Best thing I've ever done was fully switching to DaVinci Resolve when I bought my Pocket 4K one year ago. It's genuinely so much better in every single regard
I can say from personal experience, that their course was the best one I've taken for Resolve. It's detailed, interesting, and thorough, and really helps with more of the "how do i actually work in this program".
I spent 10 years editing in Premiere, the transition to Davinci took about 3 months. Davinci almost never crashes. Text Based editing is vital for long format interviews. Using the Fairlight page is so much easier than round tripping to Audition, especially for TV commercial work which has tight deadlines and strict audio specifications. I think I paid about $400 AUD back in 2020 and that included the speed editor keyboard. I would NEVER go back to Premiere.
Text-Based-Editing is an absolutely amazing feature. So glad to not have to round-trip projects too. And all of that for 400AUD is insane. So glad it's working out for you. Thanks for watching and commenting.
This was wonderful. I have been using Hitfilm Express for 3+ years. But made the switch to Davinci Resolve Studio 2 weeks ago. I'm counting on tutorials like this one to help me learn enough to keep going. The script is ready, but the learning curve seems daunting. Thank you for the clarity on the topics you discussed here.
Thanks so much and welcome to DaVinci Resolve. Keep on plugging away, there's a learning curve for sure, but it get's easier the more you learn. Check our @MrAlexTech and @CaseyFaris, they have great tutorials too.
I am a new user of resolve and have been driven crazy by the different edit modes, your demonstration of selecting the top or bottom of a clip had totally bypassed me. You have no idea how much frustration that has caused. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this video out.
Hello! Sorry you’ve had problems with the different edit modes. We think they help simplify the editing toolset. Are there any specific questions we can answer for you?
amazing video, the real gold for relevant things ,it's not for newbie rather than for people who are already beginner but doing things wrong. In fact this tutorial can be great even for professional. Just amazing stuff.
I came for just one part of this video and ended up watching the whole thing and filled some gaps in my Resolve knowledge. Team 2 Films has just become my favorite source for learning Resolve features (maybe even Fusion--need to see what is available). Very, very professional and easy to pick up new knowledge!
Thank-you so much. We like to call them knowledge potholes! Everyone has them, so do we. You don't know what you don't know, so often the only way to fill them is to go through some sort of systematic course or video. We're so glad you like our channel, Thanks for watching.
Surprisingly, your channel really deserves high praise. It is like a picture painted by a talented artist that speaks for itself. I admire your style, editing and color scheme.
I still edit with Premiere (when absolutely forced to) but I have fully embraced Resolve. One thing I have not tried or even know if possible is take a cuts only edit and save out .xml and then import into Premiere? I work with other editors that are Premiere only. If this is possible and if it works "flawlessly" I might do a backflip! Your channel is a godsend - not throwing any shade to "other" RU-vidrs but you folks really make things clear and concise. Plus all your content is quality. Lighting, sound, design and NO CLICK BAIT! :).
Thanks so much. We appreciate you watching and commenting. Yes, it's possible to export and xml to reimport back into Premiere. Effects won't transfer... but it's actually easier going from Resolve to Premiere than it is going from Premiere to Resolve as Resolve's xml export is really well built. Let us know how it goes.
Davinci has been the only software I’ve used and I feel quite confident using it. HOWEVER, you just showed some things I’ve never known! Amazing video! You are now my top Davinci teacher. Other guys out there have useful stuff but you crush it. The other fella on this channel is alright too but I’ll be watching anything you feature. Thank you!!!
So thorough and EASY to understand! Thanks @Team2Films for producing content that always elevates the topics and make complex features approachable for novices, but also deliver useful info for the professional users as well! 👍🌞
Thank-you, we're always happy to hear that even content for newcomers still has interest for the more experienced. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. We appreciate having you here.
Ah wow! I'm sorry about the course though. At least you are saving money on subscriptions now :) Welcome to DaVinci Resolve, it's such an awesome program.
Last week I finished my first project in DaVinci (coming from Premiere). The transition went surprisingly smooth. There were only 2 things, I was really missing, that Premiere has (among many things that I really liked and preferred over Premiere). 1-Maintaining clip's Transform settings after flattening a Multicam 2-Being able to switch off clip names on the timeline, to have a cleaner view and more space for audio waveforms. Probably not the right place for this feedback... Anyway thank you Blackmagic Design for the great and affordable software, thank you T2F for very cool tutorials!
