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1. Introduction: I've been using the Winter
resolve for almost a decade, and I've spent way too much time just figuring things
out the hardware. In the beginning, navigating
the software felt overwhelming and my editing
process was painfully slow. I was spending the entire
day behind the computer just literally editing a
ten second or 22nd video. Everything changed
once I figured out some powerful
shortcuts and I built an efficient way of
editing video projects. These simple changes literally cut my editing time in half. And since then, not
only I've been able to work on multiple
projects at the same time, but I've also been able
to charge double or even triple for the same amount
of work from my clients. Hi, my name is Adi. I'm a professional videographer, a youtuber and a course creator. And for all my video projects, I'm using Dent Resolve. And if I didn't discover
any of those shortcuts or if I didn't build an
efficient way of editing, then I don't think
I would be able to manage all of this
at the same time. And that's exactly what I want to help you achieve
in this class. I'm going to share with you
the exact tips and editing shortcuts that has transformed the way I work in Dan resolve. So if you're ready
to edit smarter, not harder, then
let's get started.
2. Class Overview: And before we go any further, I want to discuss some details about this class
before you start. First question, who
is this class for? So this is not an editing course of how to edit videos
in the winter itself. If you want to learn
that, I've made an entire master class regarding video editing
in the winter resolve, and that's going
to teach you from scratch how to edit beautiful
videos in this software. Class is for someone who
already has a bit of hang of the winter resolve and they just want to improve
their workflow. They want to cut
their editing time in half or even less than half. And whatever tips I've
discussed in this class, I've broken them down into
small, small chapters. So even if you finish this class and if you're
editing in the winter resolve, you can always go back to
this class and just go to whatever chapter
you want and you would know that tip
in few seconds. And in some of the chapters, I'm doing something in
resolve that might need some external files
such as various assets, some sound effects, some
editing shortcuts, links. All those things are
provided in the description, so you can go to the
class source materials and download all the files. It's all provided, so really
don't worry about that. And lastly, if you like
this class in the end, just give a review
because that would help this class to get discovered
by other students. So yeah, now let's begin
with Tip number one.
3. Files Organisation: First step is not even
in the vent resolve. It is how you organize the folder. Let me
give you an example. So when I started video editing, I would just put all the files together in one folder
with music and everything. And when I would go in
the editing software, it would be a nightmare
to find the correct file. So now what I do, for example, I'm filming this video for
last couple of months, and this is our
house renovation. We've moved to a new house. And here, what I've done is that with every event or
every build that we did, we have separated the folders. And in some folders,
for example, in this one, like first days
was just the house tour. It's all videos from Sony. There's also videos from iPhone. So I didn't put all
the videos together, so I put a separate folder
for iPhone. And same as here. So we're also renovating
our backyard. So you do backyard, you have some general files, but then you also have some other subfolders
for different events. So the tip is that
really organize your files once you're
done with filming. I'll give you another example. So I have a retailer client. You know, I film for
them every month. And every time I go to them, then I would make a folder. So I've been to
them for 19 times, in the last year, and with every shoot, I
would make folders. And in that folder, there wouldn't be a lot
of just the random clips. So this is from my first camera. This is for my second camera. This is the drone. Then
we have Insta 360, so all different cameras, I did subfolders for that.
