How to Speed Ramp in DaVinci Resolve 17 - Pro Tutorial

i'm super pumped because today we're learning  how to find edit and speed ramp slow motion video   footage in your next davinci resolve project  and to kick it off did you know that you can   save a lot of time by copying and pasting speed  attributes as usual i have this video broken down   into four simple chapters to make the learning  process easier and before we get any further   let's use our high school algebra cheat sheet to  review maximum slowness is that even a word that   we can drop our clips down into for like a 24 fps  timeline without needing the crazy optical flow   processing which never turns out great anyways or  maybe you can just screen grab this graphic here   and we'll say we did now that we know what our  limitations are without losing quality or using   optical flow let's dive in so one of the problems  when you're editing mixed frame rate or slow   motion footage is you never know what the frame  rate is once it's down on the timeline without   looking at the clip attributes and we're going to  solve that today with using clip colors and to get   everyone on the same page we're going to look at  our project settings we are taking a look at a 23   976 timeline so that's what our editing is going  to be done at and we're looking at thumb view and   we need to see more information so we're going  to click list view right over here and we need   to sort by frames per second and clip color both  headers are not here so we're going to right click   under clip name we're going to choose fps and  clip color and now that those are available we   can click on the top of fps which is our frames  per second and sort by those and so what we're   going to be doing is associating every one of the  same frame rate to a very specific color it's a   color you're going to memorize it's hopefully a  color that you'll be able to pick up quickly so   you can recognize what the frame rate is on the  timeline once it's down there so from avid this   is something i learned 23976 is always going to be  green so i set those to green i'm going to choose   my 29.97 or my 30fps clips change those to navy  those will be blue my 60fps clips are going to   be purple so i'll go up here and choose purple  for those and then finally my special little   120 frames per second super duper slow-mo clips  are going to be set to yellow so now i know if i   see a yellow clip on the timeline it's 120 fps  which means i know in just in my head that it   can be slowed down to 20 percent or you could use  this cheat sheet and take a look at how slow can   i actually make that clip so that's my first tip  here is sort by clip color and then your life is   gonna be so much easier because you know how slow  you can make the clip when it's on your timeline so we've got all our footage organized by frame  rate and clip color if we select all command a and   then f10 to overwrite those onto our timeline  we can see down here it's awesome we can see   green's 24 we got blue 30 60 is um the purple  and then we've got 120 frames per second yellow   now the thing that happens when you  put them onto your timeline is it   resolve is gonna throw away the frames from the  120p clips here so that it plays it in real time   it's going to assume that you don't want to see  everything every frame you shot and it's going   to assume you want to see real time so the way  we're going to slow this down we're going to   select it and this is sort of new in Resolve  over here if we choose inspector you can open   this up more if you click this little button  and there's a speed change tab here right now   and we know because it's 120 frames per second  we can slow it down to 20 speed so under speed   percentage we can choose 20 right if you want to  make sure that you have ripple sequence turned on   if you want to make sure your in and out point  remain consistent on the clip so now we have 20   selected we hit enter and just like that boom zoom  out a little bit we can see every single frame   from that in and out point that we had marked  right there on the timeline which is super handy   the uh the little tab over here has a  couple other good shortcuts if you want   to play it backwards you can click this guy  and that just plays the clip in reverse okay   so that's really helpful and then finally  if let's say that's the key moment that's   where we want to freeze things at and lock in time  there's a little freeze icon here and that creates   a freeze frame at that moment so you can see it  just locked everything right on in it's like oh   hold up we need to take a timeout something like  that so that's really helpful the other things   that are on this little tab here that you want  to pay attention to are there's a ripple sequence   there's a pitch correction so this is with audio  it's going to try to not make mickey mouse voices   but the ripple sequence one's actually pretty  important so i want to show you that one here on   the clip before it so let's say we don't want this  clip to get make the timeline longer or shorter   we would select it you can make sure you turn the  ripple sequence off and then turn it to 20 and hit   enter and what this is going to do it's still  going to slow the clip down to see every frame   but it's going to ignore the out point so you can  see the timeline did not get longer but we did in   fact slow the clip down so that is playing every  single frame in slow motion on that roller coaster   great roller coaster by the way that's at  universal that's like a hogwarts or whatever so   anyways that is the speed change inspector method  of slowing clips down here in davinci resolve 17. this next tip to change clip speed is gonna go by  so fast you might miss it so i've got a time lapse   here of the pch i shot in santa monica and it's  four seconds long maybe i don't have that long   in my video to show it or maybe i want to give  it more energy well we know it's 24fps because   it's green so