The DaVinci Resolve Media Page | Plus an Intro to the Resolve Pages

foreign [Music] it was not that long ago that I was editing in Avid exporting out to Pro Tools for sound design exporting out to after effects for any visual effects need exporting out to Adobe encoder or apple compressor for delivery and that's not even any color grading work if Avid couldn't handle that now you can do it all in one application which is incredible as we talked about at the end of the last lesson DaVinci Resolve Pages or how you do these different functions and they just work together seamlessly so we're going to take a look at this lesson I'm going to go into more detail on some of the pages that you're using right now or that you're going to use early on and then some of the pages like sound design color grading Etc will cover in more detail in those specific courses okay so let's take a look each page in resolve is accessed by clicking one of these icons on the bottom you can also hold down shift and then hit numbers two through eight to navigate through the pages as well so let's take a quick look at what each of the pages does first to make sure we're seeing the same thing go to workspace reset UI layout that puts DaVinci Resolve back to the defaults in case anything was changed around now let's start down here with the media page and by the way if you don't see all of the icons that I have here go up to the top to workspace show page and make sure each one has a check mark by it so the media page this is where you import media into your project and we'll dive into the pages in more detail in a second I'm just doing a quick overview the cut page this is one of the areas you can start assembling footage on a timeline and then the edit page is the page I prefer and it's where you're going to spend a lot of time cutting your phone together Fusion is where you do visual effects color is obviously where we're color grading our project fairlight is sound design and delivers where we're exporting our project or parts of our project for any purpose whether it's sending it off to a festival uploading the YouTube Etc and then remember holding shift down and hitting numbers two through eight will take you through these Pages quickly and a thing to know about the pages if I was on the edit page working in a timeline and then I hit shift 6 or clicked on color I'm going to be in the same place on my timeline in the color page that'll make more sense when we actually have some footage loaded up here and we have a timeline to look at but just know that the pages all are looking at the same timeline so when you're moving through them it's looking at the same place that you're working but just through the lens of a different part of resolve so now let's go into more detail we're going to begin with the media page this page is all about importing media into your project you can import media on other Pages too but the media page is dedicated to that task here's what you need to remember about DaVinci Resolve we're only linking to files on your computer your hard drives when we're importing the footage so we're not actually importing anything the reason this is a big deal is because in the past some non-linear editing systems in Elise would actually ingest the footage and make their own container like Avid would make mxf files from whatever footage you had that's not what we're doing here so if you move files around later once you've linked it up and resolved those links will be broken and resolve won't know where the files Go went and you can relink them we'll cover that in another lesson but just understand that's how this nle is working so with that the media page is essentially two main sections the top area here is dedicated to Media locations browsing for media and then viewing that in a viewer and then this area down here is your media pool so let's start up here what is this about you can import media from anywhere into resolve but there's advantages to making resolve aware of a media location so if you have an external hard drive where you're keeping your footage you want to make resolve aware of it so just move over here to the top left and right click add new location and you can add an entire drive or more specifically you can just add the folder on that drive that contains your media so for example I'll just choose my resolve original media folder which contains all my films and click open and then you'll see it appear right there for this lesson that's on my computer normally that'd be on an external drive now with that drive added you can just click on it go to your film Go to Raw and then your scenes and then we have all of our takes from that day I can double click on any of these and hit play and watch it I can also drag this which is called scrubbing through the footage I can listen to audio Etc but I can't use any of these files in resolve yet because they haven't been added to the media pool so when we import media to the media pool it's creating those links within resolve to our hard drive and that's what we have to do to work with the footage so how would we do that well there's multiple ways for example as we've talked about a little bit during production I'm coming back to editorial at night copying the footage off of my media cards and if I brought those files into resolve to check them out I would come in here and I'd create a bin called scenes in editorial they actually had all of these bins where they would lay strips of film to organize the movie and I can't imagine cutting a movie that way but it's fun to have that throwback in our modern editing applications so I have a main bin called scenes and then what I would do is I would mimic my folder structure within resolve so I'd open the scenes bin and I'd create a bin for each scene just like we did on our computer so for example I do and then open that folder hit command I go to Raw scene 1 and then highlight all of these and click open to import them and then by the