DaVinci Resolve for COMPLETE NOOBS!

So I'm going to try to keep this really simple a  lot of you out there might be making video content   already and thinking about using a different  video editing software. Some of you have never   tried it before and I want to make this really  simple so that if you've never tried it before   you could download this software for free and  get started on one of your own projects for   potentially putting up onto YouTube so as a lot of  you know I stopped using filmora to edit my videos   and recently I've been using DaVinci Resolve I've  liked DaVinci Resolve one because it has a great   free version that you can download right now and  it has tons of features no limitations in terms of   Watermark the limitations that do exist is there  are some features that aren't accessible to you   and the difference in upgrading to the studio  or paid version which is a one-time license fee   currently we've been down that road before that's  going to allow you to access the GPU acceleration   and allow you to have some of those more advanced  effects work more efficiently on your system the   first thing I want to mention is make sure  that your system significantly exceeds the   minimum system requirements one of the things  that can instantly create a bad video editing   experience is when you try to run a more advanced  video editing software like DaVinci Resolve is on   an older or slower computer or laptop and it just  can't keep up with the system demands it takes a   lot of resources to edit video especially when  you move into 4K and create a lot of tracks so   make sure that you've covered that step first  so let's start with the basics here so the   very first thing is when you do open DaVinci  Resolve make sure you run it as administrator   I'm doing this on PC running any software as the  administrator opens up all functionality and can   limit some potential problems down the line once  the software is open you're going to see a window   like this now I've worked on a bunch of projects  so you're seeing a lot of things right here listed   but when you open it for the first time it'll be  blank in either case if you want to start a new   project what you want to do is click on that  new project it'll open up a very small window   where you want to title your project so let's  call this one DaVinci Resolve test then just   hit create and you'll notice that the software  opens up to what they call the cut page this   is one of the areas I really want to talk to you  about not getting confused about DaVinci Resolve   has seven different pages and if we scroll at  the bottom and hover over each you'll see the   names of them the first one is called the media  tab that's basically a page as they call it not   a tab but a page that focuses on all the assets  that you would bring in like your video clips or   your images or maybe the music that you might be  playing behind your audio or even your main audio   track if you've recorded your vocals separately  than your video the second page that it defaults   to here is called the cut page and that's where  you can start assembling things but the reality   is these first two pages you can kind of ignore as  a noob I'm going to focus you on the third page or   the third tab right here and that's called the  edit page so let's go to the edit page and this   is where you can really just sit and get started  making a project now the very first thing you want   to think about is making sure that the settings  of your project are where you want them to be now   in the upper left if I click on that file menu and  scroll down to project settings it's going to open   up this window and it's got a lot of different  things going on here don't get bogged down on   every detail okay some of the default settings are  pretty good let's just make sure we have it set up   for the kind of project that you're creating in my  case I'm going to be working with footage that's   probably 4K it defaults to this 1080p which is  high def but not 4K so you'd want to scroll down   if you want to make sure that your project is true  to the footage that you're using and you actually   want to go to the 4K setting which is in my case  not true 4K it's Ultra HD 3840x2160. you then   want to make sure that the frame rate for your  project is set typically that's the same frame   rate as your footage that you're going to bring  in so you can set that here or when you bring the   footage in it'll give you a prompt and ask you if  you'd like to match your project to the footage   that you're bringing in so we'll leave this at  24 right now I tend to film somewhere around   24 frames per second anyway and that's really it  as you go down you'll see some other areas where   we'll have the ability to optimize the software to  perform a little smoother but I'm going to put all   that information at the end because one thing  that I hate when people are trying to teach us   about a software is they start going through every  little button along the way and instead of just   taking me from here to there they have to point  out everything along the way and that can get   confusing to me at least I like it simple show  me how to do the simple things and then let me   learn the extra features later on when I really  need them so for right now set your project and   let's call it a day let's just say save and now  our project settings are roughly sketched out to   what we want now looking at this page I want to  quickly just show you what we have going on this   upper left section here that's what you're going  to be bringing all of your footage and your assets   in so that's sort of like your big file cabinet  