by now you already know that DaVinci Resolve 18.5 can transcribe the individual clips and
then automatically create captions for your whole timeline but did you know that you can actually
transcribe an entire sequence with just a click that way you're transcribing all of the interview
Clips at once and better yet you can use those fully transcribed timelines to edit directly from
one timeline to the other use tab to go to your creative sequence and then append oh in the big
kicker is we can actually pull out our speed editors again and have fun selecting the text
with the search dial so you're probably wondering why would I edit from timeline to timeline when I
could just go from clip to timeline wouldn't that be faster well maybe but you actually have a lot
more creative control if you put all of your Clips on a timeline that can be trimmed it can be marked
you can look at you know markers in the marker index and Export those as a spreadsheet file you
might not have known that but it just gives you a lot more control to go from a ton of footage down
to a smaller subset and to your final cut and then still be able to reference back to other
alternate takes that may have happened along the way the typical workflow I've done for many years
is you put markers on Clips on the timeline just like this you create somewhat of a bond with oh
for uh the friends we make along the way friends you make along the way you get the idea basically
what I did here to jump between all these markers is I've actually typed in every word that said so
I can quickly find and search them in the edit index or also that the marker index is another
new really cool way to to see those lines of text but we don't need this anymore so I'm going to
close the index over here I'm going to go to our clips and create a quick string out the best way
to do this is to double click the clip name headers that sorts them all in case they got
out of order make sure there's no in and out marks on any of those clips okay and then you can just
select them all I'm going to use a shift click to select them right click say create a new timeline
using selected clips and we'll just call this one uh transcribe transcribe me okay something
like that and you can see we have all the Clips in a row from that sequence all right now to
transcribe them it's super super simple so if you right click any individual clip you could go down
here to transcribe audio and it'll transcribe it but another way you can start to automatically
transcribe is to select the timeline and then go use this special new button so we're just going
to give this a click and let the computer do all the work and it's done just like that we have a
transcription window that's brand new in resolve 18.5 and what this is done it's word for word with
the AI gone and transcribed it for us now if it's not white for you you can click this button right
here I prefer it to be white and it seems to remember that the next time you go in you can
make the text larger you can even hit this button right here to export it as a text file which is
great if you want to send that out to a producer let's just throw this onto our desktop because
that's what you're doing tutorials then if I go over here to my desktop and open this text file
up you'll see we have a ton of text okay so that could be useful you could throw that in a Google
doc but I'm going to close that for now and we'll go back over here to resolve now if you close this
it seems like it goes away and it's like oh no is that you know all that analysis gone it's not
even if you save and close the project it's now stuck with it you just click the box and then
you can click the transcribe button again and all that great metadata is there the next step is I'm
going to show you how to edit timeline to timeline we need another timeline to do that right so what
I'm going to do is right click and say timeline create a new timeline and we'll call this the
select timeline okay it's just an empty timeline and what I want to do actually is close all the
other timelines over here that are not the selects empty timeline now if you don't see tabs here you
basically don't have stacked timelines turned on and the way you do that is this button here
has this option right here they call it stacked timelines it's really tabs you turn that on and
off that way and we can close the other tabs that we don't want open by just middle Mouse clicking
is one way that I do that pretty frequently okay middle Mouse click those are all closed now a
couple other shortcuts you want to probably set up when you're working with tabs and working between
different panels and resolve is if you open up your keyboard shortcuts keyboard customization I
guess what they call it is the Tab Key I have set to next tab so that's a really good thing to have
I'm going to close that right now the other thing you want to probably have available is
under your user preferences and it's called the show Focus indicators and the user interface and
what that is if I hit cancel here it's this red bar that's not saying something is unrendered in
resolve it's basically saying hey this has the focus so if you have Focus up here that's red
but if I want Focus down here and I don't know if it is I can click and we'll see that now I use a
shortcut it's command 4 to get to the timeline Focus that's going to be part of this workflow
to work soon super super fast so command 4 is how I get to that that this this panel this window of
the timelines so that's another thing to know the other options that you might want to customize or
might think about customizing is under timeline we're going to be using this command called swap
timeline and Source viewer Now by default it's command page up is the shortcut I set this to
F1 on the keyboard as well just because it's less buttons to push so you know if that might
help you and you're going to do this a lot F1 is a good option and the other thing you want to make
