Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:16 pm
Hello all,
After 12 years on Premiere, I jumped ship this week... and am really impressed with Resolve and the energy behind the development team; not only in volume of changes and fixes, but also in the choices made.
Here are 21 things I would love to see in Resolve: (EDITED)
1. Editing directly from the bin without needing the mouse. When you navigate to a clip the bin using the keyboard and you press Space bar or JKL, I'd want that clip to play immediately on the Source viewer rather than having to load it to the source viewer first. It would make possible compiling a sequence directly from the bin without using the mouse to try to scrub to find IO points or having to go between SV and bin constantly. Using the mouse to scrub to find IO points can be crude and innefectual if the clip is much longer than 10 seconds, as it becomes impossible to find accurate IO points for a two second cutaway when the playhead is jumping many seconds with each nudge. Related to this issue:
2. scrub picons in bin, if the bin clip is long, scrubbing to find IO points is much too crude. It would be good to have a delimiter like CTRL or ALT which will 5x or 10x slow scrubbing.
3. Inspector needs keyframe easing for position - it's next to impossible to accurately match the rate of scaling, for example, if you are zooming from full screen to a picture in picture (this is a popular one it seems)
4. Dynamic help in the keyboard shortcuts panel - sometimes one needs an explanation of what commands are, for example (this is another feature request, ableit small!) The command "overwrite ripple" ordinarily would make no sense, as an Overwrite in some ways is the opposite of a Ripple, I think this feature should be renamed "replace ripple".
5. A clean and easy way to save an Inspector Transform/Crop/Dynamic Zoom etc as a preset which can be easily applied to another clip and in another project at a later stage.
[6. Edit Point Type - command works fine though must be set to Edit, not Global in keyboard mapping.]
7. improve file compatibility, cannot import .ts files and not .bmp for example.
8. Keyboard shortcut to toggle Auto Select for all tracks.
9. FIXED b.7 !!! match frame should match with whichever timeline clip is selected OR the highest clip that is visible...
10. When you delete or ripple cut a selection on timeline, the CTI should be at the cut point, not in the middle of nowhere. This is particularly disruptive when you are working with another editor's work and are not so familiar with it, and if you are cutting and pasting sections, you can eaily loose where you are as the cursor is left "stranded" afer you cut.
11. Indicator to show which PARTS of a clip have already been used in the current time line. IMO I don't think the way Premiere handles this is very good, ie a list on a pull down menu. It would be much more helpful when scrubbing through your cutaway clips, you'd instantly and constantly know if that particular FRAME has been used before. Perhaps a coloured dot on the image in the source viewer to indicate it's prior use, and maybe if you click on that dot you get a pull down of the instances in that sequence and clicking on the instance takes you there.
12. keyboard command to mark IO points at head and tail of a group of selected clips. This would save a lot of steps navigating to the out point of the last clip and pressing Out, navigating to the head of the first clip and pressing In is much slower than marquee selecting a bunch of clips and pressing a single key.
[13. Four point edit exists]
14. keyboard shortcut to bring up keyboard shortcut panel.
15. ability to use Resolve's interface while the keyboard shortcut panel is visible, so you can try it out to see if it works as you thought without having to open and close dozens of times as you customise the commands.
16. I love the way match frame works, if timeline is active, matchframe finds source, if source viewer is selected match is found in the sequence. Please add this kind of intuitive keyboard shortcuts to things like repeated pressing of T (or whatever is assigned) to toggle edit modes, or Shift-J or Shift-L to gradually increase/decrease as you repeatedly press the J or L.
17. Ripple Cut should end with the cursor being at the cut point. At present it is left at the same place on the timeline which is rather useless as it could be dozens of clips beyond the point you edited... so you'd be in the middle of nowhere, no reason to be there!
18. Shift and Alt scroll mouse wheel is in use to good effect, please add CTRL-scroll to horizontally scroll the timeline.
19. with long clips in the source viewer, you cannot see IO points as different points... there should be a way to zoom in ? maybe shift or CTRL-scroll in the source viewer?
20. More than one keyboard command possible with one command. For example, I use ; to lift (delete) and # to extract (ripple delete) but it would be great if I could keep the Delete and Backspace keys to do the same thing as I often press them out of habit too.
21. Delete key to delete a transition you have selected on a timeline. Currently you have to RH mouse click to remove it, it seems.
Thanks BM, great job!
Mark.
Last edited by
markpalmos on Fri Jul 27, 2018 1:33 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Moved from Premiere to Resolve 21 July 2018 Studio 16.2.0.054 or latest.
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