Unchained from Adobe greed
article by PURPLE BLACK
This is a cheatsheet website to help people quick start their way into using DaVinci Resolve. It's meant to save people's time in contrast to crappy tutorials on youtube.
At first editing in DaVinci Resolve after being used to Adobe Premiere it may feel awkward to cut media imported on the timeline. Many tools' icons look exactly like in Premiere, but their functionality has minor differences that are annoying when you're just starting.
There are couple of ways of cutting imported media.
First, you need to select the edit tab.
Drag media from media pool into timeline
Your timeline should end up looking like this
Drag clip from left or right edge to shorten it or increase its' length
Hint: You need to have linked selection option enabled to cut audio and video from clip simultaneously (alternatively you can hold ALT to do that
CTRL + SHIFT + L
This tool is simillar to Adobe Premiere razor tool
When blade edit mode is active: cut at cursor location or playhed location if cursor is not hovering a clip.
Trim clip to start at the playhead and remove empty space CTLR + SHIFT + [
Trim clip to end at the playhead position CTLR + SHIFT + ]
You can use CTRL + X to cut clip for the same effect, but the cut clip will end up in your clipboard
and you want to join clips into one, nice, clean looking clip
Press RMBon any clip from selected ones and select first option
Get ready, because this is going to be epic
How to zoom timeline
Select audio clip, hold ALT and hover over thin line in top half of the audio clip. Now all you have to do is press LMB, that will create audio keyframes which can be edited by dragging.
It's located at the very bottom of the program
Location: top left corner Render Settings tab
This tab is located in the top right corner
Adding text is very simple in DaVinci resolve
You can add Text effect to your favorite effects to allow quicker access.
Hint: If you don't tick the Ripple sequence checkbox, your clip duration will not be shortened
You can add speed control points under the playhead and drag them using mouse like shown on the gif below
This article is for advanced users, click below to show it
Toggle sectionRetime curve is a visual representation of clip speed
There are other ways to change videos rotation/scale/position, but this way allows the best flexibility
It selects only chosen clips instead of selecting all linked clips. You can see usage example in the delete article (backspace deleting section).
while dragging the clip to its new position. You’ll notice as you drag the clip, other clips will move out of the way, to make room.
will end up insetring the dragged clip into a clip that you are hovering above.
This doesn't work on all clips. It won't work on clips where audio and video tracks have different end points. (duration)
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