sure is always turned on is decompose compound Clips on edit which is under the edit menu and
what this menu option does is it makes sure that when you edit from timeline to timeline it doesn't
make a compound nested clip because you probably don't want that you want the the individual Source
clip just because it's it's just easier to work with in my opinion now to load this up and create
our select sequence all we're going to be doing is you take your transcribe me sequence and you
click and drag here's the important part we don't have it loaded down here in the timeline area at
all okay it's just the select sequence we click and drag the transcribe me that's the one that we
transcribe into the left Source monitor as soon as we've done that we can now hit F1 on the keyboard
and we put it into the The Source record side swapped right but this is different
than if we had double clicked it so that's just important to know so if I hit F1 again it goes
to the other timeline F1 we're toggling back and forth okay now you're like well what happened to
our text well remember as long as you just hit this transcribe button again we have all that
text metadata that transcription there available for us so why don't we just get a piece of text
that we like and we can try to cut it in okay why don't we start with this right here where it says
um I'm Braxton okay now I selected this with my mouse you could use shift arrows to select words
and you'll notice as I'm doing this over here this is changing the in and out range
of the timeline so basically we're selecting that range on the timeline versus on the clip
itself instead of using you know the mouse to click and drag what you can do with the
speed editor is Mark an in where the cursor is and then use the dial here it's on scroll
so let's go in super fast if I change it to jog it won't go as fast word by word right
and what we can do is scroll to where we want the last word to be we want it there hit out so
we have an in and out area marked on our timeline you can see that over here now to get this to our
selects timeline normally you would just hit F9 F10 there's buttons right here to do you
know an insert or an append but we have an append button on the keep the speed editor now if you hit
it right now it's not going to work and that's be going back to the focus area that's you know where
we're selected in our in our project and we need to focus that red area from up here down to this
timeline area and so the way I'm going to do that is command 4 to get there okay and then from here
we're on the wrong sequence we're looking at the transcribe me one we want to get to selects and
remember to get between the tabs we push the tab button because we set that in our custom keyboard
shortcuts and now we can hit append so I'm going to hit apend on the speed editor and just
like that if I zoom in you'll see we have that Source clip down there I don't think I have my
thumbnails turned on so you couldn't see that but it basically took that chunk of text let's
listen to it I'm Braxton Schultz of seven of Iowa said four one four four two eight
y what's cool is it even gets the little things like laughter in the text which I think is super
super cool now another thing I want to show you is that when you do this swap timeline in source
with decomposed compound Clips on edit and I make a selection here of text let's say we start with
um the word these I hit I and I go across here you can see over here on my timeline that I'm gonna
actually cross a cut right so if that's the case I'm actually going to be editing two clips from
the source timeline onto my creative timeline or my selects timeline right so let's just randomly
say we want um it's end on the words where it says that's what I mean get to my timeline remember
with command 4 that gets us to the timeline view I need to get to the right sequence with
tab right so this is my you can't see it but that's my select timeline and from there I just
hit append on the speed editor and let's take a look did we get two new clips added sure enough
we did and it's the exact pieces of text that come from this transcript now I don't know of a way to
get back to this transcription window over here other than clicking so I'm a very keyboard driven
editor I don't like to have to click it too much you know so if you find a way I want to know from
you how to do it so a quick recap you select the transcription box you can click and drag it or
you could hit I on the speed editor and then roll that dial hit out on the speed editor and then go
to the timeline area with command 4 use tab to go to your creative sequence and then append there's
these buttons here as well just to know and also I didn't talk about it but there is a create a
subclip button as well I don't suggest you use this but it's good to know it's there how are
you going to use this new feature or what would you like to see them do to it the old way of
working clearly is to use the the edit index with markers and you can just click to to any piece but
it's such a manual process what I would love to see personally is that if I was able to use this
transcribe me sequence and basically select a piece of of text here hit this marker button
and instead of it just making a marker you know a duration marker which is what it does by default
with no information on it I would love if it would actually put that piece of text on the name of the
marker so that I could go back and use the the marker index later on so if I if I go to this
right here and I hit M you can see it just named it marker one that's not as useful as taking that
text and putting it in there so that's my special request for Blackmagic if you're watching this
I'm Chadwick this channel is called creative video tips is here to help you create videos
that make a difference and stand out but I love teaching all the cool stuff in DaVinci Resolve
especially this new AI stuff and because there is so much more to learn I'll see in that next video