Here is the mic. So here are some
rofiles from the mic, and then we have photos. Yeah, the more you sub
categorize everything, the easier your life would be. And now if you open
the Vint Resolve, I would show you the easiest way to import files in
the in resolve. I'm using the Winter Resolve 20, so yeah, you can use 19 or 20. It doesn't really matter
because whatever I'm teaching, it would be applicable
to both the versions. So let's open an
untitled project, so I will just open here. You know, I would do
a new ah, why not? And then here, what I would do, I would go to the
media pool here. And then the easiest
way to import is, for example, I would
just open the file here. Let's uh let's import
the backyard folder. So what I would do if I want the exact same structure as how I structure
in my computer, then what I would do, I would
select all these folders, and then I wouldn't drag here because if I
drag in Master here, then the Vinci
resolve would just import all the files
in one folder. So you can see that there's
just random files everywhere. What I would do, I would just
do Command Z or Control Z, whereas my files are here, I would drag them
here to master. And once I drag here just
leave it under master, once I drag here,
then what happens? The Winters all does the exact folder location as
how it was in the computer. So here we have Master. Under Master, we had
the exact same folders, and if I want these files to look bigger, then
you can do like that. And then we have backyard. We had the exact
same files as it is. Then we have all the
vertical videos. And if you want to just go back, you can click on these folders. You can also check which
folder has what yeah, the first way to make your
life easier is to really just organize everything and just use this import way in
the winter resolve. And now let's move
to the next step. So what I would be doing is I would just open
another new project, say fast, editing DaVinci. So that's how you
open a project. And then when I go
to project settings, I would just leave settings like this so that my
timeline resolution is 1920 by 1080 because I don't
even if I have four K clips, I would not choose
this resolution. I would just choose
this resolution so that the playback is
a little bit faster. And the frame rate for
my files is 29.9 23.976. So I'll just leave it that way. And then I would just leave all these settings as how it is. And now I would import
some files which I have given you as well
in the resource panel. Here, if I have to import something new, I would
do the same thing. I would in Windows, also, you have the exact same method. So I have some files of fast
editing the winter resolve. And here, what I would
do, I would just select everything and I would
go, drag it to Masters. And then it has the exact
same file location. And what I usually do is
that if it's a new project, if it's a YouTube video, I will just also make
a folder for Min Talk. What I also do is that
I make another folder already for music because I know that for any video project, I would be using a music. And then I also make
another four folders called extra extra is all the
previous files that I've used. I would just put it
in extra because sometimes if I'm
editing YouTube videos, I also need files
from two years back, so that I just move to extras because if I
just put it in B role, then I wouldn't know if
it's the B roll from now or is it the B roll
from previous videos. So I'll just put it in extra, and then another
bin what I make is effet and ex can
be sound effects, some video effects,
some video transitions, which I'm going to talk later. But this structure
I already make. Along with the main video files, I'll make music extra NFX.
4. Edit Using Shortcuts: And now let's move
to the next one. So the next tip is
using shortcuts. So in the last section, I showed you that I have
imported files like this. So now I would go
to the edit panel. So you would also
have CUT panel, which is not really needed. I have eliminated the CUT panel, and how you can
eliminate just get rid of Cut panel from
here is you go workspace, and then you go to Show
Page, and in the show page, you can just uncheck
the CUT because, like, nobody uses that. Don't even know why
it is in DaVinci. So we're going to
go to Edit page. And in Edit page, you can edit with me because
all these files are there. Edit page, we do Min Talk. So for Min Talk, I would
just drag it down. This is just an
introduction from my previous DaventRsolv classes. Now if I just, you know, bring the timeline a
little bit bigger, you can see all the graph. If you don't see
all these graphs, you can actually do
display audio waveform. So if you do display
audio waveform, then you know exactly
like if I zoom in, you know exactly what or places, I am talking Water
places I'm not. And you see I just zoom in
with some keyboard buttons but you are not really realizing that is because I'm
using shortcuts. So now what I'm going to do
if you're editing with me, I have some presets
which I have given it to you in the resource panel
so you can import it. And how to input a keyboard
shortcut preset is, let's go DntRsolve in
the corner, left corner. Here we go keyboard
customization. And here I can already see the keyboard customization
is Dn resolve AD keys. You have to download this file. This file would be
in DML or TxDFle. A lot of people
they get confused that Oh, that's a random file. I'm not sure if it's
for keyboard shortcut, but it is for
keyboard shortcuts. Don't worry, how to import it. You go to the three dots. Then you go Import preset. And whatever folder the
preset is, for example, if this was a
preset nude or TXT, you can just click
on that and open, and that preset
would be imported. And now what would happen is
that what preset I'm using, what shortcuts I'm using, you would be using
the same shortcuts. So let's talk about shortcuts because if you start using shortcuts in the winter reserve, it would be a complete,
complete game changer. Like all these shortcuts I have discovered maybe after five
or six years of editing. And, yeah, I was like, What was I doing for
all those years? So let's go. The first and the most important shortcut
is the blade tool. So say, for example, if I'm just dragging
this and if I want to make any cut here,
