Did you know that almost everything you see on tv or in the movies uses a transition on every single
cut? even if they're just audio crossfades that's a lot of transitions today i want to show you the
Blackmagic Design Davinci Resolve speed editor has five dedicated keys to help make this process of
putting transitions down easier and i've also got some great keyboard shortcuts and mouse tips to
get you going with Resolve 17. let's check it out the davinci resolve speed editor has three buttons
right here these three keys cut dissolves smooth cut and then right underneath the trimming buttons
but also if you look at the computer screen in the cut page we have the same ones over here we have
cut dissolve and smooth cut so if you don't have the speed editor yet you can use these buttons and
sort of follow along all right the first one here that confused me is cut so cut does not actually
split a clip meaning cut it in half so if i hit cut you can see it didn't actually cut the clip
if we go up here the button you want to use is split if you want to actually cut the clip
i don't know why they didn't call the the terminology is kind of messed up i'm going
to double tap escape to undo that it's also just so you know it has nothing this cut has
nothing to do with the edit cut button that's up here in the menu for copying and pasting
so just know that what cut is actually going to do is it's going to strip off any transition that's
on your timeline based off of your smart indicator so this little triangle here is on this dissolve
if i hit cut it strips it right off now that's great and dandy for just one or two at a time you
can strip those off with a cut button but what if you have like a whole timeline of transitions that
you want to replace and do something different with if you hit shift 4 to go to the edit page
command a selects all your clips and now if you hit the cut button it takes all those transitions
off so you probably saw right there there were some other dissolves that's a really quick way
to get rid of lots of transitions next we're going to look at the dissolve button and a dissolve is a
pretty magical thing it's going to be your most commonly used deal we're going to hit dissolve
and it's going to fade from one clip to the next it's going to sort of blend those
together really smoothly now you're going to a lot of times you're going to use a dissolve
you're going to change show like a change in time or location but one thing that i found really
useful that you're going to use all the time is a crossfade so if you jump to the edit page
i'll show you what i'm talking about let's zoom in command plus and the crossfade is just down
there on the audio and what that's doing is it's making a smooth transition so there's no pops or
clicks between the cut because in video editing software if you're unaware if you make a cut
it's going to make a pop or click because you're going to have a waveform that's not going to cut
at a zero crossing so this is a really quick way to sort of clean those up however one thing you
notice is it put a cross dissolve on this clip and a cross fade that is basically how
this dissolve button works it's gonna if you have linked video and audio and you're in here in the
cut page it's gonna do both at the same time what if you don't want that let me show you how to do
that so the way we're gonna put a crossfade only and not a dissolve on the picture part
is to hit shift e on the keyboard okay and what that's done is it sort of highlighted it green
down there you can see and after the shift e is is sort of selected we can hit shift t is going
to do a crossfade only okay the reason i did the shift e first is because it actually gives you
a little bit more control and i'll show you more about that later to demonstrate smooth cut i want
to show you an interview clip real quick and this is how we're going to be using smooth cut
i met santino my senior year of high school and when i first met him i just completely fell for
him uh okay we heard that uh and i want to get rid of that uh that's a really common thing to
do when you're when you're editing you're gonna cut out the word uh we fell for him
so we could do that by hitting split on the keyboard and then we could hit um we're going to
go to the side here and we'll hit trim in and that gets rid of that uh so if we listen to it again
completely fell for him we spent every day you see her head kind of shake there so what smooth
cut is going to do or is going to attempt to do is use optical flow which is a technology that
kind of blends the frames together magically so we'll hit smooth cut that drops that on there and
it takes a second to render and the other thing is that blackmagic suggests that you only use
smooth cut with a duration of two to four frames so we're going to get to this button a second but
if i hold the duration button here we can kind of dial in we're going to say four frames okay
we're going to say that transitions four frames we'll roll it back here with the search dial
hit play fell for him we spent every day and it kind of made that cut actually work so this is
one of the times i can count on maybe one single hand that i've ever used smooth cut and it worked
i just want to show you that it actually can work so give it a shot sometime but it's probably the
