Category: How-Tos and Tutorials

How-Tos and Tutorials for DaVinci Resolve as well as video production topics.

New Fast Method to Use Scene Cut Detection

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Scene Cut Detection is an incredibly useful feature in DaVinci Resolve that uses the DaVinci Neural Engine to detect where cuts exist in a previously edited video and then separates the video into individual clips. Now in DaVinci Resolve 17 you can access the Scene Cut Detection feature on the edit page and make corrections to any mistakes the AI might have made from there. In my opinion this is a much easier way to use this feature than before where you had to use it on the media page prior to importing your clips.

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. We are Sword & Shield Studio and we create weekly DaVinci Resolve tutorials on YouTube and offer full service video production for local commercial clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Saving Your Audio Settings Using the Presets Library in DaVinci Resolve 17 Fairlight

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If you use the same audio plug-ins, equalization and dynamics settings in your projects you can save yourself a lot of time by familiarizing yourself with the Audio Presets Library in Davinci Resolve’s Fairlight Audio page. I will show you in this video how you can save your audio settings and access them across all your projects on the same computer. Additionally you can even copy the preset files from one computer and transfer them to another computer all together. This is a really great time saving method if you tend to record audio under the same conditions often. Take a peak at the video below if you think you could benefit from the Audio Presets Library:

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. We are Sword & Shield Studio and we create weekly DaVinci Resolve tutorials on YouTube. In addition we offer full service video production for local commercial clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Using Adjustment Clips in DaVinci Resolve + Making a Zoom Transition

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Learn how to use Adjustment Clips to save yourself time while editing in DaVinci Resolve. In the video we exemplify how to get to the Adjustment Clips feature, show how their basic functionality works, and create a Zoom Transition using an Adjustment Clip and a few basic Fusion nodes. This is a fast and easily modifiable method to apply effects, Fusion animations, color grades, and other adjustments to a specific range of clips in your project. If you are interested in learning more, feel free to check out the video below:

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. We are Sword & Shield Studio and we create weekly DaVinci Resolve tutorials on YouTube and offer full service video production for local commercial clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Basic 3-Point and 4-Point Editing in DaVinci Resolve

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If you have been using DaVinci Resolve for any amount of time you will quickly realize that more times than not there is more than just one way to accomplish a task, with varying levels of efficiency. 3-Point (and 4-Point) editing is one of the more efficient editing techniques that you have probably used at one point or another but never realized. So, we thought it would be beneficial to create a video that dives into all the different 3-Point (as well as a 4-point) editing options and show how they work. Take a look below:

As always, thank you for watching/reading. Hopefully you found some useful information in the video and it helps you understand what some of the different editing options in DaVinci Resolve do. Like mentioned previously, you have probably already used one or more of these techniques in your workflow and do not realize it. Sometimes though, it helps to have everything laid out at once and maybe you discover a new technique or two you have not used yet. Keep an eye out for more videos on our YouTube channel where are uploading videos weekly about DaVinci Resolve and are planning to bring even more to the channel soon.

Trim Edit Mode | DaVinci Resolve 16 Tutorial

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This week we created a video on our YouTube channel on how to effectively use the Trim Edit Mode in DaVinci Resolve to speed up your editing workflow. Using this mode you can achieve Ripple, Roll, Slip, and Slide edits as you would in other nonlinear video editing software. MediaCollege.com has uploaded a great explanation of each of these types of edits and how they affect your footage if you are unfamiliar with the concepts. While their instructions on how to access these tools are written for Premiere Pro the idea behind these types of edits and how they will impact your footage remains the same no matter what software you are using. If you want to know how to utilize these functions specifically within DaVinci Resolve, however, check out the video below:

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. It is our goal to put out at least one DaVinci Resolve related tutorial per week, and if things pick up some steam we will be expanding to produce content about general video tips & tricks also. So keep an eye out for that.

Source Tape on the DaVinci Resolve Cut Page

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Source tape is one of those features that has perhaps gone under the radar since the release of DaVinci Resolve 16. It is unfortunate too because it can simply save you a bunch of time when putting together your rough cuts. Check our video on the topic below:

If you don’t have three minutes to watch the video I’ll give you the summary here. That is, if you think you can read faster. It’s a small icon at the top left of the viewer in the DaVinci Resolve Cut Page that looks like a film strip. It allows you to cut your footage shot in chronological order in a proxy source tape timeline as though it were on a single reel of film. This allows you to quickly go through, cut, and insert clips from your footage into a rough cut timeline very rapidly.

Sounds cool, right? I thought so when I first discovered it at least. Let me know what you think of this feature, if you like it, how often you use it, or if you even use the cut page in DaVinci Resolve. As always, thanks for reading.