i'm super pumped because today we're learning how to find edit and speed ramp slow motion video
footage in your next davinci resolve project and to kick it off did you know that you can
save a lot of time by copying and pasting speed attributes as usual i have this video broken down
into four simple chapters to make the learning process easier and before we get any further
let's use our high school algebra cheat sheet to review maximum slowness is that even a word that
we can drop our clips down into for like a 24 fps timeline without needing the crazy optical flow
processing which never turns out great anyways or maybe you can just screen grab this graphic here
and we'll say we did now that we know what our limitations are without losing quality or using
optical flow let's dive in so one of the problems when you're editing mixed frame rate or slow
motion footage is you never know what the frame rate is once it's down on the timeline without
looking at the clip attributes and we're going to solve that today with using clip colors and to get
everyone on the same page we're going to look at our project settings we are taking a look at a 23
976 timeline so that's what our editing is going to be done at and we're looking at thumb view and
we need to see more information so we're going to click list view right over here and we need
to sort by frames per second and clip color both headers are not here so we're going to right click
under clip name we're going to choose fps and clip color and now that those are available we
can click on the top of fps which is our frames per second and sort by those and so what we're
going to be doing is associating every one of the same frame rate to a very specific color it's a
color you're going to memorize it's hopefully a color that you'll be able to pick up quickly so
you can recognize what the frame rate is on the timeline once it's down there so from avid this
is something i learned 23976 is always going to be green so i set those to green i'm going to choose
my 29.97 or my 30fps clips change those to navy those will be blue my 60fps clips are going to
be purple so i'll go up here and choose purple for those and then finally my special little
120 frames per second super duper slow-mo clips are going to be set to yellow so now i know if i
see a yellow clip on the timeline it's 120 fps which means i know in just in my head that it
can be slowed down to 20 percent or you could use this cheat sheet and take a look at how slow can
i actually make that clip so that's my first tip here is sort by clip color and then your life is
gonna be so much easier because you know how slow you can make the clip when it's on your timeline
so we've got all our footage organized by frame rate and clip color if we select all command a and
then f10 to overwrite those onto our timeline we can see down here it's awesome we can see
green's 24 we got blue 30 60 is um the purple and then we've got 120 frames per second yellow
now the thing that happens when you put them onto your timeline is it
resolve is gonna throw away the frames from the 120p clips here so that it plays it in real time
it's going to assume that you don't want to see everything every frame you shot and it's going
to assume you want to see real time so the way we're going to slow this down we're going to
select it and this is sort of new in Resolve over here if we choose inspector you can open
this up more if you click this little button and there's a speed change tab here right now
and we know because it's 120 frames per second we can slow it down to 20 speed so under speed
percentage we can choose 20 right if you want to make sure that you have ripple sequence turned on
if you want to make sure your in and out point remain consistent on the clip so now we have 20
selected we hit enter and just like that boom zoom out a little bit we can see every single frame
from that in and out point that we had marked right there on the timeline which is super handy
the uh the little tab over here has a couple other good shortcuts if you want
to play it backwards you can click this guy and that just plays the clip in reverse okay
so that's really helpful and then finally if let's say that's the key moment that's
where we want to freeze things at and lock in time there's a little freeze icon here and that creates
a freeze frame at that moment so you can see it just locked everything right on in it's like oh
hold up we need to take a timeout something like that so that's really helpful the other things
that are on this little tab here that you want to pay attention to are there's a ripple sequence
there's a pitch correction so this is with audio it's going to try to not make mickey mouse voices
but the ripple sequence one's actually pretty important so i want to show you that one here on
the clip before it so let's say we don't want this clip to get make the timeline longer or shorter
we would select it you can make sure you turn the ripple sequence off and then turn it to 20 and hit
enter and what this is going to do it's still going to slow the clip down to see every frame
but it's going to ignore the out point so you can see the timeline did not get longer but we did in
fact slow the clip down so that is playing every single frame in slow motion on that roller coaster
great roller coaster by the way that's at universal that's like a hogwarts or whatever so
anyways that is the speed change inspector method of slowing clips down here in davinci resolve 17.
