- Hey everyone. Welcome
back to another video. In this video, we are
going to be looking at cutting interviews within DaVinci Resolve, and specifically around the workflow that I like to use and keyboard
shortcuts that I like to use when it comes to efficiently
cutting interviews. If you're a documentary
editor or a commercial editor that is cutting down a lot of interviews, the main thing that you
wanna do is try and create a really efficient way of working to process the huge amount of raw footage that we have to deal
with on a daily basis. For me, I've refined this
process for my workflow. And so there might be some tips and tricks that you might take away
from this video, hopefully. Now I use a Mac computer, so I've got the Apple keyboard here with the numpad on the right. I see a lot of editors just using the shorter Apple keyboard, and for me, the numpad is just a
really great addition. It also frees up the arrow keys from the main keyboard here,
so I'm not having to, I guess, squeeze my
fingers into the arrow keys on the shorter keyboard. So I love the longer form keyboard. I like the low profile. And I like the fact that it's wireless just to declutter the desk. And then I also use the Stream Deck. I won't be talking too much
about the Stream Deck today, that's a completely different video. But this Stream Deck profile will be available for you to download, as well as my custom keyboard mapping or keyboard customization
preset within DaVinci Resolve. So they can be found in the
description of this video. So the first thing that we wanna do is obviously get the
footage into a new timeline and start working. Before we do that, if we hit Command+K, it'll bring up the keyboard customization. And you'll see here over in the top-right, my custom preset or my
custom keyboard shortcuts that you can download. Once you've downloaded that file, you can hit the three dot menu
item and hit import preset, navigate to that file, and
once you've imported it, everything that I will
be using in this video, you'll be able to follow along. Okay, so up here in the media pool, I have three interview clips. We're just gonna be
working on this one here. The first shortcut will
be Shift+Option+Command+T and that'll bring up a create
new timeline dialogue box. I'll just rename this
interview "Stringout". Hit enter. That'll create a new
timeline for their interview. Backslash will allow me
to see the full timeline. So if I'm zoomed in all the way in here, I can just hit backslash and it'll bring me back
to the full timeline. If I hold shift and scroll down, it's just gonna allow
me to view the waveform and the video a little bit clearer. What I will do before we
start is just right click and change the track to mono. And then once I've done that, I'm basically good to go. The rest of the time I'm
not going to use the mouse or the pen tablet at all. I'm just going to use keyboard
shortcuts on the keyboard. So it really allows me to
zone into the interview without taking my hands constantly off and clicking a mouse, and right clicking, and doing all sorts of things like that. So we're gonna throw some
headphones on so I can listen in to the interview with you guys. The first thing we'll do
is J, K and L navigation. L moves the play head forward. J moves the play head back. (video speeding through) Also you'll notice I'm
hitting minus and plus a lot, or the equals key and the dash key. Equals zooms in, and the dash
zooms out of the timeline. So if I zoom all the way in
and then hit the backslash key, again I'm back to square one. Now, when I'm editing interviews, I'm, most of the time, just
focusing on the wave form. And so I do like to zoom in a little bit to see the detail of the wave form as the play head is moving forward. (video speeding through) For example, right there I can see that the wave form comes to a close, so I know that that is
the end of his sentence. And then this blank space here. I know that that is obviously a question or some other downtime where the talent is not
actually saying anything. So waveform is a really
great way to edit interviews and quickly process your footage. So with the J, K and L keys, if I hit L I'm playing forward. If I hit L again or twice,
it'll play it two times speed. If I hit it again, it'll
be four times, eight times, 16 times and 32 times. So you can just hit that L
key as many times as you want to really speed up the play head. And then J does the
exact with the reverse. (video speeding through) So this is playing 16
times speed backwards. If I want to get back to
the start of the timeline, I'm gonna hit control comma, and then control full stop will take me to the end of the timeline. If I zoom out, you'll see this. So this is the start. This is the end of the timeline. If I zoom back in, I can also navigate through edit points by hitting shift, J and L. So Shift+L will take me to the next edit point down the timeline, and Shift-J will take me
