have you ever noticed the orange box in the track header section of your davinci resolve timeline
it's not quite the same as anything in premiere or avid and final cut pro it
doesn't even have tracks so you're probably wondering what the heck does this thing do
well it's a powerful option to precisely command the destination of your clips from the source
monitor to the timeline using commands like insert and overwrite edit these destination controls are
essential to understand if you want to cut with your keyboard to speed up your editing process
but don't worry because they're super simple basic controls let me show you how they work
the orange outline box is called the track destination selection and one of the most
significant ways that this differs if you're coming from adobe premiere is that this only
serves one function that one function gives you the option to command or control your destination
of the clip from the source viewer to the timeline without needing to do a
drag and drop edit with your mouse sorry for the keyboard shortcut modifier puns they are intended
so stay tuned towards the end of this tutorial if you like shortcuts and just so you know this
orange destination box has nothing to do with copying and pasting to specific tracks that's
one of the features of the auto track selector button and i've got a great video that i'll link
in the description if you want to demystify that control thankfully the orange destination box is
much more straightforward source clips will end up on whatever tracks have the orange outline visible
by default it'll be on v1 and a1 if you have video and audio in your source clip but if your clip
only has audio you're not going to see an orange box on a video track because there's no video that
exists on the source audio clip now let's do an insert edit targeted to v1 and a1 by dragging a
clip with in and out marks from the source viewer to the timeline viewer as you drag an overlay will
appear with the edit commands visible so let's drop it on insert insert pushes clips down to
the right and out of the way to get in there insert will make your overall timeline longer
but if you want your clip to go on video track 2 and your audio to a2 just click v2 and a2 with
your mouse it will confusingly change to say v1 and a1 because it's referring to the source
track numbers and this time let's do an overwrite edit by marking the range on the timeline with an
in and out point for where we want the clips to be restrained to and then clicking the
overwrite icon in the tool list overwrite will not change your timeline length and is a great
way to restrict how much of a clip is going onto a timeline if you already have a rough cut together
i like it for b-roll cutaways and titles the other thing about track destination selection
is that you can limit what tracks you want to put on the timeline from the source clip
maybe you just want the video or the audio or even just some specific audio tracks from a
multi-channel recording if you don't want part of a clip to end up on a timeline track click
the orange box and it'll change to be filled in with gray the orange is going to be gone
which means it's disabled and it won't add that part of the source clip onto the timeline
an everyday use for doing this would be with a b-roll clip that you don't want that lousy
camera audio on the timeline click the orange box around the audio track until it's filled with gray
mark your timeline using i for in point and o for out point and this time use the keyboard shortcut
f10 this will perform an overwrite edit without using the mouse only the video portion of the
b-roll ends up on the timeline which can save you time from not needing to delete the bad audio
later on side note though if you're on a mac make sure you have checked the box to enable function
keys to work as standard keys in the system preferences keyboard section otherwise f10 might
not work as expected the drag and drop equivalent of this would be an option drag for video only
or shift drag for audio only but you can't precisely constrain a drag and drop edit
so that's why i prefer using insert and overwrite with in and out points on the timeline
now the one gotcha is to make sure the track you want to edit on is not locked with the lock track
icon i rarely use the lock track feature in the track header but this would prevent any changes
especially editing a clip onto that specific lock track hey
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track destination selection can be found near the bottom of the timeline menu and this will show you
all the keyboard shortcuts but if you just want to learn one shortcut tip today it should be command
control on a pc with shift and your up and down arrows to move your video destinations
up and down command with option and your up and down arrows will move your audio destinations
up and down so it's either using shift or option with the command key it's easy to remember to use
shift for video because video is higher than audio on a timeline then use option with command because
it's lower on the keyboard like audio is lower on the timeline for moving the audio destination
selections if you want the option to jump to a specific track with your keyboard shortcut
use option and the number of that track for video for instance i wanted to go directly to v3
so i hit option three and of course if you need to disable a destination track you can do that on
v3 by hitting option three again and it'll disable it so that source clip will not be edited to that
track it gets ignored now you would add command to the option key with the audio track number for
directly jumping to an audio destination but this is broken in davinci resolve 17.4.2 so we need
to wait for the next patch to use the shortcut and if you want a shortcut how long it takes to
learn all the quirks of editing video in davinci resolve click on this playlist right over here
it's full of pro tips and be one of the first of your friends to really understand auto select by
watching this video up here and because there's so much more to learn i'll see you in the next video