where you'll bring in video and audio and images   and all of that this middle section here is your  preview window that's where you're going to see   what's actually happening in your project down  below this main area here is your timeline and   that's where you're going to be assembling all  the pieces together your video pieces your audio   pieces the images that you might bring in that's  your timeline most of you are familiar with these   basic windows that you would see in any video  editing software now over to the left here in the   lower left is sort of your toolbox that's where  there's going to be things like video Transitions   and audio Transitions and things like titles if  you want to add text to put over your footage   that'll be right over here in the lower left now  in the upper right there's this area that they   call the inspector and I'll show you what that  does as we move forward but basically it gives   you a deeper dive into the pieces that you're  going to bring into this timeline so let's start   really simple I'm going to just go in the upper  left and when I build a project I like to create a   file structure so I know where things are I don't  want to have one big box that has all the video   clips and all the audio clips all stuff together  and it's really hard to figure out where things   are when you're scrolling through so in DaVinci  Resolve They Don't Really call them files when you   separate things they call them bins so we're going  to use the word bin but when I say bin I just mean   file just like on your computer you might create a  new file to put things in so the easiest way to do   this is in the upper left in this open area let's  just right click scroll down and add a new bin now   as it's sitting there just like adding a folder on  your PC it's ready to be renamed I like to create   three basic bins video audio and then images  images being static pictures that I might use   in my project whether I use those or not those are  my three basic file systems that I like to create   for any project so let's call this first one video  now let's do that again we'll repeat that process   click on new bin we'll call the second one audio  that's where we'll put all of our audio files and   we'll do that one more time create a new bin  and this one we'll call images so now I have   three basic files that I can put stuff into as  I'm building my project now if I were going to   bring in video the first thing I'd want to do is  open up the video file by double left clicking on   it and now I'm inside of that video file in the  project and let's right click in that open area   again and start bringing stuff in if I scroll down  you'll see it says import media perfect that's   what I want I want to go find a clip to bring in  here so I'm just going to find a clip that I have   and you see what I'm going to start to bring this  clip in it's a slightly different frame rate than   that 24 frames per second and DaVinci Resolve is  asking me would you like to change the project to   the same frame rate as your footage and in this  case I actually do so I'm going to click change   I want to make sure the project and the footage  that I'm using is the same frame rate so I've   now done that and in the upper left you'll see  there's my piece of footage right right up in   the upper left inside of that video bin now if I  want to bring this down into my timeline I just   grab it and I just drag it down by left clicking  and holding and you'll see in the timeline I now   have the audio and the video together you see the  blue on top is my video and that green below it is   the audio track that goes with that video file  it's all one file but when you bring it into   DaVinci Resolve it's separating it visually for  you there's a little scroll bar if you look right   under this preview window up here see the sliding  bar that allows me to zoom in on that timeline if   I go to the left it zooms out so you can see more  things that are in the timeline if I left click   and hold and push this to the right it allows  me to zoom in a bit you'll use that a lot when   you're really trying to get the perfect little cut  in between scenes you want to zoom way in and make   sure that you can see everything that's going  on and get the cut right where you want it now   for how to approach a very simple type of project  like this where you're bringing some footage in   and cutting it up the very first thing I try to  do is look at the footage and get the color to   the point I want it that way I'm not cutting up  all the footage and then having to go back I can   color correct each little segment that I may have  cut up if I get that done the first time as I cut   the footage up each little piece will already be  somewhat color corrected or color graded so that   it looks a little bit better as I'm looking at  this it seems the footage is a little bit dark   this is footage from the music video I did with  Samantha and Carrie so I'm going to take a look   at this and see if I can brighten this up now to  do color changes you got to go to a different page   you will see I'm currently on the edit page but  if I go over two tabs that little color wheel   right there that's the color page so if we click  on that it's going to open up this color page so   that's the piece of footage and if I want to see  the timeline in the upper right if I click on   timeline it'll now show me what's in the timeline  I only have one clip there and that's where I'm at   that one clip and I can even click right next to  it in the upper right clips and it'll show me the   individual Clips in the timeline so if I had many  little pieces they would all show up right