today we're going to continue our fight of knowledge in davinci resolve and we're
going to continue looking at importing footage and what i mean by that in a previous episode
i showed you how to do a basic import to davinci resolve so what we're going to do now we're
actually going to do advanced import and what i mean by that we're actually going to be looking
at the clip or i should say video that's already been edited for us and there's a way in davinci
resolve that you can actually automatically detect the cutscenes which will save you
tons of hours of manual labor so today we're going to be looking how to do that and basically how
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links in the description below so first of all let's talk a little bit more about advanced way
so instead of digging manually like through the right click like i showed in the first
video we can actually add our own location and it's gonna stay there basically forever
so for the sake of this video i'm gonna add desktop as a location for my file
so it's very simple to do right click and select add new location okay very simple
in the new um pop-up window that's gonna appear and by the way if it looks different it's because
i'm running windows 10 i mean windows 11 so far so good by the way davinci resolve
17 runs perfectly on windows 11. so i'm going to select desktop so i'm going to go up a little bit
select desktop and click select folder in your case you may pick whatever you want
for the sake of this video again we're going to be doing the desktop so i'm going to click select
folder and now we can see that we have desktop in all the files that i have on my desktop currently
so in a previous video we were working with this file from raw film
but today we're going to be working with the black magic with something that i filmed however
in this case we actually have a final completed video so it's a little bit different
now the problem is when you add single file it's very easy you just drop
however let's say that the client wants me to re-edit this video or do additional color grading
because it's already a single film it's a single file i can't really do color grading because it's
going to affect everything but there's a way of doing this davinci resolve has a feature called
scene cut detection and basically what it's going to do it's automatically going
to decide and find cuts for us that way we don't have to do any kind of manual labor
so let me show you how it works find the video that you want to do scene cut detection
and by the way it doesn't really work on a single file so right over here right click and select
scene cut detection okay so let's click on this and we're gonna have this new pop-up window
so let me really quick click auto scene detection okay just like that
and what davinci resolve gonna do it's gonna start calculating and looking for cutscenes
now depending on the footage and how certain angles and lighting situations davinci are
going to do its best job at guessing where the cut occurs now those green bars over here indicating
probability of a successful cut basically when you have a complete bar davinci resolve 100 certain
that indeed this is correct cut and it places basically the bar all the way up the purple line
over here indicating a threshold so by default it's always going to be sort of in the middle
in all the gray bars over here indicating that the ventures of think it may be a cut but it's
not so sure now because it's a green i mean it's a gray cut and because it's below our threshold
davinci resolve not going to take this into consideration now there's a couple things we can
do for example let's navigate our little scroll and verify that there's a cut there and we can see
that it cuts let me zoom in a little bit using the slider i'm gonna use arrow keys left and right
to see if the cut indeed is there so i'm gonna moving moving boom
so the successful cut will have two pictures here in one picture over here
so when you have two same pictures on the right side that means the cut indeed is correct
so again let me go back and we can see how it works okay just like that so i know for a fact
it's a proper cut so let me go back so we can see the whole thing but davinci doesn't think so
so there's a couple options we can do i can either lower this threshold manually just like that
and now this cut basically turned green and we can see that we have more scenes now if i'm going to
move this thing up we can see that we have 16 if i'm going to bring this thing down we see that we
have 19 different shots lowering the threshold is one way of doing this but again there is no
such thing as a perfect solution for everything it's all really depends on the circumstances
so in this case i may get away by simply lowering the threshold just like that and we're good to go
again we're only talking about this specific area over here
but what if i have one hour long movie or documentary we may not be able to get away like
that because davinci resolve doesn't really works well with the fade ins fade outs and cuts kind
of like over here where let me show you we can see how the cut goes on the sideways so davinci
resolve cannot recognize those so here you have to do manual labor anyways so here we added the cut
now what if i don't want to do a threshold and i want to add this cut manually or what if davinci
predicted the cut but it's not accurate cut well we can add it or delete it manually again let
me zoom in a little bit so we can see now if i'm going to navigate again using arrow keys
to this cut i can manually add this so i'm just going to click add and let me zoom out and now we
can see this green bar is all the way up so now it's basically a hundred percent verified cut
but let's say in a certain situation i don't want to have a cut there we can again navigate over
here and we can simply click delete so the venture is off going to oops hold on let me know i didn't
navigate correctly that's why you always have to zoom in okay click delete and then zoom out
so now we can see that davinci resolve deleted the cut okay there is no more cut there even
though we do have a cut so depending on the situation this is the solution that you can use
in order to simplify and save yourself hours so once we're happy with this whole process
let's select add cuts to media pool okay click it it's going to ask us to change project frame rate
we're going to click change because we know all those cuts because they're part of the single
clip are all going to be the same frame rate so let's click change and close this little window
right over here so now we have the single file over here got split to 19 or whatever number was
different shots and we can see now they look like individual shots
okay so now let's go to the edit and we can see that all our shots here in the media pool
again in the master bin if we're not planning on adding anything we can just keep master or
like in a previous video we can do new bin and organize things a little bit better but
we don't have to so now again i'm gonna go to the file and select new timeline or push on your
keyboard control n if you're working on pc i'm sorry i don't know the shortcut for apple so again
we're gonna remove empty timeline okay we're gonna uncheck this and we're gonna click create
and now all our shots automatically gonna be added to our timeline so now we're
working with our timeline i hope you guys enjoyed this episode we're gonna continue
next week right now it's your opportunity to drop all your questions and requests for future videos
are probably going to be recording more this weekend so if you have any kind of special request
right now it's time to do it i'll see you next time take care