i am so excited today i've got the blackmagic design davinci resolve speed editor this thing
is amazing it's a new interface and it has this uh this electronic search dial the search wheel
and i'm going to show you all 16 ways how to use it in the next 10 minutes
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and i will show you how this thing works so one thing you need to know about the davinci resolve
speed editor is it does not come or at least mine didn't come with a usb-c cable and that's
what you need to charge it or if you want to use it directly plugged in the first thing we'll take
a look at on the machine dial is you can use it to shuttle shuttle is basically your jkl
and what you'll do is just rotate slightly to the left to play backwards it's more of a playback
control than a finding or searching control next up we have jog on the search style jog is the most
accurate way of going through footage it's easy to find something down to the frame level with it
so it's great to work at the clip level with jog and it doesn't initiate like a playback and that's
so shuttle involves like playing back footage jog does not and it's more finite
so you can see here i can as i move it and let go it stops whereas if i do shuttle
and let go it's like i hit rewind on a tape deck or something okay
so jog is the finite way of controlling like an individual clip so then the third option
over there is scroll now scroll is just like jog except that scroll is a geared at a higher
ratio so you can sift through larger amounts of material faster click scroll scroll is jog but
like on steroids it will stop as soon as you let go which shuttle doesn't remember that's
a playback thing but scroll lets you get from the beginning or end of a timeline much quicker okay
my suggestion if you're not super precise you scroll if it's a long timeline and use jog if it's
like a shorter clip so next up with the search tab we have trim in and trim out so i'm going to group
these together because they're basically opposites of each other you hold the button it selects the
nearest edit and it quickly tucks up your timeline or expands it out further the easiest way to trim
something in the world it's it's amazing so what trim in is basically gonna choose you can
see there's an edge right there of the the clip that's going in you can roll this right or left
and it's just like butter same thing with the trim outside and what it's doing is it's using
that smart indicator thing that's finding the next edit point and it's choosing that so you
don't even have to like park right on a cut like i could be like right in between it and like if
i just go to the left a little you'll see that smart indicator jump to the left if i go to the
right it's jumping to the right so that's how it's making those choices now that i'm close
enough to this cut i could say i want to trim the tail of it so the trim out and i want to make that
shorter i just do that right there and i want to trim the other side of it i do that right there
it's pretty sweet trim and trim out also work in source they just work differently so if you tap
source and what you're going to be doing is let's say let's mark in in and and out on something
and then we click source again that basically gives us that zoomed in view
if we choose trim in it's going to change our endpoint and trim out it changes our out point
so that's kind of a bonus tip it's it's a function a trim and trim out they'll behave differently
depending if you're in source or timeline okay i'm gonna hit escape which will give us our full
and clear our markers so it gives us our full source tape again and i'm gonna jump back to the
timeline we'll get to our next function so next up we have roll if you hold roll it's gonna find
the nearest edit point go to left go to the right simple if you're unfamiliar with roll what role
is doing is it's taking away a frame from one shot and adding the exact same frame to the other so at
the same time it happens super fast and that makes the whole timeline the same length from beginning
to end slide is another type of edit you can do with the search style if you double tap roll
basically what that's letting us do is shuffle that clip around in the timeline and it's kind
of doing two rolls at the same time to the adjacent clips and if we have slide of course
we have to have slip slip's one of my favorite types of edit modes and that's basically going
to let you change the inside contents of the shot without changing the edit points so if those are
both lined up on music cues or sound effect those get unaffected and we have slip source
okay and we have slip destination so destination is going to be everything to the right of that
smart indicator slip source is everything to the left of it i don't know why they didn't
call it slip in and slip out so we've got slip source changing the inside contents
slip destination slipping the inside contents of the shot after what if you want to move a clip to
a different part in the timeline well you just hold the split button which has move underneath
it if you have the keyboard in front of you on the clip you want to move and then you just drag
the dial and it kind of highlights it in orange and it tells you which way you're going with it
it moves everything else where it needs to go around it things get out of its way in other
words you release it and it drops it wherever you want it to go so it's a great way to shuffle
order of things you can also change the transition duration by holding the transition duration button
and changing the search style so longer and shorter cross dissolves are super easy
but guess what there's more not only can you change the duration of the transition you
can also change the type of transition maybe you want some venetian blinds or a clock wipe you can
hold down that transition button and and scroll that wheel until you find the craziest
1980s transition you might want to use that's not a fade or a dissolve just don't put it on my video
you can choose that great uh why don't we choose the heart transition and you can
quickly have a heart or whatever you want it to be we could change it by holding it and maybe
we want to go what's what's the barn door gonna do you know like try out all these transitions
you've probably never used and probably never will but you you could at least change between
like a dissolve and a fade to black or something and then like i said before if you want to go
and change and make that that transition last longer you hold transition duration
and it's longer or shorter just with using the search dial title font selection is another thing
you can change with the search style you just hold down the title button and move that scroll wheel
and you'll get to choose from all the fonts you have installed on your system if you do a
double tap on the transition button which is also title underneath so it's a double tap hold it now
is letting me change the font with the search dial by just rotating it here so it's a double tap hold
and you can change your text font and just try a bunch of different stuff out and see what works
good you know pretty cool you can even change the audio level with the search dial hold the audio
level button scroll left and right to increase and decrease volume so if you want to make clips
really quiet really quick that's a great way to do it so now those drums are silent and if you want
to make a modder it's just whatever you're parked over you hold it scroll right and we brought it up
and there's noise again so that's pretty sweet audio level with the search style you can also
change your marker color with the search dial so double tap hold and that brings up this wheel
it's a wheel of fortune basically and let's say i want a green one it'll drop a green one let's
go somewhere else later and this guy is going to get pink it's going to be a double tap hold
and we wait until we get a pink one let's do the pinker pink one and just you know kind of fun
way to drop colors on your timeline now the snap button is kind of cool underneath there are three
horizontal lines and what this does you double tap and hold it while using the search style you can
change your viewer size so this kind of seamlessly it's kind of a buttery smooth experience to make
your viewer larger and your timeline smaller vice versa so you double tap the snap button
and scroll dial it has those three lines below it we can make this bigger and smaller
by just scrolling this sweet machined wheel so that's underneath the snap button
one of my favorite features the cut page has is close up what it does you tap it and it gives
you a punched in version so if you're working in a 1080 timeline with 4k material you can get
like these virtual close-in shots which is awesome but maybe it doesn't put it
in the right spot so this head is cut off and we want to fix that so you hold this
close-up button and you can change the y position the vertical position by just holding that down
and we can get the singer's face back in the shot so when it makes the cut
it goes and you can see it all of it in its glory so the close-up feature is cool because
it actually uses the facial recognition stuff that's in the neural engine of the software
but on some shots like this one in particular it's not finding faces it's i mean it'll find it on
like an interview or something if it's a kind of a standard shot but having that ability to change
that right on the fly is pretty freaking sweet now you're absolutely a search style master with
the speed editor in davinci resolve 17. i hope you got something out of this video if you did please
click the like button leave any questions in the comments below i'd love to find out if you're
using the speed editor just thanks so much for watching i'm going to see you in the next video