DaVinci Resolve 18 TRANSITIONS for Beginners | EVERYTHING You NEED to Know | CRASH COURSE

davinci resolve 18 transitions for beginners now you might not be a beginner but you don't want to go anywhere because you're probably still going to learn something in this video but if you're new to my channel my name is jay yolovsky talk a lot about davinci resolve a lot of audio stuff love audio i'm an audio guy but i do love all parts of resolve and i try to help you beginners get going and really just kind of simplify it because resolve is a complicated program so today we're going to be talking about transitions everything from the basics on how to drop it onto your clip to more advanced things like saving transitions modifying them how to set defaults for duration and all kinds of fun stuff i'm going to timestamp everything down below so you can check it out jump to the points that you're interested in that way we can kind of speed things up for you today's video is sponsored by motion array and we're going to talk about them later but we're going to be using some clips from motion array to apply transitions to and i'm going to use them as examples to show you how all this cool transition stuff works now real quick if you're on a version other than davinci resolve 18 a lot of this stuff is going to be the same whether it's a future version or whether it's a previous version a lot of it's going to be the same so you can still check out this video if you're not on version 18 yet and all these things are going to work in the free version as well as the studio version all right let's jump into resolve and get learned about some transitions all right we are in davinci resolve 18 here i'm running on the studio version if you've got the free version it's going to look the same and everything is going to work exactly the same so let's make sure that we see the same things on the screen just so it's not confusing and help make it a little bit easier for you guys so first thing you want to do i'm in the edit tab which is this guy right down here click on that and it's going to get you into the edit tab now little bonus tip i do all my editing in the edit tab i don't think the cut tab is worth it at least not for my style of editing we'll talk about that in another video but if you're just getting started edit tab right here next come up to workspace and we want to go to a reset ui layout and this is going to ensure you guys see the same thing that i'm seeing so once you reset the ui layout this is what you're going to see at least it should be what you're going to see now i'm going to close my media pool because i don't need it i've already got my clips in my timeline and hopefully you do as well so i'm going to click right up here and close the media pool so let's start off with the basics how do i add a transition between two clips first we need to find the transitions in order to find them you want to come to your effects right up here so once you click on effects this is what you're going to be looking at and if you come on the left here and you click on video transitions that's going to give you all of your video transitions to put them on a clip it's as easy as holding dragging it down and dropping it on to a clip and then once you do that it's going to be there so let's play through you can see what that looks like nice little cross fade into your clips so if that's all you want to know you're good to go let's talk about what kind of video transitions we have here so just looking in the window we've got different kinds of dissolved transitions here we have different shape transitions or iris transitions we've got different motion transitions like barn doors or pushing from side to side we have different shapes that you can use maybe you want to use a little heart or something i don't know you got shapes there you've got different kinds of wipes that you can use we've got a user section where you can create your own and we'll get into that in a little bit and then you've got really cool fusion transitions here that do different kinds of things and one of the best things about the transitions is if you put your playhead where you want to put a transition and you hover over any one of these you can scroll back and forth and see what that's going to look like what will that transition look like so you don't have to drag it and drop it on give it a try don't like it remove it no i'm not you just hover over it and slide back and forth you don't have to click any buttons just slide your mouse back and forth and it's gonna give you a preview of what the transition is gonna look like so that is super handy now you may have a nice big powerful machine but if you don't here's a few tips on how you can make the playback a little bit smoother for your transitions so you want to come on up to the playback menu up here you want to come down to render cache and you want to make sure that smart is selected here and that is going to tell resolve hey when there's a little bit of down time take those transitions and render them up for me so that they're good to go when i play back my video so that should take care of it and do the trick for you but if your computer needs a little bit more help you can also come to timeline proxy resolution and change this from full to either half or quarter now it's gonna make the image in your viewer look not as uh sharp or it might you know look a little blurry because it's doing a lower quality but that's just the playback it's not going to affect your render so those are two options there that can help make your transitions playback smoother for you so let's say you're having some trouble you can't drop your transition between two clips for example if i