to the previous edit point. For example, if I just put
a ton of edits in here, I can hit Shift+J to
navigate through those edits, and Shift+L. So it's a really great way of quickly navigating through your timeline and the edits that you've made. If I want to delete a
section, I can hit D, which will enable the
clip or select the clip, and then E will remove the clip. So D and E. If I don't want to ripple delete, which this is a ripple delete here, where it deletes the clips and ripples everything to the right
of the clip backwards. If I don't want that, I can simply hit D to
select and then delete, which keeps the gap intact. If I don't want the gap, I can also hit D to select the gap, and E will ripple delete the gap away. Another great little tip is if you do have a ton of gaps on your
timeline, for example, if we just create a couple of gaps here. And I'll just do one more. If we've got a bunch of gaps like that, all I need to hit is
the actual delete key, which is the secondary delete key over here on the larger keyboard. And you'll see what that does, it's ripple deleted every
single gap on the timeline, which is an awesome
way to quickly compress the timeline down if you
have unnecessary gaps. So again, you can see here, all
those gaps simply disappear. So we'll actually quickly
just delete all of these. And you can see I'm
still not using the mouse for any of these actions. So I have full control over doing anything within the timeline, just
with my keyboard shortcuts. So let's listen through this interview and we'll start breaking
it down a little bit. (video speeding through) Okay, the first thing I'll do is I'm going to give this clip a color. We'll make it yellow. It's actually a piece of the
interview that I might use. It's called a noddy or a funny moment, something that I might like to cut away, but it's not actually content
that I will use in this story. I've just labeled it yellow so I know for later that
I can refer back to it. (video speeding through) Let's remove this first little piece. There's a couple ways you can work. You can hit R to make an edit, and then you can go back
and hit D and then E to ripple delete the previous section. Or you can just simply hit Q, which will ripple delete everything to the left of the play head
to the nearest edit point, or W will ripple delete everything to the right of the play head
to the nearest edit point. So you notice here, if I
hit W it'll make a cut. It'll basically select this clip, ripple delete that clip away. So instead of doing those three actions, you could simply just hit W
and it will ripple delete, and Q will ripple delete to the left. So I'm always using Q
and W as I'm editing. (video speeding through) So I'm listening through, making edits. As I'm listening through
four times speed here, I can still make cuts, as you can see there. Okay. Couple of things here. This section I don't need, so I'm just gonna get rid of that. And then these two
sections here are the intro or two different takes of the intro. So now I'm gonna start introducing markers into the timeline. I'm gonna hit M to create a new marker, Command+A to select all
of the text, delete it, and I'll just hit "Introduction". Hit enter, and then I'm going to navigate by hitting Shift+L back
to where I left off and listen in again. (video speeding through) Cool. So this is another
good little noddy moment. So again, I'm just gonna
hit D to select the clip. On my Stream Deck I have a preset, I can label this any color I want really quickly just using the Stream Deck. Control+F deselects the clip. So if you've got a clip selected and you don't want it selected, Control+F. Shift+L again, back to where I started, and I'm gonna continue. So as I'm listening, I caught that the question
before the interview was what does Tree ech do? So again, I'm just making another marker. Hit enter and I can carry on. (video speeding through) Okay. So another marker here. "What is happening today?" And Shift+L, take me back to
where I left off to carry on. So you notice that I'm never actually listening to the interview at real speed. I'm always trying to listen through at two times or four times speed, because I simply just
don't wanna waste my time. At this stage of editing an interview, I'm not really too concerned about the nitty gritty of the content. I'm just trying to do broad brush strokes to refine it as quick as I possibly can, and sort of categorize the footage. You'll notice over on the left
hand side of the edit here I've created an edit index, which is a representation
of all the markers. And it's basically a running story of what's happening in the interview. If we continue, I'm going to ripple delete this section backwards. (video speeding through) Okay. So this is like,
"What is the process?" So, for the question, I'm not too worried about