Yeah, agreed, those are good ideas. This might not be what you are after, but it is possible to get a full screen timeline if you use more than one monitor. Glad you are enjoying the videos, thanks for commenting.
You're a great instructor, Natalie! Thanks for putting this together. I recently introduced a friend to Davinci, and sending him this video answers a lot of the questions he'll have a long the way. By the way, you have a new subscriber 😊
Thank you for a great essentials overview lesson. It is truly a sign of professionalism when the flow and clarity of the instructional video is in itself evidence of the product potential. Nice presentation, and presence as an instructor; also good energy in Leon's cameo. The bell is set 🙂
Natalie, this tutorial is so well structured and explained. I applaud your instruction and presentation. Incidentally, I come from Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro Studio. Would you do a video on setting up your drives for saving the various elements such as auto save, cache, renders and proxies when only drives are involved. Thanks again for a great video!
Hello Daniel, that's a great idea for a video. It's added to the list. We're also working on some content about switching to Resolve from the perspective of Avid Media Composer editors too. It will be interesting to hear your perspectives on that. Thanks for watching, we appreciate having you here.
This is just my two cents of advice coming from someone who is certified through the Blackmagic Training. One, if this video is any example of the rest of your course, your course is leagues above the Blackmagic Course. Two, I don't know if this is geared toward hobbyists because of the price point of the course. It seems this is geared toward professional editors, filmmakers, film students and colleges. I am a college professor and this would be great for our students to watch before their intro class. Just my two cents. I wish you the best because this video is outstanding.
Thank you so much. We appreciate your kind compliment. Yes, the course is geared towards working professionals…. But I’ve no doubt hobbyists would enjoy it too. Thank you for sharing our videos with your students. Keep up the awesome work. It makes us happy knowing people like yourself are in our audience.
wow that is so much information in one vidoe with such a short time consider how long such videos could be also the pace is nice and easy to follow on and understand. The explanatino behind the feature sets were very helpful. thank you for sharing this one and good luck for future ones.
Love this video. I remembered that I used this software many years ago. Makes me feel to get back into creating content frequently and making my edits better.
I used premiere and after effects for many years, and I was very hesitant to try Davinci, but hey, I did it and learned Davinci in about a week, but for sure, I am not a pro in Davinci, but at least I know the basics and am focusing now on color grading, and the funny thing is that I am doing things in Davinci better than Adobe, as for fusion, it is a bit hard at first but once you know how it works it gets easier, but it still takes a lot of time to learn fusion, what I like most in DaVinci Resolve mostly reliant on GPU, and since I have a 3090, it renders much faster than Adobe, Not to forget that Davinci is all-in-one, so there is no need to use many software's and keep switching between them.
Keyframing and Fusion is kind of a nightmare. And I'm using Resolve as my primary tool. At least compared to 3d software, like in Maya from *20 YEARS ago,* keyframing (animation graph) was "another planet" level, as well as Nuke.... BlackMagic should think about "make it right" and fix rudimentary basic things that's easy to fix (keyframes). Imagine rewritten UI in QT, the same but with floating windows and panels and not one "fused" window................. Awesome tutorial as always 👏👍
Yes, we agree that the animation controls Fusion could benefit from some improvement. We're hoping improvements are on the cards for a future release. Leon
What about the After Effects users? For example my workflow is this : C4D - 3d renders and after that comping in AE - in fact just using some specular, reflection pass, DOF and masks, and then a lot of transitions - fading and finishing - trapcode particular, etc. to delivery in 126:9, vertical...this would be very useful!
I switched from Final Cut X about a year ago and although the learning curve has been pretty steep, there’s no turning back for me. Nathalie’s videos have been essential to help me transition smoothly and I wish this one would have existed a year ago :) One question: what is the difference between using the dedicated proxy generating app and generate them inside resolve? I find it more intuitive to generate them from within the project but I see that in the tutorial you recommend the App. Why is that? Thanks again for your amazing work.
This is a great tutorial! Very good pace, explanations, and examples. However, I kind of chuckled when she just blew right over the "Cut" page. I use that page for a real quick edit before getting down and dirty with the project. She even has a Speed Editor sitting on the desk (which really shines with the Cut page). Folks are really missing out of they don't even touch that page. Overall, i enjoyed watching this vid. Great job!
