Today i've got 10 pro tips to get you editing video faster and with more precision in davinci
resolve 17. and to kick it off did you know that you can edit your selects from a source timeline
by hitting command page up to cut those gems directly down into your super awesome creative
sequence this uses a command under the timeline menu called swap timeline and source viewer
and you'll also want to go under the edit menu and turn on decompose compound clips
and enable stack timelines to tab them and quickly see which sequences that you're toggling
pretty cool eh no clicking and dragging and taking up too much ui space like the pancake method
even if you're a seasoned pro i'm willing to bet i've got some rare tips in this video that you
haven't used before and they'll speed up your workflow so let's go ahead and dive in deep
just a heads up we're going through a lot of keyboard shortcuts today and i'm on a mac so
if you're using windows you have to do a little translation like command to control or option alt
and i also have time stamps down below so feel free to skip around to a new tip that you could
use shuffle lets you change the order of clips on the timeline without using cut and paste
or some sort of funky moving around of all the clips on the timeline to make space
what i mean by making more spaces let's say we want this lime clip to come right after the green
clip here on the timeline a lot of people would select everything on the timeline they'd move it
over so there's a gap there they'd move this up and then they'd move this across with their mouse
maybe move it like that then have a couple gaps to close up that's a lot of steps that's unnecessary
steps that you don't need to do because we have swap and shuffle edits the way we use those it's
really simple we just need to select the clip the fastest way to do that is with shift v on the
keyboard that selects the clip under the playhead and then using command shift comma or period so
comma is on the left side of the keyboard it goes to the left period is on the right goes to the
right so command shift comma moves it and it swaps everything else out of its place look at that you
can go up and down the timeline with a clip super super fast that way and it goes a step beyond
that you can even select multiple clips on your timeline they'll keep the order of those clips
you've selected and then you can try those out in a different area it's kind of like final cut pro's
you know the way the connected clips and compound clips work in there so if i use
command shift on here now it's moving those three as a bundle sort of together which is really handy
and then finally i want to show you with swap and shuffle edits is that you can do this with the
mouse as well you can click and drag with using command shift so the one thing i want to warn
you about is make sure you have snapping turned on it's this button right here it's also n on
the keyboard to toggle it on and off this way you don't accidentally trim a head or tail of a clip
without realizing what you're doing so if we hit shift v to select that clip again and i hit
command shift on the keyboard to click and drag we can see it's going to snap right to a different
section and this would actually let you split up part of a clip that's right next to it if you
needed to so that is swap and shuffle edits here in davinci resolve 17. super cool unique feature
did you just download a music track and you need to spot it in your timeline real quick check this
out throughout the editing process you're always getting new clips in and you can actually go
straight from the finder to the timeline but first i want to make sure that i have opened the bin i
want the footage to go into so i clicked my music bin here i had command tab to go to my finder and
i can just click and drag this music clip that i just downloaded command tab to go back over to
resolve and we see we've got the music track on the sequence we didn't do anything except
for drag from the finder to the timeline and it's organized in the bin that we had specified
replace edit aligns both your playheads to edit and sync with each other with a single command
so here's the timeline i've got paper tearing out of it we need to hear that paper being torn
so that's what we're going to use replace edit for it's this button right over here
f11 is the shortcut a lot of people think they use that to replace the shot some people do
but i think there's a better tool called ripple overwrite which we'll get to later in this video
so we're actually gonna be using it just to sync up the sound let's go back here to the clip we're
gonna find the frame that the paper starts to be torn which is right there and then we're going to
go to our source which has the sound effect you hit q to get up there and we can see q toggles
between our source and record side so q again gets us over there and to preview it let's go home
and then l to play back it sounds good but we need to find the very beginning frame
i'm hitting j to go backwards and i can't actually hear it as i'm using my arrow
keys that's because audio scrubbing is not turned on hit shift s to hear audio scrubbing
and now we can start to hear the beginning of that right there that was the beginning of the sound
of the paper tearing we're gonna just hit f11 that's gonna do a replace edit which is actually
just gonna put it straight down on our timeline where we have it patched over here we have it
going to a1 and now it should be in perfect sync and it should sound amazing we can hit
um l on the keyboard to play it and it sounds looks good if we want to perfect it or look
further you can mark the clip with x and you can you know play into out with option
question mark and you can even loop it if you wanted to but that gives you the idea
of replace edit it's just simply match your timeline with your source and the playhead
positions and it's going to put it exactly where you want it so it's so good for sound effects
fit to fill is a great way to automatically change the speed of your source clips to fit a
music segment on your timeline so with fit to fill you know we're getting more advanced because there
