I changed my outro a bit. 😜 But this actually opens it up to allow for even more viewer submissions. Let me know what you want me to say after, "But if you did not like this video..." 🤣👍
Please go back to the "hit the dislike button twice..." It leaves the video on an upbeat tone! You could say if you don't like this video let me know in the comments below and click the dislike button twice just to be sure.
The audio "Bug: at @ 5:55 all you have to do is use the keyframe to drag up n down and it will show the dB volume when adjusting, instead of grabbing the line
Some Solutions : 5:01 - Click and drag up and down on keyframe not on line. if you click on keyframe it will showup the db number. 6:58 - Control + click on media end point or on trim mode select end point and press 'U' to see different trim option. 11:45 - Timeline is behaving like that because you have created many video tracks that are not required and when you're dragging and dropping transition, it is searching for video tracks which are not visible in your timeline. Remove unwanted video track or make the timeline height big enough to show all video tracks. 15:25 - Click on three small dots '...' in media storage tab and choose 'show individual frame' for jpeg. 17:15 - Your jpg or png file doesn't have 'alpha source output' that is why it is showing black border. Go to color page and on node panel right click n add alpha output and link it with source. 19:20 - For saving as preset, go to color page and use input or output sizing and save it as preset. I moved from premiere pro ... welcome to the future ...
hey man, after updating to 16.2.7 my gpu is not rendering, everything is setup for use GPU rendering in the preference settings but it is only idling, my AMD driveris updated (RX 580 8gb) before the update it was working good the gpu rendering
@@geraldundone 11:45 still looks pretty annoying, though. Your point is still very valid. It needs to only scroll if you hover over the edges of the timeline for more than say a half a second. 17:15 should be a setting where alpha is automatically output. I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever want those black bars.
Hi Gerald, for the "Combines Sequential JPEGs into a Single File" problem, you just need to click on the 3 dots at the top of the media pool. There's an option to treat JPGs as individual images rather than frames of a video. I'm sorry I don't have Resolve at work right now so I can't tell you the exact name of the option, but there's an easy fix. Cheers!
Just to add to this. There is actually a good reason it treats sequentially numbered images as a single file. That's because assets from 3D programs are typically exported as image sequences which are then used in compositing software (which resolve also is now). Having said that, I also ran into this problem when I wanted to use individual pics and it took a minute to figure out the issue. They should probably make it a bit easier to find the option.
This is the first video of Gerald's I've ever watched, after several others on this topic, and the Hacksmith here of all people caught me completely off guard 😂
I remember watching some videos from JayzAreTV (probably butchered his channel name) about how to custom make transitions from scratch: swoops, zoom out, zoom in, etc, in the fusion tab. Thing is, you only need to set up the nodes, which are containers for information in the order you want them to happen and then you can save the fusion information to a file on your pc. Every time you're on a new project you just need to drag and drop the file into the fusion tab and the nodes will load. Then it's just a matter of plugging the right videos - your inputs - into the corresponding nodes. Sounds overwhelming but it's really easy to set up, plus you only need to do it once. Fusion is extremely powerful if you learn how to use it, as it can be seen as a sort of AfterEffects inside the program. Word of caution, though. Save your project before before tinkering with the fusion tab. Program tends to crash more often than I would like. Hope this helps.
Fusion is the way to go for this sort of thing. If I have multiple text boxes on a screen for example, I find it easier to set them up in Fusion as one more apt than multiple tracks on the edit page.
1. I feel like there shouldn't be drift just from using an external recorder, might be wrong, but NDF vs DF timecode comes to mind. But yes the Elastic Wave is the solution here I think. 3. Keyframe Fluidity, if you highlight the keyframe, then adjust in the Inspector window you can click and drag left to right over the value and get really fine control. 5. Extending Clips - Maybe easier maybe not, this annoys me too. There is a keyboard command for "Extend Clip" you can use, but you still have to select the ends of the clips by switching to that other tool. But then when you push the button it'll extend those clips to your playhead, so avoids the weird scrubbing behavior. 8.5(?). I customized mine to be like Avid. I made "T" be "Mark Clip" then E and R are my In and Out points. T will select the entire clip, then putting an in point where your play head is and then deleting would accomplish what you tried to do in the video by deleting the end of the clip instead. If you want to do the beginning of the clip you'd do T-R-X in my case. I find it much faster then using the blade tool, clicking and dragging, then hitting delete. 9. When you go to the media pool, if you click the 3 dots and choose "show individual frames" it'll show you the individual JPEG images and you can import them separately from there. 10. Commenter Problem: When I cut 2 camera interviews, I'll usually just disable the other camera in any one cut, leaving them both, so if I change my mind down the road its easy to switch what camera. Maybe they worked like that, tried to disable everything to see whats underneath, then went back, and had to go back through and choose the cameras again? Not sure there, but for stuff that I've done I could see how that'd be annoying. Good work on this video, I hope BlackMagic watches because there are definitely some weird issues going on still.
Audio drift happens when the clock in one device runs a bit faster or slower than another device, and you don't have a timecode jam-sync system in place. Much more likely when you are recording a live event for an hour or more. You'll rarely notice it when you're doing 10-minute clips. I have this happen all the time, and with Vegas, it's a simple Cntl-drag to fix.
That "mark clip + in and out points then delete" workflow seems really promising! Initial shortcuts are x, i and o, and I just tried that it's already better than what I did before... Definitely a great tip, thank you very much!!!
@@alantuttphotography I don't understand why this happens. If they are both digital devices, shouldn't the offset time be synced at all times? Meaning if it started 5 seconds late, it should end at 5 seconds late. I would understand if it was a tape, but digital clocks drift as well?
@@NONE2NONE Have you even had a digital watch lose or gain time? Time-keeping devices are never perfect, and their imperfections are never the same as the imperfections in another device. It's life.
You can easily adjust volume on a clip by 1 dB by selecting the audio clip or keyframe and using the keyboard shortcut (option-command-plus) or (option-command- minus) to raise or lower by 1dB respectively. There are times that I need more minor adjustments and then I use the inspector or the curve editor like you showed.
Tip: In the top right where you see the "volume" number (actually click on the number, not the bar), you can click and drag left and right for more fine adjustments, and I'm pretty sure the volume waveform graphic changes while you're dragging. Definitely buggy though.
It's interesting to see how different people's workflows differ. Also with the image getting a black background thing - that goes away during a transition, too! I like it sometimes, but then applying a transition ruins it. Drives me nuts! Lack of presets are a huge detractor from Resolve atm. Also I really feel like you need a new audio recorder, I really don't think you should be having this many drift issues.
Just store anything you want in a preset for editing in an adjustment layer and name it - throw it in a power bin and use it on any project. If you need to store anything else for color / tracking etc. make a still and store it in a powergrade on the color tab.
even in professional recordings and mixes u can't just use a compressor... fortunately davinci accepts vsts. I might use a plugin for gainstaging in the upcoming future.
A compressor will only help in controlled situations, so it's good in the studio. When your outside, and there's lots of noise coming from everywhere, you can't usa a compressor, as it will increase the overall output. When recording someone speaking outside, you just want to raise up the volume of the voice and keep the background noise as silent as possible, which won't happen with a compressor. In that case, a limiter is a better option.
I am steadily growing more and more fed up with the constant glitches and issues in Premiere Pro and the temptation to switch to Resolves is growing at the same rate! So thank you for making this video! Quite a few of the problems you are experiencing would bug me too! Now I feel a bit more prepared!
The resolve team would do well to listen to this video. I've been impressed with the playback performance of resolve, but it's little issues like these that keep me a Premiere user.
For your ending video template workflow you could make a Fusion template with the transform and overlay. In theory you could drag the template onto your clip and it should do the rest. I’m not a Fusion expert, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it done.
This was my thoughts too, I started using Fusion for this kinds of stuff, and it works well. Check out Jayaretv on TH-cam, this guy *is* an expert on the matter. :p Next intro: I’m Gerald Undone and I resolve problems.
Hey, if BM is watching, I've been trying to make the full switch and have 3 pretty minor, but annoying bugs/behaviors. 1) I edit a ton for TH-cam with music beds made of many music tracks that I transition from one to the other. In the Cut page, I apply "Cross Fade -3dB," which defaults to an evenly split transition that I'm able to expand and contract. However, I don't like that the only options I have are "Center on Edit," "Start on Edit," or "End on Edit". Especially with music, it helps my workflow to be able to freely move the transition and choose the most aesthetically pleasing transition. 2) I really like the options in the "Timeline View Options" pane, but I don't like that I'm not able to mix and match audio/video track views. In order to show waveforms on audio tracks, I have to have video thumbnails enabled. My ideal timeline view would be slim video tracks with no video thumbnails, and thicker audio tracks with waveforms active. 3) I really don't like that the default play head behavior is that if I'm in the middle of playback and change the play head position, it continues to play from the new position. I understand that I'm used to Premiere, which pauses playback when I change the play head position, but I was never able to find a place where I could dictate play head behavior in settings. I very much appreciate the video Gerald, and similarly do love Resolve quite a bit.
Nice compilation here with some workarounds. It is always nice to see when somebody comes up with solutions instead of only bringing problems to the table. My biggest complaint is not addressed here and this is it: there is no quick and easy "ease in ease out" feature that I know of. I use this all the time and it is the only thing keeping Premiere on my machine.
