I wasted HOURS looking for these HIDDEN Davinci Resolve settings!

do you know what happens if you right-click a keyframe in the inspector on the edit page of davinci resolve wow well stick around because in this video i'm going to show you make sure to let me know down in the comment section below how many of these you already knew i just need to let you know real quick that this video is sponsored by squarespace the all-in-one solution for creating a website and running an online business so first one load project settings to current project so check out this project it's got a really random timeline and a random frame rate i don't want to have to amend them myself i haven't got a preset what i want to do is steal them from an existing project so i'm going to open up my project manager by clicking on the little house i'm going to find my other project here simply right click and then i've got the option to load project settings to current project give that a click override project settings override now if we just close this down back into my original project have a look at the settings i'm now at 4k 30. real quick way of stealing settings from a previous project right i've got some workspace tips for you now started around the edit page we've got all these buttons that icons with labels if we right click we've got the option to show icons and labels or just icons so i'm going to go with icons only and it just minimizes them making things a little bit clearer the same applies for the inspector right click icons and labels icons only or labels only and it just gives you that little bit more room and the same thing applies to these menu bars at the bottom i can right click and i can have show icons only and again it just gives me that little bit more space to work with in davinci resolve particularly useful if you're on a laptop with a small screen and you can actually get rid of some of those icons on the bottom as well if you're anything like me you don't use half of these icons i'm very rarely in the media page so you can turn them off simply click on workspace at the very top go to show page and then you've got all of the options within here and they've got ticks next to them simply untick the ones you want so i don't want media and that's just going to remove it from a little menu bar just clearing things up if you ever want to get it back same thing workspace show page ticket again job done but wait before you all immediately go and hide the cut page yeah i saw you i know what you're doing there is actually something kind of handy on there now i love a dynamic zoom if i give this footage a click in the inspector dynamic zoom toggle it on and then we get a little pan out we can swap it to get a pan in instead and underneath the preview window we've got a little drop down we can change that to dynamic zoom and we get the two boxes so we can adjust the amount of zoom if we jump over to the cut page all you need to do underneath your preview window which should be here somewhere you've got this little button give that a click to open up the tools and then from here third one along you've got the dynamic zoom from here you've got the option to zoom to pan or to angle so rather than a zoom in and out if i hit pan it's going to put the two squares next to each other and then if i simply hit play it's going to do a pan from left to right i can hit these two arrows to swap them over so now it's going to do a pan from right to left instead and then we can also change the acceleration curve from linear to ease in in and out and out now angle just takes you from the bottom left top right and does a pan diagonally instead you can still come along and adjust this as you need to but these presets are quite handy blackmagic if you're watching please give us those presets on the edit page thanks now if you're on windows and your davinci resolve looks like this and you've got this bar at the top and you've got your windows bar at the bottom simply go to workspace and then come down to full screen window and give that a click and it just makes the window full screen again just tidying things up and giving you just that little bit more room now this next one useful for everyone but in particular those that do any color correction or color grading on the edit page click on workspace once again and then come down to video scopes and turn them on and then you get your scopes pop-out window you can choose what you're looking at by using a little drop-down i'm going to leave mine on vectorscope and it will just show up as you're working through your project you can put this on a second monitor or just leave it anywhere you like now another quick tip when you're using the vectorscope click on this little icon here to open up the settings and then turn on this show skin tone indicator so then you'll know if things aren't following this line roughly that you're gonna have to hop onto the color page to adjust those skin tones these look about right don't they perfect skin tone next one continuing with the pop out open up your media pool and then what you want to do right click on any of the bins over here on the top left if you don't see your bins area click on this little icon just to pop them open i've only got one called master so i'm going to right click on master and then i'm going to come down to open as new window and that's going to pop out my media pool as a separate window i can drag this onto a separate monitor do what i like i can close this media pool knowing that i can always get access to my media pool from this separate window and now a real quick message from this video sponsor squarespace i've actually just started rebuilding my own website once again and i'm doing so using squarespace one of the reasons is because they've got a bunch of really awesome templates which are an absolute doddle to customize and modify to get them looking exactly as you want them plus there's a bunch of built-in tools like analytics seo tools marketing online stores 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like that because i like to use a different option which i'll show you in a second so to disable that turn on your dual viewer mode like so on the left hand screen this is your source preview click on the three little dots and then go to live media preview and just untick that now if we just go back to our single viewer when i hover my mouse it won't actually give me the preview instead i simply double click and then i can just treat this like its own preview there's a couple of reasons why i prefer that method one if you're on an older system it will make things a little bit quicker