Thanks so much for watching! The reason we glossed over the cut page in this video is because it’s aimed at users switching from other programs like Premiere. The cut page is a little confusing for them sometimes. We love the cut page too though and use it for a lot of our assembly edits. Great to have you here.
@@team2films The fact that you replied to this comment (and so quickly I might add) is a testament to your will to truly wanting to help folks. Very nice! I understand what your goal was here. Thank you for clarifying. I'm not sure if you have one, but perhaps a separate video showcasing the Cut page...with the Speed Editor of course. :) Thanks once again! 👍
@@darrenking2231Our pleasure. Yeah a video on the cut page would be awesome. We’ll joy it down for a future video, in the mean time @MrAlexTech has some awesome cut page content. He is well worth investigating. Glad to have you here, please always feel free to leave comments and questions. Thanks for your kind compliment. Regards Leon + Natalie
@@team2films Yup! I hang out on Alex's channel from time to time. :) One other thing that occurred to watching this vid. I was always taught when it comes to color space, is to go to Color Processing Mode in Color Management in the Project Settings page, choose Custom, then choose Davinci WG/Intermediate for the Timeline. THEN choose your Input Color Space in the Media page to whatever camera you shot the footage with. I didn't see you address it in that sort of way. Thoughts on that?
@@darrenking2231That’s a good point. We address that in our colour management masterclass (if you’ve not watched it, please check it out). For beginners (whom this video is aimed at) who will likely never export anything but rec709, the ‘simply turn it on’ approach keeps things simple. That’s why we don’t cover DWG in this video. Hope that makes sense.
Excellent introduction and includes tips that even seasoned resolve users may not be aware of. One question. With text based editing. Is it possible to take audio files containing narration and use text best editing to align these (using the selected required text transcribed by resolve) with the appropriate video clips?
Amazing, a lot of this things mentioned i heard from you also in Amsterdam, but this Video is completely on another level, it literally makes Davinci look very easy to deal with. Keep it up!
Great support, many thanks! DaVinci color managed is very powerful. Actually I had to add a LUT to my dji drone footage (which one?). Switching from FCP. Will buy this Studio version for its AI tools, magic mask, voice/music management… What about the added value of NPU (new Copilot+PC & ARM version)? Not a pro, but I consider buying your course as well. Greetings 🇨🇭
Hello! 👋 thank-you so much for watching. RCM color management does have options for DJI Log. Are they the correct ones for your camera? It’s awesome that the dev team have been optimising resolve for windows arm platforms too. The course is great for beginners too! Hopefully you’ve seen on our channel that even when we cover advanced topics we do it in a way that doesn’t leave anyone behind. If you have any questions, please reach out to us using the contact form on the website. We’d be happy to help! Thanks again for watching, we appreciate having you here!
Excellent video tutorial! I'm new to Davinci and have a few questions. 1. Is there a way to increase the size of the audio meter on the right side of the edit page without switching to the fair light page? It is very small. If I set the GUI to 200% what would that change? 2. How do you reset the timeline timecode to zero vs the default 1 hour readout? 3. The single preview mode I prefer to use seems to cut a little headroom off the talking head. I think it's set to fit or 100% 4. Other than the mono option on the timeline, is there another way to copy right to left or left to right audio channels on a clip that has one channel only? 5. Do you have a dedicated video on multi-cam editing? 6. Is there a .mov export codec option in export in the free version and what is the max kbps bit rate we can type in other than 80,000? 7. If I understand the color correction process, there needs to be a separate node for each adjustment like gamma, highlights, contrast etc. a node for each vs. all in one adjustment. Is that correct? 8. There are some pretty nice 3D premade fusion titles that are thick and have cool animations. I'll learn to create one from scratch sometime if you have a tutorial video on 3d Titles. 9. How do I get the singe preview window mode to max out in size where it is very wide? Im using a high end pro laptop with 4K 3840 X 2160 screen resolution. I also always film and edit in UHD. 10. Are the built-in sound FX and music library copyright free and can they be used commercially beyond RU-vid? I appreciate any info on the above questions.
