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Top 5 AI Filmmaking Tools 2026
A self-declared tester of 200+ AI tools narrows the field to five worth paying for — and one bonus pick that undercuts the priciest one.
March 24thThe argument in one line.
DaVinci Resolve's built-in AI tools, a saved project template, and a small set of memorized keyboard shortcuts each replace a repetitive manual editing step with a single click or keystroke, and stacking all three is what actually saves hours per video.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- You already edit in DaVinci Resolve, free or Studio, and cut long-form or talking-head video on a regular schedule.
- You're comparing editors or deciding whether to upgrade to Studio and want to know exactly what the paid tier adds.
- You rebuild the same bins, timelines, and sound effect folders from scratch on every new project and want that gone for good.
- You still cut, close gaps, and reframe by hand and have never customized a single keyboard shortcut.
SKIP IF…
- You edit exclusively in Premiere Pro or Final Cut with no plan to switch — almost none of this transfers outside DaVinci Resolve.
- You only make sub-60-second social clips with no dialogue to clean up, no template worth reusing, and no long timeline to shortcut through.
The full version, fast.
DaVinci Resolve already ships the tools that remove the slowest parts of editing: Magic Mask cuts a subject out and tracks it across a whole clip, Voice Isolation and the Music Remixer clean up audio without a re-record, Smart Reframe auto-keyframes a subject into vertical, and Auto Balance grades a clip in one click. Separately, building a real project template (locked timeline settings, a fixed bin structure, pre-linked sound effects and music) means every new edit opens already organized instead of starting from a blank project. On top of that, a handful of memorized shortcuts (Ripple Delete, Match Frame, Shuffle, a remapped cut key) and the pancake-stacked-timeline trick turn multi-step manual actions into one keystroke or one drag. None of this requires third-party plugins; it's all built into the app.
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00:00 – 01:33
01 · Cold open
States the 10x-faster promise, previews the five sections, and explains the on-screen 'Free Version' / 'Studio Version' labeling convention.
01:33 – 03:44
02 · Magic Mask
Section 1 opens with Magic Mask: outlining a subject on the Fusion page and using Track Forward/Reverse to auto-mask the whole clip.
03:44 – 04:56
03 · AI Voice Isolation
Toggling AI Voice Isolation in the audio inspector removes a background clinking sound from a talking-head track.
04:56 – 06:14
04 · Smart Reframe
Smart Reframe auto-keyframes the subject centered when converting a horizontal clip to vertical.
06:14 – 09:19
05 · Music Remixer
The Music Remixer tool isolates or mutes vocals/drums/bass/guitar in a track, and Live Trim auto-shortens a track's ending.
09:19 – 10:39
06 · AI Color Correction
One-click Auto Balance under Color Wheels brightens and balances a dark clip before any manual grading.
10:39 – 12:45
07 · Building the project template
Section 2 opens: setting a fixed timeline resolution and frame rate that every new project will open with.
12:45 – 16:08
08 · Organizing A-Roll, B-Roll and timelines
Building the Media (A-Roll/B-Roll) and Timelines (All A-Roll/All B-Roll/Working) bin structure inside the template.
16:08 – 17:39
09 · Linking sound effects and music
Dragging permanent sound effect and music folders into the template so every new project opens with them pre-loaded.
17:39 – 21:10
10 · Exporting and updating the template
Exporting the built shell as a reusable project file, the Save Project As habit that protects the master template, and how to update it later.
21:10 – 23:30
11 · The pancake timeline
Stacking the A-roll, B-roll, and working timelines in the viewer to scrub and drag footage straight into the cut.
23:30 – 27:07
12 · Core keyboard shortcuts
Section 3 opens with Shuffle, Match Frame, and the razor/cut shortcut, each replacing a multi-click manual sequence.
27:07 – 29:00
13 · Ripple delete
Ripple Delete and Ripple Delete Left/Right close timeline gaps automatically when trimming or removing clips.
29:00 – 32:27
14 · Customizing shortcuts
Downloading the shortcut cheat sheet, then remapping the cut shortcut to a single easy-reach key and saving a custom keyboard preset.
32:27 – 35:10
15 · Copy/paste rapid fire
A quick-fire run through duplicate, copy/paste, track-targeted pasting, Paste Attributes, and Select All Tracks Forward.
35:10 – 37:01
16 · Pre-built templates and macros
Section 4: DaVinci Resolve macros as drag-and-drop presets for titles and transitions, and a plugin that installs them with one click.
37:01 – 43:20
17 · Five time-saving features
Section 5: Smooth Cut, animated auto-generated subtitles, vertical-editing viewer expansion, Show Music Beats, and the Ducker audio tool.
43:20 – 45:19
18 · Outro and course pitch
Wraps up and pitches the 14 Day Filmmaker course, its community, and weekly live Q&A calls.
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- Magic Mask cuts a subject out of a background from a rough hand-drawn outline, then Track Forward/Reverse applies that cutout across the entire clip automatically.