grab my cross dissolve and i try and put it on these two clips right here but it won't let me put it there if i brought it down to a different set of clips no problem that works why can't i put a transition in between these two clips well the reason for that is because you need to have a little bit of overlap between your two clips and just to show you what i'm talking about right now if i just move this clip over a little bit i'm right at the very beginning of this clip and on this clip on the left i'm at the very end of the clip so when i put them together there's no overlap between those two clips so how do we get a little bit of overlap so i can drop a transition on there so there's a few different ways we can create that little bit of overlap that we need in order to apply our transition a nice quick and easy way is to come to this tool right here you're going to hover over your clip click and drag and you can see the white box that's showing up there that's showing me how much of my clip i have on either side of where my cuts are currently on that clip in my timeline so you can see if i drag it to the left here it creates an overlap with the previous clip so i can bring it to where i want and let go and then we should be good to go for that clip now for the clip on the left i want to do the same thing so if i click hold and drag you notice now i can only pull it out with that little white box that you see there it only comes out a little bit and that's because i'm already using almost that entire clip there's just a little bit that i trimmed off the beginning there that i can use as an overlap so i'm going to go ahead and push that forward a little bit and just leave it like that so now we should have enough overlap between our clips to apply our transition grab our cross fade bring it down boom it'll drag and drop right on there for us and now you can see if i play through it it works out just fine for us now here's another method that you can use to adjust your clips so you get a little bit of overlap i'm just going to select my clips and copy them up to a new track let's say that my two clips here are all the way extended i've used as much as i could of the particular clip i'm all the way extended i got no more clip left to work with well instead of using the tool we just took a look at you can just come and grab your edge and slide it in a little bit and if you zoom in you can even slide in you know a little bit less it just depends on how far you're zoomed in but i can bring it in a few frames maybe six frames there and on this one over here let's do six frames as well so i'm going to just click hold and drag it back it looks pretty good now if i bring these two clips together take my crosses off drag and drop it on there now we can drop our transition onto our clips here's another problem you might run into what if you drag your transition try to drop it on your clip and it won't go in the middle it'll only go on one side of the clip why is that happening so if i drop this on here and we take a look at our clips on this first clip it's extended all the way out i i'm using the entire clip so there's no overlap with the next clip now my clip on the left here i do have some overlap which is why we can put the transition on one side so for example if i just move this clip over you can see look i've got a little extra few frames there where i can extend that clip and that's why i'm able to apply transition but only to one side of the two clips so if you're having problems with your clips and putting transitions on there make sure you've got a little bit of the clip on either side of where your cut happens because if you don't have any overlap you're not going to be able to drop a transition on there a lot of people get frustrated by this because it's different than a lot of other programs where you can just push the clips together and they'll automatically you know create a transition or whatever but this is how you do it in resolve might be a little bit different than what you're used to but make sure you got a little bit on either side of your cuts and you're good to go all right i'm going to delete these two tracks let's say that you want to make your transition longer or shorter how do we do that the easiest and fastest way to make your transitions longer and shorter are to come down in your timeline here and if you hover over your transition you're gonna see your cursor turn into this little icon and you can drag it out make it longer if you want or you can shrink it down and make it shorter if you'd like you can go all the way down uh just a few frames and if you can't get it exactly where you want try zooming in on your timeline a little bit more and that's going to give you a more a finer adjustment here of being able to adjust that transition now another way that you can adjust your transitions is to use the inspector so you want to select your transition come on up to your inspector and right up here you have duration you can come in here get this little icon click and hold and drag back and forth you can punch in a number if you double click in there say 3.0 seconds you can do it by number of frames if you want if you know that's how you want to do it so you've got some options on how you can adjust the length of your transitions now zooming out on my timeline here let's say we want to adjust some of the options or we want to customize our transition a little bit so say you started with the default transition across dissolve like we have here and i wanted to modify it a little bit so in the inspector that's where we can do that you can see right here we've got our alignment so we can move it to either side of the cut we can have it across the middle of