I'm not absolutely certain what sort of ease in and ease out you want to do, but have you tried grabbing the "handles" at the beginning and end of each clip and dragging them? They are present on both the video and audio portions of each clip. Also, if you hover over a junction between 2 clips and right-click, you can insert a cross dissolve. Once inserted and with the transition highlighted, you can change the parameters of the trans. in the inspector and you can change the trans. from Cross dissolve to any of the other options.
@@EZMotoTim ease in and out is a preset bezier in Adobe products that allow a 1 click smooth transition for beginning and ending an animation. I use it all the time and having to manually do that suuuuuucks.
@@TonyDae Perhaps a Fusion macro/template would take out some of the pain. I'm a Fusion neophyte - I've done only one macro. Thanks for the explanation.
" I'm Gareld Undone, & I love Silence, even though I never listen to it. " " & if you did Not find this video helpful or entertaining, feel free to dislike the hit button twice. " Thx for that, it's the kind of issues you can feel lost with, when it hits you like a lightning... Well, almost xD I like those ways to self-troubleshoot stuff (whenever possible) that later, active developers may fix, so that you don't depend on them completely & don't get owned at each bug. What's helpful besides the specific bugs you identified, is the type of solutions you found, which gives some hints on the method of trying to do it ourselves in those cases. Very valuable ! It's the kind of stuff I spend unjustifiable amounts of time on sometimes, but it seems worth it to me, when I end up finding the solution to the issue "nobody fell on yet (too specific) & nobody reported any overcome like mine, out there" (probably not true lol but couldn't find anything, so many times)... & I learn interesting things in the process. This is especially true for Windows OS xD
17:53 kinda drove me crazy yesterday. You need turn on the alpha channel for the clip. RIght click the clip from the media browser, click clip attributes and where it says alpha, change it from none to premultiplied.
Very informative! I'm on a 4-year countdown when I will no longer will be able to afford Adobe CC. Your video is invaluable for its detail, which will flatten my future learning curve. thanks! BTW: this is the first time that I've seen your hair! Nice. My hair used to be half way down my back. But the accursed balding gene reared its ugly presence and I'm now a half-dome (whimper)! Your outro "cry-baby" comment works for me, but it may inspire the all too prevalent RANT reaction that fills our digital life these days. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! I've experienced several of the issues you have had. Most annoying so far is the seemingly inability to make presets from the inspector and then to be able to use them in other projects. Grrr! But like you, I'm seeing a willingness by Black Magic to address many issues. As several other commentors have said, I hope Black Magic will watch your video and reach out to you, as I feel you have much more "under-the-hood" knowledge than an old geezer like myself.
I'm not sure if this is what you are referring about presets, but when Color Grading a video file, right click the preview window and select Grab Still. A still image of the graded video will show up in the gallery pane with all adjustments and nodes etc. From there you can Export that image (with display LUT) to a folder and then re-import it into other projects via the gallery pane.
@@mikorofujihara Thank you so much. I can see that that would work. But in Premiere Pro you can create a preset for a look and it stays in the editor for whenever you want to use it; there is no need to import a still from one project to another. I think that's what Gerald Undone finds a little frustrating.
Here's my thoughts on how best to 'solve' some of the issues. For the audio drift, buy a better DAR. Good ones won't drift. I found the Zoom H4n and F4 never do, even over 2+ hours of recording. For the other audio issues, I believe you're still thinking like a "Premiere Pro user". You're a Resolve user now, and that opens up new work flows. Do your editing on the Edit page. Do all your audio work on the Fairlight page. (After you've done the effects and color work, of course.) Resolve is tailor-made for this kind of partitioned, left to right work flow. And it's brilliant! To extend multiple clips in Selection Mode, hold down CTRL and select their end points. You don't HAVE to go into Trim Mode. For the sequential JPEG issue, Resolve will by default see them as an Image Sequence (rightly, I'd argue). You can turn that off in the three dot menu - Show Individual Frames. You can save your Inspector adjustments as a kind of Preset by applying them to an Adjustment Clip instead of directly on the clip itself. AC's can be dragged to a bin and reused. You can also drag them to a Power Bin, so they show up for use in every project.
I think your missing the point in some case you are using multiple different recorder, lav mic or capturing from Dec or even speakers directly and even small portable recorders so 1 recorder may be fine but another may have drift issue but maybe that the actuall source you need and your not able to get a large mic attached sometime some wireless recorder also cause drift. it not just for example i use a combination of Tascam DR40, 2x DR10L & Sony recorder TX650 the sony tx650 as once given me a really bad drift and other times it seems to have been fine. Remember not all project are the same and some times been creative might require to take a different direction.
Hey Jim, I've seen drift from a Zoom H4n but that's not why I'm replying to your post. You said that he needs to stop thinking like a Premiere user and start following the workflow of Resolve. Well as someone who has edited thousands of programs, there is no set workflow for every situation. I agree with Gerald, having to switch back and forth between pages just to make a simple adjustment is a waste of valuable time. Sure in a perfect world you would do the workflow like you listed above, but sometimes there are adjustments that present themselves along the way. Also, you can't always edit first and then work on audio. We do large multi-camera shoots that are then synced and edited as a multicam timeline. If you try doing an edit like that with drifting audio, you would be in for one hell of a nightmare edit.
Can we make a petition to YT shut down all those videos by people showing the "FIX" of audio waves? We know how to press a button but when it doesn't do the job its because the problem is deeper and a real FIX is needed! Thanks for the audio cache insight! I had to point the cache to other place in my case so then the waves came back instantaneously. You got a like and new subscription. :)
Awesome, I'm not the only one who has problems when switching to Resolve. It's a very timely process ;) This should become an open letter to BlackMagic. Maybe they change a few things for good.
When I tested Resolve a couple years ago, I ran into many of the same issues, which is why I went back to Vegas. Resolve can do some amazing things and has a lot of potential, but these "little" things make up the majority of my work, and I can't have the software slowing me down.
I've asked users so many times what inconveniences they've noticed after switching from Premiere to Resolve. 99% of responses were "try it out for yourself" -_- . Thank you for answering this question so well where so many others have struggled. This video was a pleasant surprise. Hoping for more Black magic/Resolve topics in the future.
Gerald, I really like your videos and your approach. I bailed on Premiere a while back and still no expert on Resolve but definitely not looking back. As far as the presets... I think this is now handled in 16.0 with the Adjustment Clip function. You can assign attributes to the Adjustment clip. I believe you can not save your own named adjustment clips in 16, BUT you can in the 16.1 beta. A number of youtubers have videos on this feature so you might want to check out the adjustment clip function.
What I love about Gerald's videos is his candidness mixed in with sprinkles of dry humour in perfect balance - what else could make me watch a 25-minute tutorial and not feel impatient. So much of the TH-cam videography tutorial world is driven by this weird cross-section of vlogging hype-culture, in an overly energetic-bubblegummy way that makes it feel like I'm watching someone act out a character in a show, rather than listening to an individual share their knowledge with me...and maybe I'm alone but I'm kinda over the former. Gerald Undone...he's crazy.
you know im a big fan when im willing to tolerate the anxiety of learning about the bugs on a program i rarely use. sometimes you just need that gerald fix. thanks friend! stellar work as usual
I watched this from the perspective of a software developer rather than a video editor (which I barely am). It was interesting to theorize about that was going on in the code to cause the bugs you mentioned. I think the render cache one was is sheer laziness. Rather keep around all the necessary parameters to be able to relocate cached segments to a new time, and write the logic to figure what can be re-used and what needs to be re-rendered, they were like, "Screw it, just blow away everything whenever anything changes!" Sounds like a nice job for a summer intern to fix that!
Not an issue on all machines. I just tested it on mine and it works as expected. Having said that, it should work on EVERY machine this way, but to be fair to BM, it works on my computer just fine.
@@PostColorGear There might also be a longer render time when something is big the first time it renders, over re-render when you move something. I would suspect that Premiere also does this under the hood but is not showing a red line when it happens. If it is rendering and doesn't interrupt the workflow, it shouldn't make any difference if you see it or not.
Premiere guy switched to resolve since resolve 14 here, the 1 thing that makes me wanting to go back to PR every time is switching timelines is still so slow and laggy. My workflow depends on switching back n forth 2-3 timelines often and it's just so frustrating. Still, won't go back to PR any time soon
I've never edited a single video in my life but somehow I watched and was thoroughly entertained by a 25 min davinci resolve video. Great presentation as usual!!!
Hey Gerald, it's good that people like you (who have influence) are making such videos. Even more youtuber with influence should do that. I also reported loads of bugs since version 12 and nothing happened. It seems like Blackmagic doesn't care a lot about their customers complains. Of course u have to distinguish between ease of use or real dramatic problems. But even those big issues which are really time consuming Blackmagic doesn't fix (like losing optimized media and can't relocate which steels you hours of reproducing these lost optimized media; crashing while scrolling through text in fusion, the re-rendering issue u mentioned, etc.). I don't get it. It could be the no.1 video editing software but if Blackmagic doesn't listen and care about the costumers issues they waste so much potential. In my mind this is just mismanagement.
Totally disagree - Blackmagic engineers and support people talk to me directly. Never get that kind of support from Adobe - they are just too large a company. The problem with bugs are they maybe bugs and it might just be you or your machine. Some of Gerald's comments in this video illustrates that - he noted things that are recent bugs - and frankly a lot of things he just expects to work the same in Resolve as it does in Premiere- that is the usual complaint. It's a different software - not a knock off of another software. I jsut watched Geralds video quickly - but almost every thing he was complaining about - there are simple and faster ways of doing them. With all software if it feels like there should be a better way of doing something, especially tedious things- there probably is - but you are not aware of it. NLEs all work better for people when they use them extensively. Familiarity = speed and accuracy. But because the free model of Resolve is available for anyone, in a very short time- we are going to see editors that will fly on resolve - Every teenager out there interested in video has access. So switching to Resolve is a good idea because in my opinion - the Adobe subscription model will be a thing of the past soon.
