TRIM EDIT MODE for Faster Editing in DaVinci Resolve 18 | Quick Tip Tuesday!

it's quick tip Tuesday and I'm going to show you two ways I've been using the trim edit mode to help make my editing a little bit easier let's check this out so if you don't know where the trim edit mode tool is I'm currently in the edit tab right up here next to our Arrow above our timeline we have this guy right here the trim edit mode now I've been going through and putting together some b-roll lately for a little project I was working on and if you take a look here you can see we just kind of go from shot to shot here I play a second of it for you so sometimes when I'm putting shots like this to together where I've got a lot of b roll I'm trying to match stuff up to the beat of the music I need to adjust Clips a little bit right and if I zoom in here I don't always need to adjust a clip like this right maybe it's wherever I had it is good but what is showing in the clip is not exactly what I want to see right so for example this part right here let's say I want to use a different part of this clip well I can come up here select my trim edit mode and then if I just hover on the top part of the clip here I can click hold and drag and it's actually going to allow me to scrub through different parts of the clip so if I zoom out a little bit here and then select that same clip you can see the white box there that tells me how long that clip is so this clip is actually pretty long so I can scrub back and forth and choose whatever part of that clip that I want while keeping the same limits of the clip that I already have in my timeline so it's really sweet so for example let's just take a look at another one here zoom in just a little bit got a guitar picture here so if I click hold now you can see right there we see the limits of my whole clip and as I scrub back and forth up in my viewer I can see which part will be shown so let's say I want to see this part and I'm going to go go ahead and just play through it let's say I don't like that I'm going to scrub through and try a different part of the clip so I just click hold drag let's go like maybe right there all right cool that's it so that's the first way that I use it and I use it all the time when I'm putting together tons of b-roll kind of like this the other thing that this tool can do is if you have a gap in your timeline so I'm just going to create a little Gap here for myself we're going to grab a couple Clips pull these over so now that we've got this Gap in my timeline here let's say I'm putting together my b-roll and I want to scoot everything over a little bit but maybe not delete the whole Gap right if I used my uh delete key it would delete the whole Gap so if I come with my trim edit mode selected and I come to the end of this clip and I select this icon right here I can click hold and it's going to bring everything over with it it's going to essentially get rid of whatever part of the Gap that I want to right say I want to line it up here and then maybe I had some other Clips to dump in and then o maybe I got to move it back a little bit so again I'm going to find that icon that looks like that just before the clip click hold I can push it all back out so I don't have to select all the clips to be able to do that works out really quick and easy to move things around your timeline while you're trying to build out some cool b-roll so the traic mode does do some other cool stuff but those are primarily the two things that I use it for so that is today's quick tip Tuesday guys if you like this one maybe give the video a little thumbs up for me subscribe if you aren't already and uh with that said I'll see see you guys in the next video peace

Channel: Jason Yadlovski

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Keywords: DaVinci Resolve 18, Trim Edit Mode, Faster Editing in DaVinci Resolve, Edit Page, Quick Tip Tuesday, Resolve 18, Edit Broll in DaVinci Resolve

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Length: 3min 9sec (189 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 26 2024