the cut or on the other side of the cut depends on what you want to do now if you want to change the style and the look of a default transition to kind of make it your own a little bit we've got style right here and there's different things that you could try here to make it look different and just kind of customize it you just play through and see which one you like and then you can just go ahead and use that one let's try shadows here pretty cool right being able to change the style here i think is relatively new or maybe i just never tried it before below the style there you've got your start ratio and end ratio you can adjust those as far as when it comes in and when it goes out if you want the next one is pretty good too we have ease so if you click on here right now it's got no easing and actually if we look in the timeline at the transition you can see this line right here it's just a consistent line you know as the transition comes in it's consistent it doesn't ease in or ease out but let's say you want to ease it easy come on up here you can change it to just ease in and if we look at our transition here you can see it kind of slowly comes in now you can ease it out you can ease in and out and you can see now we have a little s curve here on our on our transition in the timeline or you can make it a custom curve if you want now if you were going to do the custom curve i hit custom here there's a little diamond here on the transition itself in the timeline and if you don't see this you might need to just check your view by coming to your timeline view options right here and make sure you have either this one or this one selected if you got the first option here selected the simple view you're not going to see it but if you've got one of these two selected then you will see this little diamond in the option here so if you go ahead and select your transition click on the diamond it's going to open up this little window right here or this little bar i should say then you want to click on this right here which is going to open up your keyframes now you can adjust the curve to be however you want i can grab it and play with it i can move it around if i click on a point say right there it's going to give me a handle i can change the type of curve if i want grab both of these guys pull them around i can change the point if i'm going to add any points in there these are keyframes so if i add a keyframe or something you can change the point so let's say if i put my playhead here i add one you could do whatever you want change the type make it smooth but you get the idea you can customize it in a lot of different ways and really make these standard transitions your own so let's say i just went through i modified up the transition here now i want to save it as my own preset essentially so that way i can apply it later and i don't have to go and change all these settings how do i do that well this is super easy all you have to do again come to the timeline click on your transition you're going to right click and you're going to say create transition preset once you do that it's going to open up this window and you can name it whatever you want so i'm going to say cross dissolve let's say custom go ahead and hit ok now once i do that where do i find it if i want to use it again how do i use it so you want to come again back to your effects right here open that up video transitions and scroll down to the user section right here you can double click and open it up if it's not open you have cross dissolve custom and this is what we just created now i have two other ones here a slide down for 12 frames and a slide up for 12 frames i use this all the time in my videos it kind of looks like this if i slide it down that's what it does and then if i wanted to bring it back up slide it up that's how it works you want to slide it back down there we go so those are two custom presets that i created that i use all the time in my youtube videos now just to grab one of these other shape transitions just to play with a little bit and show you some options here let's say i did i'm going to grab the uh the arrow iris let's drop that on eclipse so so you can see what the options are if i click on the transition right here in my timeline come on up to my inspector make sure that that's open but moving back to the transition if i just go in the middle here we can change the aspect ratio so the shape of that particular transition we can adjust it a little bit and if you ever change any of these and you need to get it back to how it was just double click it and it's going to reset it for you you can change the center of it and one of the cool things with some of the shapes and things is that you can add in a border so if i just bring this up you can add in a border back it up a little so we can see it a little more you can add the border in you can change the thickness of it you can change the color of it so let's say i want to do a red one there you go you can add that in you can also instead of doing the border you could just feather the edges right so we've got the border that we can slide and it changes the feathering amount of our particular you know shape that we're working with here so if i change it to like that and then i play through it it just kind of fades in which is kind of cool it doesn't have that hard edge it just kind of blends everything together a little bit more and again you can ease it in and out if you want and make any kind of changes to customize it now here's a cool tip for you let's say you made a bunch of custom settings you adjusted the time let's say i'm going to just drop that down a little bit you uh moved it off center a little you did some other things you