are no fit to fill buttons over here you need to know the command and now you know it's shift
f11 okay and the way you use it is you need four points marked you need the source and
record marked it's only four point edit that i know of so let's find a place in the timeline
we want to use fit to fill so let me play this music track i'll mark i know on the fly with i
alright there's a section that i liked and let's drop this time-lapse clip of the pch
on here let's say we want to start here so an i there o there shift f11 and it
has automatically retimed that clip it has sped it up we know there's a little odometer there
a little speed change indicator and we can say change clip speed and it went to 173
of the original speed so sped it up super helpful handy let's get a couple more clips
on here because i want to show you a couple things that you might want to watch for um let's go here
okay so we got another bar of music we're going to be putting our new clip on let's
do this typing one now you'll notice this typing one it has a little music note there
it means there's sound associated with it we can also tell that because down here
it has automatically turned on this a1 indicator now if i put this down on the
timeline directly right now it's going to overwrite my music the way you avoid that
is you uncheck this target selection okay so now that's turned off i can hit
f11 and we just get the video portion of the clip on there which is what we want we can preview it
and he is typing furiously i wish i could type that fast and then one other thing that i think is
super useful to know about fit to fill is it's a great thing to use whenever you let's mark another
section while i'm talking it's great to use while you are um you know to have like a gopro clip or a
drone clip like this drone clip is super super long but maybe i want to cover a lot of ground
in a short amount of time which is kind of what i'm doing with this tutorial here i'm trying to
cover a lot of ground issue around time so mark an end point there this is lake dylan not far from
where i am and uh if i hit shift f11 that gets us that whole section in just a short amount of time
and so i can i think you can clearly see how useful fit to fill could be for your workflow
this can also work in other directions you can use the slow down clips as well
i just find i'm usually have really long clips a lot and i need to get them in shorter videos
and short amount of times commercials and stuff so that's what i use fit to fill for hopefully you'll
enjoy that one hey i'm calling a timeout real quick because we're halfway there i'm chadwick
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all right let's get back at it with the fastest way to knock off unwanted tops and tails of clips
i'm super excited to share this one with you if you haven't learned it already it's tops and tails
trim start trim and what it lets you do is every clip starts with junk at the beginning and junk
at the end that we want to get rid of right so a lot of times people would go through here they'd
hit command b they'd select it and then they'd hit delete on the keyboard then you got a gap
to clean up or maybe you were clever and you knew i want to use the other delete and it ripples it
for you well this saves the step of even having to hit the blade button what you're going to be
doing is hitting the shift brackets so shift left bracket shift right bracket left bracket takes the
left side of the clip right and the right side i think that makes sense right so all we're going
to do is go over here with this playhead right at the beginning of this line that's about to be said
i'm going to hit shift left bracket and it tidies everything up now it didn't ripple and the reason
it didn't ripple is because we're in the selection mode if we go to trim mode which is t on the
keyboard to get there and then go to it it's going to ripple and tidy up the sequence as we
go so if i hit shift right bracket it shortens it up now i can take this a step further and actually
stay in the arrow selection mode if you wanted to which is a and just use a modifier so instead of
using shift left and right bracket we're going to add command to that and it basically kind
of temporarily puts us in the trim mode that's going to ripple it for us so let's say we go to
this clip right here we want to get rid of all of this stuff which was what obviously it was like a
mistake or something i would hit command shift left bracket and it shortens it up like that
we go to the right command shift right bracket you can see how quickly you could go through
a lot of takes real quick and shorten them up so you're not wasting time when you're reviewing
like in this instance i was trying to figure out which take is going to be the best or which
you know you can compare you know lines really quickly when you clean things up and this is a
good way to do it it's also a great way if you have a really long talking head
even like a youtube video where you might just want to go through and just you know
get down to the basics really quickly and you don't need to mark ins and outs you don't need
to use blade tools at all start with one blade and then you can just keep going trim start trim
trimming all the way down tops and tails it's a lot of fun i can't wait for you to use this one
extend edit is a great way to trim up several layers of video clips to end at the same point
so i love to use extend edit to pull out what i mean by that is i've got a series of graphics here
that are all stacked up and i want them all to end at like the exact same point like what if i want
them all done right at six seconds what i would do is grab the trim tool which is this guy over here
it's t on the keyboard and then you can marquee the ends the tails of these clips by dragging that
it highlights them all green and then extended command is e it's just e so hit e once and now
everything is lined up right at that six second mark so this is great if you have lots of stuff
that's stacked to and you need them all ending at the same time that's what you would want to use
you can make things shorter here by hitting e right there or longer and pull out further
with extended that way but the main thing is you need to select the edges and the quickest
