Timeline tools and tips for DaVinci Resolve 15

let's go over a couple of different tips for working with timelines like with most applications the timelines where you are going to build the sequence for whatever project that you're working on most of them interact pretty much the same way but if you're working with bigger projects that you have multiple different timelines to build your projects there are a couple of things that don't really offer themselves up very simply by just looking at the venturi resolves so I wanted to go over a couple of those so jumping over into the program here what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to bring in some of the stock that I shot I believe it was last year and we're just going to be using that for this media here one thing that I did want to show you is that when you're bringing media in you can obviously bring it on the media tab I just now that it's changed with DaVinci Resolve 15 I just bring it in on the Edit Page most of the time unless you're doing like a a copy from a SD card that's a completely different way that you would go about doing that but I have the media on my computer so I'm going to do is just bring the media folder over here if I bring the media folder in here all we're gonna get is just the files themselves right but if I didn't do that and I took the media file and I brought it over here what's going to happen is that media file is now going to create a bin and it's gonna have the folder structure of everything that it's in that folder which makes it really nice so in this media folder I have the a7s2 because I always break it down into different cameras so now I have all of this footage one cool thing that you can do is if you have let's say you're working on a show and you have your days put into different folder you would be able to click on the bin itself right click and then you could create a timeline with everything that's in that bin so we'll do that here would normally happen in a situation like this is let's say you're going to be reviewing all of your footage you would just go through and review it some people might delete stuff some people might start cutting it up what I tend to do on large projects is I will go through and say okay this particular shot here I want to use right so then I would start coloring them and that's another thing that you can do is you can set up how your colors work the other thing that you can do is let's say just right-click and you can go into color but that obviously clicking and it just adds a lot more time so I would look into adding the different colors as shortcut keys and then you would you know it's whatever you want it to be you could have one color mean okay this is going to be for this sequence this is going to be just all b-roll or whatever it may be or maybe this is a you know must use this is a possibly could use this is like I do not use sort of thing whatever it may be so let's say now I have the all of my shots here right and I would come up to my master and let's say I wanted to create another folder or another timeline so I could create another timeline here right but now if I have this timeline open I don't see the previous timeline so one cool thing that you can do is if you click right here you're gonna get all of the settings for how the timeline is displayed and one of them that isn't selected is the staff - timelines and it just makes tabs so now if I come back over here where this other timeline is and I double click on it it'll be right here so now I can like switch these around and I can have multiple timelines here that I can just jump back and forth but with a lot of other applications that I personally came from what I would end up doing is I would have the timeline above each other and to do that you would click over here you click this little button here and then you'll have your other timeline down here so now if I wanted to add the timeline down here all I would do is just close it here come down here and select timeline - now I have timeline - down here timeline want up here I want to copy this over so I just drag it down copy this one over drag it down take this one drag it down as well now have two different timelines that I can you know I can see this what what is in one and bring it over to the other timeline if you're going to because I'll what ends up happening a lot of times at least for projects that I worked on is we left a timeline for a whole card and we didn't touch it we might add edits to it had marks and then put in comments and stuff like that but we would always leave the timelines as is in case we ever needed to go back and say oh I wanted to see like you know one take before the one that we used instead so it'd be really easy to just go back and and you know see that one thing that you'll notice here is it's very hard to see anything one I don't even see anything in the waveform so now I might have really low audio but I don't see anything so we just come over here and clicking this you know show the little bar here so that I can actually see it so if I just move these up actually none of these even have audio I don't think the camera had audio that day but if you don't see audio down there you'd come in here and then enable this and then it'll show the waveform the other thing that I like to do personally is I don't need to see the little thumbnails here so I just click this button here and it just shrinks everything down and you can change the height of your different tracks but I just shrink everything down sometimes I open the audio and so I'll have the video as a small little piece but then I'll have the audio there if I'm cutting to audio so that's one thing that I do so now there are a couple of other ways to make timelines one of the ways that we can do that is if we were to take something that's here we could right-click and we could turn it into three different there's three different Clips here we have compound and all that's doing is just taking a a set of Clips and it's going to be presented as one clip we have Fusion clip which does the same thing but it's a little bit different and I'll explain that and then we have VFX connect clip and with the old DaVinci resolves used to have like a fusion connect I believe it was called and that was to take a file from DaVinci Resolve go over into fusion and then you'd be able to have that round-trip and come back yet the VFX connect clip is that same thing for the standalone fusion now that we have fusion in here we also have the fusion connect clip so let's make a let's make this let's take these two Clips here and let's actually close this so it makes a little easier to see so we're gonna take these two clips here right and now if we watch this it goes from the one shot right to this other shot if we would highlight both of them and turn it into a compound clip now we have this clip and it's going to have that same cut the difference between a compound clip and a connect clip is primarily one thing here is when we come over into fusion now what we're going to see is we're gonna see one of media in and if you look over here we have no layers okay if I was to come back well undo that and we'll turn this into a fusion clip and we go into fusion now now we're gonna have two media's right and if we click on one of them now we have layer 0 and layer 1 so what is this layer 0 what is the layer 1 if you're clicking on it doesn't matter if it's a compound clip or a fusion clip you can click on it right click open in timeline and what that's going to do is it's going to show you everything that's inside that new clip that you created this works the same way with a compound clip but they're just you know in fusion they're a little bit different how they work but so here we have the two clips in a fusion clip if I did this with a compound clip it would look the same way it's its own like little timeline within a timeline but the fusion clip like I said you can come over here and if we were to watch a whole clip you're going to see everything that that particular clip had if we come over to the if we come over here we