so many people are getting the davinci resolve speed editor's in to use with the new cut page
and a lot of people aren't used to using the cup page so today i've got
seven features that could easily go overlooked let's check them out i'll show you how they work
just to get everyone on the same playing field we are in davinci resolve version 17.
it's the current beta version as of 2021 here early 2021
and down here at the timeline i have a selection of clips from a recent graffiti mural shoot
and the first tip i want to show you don't actually need the speed editor for which
is awesome so you take your mouse you're going to go down to the bottom timeline
and if you park it right over the top head of that playhead you can get some new options so this is a
right click and by doing that you have an option to cut the clip which is davinci called split
and i'm going to undo that okay double tapping on my speed editor or command z the other thing
you can do is not just split but you can use this to select left and right of the playhead so right
click on it and i want to take everything to the left of the playhead got like that and then you
can copy and paste this into another sequence so you can say edit copy and here's another timeline
we choose our timeline down here we can say edit paste and you can see we have all of those
beginning clips and shots from the one timeline put into the next the reason this is helpful
is maybe you're going to do lots of versions of something and you like one segment that you kind
of put together in one timeline it's great to just be able to copy and paste it and keep versioning
the longer timeline in another one and you do that all right in the cut page ripple overwrite
is a great feature to davinci resolve this button right here on the davinci resolve speed editor
it works a lot like ripple delete except what it's doing is replacing the clip on the timeline
instead of removing it but the special trick that it has is it's going to extend the duration based
off what the incoming length is so here i've got a short clip this one that has this taylor graphic i
want to replace this with a longer clip and have the rest of the timeline just kind of ripple out
and extend during the process so i'm going to click source and let's find a shot that i like
maybe this clip right here will work we can go to the beginning of it mark an in point mark and out
point and i know that's still quite a bit longer than what's there on the timeline i tap ripple
overwrite and it has just if i click timeline it has just made a much longer clip and replaced what
was there with the new one so ripple overwrite it's super powerful because it's pushing the
rest of the timeline out of the way or shrinking it up so to show you ripple right works in the
other way i'm going to take this and use a shorter clip so if we click source again we'll go find
let's take a real short clip why don't we go in further on this one here we can mark an end point
and just take a couple beats of it mark an out point and then we're gonna go say ripple overwrite
and just like that if we go back down the timeline that other shot is gone and we have a new shot in
its place which is much shorter so the next tip i've got in the cut page here with the
speed editor is going to be to use this audio trim button so with that on now we can easily
cut to the beginning of a sound bite with seeing giant waveforms on the timeline i'll show you what
i mean so we have an interview here this is the beginning of answering a question all right it's
just a ton of fun yeah okay i met santino my all right so to trim that up it's really easy so you
can see it right now like a little tiny waveforms but what that button does is it makes them giant
and it gets rid of your thumbnails so if i say trim in with the speed editor hold that down
and we can see right there is where the beginning of the soundbite happens release it i met santino
my so you can see by having that giant view that helps a lot if it's off by which is what it is
by default i think and it's grayed out you're going to see the thumbnails move but i don't
think that's as useful so like let's say we want to trim the tail of this clip we'll say trim out
like that doesn't do much for me because i've already got
if i hold it you've already got um sort of a split view of seeing your incoming outcoming
frames in this window up here so i think in my opinion it makes sense just leave that
audio trim button on all the time and that way if you're cutting audio or not it's ready to go
so this gives you giant giant audio waveforms hey real quick i want to call a timeout and welcome
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going to show you all about the fast review button and to use it you tap the source button which gets
you into source tape which is this guy right here and then if you go down here this is where the
button is called fast review what it is doing is it's kind of like writing the jkl for you
it's kind of automated what it's doing is if it's a longer clip it's going to play faster
if it's a shorter clip it's going to slow down so you can catch what's going on so it lets you
get through a ton of material much quicker if you're just trying to find a shot here or there
so let's click it and we can see it's going sort of at a moderate speed
but now it's to a longer clip so it's playing much faster
and then let's just move ahead here
you can kind of see it's moving much quicker on this one because it's a longer clip
and then it's slowed down as it's a shorter clip and then if you get to something like an interview
which is what i have here at the end you can definitely see a giant difference in the playback
speed with fast review so click that there he's moving real quick now she is just flying
it's just the timeline is just ripping through you can see down here how quickly we're moving through
everything so that's fast review and that lets you see a lot of stuff really quickly in the cut page
so next up is clip duration clip duration i think is new to resolve 17 and what it's going
to let you do is you can click on a clip you can right click and say change clip duration you can
also click on it and say command d which is the same in final cut pro if using final flicker pro
and instead of this being 1 and 2 seconds or one and two frames we can say i want it to be exactly
one second click change and it just takes it off the tail and it ripples the rest of the timeline
for you what's really powerful about this is you can actually select multiple so you can