most useless button on this entire speed editor so i wish they really hadn't dedicated a whole
button to it but it's there that's how it works so use it if you if you're in a bind and you
don't have b-roll to cut to during an interview before we move on to the next section i want to
let you know these buttons actually work a little differently with live overwrite which i have a
whole tutorial on setting up a sync bin and doing multicam and what these are going to let you do
see these little glowing sections here if i hit live overwrite we have an option now dissolve is
glowing in red we can actually paint on a clip with a dissolve and the way that works is if
that's selected and we go back to our timeline and paint a new clip on so i'll just hit play
we the first time we met we went rock climbing well we tried to go rock climbing she says well we
try to go rock climbing what if we want to cut to angle two with a dissolve i'm just going to pull
this back and then we went rock climbing well and i've just hit cam 2 button and while i held that
down you can see it actually dropped the clip down there with a dissolve hit timeline to review it
we went rock climbing well we tried to go rock climbing that didn't happen so that's one way you
can use it it's not really my preference at all to be adding a dissolve when you're doing a multi-cam
but it can be done and that's kind of what that's there for and how you could use it
now that you know about cut dissolve and smooth cut using the speed editor i've got a tip using
the mouse to create transitions that you may have never seen before so about everybody knows you can
modify a transition by clicking and dragging with your mouse but what a lot of people don't know if
we hit cut right here is just using your mouse you can select a clip and you can hold option shift on
the keyboard click and drag and it automatically creates a new crossfade for you so that's a nice
little mouse trick you just click to select a clip option shift and drag and that creates a
you know a crossfade on the audio and i dissolve on the video for you pretty slick speaking of the
mouse why was the mouse afraid of the speed editor because the search dial has cat-like reflexes
so we are cruising along and the next button on the speed editor i want to show you is transition
duration and set so transition duration the way this is going to work is it's going to set how
long the duration is on your cut that you're dropping so if you hold it down and then you
grab the search dial and move that it's going to make it longer and shorter so the bonus tip or the
extra little magic sauce that happens with the set button here is once you drop that down and
we have this we saw obviously have this set now i'm going to roll it to exactly one second once
that's set if you double tap that has set a new default that every single time i put down a new
dissolve or transition it's going to put it to that exact length so let's go to another section
and why don't we drop one right here's a section where it could use one let's put a dissolve there
and we can see it put that to exactly one second and we know that because if we hold
transition duration again and start to scroll it it was one second the fifth button i want to show
you on the speed editor for transitions is the trans slash title button which is right up here
and the way this is actually going to work you can use it to modify or add a transition
that's not a cut dissolve or smooth cut as long as it's not a one of these brand new
at the bottom they have these fusion fusion transitions as long as it's not
fusion transition you can edit it right there with that button so we're gonna do that we're gonna
hold this down so it's a tap hold and when you do that it gives you all the options in the world
it's a lot of stuff you probably won't use very often but it's still a lot of fun to be able to
use with the search dial so let's choose barn door we'll release it and we can see
the barn door transition has been applied and it's actually it's also
if you notice from our last tip this has been set to the one second
duration that we had preset as a sort of our our transition length that we want to be using
so if i wanted to make that shorter again and go back to that let's make it a real fast like 12
second so it's like a half second one and double tap that gets us a real quick wipe as it goes into
that next shot so and it's super easy to go back and change it to a different type of transition if
you don't like that one you just hold transition down use the search dial and you can choose
any one of these incredible transitions including my favorite star wipe let's check it out
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out of the way let's jump back into resolve because i've got some great keyboard shortcuts
they're going to help you out with transitions to speed up your editing in the edit page so to
get to the edit page we're going to be hitting shift 4 that takes us over there and we need to
drop a transition on here to begin with we'll use the speed editor we'll hit dissolve okay and when
we did that one thing to note and i would suggest you set up and resolve is to change your crossfade
audio type by default we can see over here in the inspector it is set to crossfade 0db um that's
not great we want to change that actually and so we're going to hit cut to remove the transition