let's say here. And if I have to cut the tool, if I have to cut this clip, what I need to do I go here, play and then I change
the viewer mode, the cursor to a blade. So now if I drag it to a
clip, becomes a blade. But every time I have
to go to this place. So what I would be doing, I'll just press C because
C is for the plate. And if I press C here, then I can just cut
this file here. If I just press another C here, I can cut this file here. And now if I want to delete it, I can just select that and
then I can press backspace. If I press backspace,
the file is deleted. Now the problem is, it's like, and now if I have to move this file here to the beginning, I have to press V because
now it's in a blade mode, you know, I have to go back to the cursor mode,
the selection mode, and you can see the
shortcut for selection mode is V. I have to select V, then drag it to the beginning. It's still a lot of
steps with shortcuts. What you can do right now, if I have to eliminate
all of this part, if you have imported
my shortcuts, all you need to do is Q. If you press Q, all
of these files, they just move to the beginning. And these are one of the
really important keys when you are using shortcuts. And if I go here in the
keyboard customization, so whatever
customizations you have, say if I told you about
the C, if I click on C, then you can see
that application, this was Blade Edit mode. And if you click here, if you click Blade Edit Mode, you can go on the right side, and then you can see that the
button which is allotted to the blade mode was C. But
if you want to change it, you can just press Cross
and you can say maybe do. You know, M M is allotted to something else,
but I'll just cancel it. So if you want to customize the shortcuts according to how you want, you can do it as well. Same for V, if I go to V, that's normal Edit mode. If I click here, then you can just delete the V and
do what you want. So the trim mode, what I said,
this is really important. So if you go in an application, you go to start to playhead,
that's what we did with Q. So what start to play head
does is that it kind of gets rid of the part which is in the
beginning of any clip, and then it would also just move the
clip to the beginning. And if you see W, that's end to playhead. So what does that mean
is that I wouldn't save it because I don't want
to mess up my settings. For example, what W would
do end to playhead too. For example, if I go here, and if I want to delete
all of this, right, then I would just press W
and everything is deleted. But say let's drag another clip. Let's drag another
clip, say this one. If I press W here,
everything is deleted, and if I zoom in, then this file is next to the
file which was deleted. So that's when Q
and W are handy. You can also see that
I'm zooming in and zooming out with the keyboard. This also really important
because otherwise, if you don't have a
lot shortcut for this, you always have to go here, zoom in in the timeline, zoom out in the timeline. I'll make it full screen. You always have to go here. Now with one click, I
can zoom in zoom out. Let's go to keyboard
customization. If I go to A, A is Zoom out. If you press Zoom out, Zoom
out is in the Zoom section. Zoom out is A and Zoom in
is S. So if I press S, it sort of zooms in
in the timeline. If I press A, it sort of
zooms out in the timeline. These shortcuts, they
are just so, so handy. And then the next one
is ripple delete. For example, if I
pressed, you know, if I had some other lot
of a lot of videos here, you know, and if you
see that I dragged it, but then there was some gap. So what I would do,
I would zoom in. I would just click in this gap, and then I would press X. I
would press here as well, X, and that is ripple delete. What ripple delete means is that it kind of
deletes all the gaps. And if you see here, I have to do the video file separate and the audio
file separate, right? If I want both of them
to move together, you can see that this link. There's this link
can hear from top and bottom on both
video and audio files, which means that these
files are linked together. And if I want to move
both of them together, I would go here to
the link selection. And now if I do ripple delete, that would move the audio
and video together. Now if I just drag the video, the audio also gets
selected because now we are in the
Link Selection mode. And how do you know the
clips are linked or no, you can see the link icon hear. And if you want to unlink them, then you can just go
right click Link Clip. So you just uncheck
the link clip. So now if I just move the audio, the audio and the
video are unlinked. So these things you
have to keep in mind. So I would just link them
just for the project's sake. So yeah, that was Ripple
Delete shortcut for you. If you think we are moving fast, you can always just rewatch it. Now another really important
shortcut is enable clip. For example, if I was doing the stalking head
shot and I would just move. So you see what I'm doing. I'm also using the lung
cut here that I go here, then I increase the
timeline length to increase the size of the timeline
bars to the video bars, you can just press
shift and scroll up, and that would
increase or reduce the size of these
bars, the video bars. And same you can do for audio. So you just go in
the audio panel, just click there and
then reduce or increase the side these audio bars, and that you can do by shift
and scroll up or down. So here, I have to show you another shortcut because
every step what I do, I'm using it with shortcut, so it might be a
bit overwhelming, but you can just note it down all these
important shortcuts. And when you're
editing, of course, you wouldn't remember it
in first go, but yeah, if you do it more and more, then yeah, it would be
super easy to remember. So now if you see here, I'll just mute the audio because we don't
really need the audio. If you see here, I can see that the video
is coming because yeah, the video is top on top of this. But I want to leave
the video here, but I still want to
see my talking head. So for that, what we would do, we would press E and E is
enable or disable clip. So if I just press
E, you can see that the clip becomes
a little bit gray. So now the B roll is
still on the top, but it is disabled. So if I just have to see
