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edit your videos faster. Secure the cup and let's go! (upbeat music) Today we're gonna be taking a look at some of these shortcuts and tools that I use to make my edits
faster in DaVinci Resolve. Originally, I tried to make this list into a concise number of tips and tools but I just kept finding more and more. So instead I've organized them
into little related sections that I've put timestamps for down below in case you wanna hop around. Some of them are keyboard shortcuts and some of them are just
kind of basic functions that you can use but all of them will help you edit your video more efficiently. And to help show us these tools, I've brought my friend along here. Are you ready?
(lint roller scrapping loudly) Yep, good to go. Could you at least like
clean off your desk first? Don't worry, I'll just frame the shot so that they can't see the mess. Okay, you're up? All right, so first things first, if you're coming from another program and you're a little
worried about the shortcuts being different and that
kind of stuff, don't worry. Up in the top corner if you go to DaVinci Resolve, Keyboard Customization, you can pick all of your
own keyboard shortcuts if you want to. You can totally customize
this to whatever you want. There's the ability to search down here. So if you're looking for
trim or something like that you can find it there and then you can just add
your keyboard shortcut by clicking there. There's also some presets built in. So you've got DaVinci Resolve,
which is the standard one. Then you've got Premiere
Pro, Final Cut Pro, Media Composer and even Pro Tools. And as you can see, I've made my own called
DaVinci Resolve Dunna. So if you're a Premiere Pro
user or a Final Cut Pro user and you've been hesitant to move over, this might make it a lot easier for you. Once you've gone in and done
a bunch of customization, you can click these buttons
in the top right corner and hit Save as New Preset. All right, taking a look at
navigating on the edit timeline you can zoom in using
Command + or Control + if you're on a PC and you can zoom back out using Command - or Control - if you're on a PC. It's actually technically Command = but I always think of
it as Command + and - 'cause zoom in, zoom out plus, minus. Anyway. If you like to use a
scroll wheel on your mouse, you can use that to either go up or down on your video or audio tracks depending on where your mouse
is when you start to scroll. Holding down Command and
using the scroll wheel, we'll go horizontally. Holding down Shift and
using your scroll wheel will zoom in or out vertically. Again, depending on whether your mouse is over the audio or video tracks. And then holding down Option is going to zoom in or out horizontally which we already know we can
do using Command + or - . Okay, the next set of commands is all about small adjustments. The Arrow keys can definitely
be your best friend here for moving your playhead. So if I wanna move my
playhead over by one frame, I can just hit the Right Arrow and I can do that a bunch of times. If I wanna move it over by a full second, I can hold Shift and hit the Right Arrow and the same works with the Left Arrow. You can do single frames
by just hitting that or if you hold Shift, you can go a second at a time. If you hit the Down Arrow, it will go to the end of the clip that your playhead is currently on. And if you hit the Up Arrow it'll go to the start of that clip. If I wanna nudge a clip over
to the right by one frame, I can hit period. If I wanna move it to
the left I can hit comma. Again, I always think of this as using the Angle Bracket keys but technically you're
using period and comma. And if I wanna go multiple frames I think it's five at a time, I can hold Shift. So that Shift and period. Technically I am actually
using that Angle Bracket now and Shift and Comma. And speaking of little
movements right here, we have the snapping tool and we can turn that
on and off by using S. And if you've got multiple clips they'll automatically snap together. And if you're getting in
here and you really wanna just like move something
just a little bit, see I can only move that
about three frames at a time if I hit the snapping. So I turn that off now. Now I can move it as small
as one frame at a time. So you can make those small adjustments. And while we're here, one of my favorite modes
is called Trim Mode and you can get there by hitting T or also clicking here. Now, when you're not in Trim Mode, if you trim the edge of a clip like this, you notice it leaves a big gap there. But if you're in Trim Mode
and you do the same thing, it automatically will move the clip so that it butts it up
against where that edit was. Another great thing about Trim Mode is that if you want a
different portion of your clip, you can hover your mouse over the top half of the video track and then you can move it and you can see which part
of the clip you're using. And they give you a preview
in your preview window so you can see where the
clip now we'll start and end. And then to get back in the regular mode called Selection Mode you just hit V. You can also click right here. Another really handy thing is
enabling and disabling clips. So let's say for example, I've got this clip and
it's just kinda hovering and I don't know where to put it yet and I'm working on some other stuff, I can just disable that clip by clicking on it and hitting D. And it goes gray and it shows you that
it's disabled right here and so now I can see all of this stuff going on underneath it. And then when I'm ready to use it, I can just hit D again
and it becomes enabled. Okay, these next ones are
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start filling your brain. All right, back to the other guy for that stuff he's so excited about. Okay, so like I said, this next kind of grouping of shortcuts are my absolute favorite, probably the ones that I use the most. First of all super simple, making a cut where the playhead is. You're gonna hit Command + b. Now let's say we wanted
to get rid of this clip, the next one is called a ripple delete. Now, if you just hit the Backspace button, you delete that and there
will be this empty gap there. But if you hit the Delete key, you see that it actually deletes that and brings everything after it
back up to the previous clip. This is how I edit all of my
videos using ripple delete. I've actually mapped it
out to be on the X key because then I can get at
it with my left hand easier. So I'll be watching through the clip and then if I want to ripple
delete up to that point, I can make a cut and
then ripple delete it. But there's an even easier