here   above it so I like to keep that enabled personally  because I always like to have an overview of what   I'm working on so I've only got one clip but I'm  going to double left click on it that's the one   you'll see it's now surrounded in that orange  color that's what I'm going to adjust the color   for now DaVinci Resolve is known as being pretty  much the Pinnacle of color grading for video   editing software it just doesn't get any better  unfortunately that means it's also pretty complex   and there's a lot to learn I'm going to stay very  simple today all I'm going to do is I'm looking   at the Scopes over on the right which tells me  right off the bat I can make these a little bit   bigger so you can see them I'm going to open that  up you can see there seems to be a little more red   a little less green and even less blue there's a  color grading it was very kind of reddish orange   in the club that night I'm just going to try to  balance the color a little bit if we're looking   at the default color section that we're on here on  the lower left that's your primaries what I kind   of think about these as is this section here is  your darks this this middle section here is more   like your mid-tones the third section here is sort  of like the the higher frequencies the brightest   frequencies and then the farthest to the right the  offset is like the master that brings everything   up and everything down so if you kind of start  here you'll have a pretty good place to start   at least dialing the basics in and if you notice  around these meters there's all these little areas   that talk about separate color features like color  boost Shadows highlights saturation Q things like   that up top you can see contrast you can see  tint temperature these are really great little   features that help you dial in this color and  there's tons of them but here's a great place to   start this particular window so the first thing I  notice is it is a little dark this footage so the   first thing I'm going to do is I can individually  bring up colors in here or down below there's this   master wheel for each one of these I'm going to  left click on the mids and I'm going to pull it   to the right and just try to dial those all up and  if you look at the scope you can see everything   coming up all together all of those mids so I'm  trying to bring up some of the mid-tones right and   you can see the footage if I pull this out of the  way is getting a little bit brighter right up here   in the upper right you can see there's a reset  button watch the color difference I will reset   the mids back to dark so now that my mids are up  I could come over to the highs and say should I   bring the highs up a little sure that helps the  footage a bit real simple moves a little bit of   the mids a little bit of the highs I'm not trying  to change the color too much at this point if I   thought there were issues individually like as I  brought up the highs maybe some of the skin tones   get a little too bright I could do things like  come down to the highlights and just roll back   by left clicking and slowly pulling my mouse to  the left I can pull back some of the highlights   or I could also go into these separate sections of  low mid and high and I could do things like maybe   I just want to pull some of the overall brightness  of that high down a touch so it's not overwhelming   but that's completely up to your eye you can use  these Scopes to the right to see if something's   oversaturated there's a little bit of clipping in  the high up top I'm not going to get into that but   basic color changes just trying to bring some of  the brightness up some of the contrast some of the   mids and just trying to get your footage to look  a little more balanced so there's a simple color   grading and now I have my color figured out for  this clip I can go back to the edit page and now   I can start making some changes now maybe there's  areas that I want to cut out of this footage so I   would scroll through I can use that Zoom tool to  find things I can scroll through either grabbing   the playhead and pulling it or I could even use  my arrow keys on my keyboard and I can just hold   over to the right or hold over to the left there's  also a jkl feature if you use jkl on your keyboard   L gets it to play forward hitting L twice gets  it to play twice as fast hitting K will pause   it and then hitting J will do the opposite it'll  go backwards one time hitting the J makes it play   Backwards two times hitting the J will make it  play Backwards it's twice as fast and so on you   can actually go three times and make it go faster  and faster really simple tricks that you can learn   later on all we're learning today is really how to  get our footage in cut it up a little bit change   the color to make it look a little better put it  all together maybe add some titles and then send   it out so as you can see here if I were in an area  that I found I wanted to cut something out what I   would do here is I would put the playhead where  I wanted to make a slice and let's say I really   wanted to zoom in I would use that's that zoom in  scroll bar right here the zoom bar I'd find the   spot that I want to slice and there's a couple of  ways to do this the easiest way I've found is on   your keyboard just hit Ctrl and B and it'll slice  all of this footage and if you can see these are   now separated sections so I've now made a cut  in the footage I can scroll back out and let's   say I wanted to cut everything over to here what I  could do is yet again hit control and B where the   playhead is and this is going to cut these pieces  out now if these are all linked together and