- AI Voice Isolation removes a specific background noise, like a repeated clinking sound, from a talking-head track with a single toggle, no re-recording required.
- Smart Reframe auto-detects a chosen subject and keyframes it centered when converting a horizontal clip to vertical, replacing frame-by-frame manual keyframing.
- The Music Remixer tool splits a track into vocals, drums, bass, guitar, and other stems that can each be muted or dialed down independently.
- AI Music Editor's Live Trim finds a natural point to shorten a music track so it ends exactly when the video does, and offers multiple trim variations to choose from.
- Auto Balance under Color Wheels delivers a usable color grade in one click, before any manual highlight, shadow, or midtone adjustment.
- A saved project template locks in timeline resolution and frame rate once, so a new project opens pre-configured instead of being set up from scratch every time.
- Linking sound effects and music into a project template only stays intact if the source folder's location never changes; move or delete it and every linked asset goes offline.
- Re-dragging an already-linked asset folder into a template doesn't duplicate files: DaVinci Resolve skips anything it recognizes as already present.
- The pancake timeline (stacking A-roll, B-roll, and the working timeline in the viewer) turns finding the right take into a scan-and-drag action instead of scrubbing one long bin.
- Ripple Delete removes a clip and closes the resulting gap in one keystroke, instead of deleting and then separately closing the gap.
- Ripple Delete Left/Right trims everything on one side of the playhead and closes the gap in a single command, collapsing three manual steps into one.
- Match Frame jumps to a clip's full source footage from a single timeline frame, which also makes it the fastest way to recover audio or video deleted by mistake.
- Remapping the default cut shortcut to a single easy-reach key removes the two-hand reach for the single most-used action in an entire edit.
- The Ducker automatically lowers a music track's volume under a dialogue track based on a set duck level, replacing manual keyframing of music volume on every talking segment.
DaVinci's built-in tools replace manual editing steps
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A saved project template, a dozen memorized shortcuts, and DaVinci Resolve's built-in AI tools each replace a repetitive manual step with a single click or keystroke.
02Magic Mask
- Magic Mask on the Fusion page lets you rough out a subject with an outline, then Track Forward/Reverse applies it across the entire clip automatically.
- You don't need a green screen or manual keyframe-by-keyframe masking to cut a subject out of a background.
- Cleanup after tracking, adding back a clipped hand or removing a stray artifact, takes one more pass with the plus/minus tool, not a redo of the whole mask.
03AI Voice Isolation
- AI Voice Isolation is a single toggle in the audio inspector tab that strips a specific background noise, like a clinking sound, out of a dialogue track.
- It fixes bad-room audio after the fact, which removes the need for a controlled recording environment or a re-shoot.
04Smart Reframe
- Smart Reframe auto-detects an object of interest and keyframes it centered as you convert a horizontal clip to vertical, replacing manual keyframing.
- When the subject isn't obvious, a manual reference-point box tells the AI what to track instead of relying on auto-detection.
05Music Remixer
- The Music Remixer tool splits a track into voice, drums, bass, guitar, and other stems, so you can mute or turn down any one of them.
- Sliders let you soften an element instead of muting it outright, so a vocal can duck to -10 rather than disappear entirely.
- AI Music Editor's Live Trim finds a natural cut point to shorten a track to fit the video's end, and offers multiple trim variations to pick from.
06AI Color Correction
- Auto Balance under Color Wheels gives a usable one-click grade before any manual highlight, shadow, or midtone work, cutting a color pass from minutes to seconds.
07Building the project template
- A project template locks in timeline resolution and frame rate once, so every new project opens already configured instead of set up per-project.
- Multiple templates can coexist for different formats, 1080p, 4K, vertical, rather than reconfiguring one project repeatedly.
08Organizing A-Roll, B-Roll and timelines
- A fixed bin structure, Media with A-Roll/B-Roll, Timelines with All A-Roll/All B-Roll/Working, Sound Effects, and Music, gives every future project the same predictable folders before a single clip is imported.
- Separate 'All A-Roll' and 'All B-Roll' reference timelines exist purely to make footage easy to scan later, distinct from the working timeline being cut.
09Linking sound effects and music
- Dragging sound effects and music folders into the template only works safely if that source folder's location never changes; move or delete it and every linked asset in the template goes offline.
- Re-dragging an already-linked folder into the template doesn't duplicate assets; DaVinci Resolve skips files it recognizes as already present.
10Exporting and updating the template
- Export Project, not just Save, turns the built-out shell into a reusable file that lives outside any single video's project.
- Save Project As, done immediately after opening the template, is what prevents editing the master template by accident.
- Updating the template later, new sound effects, new bins, requires re-exporting and overwriting the same template file, not creating a new one.
11The pancake timeline
- Stacking the A-roll, B-roll, and working timelines on top of each other lets you scrub reference footage and copy-paste straight into the cut without opening separate tabs.
- This turns 'find the right take' into a scan-and-drag action instead of scrubbing one long bin of unsorted clips.
