DaVinci Resolve SPEED EDITOR | Live Overwrite MULTICAM & Sync Bin Tutorial

so blackmagic design just released the speed editor for davinci resolve 17 and with that comes a brand new way to edit multicam video called live overwrite it takes up a big chunk of the panel so live overwrite is pretty important so i'm going to show you how to use live overwrite today how to use a search style how to set up a a sync bin if you've never done that before and it happens all in the cut page let's get into it hey welcome if you're new here my name is chadwick this is creative video tips where i help you create videos and make a difference and stand out if that's something that you're into click subscribe right now so you don't miss my tip next week i also want to let you know i have time code in the description so you can jump around and find just what you're looking for so live overwrite is super fun it's unique to the new speed editor but i'm sure you're wondering why would i want to use that instead of regular multicam editing that i don't know how to use the thing that makes it so fun is you actually paint it on as you're scrolling that search dial it's rolling on as you're doing it and then there's another feature that you can't even do when you're doing a traditional multi-cam edit you can add a dissolve as you cut which is pretty sweet or there's another feature called the close-up feature you can add a close-up as you cut so you're taking your source angle it's getting blown up while you're putting it on the timeline okay so here is the new speed editor for davinci resolve in the middle section you'll see here there are lots of multi-cam buttons those are to change angles decide if you want video or audio only and then there is a special live overwrite button right there it kind of works like a caps lock button does on a normal keyboard now before you can use live overwrite you have to set up a sync bin and resolve 17 has three different ways to set up a sync bin the first is by using time code matching time code between the different camera angles a lot of people don't have that so i'm not even going to show in this video the tool you would use is like a tentacle sync is a popular one or an ambient locket box the second way which is probably the most popular way is there are audio waveforms and it can sort of line up those waveforms from each camera this is a wave by the way you can line up those waveforms between the camera so make sure you're recording sound on all the cameras whenever possible these are some different multi-cam clips and i'm going to show you how to set up the sync pin so let's jump over to the cut page we are going to select all of these three different angles we have a wide medium and close and then to sync them we're going to sync these ones in particular using waveform sync so there's a button here called sync clips as a sort of roundabout arrow you'll just to choose this little sync audio waveform button here and push sync and it's going to analyze the content it's going to line them up for us now while this is running i want to let you know it's important to make sure you have sound on channels or tracks 1 and two these c200s sometimes we run these without any channel any sound on one and two so what i do is in the clip attributes section of the media page you can actually kind of copy the audio that's on three and four into one and two okay it looks like we're synced up so if we want to preview it you can just click the playhead anywhere you want in the clip and then if you wanna hear only one of the audio tracks you can click solo i know i have a good boom mic on track three so i'll select that you know it's like how great key is here again we can see it's synced up we have got good sound so we're gonna say save sync so now we have these all three synced up we know that because there's a little blue indicator in the upper left corner of each clip so and then over here in the media page we can quickly see there is a media sync file that it had created and this is just the instructions for how it all ties it together and then the third way is what if the waveforms don't work there you can actually mark an endpoint or an out point and a lot of people think that's just for if you have like a slate that has a clacker or someone that does you know like a clap something like that you could obviously use that as marking an endpoint but i've got another trick that is pretty much foolproof if you have a person in the scene i actually have a set of clips here that are from a really windy shoot we can listen right here you know even though i have sound of her talking it is such poor quality that i know that waveform sync is not gonna work so what you can do instead even without having time code you can mark an endpoint and you don't even need slate so the trick i've used for over a decade is if you need to sync something up you can and you have a person you can look at their mouth and if they say something like a ba or a paw sound you can see their lips kind of open up that's actually a great point to sync something up and you don't need someone to clap you don't need to slate you just need someone's mouth to open at the same point in time from different angles so i'm going to try to find that moment okay so she says i was born so born is a good marker i'm going to switch the jog on the speed editor that gives us a little more precision so there's bourne and we're going to mark an end point right there with this that's the white button there now we're looking at the wide shot and then you just need to find where she says born at the beginning of this one so i'm using scroll to get to the beginning real quick switching to jog to get it in a more refined sort of control we're looking for the word born and moved to colorado and when were you first exposed to the i was born there it was i was born okay that seems like the beginning of born so i'll mark an end point right there white key on the speed editor okay now both of those are set up to be synced using the sync bin so you just select the two like we did with the waveforms you choose this little button right here in this sync clips section instead of choosing waveforms you can choose endpoints choose that sync and it's we've already done all the work for it so we can just quickly check at any moment where there's some motion to see to double check ourselves um i knew that sentinel loved me we're good on that and we'll say save sync so both of those now have the blue indicators in the upper left and we can check back in the media page we have the special media sync file that's tying those together and so now you know how to use the sync bin or at least how to set up the sync between the clips now we're going to get into how you throw them on the timeline and have fun painting with live overwrite so now let's do some live overwrite we're going to create a new timeline we'll call this one waveform sync timeline because that's what it was and we're going to choose four audio tracks that's what the c200 shoots there'll be mono we'll say create and we'll go in and the first step you have to do is this is our waveform sync one you have to throw down like a base layer so and it's best to throw down your base layer with your best audio and i know that just happened to be this clip that i have right here which is like a profile angle so i'm going to use the speed editor up in the upper left is smart insert and if you just tap it it's going to drop the whole clip down there if you don't have any marks it'll just do the whole clip so that's down there that's awesome we can quickly preview with scroll and then using the search dial uh if you push timeline first that helps push scroll dial hang out with people and so we have a clip down there it has decent sound but i'm going to make it better so i'm going to go over to the edit tab real quick and i know from looking at this all the sound i really care about is going to be on track one so i'm just gonna solo