Thanks for watching. Answers below. 1. No. 2. Right-click on the timeline in the media pool, goto Timeline > Starting Timecode. 3. Not sure what you mean. 4. Yes, clip attributes is a great way of doing that. 5. We've got a number of lessons dedicate to that in our DaVinci Resolve for Editors course (link in the description). Check out the lesson listings! 6. Yes, QuickTime (.mov) can be exported from the free version. On Windows there are codec limitations. You can use programs like www.voukoder.org to bring ProRes functionality to Resolve. Or use DNx instead. 7. You can place all your corrections in a single node. That's fine. Most people tend to organise different operations into different nodes. Certain secondary color corrections need to be in separate nodes to limit their effect. 8. Gladly. 9. I'm not sure what you mean here! Sorry. More details? 10. Yes, check out the Sound Library tab.
@@team2films Thank you for your response . You're the only Davinci user channel that responded to my questions. The question on number 3 about the head room was it seems the preview windows are cutting off some of the naturally framed camera shot. I had more headroom on top of the talking persons head in the raw footage. Is the preview windows should be set to fit, 100%...? The number 9 question was it seemed like on some DaVinci tutorials, I've seen they have their single preview screen extremely wide and wondered what seeting adjusted the screen width?
@@JoelS4000 The source monitor is affected by the timeline resolution and project scaling options (I believe). So if your timeline resolution doesn't match your clip, and you have scale to fill enabled it will crop the image. It's not actually cropped though, it's just in the source monitor. I think. Does that sound like it's the solution?
thanks, will be looking at this video soon. what about After Effects and Premiere Pro MOGRTs, they are very useful, streamlining teams working efficiently. Whats the comparable function in Fusion? thanks
I switched from Final Cut to Resolve a year ago and don't regret it even a little. Both as a value proposition and for features. I only wish Resolve had a comparable tool to mPuppet (mesh warper) in FCP. It's the only thing that keeps me from deleting the app entirely
Brilliant tutorial. Thanks. I recently made the switch from FCPX. I tried pancaking timelines, but for some strange reason , it was not possible to load a second timeline even though two timelines were open.
Basically, keep your projects in a library. Once a project is 'finished' you can continue to keep them on the library and organise them in different folders. You can even create different libraries specifically for organising archived projects. You can also export your projects from the library and save them as a .drp file for future use. If you want to share a project with someone you can export it as a .drp file for them. However the easier method would be to use a networked or cloud base library. Libraries might sound like a more complicated way of managing projects, but I think that's just because they are so different from the way Premiere works. Libraries are awesome and simplify project management when you are used to them. Did that help? Please ask more questions if you have them.
@@team2films what about all the other setting like local libraries. I might have the terms wrong, but I remember it was more than just having a library on a external drive.
@@DANAMIONLINE Not too sure what you mean. In short, local libraries can be stored on an internal drive, an external drive or a networked drive. But they will only be accessible by one person at a time. You can mount and unmount libraries as you please. Does that answer your question?
first of all I would like to thank you for your wonderful videos and tutorials. Thank you! Second, I would like to ask what gear are your using, i.e monitor for color grading and speakers for audio mixing? Thank you again, Shlomo
@@team2films thank you for the information. So with this equipment it is possible to learn color grading and correction and sound design? Thank you again 👍🏻😊
@@Lonlysky The best equipment is the equipment you have, or the equipment you can afford. It's possible to learn and produce excellent work with less expensive equipment. For example, most apple computers ship with excellent screens. For sound, a good pair of headphones is the bare minimum. Speakers are great, but require proper positioning and a treated room to get the best from them. Most of the time, it's more valuable to spend time learning new skills than it is to spend money on new equipment. I hope that makes sense! Please feel free to ask more questions.
Absolutely amazing video! Do you guys know if there's any way to automatically update media folders? For example, if I add an Img folder to my media pool with 2 images, but later I add to that folder on my computer more images, does DR19 automatically refresh with the newly added images?
Such a helpful and interesting video, thanks! It did make me laugh every time she said “ingesting media” though (ingesting means eating, maybe “importing” is the word) 😂 🙏🏼👌🏼
Hahaha. It’s an industry term though. Ingesting involves more than just importing media. It involves organisation and other setup. Nice to have you here, thanks for watching
one thing that stops me from switching entirely to resolve is the way how resolve saves projects. I would like to have my projects saved inside specific folders so that I could easily find them and open when needed. just the same as premiere can do. now I am forced to open resolve first and then search media pool for required project, which I might forget how it was named. you should really consider to provide the ability to save projects wherever user wants.
