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So in today's video I'm gonna show you a bunch of tools
that you can use to edit your videos faster.
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Today we're gonna be taking a look at
some of these shortcuts and tools
that I use to make my edits faster in DaVinci Resolve.
Originally, I tried to make this list
into a concise number of tips and tools
but I just kept finding more and more.
So instead I've organized them into little related sections
that I've put timestamps for down below
in case you wanna hop around.
Some of them are keyboard shortcuts
and some of them are just kind of basic functions
that you can use
but all of them will help you edit
your video more efficiently.
And to help show us these tools,
I've brought my friend along here.
Are you ready? (lint roller scrapping loudly)
Yep, good to go.
Could you at least like clean off your desk first?
Don't worry, I'll just frame the shot
so that they can't see the mess.
Okay, you're up?
All right, so first things first,
if you're coming from another program
and you're a little worried about the shortcuts
being different and that kind of stuff, don't worry.
Up in the top corner
if you go to DaVinci Resolve,
Keyboard Customization,
you can pick all of your own keyboard shortcuts
if you want to.
You can totally customize this to whatever you want.
There's the ability to search down here.
So if you're looking for trim or something like that
you can find it there
and then you can just add your keyboard shortcut
by clicking there.
There's also some presets built in.
So you've got DaVinci Resolve, which is the standard one.
Then you've got Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro,
Media Composer and even Pro Tools.
And as you can see,
I've made my own called DaVinci Resolve Dunna.
So if you're a Premiere Pro user or a Final Cut Pro user
and you've been hesitant to move over,
this might make it a lot easier for you.
Once you've gone in and done a bunch of customization,
you can click these buttons in the top right corner
and hit Save as New Preset.
All right, taking a look at navigating on the edit timeline
you can zoom in using Command + or Control +
if you're on a PC
and you can zoom back out
using Command - or Control -
if you're on a PC.
It's actually technically Command =
but I always think of it as Command + and -
'cause zoom in, zoom out
plus, minus.
Anyway.
If you like to use a scroll wheel on your mouse,
you can use that to either go up or down
on your video or audio tracks
depending on where your mouse is when you start to scroll.
Holding down Command and using the scroll wheel,
we'll go horizontally.
Holding down Shift and using your scroll wheel
will zoom in or out vertically.
Again, depending on whether your mouse
is over the audio or video tracks.
And then holding down Option
is going to zoom in or out horizontally
which we already know we can do using Command + or - .
Okay, the next set of commands
is all about small adjustments.
The Arrow keys can definitely be your best friend here
for moving your playhead.
So if I wanna move my playhead over by one frame,
I can just hit the Right Arrow
and I can do that a bunch of times.
If I wanna move it over by a full second,
I can hold Shift and hit the Right Arrow
and the same works with the Left Arrow.
You can do single frames by just hitting that
or if you hold Shift,
you can go a second at a time.
If you hit the Down Arrow,
it will go to the end of the clip
that your playhead is currently on.
And if you hit the Up Arrow
it'll go to the start of that clip.
If I wanna nudge a clip over to the right by one frame,
I can hit period.
If I wanna move it to the left I can hit comma.
Again, I always think of this
as using the Angle Bracket keys
but technically you're using period and comma.
And if I wanna go multiple frames
I think it's five at a time,
I can hold Shift.
So that Shift and period.
Technically I am actually using that Angle Bracket now
and Shift and Comma.
And speaking of little movements right here,
we have the snapping tool
and we can turn that on and off by using S.
And if you've got multiple clips
they'll automatically snap together.
And if you're getting in here and you really wanna
just like move something just a little bit,
see I can only move that about three frames at a time
if I hit the snapping.
So I turn that off now.
Now I can move it as small as one frame at a time.
So you can make those small adjustments.
And while we're here,
one of my favorite modes is called Trim Mode
and you can get there by hitting T
or also clicking here.
Now, when you're not in Trim Mode,
if you trim the edge of a clip like this,
you notice it leaves a big gap there.
But if you're in Trim Mode and you do the same thing,
it automatically will move the clip
so that it butts it up against where that edit was.
Another great thing about Trim Mode
is that if you want a different portion of your clip,
you can hover your mouse
over the top half of the video track
and then you can move it
and you can see which part of the clip you're using.
And they give you a preview in your preview window
so you can see where the clip now we'll start and end.
And then to get back in the regular mode
called Selection Mode you just hit V.
You can also click right here.
Another really handy thing is enabling and disabling clips.
So let's say for example,
I've got this clip and it's just kinda hovering
and I don't know where to put it yet
and I'm working on some other stuff,
I can just disable that clip
by clicking on it and hitting D.
And it goes gray
and it shows you that it's disabled right here
and so now I can see all of this stuff
going on underneath it.
And then when I'm ready to use it,
I can just hit D again and it becomes enabled.
Okay, these next ones are my absolute favorites.
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All right, back to the other guy
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Okay, so like I said,
this next kind of grouping of shortcuts
are my absolute favorite,
probably the ones that I use the most.
First of all super simple,
making a cut where the playhead is.
You're gonna hit Command + b.
Now let's say we wanted to get rid of this clip,
the next one is called a ripple delete.
Now, if you just hit the Backspace button,
you delete that and there will be this empty gap there.
But if you hit the Delete key,
you see that it actually deletes that
and brings everything after it back up to the previous clip.
This is how I edit all of my videos using ripple delete.
I've actually mapped it out to be on the X key
because then I can get at it with my left hand easier.
So I'll be watching through the clip
and then if I want to ripple delete up to that point,
I can make a cut and then ripple delete it.
