don't you just hate it when you go to flip a light switch on and it does
something completely different from what you expect it to do like turn a light on
well today I want to show you the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor
how it works differently in the edit page compared to the cut page let's get started
one thing i love about the cut page is there's a feature called close up it's this button
right here on the speed editor if you tap it when you're in an interview with a wide shot
it drops a clip on v2 that is blown up you can see it kind of just punches in so it's almost
like you have a second angle of the interview all right you can actually also with the speed
area if you if you hold this down it changes the y position so you can get that headroom
right where you need it to be now if we jump over to the edit page this is where
edit page is different if you push shift 4 that jumps to the edit page
close up button does not work unfortunately what close-up button does you'll see here i'm gonna
push close up it actually drops the clip whatever is in your source monitor on top so it's basically
a place on top um and i don't know why they did that that way it could have easily been
another close-up maybe it'll fix that in the future but that's one thing that doesn't work
in the edit page that does in the cut page and that's the close-up button. So one thing that edit
page can do that the cut page cannot do is J and L cuts so if we take a look here on that timeline
i have a b-roll shot that goes into an interview and then i scroll over here to another b-roll shot
so what i want to do is i want to have this b-roll shot overlap this section of audio and
then vice versa on the other end i want to do a j-cut so i want to still have his audio talking
about this cabin the back of the house while we see that so you can't do that in the cut page
unless you're using a video 2 track and i'll show you what i'm talking about so if we go to shift
3 which takes us to the cut page and use the roll button doing a j and l cuts really a lot
about using the roll button so we're going to hold that and then you can easily see that shifted over
we'll go to shift 4 and it just took everything audio with it i didn't have a choice of not
having that audio linked to that function so i'm going to undo that it's escape double tap that
undoes that operation and then when we're here in the edit page we want to make sure that our
auto track selectors which are these guys right here are disabled so it's a shift click to enable
and disable so we're going to disable those for the audio because we want the audio to stay put
and then the linked selection button right here we're also going to turn that off which is
command shift L which is a great keyboard shortcut to learn so now that that is all set up we're just
going to be selecting v1 and we can use the roll button which is on the speed editor right here
we'll take this roll it over and you can see we now have that overlap that we were wanting and
then we can go quickly over here to the tail of it and roll and pull that up with the speed editor
and take a listen and hopefully it sounds amazing and for some reason the lady said
to her husband i'm gonna go check the back door i think i didn't lock it
well it's a good thing he went back to get that door locked anyways that is how J and L cuts work
in the edit page versus if we go shift three to jump back to the cut page you just can't do them
the one thing i will say is it here in the cut page is it maintains that asymmetric sort of trim
that you had done so if i go and continue to roll this further look at this shift forward go back
here it has actually maintained that asynchronous relationship on the timeline which is awesome
these two pages talk to each other all day long don't be afraid to use them both
at the same time and back and forth. So next up is the detail level of source if i tap source in
the speed editor when i'm in the cut page click that right there we can see up here we've got two
super long clips back to back and it shows you this little
line right here tells you when we've switched from one clip to the the next one so one's the wide
shot one's the close-up of this interview now what i mean by detail level of source that's so good in
the cut page is if i mark an in point anywhere in here and an out point and then i tap source again
that's magical look at that it just blew into just the section that i had marked if i want to go back
i tap escape on the speed editor right there i can clear my in and out marks by double tapping those
right there and i can see everything again so what if i just want to refine you know this interview
is 30 minutes long or something i just want to take a closer look here on my user interface
of just this section to this section i tap source and now i just am seeing that section of it which
i can edit into the timeline if i'm in the edit page however shift 4 to jump to the edit page
and i go up to source source button does work so it pulled up that source clip
because source tape does not exist in the edit page i can mark an in and out point all i want
and get frame accurate but i never am able to get a more zoomed in view here in the interface as
opposed to if you jump back to the cut page and go to source and i hit escape so i can see the whole
clips again i just say i just want to see this section to this section and i hit source again it
gives me that zoomed in view so i can work things at a much more sort of refined user interface
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use a search dial that work in the cut page but don't work at all in the edit page so i'll show
