Small glitch at 14:26!! Or just user error 😄 Cut it off somehow. My bad! Simply right click and apply grade, or middle mouse on the PowerGrade to apply to any clip going forwards!
Do you have a tip? I color code my clips on the edit page so I know which clip is which. For example, I do an adjustment clip orange and a - roll blue b - roll purple and so on. But every time I drag an adjustment clip into my timeline it's back to the default color and I have to adjust it again!
with the Color Management tip, if you are using the same camera and color space from project to project, you can set color space input and output in advance and then just save that as the Default project settings for future projects!
Great tip! You sure can. I didn't go into that as it can cause issues when mixing footage etc, so figured the Input from Media is the safer option :) But yeah, great tip!
Yeah I end up setting davinci to it's defaults and have pre set power grades for each camera with CSTs for each camera. We use a Canon C200, Canon 90D, Sony fx3, dji action 4, dji pocket 3, gopro hero 10, dji mini 3 drone, air 2s, and iPhone 14 pro res.... having set project settings wouldn't work well for us. Power bin with each camera set up with the proper input CST and Output CST is the only way to go. I have a pre built node tree containing 18 nodes that go on every clip (appropriate still on whatever camera from the power bin) this also saves a tone of time and I know exactly what node effects what part of the image and I can work extremely fast regardless of what colorspace, or codec being used. If I don't need to balance the image for example I won't touch that node in the node tree..... but a the nodes I might need are there if I need them.... this set up works so slick when dealing with multiple cameras with all kind of different settings. Highly recommend trying it out!
Bonus tip to 18:32 is in the File Name field type % and it inserts inbuilt variables to dynamically name files on Rendering, saving them in the preset helps a lot with Organisation. An EG of one is Mine %{Timeline Name}%{Project Name}_%{Render Resolution}_%{Render Codec}_%{Date Modified}
10 for 10! Thanks, needed them all. Including the silly how to close instead of exiting. Looking for a project was open...wait...exit...open...wait...exit.
Great video as always! By the way the proxy generator is also a watcher: if you add videos to a folder into the proxy generator it will start converting the new clips by itself in the background. Very handy for bigger or longer projects 😊
Thank you for this! Didn't know about powergrades. I have an adjustment clip with my colorgrade saved in my powerbin and I always move it above my A-Roll. Will try the powergrade next time :)
Who in their right mind "hates" the cut page?! It's the most efficient way to make your rough cut, especially if you own the Speed Editor. My productivity went through the roof with the cut page and Speed Editor. Even if I didn't have the Speed Editor, I'd do my rough cut on the edit page.
Color Management - you need to be careful what you select b/c the option to select Input Color Space may not be there. You must only select clips and clips that were not already updated. So, if you use select all and right-click, you may not see the Input Color Space option. It’s a bit tricky when dealing with a huge amount of clips.
My mind immediately went to the wrong place with the 'i love a quick tip' comment then it was followed by 'being better in bed' 😂 this combination made me snort so hard, a bit of snot came out. Quality content as usual sir Alex 👏
Definitely need to create the ctrl+d shortcut! What would be awesome if you could create a preset to what the duplicate is called. Instead of timeline copy - timeline v2 ....
You are the GOAT, Alex! Do you know of a way to set all these customized options for all databases? I use multiple databases and otherwise I have to go and change all those dozens of settings in all of them. Thank you matey!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is a reminder to myself... Lamont... when you get back with 20 hours of B roll and you click on this video again, you NEED the "Source Tape" tip at 8:15... DO IT. Sorry guys, as you were.
The Ctrl D mention got me thinking of a question that I have. Ctrl D in the timeline shows the clip duration but what I often want to work out is the duration of several clips (so I can find a suitable length music backing track for example). Ctrl D doesn't work for multiple clips- So, my question (which would make another great Quick Tip) is there a quick and easy way to see the duration of several clips in the time line?
Any ideas for creating templates? Still hoping you'd give us the tips for creating handy templates that allow to repeat video editing pipelines based on a certain repeated set of steps without (the mundane task of) doing them over and over again. Here is a use case: 1. I have a number of tracks, say a primary track that i apply certain transformations and effects too, and a secondary track that i also do a number of transformations and effects too, including color management, noise reduction etc. 2. These tracks get video imports from the same camera sources all the time. 3. I save this project as a template that i can use over and over. 4. In the future, I simply import the videos into the two tracks, and voila, the adjustments, transformation and edits are automatically inherited. How can I achieve this in Resolve for iPad and Resolve for Desktop?