this next tip to change clip speed is gonna go by so fast you might miss it so i've got a time lapse
here of the pch i shot in santa monica and it's four seconds long maybe i don't have that long
in my video to show it or maybe i want to give it more energy well we know it's 24fps because
it's green so we probably don't want to slow it down so what i'm going to do is speed it up so i
select the clip by dragging the mouse and i right click you can say change clip speed right here and
within this window we can say hey let's make this clip 400 percent instead of 100 so it's gonna go
faster it's gonna go four times faster we're going to choose a ripple sequence which is going to make
the whole timeline shorter um but it's going to keep the in and out points that are marked on
the clip itself we'll hit change and you can see boom much faster clip you can use the exact same
technique if we jump over to a slow motion clip so here's one with my buddy paul out in the snow it's
dropping frames right now because it's trying to maintain that 100 timing of the 24p timeline
but we know it's purple so it's 60 frames per second what we shot and we can slow it down to
40 speed so we'll select it with our mouse we'll right click and say change clip speed and now we
can change this we double click in there and say 40 with our mouse again and we're going to also
choose ripple sequence which makes the timeline longer in this case so it's the other direction
and just hit change and now you can see everything in buttery smooth slow motion playing back right
up there snow in slow motion just looks super cool in my opinion but also just so you know if
you select this and you say change clip speed you have the same controls that you did over in the
inspector under the speed change section here so you have uh ripple sequence reverse speed freeze
frame all that sort of stuff it's basically the same thing it's just a different way of doing it
so if you don't want to open the inspector you can always right click and say change clip speed
next up let's look at the retime controls here to do variable speed changes
and speed ramps so select a clip right click it and there is retime controls right there
it's command r so command r on and off to access that and a couple things you want to set up make
sure you have here turned on we're going to go to trim mode which is this button here this is
going to make sure we don't have any gaps in our timeline as we're making the changes and we're not
overwriting the clips next to us and then finally if you go to keyboard customization and type
and retime there's a new option here called retime curve and you can set this to whatever
you want it's not set by default uh but i set mine to command shift r and this gives you access
to the the little graph little chart thing that lets you put like bezier curves on things
after uh you put stuff down and you want to refine it later a little more advanced but command shift
r on and off for that that's a super good one and then actually uh this this paper is shot is out of
order from this keyboard we want the keyboard to happen before that so if i hit my selection arrow
i select this key and i use command shift uh the greater than less than brackets it's the ones next
to m key on the keyboard the period and the comma keys command shift to the left side moves that
clip over there to the left and right you can sort of see how that works really fast way of
moving and swapping clips on the timeline so now we have um with that command shift comma or period
lesser than greater than brackets they're in the right order okay so now we can do some speed
changes let's use our command r to open up our speed change controls we're going to use option
scroll to go in on that clip and we're going to find a point that we want to change the speed
why don't we do it right as the finger starting to come down we'll do it right there there's a
little drop down here and we're going to say add speed point okay so add speed point is basically
a keyframe that's going to change on that position and a couple things we can do with this let's say
at the beginning we want this to be playing even faster than 100 let's make this to change speed
to 200 percent it's a little uh little shortcut preset that's built in there now you can't change
these i wish you could but that has just made the left side faster okay and then this other side we
know this is a 60fps clip from the beginning of the video where we changed the color to purple
and so we can change this a lot slower than it currently is and before i do that i want
to point out we're not in trim mode so let's let's go back to trim mode this is going to ripple the
timeline for us and we're going to choose change speed to 50 percent and so that you can see that
pushed everything else back out on the timeline and so um it's not 40 which is what we could do
but it's not creating frames on its own so it's still pretty dang smooth if you check that out
right so that's really helpful um the the way this little speed point thing works there's a
top and a bottom they both have different controls the one on the top is going to control the speed
percentage of the left section or portion of your clip and the bottom is going to control
what frame the change is going to happen on so if you take the left the top section here we're
going to actually move this to the left it's going to increase the speed of this left side