@@JimRobinson-colors They do because you have the studio version. If u have the free version u dont get support, which is fine. But whats wrong with listening to the customer's which do not use the studio version? The blackmagic forum is full of problems and a lot of them occur since years. So i dont understand how you can write TOTALLY disagree. Seems like you work for this company and dont wanna listen as well. And its not about ease of use as i already mentioned. Its about solving significant software issues. So u disagree fixing these issues?
@@Hunselmann I do, however if you join the Davinci Resolve facebook group - Paul Saccone is on there almost daily answering and listening to customers - I have Mary Plumber ( the woman in the BMD training videos ) talk to me on there and lots of others from BMD. Never once did they ask if I was using the free or paid version.
@@JimRobinson-colors I need to join Facebook then and see if u are right. Should have known this years ago that blackmagic does problem solving on Facebook.
Concerning increment jumps in audio, Being an audio guy first and a video guy second, my first reaction would be to hold down one of the modifier keys, command, alt, shift, control and then either mouse wheel or drag or use arrow keys. 🤷🏾♂️
Been on the fence about switching to Resolve and I might just do it. Seems only like a matter of time before everyone is ditching Premiere. Plus I really hate paying a monthly subscription fee.
Ditch it, you won't regret it! Resolve is very powerful and the fact that it's a perpetual license is a great bonus. Resolve includes Fairlight and Fusion, fully integrated (or use Fusion as a stand alone program). I've detested Adobe ever since they adopted the 'pay as you go' pricing scheme..... and I have been an Adobe customer since version 1 of Photoshop. No longer!
Bruce Williams Studio hi, what is fairlight and fusion? Looking to dive into editing. Never had experience with Resolve (or Premiere, or FCPX). Just bought a high powered Mac and I’m on the hunt for software I can commit to. I was leaning towards the adobe suite of programs but yeah I hate that subscription model. But I know I’d want something like after effects, and something like photoshop for my photography needs - got any alternatives to that?
re: the end screen issue: I find "dynamic project switching" tremendously useful, and it's one solution for what you describe (I think). In the "home screen" where you open projects, right click and enable DPS. Then from the home screen you can open a second project and the original project stays open. Using the drop-down at the top center of the screen, you can switch back and forth between them. This allows you to copy items from the timeline (including all their settings, I assume) and paste from one project to another. I use this the same way you describe: my analogous "end screen" lives in its own resolve project. I open it up, copy everything, switch to the project I'm working on, and paste it in. DPS is invaluable in other ways, too. I'm not 100% sure it will work for everything you describe, but I bet it will. (Note that you have to explicitly close projects once DPS is enabled.) [edit: thinking more, it may not work entirely for you, given that you want to position variable clips in the same spot; maybe you can hack it by using a placeholder video object placed/scaled where you want, and replacing the video source on it, or something to that effect.] I would also recommend getting in to compound clips: handy for organizing large projects. Select a bunch of stuff, right click, "new compound clip". It's basically a timeline within a timeline. Right click the compound clip, and choose something like "edit it timeline" (can't remember exactly what it's called.) Once done editing, use the hierarchical list in the bottom left to go up the tree back to the top-level timeline. You can nest multiple layers deep. This is kind of like a souped-up version of grouping clips. You can even chop up and edit pieces of compound clips.
Thank you. I am using Premiere, and I see lots of videos about switching to DaVinci. Was looking for an honest list of DaVinci issues before I consider switching. Fortunately, all of these concerns seem minor. My biggest issue with Premiere Pro is an inability to preview what I've done so far due to lag - the play/pause stops responding.
A lot of these issues have actually been fixed since this video is a couple years old now. Resolve is even better than it was in 2019, honestly way better than it was.
Great video. Just over a year ago I switched over to Resolve being my NLE and not just color application. Your video addressed almost everyone of my issues as well. One other thing that annoys me is syncing audio. Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but I can not seem to get Resolve to sync multiple audio sources to one video clip. It does great if you have one external audio and one video clip, but often I have a couple lavs and a boom. At least in Premiere you can add all the audio and video to a timeline and select sync based on audio. Over all, I am very happy that I made the move to Resolve since I will inevitably end up using it for color. Thank you for this video.
Hey Gerald. Very, very good video. I'm using Premiere on a daily basis but from time to time (for short projects that will require more fine-tuned colorwork) I go to Resolve and always struggle with some of the things you've mentioned. For me, Premiere Pro is a tool I use for client collaboration and actually most of the content on my channel is focused around Premiere at this point but I really like what guys at BM are doing with their NLE and want to use it more often. Even though I don't think I'll ever completely switch :)
I like the black background created on images but they should let you turn if off if you don't want to use it. I actually use that a lot. In Premiere Pro I used to have to manually create backgrounds for images. I was time consuming.
I have been a premiere user for over 20 years and I too switched to resolve. Most of the things you criticize I actually consider features. I'm glad resolve doesnt overload features. I like it that there is a dedicated Audio workspace instead of trying to squeeze all functions into the edit page for example. I do understand that for many people changing their workflow can be a bit of an challenge, but for me , after getting used to it, the new workflow is much smoother and quicker. I do admit , there still are a few quirks and bugs left, but Black Magic is updating the software in such rapid succession that those get quickly resolved. ;-)
Nice video, good perspective! In terms of combining sequentially-numbered images, this is a standard in the visual effects community. You avoid a lot of potential complications if you have a video sequence stored as a series of still frames that are sequentially numbered. So what Resolve was doing was importing a two-frame video, which is very tiny. If you go to the Media tab in the three-dot menu to the right of the magnifying class at the top, the drop-down lets you choose "Show Individual Frames". (For your use case, just leave this permanently checked.) OOPS, just noticed that Jeffson Chung mentioned this, below. Oh well, I got the actual option name for you, and a little bit of why it works this way. People will commonly use individual EXR frames, which can carry a lot of channels, especially from a 3D program like Blender. It's also useful because if a (long, slow) render fails part-way through and you're outputting to a movie, the movie is probably unrecoverable, but if you're outputting individual frames you still have most of the frames that you rendered, and can pick up where you left off. Or, if one frame was glitched you could re-render it and replace it and you're done. Some VFX software -- like the open source Natron -- are not really reliable at opening or creating movie formats and almost demand still sequences. Resolve is actually pretty exceptional that way.
you may know this by now. but for adjusting audio key frames with more granular control you can use the inspector panel to type in exact numbers or use the more exact slider. You simply need to have the key frame selected before you adjust the perimeter in the inspector.
Thanks so much for creating this. I have also switched to Resolve a few months back and have ran into several of these issues. Most of the time there is some information on TH-cam to help me correct them but sometimes not. Glad to see someone pointing it out. So far I'm really enjoying the software
Hi, @Gerald Undone, the issue you're describing in 15:23 can be solved without the renaming, just click the 3 dots on the corner of the Media Storage panel and there you'll find a toggle to switch between importing sequential frames as a video sequence or individual stills....
Also, on the preset problem on 20:00 you could always solve that with a fusion comp and Compound Clip. Make a compound clip with your 2 sources, open them in Fusion and use a Merge node to overlay your video on top, then use a transform node between your talking head source and the merge node, resize and position there, select the merge node and the transform, save them as a macro or a .settings file and you can reuse that on compound clips forever..... tadaaaaaaaaaa......
thx a lot!! I thought that i am too overcritical with davinci! And don't get me wrong, I love it. It's the best on the market!! great to hear that you have changed!!
All this time about the waveform missing I was thinking I was missing a certain setting in the menu that's not activated or something. Now I know it's a software issue. Thank you.
It would appear that the second audio thing you mentioned can be resolved by clicking on the key-frame and then using the clip volume slider in the inspect tab that you had open, as that was changing when you were adjusting the key-frame marker. The reason that you're getting jumps such as that is because of there's not enough resolution on screen to move by such small amounts. A higher DPI mouse could help with this a little, but it would appear the adjustments are relative to the resolution of the clip height on screen. So the "Clip Volume" slider in the inspection window would probably be your best bet without adjusting the track heights all the time.
Too many comments to determine if this has already been mentioned, but the reason the import png thing works where it overlays the whole screen might be for people like me who often work with slides (PP, Keynote, etc.) that need to be embedded in the video as a full screen png overlay. In those cases, automatically having the black bars (typically on the sides instead of top/bottom in my case) is quite convenient. Not sure if that’s why they do this, but it did occur to me.
Im loving this concept! You should have this as a recurrent segment. And don't limit it to just software, it could be Black Magic-settings, small issues with lightstands or whatever! Im loving this! This is SO helpfull!