my talking head shot, I can, yeah press that. And once I'm done here, you can just press E back. And here you can also see
that if I drag it here, it kind of comes like it wouldn't stop until
this clip, you know. So sometimes I can
make a mistake that I'm dragging
it all the way, and some important
parts of the clips are getting, you
know, missed out. So what I would be doing
is I would press N, and if I press N, you can
see what happens here. If I press N, that
enables this magnet, and this magnet is
a snapping tool. So now what would happen is that if I move this clip here, as soon as I come closer, it kind of acts as a magnet and then sticks both of
the clips together. So if this is not enabled
in your Daven resolve, you can enable it because
that is really handy. If I cut it here, it just snaps. If I go here, I press
W. I bring this file, and it just snaps. Like, you have to really
force it to go over the clip. But if you just come here
softly, it just snaps. So that is snapping tool and you can enable
or disable it. If I press N, you
see, it's disabled, if I press N, it is enabled. So that you can do, you know, disable or enable it. And now, the next one
is trim edit mode. So here we were in the
selection mode, you know, which is V. Here, we were in the blade edit mode, which was C, you know,
to cut anything. Here we have another mode
called Trim Edit mode, and the shortcut for this is B. So you see if I go in this mode, the cursor changes to, you know, this bracket
kind of thing. And now what happens is that if I want to move this
clip to the right, clip is not going to move. What moves is that the
video in that clip? So, if you have just
placed a clip there, but if you wanted
the video, you know, to be here from this soundtrack, then you can just
drag it in here. So our cuts are intact. There's no movement
here and here, but there is movement if I drag it in the
video clip itself. And you can also show here
that in the playback section, I would see the playback here for both the
video, you know, which is playing,
but I would also see the playback for what
video is before and after. So that is really handy
in the winter reserve. And I use it all the time with editing because if I
just miss some parts, usually what you have to
do, say, for example, if if this part
was not even here, I'm just pressing W. So what I would have to do, I
would just drag it here, then clip it, then crop it here, and then bring this
file like that. And with the trim edit mode, I can just go B and then I
can just drag the files here. I hope this is making sense. So that was TrimEdit mode. And now something
really important, so I'm just going to zoom
in with S. If you want to just move the videos just one
frame to the right or left, what you need to do,
just press arrow key. Arrow Bright was one
frame. You know. Sometimes if you really have
to do this minute cut or sometimes if you have to cut on the fast paced music,
then you can do this. So you can see that we can
see each frame moving, and if you want to
cut the part before, then you can just press Q, and that would cut the
entire section before. So yeah, that was
shortcuts for you, and those are some of the
really important shortcuts that I use and how to
change the shortcuts, what I already told you before, but I'll go again because it can be a little
bit confusing. You go to all commands or if you want to
search for any tool, say, let's do blade. If I just type here blade, then it brings me
blade edit mode. But you should always make
sure that you are not here. You're not in trim mode,
go to all commands. This should be here. This selection should be here, not in application, not
in Mark, not in view. Just go all commands, and whatever you type, it would show here
the commands here. Or you can just
press on the keys, and if you want to
change it according to your convenience,
do that as well. So it is yeah totally
fine with me. That was shortcuts, and
now something also really important is that if I
go in this file, right? If I want, you know, this section, my
hand to come in, so I would say if I
just want this section, usually what people would do, people would drag everything, then they go in the timeline, then they see when my hand is coming, and then you crop it. That's a little
bit of longer way. You come here, you
drag on the timeline, and if I see my hand
is coming here, that's the part of what I
want in the final video. I would press I. That
is insert points, and then I would press Oh, because now the action
ist so I would press Oh. And now I can just
drag this file here. But I still had
to move my mouse, you know, do a
little bit of work. So what I do is, like, usually, if you press an in and
out point in a clip, and if I want this
clip to be here, you know, after my last
clip, I would just press. And what does is that you just whatever
selection you make, if you keep pressing,
it would just bring everything on the
timeline after the last clip. And this is really handy for me when I'm doing YouTube logs. You know, when I have
all the raw files, I was just do in
and out selection, in and out selection
for each clip, and I would keep pressing UUU, and that comes, and the clip
is coming after each clip. So yeah, that is
also really handy. So we are doing with you and
is this option, Insert clip. So you see press if
I go on this clip, if I press in and out here and if I press
this insert clip, that does the exact same thing. So that's why insert
clip is really handy, but next to that, there are
some other options as well. Now it is overwrite. So what happens with overwrite
is that remember with, everything was coming to
the end of the last clip. If I go here, right? And if I want to bring, say, this clip here, not in the end, then I would press And what T does is that T kind of
overwrites everything. So whatever clip was
there, that is just deleted and this clip
is on top of that. So I would just press Command Z. So that was insert clip,
and overwrite clips. And I usually use, you know, the overwrite option. I barely use insert. Because I also want to be sure
that whatever is deleted, like, it is I'm sure that
I didn't need that file. So that can be a bit confusing. But anyways, those were
the few shortcuts for you, which is going to make your life so much easier in
the winter resolve.
