Yeah, it works the same for Resolve and Premiere
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Interesting. Good to know. I was not able to find out to do that simple thing, so I just dropped it. All I found was this complex trim tool. Didnât really like how it worked compared to what I am used to.
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Takes 10 seconds.
And cutting and editing is fast in Resolve. But it is handy to know about some shortcuts.
For example, use [i] and [o] to set cut points, then delete or backspace for a ripple delete or a regular delete leaving a gap.
a quick [i]-[o]-[delete] creates a cut.
The one thing that addled my brain the very first time I tried to work with Resolve: unless you click IN the timeline setting in and out points for editing the timeline will not work. It will only delete clips.
So: set in [i] and out [o] points, and ensure that timeline editing is active by clicking in the timeline - it should visually mask clips then.
I found editing in Resolve fast and effective so far. And it doesnât slow down even with hundreds of cuts (which I may have at times).
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That is already 10x more complex than it needs to be which is why I never switched. But thanks for sharing.
Ah wait, you mean like this?
[ALT][SHIFT] drag a clip.
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Why the need for a short cut?
I just open Vegas and start editing. Done, No key shorts to know about or perform. My Video? That is Vegas default. LMB drag. Thatâs it.
Give my left hand a rest for when I use BlederâŚlol
So now we are down to two times more complicatedâŚlol
But seriously it is good to see. I never got that far. Thanks for showing me. 
Depends on how you cut. I almost never use fades or dissolves when cutting - only in very particular circumstances. Just check out almost any film out there: 99% regular straight cuts. (Unless itâs a Star Wars film, of course 
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Iâd rather have the software NOT think for me in this case. Dissolves ought to be approached with caution in my opinion.
I did work with Vegas a long time ago (still have a Humble license, or something lying around). Is it possible to turn off that default cross-fade behaviour in the preferences? Iâd hate that to be the default in my cutting flow.
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You realize I was partially in jest. I was not trying to force you into justifying why it works that way.
Vegas stays out of your way. You focus on editing. By default everything snaps to the ends. You want a dissolve push harder.
I like how that works. But it is good to see there is at a way to do that, if less intuitive and ergonomic in Resolve.
And honestly it was helpful. Thanks!
I used Vegas for years, then tried DaVinci Resolve. Nice erasing masking audio tools but needlessly clicky (mainly because it tries to speak Apple/Adobe). If audio mastering is not essential Iâd recommend Filmora X. Uncluttered current gen UI, intuitive asset based workflow, almost zero learning curve for Vegas users.
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I would add that if I had to I would use Resolve especially for Fusion. But I was looking for a Vegas replacement. And your posts did help with the Resolve issue.
What I would say to the rest of your comments is this.
Think of walking around with a bunch of chains and blocks tied around your ankles for years.
Then one day they come off. There would be this sensation of floating and you would feel much less grounded and free. It would be unsettling at first and you might have the temptation to run or move fast when you should not or you might find yourself accidentally moving to fast and bumping into things.
But eventually youâd settle back into a normal human experience.
That would be like using Vegas afet all this time using other clunky apps.
It happened to me when I first started.
But since then they have given editors much more subtle snapping and alignment tools built right in by default.
Where Vegas lacks is in not keeping up with other professional standards and it is a bit crashy.
But the user experience is #1 for bessic editing in my experience.
Yeah was looking at that because my gut was telling me Final Cut was going to be the Vegas alternative was looking for.
I am skeptical though. Does it have robust professional featuresâŚ? Iâll have to look into it more.
You have to understand the workflow they are going for. Save and save as in gimp are just for saving your unfinished projects, not for saving the final image. It wouldnât make sense for that to use any format other than their own since its meant to preserve editability and could save data that doesnât exist in other programs. In blender terms its like saving a .blend.
The export option is for saving the final result, so that can be in any format your want, even .psd if you need that format. Itâs more like saving the rendered image in blender. However, I should mention that even though you can open and save .psd in gimp, it doesnât support layer styles, and I think some of the layer blending options work differently, so youâll want to be careful of what you add to the project file if you open and save it in photoshop. Krita has support for layer styles, so it might be better to use that for making .psd files.
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I think the point is that this is understood. But that Save As from an image editor is usually to export to another format. In PS you maintain the PSD format but save as. Export in Photoshop is reserved for more specific cases.
I think the only reasonable truth to why this is so, has something to to with how the application was programed or to do with one of those tasks to make Save As the same as âexportâ non-trivial to implement as it is in PS. Just a guess.
I have nothing against Adobe itself⌠besides for two times almost lose deadlines because some bug with CC login.
