I've used DaVinci Resolve for over 10 years but it seems like every week I'm still learning something
new like hitting the drop down that's right next to the search button it's kind of hidden
that way you can search the entire project by file name to find a matching clip or timeline
so by default if you just type in Julia and it's set to selected bins you're going to get nothing
so choose all bins and you can find everything in your project or there's this little trick to
close up all of your expanded bins by holding down the option key on a Mac or alt on a PC
while clicking on the Master Bin nice right well in just a few minutes I'm going to show you some
of the Lesser known tricks that I use all the time and hopefully you're going to find them useful too
lasso trim I'm calling this the normal edit mode lasso trim now anytime that you want to make a
quick Edge selection of a clip with a mouse or a wacom pen now most editors and I'm saying this
because this was me just until recently you hit T shortcut key that enters trim mode or
you can hit this button and then drag to make a selection over the edge of the clip to trim it up
however instead of changing to trim edit mode you can actually stay in normal edit mode and
simply hold down option or Alt with shift and then lasso drag the selection with your mouse
so bookmark that one it's the option shift Mouse drag for selecting the edges of Clips
Oh and before you remind me that I can use V to select the nearest edit point with the keyboard
shortcut yeah that works but what if you have a whole stack of Clips with some graphic layers that
all need to be trimmed together this is when the normal edit mode lasso trim really shines
place on top with the timeline overlay there's a trick to place on top that maybe you've never
used before and if you're an experienced editor you might prefer to cut with Precision into your
timeline using the three-point edit but how do you do that with a generator an adjustment clip or a
title well first you mark your timeline with an in and out Point that's I and O on the keyboard
or if you're a left hand driven keyboard editor I use e and r but that's a tutorial for another
day anyways drag to the overlay that says place on top and Bam you have placed the effects generator
onto the timeline and constrained it to the in and out marks like a three-point edit and the
reason that I like to highlight place on top is that it actually it removes the complexities of
patching your destination to the specific track which is what these important orange boxes do
place on top does what it says it does it's a lot like the connect edit feature that's in Final Cut
Pro where there's no track patching at all now as a bonus tip if you mostly use this new drag
and drop trick with place on top you can set this up as a default and user editing settings with the
check box for timeline overlay retains the last performed actions you don't have to drag it to
the specifically small far right overlay box oh and place on top is also great to work directly
from the media pool to spot new audio tracks or mixes down to your timeline without dragging to
the overlay function because anything from the media pool can be edited with the shortcut F12
it creates new timeline tracks as needed so that's super useful too you just gotta make
sure that you have an orange destination box selected not turned off because for some reason
this is required to edit from the media pool and it's also true for Force conforming but that's a
topic for another day the index panel has several uses but as a follow-up to the place on top tip
is this faster way to fix audio track mapping on the edit page so ideally stereo audio gets placed
onto stereo tracks indicated with the number two for two channels of sound and mono audio goes to
Mono tracks but we know this isn't always the case stuff happens right and for me when I use place
on top it likes to create stereo tracks so if I'm dropping a mono voice over track or a 5.1 mix down
which is something I do a lot they're incorrectly assigned to stereo to change this you would right
click on the tiny little 2.0 area and change the track type to mono and you'd have to do this one
at a time and that's no fun so a faster way is to open the index and then go to the tracks tab here
you can reorder the tracks which are going to be reflected on the timeline but you can also shift
select the tracks to change them all to Mono at once see it's the little things that make
a difference but now it's your turn down in the comments I want to learn your favorite little
DaVinci Resolve tips don't worry this tutorial is just part one of these little things you need to
know there's more next week and because there's so much more to learn I'll see in the next video