5. Power Bins: In this chapter,
we're going to be discussing about Power Bins, which I literally got to
know maybe last year, and yeah, it has completely
changed the game. So Power Benz if you go to
the media Power Benz is here. But for some of you,
it might not be there. So what you need to do
go on these three dots, then show Power Bens. I wouldn't do show SmartBns.
I don't really use it. I would go to Show Power Bens. And what happens here
is that for you, this folder might be empty. What is Power Bins? For
example, you can see that, you know, if I
extend this folder, I have all these files. And if you want to see
these files in a big row, then you can just
select this option. So now you have everything
and you can just drag the Power Ben if I go to
Master in Power Bins, I have all these files, right? What I can do, I can also maybe just open
some other project. Let's say this one. That's the project we
just opened of you. Yeah, what I showed you before. So now if you see, we
still have Powerbns. So what Power Bins is that? Let's go to the first one. So, you see, I'm also doing
this project switching, which I'm going to
show you later. So don't what power
Bins does is that? Power bends are some
important assets, what you might be using in
all the video projects. For example, I have some Woohes some sound
effects in power Bens. I have some of, you know, these funny text 2 hours later, one week later, these
kind of things. I have some of the assets, some location I can
all these things I'm using all the
time in my videos. I had, you know,
this funny thing. I have the camera,
shutter noise. I have, like, all kind
of sound effects, you know, these overlays I have. So all these things I have
stored in the power pin. And I can just drag and drop every time in my project file. And what happens now
is that, for example, if I want to just say, copy the Wooh files,
let's call Woohes. Let's just I just want
to copy this woosh file. So now what happens is
that I'll just go here. You can see that this
woosh file is here. But if I go to my project files, the woosh file comes in the
front on the Master page. But I want this to go
in extras or effet, so I will just drag here to efX. So my main project
folders are still clear. So every time if you
drag something from the Power Bins that can
go in the main page. So you always have to go
to FX and go to EX folder, whatever folder, and
you can drag in. Or what you can also do
is if I drag this clip, it would be front as well, so you just drag
it to the effect. Like that little
step you have to do. But yeah, you can see
how handy it is that you have all the assets
just in the power bin, and you can use
them all the time. And I have provided you
all these assets as well. In the description,
these are all free, and I have gathered
them over the years. So it's completely free for you. So go feel free to use them. So, yeah, that's how
I use Power Bins. And it is so cool
because before that, I had a Power Bin
in my computer. And every time if I would need something, I have to
go in the computer, just drag and drop in the
software, go back again. The file was not correct. If the Woche effect was not
correct, go back again. Like, it was just so
much back and forth. And here, I can open everything and I can
already just, you know, scroll around the
timeline of the clip, and then I can see
exactly what effect is. I have allotted, you know, proper names for everything, so I exactly know
where what effect is. And that's what Powerbn does.
6. Timeline Organisation: Okay. And now let's talk
about timeline organization. So here I would just, you know, redo the shrink this and what
is timeline organization? So if I just, you know, make the clips a bit smaller, usually, I am editing
on one project, so it is fine. The
timeline is there. But sometimes what
I'll show you is that I'm just going to open one of my clients video files, right? Then it would make
more sense to you. So that happened yesterday
that I was editing something, and usually what I do is that all the voiceovers
what I have. I would edit all the voiceovers
in a separate timeline. So here what happens
is that if you go to the timeline option
here and if you go display stacked timelines, I dis selected it. So you have to select it,
so then the arrow comes. So if I do display
stack timeline, I have one timeline here, I can add another timeline, and that timeline can
be say voiceover. So I had all these
voiceover clips, you know, what I wanted
to put in this video. So what I did was I copied some voiceover from here,
so that was Command C, and then I would go and
I would just place here, Command V. So the voiceover is being copied from one
timeline to another. But what something really
cool Dawn chi has done is a if you go here to
the timeline option, you can just press you
see the plus icon, you can just press Plus. And now, if I just
close the voice over, and now what happens is that
you have to obviously reduce the size of everything so that you can see
what's going on. Now what you can do, you can open the separate
timelines in this section. And from here, what you can do, you can just drag and drop from one timeline to
another everything. It's crazy, right, that
if I want this clip just from here to here to copy on another timeline, you
can just copy it. Of course, it's not
really handy when you are just working
on one timeline, but I always recommend to
always backup your timelines, and you can just copy the
files just like that. Just by drag and
dropping. Drag drop here. If I had some video files as well, I would
have done the same. And if he want to, you know, get rid of these two timelines, I would just go cross.