you those really quickly if you if you're unaware so there's a title button right here if you double
tap and hold you can use the search dial to scroll through and change to whatever font you want to
try out so that's one cool thing another thing you can do is if you want to go down later in
the timeline you can change the default color of a marker so if you double tap the audio level button
which is right here so double tap hold it brings up a wheel and you can change your marker color
selection and anytime you drop a marker after that which is like a double tap it's that color
and if you want to change it again you can just double tap hold and let's make it red i don't know
the other feature i was going to mention is the transition type selection so right here
i have a cross dissolve you can click on the transition button which is right here
just hold that down and that pulls up every transition that resolve has built in so you
can change the dissolve to like i don't know an oval iris and sort of see how that that's a pretty
funky one but you can see how that might work and then the fourth one that i was going to mention
is the interface sizing so over here on the right side there's this little button here which if you
didn't know if you pull this up and down it makes your viewer smaller or larger you can also do that
here with the search dial so if you double tap the snap button you can scroll and make that larger
and smaller so the speed editor has all these amazing buttons like a number pad right here
it would be great if that worked in the edit page unfortunately it does not in order to do multi-cam
with the speed editor you have to be in the cut page you use the sync bin button which is right
here and that pulls up the the clips you've synced up so i've got a wide and a tight angle here
if i want to cut to something else i can just click the cam 2 button hold it down with the
search dial and just sort of paint that on and then if i want to review it i can hit timeline
and when i first met him i just so we can see that did a nice cut now if you go over to the
edit page which is shift four we've gone through that a bunch um you're going to be stuck to using
a traditional multi-cam style edit so in this instance you can still do multicam for sure
it's just you need to know none of these buttons right here in the center of the thing work the
move button on the speeder is a great tool it's this underneath the split right here so if you
hold that down it's going to let you rearrange clips so i have a clip of my boys here at the
end of the timeline and i want to move them to the beginning so what i'll do is move the search dial
till it's selected over it i'm going to hold down on move and you can see i'm able to use a search
dial to move that to the beginning of the timeline and it just snaps that's the key here in the cut
page it just sort of snaps along the way maybe i want to use um this as a in between shot i'll
take this i'll hold down on there and move that to there so it goes from this shot down to there
and you know maybe i don't even need that so i'd hit ripple delete you know but that move button
the importance of the move button here is if you hold it it snaps the entire clip left and right to
get your story in the right order if you go to the edit page however command plus on that to get that
zoomed in and if i use the move button now you're going to see it behaves completely different so if
i hold it down it's moving but it's not snapping in in any way it's kind of doing a slide but not
really because it's leaving those gaps and you can't rearrange you can't change the order at all
so move button acts a little differently here in the edit page hold up i want to call a time out
i know this software is evolving so i want you to call out and leave a comment down below right now
on anything that you don't see working in the edit page with your speed editor okay time back
in i want to say if you're getting something out of this video tap the like button that way
everyone can learn from our tips about the speed editor this is something you might not know about
these cam buttons here in the speed editor are not just for sync bin and multicam they actually also
control your track selection for where you want to target a trim what i mean by that is i have a more
complicated edit here on the timeline and it has obviously you can see here there's multiple video
tracks one two three four these relate to video tracks one two three four as far as the selection
of where you want to do your trims so if you're in the cut page this is where they're different
if you're in the cut page these work so if you push 1 here we can see we're selecting track 1
down here and if i push 2 it just jumped up and it's kind of hard to see because it's so
tiny but that is green now so i can trim that automatically it's jumped my little smart edit
indicator up to track two and if i want to go back to one you can see that jumps back down to one
so if i want to make any edit changes with the trim in trim out rolls any of that sort
of stuff it's controlled with these cam one cam two buttons or whatever you're closest
to but this is nice because if you have a lot of edits that are really close to each other
you can really target where you want the edit to perform at now here in the edit page
these cam1 and cam 2 buttons do absolutely nothing you still can edit and trim stuff that are on
those upper tracks it's just the way resolve determines where you can make that trim at on
here so i'm going to go to jog so it's a little more refined it's just whatever it's closest to
so like if i wanted to trim this thing back or forward here it's just because i'm close to it