we probably don't want to slow it  down so what i'm going to do is speed it up so i   select the clip by dragging the mouse and i right  click you can say change clip speed right here and   within this window we can say hey let's make this  clip 400 percent instead of 100 so it's gonna go   faster it's gonna go four times faster we're going  to choose a ripple sequence which is going to make   the whole timeline shorter um but it's going to  keep the in and out points that are marked on   the clip itself we'll hit change and you can see  boom much faster clip you can use the exact same   technique if we jump over to a slow motion clip so  here's one with my buddy paul out in the snow it's   dropping frames right now because it's trying  to maintain that 100 timing of the 24p timeline   but we know it's purple so it's 60 frames per  second what we shot and we can slow it down to   40 speed so we'll select it with our mouse we'll  right click and say change clip speed and now we   can change this we double click in there and say  40 with our mouse again and we're going to also   choose ripple sequence which makes the timeline  longer in this case so it's the other direction   and just hit change and now you can see everything  in buttery smooth slow motion playing back right   up there snow in slow motion just looks super  cool in my opinion but also just so you know if   you select this and you say change clip speed you  have the same controls that you did over in the   inspector under the speed change section here so  you have uh ripple sequence reverse speed freeze   frame all that sort of stuff it's basically the  same thing it's just a different way of doing it   so if you don't want to open the inspector you  can always right click and say change clip speed   next up let's look at the retime controls  here to do variable speed changes   and speed ramps so select a clip right click  it and there is retime controls right there   it's command r so command r on and off to access  that and a couple things you want to set up make   sure you have here turned on we're going to go  to trim mode which is this button here this is   going to make sure we don't have any gaps in our  timeline as we're making the changes and we're not   overwriting the clips next to us and then finally  if you go to keyboard customization and type   and retime there's a new option here called  retime curve and you can set this to whatever   you want it's not set by default uh but i set  mine to command shift r and this gives you access   to the the little graph little chart thing  that lets you put like bezier curves on things   after uh you put stuff down and you want to refine  it later a little more advanced but command shift   r on and off for that that's a super good one and  then actually uh this this paper is shot is out of   order from this keyboard we want the keyboard to  happen before that so if i hit my selection arrow   i select this key and i use command shift uh the  greater than less than brackets it's the ones next   to m key on the keyboard the period and the comma  keys command shift to the left side moves that   clip over there to the left and right you can  sort of see how that works really fast way of   moving and swapping clips on the timeline so now  we have um with that command shift comma or period   lesser than greater than brackets they're in  the right order okay so now we can do some speed   changes let's use our command r to open up our  speed change controls we're going to use option   scroll to go in on that clip and we're going to  find a point that we want to change the speed   why don't we do it right as the finger starting  to come down we'll do it right there there's a   little drop down here and we're going to say add  speed point okay so add speed point is basically   a keyframe that's going to change on that position  and a couple things we can do with this let's say   at the beginning we want this to be playing even  faster than 100 let's make this to change speed   to 200 percent it's a little uh little shortcut  preset that's built in there now you can't change   these i wish you could but that has just made the  left side faster okay and then this other side we   know this is a 60fps clip from the beginning of  the video where we changed the color to purple   and so we can change this a lot slower than  it currently is and before i do that i want   to point out we're not in trim mode so let's let's  go back to trim mode this is going to ripple the   timeline for us and we're going to choose change  speed to 50 percent and so that you can see that   pushed everything else back out on the timeline  and so um it's not 40 which is what we could do   but it's not creating frames on its own so it's  still pretty dang smooth if you check that out   right so that's really helpful um the the way  this little speed point thing works there's a   top and a bottom they both have different controls  the one on the top is going to control the speed   percentage of the left section or portion of  your clip and the bottom is going to control   what frame the change is going to happen on so  if you take the left the top section here we're   going to actually move this to the left it's  going to increase the speed of this left side   so you can see there it went up to 367 percent and  then we're still at that 50 percent on the right   side so it's everything to the left i'm going to  hit undo there and then the what if we wanted to   the moment of the speed change to happen later  you take the bottom of it and then this actually   changes like the location of the speed change so  our speeds are not changing it's still 200 percent   it's still 50 on that side it's just the location  of when that moment happened is a little bit later   but i actually wanted it to be right as this the  key comes down so i'll just move that over there   and that in a nutshell is kind of how the the  little speed ramp tool um works right within   here but guess what