So yeah, cross. Then just the audio
timeline is there. So I would just go day
in alive timeline. And now I have the
original ones here. So, yeah, that's how you
can organize the timelines. That is really handy.
And I'll show you how to also organize the projects
or open multiple projects. So you see what I'm doing here? Like every time if I go I go
and just open the project. Like, I had different
project here. But you can also just choose between different
timelines with this arrow. But let's go back to the
project. Here, what you can do. If you go to the home,
this window opens. Here you can do is just click on Dynamic
Project switching. And then we go close. So here, what's
going to happen is, if I open a new project,
let's send new. So I have this project. Let's say all these videos
were on the timeline, right? And if I wanted to copy these two clips in the DawnciRsolve class,
the talking headshot. So what I would
do here because I had done the dynamic
project switching, I would go Command,
see, or Control, see, copy, usual copy.
I will go here. So you see this was the
project name called New. And if I go fast editing Dawnci, that's a project we
were working on. Here, if we copy that
from the other project, we can just paste here. So that's Command
V or Control V, and the video is pasted
from another project. So you see by dynamic
project switching, you can just keep opening
various projects. If I had this sunlight
coffee project, if I want this file to be
copied again, you just copy, just click arrow here, go to the free editing Dawnci, go to the and V. So you
have the clip here. Yeah, that was
timeline organization, and we also used in the
dynamic project switching.
7. Timeline Backups: Okay. And now let's talk
about timeline backup. So what happens is
that if I just delete all these files,
whatever I've imported. Every time what
happens is that if I'm making some
changes in a timeline, if I'm big timeline, I want to have two backups
because, say, for example, if I did a mistake
in this timeline, and that mistake I
have to retry back. So I have to, you know, go back and just press Command
Z, coman Z, command Z. Instead of doing that, I
can do a timeline backup. TTC my master here. I don't see where
my timeline is. So if I just search timeline, I still don't see so
what you need to do, press arrow, go to A Bins. And if I go all Bins, then I know where my
timeline folder is. So I can just drag
it to the master, and now this timeline
section is here. So if I open this, this
timeline opens, right? How you can duplicate this, you go right click, you
duplicate timeline. And now the copy of this
timeline is here as well. Usually I make a
separate folder for timelines as well.
So let's do that. Let's keep the good
habits together. So I would put everything
in the timeline folder. So now there is a timeline copy. If I you do some other changes, you can make another
copy of the timeline, or if you want to
make any new timeline just to create a new timeline, and that would be your new
timeline in the project. But let's go to this timeline. Say, for example, if I did a mistake, what
do you need to do? You go to timeline, and then you go to restore timeline backup. So what Dawnci does, Dabnci is saving your
timelines every few minutes. So whatever it has saved at so now it's 8:00,
I think, Yeah, 88. So whatever Danci
has saved at 7:58, that can bring that timeline. Back or whatever it was at 7:47. Let's see what was at 7:47. So at 7:47, we
were talking about the enable or disable
clips that we have here. Whatever we did at, you know, 10 minutes, 20 minutes before
Dawnci would take us there. And what really cool thing
Dawnci would do is that, that would take
us, but that would make a separate backup for that. So our original
timeline is here, what we were just working on. So let's say if I go so now
we have CUC four timelines, I can just delete this one backspace because
we don't need that. So now let's say if I go to
restore timeline backup, and if I want a
timeline at 7:58, I don't want to delete the
timeline what is here. I just click on 758, and you can see there
is another backup. So timeline, backup one. So this was how it
looked at 7:58. So that's also really
cool about Dawnci that it's not getting rid
of our current timeline, which is this one, it is
making a new timeline, how it looked at that time. And one more thing really
important related to timelines is that if you go to DaVinci and if you
go to preferences, here what you need to do. You go to user, you go to
Project Save and load, and you have to select live save project backups
and timeline backups. And then you can do every 10
minutes or every 5 minutes, because we did every 10 minutes, that's why in the
timeline backup, you had different times, and that was every 10 minutes. You can also do 5
minutes, 2 minutes. It's really up to you. And where all of these timelines
would be saved is here. So you can, of course, browse
and change the location. Yeah, that was it for timelines, and if you do everything
what I've told, then you really
don't have to worry about losing your project.
