Peter Chamberlain wrote:The playhead position selects the frame to view.
Imagine one clip on top of the other in the timeline. The top clip logically obscures the clip below unless it has some composite mode or key.
If u select the bottom clip in the edit page, and that was used for the selection in the color page you would be adjusting a clip you can’t see as it’s obscured by the clip above.
That’s one example why changing this isn’t trivial.
Could there be an option for changing it from the current behaviour (the default) to keeping the same clip highlighted when changing tabs? This would keep current users happy but allow more flexibility.
I often put an Adjustment Clip across the whole timeline that has a global look in it. I do this so I can have titles on top that aren't put through that adjustment (as they would be if I had that adjustment in the Timeline part of the node graph).
In terms of workflow, the fact that Resolve provides an integrated environment where you can jump back and forth through the pages as much as you like is great. My projects are much more visual than most, so I make editing decisions based on how good a clip looks in the colour page, and I make grading decisions based on the editing context of the clip, so it's an interactive thing.
I do not come from an industry background, so am one of the new generation of users who don't work in the same way as industry does and don't want to be restricted to the tradeoffs that industry has made. Resolve is already a very complicated piece of software, so my preference would be when there are different workflows that Resolve provides an option to choose the behaviour that works for you. I would imagine that we're not too far away from Resolve having an AI assistant that can help you understand it, so additional complexity or options isn't too much of an additional burden at this point, especially if you keep the current behaviour as the default.