there's more of course there's  more right so if we hit that command shift r that   we had talked about before we'd set up to enable  the retime frame and speed controls um we have   a little bit more options i'm going to zoom in a  little bit more with options scroll on the wheel   here and if we take a look here at this little  drop down we can choose retime speed okay and   undo retime frame and this gives us a little bit  of a graph and if we move in even a little bit   further we'll be able to see what's happening so  you can see there is a a keyframe moment that's   happening right here if you select that and then  you choose this guy right here this changes it to   a bezier handle and it just smooths things out  makes things a little bit more buttery so it's   going from 200 to 50 in a much smoother fashion  so just a little way to to finesse things a little   bit not totally necessary i've done a lot of you  know worked on car commercials food commercials   and stuff where we we just still use hard cuts  but this is a this is a really fancy way of   adjusting that right there and if you want to  go back to sort of the hard change you can click   that button right there one other tip that  i want to point out is um you can actually   extend this longer let's say we want this clip  here instead of be 50 let's see what it looks   like at 25 so this is we're actually going to be  making up frames at this point and to do that we   need to change some things so that we don't get  this little jitter okay go up to inspector you   choose retime process and under here you have  three options these are from easiest to hardest   and if we choose optical flow that's the hardest  it's going to be the most taxing on the computer   but it's going to give us the best results if  we change motion estimation so by default it's   going to choose this standard faster motion which  you can always take a look and see how it looks   usually you get some weird artifacts that wasn't  actually terrible but what i suggest is almost   always choosing enhanced better which is going  to take a second to render for sure but that's   going to give you great results it's basically an  order of high quality low quality to high quality   there's speed warp at the bottom i almost never  use that it just takes forever but if you choose   enhanced better for most estimation that's a good  way of getting pretty good results now you can see   it's just dropping frames all over the place and  that's gonna point me to one of my final tips here   in the video and that is render in place so render  place is gonna let us render this sucker out so new to resolve 17 you can render and place  this clip you're going to right click on it   and it's just right up there at the top say render  in place you can choose your quality settings   and all that right there i'm going to just  choose what's preset say render it's going   to ask me where do i want this rendered file to  live and we'll just call this tutorial on the   desktop we'll say open and it starts cooking  that media out for us and so it's basically   it's creating its own it's not a cache it's like  an actual media file so that we can play this back and see it super duper smooth right so really cool  thing render in place right here and resolve it   just swaps it out for us on the fly quick i'm  calling a timeout to welcome you if you're new   here to the channel my name is chadwick this  is creative video tips it's all about helping   you create videos that make a difference  and stand out that's something you're into   and you haven't already done so click  subscribe right down below right now   so you don't miss out on the new tip next week  and with that other way i've got a great bonus tip   that i want to share with you about why you might  not want to actually be using clip attributes   to slow down your video footage now that you  know all these techniques to use the timeline   i want to caution you to never really use the clip  attributes to change your frame rate of a clip so   you know if you change this right here you could  change this to 23976 and it conforms the clip   that used to be 60 and now it'll play that back  in slow motion so that you know that was obviously   that was much faster in real time the reason  i would suggest you not use clip attributes   is if you're doing any sort of xml aaf  edl translations between editing systems   it's not going to match up if both  systems have not conformed them correctly   on the source of the clip which is almost never  the case so you'll be sending the source clips   to someone and they'll be whatever their native  frame rate was which for this one it was 59.94   that's how the the other editing system needs  to see them so please uh please you're going   to avoid so many headaches if you do not use clip  attributes to conform your your video frame right   here and resolve or even in adobe premiere has  a way to do that that i know a lot of people use   rather than using the speed controls  that are down there in the timeline   and the final bit of advice i have for  you right now is to hit the like button   that way other people can find this video too  if you found it helpful and then keep learning   davinci resolve with the playlist i have coming  up right now and i'll see you in that next video

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Length: 15min 20sec (920 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 13 2021

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[u/WatRedditHathWrought]

Thank you. Very informative and I really appreciate you getting right to the point without a bunch of filler.

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Learn how to speed ramp in DaVinci Resolve 17 with this in-depth tutorial. Clip color to find shots, retime tools with speed points, retime curve, clip attributes, render in place, fixing bad optical flow with motion estimation settings, and a lot more to quickly learn slow-motion video editing.