listening to the question either because I was fortunately
part of shooting this. So I kind of understand
what's happening already. So when I get to those sections
here, for example this, I'm just trying to speed through
that as quick as possible. And so I'm hitting the L key four times to play it through at least
16 or 32 times the speed. When I get to the start
of the next answer, I'll just hit K to stop, and then L straight away to keep playing. For example, like this. (video speeding through) Cool. So this is Blackhawk,
sort of the intro. Rotor downwash was a key word. If you do wanna refine
where the play head is, if you are making an edit for example, if you hit K here and you're like, "Oh, I'm not quite where I want to be." Then you can introduce the arrow keys. So left arrow and right arrow. And that'll jump one frame either way. Ripple delete, carry on. So I don't need that ripple out. So, "Complex project", "Helicopters". So hopefully you can see
how quickly I can start navigating through these interviews and creating really succinct markers. And so the result of all this hard work is that you end up with
a really nice edit index over on the left hand side
explaining the high level, what is happening in this
particular interview. And then you also have
highlighted a couple of cutaways or noddies, or
sort of funny moments, which you might want to use
to embellish the interview later down the track. But the main point that I'm
trying to get across here is that I'm doing
everything on the keyboard because it allows me to stay locked in looking at the footage, and I'm not distracted by
constantly grabbing my mouse, right clicking and doing
all that sort of stuff. So that's the basics. Now let's jump into a
few other cool functions. Let's say I want to swap
a couple of clips around. What I can do is hit D to
select the clip and hold shift. I'm gonna use my up and down
arrows to swap that clip with the previous clip. There might be times where
you just have a little word that you want to sort of
shuffle through somewhere else. And I can do that using the shift key. If I hold option and up and down, it'll move the clip onto
another timeline layer. If I hit X, it's going to cut
the time out of the timeline. So I have copied the clip and cut it, and rippled everything away. And if I wanna paste that
down the line somewhere, let's say I paste it in here. I can hit Z. And that'll paste it in and ripple everything to the right
of that new pasted clip. I'll just label this so you
can see what's happening. We'll go orange. So I'm gonna hit D, I'm
gonna ripple that out. And if I wanna paste it down
the end of the timeline, I can just drop it in there. Another really cool feature, particularly on the Stream Deck, is I can just hit this one little button which will select all clips
with the color yellow. So let's say throughout my interview I have all of these
noddies or funny moments, but I just wanna pull
them out of the timeline and put them at the end of the timeline. What I can do is select all clips with that yellow clip color, hit X to ripple them out of the timeline, go to the end of my timeline and hit Z. And now I've pasted them in at the end, and I can just hit delete key
to compress all of the gaps. Now I have a really nice
section at the end of, theoretically, all of the funny moments. Now what's really
important with all of this is simply just to have
control over your timeline. So if there's things that you want to do that you have to reach for the mouse, try and figure out if there's a way that you can do that
with a keyboard shortcut. Because, again, it just allows you to be
locked in to the timeline. Another way to cycle
through the timeline is Command+M and Option+M. Now what this is gonna do is
cycle through the markers. So Command+M goes left
and Option+M goes forward. So if you have a bunch of
markers throughout your timeline, it's a really great way to navigate through your timeline quickly. If I want to change
the note on the marker, I can simply hit M again, update the note. I can go additional notes here. Hit enter. And now I've updated that note. One thing I do a lot
when I'm editing B roll, is there'll be a section of video that is just best suited to be reversed, or if there's speed change. So what I can do is select this clip, hit Shift+G to bring up change clip speed. Now I can hit 200 and play
this clip back at 200%. And if I wanna take it back to real time, I can just go back to 100% and move on. So as mentioned, these are
quite broad brushstroke movements within the timeline. I'll show you how I would
sort of process refining or compressing this interview sync. - Hi, I'm Chris Walsh. I'm the Managing Director of
Tree Tech specialist tree care. And we are here working in
Nelson with civil defense, and yeah, doing some helicopter work. Hi, I'm Chris Walsh. I'm the Managing Director- (video speeding through) Kahu helicopters. - Okay. So there was a bit