8. Smart Reframing: So now let's talk about something called this
Smart reframing. So this is something which is really handy for
vertical videos. For example, if you
see this clip, right? Of course, this is a
landscape horizontal video. So what I would
do, go to project, I would keep the same
timeline resolution, but in vertical formats, I use vertical resolution. I'll just check
here. Let's go safe. So now what happens is that? You can see. So let's say if I have this clip
selected, right? And you can see that my face is there and how
my face is here. So I want all of this to
be in the frame, you know? So what I would be doing is if you're using the
Mint resolve 20, it would say AI smart reframing because that's the thing now
they use AI with everything. They use the AI term. But this was before as well. So if I go to reframe the
object of interest Auto, so the Minchi would be
selecting everything Auto. So if I go reframe, then it should be reframing me throughout the entire clip. So now if I go play, so you can see that the clip is moving because if I go
to the position here, X and Y, and if I
just play the clip, you can see that everything is moving throughout
the whole thing because back in the day, we would have to key
frame all the movements. And now we just smart reframing, everything is just done by AI. It was like this before as well. So yeah, same as if I have this clip, you
know, that's me there. If I go reframe again, that does smart reframes. If I just place myself up here. Or what I can also
do sometimes is that sometimes if your subject
is not being tracked good, let's open another video. So what I would do, I would just open a drone
chart from one of my client's videos because
that's always tricky with me. Let's say this video. So here, what we have to do
we have to track the truck. What I can also do is that
when the smart reframe, here you go to reference point. And once you choose
reference point, then it kind of brings
this rectangular bracket. So what I would be doing
is I would just bring this reference point
on top of this truck. So wherever I place
this reference point, that would be the
center of the frame. So if I just play
the entire clip, you can see that the
position is moving, you know, X is
moving all the time. So now the software is doing just amazing job to keep
my subject in the center. If I just, you know, reset it, my truck was here somewhere, and now it is going
out of the frame. Here, you know, it's
always towards the end. So yeah, just with
smart reframing, it is just so cool to edit vertical videos from
your horizontal videos. Now, everything is intact, everything is in position, and it's just the software
which is doing its job. So yeah, that is smart
reframing for you.
9. Copy And Paste Arributes: What I'm going to
teach you next, everybody should know
when they're editing the inch resolve. Let's go. For example, here, let's get rid of the
smart reframing thing. So here up and we can also bring the horizontal video resolution. So here what happens. C,
what am I doing here, is it? If the clip is so small, you can just scroll up
and down with the mouse or if you want to make
it fit to the screen, just spread Z, and that
would make it fit. Here, what I can do
is that you know, if I zoomed in in this
file, say here, right? And if I did some
rotation like that, and if I went to the pitch, so, you know, just for the sake of this file. And it just zoom out. And if I want this
exact setting on this file or let's
say on this file, yeah, let's just on this file, then I go on this file. You know, just select
this. Yeah, you go Command C or command copy. And I would go here, and then I would go
Option or Alt V, you know, the typical paste. And now what happens
is that there is something called a copy
and paste attributes. So attributes is whatever
property or whatever changes or whatever parameters are in the videos that could be changed. So that's
what is there. In the attributes.
So what we did with the Command C was we copied the attributes
from Video one, and when we did Command V or
when we did Option or Alt V, the Davener is always giving
me an option that what all properties you
want to paste, you want to be pasted
from the first video. So if I just select Zoom, then it would just, you
know, paste the Zoom. But if I go option
again, if I go say, if I did the rotation angle and the pitch or pitch is not, then it would do
the rotation angle. Or what else we did? We did I think Yo and something. If you don't remember
what you can do, you go to all video attributes
and then Danci would paste everything, how
this video looks. Even the color
grading, let's say, if you do the color
grading, color change, so if I go Command C again, and if I go Option or Alt V, that would also do
this for this video. So if you go to everything, like copy the entire attributes, then DaVinci would do copy, paste, colagting
all the settings. And you can do the exact
same for the audio. So let's say if we
increase or reduce the audio volume to s and
then we go Command C, and if I want the same
audio volume here, then I would go option, and here, these were all the
properties for the video, which I don't want, so I
would just disselect it. And here what you can
do, you can yeah, do audio plug ins. All audio attributes. So you can also select
what attributes you want. So you can press
Cel Select volume. Plug ins are if you did
some noise reduction or if you did something else in the audio, those
things would be there. If you made any change in equalizer, that would
also be changed. So if I just go here, so you can see that the
audio is reduced. Yeah, copy and paste
attributes are super handy, especially when I'm editing
long projects because you don't want to go and change video settings for
each thing every time.
