this new editing tool gives you trimming control in a fun new way using the search dial right here
well today i'm going to show you everything you need to know about
trimming with the speed editor in davinci resolve let's dive in
so before we get into looking at these trim buttons which are on this left lower left side of
the speed editor i want to point your direction to the cam one cam two cam three buttons these
aren't just used for sync bin they are also used for your track selection so if i push one i've
already done it here it's highlighted on track one if i push two it jumps me up to two so and
if i push three i actually have a track a video on track three way over here at the beginning so it's
a quick way to navigate between each level on the timeline one two and three one more setup tip i
want to give you real quick in the cut page here is to make sure you can see your waveforms large
down on this big zoomed in timeline and the way you do that is this button right over here under
audio trim click this guy right here and now when we go in and we learn about trim in and trim out
they just blow up huge and you can see them really good if that's not enabled
and it's sort of grayed out this is what you get it's just the waveforms which is not nearly as
useful i generally always just leave this audio trim button selected and this lets me see the
audio waveforms while i'm trimming nice and big so davinci resolve has three different places to do
trims in the cut page there's the viewer they call that the a/b trimmer there's the upper timeline
and the lower timeline all of those you can trim in but for our purposes today we're going to be
focusing on the lower timeline it gives us the most detail to use with the speed editor there's
two primary ways to make a timeline shorter or longer when you're in the cut page the first one
and the one that's most simple is if you use the split button which is right here tap that once
and what that does is it puts a cut and then you can use ripple delete which is right here so that
has just made our timeline shorter as we see i'm going to undo that with double tap escape because
i want to talk to you about trim in and trim out these functions are basically doing the same thing
they're making a timeline shorter or longer but they're doing it in much more refined way using
the search dial so the way they work is really actually pretty simple so let's say we want this
shot to end as the roller coaster comes down right there i am going to use trim out hold it down
and then as i move the search dial to the left here i'm going to keep pulling it back and i can
see up there in the upper right viewer that it has just now gone out of frame so that's where i want
that and then if i want to go to the beginning of the clip and there's a bunch of excess right there
as well i'll go to trim in on the speed editor i'm holding it down and as i rotate the search dial
it has come into frame right around maybe we'll bring it right there
so if we go back to the beginning the timeline push stop play in the speed editor
we can see we've now trimmed that clip to just the portion that we want real easily with trim in
trim out so the thing to remember is ripple trim in ripple trim out those are the trim modes that
are going to make your video shorter or longer next to trim and trim out we have roll if you hold
down roll it grabs the nearest edit point you move left and right with the search dial and this is
like the quid pro quo of trimming so it's taking and giving at the same time so in this instance if
i hold this down and i go to the left it's taking away from the a side the left side clip and it's
giving the same amount to the right side at the same time so if i move to the right it's doing
the exact opposite this is helpful if you want to time this out to like beats of music or something
so this little montage right here is sort of timed out to music and it works pretty good
so you can see how that works pretty slick another great use of the roll button here that's on the
speed editor is to do a j cut or l cut but you can't do it in the cut page so that's one little
tip if you hit shift four that'll take you to the edit page and you turn linked selection off which
is this guy right here you're able to hit roll and then you can move the video track independent of
the audio tracks beneath it to get that real smooth invisible cut of a j cut or now cut
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jump back into the computer we're going to learn all about my favorite trimming mode called slip
so slip is my favorite type of edit mode for sure or trim mode it's these buttons here slip source
and slip destination for some reason davinci decided they needed two buttons for slip where
every other editing system i've ever worked it's just wherever your playhead is parked
over that would slip it the cut page makes things a little different here in resolve
it's based off of that smart indicator so we see that triangle there on the left of
my playhead that is determining what our source and our destination is so if you hold these down
hold source down it's going to do everything left of that playhead and then destination
is everything right of it but what slip is going to do it's going to change the inner guts of this
shot so let's take a look at what the shot is to begin with
the roller coaster comes down but it doesn't come down until halfway through the shot
and what slip does is it lets you keep the length of the timeline the exact same throughout
but it changes the inner guts so that from here to here is going to stay the same but the inside
of that clip container is going to change so for me to make the change on here because i've got the
smart indicator to the left i'm going to choose slip destination on the speed editor it's going to
highlight the clip i want to change and now while it's holding down we can move the search dial
and we'll see in that upper right section in our viewer we'll see the upper left is
the first frame of the clip the upper right is the last frame of that clip
and then the bottom two are telling me what frames look like on the left of the clip and on the right
of the clip so the incoming shot and outcoming shot so what i'm going to try to do is time this
out so the roller coaster is dropping down and going out of frame right as we get to this clip so
we can see as i move this here in the upper right our roller coaster is just starting to drop down
and on the other outcoming site it has just coming out so right around there it's like
it's going to fill this container it's going to fill these guts with the shot going through the
frame so i'll release the slip destination button i'll come back here and play it
and we see that entire shot is filled up now with the roller coaster moving through the frame so
we've just sort of changed the guts and that's the essence of what slip does it's a super powerful
super useful thing for refining edits after you've sort of locked in your timing and your music
the thing to remember about a slip edit is just like your mama told you when you were little
it's what's on the inside edit that counts right the last type of trim i want to show you today is
slide slide is right underneath the roll button it's there for a reason because it's basically
doing two different rolls at the same time on both sides of the clip the way it works is you double
tap hold it and then move the search dial so this is a little bit different than just a hold and
search dial it's a double tap hole to get to that secondary function so double tap hold selects
that clip that we had just slid in the previous section and we'll move this to the left here so
that we are taking up a little bit of that clip on the left and we can see in the lower left of
the viewer monitor we're seeing the last frame of it and i want to roll this until the roller
coaster goes right out of frame okay right there seems pretty good we release it and it basically
sticks it there so we can go back and preview it push the play button and we've moved that clip
left in the timeline without changing the length of the overall timeline that's the benefit of
slide as it keeps the length it just moves the clips left and right on the timeline so that's
slide in a nutshell it's a double tap you hold it go left and right and it is taking up and giving
to the clips left and right of it and so this is great if you want to sync something up to music
maybe a sound effect a sound bite but you don't want to change the overall length of your video
slide is what you want to be using now you're officially a master of all things trimming with
the davinci resolve speed editor if you like this video give it a thumbs up and if you're
interested in learning more about the speed editor i actually have a playlist that will be popping up
somewhere right around here right now and i've got all kinds of great things to learn about davinci
resolve with the speed editor if you want to learn multicam and just how it works differently in a
cut page and edit page love for you to check it out and i'll see you over in those videos