Effective Editing Workflow that can save you hours! Davinci Resolve Beginner Tips

Manually cutting and then deleting, manually scrubbing through clip after clip trying to find the right bit of B Roll?! Well, stop! Because there is a better way!

00:00 Intro
00:24 DOWNLOAD
01:08 Folders!
02:08 Cut the A Roll
02:25 Transcriptions (Studio only)
04:34 Cutting on Timeline
05:33 Source Viewer
06:39 WE Shortcuts
07:25 Lock on timeline
07:58 This is the way
08:28 Source Tape
10:38 Dual Timeline
12:28 Over to Patrick

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

Mr Alex Tech

[NabledMusic]

I've been editing these gaming videos for my son and I think I might finally bite the bullet and buy the studio version, that transcribe feature looks amazing and I had no idea I could stack timelines, that's amazing thanks so much!

[geraldsalas]

This is the kind of content we need. Better and efficient way how to edit stuffs

[ROVideos]

This is a life saver. I've been looking how to edit faster for months. This is definitely what I was looking for.

[YamilSunRay]

Awesome! About the shortkeys.. i in, o out and p is like insert.. that combined with q, what I now learned can make everything even faster.. I love your channel!! Thank you for the insides

[andymcquade]

Thanks a million for the above -especially the keyboard settings! (yup, MrAndyLazy). So many of your tutorials seem to somehow appear at the very moment I'm thinking, to get this project done much faster and easier would be if I just learned about ....ahhhh, yeah, that ;)

[BleuxvBenji]

Thanks Alex just got back into editing again. Davinci has been my go to video editor for some time. I was editing some footage this weekend and ended up buying Studio. Studio is out of this world. For any help I always use you for reference and it has brought me a long way.

[DellanaMetalArts]

So helpful! It always makes my day when I check Youtube and YOU have a new tutorial for us. Your tutorials are always informative, concise and so helpful! Thank you, Alex! You are very appreciated!!!

[jaybcreighton]

Thank you, Alex, for this very helpful video. As a newbie to DaVinci Resolve (coming from FCP), I really appreciate these “tips and pointers” videos.😊

[darbethbusinesstechnologya]

Hi! My favourite productivity trick is to rename the clips based on metadata. We do a lot of long form videos with multiple cameras. (Think conferences etc.) I setup the metadata with Cam ID, shot, scene, shot type etc. and then use % function in clip rename to bring this into the name of the clip. It's very useful to know at a glance which clips are part of the same section of the event and whether they are wide, tight, in front, rhs, etc. A lot of the metadata can be setup in bulk, and the BMD cameras even fill in some before it gets off the camera so it's not as time consuming as it initially appears. Then you can rename all the clips in one hit and it's like magic just watching all the clips sort themselves out into a sequence that makes sense to the project.

[marti_abernathey]

I save a lot of time by using the the keyboard shortcuts in my streamdeck.

[TotalRADandMORE]

Yo your first tip was awesome I had no idea I could drag an drop and preserve my folder tree MINDBLOW!

[DreamVoxels]

good video, some of those things ive figured it myself (second part of the video), I had no idea for transcription, really cool !

[geraldsalas]

More workflow editing tips for beginner on how to make things efficient and faster.

[meyerdigitalfilm]

The usage of a second or third timeline is the single most needed feature why I switched from final cut. It is so useful to cut a b-roll timeline and chose like I chose candys from a candy shop :D
Also with transcripted A Roll you can simply integrate an ChatGPT workflow to summarize a video and give you the exact quotes which cements your statements. Video Editing is so much fun these days <3

[JohnnyBouchier]

Thank you Alex. This will certainly help me to speed up my editing.

[UnboundedArtandCrafts]

Love these kinds of videos 😊❤️
I use two timelines when I'm making my short for YT from my main video

[Relativizor]

A way to speed up this workflow even further is to go 'Edit > Switch to timeline after edit' (Alt+Shift+Q). This toggles the switch to timeline after edit, so it doesn't occur, which saves you a keystroke or two along the way. It's also how things work in the Cut page by default.

[blindsquirrelmedia]

worthy cause man! and great video. Always appreciate your content.

[MelvinAlc]

amazing tutorial @mrAlextech you always doing a great video of us here to learn 🔥

[MedusaJellyFish]

Another wonderful video from Alex that cares so much about us the video editing community. Thank you 💝💖💝