it's not because i've done any special sort of selection so it's a little bit more automatic
but it's nice to have that more precision control over in the cut page shift three to get back there
you can see this little red indicator and that's all controlled from the cam buttons the edit page
lets you drop a marker or it says mark here on the speed editor it's the audio level button if
you double tap it you can drop it directly onto a clip itself which is really nice and handy because
you're going to move that clip around a lot of times and you want to maybe have that mark or
that note attached to the clip whereas any any cut page if you drop a marker double tap it's
always specifically just to the timeline as a whole so if we go back over here to the edit
page there's a little trick to setting this up so right now you can notice as i move my search style
it's sort of selecting the clip as i scroll over it the way you do that or where you allow that
to happen and this is how you get that marker to appear on the clip and not on the timeline
is up here under timeline there's a thing called selection follows playhead if that is unchecked
it's going to apply the mark to the timeline up here in the timeline header
but if it's selected and you have or if you just manually select a clip like this
it takes precedent over the timeline when you drop a new marker down so that's a great thing that you
can do in the edit page that you can't do in the cup page with the speed editor now we're looking
at the smart insert button here on the speed editor it's the upper left button i use it all the
time what it does is in the cut page you get this smart indicator placement location whatever you
want to call it if you get close to whatever the nearest thing is to the playhead it sort of will
snap to it so in the source i've got a clip that i want to drop right in there and insert into that
spot i'll hit timeline to see where that goes now you can see my playhead is not exactly where this
indicator is well it's going to drop a clip where the indicator is in the cup page so i'll hit smart
insert and it has dropped it right there without messing up the end of this amazing cow town usa
title now the edit page is totally different smart insert becomes insert so let's undo that double
tap the escape button let's go to shift 4 to get to the edit page and i've still got the playhead
here at sort of that same spot i've got source so i can still see that clip i can mark my in
and out wherever i want on it the search dial and now if i hit smart insert here on the edit page
look at that it actually just doesn't insert a normal insert it doesn't pay attention to any
of that sort of smart locating of the next edit point it has sort of split this clip that had this
amazing cow town title so that's not what i wanted you could still do everything totally fine here in
the edit page with insert you just have to be a little bit more precise so you got to get that
that playhead right where you want it to be and it's a little bit tricky to do with the search
dial it's almost easier to do with up and down arrows but if you did it there you could still hit
smart insert and you'll get the same effect it's just a little slower so i think this video
would be short-minded if i didn't explain the fact that the cut page and edit page
actually are fundamentally different editing environments and situations and that's why the
speed editor works differently in those areas so the cut page at least on v1 is a lot like
final cut pro 10's magnetic timeline is what they call it um it's basically a rippled timeline it's
every time you make a trim it's not going to want to leave a gap the edit page on the other
hand if you're in selection mode it will leave a gap so it maintains the timing from beginning to
end the full view and review button is powerful it's this little red button right here what it
does if you tap it in the cut page double tap it it takes you back to whatever your pre-roll
and going into your post role is set and your user preferences for editing i'm going to hit escape to
back out of that so we don't see a full screen and hit stop now the way it acts differently
in the edit page shift 4 to get jump over to there is if you double tap it watch what happens
it just goes right back and forth so in other words it doesn't do the review function
in the edit page you can tap full view and it does go full screen you're just going to have to
manually go back with the search dial and manually push play so it's a little bit more effort it's
still doable just a small thing to take note of and before i move on to my bonus tip about using
this search dial in the color page i just want to let you know i have a whole playlist about
the speed editor and davinci resolve it's it'll pop up somewhere around here right now uh click
that if you want to learn more about it and get up to speed with the speed editor that was that
wasn't good um anyways i'd love for you to check that out you'll learn a ton so you made it to the
bonus tip we're over here in the color page and what you can do with the search dial with the
speed editor is if you hit command w that goes to your image wipe it's this button right here
and you can wipe whatever section is for the comparison to do like a color matching shot
matching to another shot that you have over here in your gallery whatever is selected over here so
you can clearly see the speed editor works in much more than just the cut page if you want to learn
more about the speed editor or DaVinci Resolve in general i have a great playlist that should
be popping up somewhere right now and click on over there and i'll see you in those videos