That said, I just want to support anything that imposes a way to avoid a complete market dominance and monopoly. We already have entire industries based on Adobe products.
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Thatâs not necessarily true. I have some vague memory of using a commercial image editor that had the same convention (maybe it was fireworks pre-adobe or something). Well in either case, I personally feel that the way file saving in gimp works atm makes the most sense because there is clear logic for when you want to save your progress versus export the final result. On export gimp even lets you save changes over the last file exported with one click.
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I too have issues with how GIMP saves files (probably muscle memory).
I did go ahead and pay for the perpetual licenses for both Substance Painter and Designer, although now Iâm stuck with version 2019.3. Even that is not so bad as I never did use all of the functionality anyways.
An interesting turn of events with 3D-Coat for the new version just coming out. They are going to have far more purchasing options than Substance had before Adobe purchased them. They have also did some major changes to the interface and added some more tools. I have an educational license, but thinking that I will do one of the pay till you own it options when it comes out.
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Ah, I misunderstood. Text alone often fails to convey the subtleties.
Thatâs how I felt after using PhotoLine for the first time compared to Photoshop (not in all areas, but in a number of key ones important to my workflow).
It was an eye-opener. I couldnât understand why others hadnât thought of the brilliance of a negative layer opacity, for example.
Iâll look into Vegas once more - I do have a license somewhere lying about.
How is the performance though? Does it handle hundreds of small cuts without performance hits? Thatâs why I switched to Resolve.
In this sense my personal favourite is again how PhotoLine solves it: an option in the preferences allows for native sidecar source files.
Which means that when I open a JPG file, edit it, add layers, add adjustments layers, and so on, and save it with CTRL-S, PhotoLine overwrites the original JPG file AND also saves a new PLD native source file alongside with it.
If this JPG file is opened in PhotoLine, PhotoLine automatically detects that a PLD sidecar version is present in the same folder, and opens that instead of the JPG.
So it offers a seamless transparent method to work directly with the exported versions, but actually creates and maintains fully layered native source versions in the background.
Sheer genius. There is no need to distinguish anymore between an exported version and the native format file version.
(Mind: this is an option - PhotoLine offers many more ways to export work, including the excellent external app round-trip editing feature.)
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I probably should clarify again. I am not necessarily advocating Vegas aa a professional go-to standard for performance or anything else.
It is buggy, crashes alot and has one nasty bug when hardware acceleration is turned on. The larger your project the more these things turn up.
Finally I realized there was a reason it was rarely turning up in comparison articles anymore. One recent âbest editor of 2020â did not even mention it.
And I am still ready for a change I was just trying to explain how hard it is to switch to an editor that is much less fluid. And of course time is limited these days with managing a team and everything else. So much to learn and little time. I was not able to find a replacement so I just went back to Vegas for now.
That all said only Pro Tools has better sounding audio and features from my experience. Sound is still a number one reason to stick with Vegas. And there are no modes it all works in the same editor.
I should note I originally started using Vegas as a DAW (without MIDI) back in 2000. It had a lot of promise and it just sounded great. I updated to Vegas Video when that came out and when it matured enough I switched over from Premier. It was way ahead of itâs time for sound but never as much for video other than the consistent fliuid editor. Video eventually did start to mature under Sony. These days I donât think it is very relevant.
Oh for example something it canât do still is load sequences of .exr which to say is lame would be an understatement. (you have to pull a string on them in 1 frame stills and group them) Nor does it support some formats it should.
I donât want my software trying to dictate what my workflow should be, I want it to be quick and efficient, and Iâm really only going to save files in file types that I need. Not everything I do in PS gets saved as a PSD either, but Photoshop doesnât fight me on it. A layerless file can be saved over in half a second with CTRL+S and a copy of a layered file can be saved as a png, jpg, tiff, or another file format that doesnât require specialized software just as efficiently as saving any other copy of the file.
I regularly need to save flattened versions of WIPs as pngs or jpgs while processing images, and pretty much always need a flattened final version, and sometimes wonât know whether itâs a WIP or final draft until Iâve saved it and done something with it (used it in external software, printing, uploading it, send it to someone for approval), and I donât see any good reason why it needs a special separate methodology from a regular save as that adds pointless complexity and time. And for some images, I may not ever need any copies of the layered file, and some wonât even have layers (though when I do, I stick to the native format instead of PS to ensure full support - after all I donât save my odtâs as docxâs unless Iâm required to submit a Word version of a document/essay).
In 3D an extra step for rendering makes sense because the original file is not an image. For a file that is already an image this isnât true, and most image editing software works fine without it. Itâs just one of those things that keeps photoshop more efficient to work in.
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