of noise in the background. So I'll remove those
sections. Got the intro here. (fast video playback) - So Tree Tech Specialist Tree Care, we are arborist, we look
after the urban forest throughout cities- - This is a good example. So there's lots of ums and ahs. Let's say I wanted to take all of them out and compress the A-roll sync a little. - Tree Tech Specialist
Tree Care. We deal with- - So I'm using the
arrow keys now to refine the exact frame that I want to cut at. Hit R for cut. (video skipping forward and back) "We ah." Let's try and cut the "ah" out. - At arborist, we look
after the urban forest throughout cities, and
Christchurch and Wellington. Um, we travel abroad- Cities and Christchurch and Wellington- - Okay. Listen to this. - So at Tree Tech Specialist Tree Care, we are arborists, we look
after the urban forest- - So let's say I want to fine tune these little edits that I've made. What I could do is use my
keyboard shortcuts down here, which I've set up on my Stream Deck. I cycle through to this edit point, select the edit point and now
use my comma and full stop keys to fine tune this edit. (video skipping forward and back) And I'm just gonna ripple this one down. Let's try one more frame. (video skipping forward and back) Okay. Let's listen to this. - So Tree Tech Specialist Tree Care, we are arborists, we look
after the urban forest throughout cities and
Christchurch and Wellington. - Gonna get rid of these. - We travel abroad and we
also do, um, emergency works- (video skipping forward and back) - That's important there. - And we also do emergency works like earthquakes, and slips, and this, and flooding- - Maybe we'll keep the and. (video skipping forward and back) Okay. Let's listen to this now. - So Tree Tech Specialist Tree Care, we are arborists, we look
after the urban forest. We also do emergency works. (video skipping forward and back) We look after the urban forest, we also do emergency
works like earthquakes, and slips and flooding. Yeah, so today is- - Okay. And now all of these
are secondary thoughts. So I can hit A to select everything to the right of the play head. And then I can move this
by hitting Shift+Full Stop. And you'll see that this is
moving all of these clips to the right. Now what I have is a nice, succinct intro. - Hi, I'm Chris Walsh. I'm the Managing Director for Tree tech Specialist Tree
Care here in Christchurch. And I'm here today with
Nelson Tree Services and Kahu Helicopters. So Tree Tech Specialist Tree Care, we- - What I'm gonna do is
get rid of this "So". - So. - I use the V and the
B keys to cycle between the trim edit and then the
standard selection tool. If I have the trim edit tool enabled, you'll see if I ripple delete by hitting W it actually does ripple delete. But if I use the standard
selection mode and I ripple, you'll notice that it
doesn't actually ripple, it just deletes to the
right of the play head without rippling. So I cycle between V and B a lot for those two different tools. - And I'm here today with
Nelson Tree Services. - And in this case when I'm
removing that word "So". Yeah? I can hit V and then hit Q, which will give me a gap
without actually compressing the sync. - And I'm here today
with Nelson Tree Services and Kahu Helicopter. Tree Tech Specialist Tree Care- - Okay. Obviously
something's happened here. So I'm going to select
that edit point again, and I'm gonna hit B, which
is the trim selection tool, and I'm just going to
increase that "Helicopters". I think this'll be it. - Tree Tech Specialist Tree Care- - There we go. - We're arborists, we look
after the urban forest. We also do emergency
works like earthquake, and slips and flooding. - You'll notice there are
different types of edits on the timeline as well. This edit here to the
right of the play head has a perforated line. And that simply means that
an edit has been made, but there actually isn't any
change to the original clip. So I can just click the
shortcut on my Stream Deck to select that edit point, and I'm just gonna hit delete to remove that false cut. Which, there's another one here. And then another one here. The more you use your keyboard shortcuts, the more it becomes second nature. And then the flow just increases. So let's listen in to
what we've got so far. - Hi, I'm Chris Walsh. I'm the Managing Director from Tree Tech Specialist Tree
Care in Christchurch. And I'm here today with
Nelson Tree Services and Kahu Helicopters. Tree Tech Specialist Tree
Care, we are arborists. We look after the urban forest. We also do emergency
works like earthquake, slips and flooding. - I'm just noticing here
that at this edit point, I want to create a little bit of space and decompress that sync a little bit. What you could obviously do, again, is grab the mouse and select all of these and move them to the right. You could select them and
