Color Tab – Playhead Jump

When clip is selected in Color Correction tab, playhead jumps to the first frame of that clip. Really annoying, especially when you have overlapping clips. Please disable that feature or make an option for it.

Thanks!

I prefer the current behavior, which operates in the following priority:

1. Start at "Automatically cue" point.

2. Start at end of transition.

3. Start at beginning of clip.

If you're simply trying to compare two clips, there are tools for that which obviate this type of change.

Maybe I don't understand something.

Two examples:

1. I have a clip with a fade-in. I click on the clip to color correct it and playhead jumps to the first frame with 0 opacity. I can't see anything because it's transparent at that frame, now I need to scroll to the right manually.
2. I have 100 clip sequence on track #1 and one long adjustment clip on track #2. I click on the 99th clip, make color correction and then want to check settings on the long adjustment clip. Playhead jumps to the 00:00:00. Now I have to scroll far far to the right.

What am I doing wrong?

Maybe I don't understand something.
1. I have a clip with a fade-in. I click on the clip to color correct it and playhead jumps to the first frame with 0 opacity. I can't see anything because it's transparent at that frame, now I need to scroll to the right manually.

Turn on Unmix. It's the button to the left of the mute toggle.

Maybe I don't understand something.

Two examples:

1. I have a clip with a fade-in. I click on the clip to color correct it and playhead jumps to the first frame with 0 opacity. I can't see anything because it's transparent at that frame, now I need to scroll to the right manually.
2. I have 100 clip sequence on track #1 and one long adjustment clip on track #2. I click on the 99th clip, make color correction and then want to check settings on the long adjustment clip. Playhead jumps to the 00:00:00. Now I have to scroll far far to the right.

What am I doing wrong?

That’s normal.
You can tell the machine to jump x frames into it in the next clip via settings. If you choose a big number (is 9999) it will jump automatically in the middle frame.

If you do the dissolve [cut at end] instead of cut at beginning, you will jump at the first clear frame. I always go tru my timeline and switch all the dissolves to cut at end for this very reason.

This behavior seems pretty user unfriendly to me. I'm animating the color in a clip and want to do operations right at the end, but if I accidentally move one frame off the end I can only get back to the end of the clip I want to edit by first selecting the clip, which jumps to the start, then scroll all the way to the end. Certainly lots of edits happen at the start of a clip, but they also are very common at the end.

Why not just let the user select a clip and keep it selected no matter where the playhead is?

Absolutely agree!

Especially when adding some keyframes in the colorpage I often need those on different clips also and at the same position. The way I do it now is to remember the exact position of the timeline (timecode), selecting another clip, the playhead jumps to the start of that clip ( ) and then moving the playhead to the remembered position.

Is there any way that the playhead just stays exactly where it is when selecting another clip on a different track at the same position in the color page?

Agreed. This behavior is frustrating.

I'm having the same issue with this feature. Did somebody found some workaround for this?

This little quirk would be SO easy to solve and causes SO much trouble that I would trade of a fancy AI tool like relight for it. I'm dreading color grading my first feature-length. Please Blackmagic, tweak your code just a little to keep the playhead and selected clip the same. Same for Fusion...Everytime I switch the page I have to hunt and try and find the compostion I was working on

This little quirk would be SO easy to solve and causes SO much trouble that I would trade of a fancy AI tool like relight for it. I'm dreading color grading my first feature-length.

I've done about 250 feature film projects in Resolve over the last 15 years. Somehow I got through it. If I can... you can, too. It's not that hard to figure this out. To me, there are far more important feature requests for them to work on.

Marc, I respect you a lot and your contributions to the community, esp the FB one but I'm going to have to hard disagree here. I have a neurological condition, and I don't use the term lightly, that makes it very hard to keep concentrated with these constant position jumps. What I'm requesting here is barely even a feature, it's more just the ability to disable a very disruptive behavior...The uncalled for jumping around.

And I would not use the fact that you've worked around this illogical behavior for years a good argument against it...People have managed to edit entire feature lengths in Premiere, which is full of mind-warping bugs and quirks. Just because you're used to something doesn't mean it's the optimized way. That's Adobe's mindset.

Another thing is that I don't just grade, I edit & shoot too. Since I don't have the luxury of knowing if my footage is always usable, I'm constantly jumping between the Edit & Color pages. And, as one other poster pointed out, keyframing when you've found a spot on the Edit Page, is very frustrating.

Why not keep an open mind to suggestions that make life easier for everyone, because our brains are all different? Who knows...maybe if the feature gets implemented you might like it too!

Totally agree with you about wanting to at least be able to turn off this behavior.

We users have no power to get BMD to change things. Many things - including this - have been requested for years.

So what to do? Many of the long-time users like Mark just accept the inconvenient behavior because they’re not going to another platform.

I think there’s a bit of Stockholm Syndrome on this forum. I think that’s where the old timers who have bent their workflow get a little miffed when newer people come in and are amazed with the many missing features in the UI. It’s almost a hazing.

But again - BMD will do what they will do. It’s become pretty clear that they’re unlikely to address this one anytime soon. Oh well. I agree with the request and understand it will probably not happen.