track one and we can and then on top of that they ran this it sounds much cleaner so i don't have to deal with listening to any of the rest of that garbage we can jump back to the cut page where we're going to do all our fun work okay so we have a great base layer down on the timeline now we can check that a section of it out if we want by just using the search style we got plane stop yeah so i think this exclusive that this group had um so now that that is set up we can uh add more clips to it before i do that real quick i'm just gonna mute so that i can scroll and we don't have to hear that sound at the same time so by tapping sync bin which is right up there we have access to all of those clips and to drop them down here's where the magic happens right now we're on angle three which is that close profile i want to go to the wide angle so i'm going to push 1 holding it down and rolling forward with the dial it's just painting that on and maybe i want to go straight now to angle 2. you just switch over to two on the dial on the button on the speed editor and rotate that dial on out then to review it you would press timeline and you can see it and you know it's full glory and if we want to play sound we could click there and that's all right yeah so i think this exclusiveness that this group had so that's that's as simple as it is and the beauty of all this too is that you can do your trim in and trim out that are on the speed editor so let's say i want this to go back and forth i can scroll to where my smart indicator goes to the end of this clip okay now you can see that smart indicator triangle has moved over i can say trim out or i could use roll let me just trim out and i'm going to pull this back a little bit so it's going to go back and forth and then you could also go over to the next one and say trim in and shorten that up a little bit and then go back down to the timeline and preview how that cut works yeah so i think this exclusive that this group had um it just bothered me because i wanted the rest so it's really simple to just paint clips on i'm gonna click back up here to volume so we don't have to hear all of the audio and dialogue that's going on in this interview if you just hit sync bin and you click an angle that you want i would say i want angle 2. i hold it and i drag it on [Music] so holding a button is great and all but what does live override do live overwrite is a button rinse right here you click it it glows up and it's kind of like a caps lock it kind of holds things there so with live overwrite held if you're in your sync bin and your source so you can see i'm able to scroll the sync bin up there if you just click to your new angle you can start painting without holding that button down okay maybe i want to go over to angle two now i click two and it's basically turned it into like a live switcher so i'm going between one and two one and two and then if i want to get out of it you just click again and now we're out and past that and why this live overwrite button is kind of powerful is you can do a couple things with it that you cannot do with a normal multi-cam sequence and i'm going to show you that in the next timeline [Music] so i've got the other footage here that we synced up in the sink bin using endpoints and i just wanted to illustrate the two other party tricks that the sink bin has and that is to actually cut with live overwrite using a dissolve or cut with live overwrite using the close-up feature so let's just scroll into the timeline hit timeline move the search dial to a spot where you know you want to be doing a cut and this time ins when you go into live overwrite you'll hit live overwrite and maybe we want to be putting dissolves automatically so i hit dissolve down on there and then in the after you know i've got sync pin open as well i'm going to push angle 2 to go to 2 which is the close-up angle so i tap that once and as i put that down you can see it added a dissolve right off the bat i didn't have to do anything to it push angle 1 and it's automatically adding go back to there it's automatically adding that cross dissolve now this isn't going to make a whole lot of sense in this material because i mean who wants to see a cross dissolve you know across these here it just looks it doesn't look great but it's an option and you can set any uh transition here as your default and have that happen within live overwrite and then the other feature is using the close up so if we have live overwrite selected we can then hit the close up button and then angle 2 and what it's done here is it's taking our second angle which is already our close-up shot but it's punching in further so that's closer than the original shot was and the way you can tell that is by going up by selecting it here and then you can go to this little inspector window and it has decided to blow it up to 124 basically 1.245 of the normal scale and then you can even use the search dial here and the speed editor to change the position of it the close-up button on it lets you do that if you hold down on this it changes the y position and you can fine-tune that as well hey real quick i want to let you know i also have a video called 17 ways to use the search style with a speed editor it's a great introduction if you're new to the speed editor i think it'll help out a lot now let's get on to the bonus tip okay so one last bonus tip here if you want to do multi-cam editing not live override editing for those that don't have the speed editor you can go into the edit page and there's a new feature that they've added in version 17 and that will let you sync things up right in the timeline and here's how that works so if i select my clips and i let's just say i'm going to add these here to my timeline and i'll select this clip here and i'll say place on top and then i'll go back to the beginning of my timeline and i'll go to this clip here and i'll say place on top of that and so basically i have the three different angles that we had synced up using sync band but they're all in a timeline so this method is going to say let's sync these all up right here on the timeline instead you can right click and then once you right click there's a new feature called auto align clips if you right click on them and we can say based on waveform and it's kind of doing the same thing that it was doing before with the sync band it's just doing it right in the edit page it's just another way of doing the same thing so it's just finishing analyzing right now if it has any errors and it doesn't think it can sync it right it'll let you know but it looks like it it did its job it did what it was trying to do and it shifted those slightly once that's done you can just say convert timeline to multicam clip if you click on this sucker then you can say right click say convert timeline to multicam clip and so that made a auto-align multi-cam clip it's no longer a timeline it is a special multi-cam type clip which you can do and edit in any way that you have done in the past so now you're up to speed with live overwrite and multi-cam editing using the new speed editor for davinci resolve and if you got anything out of this video please click the like button right now it helps me out a ton helps the video grow and leave any questions you have in the comments below i would love to get to every single one of those if i can anyways thank you so much and i'll see you in the next video

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Length: 16min 25sec (985 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 05 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/marshall409]

This a great tutorial, really well produced and everything...but I’m still struggling to see why on earth I’d want to edit this way.

[u/CreativeVideoTips]

Learn how to “paint” on new camera angles with live overwrite and the new DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor. #Resolve17 #DaVinciResolve #CreativeVideoTips #SpeedEditor #FilmmakingTips