UI layout changes

Is this a joke? Are you trying to get people to quit using your software?

No, seriously, what are you guys thinking. The color page layout in single or dual screen mode is awful. It's 2025 and we still can't modify the interface ourselves. You can make whatever excuse you want for that lack of flexibility but it's bs, get good son.

Default UI layout, 30 inches for nodes and 2 inches for your source you're trying to grade. DURRRHURRRRRRRR.... ok, now... FIX IT

Thought about it some more... it's just awful all the way around. I won't use it. If this is what it is moving forward, I'm out.

Thought about it some more... it's just awful all the way around. I won't use it. If this is what it is moving forward, I'm out.

Are You Complaining From [Color] Page Only ? Or You Have Another Notes 4 Pages Like [Edit] o|r [Fusion] ?

“Don’t let the door hit you on your way out” cit.

“Don’t let the door hit you on your way out” cit.

I don't think he's really leaving. People going off on psychotic rants rarely follow through.

Is this a joke? Are you trying to get people to quit using your software? No, seriously, what are you guys thinking. The color page layout in single or dual screen mode is awful. It's 2025 and we still can't modify the interface ourselves. You can make whatever excuse you want for that lack of flexibility but it's bs, get good son. Default UI layout, 30 inches for nodes and 2 inches for your source you're trying to grade.

As far as I know, more shows and films worldwide are being color-corrected in Resolve than any other software, by far. You have to wonder what those users know that you don't know.

One thing I'd suggest is: don't try to color-correct anything in the actual Resolve UI. Get a Blackmagic display adapter and a large separate calibrated monitor and color on that instead. Read page 2870 of the Resolve 19 manual, "Limitations When Grading With the Viewer on a Computer Display." This explains why it's unwise to try to use a computer display for final color correction. The same problem also exists with the "Clean Feed" output, since it's not color managed.

I think there's a lot that can be done with a 2-display setup provide you expand or contract the parts of the UI that you need. One thing that works for me is to stick with about a 2550x1440 resolution, and -- for me -- that's about the right size where the on-screen graphics are just about the right size. But even with a 1-display setup, it looks fine to me on a stock Apple MacBook Pro laptop. It all can work if you just settle down and learn to change what you can change, and then accept what you can't. Fighting the interface is just a waste of time.

Not seeing 30inches for nodes here in either horizontal or vertical modes.

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I also have a third calibrated monitor showing Video Clean Feed, which is fine as I'm not doing any client work, just my own videos.

Continued.

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Yah, also not loving this layout. Why can I not close the node window?? This pic shows the smallest I can make it in dual screen mode. You absolutely don't need your nodes visible all the time, especially not at that size, but at least give me the option to turn the window off, or better yet, finally let us choose how we want to layout our own windows!

And on my 16" MacBook Pro...

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You can make whatever excuse you want for that lack of flexibility but it's bs

I actually find Resolve's less flexible GUI superior to what Adobe and Avid use.

I didn't when I first switched from Adobe, but after learning and using Resolve...definitely better.