Yes, we understand how that could be frustrating when you are used to Premiere's system. It's worth keeping in mind the huge advantages that Resolve's library based project management brings though. 1. It allows multi-user collaboration. 2. It have amazing features like live save, project backups and timeline backups. 3. You could look at it the other way, that having all your projects in one place aids organisation. 4. It integrates with Blackmagic's amazing cloud services. Not to mention all the other amazing features you get with Resolve like Magic Mask, Music Remixer, world-class color grading tools... etc. Perhaps the change in workflow is worthwhile?
@@team2films it is not about workflow habits, but about convenience of software usage. I don't know if it is difficult to make possible to save project as independent file, but it would be very useful for users
thank you for the great tutorial, I notes that the black bars @Mismatched Res it's a checker board, So could you please explain from where you change to be checker board?
Thanks, great video. Regarding life save: If you enable this, is there still a way to revert back to a manually saved state? In case you maybe messed something up and need to go back to your earlier version of the project for example.
We've got footage in the can that we shot for the video. I think we might combine it with our PYXIS video. Sorry about that! The spring got super busy! In the meantime, are there any questions we can answer for you?
I’d LOVE to move over to Resolve from FCPX. I already own a Studio license. But Resolve is convoluted regarding keyboard shortcuts. And basic editing and speed changes are painfully slow compared to FCPX.
Thanks so much for watching! Can you explain more? We've worked extensively in FCPX and it's a great NLE for sure. We love it too! But we think in some ways speed changes are actually implemented better in Resolve. What part of speed changes do you think is painful? And are there specific keyboard shortcuts that you are talking about that are convoluted? We're here to help :)
@@team2films With FCPX, I can change a 60fps clip to 24fps with a single keyboard button press. Speed changes (ramps) can be created also with a single keyboard button press. When cutting, ripple cuts can be done with a single keyboard press. Mapping keyboard shortcuts in Resolve is challenging because each page has separate keyboard shortcuts.
@@skymakai Heya. Yeah, FCP does have some cool features. Here's some extra info for you. The way FCP makes speed ramps is a little flawed (if I am remembering correctly... correct me if I am not). It cuts the clip into different blocks of different speeds. It 'steps' up and 'steps' down. On the other hand Resolve actually properly 'ramps' the speed. So while there is some additional complexity with the controls, it's a better result. In Resolve Ripple Cuts CAN be done with a single keyboard press. You need to be in trim edit mode. Then just hit SHIFT + ] or SHIFT + [. If you want a different hotkey, you can assign it. Yes, pages add complexity to the hotkey assignment in Resolve. But they also bring advantages. I think that kind of cancels things out? Does that help?
@@raiidovfx Thanks for your comment. You DO need to be in trim edit mode to perform a ripple edit. @skymakai specifically asked about ripple edits. If you're in selection mode it will leave a gap.
very well presented but cant it be used for bigger projects like a feature film or a netflix series because in that you need to sort, sync make subclip & much more?
It’s used for all sorts of projects including features. It has the features you describe. It’s possible to make sub clips, sync media, it has rich metadata and organisation and much more! We’re going to be making more videos on pro workflows in the future. Thanks for watching.
I have been toying with switching to DaVinci Resolve from Premiere Pro, and I have been messing with v18 for some basic testing. Would you recommend that I jump right into v19 Beta, or should I start with the more stable v18 until the full release of 19?
Heya! BM's Dev team is awesome. Their BETAs are as stable as some other companies 'stable releases'. Throw yourself into the BETA. We're already on release 6, so it's very mature. Legit high-end colourists are using v19 already in their work. Every single video we've produced since NAB has been on the v19 beta. Don't be afraid, the water is warm. Jump in. 😊
You know what is the main problem with those "davinci for beginners"? Beginners don't shoot RAW with metadata or on ARRI. I can't get my footage to "normal" looking because I don't know what profile my camera uses. It's probably rec.709 but FLAT profile, so I need to play with contrasts, curves and etc. Then the problem is color matching between different shots in the same scene.