After trying DaVinci Resolve 16 Public Beta for a multimedia video editing project, I've identified a few things that slowed down my workflow in the spline editor in the Fusion tab. It would be nice to see adjustments to the spline editor included in DaVinci Resolve 17 as I think it would improve the workflow and ease-of-use a lot.I'm new to this forum so apologies if this is posted in the wrong section.
Currently there is no keyboard shortcut to change the horizontal/vertical zoom individually in the spline editor's timeline in the Fusion tab. You can change the zoom simultaneously on both axes by holding CTRL and using the mouse wheel, but there is no shortcut for changing the zoom on either the horizontal or vertical axis separately. Having this would speed up the spline editing workflow, because you could use the keyboard to adjust the zoom in steps instead of having to click and drag the sliders to adjust the zoom.
Being able to jump the playhead to a certain position by clicking on the top of the timeline in the spline editor would be handy. Sometimes I want to move the playhead to a specific point without having to shift my timeline view to drag it over. Clicking the top of the timeline on the horizontal axis (which is used to measure the time or frame count) is an intuitive way to adjust the position of the playhead. I cannot find a way to do this.
Currently, the top of the timeline is used to adjust the horizontal zoom via clicking and dragging the mouse. This seems redundant due to there already being individual sliders for the horizontal/vertical zoom at the top of the Spline Editor window. If this functionality had to be kept, it could be moved to a hold Alt shortcut, while simply clicking the top of the timeline would make the playhead jump to the clicked point due to being more useful in terms of workflow priority.
Being able to stop the timeline view from following the playhead would be useful in my opinion. Sometimes when working on a specific set of keyframes, you want to play the sequence back once or twice to get an idea for what the timing is like. When the timeline view drags along to follow the playhead, it can be irritating because you now have to set the timeline view back to where your keyframes originally were.
Following on from that last one, being able to restrict the playback of the timeline in the Spline editor to the current view would be useful too. It would be a lot easier to review a specific sequence of keyframes if it snapped back to the starting position as soon as it reaches the end of the view.
Being able to click and drag the keyframe value box similarly to the other value boxes in the program would be useful. Currently, clicking and dragging on it in any way just enters text editing for the box.
This is the one I'm talking about: