How to Speed Ramp in DaVinci Resolve 17 | Retime Controls

executing a speed ramp in davinci resolve 17 is actually really easy to do and in this tutorial i'm going to show you how to do this in resolve so you can start getting creative with your video editing and start spicing up your content but just before we dive into today's tutorial if you're coming back for another video then thank you so much indeed for coming back and staying tuned it's really great to have you here on the other hand if it's your first time here then hey i'm alex and i'm a certified davinci resolve trainer and video producer making videos about all things video production and video marketing but especially videos about davinci resolve if you haven't already then please consider subscribing and turning on the notifications so you'll never miss a video when i upload them okay so what is speed ramping well speed ramping is essentially the dynamic slowing down or speeding up of a part of your video to create a desired creative effect i say dynamic because unlike a fixed or sudden speed change generally speed ramping is just that it's a ramp rather than say a wall welcome to the world that said the ramp can have different characteristics depending on the need of your scene sometimes the change will come in suddenly and then usually smooth out and slow down or conversely it can come in slowly and then get faster much more like a traditional ramp shape i'm not quite sure i've ever said ramp quite so much in a short space of time speed ramping is largely used for creative effect and to draw specific attention to a detail a moment or a movement within the frame now that we've cleared that up let's look at how we can perform a speed ramp in davinci resolve 17. so here in resolve i've got a clip loaded up into the timeline and what i want to do is just take a quick look at that clip and assess where we can use a speed change or speed ramp for it so go for hitting a golf shot and the sun coming through the trees and this is really perfect because what we want to do in this instance is draw some attention to our backswing of our golfer here by slowing it right down so people can really see what's going on so we can do that in a couple of different ways and just firstly i'm going to take two seconds just to quickly walk you through a way of doing this that pulls on some of the techniques that we looked at in the last video and if you haven't seen that yet there's a card in the top corner for that video so go check that out and then you'll understand a little bit more about what i'm saying here but basically what we want to do is isolate this separate section of his swing and make its own clip and then just change that as if it was one clip so what i'm going to do i'm going to part my playhead at the point where his club starts to move i'm going to then just break the clip apart by pressing command and then backslash and that's control backslash on a pc you could also use the blade edit mode just here or you could use command b on the keyboard or control b on the keyboard absolutely fine i'm now going to scrub through until he gets to the point where he's just starting his down swing which is here and i'm going to do the same thing again so command backslash to split the clip and now i have essentially three clips although it's one clip i've broken that middle section up into its own clip and of course now i can treat it like its very own clip by right clicking changing the clip speed make sure that ripple sequence is on and then change that to 50 for our speed change and hit change you'll notice that everything has then been updated in the timeline we now have a normal pace then slow and then normal pace clip and we've got the speed changes done which is sort of what we wanted to do but it's not particularly practical and this is the main reason why first of all we have three separate clips now which isn't particularly ideal of course if you're working in color grading or just generally moving this particular clip around in the timeline you've now got to kind of treat it as three separate clips which isn't perfect you could of course create a compound clip and then do it like that that would work but again it's just another unnecessary step the other issue that we have is it's not very easy to edit this particular speed change what we can do is we can come up change the clip speed and change the speed of the clip here and that normally works okay however if we just wanted to change the edit point by just sort of rolling like we would do normally you can see that this is not going to work because there's a big jump and that's just because of the way that the speed clip and this clip are now not in tune with one another so let's just put that back and look at the better way of doing this whole thing and that's by using the read time controls so i'm going to just redo a couple of steps now now we're back to where we were before and i'm going to right click and come up to retime controls this is also accessible via command r or control r on the keyboard you can also come up to clip and then retime controls in the menu options as well now the retime controls we did see briefly in the last episode and what you can see here is there's not a lot has changed but we have got some extra information on the screen which helps us understand what's going on so firstly we've got these blue arrows along the top header and these are blue they're evenly spaced and they're moving from left to right they're pointing from left to right that just basically denotes that we are moving in real time and we're progressing through the normal playback of the clip you can see here this bottom icon also tells us that we're at 100 and we have a little disclosure arrow here that gives us some different speed options that we can apply so this one clip is actually now essentially one speed area so this particular speed control here is going to change the entire clip and obviously we don't want that we need to add some different speed points so to do that we simply park our playhead where we want the speed change to start which is just here come down to the little disclosure arrow click it and then add a speed point you'll notice that we now get some new handles if i just move my playhead out of the way a new little indicator here with some new handles at the top and bottom handle i'll come back to how this handles work in just a second what i want to do first of all is create a secondary speed point so the point where he starts coming down i'm going to put another speed point here you'll notice we've now got this here we also have this here so we've got two separate controls for the two separate speed areas that we're working with so what we're going to do in this case we're going to select this one add a speed point and now we've added a speed point where the playhead was sitting so that's very good we've now got one two three separate speed areas all with inside the same clip and we've got the separate set of controls for all of those now the easiest way to make the speed change is simply to come to my area where i want the speed change to happen click on the disclosure arrow come down to the change speed and you can see we've got some speed presets here and as you can see we've got 10 25 50 75 these are all going to be slowing the clip down because they're below 100 which is obviously the normal playback speed everything above that is obviously going to be speeding that little section of the clip up and in this case by 110 150 200 400 and 800 percent these are presets you can't unfortunately change them but they are some of the most commonly used percentages when we're talking about speed changes i will show you another way of doing this in just a little moment but for the time being 50 is good enough for us so let's hit that and you can see what's happened here the overall clip has changed in duration so it's now longer which accommodates this little speed change that we've got going on in the middle here and you can see that this side of the speed change hasn't been affected likewise the end of the clip hasn't been affected this speed area is still 100 playback speed so if i just play that back we've got normal and then slow and then normal again so we're starting to get the look that we're after we're not quite there yet but you can see how this method is a lot more attractive to us than the previous method of splicing the clip open and then just doing a constant speed change on this particular area because not only now have we've got one clip but it's actually very easy for us to change this edit and move the edit points around once we've now created them in this way of doing things within the retime controls so let's just look at that let's just say actually we don't want justice backswing we want the whole of a swing just about this point here to be in slow motion and slowed down so let's look at how we can do that we could add another speed point and then delete this one that would work but it's much easier just to simply grab this lower handle and drag it out and we're going to drag it out until we're happy that we've got to the point of the clip that we want so looking at the program monitor just to get a feel for where we are there we go i'm going to let go and now you can see that we've affected that speed change we'll just play it back so normal now slow should be all the way through this swing now there we go to the end perfect now back to normal speed so very easy just grabbing the lower handle moves that particular speed point if you need to edit a particular speed point at all in terms of removing it and maybe adding a new one it's very easy to do what you have to bear in mind is that each speed control essentially is governing the speed point to its left so in this case there's no option to clear a speed point but when i come here there is an option to clear speedpoint because that's the one that it's affecting over here on the left hand side so what i can simply do if i wanted to clear that i simply come down to the controls here clear speed point and you'll notice it disappears and actually the clip then re-times this little bit to accommodate that initial part of the clip let me just put that back okay let's just take a very quick break there for a couple of reasons firstly i hope that's all making sense so far and that you're learning something new if you are then do just take a moment and give this video a like as it really helps me out and it lets other people and youtube know that this video is worth a watch plus it's totally free to do and takes two seconds so it's a big win all round right i also just wanted to add that if you're enjoying the videos and you're wondering where you can get more great training on davinci resolve with me then please do check out the davinci resolve online courses that i have just released on pre-sale they're certified by blackmagic design they cover a 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of the handle so if we wanted to and you know before i mentioned that you could come down and obviously change the speed using one of these presets but let's say one of these presets wasn't the right type of preset for you and let's say 60 is the speed we wanted this middle area to be playing back at then we'd have to come to this top handle grab it and drag it and you'll notice that that little number is moving at the bottom and you can see it's now 60 and this is great because now we're at 60 i've just used the handle to drag the whole clip it's got slightly shorter because obviously we've sped the clip up ever so slightly and now we have this clip here playing at normal then 60 then back to 100 again so this top part is to affect the speed change of that particular section to the left and again similarly this section here gets affected if i drag this one so you can see how that's being affected there it's actually speeding up slowing down i'm just going to reset that of course there isn't a speed handle at the end here but if you notice that i've got my normal trim control here when i select the end of the clip if however i come up the cursor changes to show a double arrow and this double arrow in the top header area indicates that now when i click and trim the clip it's actually not going to trim the clip as such but it's going to affect the speed of the clip section to the left so when i drag it to the left notice how i'm speeding the clip up and actually you see the blue arrows are getting closer together and the numbers at the bottom are changing and i'm now back to 200 percent so now if i play through the clip we have a clip that plays back at normal speed then slows down and then speeds up again let me just re-edit this position ever so slightly what i want to do is put the edit point back by changing the edit point as we did before so what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to roll that back so that the edit pointer here happens just as he reaches the top of his swing i'm also going to change this section back to 50 there we go so i've now got a clip that plays back normal speed half the speed and then twice as fast through to the finish and actually let's add another point here i'm going to add a speed point and then i'm going to make it 100 speed so i'm going to reset that section to 100 there we go so now i've got my clip normal half the speed twice the speed back to normal again which is really great and you can see how we're starting to make it very neat and tidy indeed of course the great thing is it's still all with inside one clip as well which is really brilliant because if i wanted to i could start trimming again depending on how much source media i've got there you go so i can very easily trim the clip in and out depending on the type of edit that i'm going for and it's just a lot simpler because again i'm just using one clip and i'm moving it around and the speed changes are obviously all maintaining themselves throughout the direction of that clip what you can also do is if you come over to the trim controls and you want to slide this clip for whatever reason notice that when i slide the clip it actually is moving now there's not a lot of source media here but you'll notice that all the speed points are locked in place and they stay with the clip so if i wanted to i could then slip and slide the clip to my heart's content and it would still all work neatly inside this one interface very handy indeed so now one thing you might have noticed is at the moment these speed changes are all still very abrupt we haven't actually been able to smooth them out or properly ramp them so they all happen quite abruptly and we don't want that we want them to be a bit more smooth and happen a little bit more neatly and what we can do to really emphasize this is open up the read time curve so simply select the clip right click and then come up to retime curve when i click this you'll see the curve editor appear beneath the clip now this is just the standard curve editor but it's just defaulting to the re-time frame in fact whilst we saw that there was no actual re-time curve keyboard shortcut listed here if you simply press shift and c it will appear and disappear as well so the retime frame curve here is being displayed and this is basically showing a diagonal pass or passage of time from bottom left corner to top right corner of the clip the vertical axis actually represents each frame of eclipse source media and the horizontal axis represents the frame of playback in the timeline so this is a little bit of a complicated graph to look at so normally not very helpful to show these speed changes here so what i want to do is actually go to this little disclosure icon next to the name and choose a different curve and this time we're going to come all the way down to read time speed down the bottom we're going to turn off the frame return frame turn on read time speed and now you can see exactly what i'm talking about in the fact that these are all abrupt speed changes but you'll notice how they are all perfectly in position and in sync with these speed points so again we're moving along here at 100 then we drop down to 50 then back up to 200 and then back to normal speed and these are all very hard wall like changes of speed and we want to soften those off a little bit and we change that very simply by selecting the point that we want to affect you'll notice here that we have two icons we have this one here and now we have the rounded smooth or bezier looking point if we click that you'll notice how this has now changed to show us a much smoother transition and then some handles as well so let's just look at what we do there you'll notice first of all if i just show the speed change the speed change is a lot more gradual it doesn't come in quite so harshly and equally if we use these handles and drag left and right we can make it more abrupt we can make it much smoother and we can drag those out again to get the desired effect that we want note that basically this handle here this point here indicates this at this point is where the speed change is going to start happening so you might want to just be aware in mind of that because we actually are going to start seeing a speed change through that handle range so let's just change some of the other ones change them over smooth these points out there we go so you can see how we're going to go from 50 we're going to ramp up you can see that nice ramp happening up to 200 and then we're gonna ramp down to a hundred percent so what i'm going to do actually i'm going to change this so it ramps down quickly from the fast to back to normal and i'm going to keep this one as a fairly gradual one and let's just see how that looks there we go so we now have our speed ramp working quite nicely for us something else i just wanted to quickly show you whilst i have the return controls and the retime curve open is to show you that obviously we've looked at changing the speed change with the top handle we've also looked at using the speed control point here to again change the speed this way but there is another way you can do it whilst the curve is open and that's simply by taking this band here and you can see at the moment if i hover over it my cursor changes to two up and down arrows and you can see that the return speed is 100 if i grab this you'll notice that this graph is showing currently 400 and minus 300 if i were to take the middle rubber band grab it and drag it up you notice what's happening i'm changing my read time speed and you can see the read time speed changing just next to the control points there above and i'm sorry changing the speed and i'm speeding it up and you can see how that's being sped up and there we go so i've now sped up the clip even further just by using the rubber band and you can see how also the clips adjusting in its duration to accommodate that speed change if i wanted to go all the way to the top obviously i'd get to 400 and i'd reach my limit now what you can actually do if i zoom in a bit closer so you can hopefully see this if i go and hover over the area here where it's showing the actual number you'll see i change to a sideways arrow cursor if i now drag this out i can actually change that to for example a thousand percent so now my graph is showing a thousand percent to minus three hundred percent and i can simply drag that up and keep going up and keep going up until again i reach the top of that particular graph point again i can do the same in this one down below and i can change how far you could potentially slow click down by as well so now my graph parameters are minus a thousand by minus a thousand and then we can actually have more flexibility with inside this area of the re-time curve and when we're finished with the re-time curve we can simply close the curve editor by simply pressing shift c and then we can close the speed changeout as well and now you can see we've got the same speed change happening but all nicely tidied with inside one clip let me just open the retail controls again just one second because i want to show you one final thing which is also quite cool let's say that at the point that he hits the ball here we want to want to fire off a freeze frame so just here we're going to have a freeze frame the return controls offer a great way of us being able to add a freeze frame simply add a speed point at the point we want the freeze frame to happen and then what we're going to do is hit right here we're going to again change it and change it to freeze frame and now you can see has happened here is we've got our normal section we've got our slow motion section then it starts to speed into the downswing fast then it freezes and these red lines obviously there's no forward moving arrow it's just a red static line and that shows us that the clip has stopped and that's gonna freeze frame and then play forward again and then go back to normal speed and again what we can do with this if we wanted to we can simply grab the top handle and drag it backwards you'll see that it's staying as a freeze frame and all we're doing here is just changing the length of that freeze frame there we go so it's gonna almost like it's gonna take a picture you could then have maybe i'm just thinking a flash effect sort of happened here it's like if you have a picture taken and then it carries on so let's have a look here slow fast freeze fast and off again at normal pace so there we go now you will have noticed that of course this clip itself was not filmed in a high frame rate so if i go up to the inspector and click on file you can see that this file was 29.970 so the frame rate is not high frame rate and as a result of slowing it down by 50 percent what's happened is we've got some nasty stuttery looking non-smooth slow motion so we can fix that by using optical flow and we looked at optical flow in the last video but again coming up to inspector making sure the clip is selected press video and then scrolling down until we see retime and scaling if you didn't want to scroll down you can just hit this little icon here which simply pops the box out and shortens the timeline so from here my retime scale is all set to project settings and in this case my project settings are set to nearest with standard faster frame interpolation so that's obviously why it's not doing its normal good work and getting it to a point where it's a little bit smoother so what i want to just show you is if we change these retime processes from nearest i'm going to change it to optical flow and if you're using your playback render cache as smart you'll get a little red line here which will appear it will go blue when it's finished rendering that particular clip so there we go that's rendered out now and we can see it now with optical flow on much nicer the smooth motion is much much better than it was before but we've still got some sort of slightly jaggedy motion and a bit of weird sort of artifacts and blurring going on there so it's not ideal so what we can now do is change the motion estimation from standard faster which is what it's set to by the project default to something else down the line now speed warp is incredibly intensive and as far as i'm aware it requires the neural engine as well so you may not have that option if you're not on the studio version of resolve if i've got that wrong then let me know in the comments but i'm pretty sure that's the case but you should have at least access to enhance better so i'm going to click on enhance better in this case what will happen is the clip will need to re-render again depending on how fast your system is might be faster or slower in the rendering process but you can see now what happens here much better that slow motion is looking a lot nicer now overall so we're pretty happy with that again still a little bit of artifacts going on a little bit of weirdness so let me just show you what the speed warp actually does too it takes a lot longer to render so i'll just speed this process up okay so now we have that rendered out we're using optical flow and speed warp you see what the kind of results we get now look like really good and what you can see here is that we've basically just done some really cool re-timing we've done some speed ramping and we've used optical flow and speed warp and actually on a clip that isn't even high frame rate has got a really nice looking result there's always going to be some motion player in this golf club because this wasn't shot at a high frame rate and it was probably shot with a low shutter speed so again not bad at all but one thing i would say is if you're using speed warp waits the very end to put that feature on because otherwise it does tend to slow things down and if obviously you make any amendments it's going to need to re-render so now you know how to perform a speed wrap in davinci resolve 17 and i hope you can put this to good use in your very next project do you have any questions or comments regarding speed ramping or anything to be fair that we've covered over the channel recently if you do please leave these in the comments section for me below and i'll do my very best to come back to you of course supporting the channel on buy me a coffee will get you a faster response from me so please consider supporting the channel or becoming a member there as it does hugely help me dedicate more time to answering your comments and making more davinci resolve tutorials that you'd like to see thanks so much indeed for watching all the way up to the end of the video i really do appreciate you stopping by and as your reward you'll get a couple of suggestions on the screen in just a second of some other videos that you might also like to watch if you'll be able to click on one of those that'd be awesome i'll see you there but if not time 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Length: 24min 5sec (1445 seconds)

Published: Fri May 28 2021