The timeline proxy res gave me nothing but problems with scaling compositions that I'd done in Fusion inconsistently. I gave up trying to use it as it would make me chase my tail with effects not working right.
You may have been a bit to eager with the cut/transition here 14:23 Nevertheless, thank you for your videos. Helped me a lot to learn Davinci & editing in general.
Yeaaaah, someone just mentioned it too! Doh! My bad. Easily done. Not sure how I missed it though ha. Fortunately I didn't cut off too much so everyone should get the idea :)
@@MrAlexTech Nobody is perfect. Not sure how many times you watch the "final" clip before you upload... with those longer videos that can be quite a time consuming process. 😉 Thank you. Keep up the good work.
@@MrAlexTech Maybe you can share your workflow after you finish editing. How do you check for issues? Is there a quick way? Do you just need to be thorough? Might be an interesting video.
Can these proxy files be edited in fusion? And the original files would be used at the export? If someone does a render in place with these, I imagine resolve won't use the original videos?
Fusion doesn't use the Proxies I don't think. And Render in Place I'm not sure about, I'd guess it'd use the source actually but not sure. Resolution wise it shouldn't really matter (1080p proxies, max render in place is 1080p i think too), so only the bit depth.
man, ive tried everything to get my davinchi to stop laggin mid edit but so far i got no luck. its on a good gaming rig but the stutters and stopping is killing meeeee
Are you storing your footage and operating system on the same hard drive? One way to assist your computer is to have your operating system and video files on two separate internal HDs. One step further is to have your render cache files on a third internal HD. When I created this setup my problems were gone.
Hi Alex! So you have tips for smooth video footage? I’m starting my own channel and every video I’m shooting is smoother already, tho I need to Watch being enthousiastic, not using a lot of ums of reading a script. Do you have Some pro tips and a pro script or something? Not a specific editting question, more, how to create a good and natural impression. Hope you have Some tips!
As always, great video. However, something I don't understand (OK there's a lot of that) which I would have thought you'd explain is that at 5:45, when you show how to convert video from log to Rec.709, I see no indication anywhere that it is now converted. Not on the cut, color or edit pages. Am I missing something or do I have to just know that?
Are these for 19 or 18.6? When I check my media page and select clips, I don't have "Input Color Space." Possibly because I'm using just raw files from a drone and not a proper camera?
Proxy generation: I follow your steps exactly and it renders my clips without audio, only video on the Proxy clips. I lose the sync sound from my clips. Obviously I still need my interview audio so without sound this workflow is USELESS to me. What am I doing wrong?
Not sped up 🙂 it does depend on the format of the original footage etc. But yeah it's that quick. I guess its the RTX4080 doing the work! CPU is Ryzen 5950x
@@MrAlexTech with your set up I can see why it looked sped up! Also may I ask how much RAM do you have and how much RAM do you typically use for a (average ish) project?
@@RichWithTech If this helps at all, I've got an RTX3070 and good motherboard and everything (sorry I can't be bothered checking which one) but my PC only came with 16GB of RAM. I still found Da Vinci Resolve to just be a bit laggy and frustrating to work with, but when I installed 32GB instead, everything sharpened up quite a lot.
9:04 that’s a lot of steps and back and forth, shortcut keys to learn, that’s the reason I hate the cut page and have it hidden. I have a faster way and it works just fine.
Hi Alex, I have a question, I wanted to make a fan edit with oppenheimer movie and when I import the film file into resolve the colors are washed out almost looks like a log/raw footage, when I compared it by playing in vlc. is there any change that i should do in the settings to make it look like the one in vlc? please help me.
The wild untamed jungle of cloud, proxies, and multiple locations has been killing us. It is a great idea but just doesn't work. Duplicated piles of nonsense everywhere!
Hi, thanks for this video. I wanted to ask you, when we create a project all the render cache is stored in a location on the disk. When we finish that project, is there a quick way to delete this data so as not to fill up the hard disk? Do I have to do it manually or is there another system? Thank you!!
Great video! One question: in audio normalization, what's the difference between normalize to standard, and optimize to standard? I think I know what exactly the former does, but no clue about optimize... :)
Small glitch at 14:26!! Or just user error 😄 Cut it off somehow. My bad! Simply right click and apply grade, or middle mouse on the PowerGrade to apply to any clip going forwards!