But there's an even easier way to make this happen.
You can ripple trim the end of the clip.
So basically I'll set my playhead
where I want to make my cut
and then I can ripple trim
what they call End to Playhead.
So the end of this clip is going to get ripple trimmed
back to the playhead.
And to do this I just hit Shift + Command
and Right Square Bracket.
Now, again, this is one that I have on a single key
so I just hit W and it does this.
And actually, I think I got that from Premiere Pro.
And vice versa if I wanted to do the start of the clip,
I can hit Shift + Command and the Left Square Bracket.
It'll trim everything up to the playhead
and then it'll also ripple delete that empty space.
So let's say I've got a bunch of clips on the timeline here,
I can go through
and I want to cut there
and there
and here.
So I'm just trimming off the start of the clip
and then the end of the clip.
I prefer to edit this way
rather than doing in and out points
like a lot of people do.
So you can use in and out points
from your kinda media bin.
I just like to dump everything onto the timeline
and then just make these quick cuts that goes so quickly.
Those ones get me really excited.
Those are like my most used shortcuts.
Now sometimes you'll get into an edit
and you'll make some changes on a certain clip
and you want to apply those same changes to another clip.
So let's say for example,
I've got this one, the zoom is at 1.5
and I've changed the position a little bit
so the original looks like that
and then I've pushed in like that.
But on this next clip, it goes back out
and I want to apply that same zoom from the first clip.
So what I'm gonna do is hit Command + C
which is pretty typical for copy.
If I hit Command + V,
it's gonna just paste that clip.
But if I highlight the clip that I want to paste that to
and I hit Option + V
it's gonna pull up something called Paste Attributes.
So now I can choose the parts
that I want to paste from the original clip
that I copied from, onto this new clip.
In this case, I wanna change the position and the zoom
but you've got all sorts of options in here.
All of your cropping options, your vertical flip
horizontal flip, volume for audio,
you've got color correction.
You can do all sorts of things
from one clip to another even automation.
Let's hit Apply.
Not only does this first one have the 1.5 times
and the change in position,
but now this second one has it too.
If you see my video on ways
that you can apply color grades across multiple clips,
this is one of those ways.
Here's a nice, simple one.
If you want to deal with your audio
and your video separately
from a clip that was normally linked together,
you could go all the way through hitting right-click
and hit Unlink Clips
and now they're not linked anymore.
And then you can highlight them again and re link them,
now they'll move together.
Or you can just hit Option
and click on one or the other
and deal with it separately.
Now, when you go to use them again,
without having to unlink and re link,
they're linked back together.
And they'll even tell you how far out they are
from each other's original position.
This will also work for trimming too.
So if I just wanted the audio to be longer
maybe I wanted it to kinda extend out further
than the clip itself,
I can hold down Option and then drag from the clip.
And vice versa with the video clip as well.
Holding Option and just using the trim tool.
Now, we talked a whole bunch about
all those kinds of ripple functions
but sometimes you're working on a second track
and you don't want all the ripples to work
on all the tracks.
All right, so I've got this kinda
multilayered video setup going on
and let's say, I just wanna work on this third track.
I don't wanna hit these first two.
But if I put my playhead where I want
and I use that trim to the end of the clip trick.
And it did it to the end of that clip specifically
but it also chopped out all of the parts
on the other tracks as well.
And that's not what I want.
So what I can do is I can hit the Auto Track Selector
and turn that off,
on all the tracks
that I don't want to be effected by this edit.
And now when I hit it,
it only does that one track.
So now I can just kind of edit away
without having to worry about these bottom tracks
getting messed up.
The other thing that you can do
is you could lock those tracks.
Now I have to go unlock it if I wanna edit it.
Whereas if I just have Auto Track Selector turned off,
I can still move things on those tracks.
It just doesn't get caught up in those quick commands.
While we've got these multiple layers,
here's a cool one.
If you put your cursor anywhere on your timeline and hit Y,
it's going to select everything forward on the main track.
If you wanna select all the clips before the playhead,
you hit Command + Y
or Control + Y on a PC.
And then you can also do the same thing for all tracks
by hitting Option and Y.
So that's gonna select everything forward
past the point of the playhead
and then Option + Command + Y
will select everything on all tracks before that.
So that can be really handy
if you wanna let's say just kind of move a bunch of clips
so we can do Option + Y to select everything
and then we can move it all over.
And then let's say you want to get fancy
with your timing controls.
There are a couple of different ways that you can do this.
So if you select a clip and you hit Command + R
or Control + R on a PC,
it's gonna bring up your re-time controls.
Now, there are a couple of options here.
There's a little dropdown menu
with a bunch of different things that you can do with it.
Adding speed points if you're doing some speed ramping,
changing the speed to certain percentages,
reset it, freeze frame, reverse it.
But another thing that you can do with this open,
is let's say I wanted the clip
to be exactly up to the end of where this playhead is.
So I wanna speed up this entire clip
to be from the start of here to the play head.
All I have to do is bring my cursor up
to the top right corner here
where I see this different kind of icon.
And then when I drag from here
you can see that the percentage changes here.
So I'm now at 131% speed
and the clip will go by quickly.
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Now, another thing that you can do
with the clips selected is just hit R
and then the Change Clip Speed Dialogue is gonna come up.
Some of the same options in here.
So you can change your speed from there
or you can change the frames per second or the duration.
And you've got some other options
depending on what kinda changes you wanna make.
And so those are a couple of the ways
that you can change the speed of your clip.
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