6:24 I've noticed some people struggling with this so I will try to explain it. Resolve's timeline experience is sort of like Final Cut's toolset on Premiere's timeline. As few tools as possible, but still with track level control. You have Select, Trim and Blade. The 4th only changes certain nuances with how Trim works. When marque/box selecting with the select tool, it selects CLIPS, simple enough. When marque/box selecting with the Trim tool, it selects EDIT POINTS. You can still select clips and even multiple clips with the trim tool, but only 1 at a time by ctrl/cmd clicking the center of the clip on the timeline. The Trim tool does one of two things. Slip edit when dragging on the top section (video preview area/top half if not visible). Slide edit on the bottom section. 7:30 That inconsistent behavior I believe is a bug. Select multiple edit points on a timeline and make a pixel perfect click to change those edit points and it only performs the action on the relevant edit point of the mouse. I've been able to reproduce it. Only happens when you are clicking on a clip that has a gap on the left side. First pixel on the left where the tool changes its icon. If you slow down the video, you can see it too.
man this was so much fun to watch! As a Resolve user, I absolutely understand your struggle, but it shows so well how this software was initially intended to be a color grading application. For instance, working with Cinema DNG sequences, it is actually super handy to have Resolve group frames together automatically. Also, in the color tab, you can group, preset, save or automate things like crazy. Would be nice to have this in the editing section as well of course :) Keep this going, love your thoughts!
You've articulated all of the reasons I'm stressed right now. My next project will be edited in premiere and graded in resolve. Really the best alternative but then the nightmare of XML workflow between BM and adobe
The trim tool is just perfect as it is once you know how it works.. just have a look at the manual.. no need to make a video for this.. It just hsppened to be working as in protools and that's why i love resolve..it's a great software... just take it slow an dig into the manual..is very clear and you'll get up to speed in no time... to me for example premiere was a stupid software as i come from audio and i have an established workflow.. is just personal preferences ..but resolve just works as I work with audio.. ;)
Not a resolve guy (yet, which is why I'm watching) but during your comment about the node for adjusting the volume levels incrementally, I noticed that if you had the node selected, the volume meter bar was changing. It may be a better and more refined way of adjusting maybe? Select the node and use the meter bar (audio tab in top right) to adjust and fine tune?
I have used virtually every editor out their-free and paid ones. I have to say after watching this video I'll stick with Premiere Pro. Yes, it's rather expensive and finicky at times but I know it very well and they make so many tasks so much easier. I also have additional flexibility of choosing an image in my video and editing it Photoshop and having the results show up back in Premier. One bad thing about premier is saving and auto saving. I turn auto save off because it causes freezes and crashing at times. I trained myself to just save every few minutes. When I save, I do not overwrite a previous save. That has caused corruption of the file. I keep the same file name but just add a number in front of each new save, 1 2 3 4 etc. When I'm done editing I only keep the last 2 saves.
Good news - almost all of these are fixed as of 17.4.5! The only one I have found that is not fixed is the render cache still having to update even if you just barely move it
Thanks for the video on your thoughts with resolve. Can you please tell me what screen recorder you use where you are able to zoom in, unless this was done in edit?
14:56 -- In my first encounter with individual frames, I dragged in a folder of 1400 sequentially-named images (a time lapse sequence) -- and Resolve treated the entire folder of individual frames much like a single video -- awesome for time lapse editing, but as you point out, not so great if you really want to insert individual images. Overall, I am thrilled with Resolve.
For your problem at minute 19 since resolve 16.1 you can save adjustment clips in your power bins. I saved some dynamic zoom presets this way. You can also key frame attributes from the inspector on adjustment clips. The almost work like in Premiere
as for fine adjustments of a keyframes audio level, just.... use the inspector for volume adjustments. you can be very precise with your mouse, click and hold in the text box for it and move left or right. sure, might take half a second to move up there but it's not really that time consuming.
Invalidation of the cache is because of timecode of the underlying clips has changed, either start, end or duration. Also, the cache isn't layered, invalidated is invalidated. When working with long timelines, it's slightly more efficient in terms of disk space and playback.
Great video! Thanks for starting this convo. I'm in the process of transitioning from PP to DR as well and while I do generally enjoy DR there are a few missing features that make this software borderline unusable as an NLE: inability to copy/paste a SINGLE effect on a clip (I'm not talking about "paste attributes", I'm talking about just one effect); inability to align text elements (this is more about Fusion, I know); no undo functionality when working with text (I mean, seriously?!), no pause render button, no paused resolution, no presets like you mentioned, and much much more. To me, the fact that essential features like these are missing, make DR feel like it's still in beta. I know one day this software is going to be great but until then we'll have to find workarounds for everything and it just gets annoying after a while. And since we're on the topic of things we don't like about DR I'll just say that learning DR and finding tutorials and materials for it has been so much harder - especially when it comes to Fusion. There are a few people who are putting out tutorials but they can't possibly cover everything. I find myself looking for a solution for hours sometimes... It's a huge time waste. For now, I'm sticking with it to see what I can make out of it but don't know how many more of those workarounds I can handle.
16:18 its importing a image sequence, you can show individual images by activating "show individual frames on the three points in the media page" I like it like this, because I use Image sequences for my 3d stuff
Your audio should not be drifting. I am a certified audio engineer and I do film projects that have hours of continuous footage with multiple cameras. We always use external audio recorders. Usually audio drift is caused by not having your audio bitrate and sample rates set correctly in your external recorder. CD audio is 16bit 44.1kHz (video audio is 24bit 48kHz this is what you should be using) i have found so many people who make this mistake. Make sure your external recorder is set to 24bit 48kHz. Also make sure your cameras are all set to the same frame rate either 23.98fps or 29.98fps This should eliminate your audio drifting.
For the inspector preset issue you can use an adjustment clip (or layers sence you a an Adobe guy) and just slap that on top and then your can put that in your power bins Which you can access up top under view which will always be in every project and you only have to do this once and when you are done you just drag and drop
Really happy you did this video. I love resolve, but I was a PP user for 8 years and I do miss a lot of things about it too. The only problem is Resolve seems to have a cult following, where I feel most comments on what premiere pro did right, aren't taken on board too much. Same with FCPX.
Man I wish I had an audience of thousands I could bang a video like this out to on YT and get so many helpful responses! I may have to start a channel and work for a few years at that :) I think a follow-on to this video is in order though where you redress the issues you put out there and some of the great tips that viewers have posted in response. That would be very well received I have a feeling. Was going to suggest an extro as you requested but then saw your current one and thought; it’s great; why mess with it?
I have used Davinci for 3 months now and still learning how it works. I never used Premiere so I can't relate to some of the issues, I came from Vegas Pro. This video somehow ended up as a turorial for me on where/how some things works and all the shortcuts I didn't knew about until this video haha.
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I changed my outro a bit. 😜 But this actually opens it up to allow for even more viewer submissions. Let me know what you want me to say after, "But if you did not like this video..." 🤣👍
Please go back to the "hit the dislike button twice..." It leaves the video on an upbeat tone! You could say if you don't like this video let me know in the comments below and click the dislike button twice just to be sure.
Thumbs down if you eat Alaskan Polar Bear.
Next outro...if you did not like this video... feel free to knock yourself out with a Canon cripple hammer!
"if you did not like this video, then whoop de freakin do!!" 😂 (and then a "no one cares" rainbow similar to the SpongeBob meme haha)
The audio "Bug: at @ 5:55 all you have to do is use the keyframe to drag up n down and it will show the dB volume when adjusting, instead of grabbing the line
Some Solutions :
5:01 - Click and drag up and down on keyframe not on line. if you click on keyframe it will showup the db number.
6:58 - Control + click on media end point or on trim mode select end point and press 'U' to see different trim option.
11:45 - Timeline is behaving like that because you have created many video tracks that are not required and when you're dragging and dropping transition, it is searching for video tracks which are not visible in your timeline. Remove unwanted video track or make the timeline height big enough to show all video tracks.
15:25 - Click on three small dots '...' in media storage tab and choose 'show individual frame' for jpeg.
17:15 - Your jpg or png file doesn't have 'alpha source output' that is why it is showing black border. Go to color page and on node panel right click n add alpha output and link it with source.
19:20 - For saving as preset, go to color page and use input or output sizing and save it as preset.
I moved from premiere pro ... welcome to the future ...
Fantastic! Thanks for all the solutions.
17:25 Fantastic, I’ll have to try that. My workaround was to put the opacity to 99.99% or just resize it.
hey man, after updating to 16.2.7 my gpu is not rendering, everything is setup for use GPU rendering in the preference settings but it is only idling, my AMD driveris updated (RX 580 8gb) before the update it was working good the gpu rendering
@@geraldundone 11:45 still looks pretty annoying, though. Your point is still very valid. It needs to only scroll if you hover over the edges of the timeline for more than say a half a second.
17:15 should be a setting where alpha is automatically output. I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever want those black bars.
showing the video in the preview while explaining what you are doing in the timeline is smartest thing I have seen today!
I'd like a little tutorial on how this was done.
@@subscribeifyoulikemylogo1342 He took his face cam footage and resized it to fit the preview window.
Holy crap how did I not notice this until you mention it? lol
As I was watching that the back of my brain was saying "hey, something's wrong here." Finally clicked around 11:30.🤣
Press alt while changing the volume for more precise small changes
Not working for me. But I think there is a keyboard shortcut to enter to adjust that ! :)
its Ctrl in premiere
KosFishingTeam you just made my day. Thank you for this. It's been so frustrating.
Will Gaines you welcome!! 🙂🙂 glad it helped someone!!
It was clever to put the video of you in the viewer. I appreciate the thought.
Can we get a plugin for this?
and it also makes sense as he looks down at the timeline
Hi Gerald, for the "Combines Sequential JPEGs into a Single File" problem, you just need to click on the 3 dots at the top of the media pool. There's an option to treat JPGs as individual images rather than frames of a video. I'm sorry I don't have Resolve at work right now so I can't tell you the exact name of the option, but there's an easy fix. Cheers!