we're going to change that over here in our if you go to your effects library audio transitions
we have crossfade +3db this is the one you're going to want to use most of the time
don't ask me why just set a standard transition and you're going to be super happy but what i
want to do now is actually just put those +3db cross fades on every single clip to
get rid of those pops and clicks the way we're going to do that is with the command shift t
by hitting shift t we can see we just put crossfades on every single clip down there
in the timeline and so that's just gonna smooth things out and get rid of any pops and clicks
and so here are my next four favorite keyboard shortcuts we're going to hit
v and i the way i use v is for vin between because it's going to go vin-between the clips
and then we're going to be hitting u to cycle the side of the clip that we're actually selected so
you can see right here we're on the left side only but if we use u which i call uther-side like ooh
we're going to tap u and that cycles between them so right here we're selecting both the left and
the right of the clip and here we're selecting the right side only okay we'll tap it one more
time or two more times we'll be in the middle and then the next one is t for transition so we have v
for vin-between u to cycle the uther side and then t is gonna be a transition we're gonna be dropping
a transition with command t okay that's going to be putting them on both at the same time both the
video and audio i'm going to hit command z to undo or you could do shift t which we've talked about
which just does the audio section only command t to undo that or guess what else we got option t
does just the video side my final keyboard shortcut i want to make sure i show you because
if you watch my trimming video i showed you a way that was probably more complicated than needed be
to do a j or l cut with the speed editor so what we're going to be doing is using
option e okay option e is going to select the video track and once that is selected you can just
hit roll on the speed editor hold it down and then move it and you have a J or L cut the other thing
is if you haven't seen that video that's a big limitation in the cut page over here shift three
is you cannot do a j or l cut when you're in this page now we're going to take a look at using the
transitions browser to add transitions to a lot of clips at once so here we are in the cut page
we can see we've got all the clips we're going to hit command a to select them all and if we want
to apply the same transitions to all the clips at once one way to do that is if you go to the
transition browser and let's say we want to be putting an eye iris on everything you could right
click here and say it is called add to selected edit points and clips and we can see we have now
added that to every single transition to make the most amazing video of lots of irises uh you can
see there's probably a lot better uses for this maybe if it's a slideshow or something but that
is how that's done now if we just want to add a transition to one of them using the mouse we're
going to select all of these and we're going to hit cut to remove our transitions hopefully you've
learned that one by now and we can just go to any edit point with the search dial that we want to be
adding a transition and we can say just a simple click and drag of that transition and it can be
dragged to the top timeline here or it could be dragged down here these both work in the cut page
so if you're unfamiliar with that they are working together at the same time so one thing i want to
make sure you understand about transitions is they need handles and a handle basically is the part
that you've already trimmed out on the timeline a transition will use that part to smooth things out
so if you run out of handles let me show you what it looks like we're going to be removing this cut
that's right there and we'll go ahead and trim this shot all the way out till it gets to the
red point and why don't we go and take the other side we'll hit trim on this one and extend it till
it's red so if we look at these two clips right now we cannot trim either side right if we trim
in or trim out that's red and so what's going to happen when we try to put a transition on this
is it flashes if we hit the dissolve button on here if we take one from over here let's go
let's do something different how about uh arrow iris on this one we're going to click and drag
that down there it doesn't even do anything what happens if we right click it and we say
i want to say add to selected edit points in clips it gives us this error we can say trim
clips or skip clips if we click choose uh trim clips it's basically taken the same amount from
both sides to apply it i'm going to hit undo to undo that and the other option here is going to be
we say to select clips and we should choose skip clips that's useful if you have multiple clips
selected and it's just kind of going down in a row if there's no handles available if you learned at
least one thing in this video please make sure to give it a like and if you want to learn more
about davinci resolve the speed editor there's a playlist popping up right over here right now
and i've got all kinds of tips on using multicam the search dial cut page edit
page trimming there's so much to learn so i'll see you over in that next video