way to do that is with the trim tool and just dragging a marquee on what you want extended
like that so match frame is extremely powerful when you're working to find those last little
nuggets that your video needs it calls up the current timeline clip in your source monitor
match frame is like having the fastest assistant in the world go find a piece of footage for you
in the bin when you've already cut it out of your timeline what i mean by that is i've got
a segment here where i have a statement that gets cut off maybe a little early maybe there's more
information that i could get more into the video um i would listen to it let's see what she says i
believe there's right and there's wrong so forgiveness for i believe there's writing
there's wrong what does she actually say after that when we actually filmed the interview
what we need to do is use match frame match frame is f on the keyboard but the thing is is it obeys
these auto track selectors over here so because that is turned on for track two and the playhead
is going to go top down it's gonna match frame to this this clip right here this b-roll clip
not the a-roll clip that's underneath it so if i temporarily turn that off
it's disabled now now i'm match framing back to that original clip the other thing you can always
do if you don't want to be messing with these which you have to be mindful that you'll lose sync
sometimes if you're if you're not paying attention to those because that's what keeps your sync
is you can leave that on and you can option double click and then that's another way it pulls up to
match frame here in the monitor it just also opens up my media pool which i wanted that close for
real estate purposes but that's open now now if i want to here and sort of see the audio waveforms
there's a little three dot button menu up here and we'd say show show zoomed audio waveforms uh so we
can hear and there's good and there's bad and she says and there's good and there's bad well i want
to add that into the video to get more clarity you go back down to the timeline with q you can go to
the next edit with the down arrow and then you can hit f9 to insert it as simple as that it could not
just go right there it could go anywhere in the video but now we've given a little more clarity
believe there's right and there's wrong and there's good and there's bad there's right and
there's wrong there's good and there's bad there's a little more context there so that was a good use
of match frame you could also use this for b-roll really easily so maybe we like this b-roll shot
quite a bit and we want to see what is around it you know we can hit f to call that up there in our
source viewer and now we have the entire source clip available see this is like super super long
to try to find other b-roll segments from when the camera operator had start and stopped recording
while i don't trim in source monitor very often it's good to know how it's different
from match frame this will actually perform trims on your timeline from the source monitor
instead of just pulling up your original clips for you to hunt around trim and source monitor
looks and feels a lot like matchframe but it is totally different the way you access it is
you double click a clip on the timeline and it loads it into source now because we had double
clicked instead of option double clicked or clicked f any change you do here with in
and out points is reflected on the timeline so this could be good or bad but in this instance
let's say we want the moment when the typewriter starts coming into frame right there we mark an i
you'll see that it has changed it on the timeline and it has left the gap because we're in the edit
selection mode not in trim mode so if i were to undo that and do that again in trim mode select
it and then i hit came up here and hit i now you can see it made the timeline shorter so just know
that that's that's a difference between match frame which is a totally different thing than
trim and source monitor the other thing though if you if you get into using trim and source monitor
all the power to you you can hold down shift up here and hold shift to drag your in and out
points and it actually does a slip uh there on the timeline which is really actually pretty cool so
that's one way you can kind of scan with your mouse by holding shift on the keyboard
and clicking and dragging it does the slip for you now of course if if you get into the more basic uh
tutorial that i'll probably have on this if you go to trim mode you can just slip right here on
the timeline and i think that's a little bit more intuitive or of course the speed editor but that
is basically trim and source monitor don't get that confused with match frame which is f which
is how you're going to find all those little nuggets and then drop them in anywhere you want
and ripple overwrite does the old trading spaces trick to replace the old clip with the new clip
using the new clips length what's great about ripple overwrite other than the fact that it
actually lives on the speed editor i've got a lot of tutorials on this if you're interested in
learning about it but it replaces the clip with the new clips and duration so on the timeline
here i've got a wide typewriter shot and a close-up typewriter shot
the close-up typewriter shot if i hit x we can see this is actually four seconds long
and the one i want to replace it with is this sort of obscure angle and this is six seconds
long so it's going to use this duration of the in and out that i had marked right there and and get
rid of this at the same time so i can get rid of those marks there on my timeline with option
x i can come back up here and hit the ripple override command which is going to be shift f10
f10 is override ripple overwrite which changes the duration is shift f10 so just hit shift f10 and we
can see it got rid of the shot that's down there on the timeline without putting any marks on it
it's just based off of where the playhead was and it made it longer so that's a really really
handy tool to try out different shots on your timeline and have everything else kind of push
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