both   are highlighted and I want to remove that section  now that little piece that I just cut out in this   particular situation what I can do is I can either  hit delete on my keyboard or I could right click   and use cut there's a slight difference between  the two when you're in this sort of standard mode   that I want to show you if I have both pieces  of these highlighted the footage and the audio   track that's connected to it and I hit delete  Watch What Happens in my timeline see how it   pulls those together so it does that Ripple delete  where it removes the section and pulls the other   two pieces together if you were in a situation  where you didn't want it to pull together what   you could do is you could select those two pieces  and instead right click and choose cut cut will   take it out and then it won't Ripple delete it  will allow you to leave that space now you could   Ripple delete afterwards simply by clicking in the  space between the footage that you've left right   click on that and choose Ripple delete and it'll  bring those things over or you can just slide them   over depending on what your preference is if you  do choose a section like this video and this audio   and then right click you'll see at the bottom  there's an option to link the clips that will   make sure that they're linked together so if you  do a ripple delete like this where you right click   and ripple delete it'll tell you if they're out  of time and you can lock them so that they will go   but it'll always let you know that if things have  fallen out of sync and one isn't moving or one is   moving so now I have a basic idea of how to bring  things into your project and then bring them down   in your timeline and start cutting up your footage  and removing the pieces and moving them around the   next thing you might want to do when you find  yourself cutting pieces of footage together is   maybe add a video transition now I'm using the  studio version so I'm going to have a few more   Transitions and options than the free version does  but in general if you were at a section like this   where two pieces of footage came together and you  wanted to add a transition all you need to do is   go over to this left under this toolbox menu and  you'll see it says video train transitions click   on video Transitions and you'll start seeing  the transitions that are available to you if   there are some in the free version that are not  available and you try to click them and bring them   over it'll give you a warning saying that that's  a paid feature and you need to upgrade to use it   but let's start with something very simple like  a cross dissolve where we're dissolving between   two pieces of footage what's really cool is  if you put the playhead where you're thinking   about that transition before you even ever make a  choice you can actually go over to cross dissolve   and right here just scroll left and right it'll  show you what that effect will look like on the   footage in your timeline like a preview and you  can go oh is that the effect I'm looking for or   maybe the effect I wanted was the one above it  blur dissolve where you can actually look and   see what it might do once you brought it in  without actually bringing it in first I like   the cross dissolve I'm just going to bring that in  I'm going to drop it into the timeline see how I'm   placing it I could place it on the first piece of  footage the second piece of footage or I can drop   it right in the middle that's typically where I do  a cross dissolve and and the length of the Cross   dissolve how long it takes to fade in and Fade  Out of each is defined by how far you stretch   it so if you left click and hold either side of  this the left or the right of that transition in   your timeline you can change the length of that  dissolve now I don't know if you notice but as   I'm playing here with this dissolve up in that  right window and remember that inspector area   that we talked about as I've clicked on that thing  in the timeline it now gives us sort of a deeper   amount of options so I can really start changing  the way that transition works but that's true of   everything in your timeline if I choose a piece  of video footage let's go back to the first piece   of footage and I'd left click on that in the upper  right you'll now see that if I click on the video   tab that's where I can really start modifying  this footage by doing things like zooming in   zooming out I could change the position left to  right so if I do zoom in and I want to move more   to the left and maybe focus on carry the X will  allow me to go left and right and then the Y here   will allow me to go up and down so you can see  I'm going up and down zooming in on carry a bit   and my fuzzy little head in the way down below it  you'll see options for doing things like cropping   your footage or trying to do a composite where you  can blend areas those are all those kind of deeper   features where you can really dive into the piece  of footage itself but for now I'm not going to do   any of that zooming or cropping that's where it  would be for now we're just going to try to do   some simple Cuts transitions maybe add some text  and see if we can get this thing completed if you   do something like this and you want to reset  you can see there's all these little circular   Wheels with an arrow those will reset back to  the original either individual things like the   positioning or the zoom itself or if you just  want to reset everything in this transition   section the very top recycle will do that click on  it and you'll be fine so now that we have a couple   pieces of footage of transition in there let's  think