12Core keyboard shortcuts
- Shuffle reorders a selected clip's position on the timeline in one keystroke, replacing a manual cut-drag-close-gap sequence.
- Match Frame jumps to what's in and out of frame on the source clip, and doubles as the fastest way to recover audio or video you deleted by mistake.
- The default cut shortcut can be remapped to a single easy-reach key to remove the two-hand reach for the single most-used action in an edit.
13Ripple delete
- Ripple Delete removes a clip and closes the resulting gap in the same keystroke, instead of deleting then separately closing the gap.
- Ripple Delete Left/Right trims everything on one side of the playhead and closes the gap in a single command, three manual steps collapsed into one.
14Customizing shortcuts
- Custom keyboards in DaVinci Resolve are saved presets that never overwrite the default, so you can always revert to the original.
- The design rule for remapping: assign your most-used actions to keys under your resting fingers, not just whichever key happens to be free.
15Copy/paste rapid fire
- The auto track selector controls which track a pasted clip lands on, so you can paste video and audio to specific, non-default tracks without dragging afterward.
- Paste Attributes copies one property, like a color grade, from one clip onto another without touching anything else on that clip.
- Select All Tracks Forward grabs every clip past the playhead at once, so inserting a new clip mid-timeline is one drag instead of manually shifting each downstream clip.
16Pre-built templates and macros
- DaVinci Resolve macros are pre-built, drag-and-drop presets for titles, transitions, and effects that replace building an animation from scratch in Fusion.
- A hard part of using third-party templates is discovery and cost; a plugin-based install removes the manual find-download-import cycle.
17Five time-saving features
- Smooth Cut blends multiple takes of the same line into what looks like one continuous take, as long as the framing between takes isn't too different.
- Create Subtitles From Audio auto-generates a caption track, and the caption's styling, color, font, is editable per-track afterward.
- Show Music Beats places snap markers directly on a music track's waveform, so B-roll cuts can snap to the beat instead of being placed by ear.
- The Ducker automatically lowers a music track's volume under a dialogue track based on a set duck level, replacing manual audio keyframing on every talking segment.
Terms worth knowing.
- Magic Mask
- A DaVinci Resolve Fusion-page tool that separates a subject from its background using a rough hand-drawn outline, then automatically tracks that mask across every frame of the clip.
- AI Voice Isolation
- An audio toggle that analyzes a dialogue track and removes non-speech background noise, such as a repeated clinking or hum, without needing to re-record.
- Smart Reframe
- An AI tool that detects a chosen subject in a clip and automatically keyframes it centered when converting the clip to a different aspect ratio, such as horizontal to vertical.
- Music Remixer
- A tool that splits a music track into separate stems, vocals, drums, bass, guitar, and other, so each one can be muted or turned up or down independently.
- Live Trim
- A feature of DaVinci Resolve's AI Music Editor that automatically finds a musically natural point to shorten a track so it ends exactly when the video does.
- Auto Balance
- A one-click button in the Color Wheels panel that automatically corrects a clip's exposure and color balance before any manual grading is applied.
- Pancake Timeline
- A technique of stacking multiple timelines on top of each other in the viewer so footage on a reference timeline can be scrubbed and dragged directly into the timeline being edited.
- Ripple Delete
- A single command that removes a selected clip and simultaneously closes the gap it leaves behind, instead of requiring a separate step to close the gap.
- Match Frame
- A shortcut that jumps to a clip's full source footage from a single frame currently on the timeline, used to find adjacent footage or recover deleted audio or video.
- Ducker
- An audio tool that automatically lowers one track's volume, like background music, whenever a second track, like dialogue, is active, based on a set duck level.
- Show Music Beats
- A feature that analyzes a music track and places visual markers on its downbeats, so clips being trimmed on the timeline can snap to the beat.
- Smooth Cut
- A video transition built for talking-head footage that blends two takes of the same line together so the cut reads as one continuous shot.
- Macro (DaVinci Resolve)
- A pre-built, installable preset for a title, transition, or effect that can be dragged onto a timeline without manually building the animation from scratch.
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“It deletes a clip and moves your entire timeline to the left.”
10:20
“Think of it like getting in your car. You can turn on the heat and wait for it to warm up, or you can get in and already have it set to 75 degrees.”
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“Think of match frame as your personal assistant inside of DaVinci Resolve.”
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“The big takeaway here is to assign easy to remember keys to your most important actions.”
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In this video, you're going to learn how to edit 10 times faster in DaVinci Resolve. For example, did you know you could automatically remove the background in one click? When you use this tool, you will not have to do any more manual masking by hand.
If you're completely new to editing, you're in the right place. And if you've been editing for a while, stick around because I think some of these might surprise you. I've broken down this video into five core sections, and in each one, I'll only include the tools that drive a ton of value and have saved me a lot of time.
This consists of AI tools, setting up templates for your workflow, keyboard shortcuts, and some unique tools that I find super useful.
Now, I think DaVinci Resolve for sure is the best editing software on the market right now. And if you're watching this video, you either have the free version of DaVinci Resolve, you have the paid version of DaVinci Resolve, or you're shopping around for a new video editing software and you're seeing if DaVinci Resolve could help you edit faster.