10. Clip Colors: Now let's talk about
coloring the clips. So sometimes what I do is that if I'm doing the
talking headshots, you know, in some sections,
say, from here, I want the clip to be a
little bit zoomed in, right? And then it kind of zooms out. Then at this section,
I want it to be zoom in zoomed in
again a little bit. So what I can do
instead of, you know, selecting this and
then if let's delete that and if I want the
zoom in here as well. So there's one way is that
you can select this, this, this, you press command
and select this, this, and then you
can make the changes. What you can also do is that if I color this
clip to say orange, if I color this clip
to orange, again, if I color this clip
to orange again, now what happens is that all the clips which I
want to be zoomed in, they would be an orange. So here, I think I've
already zoomed in. So what I would do, I would
do Command C. You know, I copied the attributes. And instead of selecting
these clips one by one, now it's just two clips, but sometimes it
can be 100 clips, especially when I'm editing
the Skillshare classes. Sometimes I have to zoom in and zoom out
all the time, you know, because if I'm saying
something important, I want to yeah have
a bit of punch, like what I just did now. So then I want the same effect. Same Zoom, you know, 1.2 to zero on all
these orange clips. So how ya can do that. I want to select all of them. So how you can change
it, you go to timeline, then you go select clips. And here you can do by color. So the color, what we
choose was orange. So now what happens
today if I zoom in, Dawnci has selected
everything which was orange. So if I had 100 orange clips, Danci would have selected it. And now what I can
do, everything is selected because
I can see here. I would go Option V or Alt V, and then you can see
that you can choose the Zoom scale and all the clips which was
orange, that is Zoomed in. That is Zoomed out
and zoom in again. So that was really handy. Or if you want to do
any other changes in the clips, you know, in certain parts of a timeline, you can do that as well with everything which
was selected by color. So that's how you can select multiple clips by just
changing the clip colors.
11. Best Export Settings: And now let's talk
about the quickest way to export in the inter resolve. Say, for example,
you did everything, you project is completed. You can already just export
it from the edit page. What you need to do
if I just want to export this project until here, I'll just press O, and then
you go to Quick Export. And Quick Export, I usually
just do s64 Master. It is in high
definition resolution, which is pretty good
for social media, but you can also do 264, Hybridk or 265, which would give you
the smaller file size. I would just go with whatever if you have to
publish on YouTube, I will just go like this
frame width per second, or if you want to do for TikTok, then the resolution,
of course, changes, but I will just do YouTube
or h.264 and then exported and I would just choose Dextop and it just takes seconds
and it's exported. So you can do everything
in the edit page. And my files are
exported just like that. So yeah, that was the quickest
way to export any file. But if you want to export with the high quality and
with small file sizes, here is how you should do it. So I am in my Export page, and I don't know
why it is taking so long for the Minchi to
load it, but here we go. Here, if I want to
export this section, then what I would be doing, I would go to Hdor 265 Master. That would give me I
would just do Test one. That would give me
small file sizes, but really good quality. And format, I would just
leave it to Quick Time, codec Sd 265. That's
what we chose now. Resolution, what we would be
doing is we go to Ultra HD. And quality here, you
need to do what you need to choose is you need to
restrict it to 50,000. And once we have
done everything, then you go to add to render Q. I would just choose
desktop, test one. Let's go save it. So now it is saying that add
higher resolution renders because the timeline resolution
was high definition, but I want to export
in four case. So that's what I'm making
sure that I'm doing. So let's go add and render. And within few seconds, obviously depends on how
powerful your system is, DaVinci would export everything. By this way, you get
the best video quality out of your video projects, and the first way where
you did the quick export, that way you can get the
quickest way to export things.
12. Thank You: Those were a few of my
personal favorite tips to edit faster in
the inch resobe. And I hope that these tips would help you in
your editing project. And if you enjoy this class, then give a review
because, of course, yeah, that would help this class to be discovered
by other students. So, yeah, I really hope
you enjoy this class, and I'll see you
in the next one.
Adi Singh, Videographer and Youtuber
