Hey there good people! I am Scott and this is Sword & Shield Studio, a channel dedicated
to DaVinci Resolve tips, tricks, tutorials and all things video. Today we are going to
be learning about Markers and Flags. Right, so let's get right into it. First let's talk
flags. Flags are meant to mark an entire clip on your timeline for your reference. To use
a flag, left click the clip on your timeline that you wish to flag and hit 'G'. And you're
done! It's flagged. Flagging a clip will flag every clip in your timeline that shares the
same source clip from your media pool. As you can see, flagging this one clip on my
timeline has actually flagged several clips. Each of which share the same source recording.
Flags are a great way to reference entire clips on your timeline, but what if you just
want to reference a specific part of a clip on your timeline? That's where you'll want
to use a marker. You can mark clips both in your timeline as well as your source viewer.
To mark a clip in your source viewer, first open the clip you want to mark from your Media
Pool. Navigate your mouse along the jog bar underneath your source viewer to the spot
where you want to make the mark and hit 'M'. And you'll see it's given us our marker at
the bottom here. Alternatively, you can hit 'Ctrl+M' (Cmd+M if you're on a Mac) to give
your marker a name, notes, keyword, change the color and alter all the various settings
for your marker. The markers that you create in your source viewer are visible as separate
clips underneath your source clip in the media pool, as you can see here. This is only available
in List View however, you'll see when I switch to thumbnail view, you'll see that there are
no markers available in this view. To mark a clip on your timeline the process is much
the same as it is for marking a clip in your source viewer. You will simply navigate to
the clip that you wish to mark on your timeline and hit 'M' to create that marker. I am going
to change the color to red. Or, of course, you can hit 'Ctrl+M' (Cmd+M on Mac) and make
that change before you place it. I am going to make some notes to zoom in...right there.
Now that we have a few clips flagged and marked you're probably wondering, well, how can I
even utilize these features in the real world? Well for one, you can use markers as a quick
reference list while making a number of the same edits across different parts of your
timeline by utilizing DaVinci Resolve's 'Edit Index' feature. You can access that by hitting
'Edit Index' at the top left of Resolve here. By default this list displays every edit event,
or cut, in your currently active timeline. We can narrow this down to a more useful list
by utilizing our markers. Hit the three dots at the top right of the Edit Index here. Go
to 'Show Markers', hit 'All' if you only have one color, I'm going to select Red since I
went out of my way to select that color. And you will see here, this filters the Edit Index
so it will show only our defined markers along with the attached notes. You can right click
any of the column headers to narrow this down, say we don't need 'Reel' or the name, we just
want our notes to be displayed. Now we can click any marker on our list and it will navigate
to that marker on our timeline. This way, for example, for my tutorials I can mark each
spot on my timeline where I wish to zoom and pan on my screen capture on an initial play
through and have a quick handy list that I can navigate and make those changes in one
go. One way flags can be helpful is to keep focused on specific locations or shots while
color grading, I'll show you how to do that. Navigate over to the color tab at the bottom
of DaVinci Resolve and make sure your Clips window is open that displays each of the clips
on your timeline in sequential order down here. Now, click the drop-down next to Clips
at the top right of DaVinci Resolve here. Go down to 'Flagged Clips,' hit 'Any Flag'
if you only have one. And you will see in our Clips window that we only have displayed
all of the clips on our timeline that are flagged. Since flags automatically select
every clip that shares the same source, this can quickly help you identify clips that you
shot at the same time and location to color grade, even if they are split at different
times on your timeline. As you can see, there are a number of ways you can use Flags and
Markers to stay organized and keep your workflow moving forward within DaVinci Resolve. I only
really just scratched the surface here. I do recommend checking out the section in the
DaVinci Resolve Reference Manual on Markers and Flags which I will link in the description
if you are interested. As always, thank you for watching the video, I hope this information
was helpful, and I will see you next time.