So consider this video a comprehensive, is it worth the upgrade video for the free users and the shoppers? And an, oh my God, I did not know that existed. Wow, DaVinci Resolve is for sure the best editing software.
software for the paid users. And no, this video is not sponsored by DaVinci Resolve. To make it clear between what is free and what is paid, if it's available in the free version of DaVinci Resolve, you'll see a free version in the top left corner of the screen.
If it's a paid feature, you'll see studio version in the top left corner of the screen. All right, now that that's out of the way, let's jump into section one, AI tools. Now, the great thing about these AI tools is that they're built right into DaVinci Resolve.
So you don't need to install any for plugins to use them. The first tool on the list is one of my absolute favorites, and that is Magic Mask.
And if you're trying to make a lot of content like this, where you cut the subject out from the background, this is for sure one of the easiest ways to do it. We'll jump into the computer and I'll show you how this works. All right, so we have our footage in our timeline right here.
And to activate Magic Mask, what we're gonna do is go down to the Fusion page right here. So we're gonna click on that. Now we're gonna go up to the top of our screen and make sure we have effects selected.
now we can go down to this search button right here click that and we want to search for magic mask That should pop up right here. Now what we can do is click this and drag this to this yellow line right here.
We just want to drop that and it should look something like this. Next, what we're going to want to do is go up to this eyedropper and select the plus one. Next, what we want to do is cut out this subject right here.
So let's zoom in a little bit and let's select fit and go to 50%. Just punch in just a little bit. Now what we can do is use our eyedropper tool and cut around this person.
So to do that, all we have to do is click and drag. And we're just going to drag a line around this person just like that. It doesn't need to be perfect, but we just want to draw a nice little outline around the person and we can close it off just like that.
So that should have done a pretty good job cutting around the person. Now, if you still have artifacts that you don't want in the scene like this over here, all you have to do is go to the minus button right here, click that. And now you can drag away the stuff that you don't want in the scene.
So there's one other spot up here. I'm just going to remove that one quick note too. It looks like.
The hands got a little cut out here, so we can just go back to the plus and drag that back in. Now to track through this whole frame, all we have to do is go up to this button right here. This is track forward and then reverse.
We can click this, and that's going to auto mask the rest of the video. Now we can go back to the edit page, click that, and now we have a nice little cut out. If we need to make any adjustments, we can go back into the fusion page and make any adjustments in this area over here.
All right, then next tool that we're going to go over is voice isolation. This is one of the easiest ways to remove unwanted background sounds from your audio. For example, I have this shot right now and it sounds pretty good.
That is until you start hearing this random clinking sound in the background. Pretty annoying, right? That is until now.
How crazy is that? It's literally I'm still going. but you can't hear it.
This is insane. All right. So we have our shot in the timeline right here.
And to use the voice isolation tool, all you have to do is select the clip, make sure inspectors selected up here, then go to the audio tab right here. And then you'll see a toggle right here for AI voice isolation. All we want to do is toggle that on.
Now let's go back to the beginning of the video and check this out. That is until you start hearing this random clinking sound in the background. Pretty annoying, right?
Oh my gosh here I'm gonna go back to the beginning and turn this off just so you can hear it is until you start hearing this random clinking sound in the background Oh my god, that is an insane difference. The next tool on the list is Smart Reframe.
This is super useful as well. Normally, if you're turning a horizontal video into a vertical one, you have to keyframe the subject in every frame. This works fine, but it's a very manual process.
Smart Reframe automates this entire process. It keeps the subject centered in the middle of the frame, even if they move. Here's how you can do it.
Select our clip. Make sure Inspector is selected. make sure video is selected, then go down to AI smart reframe, I'm going to hit this drop down right here.
And then I'm going to go to object of interest. And in this case, it's pretty obvious that I'm the object of interest here. So I'm just going to keep it at auto.
And then I'm going to hit reframe. Now AI is going to work its magic. And boom, just like that, it just moved me to the center of the frame.
Now I've not seen this video yet. So this is my organic raw reaction. Let's check this out.
That is insane.
Oh my gosh, that is crazy. And just like that, AI took care of it. I think it looks super good.
Now, if the point of interest is much smaller and it's not as obvious, what you can do here is click this dropdown, go to reference point. And then you can use this box right here and you would want to put this box over your reference point. All right, the next tool is one of my absolute favorites, the music remixer tool.
The reason I love this tool so much is because it lets you isolate certain parts of the music track. For example, let's say you really like a song, but you don't want the vocals in that song. You just want to use the instrumental.
With the music remixer tool, you can mute the vocals and only have the music. Here's how you can do it. All right, so we're inside of our project and rate.
here we have our music track. To use this tool, we're going to go up to the inspector, then we're going to make sure audio is selected, and then we're going to go down to AI music remixer. We're going to toggle that on.
Now let's first see what our music sounds like.
