Remove your DaVinci Resolve SNAPPING FRUSTRATION with this PRO TIP

This video will help remove your Davinci Resolve snapping frustration with this Pro Tip that is not so commonly known.

I often get asked about the Davinci Resolve Snapping tool and told how it frustrates many people because sometimes highly-sensitive and makes precisely trimming or positioning your clips in Davinci Resolve 18 very tricky. I'll show you a few workarounds to make snapping in Davinci Resolve better, and ONE KILLER PRO TIP that I guarantee will solve almost all your snapping frustrations.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Snapping in DaVinci Resolve
00:25 - Intro
00:56 - Snapping in the Edit Page
01:13 - What is Snapping?
01:26 - Turning Snapping on and off in Davinci Resolve 18
02:02 - Snapping in the Cut Page
02:37 - How is Snapping useful?
03:29 - Why Snapping Frustrates People
04:32 - Workaround #1?
04:50 - Workaround #2?
05:25 - PRO TIP for using Snapping in Davinci Resolve
06:49 - Final Thoughts

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[WQLFY]

Snapping is an essential tool. but it should never ever have affected the IRON playhead. The fact that not only this happens but that it cant even be disabled separately is utterly bizarre and the biggest leap of frustration for anyone moving from more expensive editing software. Snapping can already snap clips to other clips. there is no reason whatsoever for the playhead to have to be sandwiched in between.

[imanuelthiele]

An 8 minute tutorial which explains the “N” key exists 👍

[BuongiornoEgitto]

this is literally the reason why i still edit in premiere. i thought I was the only one having this issue. resolve should see this.

[CRAZYGAMEZ-jz]

My question was answered in the first 2 minutes

[robtmohr]

If you zoom all the way in and have "snapping off", moving a clip still snaps the track from tick point to tick point. I want to micro-move an audio track to sync it to a slate marker on a video track. I don't have SMPTE options available with my video or audio recording devices.

[andygray]

OMG... Temporary Snapping. Genius!! Thank you for sharing 👍

[shivamoon]

Thanks! Very helpful. However, what I was hoping to find out was, if there's a way to set the snapping to some arbitrary grid... ? That would be helpful in some circumstances.

[studiosphotograph]

I'm having a snapping issue even when the magnetic timeline is off. I'm trying to line a clip up to the beat of the song. Even zoomed way in, the clip snaps to the top lines above in the timeline. The clip either is too short of the beat or past it. How do we make these fine adjustments?

[CharlesCalleja-pg]

good afternoon thanks for helping out in problems. I come from premier pro but just two months ago I have switched to Davinci resolve 18. my question is how to delete one audio or clip without the other move ??
thank you charlie

[wanderinggstars]

my problem is when i cut a clip while zoomed out, it doesnt always cut where the cursor is, its possible to turn that off?

[Epdmik]

Im getting extremly frustraing over here.

When im zoomed all in and try to move! Its still snapping. I dont want to move the clip +00:01 i want to move it +00.001 second. I try to time a music video with the audio..

[paulywolley]

Very handy tip, thanks! I mostly have snapping on and would click on the icon to turn it off when trying to be precise. Being able to temporarily disable it will save so much time.

[onety-one]

This video typifies a good Davinci Resolve tutorial video. That is, a simple, well explained way to get around some idiotic default setting in Davinci Resolve. I don't need even understand the point of snapping the play had in this context, but thanks for showing me how to stop it. 😅

[charlespatt]

Both. Sometimes I want to find the end or start of a section, sometimes I want more detail.
I forgot to consider the keyboard shortcut. That will help!

[vivekjoshi]

Don’t you have a comprehensive course on DaVinci Resolve 18; the one you have shared in your description is for DaVinci Resolve 17

[nscaledelights]

Thanks for the video Alex snapping was driving me nuts. Im glad I found your video I prefer to have it off.

[LeeHarris]

Nice. Generally on and with this tip even more so.

[smartphonevideography]

Thank you so much for this very useful tip👍 It has literally driven me crazy😊

[oodoodoopoopoo]

I'm wanting to use snapping in the keyframes panel of fusion and can't figure out how. Regardless, thanks for this video. I learned that while dragging I can temporarily disable snapping with the hotkey. 👍

[WeldersFSC]

Yeah the playhead still snaps either before or after the end of my clip in the Edit page, with seemingly no way to get it to the in-between.
Coming from Nuke + AE there's just so many fundamental small issues that are really making this software an absolute pain in the arse to use.