The option to check is "Show Individual Frames"
Perfect! Thank you. 😃🙏
Thank you!!
Thank you! I was sick of renaming everything.
Just to add to this. There is actually a good reason it treats sequentially numbered images as a single file. That's because assets from 3D programs are typically exported as image sequences which are then used in compositing software (which resolve also is now).
Having said that, I also ran into this problem when I wanted to use individual pics and it took a minute to figure out the issue. They should probably make it a bit easier to find the option.
About sequential images:
You need to go to Media tab => three dots on Media Storage panel=> show individual frames.
Thank you
That's right. I think if you don't do that, Davinci assumes that you want to import a timelapse
You should hit up DaVinci support team with this and i bet these things get fixed
Very nice video. Helped me out with the waveform bug! Keep up the quality content :)
Me too
This is the first video of Gerald's I've ever watched, after several others on this topic, and the Hacksmith here of all people caught me completely off guard 😂
I remember watching some videos from JayzAreTV (probably butchered his channel name) about how to custom make transitions from scratch: swoops, zoom out, zoom in, etc, in the fusion tab. Thing is, you only need to set up the nodes, which are containers for information in the order you want them to happen and then you can save the fusion information to a file on your pc.
Every time you're on a new project you just need to drag and drop the file into the fusion tab and the nodes will load. Then it's just a matter of plugging the right videos - your inputs - into the corresponding nodes.
Sounds overwhelming but it's really easy to set up, plus you only need to do it once. Fusion is extremely powerful if you learn how to use it, as it can be seen as a sort of AfterEffects inside the program.
Word of caution, though. Save your project before before tinkering with the fusion tab. Program tends to crash more often than I would like. Hope this helps.
Forgot to mention that this is how you get around the outro issue. Lol.
Thanks for the suggestion! :)
@@geraldundone you wanna check this th-cam.com/video/BxtH5DgDZeo/w-d-xo.html
Fusion is the way to go for this sort of thing. If I have multiple text boxes on a screen for example, I find it easier to set them up in Fusion as one more apt than multiple tracks on the edit page.
About transparency:
Right click => clip attributes => premultiplied alpha
Perfect. Thank you. Is there an option to make this the default choice?
@@geraldundone At this point you can't do that.
saved lives. literally saved lives
When this guy talks, I listen.
Agree on everything. MOSTLY on the presets!! I really miss that
I did make fusion templates for such things. And marked them favourite.
to select the "next" clip after splitting, I use "Select follows playhead"
1. I feel like there shouldn't be drift just from using an external recorder, might be wrong, but NDF vs DF timecode comes to mind. But yes the Elastic Wave is the solution here I think.
3. Keyframe Fluidity, if you highlight the keyframe, then adjust in the Inspector window you can click and drag left to right over the value and get really fine control.
5. Extending Clips - Maybe easier maybe not, this annoys me too. There is a keyboard command for "Extend Clip" you can use, but you still have to select the ends of the clips by switching to that other tool. But then when you push the button it'll extend those clips to your playhead, so avoids the weird scrubbing behavior.
8.5(?). I customized mine to be like Avid. I made "T" be "Mark Clip" then E and R are my In and Out points. T will select the entire clip, then putting an in point where your play head is and then deleting would accomplish what you tried to do in the video by deleting the end of the clip instead. If you want to do the beginning of the clip you'd do T-R-X in my case. I find it much faster then using the blade tool, clicking and dragging, then hitting delete.
9. When you go to the media pool, if you click the 3 dots and choose "show individual frames" it'll show you the individual JPEG images and you can import them separately from there.
10. Commenter Problem: When I cut 2 camera interviews, I'll usually just disable the other camera in any one cut, leaving them both, so if I change my mind down the road its easy to switch what camera. Maybe they worked like that, tried to disable everything to see whats underneath, then went back, and had to go back through and choose the cameras again? Not sure there, but for stuff that I've done I could see how that'd be annoying.
Good work on this video, I hope BlackMagic watches because there are definitely some weird issues going on still.
Thanks for taking the time to address a bunch of the issues. Great work! Really appreciate it.
Audio drift happens when the clock in one device runs a bit faster or slower than another device, and you don't have a timecode jam-sync system in place. Much more likely when you are recording a live event for an hour or more. You'll rarely notice it when you're doing 10-minute clips. I have this happen all the time, and with Vegas, it's a simple Cntl-drag to fix.
That "mark clip + in and out points then delete" workflow seems really promising! Initial shortcuts are x, i and o, and I just tried that it's already better than what I did before... Definitely a great tip, thank you very much!!!
@@alantuttphotography I don't understand why this happens. If they are both digital devices, shouldn't the offset time be synced at all times? Meaning if it started 5 seconds late, it should end at 5 seconds late. I would understand if it was a tape, but digital clocks drift as well?
@@NONE2NONE Have you even had a digital watch lose or gain time? Time-keeping devices are never perfect, and their imperfections are never the same as the imperfections in another device. It's life.
You can easily adjust volume on a clip by 1 dB by selecting the audio clip or keyframe and using the keyboard shortcut (option-command-plus) or (option-command- minus) to raise or lower by 1dB respectively. There are times that I need more minor adjustments and then I use the inspector or the curve editor like you showed.
Thanks for the tip!
Tip: In the top right where you see the "volume" number (actually click on the number, not the bar), you can click and drag left and right for more fine adjustments, and I'm pretty sure the volume waveform graphic changes while you're dragging. Definitely buggy though.
That is a good tip! Thanks, Tommy.
Version 16.2 and a lot of those problems have been resolved. Nice bug reporting👍
and also nice work blackmagic
It's interesting to see how different people's workflows differ. Also with the image getting a black background thing - that goes away during a transition, too! I like it sometimes, but then applying a transition ruins it. Drives me nuts!
Lack of presets are a huge detractor from Resolve atm.
Also I really feel like you need a new audio recorder, I really don't think you should be having this many drift issues.
Ha! I'm waiting on it. It was supposed to be September, now they're saying October. Either way, I should have a new recorder soon!
Gerald Undone what recorder are you having the problem with?
Just store anything you want in a preset for editing in an adjustment layer and name it - throw it in a power bin and use it on any project. If you need to store anything else for color / tracking etc. make a still and store it in a powergrade on the color tab.
@@JimRobinson-colors That doesn't work for scaling/transforming though, does it?
And won't help transitions either.
@@EposVox yes it does
filmmakers need to start using a compressor and limiter for audio instead of using keyframes in the whole thing
Abraham Sotelo hard limiter to -3db is my go-to
even in professional recordings and mixes u can't just use a compressor... fortunately davinci accepts vsts. I might use a plugin for gainstaging in the upcoming future.
I do, but with jump cuts it doesn't always help. I like to finesse those cuts to make it less jarring.
A compressor will only help in controlled situations, so it's good in the studio. When your outside, and there's lots of noise coming from everywhere, you can't usa a compressor, as it will increase the overall output. When recording someone speaking outside, you just want to raise up the volume of the voice and keep the background noise as silent as possible, which won't happen with a compressor.
In that case, a limiter is a better option.
I am steadily growing more and more fed up with the constant glitches and issues in Premiere Pro and the temptation to switch to Resolves is growing at the same rate! So thank you for making this video! Quite a few of the problems you are experiencing would bug me too! Now I feel a bit more prepared!
The resolve team would do well to listen to this video. I've been impressed with the playback performance of resolve, but it's little issues like these that keep me a Premiere user.
LITERALLY THE BEST CAMERA INTRO SONG EVER!!!!! It always gets randomly stuck in my head when doing random tasks.
For your ending video template workflow you could make a Fusion template with the transform and overlay. In theory you could drag the template onto your clip and it should do the rest.
I’m not a Fusion expert, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it done.
Thanks! I'll try that. 😃
That's working exactly like the titles fusion templates ! Just study how a fusion title work, and do the same with your endboard !
This was my thoughts too, I started using Fusion for this kinds of stuff, and it works well.
Check out Jayaretv on TH-cam, this guy *is* an expert on the matter. :p
Next intro: I’m Gerald Undone and I resolve problems.
Hey, if BM is watching, I've been trying to make the full switch and have 3 pretty minor, but annoying bugs/behaviors.
1) I edit a ton for TH-cam with music beds made of many music tracks that I transition from one to the other. In the Cut page, I apply "Cross Fade -3dB," which defaults to an evenly split transition that I'm able to expand and contract. However, I don't like that the only options I have are "Center on Edit," "Start on Edit," or "End on Edit". Especially with music, it helps my workflow to be able to freely move the transition and choose the most aesthetically pleasing transition.
2) I really like the options in the "Timeline View Options" pane, but I don't like that I'm not able to mix and match audio/video track views. In order to show waveforms on audio tracks, I have to have video thumbnails enabled. My ideal timeline view would be slim video tracks with no video thumbnails, and thicker audio tracks with waveforms active.
3) I really don't like that the default play head behavior is that if I'm in the middle of playback and change the play head position, it continues to play from the new position. I understand that I'm used to Premiere, which pauses playback when I change the play head position, but I was never able to find a place where I could dictate play head behavior in settings.
I very much appreciate the video Gerald, and similarly do love Resolve quite a bit.
Nice compilation here with some workarounds. It is always nice to see when somebody comes up with solutions instead of only bringing problems to the table.
My biggest complaint is not addressed here and this is it: there is no quick and easy "ease in ease out" feature that I know of. I use this all the time and it is the only thing keeping Premiere on my machine.