drag a marquee over it and then say command d or the other one is right click and say change
clip duration and now we can say let's make all of them one second say change and boom so this
is really helpful if you have varying lengths of clips but you want to uniform them up you want to
maybe have them hit with a certain bead on a music and that is a certain tempo and you kind of figure
out what that is this has a lot of uses slideshows why don't you let me know how you're going to use
it in the comments below the boring detector is not new in davinci resolve 17 but it's probably
underutilized because of the name and what the boring detector is it's been around for a while
it is actually over here it has a little like aziz like it's a sleeping icon which i think is kind of
humorous you click the boring detector and it's gonna give you two options one it's gonna let
you find clips that are longer than a specified length and the other one is to help you find jump
cuts too if you have maybe like a little edit that you had done and that was sort of a mistake it's
gonna let you find those quickly so the way it's set up right now is i have edits longer than five
seconds are boring and edits shorter than five frames so this is seconds and then frames those
are going to be indicated as a jump cut and it kind of gives you the explanation with the graphic
of what it's going to do so this one's going to give you like this sort of highlighted dark
area and this one's going to give you a red mark usually because red is bad and you want to fix
it so let's click analyze and we'll find out if we have any jump cuts or boring clips in our timeline
and we do i purposely had a clip i'll just jog over to it right here this one is super
short it's just a couple frames long let's see one two three three frames long so what that's
doing is pointing out exactly where those are at if we want to delete them we could go to the
speed editor say ripple delete and it takes care of it and once it does that it removes it from
our view here in the timeline of things that are sort of highlighted so if you don't know
this about the cut page the top view is all of our clips that's the whole timeline beginning to end
and the bottom is always a zoomed in view so if we want to see our boring clips
we'll go back over here to the speed editor we're going to scroll this clip here is
apparently boring from this section to this section because it is longer than the specified
five seconds long so we'll say analyze that's the boring section of it i can go to the speed editor
say trim out and and that will just go away as soon as that is shorter than five seconds long
so we can go through here real quick and get rid of the the quote-unquote boring
parts i think it's a funny term that they decided to choose but it uh it definitely definitely uh
you know makes you pay attention to it right one last thing about the board detector i want to
mention is if you decide hey i i don't think that's boring and it's got that highlighted
the way you get rid of it is you just tap the icon over here again and it gets rid of that
highlighted section for you you don't have to make it shorter it's just showing you ideas of
where you might want to consider trimming things up or or deleting a jump cut real quick before i
move on to the last tip i want you to leave a comment down below right now and let me know
what's the hardest part of the cut page for you what does it make sense what can i maybe help you
with so the last tip i want to show you in the cup page which is super worth knowing about and using
is source tape the source tape lets you view a ton of clips all at once it's essentially a string out
without having to make a string out that's what makes the cut page so great so if i tap source
on my speed editor here it's going to bring up every single clip that i have in the project
it's like searching through all my bins it's doing all that assistant editor work for me
and so we can see here at the beginning i've got a super long half hour long
uh interview clip and i can just scroll through my search style until i get towards the end where
i have some shorter b-roll clips and then within here you know it is also showing me in the sort of
bin bucket area it's showing me it's highlighting me where i am throughout my project where that
clip is that i'm over here on the right side in source tape so by scrolling back over here it's
kind of showing me oh i'm on that clip right there it's a b01 c011 and what's even cooler about this
is it lets me quickly jump between different zoom views so when i'm in here i can tap source again
that's going to take me to all of those clips there from this day right here this
is from december 31st so you can see that's super powerful because i that wasn't even a bin i made
that was just in a bin of a bunch of footage if you want to go back you can hit the escape button
it'll take you back to see all of the footage again and that's all sort of controlled here
by how you sort your media in the uh the spin area so right now they're sorted by time code
again if i want to just jump back to the the source tape this is where all the clips are if you
want to just see it in a more traditional view you can click source which is just one clip at a time
and that's boring like that's old school if you want to do that just do that in the edit page okay
the cut page is all about source tape so if you're not using source tape check that out and the other
thing i was going to tell you about source tape if you have the speed editor you have jog and you
have scroll and shuttle so what jog is going to let me do is a little bit more refined version of
like scrubbing through skimming through a clip so hit jog and then as i turn the search dial
you can see my waveforms are way way more blown in and zoomed in which is great if i want to mark it
in at a very specific point and out at a specific point that lets me do that with jog if you don't
want that and you just want to be able to move and not have all of those waveforms going crazy
underneath you hit scroll and that lets you see them without them moving underneath the playhead
so it's a different type of experience it's kind of like the difference between
the top timeline down here at the bottom where you see the whole everything at once and the
bottom one where the footage moves underneath your play head so that is source tape and
i strongly suggest you use it you get used to using it because it can save you a lot of time
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