then move them to the right using Shift+Full Stop. Or what you could do if you're
in a flow on the keyboard and you just want to continue
with your keyboard shortcuts, is create space by ripple
moving this edit point. So I'm going to give it space about there. Then I'm actually gonna
hit R to make a cut. D and delete. Now I've created space
between those two clips by rippling everything to
the right of the play head and pushing it down. - Are arborists, we look
after the urban forest. We also do emergency works
like earthquake, slip- - Now the gap's a little bit too much. So there's a couple of things I could do. So what I will do is just hit I and O, and that is setting an in and
out point on the timeline, and I'm going to hit X
just to cut out that space between the in and out point. So I've compressed that gap a little bit. - Arborists, we look
after the urban forest. We also do emergency
works like earthquake, slips and flooding. - Let's listen to it one more
time and then we'll move on. - Hi, I'm Chris Walsh. I'm the Managing Director from Tree Tech Specialist Tree
Care in Christchurch. And I'm here today with
Nelson Tree Services and Kahu Helicopters. Tree Tech Specialist Tree
Care, we are arborists, we look after the urban forest. We also do emergency
works like earthquake, slips and flooding. - All righty. So that's a whole bunch of shortcuts that I use to navigate the timeline. There are many more
that I use all the time, but that is for another video. To end, I'm just gonna
give you a couple of extra bonus shortcuts that I've set up. I like to hit control, option, command, and then use my number keys to go through the different modules within DaVinci. For example, if I just want to jump over to Fairlight really quick, I can choose Control+Option+Command+6
to get to Fairlight. Control+Option+Command+1 for the media. Two for cut, three for edit, four for fusion, five for color, and then obviously seven for delivery. Also, while I'm on the timeline, if I do want to dim the audio, if there is something else
I'm paying attention to, I can just hit the minus key
on the numpad on the keyboard, which you'll see here. - I'm Chris Walsh. I'm the Managing- (video volume decreases) - So minus just dims the audio. And if I click it again, it
boosts the audio back up. - Services and Kahu Helicopter- - And then sometimes, as I'm looking at a
bunch of B-roll footage, I'm sort of trying to
figure out the sweet spot of the aspect ratio. Now, obviously you can
change the aspect ratio in the timeline settings. But what I can also do
is use output blanking and cycle through the different options. So I've set them up by hitting control. And then one through seven will give me my different output blankings
on the timeline viewer. So zero is obviously off, Control+0. Control+7 is the 239 to 1 aspect ratio. And then there's a varying range of different options
all the way through. So often I just hit Control+7 just to sort of see what
that would look like. (interview playing) And a cinema aspect ratio. Control+0 will take it down. Let's say I did wanna
lock in that aspect ratio, what I can do is hit F to bring up the timeline in my media pool,
which you can see up here. Now, once I hit F and have
the interview string out selected in the media pool, I can hit Shift+Control+Option+Command+T, so all of the modify keys to bring up the timeline settings, and then you can use a
custom timeline resolution. This case, let's go 239, or
2048 by 858, for a 239 crop. And then I can select all of these and then go down here
to re-time and scale, and then hit fulfill. So now I have a 239 aspect ratio timeline. (interview playing) And I know that that's gonna work because I used my output
blanking just to test that out. Okay. So there you have it. I hope you're inspired
to start working through your own keyboard shortcuts. The statement that I'd
love you to keep in mind as you are editing is the question, "Is there a faster way to do
the thing that I just did?" As you're editing, if you find yourself doing
the same repetitive action, especially with the
mouse or your pen tablet depending on how you work, then I guarantee you you'll
be faster and more efficient if you figure out a keyboard
shortcut for that thing. The more time you spend on the keyboard and force yourself to
only use the keyboard to navigate through the
timeline as you're editing, the faster and more efficient you will be. So hopefully that inspired you. If you do have any
questions, please sing out, make sure to like the video, subscribe, leave a comment in the comment box below. I'll try and answer every single
question that you do have. And don't forget in the
description of this video, you can download my keyboard shortcuts and my Stream Deck profile
if you want to follow along. That's it for now. We'll see you in the next one. Peace out. (calm music)