I'm not absolutely certain what sort of ease in and ease out you want to do, but have you tried grabbing the "handles" at the beginning and end of each clip and dragging them? They are present on both the video and audio portions of each clip. Also, if you hover over a junction between 2 clips and right-click, you can insert a cross dissolve. Once inserted and with the transition highlighted, you can change the parameters of the trans. in the inspector and you can change the trans. from Cross dissolve to any of the other options.
@@EZMotoTim ease in and out is a preset bezier in Adobe products that allow a 1 click smooth transition for beginning and ending an animation. I use it all the time and having to manually do that suuuuuucks.
@@TonyDae Perhaps a Fusion macro/template would take out some of the pain. I'm a Fusion neophyte - I've done only one macro. Thanks for the explanation.
" I'm Gareld Undone, & I love Silence, even though I never listen to it. "
" & if you did Not find this video helpful or entertaining, feel free to dislike the hit button twice. "
Thx for that, it's the kind of issues you can feel lost with, when it hits you like a lightning... Well, almost xD
I like those ways to self-troubleshoot stuff (whenever possible) that later, active developers may fix, so that you don't depend on them completely & don't get owned at each bug.
What's helpful besides the specific bugs you identified, is the type of solutions you found, which gives some hints on the method of trying to do it ourselves in those cases. Very valuable !
It's the kind of stuff I spend unjustifiable amounts of time on sometimes, but it seems worth it to me, when I end up finding the solution to the issue "nobody fell on yet (too specific) & nobody reported any overcome like mine, out there" (probably not true lol but couldn't find anything, so many times)... & I learn interesting things in the process. This is especially true for Windows OS xD
17:53 kinda drove me crazy yesterday. You need turn on the alpha channel for the clip. RIght click the clip from the media browser, click clip attributes and where it says alpha, change it from none to premultiplied.
Very informative! I'm on a 4-year countdown when I will no longer will be able to afford Adobe CC. Your video is invaluable for its detail, which will flatten my future learning curve. thanks!
BTW: this is the first time that I've seen your hair! Nice. My hair used to be half way down my back. But the accursed balding gene reared its ugly presence and I'm now a half-dome (whimper)!
Your outro "cry-baby" comment works for me, but it may inspire the all too prevalent RANT reaction that fills our digital life these days.
Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! I've experienced several of the issues you have had. Most annoying so far is the seemingly inability to make presets from the inspector and then to be able to use them in other projects. Grrr! But like you, I'm seeing a willingness by Black Magic to address many issues. As several other commentors have said, I hope Black Magic will watch your video and reach out to you, as I feel you have much more "under-the-hood" knowledge than an old geezer like myself.
Thanks, Keith!
I'm not sure if this is what you are referring about presets, but when Color Grading a video file, right click the preview window and select Grab Still. A still image of the graded video will show up in the gallery pane with all adjustments and nodes etc. From there you can Export that image (with display LUT) to a folder and then re-import it into other projects via the gallery pane.
@@mikorofujihara Thank you so much. I can see that that would work. But in Premiere Pro you can create a preset for a look and it stays in the editor for whenever you want to use it; there is no need to import a still from one project to another. I think that's what Gerald Undone finds a little frustrating.
Here's my thoughts on how best to 'solve' some of the issues.
For the audio drift, buy a better DAR. Good ones won't drift. I found the Zoom H4n and F4 never do, even over 2+ hours of recording.
For the other audio issues, I believe you're still thinking like a "Premiere Pro user". You're a Resolve user now, and that opens up new work flows. Do your editing on the Edit page. Do all your audio work on the Fairlight page. (After you've done the effects and color work, of course.) Resolve is tailor-made for this kind of partitioned, left to right work flow. And it's brilliant!
To extend multiple clips in Selection Mode, hold down CTRL and select their end points. You don't HAVE to go into Trim Mode.
For the sequential JPEG issue, Resolve will by default see them as an Image Sequence (rightly, I'd argue). You can turn that off in the three dot menu - Show Individual Frames.
You can save your Inspector adjustments as a kind of Preset by applying them to an Adjustment Clip instead of directly on the clip itself. AC's can be dragged to a bin and reused. You can also drag them to a Power Bin, so they show up for use in every project.
I think your missing the point in some case you are using multiple different recorder, lav mic or capturing from Dec or even speakers directly and even small portable recorders so 1 recorder may be fine but another may have drift issue but maybe that the actuall source you need and your not able to get a large mic attached sometime some wireless recorder also cause drift. it not just for example i use a combination of Tascam DR40, 2x DR10L & Sony recorder TX650 the sony tx650 as once given me a really bad drift and other times it seems to have been fine.
Remember not all project are the same and some times been creative might require to take a different direction.
Good points, thank you
I want to learn how to think DaVinci.
I am a very pro premiere user and think Premiere currently ^^
Hey Jim, I've seen drift from a Zoom H4n but that's not why I'm replying to your post. You said that he needs to stop thinking like a Premiere user and start following the workflow of Resolve. Well as someone who has edited thousands of programs, there is no set workflow for every situation. I agree with Gerald, having to switch back and forth between pages just to make a simple adjustment is a waste of valuable time. Sure in a perfect world you would do the workflow like you listed above, but sometimes there are adjustments that present themselves along the way. Also, you can't always edit first and then work on audio. We do large multi-camera shoots that are then synced and edited as a multicam timeline. If you try doing an edit like that with drifting audio, you would be in for one hell of a nightmare edit.
I do 2 hour multicam shoots with synced audio myself. My recorder doesn't drift. Doing the edit first and then sound is the best work flow, I think.
Two words...Tentacle Sync.
Can we make a petition to YT shut down all those videos by people showing the "FIX" of audio waves? We know how to press a button but when it doesn't do the job its because the problem is deeper and a real FIX is needed!
Thanks for the audio cache insight! I had to point the cache to other place in my case so then the waves came back instantaneously. You got a like and new subscription. :)
Awesome, I'm not the only one who has problems when switching to Resolve. It's a very timely process ;)
This should become an open letter to BlackMagic. Maybe they change a few things for good.
When I tested Resolve a couple years ago, I ran into many of the same issues, which is why I went back to Vegas. Resolve can do some amazing things and has a lot of potential, but these "little" things make up the majority of my work, and I can't have the software slowing me down.
Yeah he used my Intro I love this guy
I know, I almost feel off my chair!
@@hughesy606 lol I did fall out of my chair
@@BadKarma714 i ate my chair
I AM the chair
@@HippieP629 we ARE THE CHAIR
I've asked users so many times what inconveniences they've noticed after switching from Premiere to Resolve. 99% of responses were "try it out for yourself" -_- . Thank you for answering this question so well where so many others have struggled. This video was a pleasant surprise. Hoping for more Black magic/Resolve topics in the future.
Gerald, I really like your videos and your approach.
I bailed on Premiere a while back and still no expert on Resolve but definitely not looking back.
As far as the presets... I think this is now handled in 16.0 with the Adjustment Clip function. You can assign attributes to the Adjustment clip. I believe you can not save your own named adjustment clips in 16, BUT you can in the 16.1 beta. A number of youtubers have videos on this feature so you might want to check out the adjustment clip function.
What I love about Gerald's videos is his candidness mixed in with sprinkles of dry humour in perfect balance - what else could make me watch a 25-minute tutorial and not feel impatient.
So much of the TH-cam videography tutorial world is driven by this weird cross-section of vlogging hype-culture, in an overly energetic-bubblegummy way that makes it feel like I'm watching someone act out a character in a show, rather than listening to an individual share their knowledge with me...and maybe I'm alone but I'm kinda over the former.
Gerald Undone...he's crazy.
you know im a big fan when im willing to tolerate the anxiety of learning about the bugs on a program i rarely use. sometimes you just need that gerald fix. thanks friend! stellar work as usual
Helpful and true. I have no solutions really just similarly feel the small pains.
Thanks Gerald. As of this message there are no six year olds.
Haha. Thanks, Jay! 😃🙏
I watched this from the perspective of a software developer rather than a video editor (which I barely am). It was interesting to theorize about that was going on in the code to cause the bugs you mentioned. I think the render cache one was is sheer laziness. Rather keep around all the necessary parameters to be able to relocate cached segments to a new time, and write the logic to figure what can be re-used and what needs to be re-rendered, they were like, "Screw it, just blow away everything whenever anything changes!" Sounds like a nice job for a summer intern to fix that!
Not an issue on all machines. I just tested it on mine and it works as expected. Having said that, it should work on EVERY machine this way, but to be fair to BM, it works on my computer just fine.
@@PostColorGear There might also be a longer render time when something is big the first time it renders, over re-render when you move something. I would suspect that Premiere also does this under the hood but is not showing a red line when it happens. If it is rendering and doesn't interrupt the workflow, it shouldn't make any difference if you see it or not.
@@JimRobinson-colors "...If it is rendering and doesn't interrupt the workflow, it shouldn't make any difference if you see it or not." Great point.
Premiere guy switched to resolve since resolve 14 here, the 1 thing that makes me wanting to go back to PR every time is switching timelines is still so slow and laggy.
My workflow depends on switching back n forth 2-3 timelines often and it's just so frustrating. Still, won't go back to PR any time soon
I've never edited a single video in my life but somehow I watched and was thoroughly entertained by a 25 min davinci resolve video. Great presentation as usual!!!
