FEATURE REQUEST – Folders / Bins at the sequence level

[Marc Wielage]

[Nat Jencks] “I also use Scratch quite a bit, and the same conversation came up a few years ago as more users started using it for long form work and the need for folders to organize timelines (constructs in scratch) came up. When scratch added the ability to place timelines in folders (groups) to organize them it was a huge benefit organizationally for me.”

Eh, I dunno. I got along without it for 20 years with DaVinci 888 and 2K, and it didn’t kill me. Hey, at least you can rapidly switch back and forth between timelines. Imagine software where you could only have [B]one[/B] timeline open at a time! There were quite a few color correctors over the years like that.

I try to look at the glass as half-full, not half-empty. Timeline management ain’t that hard.

[Margus Voll]

Probably really depends on the feature and the amount of footage but i tend to work in one long timeline.

With adverts it is really handy to have different timelines like pointed out like 20 of them.
With proper naming they should be simple to identify.

I’m thinking if you have timelines in folders how would you switch them fast ?

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu
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DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro

[Brandon Thomas]

I think the ‘Switch Timeline’ would function the same. Just changing to the next timeline (but ideally following whatever hierarchy you’ve constructed with folders, not creation order.)

[John Tissavary]

+1000

I requested this some time ago, got a follow up e-mail from Peter Chamberlain asking how I’d use this, so hopefully that means it’s something they’re looking into.

John Tissavary | colorist | owner
The Post Collective

[John Tissavary]

I do a lot of commercial grading and finishing, too. We easily have 6 or 7 versions for the first distribution (:15, :20, :30, :60, agency cut, broadcast, 4:3, ad nauseum…), then it typically grows to 15 – 30 versions with different end tags, languages, etc… for various markets.

Because there is no way to export and import timelines from one project to another, it is only manageable to do all this in one project and be sure that very version is up to date, but the timeline window interface makes it too difficult to work this way. I use leading underscores to try and help visually, but there are still too many timelines to scroll through to find the one you’re looking for.

John Tissavary | colorist | owner
The Post Collective

[Margus Voll]

It just hit me that if you export from Premiere for example
and do not select any specific timeline it will bundle all available timelines in xml.

If i could be possible visually to represent them the same way and you could import all of them at once so to say then it would be super cool with this kind of workflow where you have a lot of versions.

I can relate to that as i have some advertising jobs also and like you said kazillion versions and they better be up to date.

So it would ale sense in that situation to organise timelines in some better way.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu
https://vimeo.com/iconstudioseu/videos

DaVinci 10, OSX 10.8.5
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GUI 4000 / GPU GTX 780
DL 4K
Eizo Color
Scope Box

[Sean Ross]

That feature would be great. Also, to be able to sort and reorder my timelines would be truly a blessing!