can see that our one fusion clip is longer than the other fusion clip and that's just because you know one was shorter than the other so this whole layer thing here everything starts with the number zero zero is I guess you could say one and one is two so everything starts at zero and then we have one and how that works is in the fusion clip itself so our video track one will be zero and then we'll have one two three four and so on so if we were to let's go back over it here so we're looking at this if we were to be over here and I wanted to recreate this right so let's say we accidentally delete at one of them right we could just go media in right and now we have to determine which of those media files that we want we could come over here and we could say okay we want to be layer one or layer zero and then we could connect that up and then we would have whatever that that shot is so that's pretty much the difference between those two and then we also have another thing that we can do let's come down here we'll double click on this we'll just bring this over and we'll just use this one right and we'll look at the other one so currently we we have this one open right and if we come over here we can take this clip we can right-click on it and we can say compare with current so the current is we're timeline one and we want to compare this timeline to that timeline so this would be used if you have like a lot of multiple versions of a of a project let's say you have a sequence and you had to cut it up a couple of different ways you would then be able to determine what are the differences between these or maybe multiple people are working on a project you want to see okay what did this person actually do so we can click on here and then we can compare and this little thing will pop up it's kind of difficult to see cuz I have to monitor so it stretches it but it will show you everything that is the same and different here I'm gonna do something that will make this a little easier to to make sense here so all I'm gonna do is actually let's close that let's come down here bring it down here and I'm just going to take all of this and just copy it into here show you this so now we will close that one and for this one maybe we'll make this a little shorter bring this in will delete a couple of these and then we'll stack this one and here we'll close that gap so now we have a pretty big difference between them I'm going to here compare the two then we zoom this out and here we can see okay from here to here these two are the same but this other one that we're comparing with has a couple of shots that aren't the same and then here and here these are the same files but there's Runk down so it'll give you an idea of you know let's say you're working on two projects like I said they're cut up so you can see those differences where they are and you would then be able to determine oh you know what that cut I actually do like or this cut I don't like you can also move these play heads around and depending on which one you're moving you'd be able to see okay let's see how let's see how this plays out compared to how this one plays out so that's one of the other features that a lot of people I don't think know about really right now the other thing that I did miss about fusion clips so one of the things that I always tell people is when people are using a lot of the templates that I have and if it's a template that's just in fusion what I tell people to do is make it into a fusion clip and the primary reason even though it's a we'll cut most of the times sometimes it's two clips is if I take this shot here and let's say I take a little bit off of each side right and now I take this clip and I I would look at it right without making an effusion clip what you'll see here is our endpoint is 266 and our out is you know over here the reason why I always tell people to do a fusion clip is because that fusion clip will have parameters of its own it's not saying okay our n is a you know comes in a little bit let me show you so if I would just turn this into a fusion clip now and I come back over in the fusion looking at the same thing now we start at zero that is the primary reason why I have people do that because in fusion everything it's time is based off of frames it's not based off of timecode it's based Office specifically frames so if I say you know this keyframe at frame 50 but I don't turn it into a fusion clip frame 50 is going to be outside of the boundaries of that cut so I come here I want to put it at frame 50 so if I take this to frame 50 I'm outside the boundaries of this shot so you'll never see it on the edit page so that's one of the primary things the other thing is if you bring footage or pictures in primarily if you bring pictures in and footage as well and do you have it sitting on the timeline and you look at it in fusion here let me just it's easier if I just show you this so if I take this shot I bring this shot over here and we look at it we see this resolution is substantially bigger than my project my projects resolution right now is substantially less so if I bring this over here and then I go into fusion what you're going to see is that this media if you look down here or even a little that comes up the size of it is really large right it's not anything like our project so if I was to take these two shots let's make them the same length right and I turn them into a fusion clip now when I come over into fusion what you're going to notice is now for this shot so this is that's the one that was underneath then we have this one because we're a layer one this shot now is the 1920 by 1080 our project frame rate right so if I was to take this and do a transform and zoom in we're just going to start to have distortion because it's it's transforming a 1920 1080 shot right as opposed to if I don't do it this way but I want that high resolution because I'm trying to get a little a little piece of it what I could do instead is instead of adding it on here I could just work with this shot go over into fusion then go into my media pool bring this shot in now and this shot will still be its native resolution so I'll be able to work with that shot over the other one so if we now bring them over top I can take this one get my transform and I can zoom in and I'll still have that really high resolution to composite into whatever else that I'm working at and using the native resolution of the other now if the ass or the the resolution isn't a big thing you could make it into a fusion clip and then the those resolution amounts will get copied over to the new fusion clip so then everything will be treated as whatever your timeline is instead of whatever the media itself is so if you're working with really high so let's say your project is 1080 and you wanna composite in a 4k shot I would do it by adding that 4k shot into fusion and compositing it into the 1080 background or whatever it may be your higher resolution instead of making a fusion clip where it's gonna lose that resolution I would have it go over into actual fusion so so that's kind of all I have for you for today I know a lot of the features that I went over it's kind of the same thing in other programs they're just found or used in a different manner with the venturi resolve so I just wanted to shine some light on a couple of those features I know some people might not actually use them because those workflows are normally for like really big projects with lots and lots of media but hey you never know when you might need to use it let me know in the comments what you think about this one if you have any other ideas or suggestions leave them down there as well again my name is Jerry thanks for watching [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: blackmagic, DaVinci Resolve, resolve, tutorial, how to, timeline, stack timeline, tips, compare timeline, fusion clip, compound clip, color clips, timeline tabs, media pool folders, multiple timelines

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Length: 18min 59sec (1139 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 15 2018