about adding some titles that's something   you might want to do add text on top of your video  that you're going to put onto YouTube so over in   the left you can see their options for titles  right under that toolbox menu let's click on   titles and we're going to go down to the text plus  there's text and text plus and as far as I can see   pretty much text is basic text and text plus gives  you more advanced options to do more with the text   if you're trying to create a bit more of a text  effect of some kind but let's grab Text Plus and   we're just going to bring that into our timeline  now wherever I bring that in the timeline is where   the text is going to happen I can left click and  hold and drag that around and maybe I want it here   so there's my text and if you see up here in the  preview window it just says custom title now if   you look in the inspector because I have that  text selected in my timeline that inspector is   where I get in and I start modifying the text just  like I did with the footage or the transition so   up there I don't want it to say custom title  so let's change that to rock and roll video   so those words are now here I can do  things like choose the type of font   that I want to use by just opening up the font  selection and scrolling down you'll see them   all change on screen choose whatever font  makes sense for you definitely not that one   that'll give you your font selection now you can  see here you can also control the size of that   font different ways that it's anchored and spun  and moved around you can really you can really   get deep with the text plus right now we've just  made some text we now have it controlled we have   it sort of the font we want the size we want  but it's in the wrong position it's sitting dead   center in the middle of my Video Edit maybe I want  that down below so it's not blocking our faces so   in the upper right instead of the title section  let's click over to settings and that's just like   the video portion where we can access the ability  to zoom in zoom out move it around left and right   up and down you can see the zoom here I can grab  it I can zoom in it gets closer to us I can zoom   out but let's go with that X and Y area we know  X is left and right and we know Y is up and down   so let's bring it down let me try bringing it  down to here somewhere now if I wanted it like   a lower third I could actually slide it over and  say hey rock and roll video lower third down in   the corner and there's a little bit of text that  I've just instantly added onto my video now if I   want to check my audio along the way you'll see in  the right there is a little mixer that's popped up   that's basically the main audio and then the  bus or where it's filed through to go out to   the master this is my single track audio one I can  rename that I can just call that the main footage   so that I know what all of these are if I were  adding a lot of different tracks I could separate   them because of the name so that's going to  control my volume and if I were playing this   piece of footage you can see maybe it's peaking  a little out I could bring it down if I want a   little into the red isn't bad but that'll control  the individual track that I can control the volume   right there and then the bus on the right is  think of that as more like your master so if   I had a bunch of tracks that were all not peaking  but then the overall volume was peaking a little   loud I can control the master here by bringing  that bus down if I wanted to dive deeper into   this audio we could go to the second to last  page of DaVinci Resolve that's what they call   fairlight and fairlight is just their word for  the audio page that's where you can really dive   deep and change the effects change the EQ add  compression do all kinds of really great mixing   inside of DaVinci Resolve it's literally like its  own digital audio workstation and if I open that   up go over and click on that fairlight page this  is your whole mixer section so this is all audio   so I've got these tracks here you'll see the  mixer I'm only using one the more I add over on   this right the more faders will show up for each  track and if you see above it that's where I can   add some of these things if I double left click on  the Dynamics you'll see I have the ability to add   an expander or Noise Gate which can quiet down  noise in between when I'm speaking I can add a   compressor a limiter stop the vocal from peaking  too much I could also click on things like the EQ   section here double left click on that and this  opens up a really nice parametric EQ that I can   start deciding to roll off some of the lows left  click hold roll off some of the highs pull down   some of the mids pop them up just by left clicking  and holding some of these points or dialing them   in from the control knobs down below and then I  can dial in also the gain the overall volume of   everything if the track happens to be a little  quiet this is the last stages we're going to   want to export this footage now that we have the  cuts done we have the color corrected we've added   some transition we've added some text now we want  to be able to export our project so what you want   to do is go to the final page over here you'll  see that's called the deliver page there's some   words in here that are sort of unnatural I would  just say export right so you have to sort of learn   some of the language it's a bit like being in  a Starbucks when you order a coffee instead of   a large you're going to learn a Vente or a grande  or whatever that might be so just kind of learning   some of the language inside of Da Vinci is one of  the things that