way to make this happen. You can ripple trim the end of the clip. So basically I'll set my playhead where I want to make my cut and then I can ripple trim what they call End to Playhead. So the end of this clip is
going to get ripple trimmed back to the playhead. And to do this I just hit Shift + Command and Right Square Bracket. Now, again, this is one
that I have on a single key so I just hit W and it does this. And actually, I think I
got that from Premiere Pro. And vice versa if I wanted
to do the start of the clip, I can hit Shift + Command
and the Left Square Bracket. It'll trim everything up to the playhead and then it'll also ripple
delete that empty space. So let's say I've got a bunch
of clips on the timeline here, I can go through and I want to cut there and there and here. So I'm just trimming off
the start of the clip and then the end of the clip. I prefer to edit this way rather than doing in and out points like a lot of people do. So you can use in and out points from your kinda media bin. I just like to dump
everything onto the timeline and then just make these quick
cuts that goes so quickly. Those ones get me really excited. Those are like my most used shortcuts. Now sometimes you'll get into an edit and you'll make some
changes on a certain clip and you want to apply those
same changes to another clip. So let's say for example, I've got this one, the zoom is at 1.5 and I've changed the position a little bit so the original looks like that and then I've pushed in like that. But on this next clip, it goes back out and I want to apply that same
zoom from the first clip. So what I'm gonna do is hit Command + C which is pretty typical for copy. If I hit Command + V, it's gonna just paste that clip. But if I highlight the clip
that I want to paste that to and I hit Option + V it's gonna pull up something
called Paste Attributes. So now I can choose the parts that I want to paste
from the original clip that I copied from, onto this new clip. In this case, I wanna change
the position and the zoom but you've got all sorts
of options in here. All of your cropping
options, your vertical flip horizontal flip, volume for audio, you've got color correction. You can do all sorts of things from one clip to another even automation. Let's hit Apply. Not only does this first
one have the 1.5 times and the change in position, but now this second one has it too. If you see my video on ways that you can apply color
grades across multiple clips, this is one of those ways. Here's a nice, simple one. If you want to deal with your audio and your video separately from a clip that was
normally linked together, you could go all the way
through hitting right-click and hit Unlink Clips and now they're not linked anymore. And then you can highlight
them again and re link them, now they'll move together. Or you can just hit Option and click on one or the other and deal with it separately. Now, when you go to use them again, without having to unlink and re link, they're linked back together. And they'll even tell
you how far out they are from each other's original position. This will also work for trimming too. So if I just wanted the audio to be longer maybe I wanted it to
kinda extend out further than the clip itself, I can hold down Option and
then drag from the clip. And vice versa with
the video clip as well. Holding Option and just
using the trim tool. Now, we talked a whole bunch about all those kinds of ripple functions but sometimes you're
working on a second track and you don't want all the ripples to work on all the tracks. All right, so I've got this kinda multilayered video setup going on and let's say, I just wanna
work on this third track. I don't wanna hit these first two. But if I put my playhead where I want and I use that trim to
the end of the clip trick. And it did it to the end
of that clip specifically but it also chopped out all of the parts on the other tracks as well. And that's not what I want. So what I can do is I can
hit the Auto Track Selector and turn that off, on all the tracks that I don't want to be
effected by this edit. And now when I hit it, it only does that one track. So now I can just kind of edit away without having to worry
about these bottom tracks getting messed up. The other thing that you can do is you could lock those tracks. Now I have to go unlock
it if I wanna edit it. Whereas if I just have Auto
Track Selector turned off, I can still move things on those tracks. It just doesn't get caught
up in those quick commands. While we've got these multiple layers, here's a cool one. If you put your cursor anywhere
on your timeline and hit Y, it's going to select everything
forward on the main track. If you wanna select all the
clips before the playhead, you hit Command + Y or Control + Y on a PC. And then you can also do the
same thing for all tracks by hitting Option and Y. So that's gonna select everything forward past the point of the playhead and then Option + Command + Y will select everything on
all tracks before that. So that can be really handy if you wanna let's say just
kind of move a bunch of clips so we can do Option +
Y to select everything and then we can move it all over. And then let's say you want to get fancy with your timing controls. There are a couple of different
ways that you can do this. So if you select a clip
and you hit Command + R or Control + R on a PC, it's gonna bring up your re-time controls. Now, there are a couple of options here. There's a little dropdown menu with a bunch of different
things that you can do with it. Adding speed points if you're
doing some speed ramping, changing the speed to certain percentages, reset it, freeze frame, reverse it. But another thing that
you can do with this open, is let's say I wanted the clip to be exactly up to the end
of where this playhead is. So I wanna speed up this entire clip to be from the start of
here to the play head. All I have to do is bring my cursor up to the top right corner here where I see this different kind of icon. And then when I drag from here you can see that the
percentage changes here. So I'm now at 131% speed and the clip will go by quickly. (bright music) Now, another thing that you can do with the clips selected is just hit R and then the Change Clip Speed
Dialogue is gonna come up. Some of the same options in here. So you can change your speed from there or you can change the frames
per second or the duration. And you've got some other options depending on what kinda
changes you wanna make. And so those are a couple of the ways that you can change
the speed of your clip. Okay, here's what I want you to do. Head down to the comments and share any other awesome functions that you think people should know about. And while you're on your way down there make sure to hit that
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