From the course: DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals

Navigating Resolve’s Edit page - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals

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Navigating Resolve’s Edit page

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- Now it's time to turn our attention to the edit page. In this movie, we'll look at how that page is laid out in more detail, but the first thing I want to you to notice is the relationship between the cut page and the edit page, and here's the big take away - what's the only difference? It's the user interface. The actual timeline is precisely the same on both pages, they just present the same material differently. They're both optimized for editing, but the cut page is basically more user friendly. The edit page is designed for detailed control. [Instructor] We're picking up where we left off in our previous movie. If you want to follow along with me, feel free to import the DRP0401editpagestart. Let's again reset the UI using our saved layout preset, created in an earlier movie, so that we're both looking at the same interface. As I switch to the edit page I want you to keep your eye on the lower half of the interface, it's the timeline. Whoa! Same timeline, definitely a different view. One of the things about the cut page is that it nests the synced audio from your clips, making it almost impossible to lose audio sync with video. But here on the edit page, keeping synced sound? That's completely on you. Notice this link icon. That means if I select an audio track, all linked tracks get selected. Moving one linked item moves every linked item. But if I come up here and click on this link icon, so that it dims down, I've turned off linking. I'll select another shot with linked audio tracks, notice how only the specific track is selected. If I nudge left or right, I lose sync between that track and it's linked tracks. If I zoom into the timeline, using Command + plus (+), or Control + plus (+) on a PC, this red box is a warning, telling me I'm out of sync. And how many frames I'm out of sync. Now I like the position of where this video clip is, and I want to move the audio track out of sync. In fact let's go ahead and take another track and move it out of sync in the other direction, see what happens, it's the red box on the video tracks like "Hey I've got clips moving in all sorts of different directions!" We want these out of sync clips to get put back in place in sync with the video track. So what I'm going to do is right click on the red box, on the video track and I'm going to choose "move others into place". And watch what happens. Boom! Everything is lined up again. If you're new to nonlinear editing this can be very, very confusing, and that's one of the advantages of the cut page is how it, under the hood, keeps video and audio synced together. On the edit page, as the editor, you are expected to be able to manage that and that means throwing things out sync when maybe you don't want to. And that's one of the reasons why, on the edit page, this is literally the first thing I'm showing you. [Instructor] Let's turn linking back on. I generally leave it on, unless I specifically want to unlink my audio and video tracks. In the upper left, are several palettes you should already be familiar with. The media pool bins works slightly different, instead of the fly out menu, it's a permanent sidebar like on the media page. You can toggle the sidebar with this icon. If you want to create more room for your timeline we can shrink that palette to half the screen height. Don't forget to explore the media pool's options menu, and be sure to take a look at the duel pane mode, which you might not see if you're on earlier versions of Resolve. We're not going to dig into the edit index or sound library, the edit index is powerful but beyond the scope of this introduction. The sound library - it's a good idea, but, frankly, I find it lacking and more confusing than useful. But, if you open the sound library panel, you can download a whole bunch of free sound effects that are really good. After downloading I add them as a bin in the media pool, and look for my sound effects there. In my opinion, this sound library panel just isn't fully formed and you don't really need to use it, but do take a moment to download these assets. Of course, if I close the sound library now, all the palettes are closed and we've got a big two-up viewer. Palettes on the right include a mixer, which you can drag out to see all of your audio tracks. The mixer can be switched to pure meters, using this options menu. The dim function is nice, it instantly lowers the volume but doesn't mute and doesn't adjust your actual mixing levels. This is useful is you need to talk in the room, whilst also playing down the timeline. Of course, click on the speaker for an instant mute. Be sure to click around on the various options menus scattered throughout this page. Also, be sure to right click on the clips on the timeline and take a few minutes to really study what the various options are, just so you start to get an idea of the power available to you on this page. Compared to the cut page, the edit page is all about doing detailed work, and this contextual menu really shows that off.

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