This SIMPLE Davinci Resolve 19 Technique can save you HOURS

Ah Clip Color! It's such a simple yet powerful little technique that can improve your whole editing workflow. It makes literally everything easier from simply navigating the timeline, to changing titles, copying clips and even color grading. Here's they Why and the How! Davinci Resolve 19 FTW

00:00 Intro
00:36 Navigation
01:25 HOW 1
02:28 HOW 2
03:55 FILTER
04:58 Titles
06:12 Color Page
07:34 BE AWARE
08:22 Good bye

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I hope you found this useful :) Thanks for watching.

Mr Alex Tech

[WaddleAero]

Awesome stuff! It would be a worthwhile option to allow you to set clip color on the bin level. Then any clip dropped into that bin would be colored by the bin.

[SPLMixing]

I do the same in Pro Tools for mixing projects. Colours tap into the creative part of the brain and help you maintain your flow state.

[TrogART]

Love this as I colour grade all my files and folders in the finder on my Mac so this makes perfect sense as I also find it easier and faster to find and sort files. Cool!

[jamied]

Cool, I love using clip colours! Did you mention my favourite, Timeline>Select Clips with Color? Then stuff like paste Attributes is super handy.

[paultsworld]

Excellent tutorial - thanks! Would be nice to be able to change the names of the colours to something like B-Roll etc. That's what I used to do in Premiere Pro

[amoktimeflies]

The usefulness of these 5 minute Fridays cannot be understated!
Yes I use bins and then colours to group clips together from the same camera so I can select them colour grade them all together.
BUT - I didn't realise you could select all the clips in a bin and set the colour there! Life changer! Blimmin obvious when you think about it - as a 'button pusher' I don't know how I missed this!.
Alex - you are one of my go-to resources for editing tips, to the point that you are even referenced in one of my vids as one of the 4 'editing gods' (have a guess who the other 3 are! 🤣) - thankyou so much for this! 🖖

[JackstaBlazer]

great tutorial, I can see that it will save so much time when I edit. please keep these "Five minutes" series going!

[JWS]

SMART Bins are the way forward. Like you say here it helps to establish a method and stick with it over multiple projects so that it becomes second nature. SMART bins enable Davinci to do the picking for you. I have smart bins set up for unused clips. a smart bin for each of my actors characters, B-Roll, Drone, etc. It is then important that the meta data is filled in when importing clips into the project so that the smart bins can identify the clips. This does take a little bit of time at the import stage but totally worth it when you start editing.

[TheSoundofU]

Amazing educational video once again Alex, thank you so much

[celestepalm]

Yeah, I find applying clip colors thru the inspector a bit quicker than scrolling thru the long color submenu.

[NeeMaarLekker_Films]

I am currently editing a film and I am already using clip colors but I never new about sorting by color in the color page. This helped SO Thank you!

[aricloudstudio]

If edit index has thumbnail view option, then it'll be much much great because I'm used to work with selects timeline instead of picking shots from media pool. so a thumbnail view be so useful to navigate to clips instantly instead of scrubbing the timeline back and forth

[CaptainTae]

This is helpful, but I prefer track colors so I immediately know where VO goes or where dialogue goes.
When companies want specific track assignments, this feature is necessary.

[unclerichard]

I've learned so much from these 5 Minute Fridays that likely would have been overlooked in long form tutorials.

[mc]

I've use this features for awhile. Very useful, very neat, especially when you love to organize and love tidiness. But I didn't know it works in color page too. Thanks a lot for the tips!

[MyViewsOfTheWorld]

Nice Alex, thanks. However, a quick suggestion for BM - what if I could click on the BIN, set the colour for the BIN and everything inside would have that colour automatically? As I add new clips to that bin, they, too, inherit the colour? That would be very handy. I always organize everything in bins, so that would save even more time.

[doug_vickers]

Good to see 5 minute Fridays back Alex.
Well nearer 8.5 minutes but whos counting. 😉

[UkuleleJayBBQ]

So simple but really does save info overload when you have 100 clips trying to figure our what is what. Thanks for the super clear tutorials!

[garethgriffiths]

Brilliant work, thank you for these hints... they save me hours!

[tvchris]

Dang, I friggin love this software. That color page clip filter is brilliant.