so you can see there it went up to 367 percent and then we're still at that 50 percent on the right
side so it's everything to the left i'm going to hit undo there and then the what if we wanted to
the moment of the speed change to happen later you take the bottom of it and then this actually
changes like the location of the speed change so our speeds are not changing it's still 200 percent
it's still 50 on that side it's just the location of when that moment happened is a little bit later
but i actually wanted it to be right as this the key comes down so i'll just move that over there
and that in a nutshell is kind of how the the little speed ramp tool um works right within
here but guess what there's more of course there's more right so if we hit that command shift r that
we had talked about before we'd set up to enable the retime frame and speed controls um we have
a little bit more options i'm going to zoom in a little bit more with options scroll on the wheel
here and if we take a look here at this little drop down we can choose retime speed okay and
undo retime frame and this gives us a little bit of a graph and if we move in even a little bit
further we'll be able to see what's happening so you can see there is a a keyframe moment that's
happening right here if you select that and then you choose this guy right here this changes it to
a bezier handle and it just smooths things out makes things a little bit more buttery so it's
going from 200 to 50 in a much smoother fashion so just a little way to to finesse things a little
bit not totally necessary i've done a lot of you know worked on car commercials food commercials
and stuff where we we just still use hard cuts but this is a this is a really fancy way of
adjusting that right there and if you want to go back to sort of the hard change you can click
that button right there one other tip that i want to point out is um you can actually
extend this longer let's say we want this clip here instead of be 50 let's see what it looks
like at 25 so this is we're actually going to be making up frames at this point and to do that we
need to change some things so that we don't get this little jitter okay go up to inspector you
choose retime process and under here you have three options these are from easiest to hardest
and if we choose optical flow that's the hardest it's going to be the most taxing on the computer
but it's going to give us the best results if we change motion estimation so by default it's
going to choose this standard faster motion which you can always take a look and see how it looks
usually you get some weird artifacts that wasn't actually terrible but what i suggest is almost
always choosing enhanced better which is going to take a second to render for sure but that's
going to give you great results it's basically an order of high quality low quality to high quality
there's speed warp at the bottom i almost never use that it just takes forever but if you choose
enhanced better for most estimation that's a good way of getting pretty good results now you can see
it's just dropping frames all over the place and that's gonna point me to one of my final tips here
in the video and that is render in place so render place is gonna let us render this sucker out
so new to resolve 17 you can render and place this clip you're going to right click on it
and it's just right up there at the top say render in place you can choose your quality settings
and all that right there i'm going to just choose what's preset say render it's going
to ask me where do i want this rendered file to live and we'll just call this tutorial on the
desktop we'll say open and it starts cooking that media out for us and so it's basically
it's creating its own it's not a cache it's like an actual media file so that we can play this back
and see it super duper smooth right so really cool thing render in place right here and resolve it
just swaps it out for us on the fly quick i'm calling a timeout to welcome you if you're new
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so you don't miss out on the new tip next week and with that other way i've got a great bonus tip
that i want to share with you about why you might not want to actually be using clip attributes
to slow down your video footage now that you know all these techniques to use the timeline
i want to caution you to never really use the clip attributes to change your frame rate of a clip so
you know if you change this right here you could change this to 23976 and it conforms the clip
that used to be 60 and now it'll play that back in slow motion so that you know that was obviously
that was much faster in real time the reason i would suggest you not use clip attributes
is if you're doing any sort of xml aaf edl translations between editing systems
it's not going to match up if both systems have not conformed them correctly
on the source of the clip which is almost never the case so you'll be sending the source clips
to someone and they'll be whatever their native frame rate was which for this one it was 59.94
that's how the the other editing system needs to see them so please uh please you're going
to avoid so many headaches if you do not use clip attributes to conform your your video frame right
here and resolve or even in adobe premiere has a way to do that that i know a lot of people use
rather than using the speed controls that are down there in the timeline
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