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Right now we are going to learn how to edit a rough cut together in DaVinci Resolve on
the Edit Page using only your keyboard. That's right, there's no mouse involved in this process.
Now, this uses techniques of 3-Point editing which I go over in the video linked above. Right, let's
get right into it. Okay, so I am on the Media Page in DaVinci Resolve now where I have several clips
imported that I want to bring into a timeline for an initial edit. Using the up and down arrow
keys on your keyboard navigate to the first clip that you want to bring into your timeline and hit
'Enter' to make it active. Next, hit Shift+4 to navigate to the Edit Page. Now, if your inspector
and Media Pool are open on the Edit Page, this is the only time you'll have to use your mouse,
you'll have to use your mouse to close them. So I am going to do that. Exit out of my Media Pool
and my Inspector, and make sure you have Dual Viewer Mode enabled here at the top right as well.
Click that. Once you have adjusted your interface, make sure you have your Source Viewer active.
You can tell whether the Timeline Viewer or the Source Viewer is active by the color of the text
at the top of each viewer. If it's red it's active, if it's white it is inactive. So I
will press 'Q' and you will see at the top of my source viewer there is red text now
indicating that it is active. With your Source Viewer active you can scrub through the footage
by using 'J/K/L' on your keyboard. 'L' will play the footage forward and you can press
this multiple times to speed up the playback. 'K' will pause it and 'J' will play it in reverse and
again you can hit that multiple times to increase the speed of playback. Using these keys navigate
to the beginning of where you want to cut your clip and hit 'I' to define an in-point and then
using 'J/K/L' go to where you want your clip to end and hit 'O' to define an out-point.
Hit 'F9' on your keyboard to insert this clip that you defined into your timeline.
Well done! You just edited a clip into your timeline without touching the mouse.
So if you want to switch clips in the Source Viewer, hit 'Shift+2' to return to the media page
and use the arrow keys to select the next clip that you want to insert. Say I want clip004 here.
Hit 'Enter' to make it active then hit 'Shift+4' to return to the edit page
and again hit 'Q' to make sure that your Source Viewer is the active viewer defined by the red
text. Then use 'J/K/L' to scrub through the Source Viewer and hit 'I' to define the in-point
and 'O' to define the out-point and hit 'F9' again to insert that
and once you get used to these shortcuts this becomes a really quick way to assemble B-roll
or cut chronologically shot narration with ease. Again, I could just hit 'Shift+2' to go
back to the Media Pool, select another clip with 'Enter'. Hit 'Shift+4' to return to the Edit Page,
'Q' to make my Source Viewer active, 'J/K/L' find the part where I want the clip to start,
hit 'I' for the in-point, 'O' for the out-point where I want it to end and hit 'F9'. And just
like that we have three clips inserted on our timeline without ever touching the mouse.
Well that does it for this tutorial. As you can see, by incorporating a few keyboard shortcuts
into your editing workflow you can quickly gather the best clips from your raw video
footage and assemble a rough cut in no time. If you like the information in this video,
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