So really cool, but you can hear the vocals in the background. Now, if I don't want those vocals, All I have to do is go down to mute vocals and click that.
Now let's go back to the beginning.
Oh my gosh, that is insane. And you can do this with other instruments as well. You can mute the drums, the bass, guitar, but you don't have to mute it entirely.
For example, I'm going to uncheck this, go up to voice and bring this down to negative 10. Now let's go back to the beginning.
Wow. Insane.
Oh my gosh. So it's way softer in the background. This is insane technology.
You can do so much with this. Now as a quick little bonus, let's say you want this music track to be shorter. For example, this is the end of my video, but notice how the music is way too long.
Normally what I would have to do is cut and find a piece here and then try to stitch that in the end here. Add a cross dissolve, try to get a little crafty with it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but we can let AI do a seamless ending.
select our clip, we can scroll down and we want to go to AI music editor. Next, we want to select live trim and that's going to allow us to bring this ending right to the ending of this video. Now it's going to analyze the clip and boom, check that out.
That just ended the video at the perfect time. So now it looks like this.
Oh my gosh. Such a time saver. As we can see here, if I go over, we can see that this is where the AI decided to make the cuts.
Let's see if we can notice the cut.
Oh my gosh.
Wow, you really can't even tell that that cuts there. Now you could also try different variations of this ending. So you could click this.
Go back down to our AI music editor. So notice how I click different versions and different versions of the song. are being applied here.
So you can experiment and see what works best for your project. All right, the last AI tool that we're going to cover in this section is AI color correction. And this one can save you a ton of time.
DaVinci Resolve is known for its color tools, and you can definitely spend a lot of time mastering the color page. But if you want a fast way to get your footage looking good, AI color correction actually does a really solid job. All right, so in our timeline right here, we have this shot of Anthony talking, and I think it looks really good, but it feels a little dark.
Now, what I could do is mess around with the highlights, the shadows, and all of that stuff. But I want to speed up the workflow a little bit and let AI do the color correction. So what I'm going to do is select the clip.
Then I'm going to go down to the color tab right down here, click that. And then I'm going to go over to color wheels, select this. And now all I'm going to do is go down to this auto balance button right here and click that.
And boom, just like that. I think this actually did a really good job brightening up this clip. Now from here, what I could do, if I want to lower these highlights just a little bit, I could click this bar right down here and drag these down very subtly.
I could go over to the mid -tones and do the same. And if I wanted to adjust the shadows, I could do that right over here. Now that only took a couple seconds, and I actually think this came out really good.
I'll throw both of these up on the screen right now. Let me know in the comments below which one you like more. All right, moving into the next section, we're going to be templatizing your workflow.
The goal here is to cut down the time it takes to begin a new project. For example, instead of starting a brand new project from scratch, you'll open this template and already have all of your folders and your timelines organized, ready to go. This saves a ton of setup time.
Think of it like getting in your car. You can turn on the heat and wait for it to warm up, or you can get in and already have it set to 75 degrees.
Let's build that same exact logic into DaVinci Resolve. All right, so the first thing that we're going to want to do is open up DaVinci Resolve. Then we're going to select new project.
And let's call this project template. Then I'm going to hit create. And that'll open up DaVinci Resolve.
The first thing that we're gonna wanna do is go down to the cut page. And now what we're gonna do is customize this project template to the way that we want it to open up every single time. So the first thing that I'm going to do is go down to this gear icon here and change my timeline resolution and timeline frame rate.
I edit a lot of my videos in 1080p, so I'm just going to keep this here. If you edit a lot of 4K footage, you can change this to 4K. All you would have to do is hit this dropdown and then select the 4K option.
If you want to make this template for vertical videos, all you would have to do is click this box right here, and that will change the resolution to a vertical video resolution. Next, you can change your timeline frame rate. I'm just going to keep this at 24 because 95 % of the videos that I edit are 24 frames per second.
If you want something different, all you have to do is click this dropdown and select whatever timeline you would like to edit in. Now, I just want to note that you can also make tons of different templates. So don't feel as though these are the only settings that you can use moving forward in DaVinci Resolve.
You can make this template for 1080p. Then you can make another template for 4K. You can make one for vertical video.
You can make one for 1080p vertical video. You can also make another one for 4K vertical video. After I have these settings done, I'm just going to go down to save.
And next we'll want to create our folders to keep all of our footage organized in. So going in this small rectangle right here, I'm going to right click and then I'm going to select new bin and I'm going to type media here. And then I'm going to hit enter.
Now I want to go inside of this bin. So I'm going to go over here and double click this. Now I'm going to create two more folders.
To do that, I'm going to right click and go to new bin and then type out A roll. Hit enter. Then go over here, right click, do new bin, and then type B roll.
Hit enter. Perfect, so now I have my A -roll and B -roll folders. The A -roll is where we're gonna put all of our talking head footage and the B -roll is where we're gonna put all of the clips that go on top of the talking head footage.
Now I'm gonna come back up to the master folder right here. I can close this up by hitting this button. Now I'm gonna go back into this bigger rectangle over here.
