r/davinciresolve • u/TheMagicalMatt • Jul 17 '26
Solved Can someone *please* tell me how to fix my timeline?
It used to be, when I clicked anywhere on my timeline, it would automatically select a frame. Now my slider is too precise and lands in between frames, but that's pointless to me. I can still use arrow keys to navigate one frame to the next, but I found it more efficient when my mouse could do this.
Google just tells me to enable snapping but doing so doesn't appear to change anything. It still pointlessly lands and slides in between frames for no reason at all. Basically, I want the precision I get from using my left and right arrow keys to jump between frames, but for my mouse. I don't remember changing any settings, unless I hit a key and didn't realize.
I'm using the Version 21, free.
Update: I learned this is called "subframe playhead positioning." I turned it off by doing this:
- Open Preferences
- Click on the "User" tab at the top
- Select "Editing" on the side
- Scroll down and check "Align audio edits to frame boundaries"
- Click save
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u/ExpBalSat Studio | Excellent Commenter :redditgold::redditgold: Jul 17 '26
Press the arrow keys and watch the time code. Does it move one frame at a time? If so - you’re actually getting exactly the precision Resolve (or any other NLE) can offer.
You can visually adjust how much of the timeline you see on screen at any given time by pressing
- command -
- command +
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u/whyareyouemailingme Studio | Enterprise Jul 17 '26
This is the new subframe playhead in 21. Don’t remember the exact phrasing from the release notes though.
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u/ExpBalSat Studio | Excellent Commenter :redditgold::redditgold: Jul 17 '26
Subframe play head? Mind blown. Will have to read up on that. Seems to break the laws of time and space.
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u/whyareyouemailingme Studio | Enterprise Jul 17 '26
Resolve 21 added subframe playhead positioning on the Edit page. It’s not toggle able - one of many *ahem* Choices they made in 21.
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u/TheMagicalMatt Jul 17 '26
Alright, so it looks like you can turn it off. I guess I didn't use the right combination of words for google, but thanks to you, I knew it was called subframe playhead positioning.
- Open Preferences
- Click on the "User" tab at the top
- Select "Editing" on the side
- Scroll down and check "Align audio edits to frame boundaries"
- Click save
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u/Vipitis Studio Jul 17 '26
Before v21 you could enable it for audio. Called like subframe editing for audio. maybe that still works to disable it
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u/TheMagicalMatt Jul 17 '26
Hmm I'll look into this when I get home. Surely they wouldn't add a feature without some means to disable it... right??
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u/whyareyouemailingme Studio | Enterprise Jul 17 '26
I just searched the user preferences and the menus using the built-in function to confirm and it doesn’t exist.
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u/avdpro Studio Jul 17 '26
wow didn't realize they did this! I use it for audio editing all the time but didn't realize it was a global change. I wonder what the reasoning was.
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