Thanks so much! That means a lot. Made my night! 😃🙏
I concur. I'm getting into editing for work, personal. Really like your no-BS style
Hey Gerald, it's good that people like you (who have influence) are making such videos. Even more youtuber with influence should do that. I also reported loads of bugs since version 12 and nothing happened. It seems like Blackmagic doesn't care a lot about their customers complains. Of course u have to distinguish between ease of use or real dramatic problems. But even those big issues which are really time consuming Blackmagic doesn't fix (like losing optimized media and can't relocate which steels you hours of reproducing these lost optimized media; crashing while scrolling through text in fusion, the re-rendering issue u mentioned, etc.). I don't get it. It could be the no.1 video editing software but if Blackmagic doesn't listen and care about the costumers issues they waste so much potential. In my mind this is just mismanagement.
Totally disagree - Blackmagic engineers and support people talk to me directly. Never get that kind of support from Adobe - they are just too large a company. The problem with bugs are they maybe bugs and it might just be you or your machine. Some of Gerald's comments in this video illustrates that - he noted things that are recent bugs - and frankly a lot of things he just expects to work the same in Resolve as it does in Premiere- that is the usual complaint. It's a different software - not a knock off of another software. I jsut watched Geralds video quickly - but almost every thing he was complaining about - there are simple and faster ways of doing them. With all software if it feels like there should be a better way of doing something, especially tedious things- there probably is - but you are not aware of it. NLEs all work better for people when they use them extensively. Familiarity = speed and accuracy. But because the free model of Resolve is available for anyone, in a very short time- we are going to see editors that will fly on resolve - Every teenager out there interested in video has access. So switching to Resolve is a good idea because in my opinion - the Adobe subscription model will be a thing of the past soon.
@@JimRobinson-colors They do because you have the studio version. If u have the free version u dont get support, which is fine. But whats wrong with listening to the customer's which do not use the studio version? The blackmagic forum is full of problems and a lot of them occur since years. So i dont understand how you can write TOTALLY disagree. Seems like you work for this company and dont wanna listen as well. And its not about ease of use as i already mentioned. Its about solving significant software issues. So u disagree fixing these issues?
@@Hunselmann I do, however if you join the Davinci Resolve facebook group - Paul Saccone is on there almost daily answering and listening to customers - I have Mary Plumber ( the woman in the BMD training videos ) talk to me on there and lots of others from BMD. Never once did they ask if I was using the free or paid version.
@@JimRobinson-colors I need to join Facebook then and see if u are right. Should have known this years ago that blackmagic does problem solving on Facebook.
Thanks! I’ve been waiting for someone to do this video for years.
Concerning increment jumps in audio, Being an audio guy first and a video guy second, my first reaction would be to hold down one of the modifier keys, command, alt, shift, control and then either mouse wheel or drag or use arrow keys. 🤷🏾♂️
12:55 timeline>selection follows playhead
Been on the fence about switching to Resolve and I might just do it. Seems only like a matter of time before everyone is ditching Premiere. Plus I really hate paying a monthly subscription fee.
Ditch it, you won't regret it! Resolve is very powerful and the fact that it's a perpetual license is a great bonus. Resolve includes Fairlight and Fusion, fully integrated (or use Fusion as a stand alone program). I've detested Adobe ever since they adopted the 'pay as you go' pricing scheme..... and I have been an Adobe customer since version 1 of Photoshop. No longer!
Bruce Williams Studio hi, what is fairlight and fusion? Looking to dive into editing. Never had experience with Resolve (or Premiere, or FCPX). Just bought a high powered Mac and I’m on the hunt for software I can commit to. I was leaning towards the adobe suite of programs but yeah I hate that subscription model. But I know I’d want something like after effects, and something like photoshop for my photography needs - got any alternatives to that?
re: the end screen issue: I find "dynamic project switching" tremendously useful, and it's one solution for what you describe (I think). In the "home screen" where you open projects, right click and enable DPS. Then from the home screen you can open a second project and the original project stays open. Using the drop-down at the top center of the screen, you can switch back and forth between them. This allows you to copy items from the timeline (including all their settings, I assume) and paste from one project to another. I use this the same way you describe: my analogous "end screen" lives in its own resolve project. I open it up, copy everything, switch to the project I'm working on, and paste it in. DPS is invaluable in other ways, too. I'm not 100% sure it will work for everything you describe, but I bet it will. (Note that you have to explicitly close projects once DPS is enabled.) [edit: thinking more, it may not work entirely for you, given that you want to position variable clips in the same spot; maybe you can hack it by using a placeholder video object placed/scaled where you want, and replacing the video source on it, or something to that effect.]
I would also recommend getting in to compound clips: handy for organizing large projects. Select a bunch of stuff, right click, "new compound clip". It's basically a timeline within a timeline. Right click the compound clip, and choose something like "edit it timeline" (can't remember exactly what it's called.) Once done editing, use the hierarchical list in the bottom left to go up the tree back to the top-level timeline. You can nest multiple layers deep. This is kind of like a souped-up version of grouping clips. You can even chop up and edit pieces of compound clips.
You know there’s trouble when Gerald asks for YOUR help.
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Thank you.
I am using Premiere, and I see lots of videos about switching to DaVinci. Was looking for an honest list of DaVinci issues before I consider switching. Fortunately, all of these concerns seem minor. My biggest issue with Premiere Pro is an inability to preview what I've done so far due to lag - the play/pause stops responding.
A lot of these issues have actually been fixed since this video is a couple years old now. Resolve is even better than it was in 2019, honestly way better than it was.
Great video. Just over a year ago I switched over to Resolve being my NLE and not just color application. Your video addressed almost everyone of my issues as well. One other thing that annoys me is syncing audio. Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but I can not seem to get Resolve to sync multiple audio sources to one video clip. It does great if you have one external audio and one video clip, but often I have a couple lavs and a boom. At least in Premiere you can add all the audio and video to a timeline and select sync based on audio. Over all, I am very happy that I made the move to Resolve since I will inevitably end up using it for color. Thank you for this video.
Hey Gerald. Very, very good video. I'm using Premiere on a daily basis but from time to time (for short projects that will require more fine-tuned colorwork) I go to Resolve and always struggle with some of the things you've mentioned. For me, Premiere Pro is a tool I use for client collaboration and actually most of the content on my channel is focused around Premiere at this point but I really like what guys at BM are doing with their NLE and want to use it more often. Even though I don't think I'll ever completely switch :)
I'm just starting with Divinci, so this is timely and appreciated. Also 90% of what you said is over my head.
I like the black background created on images but they should let you turn if off if you don't want to use it. I actually use that a lot. In Premiere Pro I used to have to manually create backgrounds for images. I was time consuming.
Yay!!! I am stoked to have you onboard on this side of the pond!!
I have been a premiere user for over 20 years and I too switched to resolve. Most of the things you criticize I actually consider features. I'm glad resolve doesnt overload features. I like it that there is a dedicated Audio workspace instead of trying to squeeze all functions into the edit page for example. I do understand that for many people changing their workflow can be a bit of an challenge, but for me , after getting used to it, the new workflow is much smoother and quicker. I do admit , there still are a few quirks and bugs left, but Black Magic is updating the software in such rapid succession that those get quickly resolved. ;-)
this is an awesome video. not only do you show the bugs but you also show how to get around them. thank you very much
Nice video, good perspective! In terms of combining sequentially-numbered images, this is a standard in the visual effects community. You avoid a lot of potential complications if you have a video sequence stored as a series of still frames that are sequentially numbered. So what Resolve was doing was importing a two-frame video, which is very tiny. If you go to the Media tab in the three-dot menu to the right of the magnifying class at the top, the drop-down lets you choose "Show Individual Frames". (For your use case, just leave this permanently checked.)
OOPS, just noticed that Jeffson Chung mentioned this, below. Oh well, I got the actual option name for you, and a little bit of why it works this way.
People will commonly use individual EXR frames, which can carry a lot of channels, especially from a 3D program like Blender. It's also useful because if a (long, slow) render fails part-way through and you're outputting to a movie, the movie is probably unrecoverable, but if you're outputting individual frames you still have most of the frames that you rendered, and can pick up where you left off. Or, if one frame was glitched you could re-render it and replace it and you're done. Some VFX software -- like the open source Natron -- are not really reliable at opening or creating movie formats and almost demand still sequences. Resolve is actually pretty exceptional that way.
you may know this by now. but for adjusting audio key frames with more granular control you can use the inspector panel to type in exact numbers or use the more exact slider. You simply need to have the key frame selected before you adjust the perimeter in the inspector.
Thanks so much for creating this. I have also switched to Resolve a few months back and have ran into several of these issues. Most of the time there is some information on TH-cam to help me correct them but sometimes not. Glad to see someone pointing it out. So far I'm really enjoying the software
Hi, @Gerald Undone, the issue you're describing in 15:23 can be solved without the renaming, just click the 3 dots on the corner of the Media Storage panel and there you'll find a toggle to switch between importing sequential frames as a video sequence or individual stills....
Also, on the preset problem on 20:00 you could always solve that with a fusion comp and Compound Clip.
Make a compound clip with your 2 sources, open them in Fusion and use a Merge node to overlay your video on top, then use a transform node between your talking head source and the merge node, resize and position there, select the merge node and the transform, save them as a macro or a .settings file and you can reuse that on compound clips forever..... tadaaaaaaaaaa......
thx a lot!! I thought that i am too overcritical with davinci! And don't get me wrong, I love it. It's the best on the market!! great to hear that you have changed!!
Trim - Ripple End to Playhead (also you can Ripple Start to Playhead). Congrats for the video, its fantastic!