because it won't try and load it into the preview every time you drag your mouse over the media pool that can be quite annoying and then there's another more specific reason with that disabled when i'm on the timeline i can simply go to any footage within the media pool and drag it onto my preview and then i get these options appearing on the right hand side i can insert overwrite replace fit to fill place on top append to the end or ripple overwrite it's a really great way of adding things to your timeline just using your mouse and it means you don't have to remember a billion different keyboard shortcuts of course there are some keyboard shortcuts which are worth knowing and this is one which i found only recently give your footage a click on the timeline and then hold the control and shift keys on your keyboard and now you can drag this around and it won't overwrite anything instead it'll move things to fit so you can swap positions of clips so i can drag this over here and as you can see things are moving out the way and there's more keep holding ctrl and shift and then you can use the comma and full stop keys on your keyboard to actually swap clips around so i can move this clip further to the left on the timeline or keep bringing it over to the right just so i can reorder things really quickly and really easily that's a great little shortcut now what about that keyframe trick i teased in the intro so i've got this clip here i'm going to add a keyframe on the zoom we'll scrub forward a little bit and then zoom in and now we've got this zoom in and it's completely linear there's no acceleration to it but what you can do as you can see i'm on this keyframe so it's highlighted in red there's a couple of arrows so i can flick to the next one or flick back to this first one if we right click on the red keyframe itself we've got the option to ease out and that just adds a nice bit of acceleration to the beginning which makes it look much nicer we're going to go to the end keyframe we're going to right click we now have the option to ease in so we've got an ease out at the beginning and knees in at the end and now this is going to look much nicer not just be a really abrupt edit it means you can make things look better without having to mess around jumping into the curves love that super quick and easy now if you ever noticed this before it's on your edit page but you've probably never really noticed it it's right here under your preview window and what it is is a jog wheel for your mouse so if i give it a click hold my mouse button down i can scrub forwards or i can scrub backwards on my timeline it's not that useful really but it is kind of handy if you like to use your mouse to just scrub through your timeline i can keep scrubbing all the way back or scrub forward and do whatever i want now if you've got one of these a mouse with a middle scroll wheel which you absolutely should have by the way if you're using davinci resolve makes life a whole lot easier there's a few things you can do with this as well for one sticking with that jog wheel if i put my mouse over and then scroll my mouse i can actually use my mouse wheel to just scrub forwards and backwards on my timeline if i click my middle mouse on the timeline itself i can just hold to move around my timeline really quickly and really easily like so i'm actually a bit too zoomed into my timeline so i'm going to hold alt and then scroll out and i can just zoom in and out of my timeline like so but the best use for me in your preview window hold your middle mouse button and you can just drag your preview window around like so if you scroll in while your cursor is over the preview window you can zoom right in so i can just click and zoom to move around so i can get a good look at things now this is particularly useful because it works on the color page and on the fusion page i can click my middle mouse move it around the only difference if i want to zoom i simply hold ctrl this time and then scroll to zoom in and out magnifying glasses i always forget about these magnifying glasses but if you go to the media pool you've got the little magnifying glass at the top and that allows you to search for things in that media ball so you can search for file names like so if you use this drop down you've got a load of other options so one that's quite useful is fps if i give that a click most of the footage within here is 30 so i could just narrow it down but there's also a little bit of 60 in there and i could just search for it like so now another really useful instance of the magnifying glass is down here within your effects library if you need to find anything real quick i'm going to go to open effects click my little magnifying glass i'll type in dr for this example to grab my drop shadow and there we go just make sure when you go to say video transitions or a different area just click in your little x to clear that magnifying glass to get your full list back dim no not you you're not dim dim on the edit page over to the right hand side you've got this dim button and all it means is if i'm playing all the time and this audio is a little bit loud i can just hit dim to knock it down 75 and now hit play and it's much much quieter all my audio levels are actually exactly the same but it's a quick way just to reduce that volume so you can have a conversation with someone while you're trying to preview it back just don't forget to untick the dim button when you finish with it i have been caught out a few times by wondering why my volume is so low and that's because the dim was ticked but really that was just me being well dim i tell you what's not dim though undo control nz is probably one of my most used keyboard shortcuts but there's actually slightly more to it than meets the eye if you've made a bunch of changes you want to undo rather than relentlessly smashing the control and dead shortcut simply go to edit and then history and then you've got a list of all the different changes that you've made that can be undone so my last one was moving clips i've done all of these things before if i want to go back to the original i'm going to hit original and it's going to set my timeline back to what it was before i made all those changes you can also simply go to edit history and open history window to have a little pop-up open at all times so as you go through making changes it's going to do a list of all the different things that you're doing and you can just undo all of those things at any point

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Length: 12min 0sec (720 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 13 2022