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I previously worked for almost 20 years at a commercial TV station where I produced commercials. I've been using Resolve for only 5 months or so at this new job, and some of the functionality I used often isn't leaping off the screen at me.

Question 1) The "Inspector" doesn't tell me the duration of a clip (seems to me an oversight on someone's part) - specifically, a title. How can I know how long it is, other than by marking in and out points?

Question 2) Mac Sonoma font management. Yeah, not a 100% Resolve query. I'm sorry about that. But still, there are over 350 "installed" fonts that Sonoma will *not* allow me to delete/remove/hide, and Resolve dutifully makes me scroll thru all of 'em to find one or two useful fonts. How do you all deal with putting together and using *your* fonts?

I appreciate you. Thanks for taking the time.
Dan

You can see the clip length in the Edit Index under Record Duration. Apart from titles you can also see the Source duration before it's added to the timeline. My examples show a title both in single screen and dual screen modes. The title length is shown as 4secs 36frames as this is a 50fps timeline.

Nicely explained for me!

Thank you, Charles.

Dan

Clip duration is shown in the Metadata Panel.

Font management in Mac OSX Sonoma is unchanged from previous versions. You can add/delete and group fonts. I don't know why you can't delete fonts.

Thanks for that metadata gem, Peter.

I can appreciate that for dyed-in-the-wool Mac users, it's font-business as usual. But as a Windoze guy I have no idea how it was before Sonoma. I only know that googling "Mac Sonoma font management" leads one eventually to a rather long and detailed page authored by Kurt Long and dated January of this year. That page is at w w w . jkstudios . com for the curious.

Mr. Long begins with a disclaimer (dated January 2024) that essentially says that whatever he has already shared about Apple font management tricks has recently been made moot by Apple. If Apple put the font there, it's Hammer time. Can't touch that! Testing his assertions, I discovered that in no way can I delete or hide any font Apple has installed - even if I've previously told my Mac Studio that I don't speak that language!

And that led me to my query here: with 360 odd fonts on my system (and presumably on other Macs, too) how do Resolve users deal with making titles if they have to run thru hundreds of fonts. Is there a font-wrangling utility that Resolve likes? Can I put "fonts to use with Resolve" in a secret folder and tell Resolve to *only* get fonts in that folder?

I appreciate your input.
Dan

I stayed on Monterey and Ventura and can delete fonts to my hearts delight.
I erased Sonoma after playing with it for a few hours. Maybe someone else can chime in with a solution.
BTW, 19 still seems to work well under Monterey, even if it is not being tested by BM. Seems to have no other bugs than those reported under later systems.
Since you've got a M2, you should still be able to run Ventura.

Uli Plank wrote:I stayed on Monterey and Ventura and can delete fonts to my hearts delight. I erased Sonoma after playing with it for a few hours.

Yeah, Sonoma scares the crap outta me. I get very paranoid when Apple starts seizing control of my computer and preventing me from accessing my own drives, my own fonts, and a bunch of other stuff. I'm waiting for Sonoma to settle down before we switch over from 13.3.

Wow. Uli & Marc, those are *very* interesting comments. You pretty much echo my feelings. "MY machine. I do what *I* want with it. You do NOT get to tell me what I cannot do."

Honestly, this isn't the first time I've heard this sort of thing from peeps in the Apple camp. We have a 40 foot video wall and the folks that make a nice and flexible video presentation controller have assured us that downgrading the OS on the machine that runs their software would be beneficial to us.

But, we're going off into the weeds a bit and that wasn't my intent.

Font management. Mac Sonoma. How do I? Or even can I?

Dan