, but I have been dealing with it for several months now and the behavior is inconsistent enough that I really think it is.
The issue / how to reproduce:
- Open up Davinci Resolve and navigate to either the "Cut" or "Edit" tabs
- Select a clip, mark and in and out, and then "Mark" -> "Convert In and Out to Duration Marker".
- Make sure you are using the "List View" so that you can see your clip and the marker, probably called "Marker 1"
- Click on the marker and then "Mark" -> "Modify Marker"
- A little popup should appear where you can set the marker name, give it a color, and add other metadata.
If the popup appears for you, great! Long ago, in happier times, it did for me as well. What happens for me now is:
- Usually nothing. After clicking "Mark" -> "Modify Marker" nothing appears and I can't edit the marker in any way that I can find (keyboard shortcuts, etc, don't work either.
- *Sometimes* it won't work on one tab but will work on the other. So if it's not working in "Cut" sometimes it will work inside "Edit". This is truly maddening.
- Regardless of whether clicking "Mark" -> "Modify Marker" works, assigning a keyboard shortcut for that option never works (long ago it did, I had a keyboard shortcut I used for this so that I could quickly mark up clips and add metadata, it was great).
What I've tried:
- I spent longer than I care to admit narrowing this problem down, thinking maybe it was an issue with my keyboard preferences or something. But the issue persists if I ignore all keyboard settings and simply select "Mark" -> "Modify Marker" from the top menu.
- I have removed all davinci files that I can find (quite laboriously, but that's a complaint for another post) and reinstalled Davinci Resolve from scratch.
- I have tried this with both Davinci Resolve 17 and now the new Davinci Resolve 18 Beta 2
- I have just tried to identify the issue by looking at the diagnostic reports, but I don't see any relevant information in them. It's also extremely tedious to use these reports, it seems like the only way to narrow down what you're looking at is to generate one, take the action your interested in inside davinci resolve, then generate another and painstakingly diff some of the files generated. I assume the developers must have a better way, I wish they would make it possible for everyone...
Attached is a copy of my most recent diagnostic report. This is from a reinstall of davinci resolve 18 today, I have re-imported and upgraded an old database, then selected a marker and tried to "Mark" -> "Modify Marker" several times. If I remember correctly it worked once or twice when I first opened the application after the reinstall, but it quickly stopped.
Any help or debugging tips would be immensely helpful, THANK YOU FOR READING ALL THIS
The issue / how to reproduce:
- Open up Davinci Resolve and navigate to either the "Cut" or "Edit" tabs
- Select a clip, mark and in and out, and then "Mark" -> "Convert In and Out to Duration Marker".
- Make sure you are using the "List View" so that you can see your clip and the marker, probably called "Marker 1"
- Click on the marker and then "Mark" -> "Modify Marker"
- A little popup should appear where you can set the marker name, give it a color, and add other metadata.
If the popup appears for you, great! Long ago, in happier times, it did for me as well. What happens for me now is:
- Usually nothing. After clicking "Mark" -> "Modify Marker" nothing appears and I can't edit the marker in any way that I can find (keyboard shortcuts, etc, don't work either.
- *Sometimes* it won't work on one tab but will work on the other. So if it's not working in "Cut" sometimes it will work inside "Edit". This is truly maddening.
- Regardless of whether clicking "Mark" -> "Modify Marker" works, assigning a keyboard shortcut for that option never works (long ago it did, I had a keyboard shortcut I used for this so that I could quickly mark up clips and add metadata, it was great).
What I've tried:
- I spent longer than I care to admit narrowing this problem down, thinking maybe it was an issue with my keyboard preferences or something. But the issue persists if I ignore all keyboard settings and simply select "Mark" -> "Modify Marker" from the top menu.
- I have removed all davinci files that I can find (quite laboriously, but that's a complaint for another post) and reinstalled Davinci Resolve from scratch.
- I have tried this with both Davinci Resolve 17 and now the new Davinci Resolve 18 Beta 2
- I have just tried to identify the issue by looking at the diagnostic reports, but I don't see any relevant information in them. It's also extremely tedious to use these reports, it seems like the only way to narrow down what you're looking at is to generate one, take the action your interested in inside davinci resolve, then generate another and painstakingly diff some of the files generated. I assume the developers must have a better way, I wish they would make it possible for everyone...
Attached is a copy of my most recent diagnostic report. This is from a reinstall of davinci resolve 18 today, I have re-imported and upgraded an old database, then selected a marker and tried to "Mark" -> "Modify Marker" several times. If I remember correctly it worked once or twice when I first opened the application after the reinstall, but it quickly stopped.
Any help or debugging tips would be immensely helpful, THANK YOU FOR READING ALL THIS
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