will happen as you play with the   footage and it'll make sense in your head so if  you look on this left section this is where we're   going to control the exact type of export that  we want for this project now I'm not going to   do custom export I'm going to do an h.264 Master  you can do a custom one in h.265 there's lots of   options for what you're exporting you can even  export directly up to places like YouTube Vimeo   Twitter right to Dropbox but I personally like  exporting all my projects locally so they're   right onto my computer where I know exactly where  everything is I can look at them check them out   make sure the mix is right and then I upload it  to YouTube so let me start with a local one I'm   clicking on h.264 Master that's sort of a very  standard compression as I scroll down I'm going   to need to name this file I can't even remember  what we call this project from the beginning but   we're going to call it the resolve test video  that's what I'm going to call it for now and   then below it you're going to pick your location  where on your computer do you want that file saved   and there's a browse button there if you click on  browse it'll open up your typical Explorer browser   from Windows that allow you to choose a place to  put your footage for right now I'm just going to   put it on the desktop and you'll see it's called  the resolve test video it's going on the desktop   click save now down below this is a couple things  that you want to watch out for right off the bat   DaVinci Resolve seems to default to QuickTime  as a format QuickTime is more of an apple or Mac   delineation it's what we often see referred to as  like a DOT mov file but for me and for most people   we're going to probably be exporting an mp4 which  is the more common and preferred video file format   type for uploading onto YouTube so I'm going to  scroll down and click on MP4 below that you don't   have to worry about too much it's an h.264 we'll  let the encoder be automatic and all this stuff   below right now we really can just kind of go with  the defaults off the bat as you get more advanced   you can start playing around with the exact type  of export you want but this is where we're going   to start the only other thing you probably want  to look at is up above here we're on the video   tab for our export make sure you click on the  audio export and make sure that you have audio   enabled because you want to make sure that box is  ticked and then think about the type of encoder   that you might need for most of this just leave it  be unless you want to change some of the bit rate   and things and bring them down to the sample rate  I tend to keep these whatever the project already   is whether it's 44.1 or 48. for now we'll just  leave it exactly what the project was recorded   at now once I've done these things this simple  setup I also along the way want to make sure if   I might have changed the project settings to make  the project run smoother that I revert back to the   full definition files so in the upper left let's  quickly check on the file type and if we look at   project settings again if I may have been using  4K footage but keeping the project at 1080 along   the way this is where you'd want to put it back  to 4K to make sure we get a full 4K export but   I'm going to leave this at 1080 everything's fine  and at this point once I've got this all set up   and all the parameters are clicked and set what  I want to do is down in the lower left I want   to click on add to render queue and what happens  is it'll take all the information I just told it   about this project and it's going to put it in the  upper right and it'll say that's what we're going   to export right now this project and it holds  on to that settings for this timeline now there   could be a situation where I only wanted to export  like a piece of this project now this is really   interesting with DaVinci Resolve if we go back in  the timeline let me click on the timeline here let   me put the playhead somewhere in the middle click  right here and I'm going to put Mark in see that   option Mark in all of a sudden the project now  starts here as a marker let's say I go a little   bit past it down in the timeline and I move that  playhead and right click again I could choose Mark   out I've now decided a different amount of the  timeline that I want to export I can do this I   can actually make a separate export without even  affecting the one I just made so what I do is I go   back up to the upper left and I say the same thing  h.264 let's look at the video settings let's make   sure it's not QuickTime it seems to always default  back to that let's go back to MP4 leave everything   else set is auto make sure that the audio is  set to also export and now that I have this   section defined I can actually click again add to  render queue and now there is a separate project   within my project ready to export just that  shorter clip but it didn't affect the main one   so I can now decide what I want to export now in  the upright if you look I can select them right I   could select one or I could select more if I hold  the control key on my keyboard and then click both   now they're both selected and I could hit this  render all and it will export them one at a time   pretty cool huh but I don't need them both right  now I just want the main project it now says   render one let me click on that and as you can  see now DaVinci Resolve goes through the process   of exporting the entire file as I defined it for  that export up top and it gives you progress along   the way you can see how quickly it's exporting  this tends to go pretty quickly I will say the   studio