Do you have a tip? I color code my clips on the edit page so I know which clip is which. For example, I do an adjustment clip orange and a - roll blue b - roll purple and so on.
But every time I drag an adjustment clip into my timeline it's back to the default color and I have to adjust it again!
with the Color Management tip, if you are using the same camera and color space from project to project, you can set color space input and output in advance and then just save that as the Default project settings for future projects!
Great tip! You sure can. I didn't go into that as it can cause issues when mixing footage etc, so figured the Input from Media is the safer option :) But yeah, great tip!
Yeah I end up setting davinci to it's defaults and have pre set power grades for each camera with CSTs for each camera. We use a Canon C200, Canon 90D, Sony fx3, dji action 4, dji pocket 3, gopro hero 10, dji mini 3 drone, air 2s, and iPhone 14 pro res.... having set project settings wouldn't work well for us. Power bin with each camera set up with the proper input CST and Output CST is the only way to go. I have a pre built node tree containing 18 nodes that go on every clip (appropriate still on whatever camera from the power bin) this also saves a tone of time and I know exactly what node effects what part of the image and I can work extremely fast regardless of what colorspace, or codec being used. If I don't need to balance the image for example I won't touch that node in the node tree..... but a the nodes I might need are there if I need them.... this set up works so slick when dealing with multiple cameras with all kind of different settings. Highly recommend trying it out!
I love instruction guides that include the step 'go put the kettle on'
Bonus tip to 18:32 is in the File Name field type % and it inserts inbuilt variables to dynamically name files on Rendering, saving them in the preset helps a lot with Organisation. An EG of one is Mine %{Timeline Name}%{Project Name}_%{Render Resolution}_%{Render Codec}_%{Date Modified}
Your previous "option does everything" was the most helpful ever.
10 for 10! Thanks, needed them all. Including the silly how to close instead of exiting. Looking for a project was open...wait...exit...open...wait...exit.
Even after 2 years you have tipps I didn‘t know before. Thanks for that
Great video as always! By the way the proxy generator is also a watcher: if you add videos to a folder into the proxy generator it will start converting the new clips by itself in the background. Very handy for bigger or longer projects 😊
Thank you for this! Didn't know about powergrades. I have an adjustment clip with my colorgrade saved in my powerbin and I always move it above my A-Roll. Will try the powergrade next time :)
I just enjoy your videos, useful and above all understandable. Many thanks 👍👍
Thanks Ian :)
Very useful this and i'm slowly getting better and finding my way around davinci. Thanks Alex
These are one of my favorite videos to use to easily look up things I keep forgetting in Davinci Resolve 😅
This one goes in SAVED list… good stuff!
Extremely helpful video. Just tried out Source Tape tip and BLOWN AWAY. I can finally use the CUT page better! Thank you!
Thank you Mr. Alex Tech!!!! Warm greetings from BALI!!!
Great video, 10/10 with no reason!
You videos are SO good and have helped me SO much!! Thank you!!
Proxy Generator, game changer! Many thanks for that :)
Who in their right mind "hates" the cut page?! It's the most efficient way to make your rough cut, especially if you own the Speed Editor. My productivity went through the roof with the cut page and Speed Editor. Even if I didn't have the Speed Editor, I'd do my rough cut on the edit page.
Your Videos are amazing for me. Thank you so much for your works.
Wow thanks for taking your time man.
Color Management - you need to be careful what you select b/c the option to select Input Color Space may not be there. You must only select clips and clips that were not already updated. So, if you use select all and right-click, you may not see the Input Color Space option. It’s a bit tricky when dealing with a huge amount of clips.
as always, i learn a lot from you. thanks, great tips in this.
Dynamic Project Switching. My tip of the day. Thanks Alex.
love your classes thank you professor
Thank you for the Dynamic Project Switching Tip! It boils my corn wondering why that is so hidden. 😃❤️🎉😺
Mr. Alex, I Love your channel, and I buy lots of your elements, which make my process work!
Finally I can put Media page to some use. 😊
OMG! Awesome lessons. Time savers! Thanks again Alex!
My mind immediately went to the wrong place with the 'i love a quick tip' comment then it was followed by 'being better in bed' 😂 this combination made me snort so hard, a bit of snot came out. Quality content as usual sir Alex 👏
Happy to be of service 😂
i love your content so much >> thank you for helping me improve my content on youtube
This was awesome, Alex, as always. Thank you.