Hey Gerald, I'd love to see a video of you showing your workflow in Davinci Resolve
All this time about the waveform missing I was thinking I was missing a certain setting in the menu that's not activated or something. Now I know it's a software issue. Thank you.
It would appear that the second audio thing you mentioned can be resolved by clicking on the key-frame and then using the clip volume slider in the inspect tab that you had open, as that was changing when you were adjusting the key-frame marker. The reason that you're getting jumps such as that is because of there's not enough resolution on screen to move by such small amounts.
A higher DPI mouse could help with this a little, but it would appear the adjustments are relative to the resolution of the clip height on screen. So the "Clip Volume" slider in the inspection window would probably be your best bet without adjusting the track heights all the time.
Thanks Gerald. I thought I was being finicky when I noticed the issues with the audio timelines. Clearly it is an issue!
Too many comments to determine if this has already been mentioned, but the reason the import png thing works where it overlays the whole screen might be for people like me who often work with slides (PP, Keynote, etc.) that need to be embedded in the video as a full screen png overlay. In those cases, automatically having the black bars (typically on the sides instead of top/bottom in my case) is quite convenient. Not sure if that’s why they do this, but it did occur to me.
Was just looking for content on davinci! Perfect 👌🏻.
Make next intro “I’m Gerald Undone and I need a sandwich 🥪 “
Im loving this concept! You should have this as a recurrent segment. And don't limit it to just software, it could be Black Magic-settings, small issues with lightstands or whatever! Im loving this! This is SO helpfull!
6:24 I've noticed some people struggling with this so I will try to explain it.
Resolve's timeline experience is sort of like Final Cut's toolset on Premiere's timeline. As few tools as possible, but still with track level control. You have Select, Trim and Blade. The 4th only changes certain nuances with how Trim works. When marque/box selecting with the select tool, it selects CLIPS, simple enough. When marque/box selecting with the Trim tool, it selects EDIT POINTS. You can still select clips and even multiple clips with the trim tool, but only 1 at a time by ctrl/cmd clicking the center of the clip on the timeline.
The Trim tool does one of two things. Slip edit when dragging on the top section (video preview area/top half if not visible). Slide edit on the bottom section.
7:30 That inconsistent behavior I believe is a bug. Select multiple edit points on a timeline and make a pixel perfect click to change those edit points and it only performs the action on the relevant edit point of the mouse. I've been able to reproduce it. Only happens when you are clicking on a clip that has a gap on the left side. First pixel on the left where the tool changes its icon. If you slow down the video, you can see it too.
man this was so much fun to watch! As a Resolve user, I absolutely understand your struggle, but it shows so well how this software was initially intended to be a color grading application. For instance, working with Cinema DNG sequences, it is actually super handy to have Resolve group frames together automatically. Also, in the color tab, you can group, preset, save or automate things like crazy. Would be nice to have this in the editing section as well of course :) Keep this going, love your thoughts!
After adding audio keyframe you can adjust it in audio panel by 0,1 or type exact number you need
This was awesome! The disappearing audio waveforms just happened to me (while I was teaching an editing seminar 🤦♂️)
You've articulated all of the reasons I'm stressed right now. My next project will be edited in premiere and graded in resolve. Really the best alternative but then the nightmare of XML workflow between BM and adobe
Great take and professionalism on these issues Gerald. I too have experienced the same issues and I hope they can get them "resolved".
The trim tool is just perfect as it is once you know how it works.. just have a look at the manual.. no need to make a video for this..
It just hsppened to be working as in protools and that's why i love resolve..it's a great software... just take it slow an dig into the manual..is very clear and you'll get up to speed in no time... to me for example premiere was a stupid software as i come from audio and i have an established workflow.. is just personal preferences ..but resolve just works as I work with audio..
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Not a resolve guy (yet, which is why I'm watching) but during your comment about the node for adjusting the volume levels incrementally, I noticed that if you had the node selected, the volume meter bar was changing. It may be a better and more refined way of adjusting maybe? Select the node and use the meter bar (audio tab in top right) to adjust and fine tune?
I have used virtually every editor out their-free and paid ones. I have to say after watching this video I'll stick with Premiere Pro. Yes, it's rather expensive and finicky at times but I know it very well and they make so many tasks so much easier. I also have additional flexibility of choosing an image in my video and editing it Photoshop and having the results show up back in Premier.
One bad thing about premier is saving and auto saving.
I turn auto save off because it causes freezes and crashing at times. I trained myself to just save every few minutes.
When I save, I do not overwrite a previous save. That has caused corruption of the file.
I keep the same file name but just add a number in front of each new save, 1 2 3 4 etc.
When I'm done editing I only keep the last 2 saves.
Idk why but I love your intro song lol. I swear I sometimes click on your videos just to hear it 🔥🔥🔥
Good news - almost all of these are fixed as of 17.4.5! The only one I have found that is not fixed is the render cache still having to update even if you just barely move it
Thanks for the video on your thoughts with resolve. Can you please tell me what screen recorder you use where you are able to zoom in, unless this was done in edit?
Hey! Thanks. And yeah, I zoomed in in post.
21:00 You can save the end screen by just dragging it to the Power Bin in the Media Pool. it will be available for all of your projects
14:56 -- In my first encounter with individual frames, I dragged in a folder of 1400 sequentially-named images (a time lapse sequence) -- and Resolve treated the entire folder of individual frames much like a single video -- awesome for time lapse editing, but as you point out, not so great if you really want to insert individual images. Overall, I am thrilled with Resolve.
I think you're a genius coming up with solutions all by yourself
when jumping back n forth between the Edit Page & Fairlight Page I re-mapped the nudge key (, & .) to switch to each page.
Nice
For your problem at minute 19 since resolve 16.1 you can save adjustment clips in your power bins. I saved some dynamic zoom presets this way.
You can also key frame attributes from the inspector on adjustment clips. The almost work like in Premiere
as for fine adjustments of a keyframes audio level, just.... use the inspector for volume adjustments. you can be very precise with your mouse, click and hold in the text box for it and move left or right. sure, might take half a second to move up there but it's not really that time consuming.
Invalidation of the cache is because of timecode of the underlying clips has changed, either start, end or duration. Also, the cache isn't layered, invalidated is invalidated. When working with long timelines, it's slightly more efficient in terms of disk space and playback.
Premiere seems to be able to handle it better so there must be a way, right? A way for it to ignore the changing timecode?
@@geraldundone oh without doubt. I think some of the devs are of the older school "timecode or GTFO" school of thought.
Great video! Thanks for starting this convo. I'm in the process of transitioning from PP to DR as well and while I do generally enjoy DR there are a few missing features that make this software borderline unusable as an NLE: inability to copy/paste a SINGLE effect on a clip (I'm not talking about "paste attributes", I'm talking about just one effect); inability to align text elements (this is more about Fusion, I know); no undo functionality when working with text (I mean, seriously?!), no pause render button, no paused resolution, no presets like you mentioned, and much much more.
To me, the fact that essential features like these are missing, make DR feel like it's still in beta. I know one day this software is going to be great but until then we'll have to find workarounds for everything and it just gets annoying after a while.
And since we're on the topic of things we don't like about DR I'll just say that learning DR and finding tutorials and materials for it has been so much harder - especially when it comes to Fusion. There are a few people who are putting out tutorials but they can't possibly cover everything. I find myself looking for a solution for hours sometimes... It's a huge time waste.
For now, I'm sticking with it to see what I can make out of it but don't know how many more of those workarounds I can handle.
Another useful video, thanks for sharing your experiences. Great to see some helpful responses too.
I can tell, Gerald is a software developer.
Hey Black Magic developers and P.O. you should be listening this man.
16:18 its importing a image sequence, you can show individual images by activating "show individual frames on the three points in the media page"
I like it like this, because I use Image sequences for my 3d stuff
Your audio should not be drifting. I am a certified audio engineer and I do film projects that have hours of continuous footage with multiple cameras. We always use external audio recorders. Usually audio drift is caused by not having your audio bitrate and sample rates set correctly in your external recorder. CD audio is 16bit 44.1kHz (video audio is 24bit 48kHz this is what you should be using) i have found so many people who make this mistake. Make sure your external recorder is set to 24bit 48kHz. Also make sure your cameras are all set to the same frame rate either 23.98fps or 29.98fps This should eliminate your audio drifting.
For the inspector preset issue you can use an adjustment clip (or layers sence you a an Adobe guy) and just slap that on top and then your can put that in your power bins Which you can access up top under view which will always be in every project and you only have to do this once and when you are done you just drag and drop
Really happy you did this video. I love resolve, but I was a PP user for 8 years and I do miss a lot of things about it too. The only problem is Resolve seems to have a cult following, where I feel most comments on what premiere pro did right, aren't taken on board too much. Same with FCPX.
Recaching thing has been a massive time-waster for me. I'm pretty happy you mentioned it too.
The video could not have better timing, thanks a lot🙏
Man I wish I had an audience of thousands I could bang a video like this out to on YT and get so many helpful responses! I may have to start a channel and work for a few years at that :) I think a follow-on to this video is in order though where you redress the issues you put out there and some of the great tips that viewers have posted in response. That would be very well received I have a feeling.
Was going to suggest an extro as you requested but then saw your current one and thought; it’s great; why mess with it?
I have used Davinci for 3 months now and still learning how it works. I never used Premiere so I can't relate to some of the issues, I came from Vegas Pro. This video somehow ended up as a turorial for me on where/how some things works and all the shortcuts I didn't knew about until this video haha.