I'm gonna right click, gonna go to new bin and I'm gonna type in timelines and I'm gonna hit enter. Now I'm going to go into the Timelines folder by double -clicking. And I want to create three timelines here.
The first one is our A -roll timeline. The second is our B -roll timeline. And the third is our working timeline.
The working timeline is the timeline that we build our project on. The other two timelines are used to find clips quickly. They're really, really helpful.
You'll see at the end of this section. So first, let's create our working timeline. Right -click, go to Timelines, Create New Timeline.
And we're just going to call this working timeline. Now under number of video tracks, we can click this and we can make this two. And for number of audio tracks, we can click this and make it three.
We don't need to adjust anything else. Now we can hit create. Now we can go back up to the big rectangle right over here, right click, go to timelines, create new timeline.
And we're going to call this one all underscore a roll. We don't need to add any more video or audio tracks. One is fine for this one.
So now I can hit create. And now all we have to do is just duplicate that one one more time by hovering over it, right clicking, and then go to duplicate timeline. And that just made another copy of it.
But now what we can do is go underneath here and change the A to B. So you should have all B roll, all A roll, and then your working timeline. You'll see why this is important at the end of this section.
So now I can go back to master and we're going to create a couple more folders here. The first one is sound effects. So I can right click, go to new bin, then type in sound effects, hit enter.
And the last one that we'll create here is music. So I can right click, go to new bin, then type music, hit enter. Cool.
So you should have media, timeline, sound effects, and music. Now I'm going to go back to the timeline section right here and go to working timeline. Double click this.
Now notice I have video 2 and video 1 here. On video 1, this is where all of my A -roll goes. So I'm going to double click this and rename this to A -roll.
Then I'm going to go to video 2, click this, and rename this to B -roll. To select it, all you have to do is double click. Now to make this template even better, we can actually add sound effects to this template.
So every time we open up a new project template, it's already going to have all of our favorite sound effects in there. To do that, I'm going to go to sound effects. Now I'm going to go to wherever I store my sound effects on my computer.
So for example, right here, I have this folder called sound effects. So what I'm going to do is double click and open this up. As you can see, I have all my sound effects right here.
Now what I can do is select all of them. and drag them right into this folder right here. I can do the same with music, so I can go to music, I can open up where I store my music, and I can select these and drag them in right here.
You can drag in as many files as you want depending on how big your library is. Now a super important note with this is you don't want to change the location of where you save your sound effects or music.
So only drag in the sound effects and music to the project template if you know that those will not change location. For example, if you store your sound effects on a hard drive and that hard drive is always plugged into your computer, that's a pretty good location as long as you don't move the folder of those sound effects.
But if the location of where you save your sound effects is always changing, this method would not work well. If the location is always moving, these sound effects will actually unlink from this project template.
For example, this is what it would look like. Let's go back to sound effects. Then I'm going to open up finder right here, go back to my sound effects folder.
So this is the folder that I dragged into sound effects, but let's say I move this to the trash. Notice how these would now get unlinked and DaVinci Resolve doesn't know where these are located anymore. So if you are dragging in sound effects and music into your project template, make sure that those are in a permanent location.
So I'm just going to open up finder and hit command Z and these will come back. So now once we have the shell built out and everything's the way that we want it, all we had to do is go to file. And then we're going to go down to export project.
We're going to click on this and now we can rename what we want this template to be. So I'm going to use the timeline settings that we did at the beginning. So this is template underscore 24 frames per second, underscore 10 80 P.
And we can close that up. So template 24 frames per second, 1080p. Now, if you wanted to make a vertical video template that you could reuse with all of your vertical videos, you would do the same exact process.
But at the beginning, change the timeline settings to vertical video. Because this is horizontal, everything's the way that I want it. I'm just going to pick a location.
In this case, I'm just going to save it to my desktop and I'm going to hit save. Cool. So after that, all we have to do is hit command S to save this.
Now we can close this up. And now we're back at our desktop right here and we can see that we have the template right here. So to open up this template, all we have to do is double click it.
And this is gonna load it up and boom, just like that, we have everything ready to go. Now it's really important though, we don't wanna edit anything in this actual project template because this is just our template. We wanna be able to reuse this every single time.
So instead, what we need to do is go up to file and then we wanna select save project as. Click this. And then we want to rename what our actual video is.
Let's say, for example, I was making a biking video. I would type in biking video and I can hit save. And now I can treat this like a normal video project.
Now, let's say I wanted to make a change to the project template. For example, let's say in the future, I add more sound effects that I want to be included in this project template. All we'd have to do is double click the project template.
That's going to open it up. And right here, we can just type in anything we can do. Building a new template.
Then we can hit OK. And we can add our new sound effects in right here. Or we can adjust any of the folders if we want to add more folders or more assets that we want to load inside of this project template.
For example, let's say I downloaded this sound effect right here and I don't have it inside of the project template. What I'd have to do is click and drag that over just like that. Now what's really cool is if you click and drag all of these sound effects over, it actually won't duplicate sound effects inside of DaVinci Resolve.