Thanks for all the useful times, glitch and all making it easy peasy!
always excellent thanks for sharing
Great tips!!! Love it.
Awesome, thank you!!!
Love these tips 👍
Definitely need to create the ctrl+d shortcut!
What would be awesome if you could create a preset to what the duplicate is called.
Instead of timeline copy - timeline v2 ....
Thank you so much. Simple but so so helpful
We need a video on this Alex 0:09
Guaranteed Viral
😄 I'll add it to the backlog! 🤣
Live your dreams and dream your life ♥ (hope you get it - it s directly translated from Ger to Engl ..;)
I love MotionVFX but they really should bring more to Resolve. Don't use Final Cut anymore but I get that is their main focus.
You are the GOAT, Alex!
Do you know of a way to set all these customized options for all databases? I use multiple databases and otherwise I have to go and change all those dozens of settings in all of them.
Thank you matey!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tips, tips, and more tips!
Tips for daaaaays! hope you're good Brian :)
@@MrAlexTech Yeah, man - all is well. I’ve started a wedding filmmaking business, and it’s been tons of fun! Lots of Resolve time… 😁
Considering the types of videos I shoot I could use the "Better in Bed" tips... (not really)
😄😄
This is a reminder to myself... Lamont... when you get back with 20 hours of B roll and you click on this video again, you NEED the "Source Tape" tip at 8:15... DO IT. Sorry guys, as you were.
I don't know why I never thought to search if you could close the project without closing resolve. I just assumed you had to for some reason.
The Ctrl D mention got me thinking of a question that I have. Ctrl D in the timeline shows the clip duration but what I often want to work out is the duration of several clips (so I can find a suitable length music backing track for example). Ctrl D doesn't work for multiple clips- So, my question (which would make another great Quick Tip) is there a quick and easy way to see the duration of several clips in the time line?
Any ideas for creating templates? Still hoping you'd give us the tips for creating handy templates that allow to repeat video editing pipelines based on a certain repeated set of steps without (the mundane task of) doing them over and over again.
Here is a use case:
1. I have a number of tracks, say a primary track that i apply certain transformations and effects too, and a secondary track that i also do a number of transformations and effects too, including color management, noise reduction etc.
2. These tracks get video imports from the same camera sources all the time.
3. I save this project as a template that i can use over and over.
4. In the future, I simply import the videos into the two tracks, and voila, the adjustments, transformation and edits are automatically inherited.
How can I achieve this in Resolve for iPad and Resolve for Desktop?
Damn I should of been using the normal text tool !!
Very helpful, THX!
Short question: Which input col space do I have to choose for iPhone footage, to see it in the right colors?
Hey Alex, any tips to input collor space for gopro log users? Thanks
2:50 OMG, i close every time!
The timeline proxy res gave me nothing but problems with scaling compositions that I'd done in Fusion inconsistently. I gave up trying to use it as it would make me chase my tail with effects not working right.
How much caffeine have you had before this video was recorded? Lol😂
All of it! 😄
@@MrAlexTech brilliant !! I wish I had your life force lol
You may have been a bit to eager with the cut/transition here 14:23
Nevertheless, thank you for your videos. Helped me a lot to learn Davinci & editing in general.
Yeaaaah, someone just mentioned it too! Doh! My bad. Easily done. Not sure how I missed it though ha. Fortunately I didn't cut off too much so everyone should get the idea :)
@@MrAlexTech Nobody is perfect. Not sure how many times you watch the "final" clip before you upload... with those longer videos that can be quite a time consuming process. 😉
Thank you. Keep up the good work.
@@MrAlexTech Maybe you can share your workflow after you finish editing. How do you check for issues? Is there a quick way? Do you just need to be thorough? Might be an interesting video.
@@unimatrix21 it's nothing too interesting tbh. I just play it through at 2x speed. But that was probably my downfall on this one 😄
Can these proxy files be edited in fusion?
And the original files would be used at the export?
If someone does a render in place with these, I imagine resolve won't use the original videos?
Fusion doesn't use the Proxies I don't think. And Render in Place I'm not sure about, I'd guess it'd use the source actually but not sure. Resolution wise it shouldn't really matter (1080p proxies, max render in place is 1080p i think too), so only the bit depth.
man, ive tried everything to get my davinchi to stop laggin mid edit but so far i got no luck. its on a good gaming rig but the stutters and stopping is killing meeeee
Are you storing your footage and operating system on the same hard drive? One way to assist your computer is to have your operating system and video files on two separate internal HDs. One step further is to have your render cache files on a third internal HD. When I created this setup my problems were gone.