time you're done shooting you have your entire film and all of the scene folders and it's all organized just like it's organized on your computer it doesn't have to be that way but I just think that's the best approach now let's imagine you'd shot your movie it was a short film you get it did it one day and there was only three scenes so kind of like this there's a faster way to do it besides manually creating each bin and then importing into each of those bins so let me just delete these clips okay let's check out the other way I'm going to click on Master in fact I'm just going to delete the entire scenes folder which will remove any bins I created within it okay so we're back to the start I go up here to my Media Browser click on my main drive for the film and then right click on raw and choose add folder and subfolders into media pool create bins make sure you do the create bins option and then look at that what that did is it created all the bins for me with the media already imported so much faster again if we're adding stuff as we're shooting through production and we have a lot of scenes this isn't the approach but if you do have stuff already shot and you want to do a quick ad this is another way to do it and then I just go to Raw right click and rename bin and call that scenes cool right and there's other ways you could add files for example let's say let's just delete all these and I could go to finder go to my scene one folder and literally highlight them and drag them all into my bin and it creates the same exact links and a reminder too let's say when you did this you missed one but you don't know which one you missed and maybe you had a lot more takes in this you're like ah I don't want to manually go through all this in fact let me do an example let me delete a couple of these clips okay so I'm missing a couple Clips I don't want to meticulously go through my list and figure it out just do command I highlight them all again and open it doesn't override anything it just Imports the ones that we're missing and those are highlighted in red here so as you're shooting your film if you shoot more footage for a specific scene you can literally just go back to that same scene folder after you've added them on your computer and import all the clips again no big deal now that we have our Clips linked up there's some cool things you can see on the media page for example if I click on one of these and look over here on the right I'll see a bunch of information about the file so what's metadata metadata is information that's added to your video file so when you do a take on your camera you have the actual footage and then you have other information like the frame rate or the white balance Etc and this might change a lot from camera to camera but the pocket cinema camera has metadata that you can use when shooting in bra Blackmagic raw to manipulate that footage like we've talked about already changing the white balance so for example let's take a look at some of the metadata here hit the down arrow and let's choose camera it shows me the type of camera the frame rate shutter ISO all kinds of cool stuff I'm not going to go through all of these you can explore those but one thing I want to mention if I choose shot and scene I can put in custom info here if I want to remember something but the important thing I want to point out is keywords so what is this keywords allows me to create smart bins which is a fast way to locate footage for example let's say you want to rapidly access all footage from a certain shooting location because you're going to be shooting there multiple days throughout production so I could enter a keyword here cabin and then over here on the left now I have Smart bins keywords and if I expand that there's my cabin and if I click cabin it's going to show me all of the clips that have that keyword specified so you can see the power of this keywords gives you fast access to footage especially when you have a really big project and you might forget what day you shot something or where you did some funky organization if you've used keywords you can quickly locate all of those clips hopefully this has been helpful hey and if you like my training I highly recommend you check out my online film School writing direct right direct.com what's this about two reasons I did this school number one to sidestep the Monstrous cost of going to traditional film schools here's why when you graduate from Film School I've done it I know what this is like you're faced with a sobering reality in Hollywood nobody's going to hire you because you went to film school they kind of want to know what you've done what are your credits in IMDb what are you capable of so after you graduate you have to start making your own movies but it's on your dime and if you spend all of your money on school you could be in trouble secondly I teach you how to make a movie from development through post-production I'm talking besides screenwriting I'm talking setting up lights operating camera gimbals editing color grading everything right now you might be thinking hey I just want to direct and I get that but here's the thing when you're first starting out if you can't afford crew you can get held back really fast I've seen this happen before to directors who don't know how to do it all they get stuck depending on technical people and as Robert Rodriguez says if you want to be unstoppable you got to know how to do it all it's not just about being creative you have to become Technical and so that's what writing direct does for you check it out write direct.co hope to see you there and if not there I'll see you on the channel very soon [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: The DaVinci Resolve Media Page, Introduction to the DaVinci Resolve Pages, Film School, Write & Direct, Kyler Boudreau

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Length: 11min 52sec (712 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 25 2023