So for example, if I drag all these in here, notice how nothing got added to the folder because they already live inside of this project template. So for example, if I were to delete the bell sound effect and drag in all of these, notice how the bell was the only one added. That's really cool if you're trying to add a lot of sound effects.
So now what we want to do is export this as a project. So let's go to file and then export project. And what we can do here is just click this one right here because this is the one that we previously built.
We just want to update this and we can hit save. Now we can just replace this one. Now I can hit command S and if I close this and if I close this and load this up by double clicking.
Now, for example, let's say we're making a new video. We want to call this soccer video. I can hit OK.
And notice how the bell sound effect is right there. Now, the next workflow trick that we'll be going over is using the pancake timeline approach. This is when you drag footage from one timeline onto another, which is super helpful when you're trying to edit faster.
So inside of the A -roll timeline, this is where we want to add all of our A -roll. So we can double click this to open up this timeline. Now I'm going to go to media.
Double click a roll and just drag all of our a roll onto this timeline. Now I'm going to go back to timelines, then go to all B roll. Double click that.
So now I'm in the all B roll timeline. I'm going to go to B roll right here. Now I'm going to select the first video.
Now I'm going to go all the way down to the bottom video. Hold shift. That will select all of our video.
I'm going to click and drag this down to this timeline. Let me show you how this will increase your editing speed. So to make these timelines stacked, what we're going to do is go to this button over here, click this, and then go to display stack timelines.
We're going to select that. Now we can add our timelines that we want to stack here. So right here, we have all B roll.
Now I can add another timeline in here. I can hit this dropdown to select the timeline. Now I can do all A roll.
Now I can add another one, go over here and go to working timeline. And again, our working timeline is where we're building out this video. Now what you could do is go to this timeline right here, and you could look for the part that you want to use.
So for example, let's say I want to use from here to right here. All I'd have to do is click this, copy it, go over to the working timeline, and paste it in here. And if I wanted to get B -roll, I could go over to our B -roll timeline, could zoom out a little bit, and I can quickly skim through all of our footage to see what bit I want to use.
For example, I really like this shot right here. I can select this, copy it, go to our working timeline, and paste it in here. But to actually stack them, we're going to click this button right over here.
And boom, just like that, now we have two different timelines. So let's keep our B roll on the top and our working timeline on the bottom. Let's remove the A roll for right now, so I can just click that.
I can remove the working timeline up here. Now I can go to the bottom here and select working timeline. And now check this out.
I can click here and go through the top section of all of our B -roll footage. For example, I really like this clip. All I had to do is click and drag that right down here.
This is a really fast way to drag clips from one timeline onto another. All right, next up is the section that probably gives you the biggest return on your time. And that is keyboard shortcuts.
At first, keyboard shortcuts can really feel confusing. But if you practice them and slowly roll them into your workflow, you'll quickly see how these can save you a massive amount of time. In this section, I'll walk you through the default DaVinci Resolve keyboard shortcuts.
And then at the end, I'll show you how you can customize these keyboard shortcuts. and set everything up the way that you want. Now, a quick note here, I'm editing on a Mac.
So if you're on a Windows, just translate command to control and option to alt as we go. All right, the first keyboard shortcut that we're gonna go over is called shuffle. All right, let's say I wanted this pink clip to come before the lime green clip on the timeline.
Normally what I would have to do is highlight everything here, move this over, grab the pink clip, drag this in, then... Delete these gaps. And that definitely works, but it's super clunky and kind of time consuming.
Instead, what we can do if we want to change where this pin clip is located in the timeline, we can select it and then we can hit command shift period for the clip to go right in the timeline. or command shift comma for it to go left in the timeline. So now if I wanted to move this pink clip after the blue clip, I could hold down command shift and then hit period twice on the timeline.
And that's going to shuffle the clips. All right, the next keyboard shortcut is called match frame. Think of match frame as your inside of DaVinci Resolve.
It helps you find what you need really quickly. Let's say I want to see if there's more footage before or after what's currently selected inside of the timeline. To do so, I can click over here and then select the pin clip.
Next, all I had to do is hit F on my keyboard, and that's going to show me the in and out point that's currently being displayed on the timeline. For example, if I go right here, this is this point of the clip. And if I were to go over here, this is currently this point of the clip.
So now what I can do to see if there's more before and after this clip right here, I can just go into the beginning here and see if there's anything I want to add in, or I can go over here to see if there's anything I want to add in. Match frame is also really, really helpful in case you delete audio or video. For example, let's say I accidentally deleted this audio track, but it was really important to the video and I wanted to add it back in.
Well, normally what I would have to do is go through my media pool. Double click into this footage right here and try to find that audio track again. Instead, what I can do is hover over this video, click it, hit F on my keyboard.
And now what I can do is hover over this section right here. This is audio right here and this is video right here. I want the audio for this clip.
I'm going to click and drag that right back here. So now this is the audio that matches this video. Super helpful.
