When the control is enabled, which is a default for any editing system, when you make an edit from the Source Window, your keyboard control automatically follow the edit to the Timeline. In the File tab, you can either use the name of the timeline or set a custom file name. At the top you see you can render a single clip or if you have multiple clips selected, export them as individual clips. Here you can see the controls are what you’d expect. Setting up the video to export is pretty straight forward. Sounds a little confusing to read I know, but in practice it makes sense. So the Deliver Panel controls its own set of In/Out points. Alexis explained the reasoning why and it has to do with the fact that the Deliver Panel can output many variations from the same timeline including different combinations of In/Out points. I set them first in the Edit Panel and when I went over to the Deliver Panel, they were gone. The Deliver Panel is primarily set up to deliver finished files at the end of the process, but you can also use that panel to export individual clips and selections for approvals and sending to other apps like AE.įirst thing I discovered is that In / Out points set in the Edit Panel do NOT transfer over to Deliver Panel. Resolve does NOT have your standard File > Export command like most NLEs out there.
Export audio guides (clips) from Resolve and use those to build the AE comps. Time being of the essence and me being new to Resolve, I reverted to my old FCP workflow. The biggest thing I had to figure out was the round trip to / from After Effects to create a few animated graphics. In the edit I started putting a bit more polish on the project, getting it to the point where we should be about ready to move to finish next Monday. Of course having Alexis walk me through a bunch of features for 30 minutes REALLY opened my eyes to a bunch of stuff I didn’t realize was there. Now that I realize that some of the elements I thought Resolve needed are actually in the app, they’re just in a different place. I looked at the Color Panel as what comes AFTER editing, but in reality, it’s part of the editing process.
So if all you do is look at the Edit Panel and say “well this is missing a lot of stuff” (like I initially did), you’re missing out on so much more that’s available, particularly in the Color Panel. It’s the entire application working together. Today I realized that DaVinci Resolve as an NLE is really the sum of all of its parts.
Alexis Van Hurkman, the man who literally wrote the manual on Resolve, called to point out some of the editing specific features that I might not be aware were there. For me it’s the small things that separate the applications making life efficient and fun for the the editor.
I know there are a lot of questions still out there whether this is really a professional editor. It’s Day Three of my “real world” editing on DaVinci Resolve 12.5 and this is going to be the longest blog yet as I want to show you guys a lot of the “little things” that are making editing in Resolve a pleasure.