Hey there good people, I Scott and this is Sword & Shield Studio. A channel dedicated
to giving you your weekly dose of DaVinci Resolve tips, tricks, tutorials, and all things
video. Right now we are going to explore 3-Point editing in DaVinci Resolve and see how you
can use that process to quickly bring in your favorite clips into your editing timeline.
Right, so let's get right into it. Okay I am in DaVinci Resolve now where I have loaded
up a bunch of clips in my media pool as well as dropped a couple clips down here on my
edit timeline. One way we can bring the remaining clips from my media pool into the timeline
is with a 3-Point edit. A 3-point edit is an edit where we create an in/out point in
our source material to be placed at a third 'insert point' at the playhead in our editing
timeline. So firstly I am going to define in/out points on a clip so we can bring it
into the editing timeline. So I will just double click clip '002' here to make it active
and navigate to where I want the clip to begin and hit 'I' on my keyboard to define the in
point. Navigate a bit further, hit 'O' on my keyboard to define the out point. Now that
we have our in/out points selected for our footage now we have to select the third point
of our 3-Point edit where we want to insert our clip into the timeline. Move your playhead
on the timeline where you want to place the clip. I will place mine about right here.
If you need to change which track your edit will happen on, hold 'Ctrl+Shift' and navigate
with the up and down arrows on your keyboard until you have the track you want to edit
to highlighted in red. This means that it is the destination track for your edit. Now
you are free to bring in your footage into the timeline with any one of the following
edit operations. The first edit operation I will be going over is Insert, and it pretty
much does what it says. It inserts your selected source material where your playhead is on
your timeline and shifts all the surrounding footage and all the other media to the sides
to accomodate for that. The keyboard shortcut to Insert is 'F9' which I will do now, and
you will see it inserted our footage right where our playhead was and shifted the remaining
'001' footage to the right of that. Additionally you can perform any one of the edits I will
be discussing today by dragging your footage from your source viewer over to your timeline
viewer to the right where you see I have 'Insert' and all the other options available on the
right here. Very useful if you do not remember the keyboard shortcuts or simply prefer to
use your mouse to accomplish this. The next 3-Point edit option we have is Overwrite.
Overwrite will place your footage at the selected point on your timeline and take the place
of any underlying footage the same length of a clip. If an existing clip on your timeline
is longer than the clip you intend to overwrite onto your timeline, it will only overwrite
a section of that underlying clip. You can overwrite with 'F10' on your keyboard or the
pop-out menu. Let us see how that works. So I will select just a small section of my footage
here, define an out point by hitting 'O', then I will bring my playhead above clip '001'
here and hit 'F10'. Oh, and I see I brought it into Track 1 by accident so I will 'Ctrl-+Z'
to undo and I will hold 'Ctrl+Shift' and hit the up arrow to set my destination track to
Video 2 here on my timeline. And hit 'F10' again and you will see I have overwritten
that portion of this footage with the clip I had in my source viewer. Ripple Overwrite
is the next option. This is similar to the basic overwrite feature except if the existing
clip under your playhead is longer than the clip that you are overwriting into your timeline,
it will replace that clip in its entirety and the surrounding clips will shift on your
timeline to accommodate for this. You can access this option by hitting 'Shift+F10'
or again with the pop-out menu. Let us see how it works. I am going to navigate to the
center of clip '005' here and hit 'Shift+F10' on my keyboard to perform a Ripple Overwrite
on it. And you will see, since my clip that I was bringing in was shorter than the clip
that existed there, it removed clip '005' and replaced it with the overwriting material
that I was bringing in. Replace is the next option. This type of edit aligns the frame
at the source viewer playhead with the frame at the timeline playhead. It is not required
to set in and out points in the Source Viewer for this type of edit, however you can set
in and out points in the timeline to define which part of a clip you would like to replace.
This one you can get to with 'F11' or again with the pop-out menu. So let us see really
quick how Replace works in practice. I want to take in this ocean footage I have loaded
in my Source Viewer and bring it into my timeline just as this second wave starts to hit the
coast. So I will navigate to that point in the Source Viewer and hit 'I' to define and
in point where I want that clip to begin. Then I will navigate my timeline playhead
where I want the cut to happen. So I am just replacing this entire second clip here with
the ocean clip. Then I will hit 'F11' to perform the Replace edit and you will see it replaced
the entirety of that second clip and it started it at the same frame as the in point in the
source viewer. Replace is a good option if you are trying to make an edit on a specific
action in your footage. Next up is Fit to Fill. Now, Fit to Fill is the only edit that
uses all four edit points. An in and out on both the Source Viewer and the Timeline. Doing
this, you can stretch or compress the timing of the range of your source media to cover
the specified range on your timeline. 'Shift+F11' gets you the Fit to Fill edit, or again you
can get to it through the pop-out menu. Now let us see how we might use Fit to Fill in
practice. Let us say I want to use this clip of this drone footage on the coast at the
very end of my project and really slow it down. Well, I can do all of that in one go
by using Fit to Fill. First thing I have to do is define in and out points in my source
footage. So I will go around here, hit 'I' on my keyboard to define and in point. Go
where I want my footage to end, hit 'O' to define an out point. Now I have to do the
same thing on my timeline. Say I want my footage to extend from here, I will hit 'I' to define
that in point. I will go about 15 seconds or so forward and hit 'O' again to define
an out point. Now, I will hit 'Shift+F11' to perform that Fit to Fill edit and now what
this has done is it has brought in my footage and re-timed it at the same time. And of course
this is really choppy. I could go into my inspector, turn on Optical Flow and better
Motion Estimation and it will look better. Place on Top is the next option and it is
pretty simple. It will place your clip onto the first empty track above any other clips
on your timeline. The function will create a new track to do this if none are available
or if you just have one track on your timeline. You can perform a Place on Top edit by hitting
'F12' or again with the pop-out menu. In pracatice, again it is pretty simple. I am going to take
this clip here, define an in point by hitting 'I' an out point by hitting 'O' and let us
say I want to bring it in here. I will hit 'F12' and you'll see since there was no track
above my track, Video Track 2 here, it created a new track and placed my new footage above
it. It placed it on top, if you will. Last but not least is Append at End. This puts
the edited clip at the very end of your current timeline. Very useful for editing a series
of sequentially shot clips. 'Shift+F12' will give you this option or again you can get
to it through the pop-out menu. Just to see how this works, I will select the very end
of this clip here and hit 'Shift+F12' and you will see it has brought that clip to the
very end of my timeline. Well that does it for this tutorial. As you can see, 3-Point
edits in Resolve allow you to make changes to your footage directly in the Source Viewer.
This way you are not stuck making a bunch of micro adjustments to clips you have already
placed in your timeline. But that is it from me, as always, thank you for watching this
video. I hope the information contained within it was helpful for you and I will see you
next time.