feathered it man maybe i don't want to use the arrow iris maybe i want to try the oval iris instead well you could just click on this and drag and drop it onto your clips but it's going to reset all those custom settings that you just came up with so in order to keep those custom settings if you come to transition type right here at the top of the inspector click the drop down now we can choose any one of the uh transitions that are in our effects library but it's going to keep all of our custom settings that we just created so let's say i wanted to do the oval iris i'm going to click on that and now it kept all of our settings so if i play through with our oval iris boom there you go it keeps my settings you don't have to recreate it each time and if you like it that much just go ahead and save it as a preset it's going to be in your effects library and you can use it anytime that you want so let's say you've got a transition that you like and you just want to copy it from one clip to the next clip how do we do that pretty easy you can just come in and select your clip and if you're having trouble selecting it zoom in a little bit more on your timeline and that's going to help you select it then you want to hold your alt on a pc or option on a mac get your little pointer there click drag drop and that's how you're going to copy your transitions now maybe you've got a bunch of transitions they're all the same kind like we just copied here but you want to make a change and you don't want to go through and do every single one at a time because that's a pain and you don't want to have to drag new transitions on or copy them again because that's a pain too how can we edit multiple transitions at once again pretty easy select your transitions so select your first one and you can use either command or control to select multiple transitions and again if you're having a hard time selecting them zoom in a little bit on your timeline that's going to help and then once i've selected them i can come on up to the inspector open that up and we can make any adjustment that we want and it's going to apply to all of our transitions now you do need to have the transitions be the same transition otherwise i think it's going to mess them up but you can come in and change them to be whatever you want say i want to change my border a little bit i want to make it a little bit bigger okay so that's good now can we double check it so let's say our border is 289 so if i click each one individually 289 289 and 289 so that worked out pretty good so that's how you can edit multiple transitions at once using the inspector now let's talk about how do we set a default transition for davinci resolve by default when you open zombie start using it the cross dissolve is going to be your default transition but let's say i don't want to cross this off i want something a little more fun and exciting super easy check it out go into your effects library again to your transitions video transitions and you want to just scroll and let's say here's one that i use a lot the foreground wipe and let's say i want to make it my default you can right click on that transition and come to set as standard transition and you can see once i do that right here in the corner it now has that little red tick mark there that's going to tell me which transition is set up as my default transition now that's going to come in handy for the keyboard shortcut i'm going to show you in a minute here but before we get to that let's take a look at another little feature here and it is this little star right here that's going to allow you to add the transition to your favorites let's say you've got maybe two three four different transitions you use all the time if you click on that little star it's going to add it right down here into your favorites so you don't have to scroll up and down all the time looking for the one that you want you can just come down to your favorites drag it over and drop it onto your clips so having favorites comes in handy and it's a nice little feature to have so now that you've set your default transition let's say maybe you want to change the default duration of your transition i think by default it's one second so depending on your frame rate it works out to be about one second but let's say that you wanted to change that how do we change that it's pretty easy here you want to come into davinci resolve the menu up at the top left here come on down to preferences that's going to open up this window for you you want to be under user right here at the top come on down to editing and you want to scroll down a little bit to general settings right here under the general settings here we have standard transition duration and you can set this to be whatever you want in seconds or if you want to do it in frames you can do it that way too i know for me a lot of times i make it shorter than one second because i just think it looks better for some of the transitions that i frequently use but the default here is one second and you can change that to be whatever you want just as a little bonus here so you can change your still duration if you're putting in pictures in the resolve you change the standard duration for that too it's a lot of other cool stuff here but that's for another video once you set a duration that you want go ahead and hit save you're good to go any new transition you drop on your timeline is going to be in that duration that you set there next we're going to talk about some handy keyboard shortcuts here that are going to allow you to add transitions to your clips a whole lot quicker but before we do i want to take a minute to talk about motion array so these clips that i have in my project file here are