

When you press B, the blade tool activates, which allows you to splice clips into shorter clips easily. So, let’s look at what we have for Episode 3. In every episode, I love to dish out some keyboard short cuts that aren’t wholly obvious. Doing this allows you to select individual clips across multiple tracks and adjust them all equally. Likewise, sometimes it’s not practical to have these clips on the same track if they have a purpose elsewhere. Well, for specific adjustments, it’s not always possible.

Some might ask, why not just add them to a track and make a track adjustment. You can move these clips, you can add an OFX plug-in to the media, and you can add a transition to them. Once you’ve chosen the color, you can move the clips, add an OFX plugin, and transition them.Įvery clip in the timeline that has been painted with the chosen color will be selected. Next, go up to the Timeline menu and click Select Clips With Clip Color, and choose the corresponding color. You can do this by right-clicking over the clips and selecting Choose Clip Color. Next give these clips a particular clip color, and make sure that you haven’t used the clip color anywhere else. Instead of having to go through every clip and individually adjusting, we can instead perform the automated technique of selecting all clips of a specific color.įirst, add all video or audio clips that require the same adjustment to a bin. Sometimes we import a selection of video or audio, and we preemptively know that these clips will require an adjustment - all of them. You can also use this panel to adjust the default generator length, which is for text layers and solids.Īfter inputting a new duration and clicking save, any new images you add to the timeline will be of the new duration. Here, we can set the still length under two parameters, either seconds or frames. DaVinci Resolve menu>Preferences>User>Editing>General Settings. In the new pop-up menu, switch to User, then Editing, and finally scroll down to General Settings. To do this, we’re going to go to the DaVinci Resolve menu and open Preferences. Therefore, we need to adjust the default length that these images appear on the timeline. Again, no real issue, but when you’re doing this repeatedly, or have to import several stills at once, it becomes monotonous. However, if my still images are of a default length of six seconds, and I want them to be shorter - say three seconds - I must decrease the length using the trim tools. Of course, this is as simple as taking the still from the media pool and placing it onto the timeline. However, you’ll also find the written information below.Īs someone who creates software tutorials and gear videos, I’m always using still images and screenshots in my content. Because of the nature of the tutorial, I recommend watching the video to see how the keyboard shortcuts work and how the different tools affect the playback.
