One of the common mistakes editors make when they first start using the DaVinci Resolve
Speed Editor is not understanding which buttons have multiple secondary functions
and to answer the biggest example of this right off the bat, No the search dial right here does
not do anything when you click in on it it's also hard to know which buttons work by double tapping
them a double tap and hold or just a single tap and hold to use them properly so today i'm going
to show you all of the secondary modifier keys here on the speed editor and how to use them
to help you understand this better i've broken the video down into three sections each covering
the three different types of button presses you need to know with the davinci resolve speed editor
but also be sure to stick around to the end because i've got a great little bonus tip
that you might not know about one way to use the split key first up let's run down this list of 10
double tap modifier functions we're over here in davinci resolve 17.1 today with some spray
paint footage but i first want to point out on the speed editor if there's text down in front
of the key not just on top you'll know there's a secondary modifier function for it so first we're
looking at the double tap ones i'm going to start with smart insert so if i go and pull my source up
here on the timeline we can see i have a clip that has an in point and an out point marked
and what the smart insert clip if you look in front of it says clip does is clip is going
to ignore your in point and out point when you drop that into your timeline so it's still going
to do a smart insert which is going to drop this clip into my timeline at that location
of the smart indicator but if i double tap it it drops the entire clip not just that marked region
so it's a way of ignoring your source in and out points if i go back up to source again and i want
to grab another clip and say i let's just say i had this section marked in and out right there
on that clip and i wanted to append edit which means it goes to the very end of my timeline
normally you would just hit this once to get that in and out point down there but if you wanted the
full clip you would double tap it and it gives you the entire clip down there on the timeline
so it's one way of like hey i want to see all the clips all the material on one clip at once you can
do that with the clip function which is a double tap with smart insert and append now the next one
on here is actually deals with your in and out point marks and that is the clearing of your in
and out points on these these white keys right here so if i go back up to my source and i want
to clear this in point that had been marked say it was marked right there if i double tap it it got
rid of that and you can see that's pretty simple same thing if we go here to clearing the out point
you double tap that and it's as easy as that we've cleared all the in and out marks on that
source tape the next double tap function on here is going to be the set duration transition default
button that's sort of a mouthful it's basically once you set your transition right here with this
button you hold this down you can lock this in as let's say i want it to be right at one second
and you're still hovering over it if you double tap it it locks that into like the memory of
the system so that every time i put a dissolve down after that it's exactly one second or it's
whatever you had double tapped that transition at that point so if i tap that down there
we know that that is now dropped down at exactly one second we can check that if we hold this down
and start to move this it was indeed right at one second if you've used computers for more than a
couple minutes you probably know about command z which is undo and on the speed editor it's right
underneath the escape button it's a double tap of escape and so for example let's say we have
a dissolve down here and a dissolve right here and we didn't actually want that to happen we double
tap escape and double tap escape and it undoes those last two actions now as we move across the
keyboard the next double tap function is going to be mark if we find a spot that we like on the
timeline and we need to put a marker down for a note or something we double tap it and it drops
a marker down what a lot of people don't know is if you double tap it again once it's down there
it brings up this markers contextual box so that you can make further notes right there without
having to to leave the speed editor which is really handy the next double tap function you got
to know is review it's right underneath the full view button the red one right here double tap it
and this is just taking us to the very beginning of the sequence from the top down and it's blown
it up full screen so you can see everything in all its glory if you need to get back to seeing the
user interface again just tap escape okay which is right there and you can see where you're at um so
that's a super useful one review it's kind of like the home button but full screen the last double
tap modifier i got to show you here is underneath live overwrite it's called random if you double
tap it and you've got the sync bin open it is randomly going to drop any other clip down there
it's starting at five seconds to sort of fill out your timeline so if we had like seven or
eight angles it's going to randomly choose one of those as an editor i take that as an insult i want
to actually be choosing my angles but it's there nonetheless so i gotta show it to you now that
we have the double tap functions all mastered we can move on to the double tap and hold functions
which are really fun because these are the ones that we get to use the search dial
with on the speed editor which is really what makes the whole thing kind of special
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and we're going to learn the four double tap and hold functions and get to use that search dial
so the first double tap hold feature i want to show you is slide it's right underneath the roll
button for trimming if you double tap it real quick like that it'll select it and then you can
sort of move it around on the timeline and fine tune the in and out points of both the incoming
and outcoming clip at once if you need to know more about trimming i have a video that'll link
up right now that's all about trimming with the speed editor the next double tap and hold modifier
is actually mark mark is kind of special this is the third time we're using mark for a modifier if
you double tap hold mark it brings up this wheel of fortune sort of color wheel that we can choose
any color from here and if we choose that that becomes the new default marker color so if i
double tap after that that's the new default and again if i want to change the color it's
a double tap hold use the search dial and i want to make that green it's green from that point on
the next double tap hold thing you want to check out is underneath the transition button there's a
title button if you double tap hold that you can use the search dial to scroll through all of your
font family font faces and just get a different look really quickly and preview everything as
fast as possible and the last double top hold one you're going to use a lot it's underneath
snap it's these three horizontal lines double tap hold use the search dial and you can enlarge and
shrink in your viewer and if you didn't know in the interface here it's basically making this
button right here you can click and drag that with your mouse but obviously if you've got the speed
editor much faster to do this and so you can make more room for your tracks or just see your your
viewer much larger the last little modifier to add to your muscle memory is the tap and hold and you
actually already know this one if you've been using the trimming tools uh it's just a simple
smash down of that button and move the jog wheel the search dial at the same time and the only
two modifiers that use this one are move and the close-up button to adjust the y position of a clip
so one of the tap and hold functions here is move it's one of my favorite buttons on
the speed editor you just hold it down hold down split move as a secondary function to it
and we see we've got little arrows left and right with it so if we take the search dial to the left
we're going to move that entire clip in and out to the left move it to the right it's going to move
it to the right and this is going to let us tweak and figure out what is the exact best order for us
to tell our story so maybe we want that shot to be the end of the sequence that's how you do it
with move the final tap and hold modifier i want to show you is the y position for close-up so what
close-up does first if you just tap close-up and you've got a clip down on the timeline it's going
to punch in and basically make a close-up of the shot underneath and put that up on track too but
what if the position that it chose isn't perfect that's where you would do a tap and hold on this
and then it lets you change the up and down the y position of that clip now that you've mastered
every single modifier here on the speed editor there's a little bonus tip i recently learned
about the split button and double tapping that i've just got to share if you've seen my video
on transitions why cut doesn't cut you know that split actually cuts a clip but one thing
a lot of people don't know is actually if you park right over a cut and hit split
it joins them back together so i don't know if you saw that if i have this cut and it's basically
it's a through edit so the edits are the same left and right of the timeline and i hit split again
it joins those right back together i found that super useful because then when i go to the color
page in in other areas i need to send it out it's less cuts that are on the timeline that
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