Will you be reviewing the new Snapdragon X elite laptops?
nice
Hi Alex! So you have tips for smooth video footage? I’m starting my own channel and every video I’m shooting is smoother already, tho I need to Watch being enthousiastic, not using a lot of ums of reading a script. Do you have Some pro tips and a pro script or something? Not a specific editting question, more, how to create a good and natural impression.
Hope you have Some tips!
As always, great video. However, something I don't understand (OK there's a lot of that) which I would have thought you'd explain is that at 5:45, when you show how to convert video from log to Rec.709, I see no indication anywhere that it is now converted. Not on the cut, color or edit pages. Am I missing something or do I have to just know that?
Does youtube make the audio in a video louder after it’s been uploaded?
is there a sort of asset bundle for davinci with the basic transitions and motion graphics like premiere has with mister horse???
Hi Alex, please is it poseable to disable Auto Track Selector at setup in Davinci 18.6. Thanks Alexander
Is there a way to create money engrave effect for photos in davinci?
What's the difference between Proxys and Optimized Media?
Doesn't the timeline proxy resolution also effect the clean feed resolution?
14:26 editing glitch, Alex!
Oh yeaaah! How did I miss that?!? Hmmm. I was basically finished talking so I think it'll be fine. Thanks for the heads up 🤓👍
Color correction in edit page possible?
Are these for 19 or 18.6? When I check my media page and select clips, I don't have "Input Color Space." Possibly because I'm using just raw files from a drone and not a proper camera?
My PC keeps shutting off while rendering or uploading a video to TH-cam what can I do
Proxy generation: I follow your steps exactly and it renders my clips without audio, only video on the Proxy clips. I lose the sync sound from my clips. Obviously I still need my interview audio so without sound this workflow is USELESS to me. What am I doing wrong?
Is making proxies in h.264 worth it? I I usually use dnxhr LB for proxies.
Can you tell me how to remove export saved setting i made a couple and now cant see how to remove or upgrade them
Is your computer that fast at making proxies or is it sped up? Also what are the specs?
Nice video
Not sped up 🙂 it does depend on the format of the original footage etc. But yeah it's that quick. I guess its the RTX4080 doing the work! CPU is Ryzen 5950x
@@MrAlexTech with your set up I can see why it looked sped up! Also may I ask how much RAM do you have and how much RAM do you typically use for a (average ish) project?
@@RichWithTech 64gb of ram. No idea how much gets used tbh 😄
@@RichWithTech If this helps at all, I've got an RTX3070 and good motherboard and everything (sorry I can't be bothered checking which one) but my PC only came with 16GB of RAM.
I still found Da Vinci Resolve to just be a bit laggy and frustrating to work with, but when I installed 32GB instead, everything sharpened up quite a lot.
@@daysandwords thanks for the info!
9:04 that’s a lot of steps and back and forth, shortcut keys to learn, that’s the reason I hate the cut page and have it hidden.
I have a faster way and it works just fine.
It's just the Q key 😄 it's generally pretty quick hopping back and forth. But do share your preferred method as it may help others 👍
Hi Alex, I have a question, I wanted to make a fan edit with oppenheimer movie and when I import the film file into resolve the colors are washed out almost looks like a log/raw footage, when I compared it by playing in vlc.
is there any change that i should do in the settings to make it look like the one in vlc? please help me.
🙏🤘
The wild untamed jungle of cloud, proxies, and multiple locations has been killing us. It is a great idea but just doesn't work. Duplicated piles of nonsense everywhere!
Sheepishly admits the Project Close helped
Great video. thank you so much!
Hi, thanks for this video. I wanted to ask you, when we create a project all the render cache is stored in a location on the disk. When we finish that project, is there a quick way to delete this data so as not to fill up the hard disk? Do I have to do it manually or is there another system? Thank you!!
Great video! One question: in audio normalization, what's the difference between normalize to standard, and optimize to standard? I think I know what exactly the former does, but no clue about optimize... :)
I know you are giving us some many good tips so that we have to watch the video over and over which helps your TH-cam stats. 😂
Love the Fairlight presets!! 🏆
It may seem silly, but tips like the location of "close project" can be useful. I had no idea where it was! Thanks for the tips
Lots of great DR tips as always, thanks for sharing MrAlextech, you ROCK!!