DaVinci Resolve reveals new editing techniques to me all the time it's kind of like how you
can reveal the contents of multiple bins at once by shift or command Mouse clicking them
in the media pool so to me this was not the most intuitive thing when I first started editing with
daVinci so welcome to episode two of the little things that I use to work faster and easier in
resolve as a professional commercial editor keep finder folders so I always suggest that you keep
your project nice and tidy inside one single job folder with predefined nested folders sometimes
you want to keep that exact same organization in DaVinci and sometimes you don't so to keep the
organization from the operating system it could be Windows you just drag to the far left column
in the bin list area and you keep the finder organization it's just like that so that far
left area and then there's those times is when you want to add files to an existing bin for that
you can just drag a finder folder to the right side and it's only going to import the elements
okay it's going to ignore all the folders on the hard drive in other words it discards the folder
structure and no new Bins are created the same happens if you drag directly from any finder to
the timeline so to recap if you want to keep your folder structure from the finder you drag to the
left side and if you don't want the folders and you just want the elements you drag to the right
side inside of a bin multiple Bin Windows there's actually there's two ways to navigate multiple
bins at the same time that I know of so I'm going to show you both and then you can decide what you
prefer click the three dot menu to reveal the Dual pane media pool and honestly this is the
view that I use most of the time I'll use the Dual pane view with one bin open to timelines
and then the other Bin's going to be open to Clips a lot so timelines and clips but I use
the Dual pane view often enough that I actually set it to a keyboard shortcut to toggle it on
and off and because keyboard shortcuts are panel aware I use S for single pane and D for dual pane
so that way I have the flexibility to manage my screen space anytime you use find in media pool
which is a powerful right-click option with tabbed timelines and clips uh it'll always take you to
the last clicked window so this is important to know if you don't want to lose your place
on one specific bin window click the media pool window that you want to open that clip in and then
right click to find it in the media pool command Okay click the bin first then find a media pool
oh and it's also good to know about this expand button in the upper left that's going to toggle
full height or half screen height of the media pool and these expand buttons are all over the
DaVinci interface so get used to them another way to open multiple bins simultaneously is to
right click and open the bin in a new window from the contextual menu if you're from Avid this is
like a floating bin then you'll be used to it I find this more useful though if you have multiple
monitors or if you don't mind using App expose on a Mac the reason you need to get comfortable with
app Expose and the default shortcut control down arrow on a Mac is because as soon as you go away
from that newly open floating bin is going to disappear you can swipe down on a trackpad with
three or four fingers on a MacBook or control down arrow to see that bin again bfb's the big
floating bins are useful when I have long timeline strings of text and I need to see all of it but
I'm working on a lower resolution display like a laptop post bin duplicates all right always work
with versions and never rename timeline renders this is my hit by a bus precaution and I ride
a scooter through the streets of Manhattan so it's a legit concern anyone including yourself
can reopen an old project and make changes to a post you made for a client for future revisions
here's how it works keep unique timeline names and versions duplicate them anytime you make
alternate options or address client notes and iterate with a new version number on the actual
timeline name in the project that's the key in the project create and keep a bin in DaVinci just for
keeping track of copies of timelines every time you post or deliver anything frame.io or Dropbox
or maybe even the new Blackmagic presentations so here's the thing to know resolve doesn't actually
really like timelines in the same project with the same name so there is a trick here
is that's to option drag from the working bin to the dated post bin you never rename that
timeline and anyone can always search back for that version by filename years down the line
but don't forget to hit that carrot for searching through all the bins which is not the default but
we already talked about that in last week's tutorial right anyways I'm Chadwick this is
creative video tips and because there is so much more to learn I'll see you in that next video