Thomas Singh

How to remove empty space on the timeline in DaVinci Resolve? I have more than two hours of blank space after the last clip on the timeline that I want to remove, and I have tried to set in+out point and delete it but it doesn't work.

Hi Cole. I would say, start with the professional color grading course as it will take you through the most important steps. Then I would dive into the masterclasses and read the color grading case studies in the insider section of the site. When you are ready for it watch the color management workflow course. I also find the conforming course very useful and tend to go back and watch parts of it when I'm stuck with I/O issues.

Lately I have been editing in Resolve. It's quite a transition from Avid, but I'm starting to like it, and I save so much time with everything around such as the conform tools, audio syncing, rendering and so on. I have one newbie questions though. In Avid I have a button at the bottom of the timeline that lets me switch the timeline between the player and source. How do I do that in the edit module of Resolve? It's very useful when editing source audio.

To deliver the job, I rendered the 16:9 clip out and brought it back into the square timeline.

That could be a workaround, the problem is that the original timeline contains so many unwanted elements such as subtitles. I applied a resize (stretching it back to 1920x1080) after the polygon (and prior to the media1) and that seems to work in this case. I have done some more testing with copy/pasting fusion comps to different timelines with different aspect ratios, and it seems that if I copy the original fusion comp and paste it into a new 1:1 resolution timeline, it will crop everything outside of the square and it seems impossible to retrieve the lost pixels. The trick with applying a resize prior to the media1 doesn't work in this case, in the example above it only stretched out the polygon shape to the original format (1920x1080) it was made in.

After having looked closer to it, it looks like the scaling and crop matches, but that the roto of his hand (the polygon) is twisted. I have wired the polygon directly to the Media in, if that can have something to do with it?

You can by going to the subtitle settings on the render tab and choosing burn into video just like Sergey explains above.

Sometimes it's not possible to "mark in" or "mark out" or move the markers (in/out-points) in the delivery tab. Probably a bug, but it's been a around for a while? Any workaround? I have also noticed that if I choose the default "protools" option the in-point automatically sets itself to the first frame of the timeline, and it's not possible to move it.

Do you know if it's a shortcut to center audio on clips in DaVinci Resolve? Most dialogue sound I get is either on the left or right audio channel and in Avid i simply click 0 in the audio mixer to center it.

I have the worlds most annoying problem that I hope you can help me with. I have a HD 1920x1080 timeline with many effects that I have done inside of the Fusion tab in Resolve. Everything works well until I copy the Fusion clips and paste them into timeline with a different aspect ratio such as a square or vertical one. Then all of the sudden, the effects such as a roto of a hand with that is composited on top of the clip below in the main timeline goes crazy, re-positions, twists and turns in all direction. What is going on here? I have tried to manually just reposition the clips but it's not that simple.

I do deliver square (1:1) and vertical videos (4:5, 5;4, 9:16) from DaVinci Resolve for social media all the time. Are there any settings inside of Resolve that let's me downscale the image on monitor so that I can see the full frame?

Thanks Az, this works! Not very accurate for me that is used to change timing and in-points in the composer window but this is much better than not being able to work this way at all.

Hi Az! I know I can paste the selection with Copy+V but the point with the Avid workflow is that you can modify the selection (make it shorter etc) in the composer window before inserting again. With this workflow you can also make a selection on the timeline prior to pasting it down again to only use parts of what you have saved in the composer window. Hopefully the developers look to common editing workflows used in the other major applications so that it will be easier to jump ship. Do you know if it's possible to paste the copied clips on different tracks than they were copied from originally? I have tried to copy a selection from v1 and mark v2 but it still will be pasted on v1.

Coming from an Avid Mediacomposer background I'm used to do a selection on the timeline and click alt+c to copy the selection into the composer window (left source window) to re-use the selected part a different place on the timeline. Is this possible in DaVinci Resolve?

Can I ask how you create or define this master timeline? I'm only used to bring in AAF's from the NLEs.

I love this, thanks!

Yeah, I could save it out a different extension but it would be faster and better if Resolve could read PNGs natively without any issues.

Any other suggestions that I might try? I'm facing the same annoying problem.

Hi. I'm used to export an AAF with the audio tracks embedded and some handles through Avid for ProTools. How do I access the same parameters in DaVinci Resolve?

When I playback a sequence on the timeline in DaVinci Resolve, the audio suddenly drops out now and then. It happens on random parts of the timeline, so when playing back the same part over again the audio drop can happen on different frames or not at all. The video plays back perfectly at 25fps, Any idea what is going on? I'm on the new Mac Pro.

I have generated optimised media on all my clips in DaVinci Resolve, but I need more resolution to zoom in on of the clips on the timeline. Can I "deactivate" the optimization on this particular clip somehow?

Now with the latest DaVinci Resolve update, the editing module seems significant faster so I will try out editing in Resolve on my next project. I'm coming from Avid and have managed to find most of the shortcuts that I need, but I'm looking for the command to lift the clips on the timeline up to the composer/program monitor (the player window on the left side). In Avid, I would use command z to delete a clip and at the same time add it to the composer window. I would use command x to ripple delete the clips and at the same time add it to the composer window. What is the shortcut for doing this in Resolve? The Avid way of working is to run all the existing clips that needs to be moved or replaced through the composer window and this function is important for me to feel confident.

Great to see you pop by the forum once in a while @Andy Minuth. How about you and Lowepost agree on doing a Baselight course? 💥

I have done all kind of green screen work on commercials, and in this course there are at least seven different shots and a bunch of different approaches. I get your point, I just think that "real world examples" was a bit loose as the shots are from commercials that has aired on TV.

What are you talking about, all the shots are real world examples. I recognize several of them from quite big commercials aired in my country.