version runs faster than the free version  because of that GPU acceleration but in general   even the free version moves pretty quickly if  your project isn't really complex and have a lot   of tracks and color changes and effects laid on  top and once it's done in the upper right you'll   see where it says it's completed now I want to  give you a couple of tips to make your project   move a little smoother if it's been stumbling on  you at all or getting bogged down from different   things being added to your project one of the tips  that I would give you is if your project is all in   4k go up to that file setting go down to project  settings click on that you'll see here what the   current project is set at now if you are using 4K  footage or Ultra HD footage like I do here you can   set it back to 1080p while you're working on it  just make sure at the end when you go to export   you put it back up to that higher resolution 3840  by 2160 so you get the full resolution you were   looking for also right below that you'll see  this box that says optimize media and render   cache here's where you can actually start choosing  what size render files you want the software to   create when it makes those files you can choose  that these files will only be half of that amount   of information when they're rendered or even  less you could do a quarter if you want but   when you render these down and create files that  have less information and less data the software   is going to have more ability to be able to run  through your timeline without getting bogged down   so choose what that might be ahead of time before  you start using any render features let's go with   half and then just click save if you do have an  area where things are getting bogged down you   can't do this in the export page but you can do  it back in that editing page go back to the edit   page and you can either choose individual Clips or  you can even click in this gray area and create a   box and select multiple things here I'm selecting  two pieces of footage and the transition and then   just right click and you'll see up here render in  place what that will do is allow you to create a   rendered version of these things in your timeline  that have less information easier for the software   to handle and when it exports at the very end  it'll go back to the original pieces and use those   for the final export so you can quickly Define  what type of format and everything you'd like it   to be depending on your preferences and then you  click render but one of the things you have to pay   attention to is it wants to know where you'd like  to store these rendered files a lot of times I'll   create a project file on the side where I leave my  final mixes my render files and build that so that   all of those things are in one place so choose  where you'd like the rendered file to go select   folder and it immediately starts rendering all of  these things that are going on here that'll allow   the project to move smoother as that playhead's  moving through your timeline if it is getting   bogged down now another thing you want to think  about doing is back up here in the upper left   see where it says playback if you click on that  and scroll down you'll see there's a few options   one proxy handling this is where the software is  basically going to say do you want us to defer to   the proxies when we're playing something back  or do you want us to use the originals so make   sure you do have prefer proxies check so that it  does know to use those when it's playing back down   below that is the render cache I tend to leave  that at smart and it tends to do its own thing   because it does sort of render files along the way  it's actually doing it intelligently and looking   at what's going on in my timeline and as I play  through it'll slowly start rendering wherever the   playhead has already gone over sometimes you might  fight the fact that it hasn't rendered the footage   yet and you're trying to play it and you might  see it skip or bog down or lag that just means   on your project DaVinci is trying to finish the  rendering process so let it do that and get all   the way through as you're playing you'll find that  if you rewind and play again suddenly the footage   plays a lot smoother because it's rendered  it through the other thing you want to make   sure up here is that you do have it checked for  using the optimize media available so if you have   optimized anything that it's going to make sure  it pulls that for the playback another thing you   can change here is the timeline proxy resolution  it defaults to full but you could pull that down   to half or even quarter and it'll help reduce the  stress of your system in trying to play back all   the things that are going on in your timeline so  spend a little time in that playback section and   it can really help the performance of DaVinci  Resolve on your system I hope this was helpful   enough to get you started in DaVinci Resolve  if you have any questions feel free to ask them   down below in the comments section I am a noob  so I only have a limited amount of information   and as I learn more I will share more for all you  DaVinci Resolve experts out there try not to beat   me up too much in the comments sections as well if  I missed anything or I got something wrong please   feel free to jump in and give us some better  Direction on things that we can learn to help   improve our own DaVinci Resolve experience I'll  talk to you very soon have a great day. PEACE!

Channel: Daniel Batal

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Length: 34min 32sec (2072 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 22 2023