from motion array as well as the music track here from motion array they have so much great stuff assets that you can use in your videos that really bring your videos to that next level they've got all kinds of awesome templates and intros and outros and graphics overlays i mean the amount of stuff they have there is awesome i'm always looking on there to try and find things that i can use in my video and really it just helps bring everything to that next level so if you're looking for some awesome assets for your videos you definitely want to check out motion array see what they have to offer and see if it's something that you might be interested in and i do have a link in the description below that's going to save you 50 bucks on a yearly subscription it's a big thank you to motionray for sponsoring today's video so getting into the keyboard shortcuts here let's say we want to add transitions to only our video clips and we just want a keyboard shortcut to do it now keep in mind whatever transition you have set as your default transition here remember with the little red tick there on the transition that's what's going to be applied by using these keyboard shortcuts so the first one here we have is alt plus the letter t or option plus the letter t if you're on a mac so if i select my two clips and i use option for me all probably for a lot of you guys press letter t it's gonna drop that transition right onto my clips now you notice it's gonna do the beginning the middle the end it's gonna do all of the cuts of those clips that you selected you can select as many clips as you want it'll only drop it onto the video portion of your clips now let's say you try that and you get an error message that looks a little something like this if i select these two clips option or alt t and you get a message that looks like this now the reason this is coming up is because you don't have enough overlap between your two clips like we talked about earlier in the video so you can have resolve trim the clips automatically for you right here click click click click trim clips there you go a little tongue twister there and it's going to automatically trim them enough to put in that transition or let's say there's a certain clip like this one in the middle where there's no overlap but i don't have any room to overlap those clips i don't want to trim them you can hit skip clips and then it's only going to put the transition where it can it's not going to trim any of the clips it'll just put it where it can so in this case if i hit it you see it doesn't do it in between the clips right here it only applies it on the end right here so another cool feature here in resolve with transitions is the ability to add audio transitions now let's find them if we come back to our effects library make sure that's open you've got audio transitions now there's only three by default you've got the cross fade cross fade minus three db and cross fade plus three db so maybe you want to use this when you're transitioning between one song to the next song but let's see how these work so if i just make a cut in my audio clip right here let's say i want to apply a transition again just like the video transitions drag and drop put it right on my clip now you do need to have a little bit of overlap with your audio clips as well just like you do with your video clips so keep that in mind now if i undo that now let's say i got a bunch of clips that i want to add a crossfade transition to the audio maybe it's you know speaking clips for me uh you know and it's all broken up and i want it to just transition a little smoother the transitions are a little harsh we can do that with a keyboard shortcut so just select all the clips that you want to apply the transition to again it's going to be the default transition which in this case for audio is the crossfade 0db so it's not raising or lowering anything and if you hold the shift key plus the letter t boom it's going to drop on that transition onto audio only clips so that's a quick way to do it if you've got a lot of audio clips you want a little bit of a transition or fade in there from one clip to the next to help just kind of smooth it out a little bit now let's say i wanted to add transitions to the video clips and the audio clips at the same time and keep in mind the default transition is what is going to be applied to both your video clips and your audio clips easy enough we can come in here select all of our clips and this time you want to use control on a pc or command on a mac plus the letter t so for me command t and you notice i get this message because there's some clips that need to get trimmed so i'm just going to go ahead and say okay trim the clips and now you can see we've got transitions on all of our video clips as well as our audio clips so that wraps up this video on transitions guys i hope it was helpful comment below if you've got questions you're not sure about something also if you are a beginner drop a comment below with things that you want to learn try to make things simple for you because this program is hard enough as it is and a big thank you to motion ray for sponsoring today's video if you want to level up your videos definitely check out motion array you're going to save some money by using those links in the description below and really they're just going to help bring your videos to that next level and just make your videos awesome because who doesn't want awesome videos all right guys thank you so much for watching and i will see you in the next video peace [Music] you

Channel: Jason Yadlovski

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Length: 23min 11sec (1391 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 15 2022