All right, the next keyboard shortcut is cutting. And this will probably be the shortcut that you use the most. Now, if you were to cut a clip without the keyboard shortcut, it would look something like this.
You would drag your playhead over the point where you want to make a cut. You would select the clip. You could go up to the blade tool right here, click this, drag this over here, click right here.
Then I could go back to the selection tool, click that. And let's say I wanted to delete this beginning section right here. I would select that, click delete.
Then I click here and then I would click delete. Pretty time consuming process. Instead, we can make this process way quicker.
So the keyboard shortcut for cutting is command B. So for example, if I want to cut this clip right here, I can click where I want to bring the playhead to. For example, right there, it's going to bring the playhead to this line.
Now, all I have to do is hit command B. Now, if I don't want the second half, I can just click this, delete and delete. Super helpful.
You'll probably use that one a ton. All right, next up on the keyboard shortcut list is ripple delete. And this is one of my absolute favorites because it does two things at once.
It deletes a clip and moves your entire timeline to the left. For example, if I were to delete a clip without using ripple delete, notice how there's a gap here. But if I were to delete the clip while using ripple delete, notice how it deletes the clip.
and gets rid of the gap here's how you can use the keyboard shortcut so an easy way to delete something and move everything to the left is using shift delete on the keyboard so for example let's say i place a cut right here and i want to delete this but I don't want to leave a gap here. I can select this clip right here, then I can hold down shift and hit delete on my keyboard.
And notice how that just deleted that clip and moved everything to the left. All right, we're going to stay on the ripple delete train and add two variations of ripple delete here. These are ripple delete left and ripple delete right.
This is definitely one of the most efficient tools when it comes to trimming because this one does three things at once. All right, so ripple delete left is deleting everything to the left of the playhead and delete right is deleting everything to the right of the playhead.
So let's say I want to place a cut right here. And ultimately, what I would like to do is delete all of this and move all of this to the left. So to do that, what I can do is select this clip, then I can hold down command on my keyboard, hold down shift, and then I'm going to select the left bracket.
And boom, notice what that just did. It deleted that part of the clip and moved everything to the left. Now let's say I wanted to delete everything to the right of the playhead.
For example, right here. Let's say I wanted to delete all of this right here. I would select the clip.
Then I would hold down command, hold down shift, and then do the right bracket. and boom that just deleted everything to the right of the playhead this is a super useful keyboard shortcut you'll probably be using this one a ton as well now remembering all the shortcuts right off the bat is super confusing but i want to make this learning process as easy as possible for you so i put together a cheat sheet that you can download in the description of this video this shows you the default keyboard shortcut in davinci resolve and what the keyboard shortcut does you can print this out and keep it on your desk or you can keep it on the desktop of your computer and reference it as you need.
Now, if you wanna change these shortcuts and customize them to something else, let me show you how you can do that. All right, so if you wanna personalize the shortcuts, all you have to do is go up to this top bar right here, select help, and then you wanna type in keyboard and then keyboard customization will pop up. Alternatively, you can go over to DaVinci Resolve and then go down to keyboard customization.
And then you're gonna get this crazy looking interface right here, but it's not that bad. So if you want to change one of the shortcuts, all you'd have to do is type in what that keyboard shortcut is in DaVinci Resolve, then change it to whatever you want it to be. For example, let's change that command B shortcut to just C.
The reason I'm doing this is because I like to simplify the ones that I'm going to be using a lot. I always use the razor tool or I like to call it the cut tool. And I just want to make it really easy to hit on the keyboard.
Command B kind of takes a while. I kind of have to take my hands off of the keyboard, but C is super easy. It's just down from my index finger.
So what I can do here is hit command B and notice how that just pulled up the command right here. So now what I can do is click that. That's going to pull it up over here.
Notice how it says command B right here. All I had to do is hit the X there. Then I can just type in C.
Next, I'm going to hit save. And because we're changing the default DaVinci Resolve keyboard, it's going to ask me to make a new keyboard. This is great because you can really play around with different presets and keyboards.
It will never change the default keyboard that DaVinci Resolve has. So what I'm going to do is call this Connor's keyboard. And I'm going to hit OK.
Cool. So now I can hit close. now to see what keyboard i have selected all i have to do is go back to help keyboard customization up here what i can do is click this drop down and i can see we have a bunch of different options so davinci resolve adobe premiere pro final cut and down here we see connor's keyboard so i'm going to select that hit close now if i go over here let's say i want to make a cut point right here select my clip Hit C on my keyboard and boom, just like that, we made a cut point.
If you're messing around with some keyboard presets and kind of experimenting and you want to delete one of them, all you have to do is go up to help, keyboard customization, and now you can select the one that you want to delete. So for example, right here, I like this one, so I don't want to delete it. But for example, testing right here, I want to delete.
So I can select that. And then with these three dots right here, I can select that and then hit delete preset. And then I want to do testing.
So it's going to ask me again, would you like to delete this? Yes. And perfect.
And now we just deleted that keyboard. The big takeaway here is to assign easy to remember keys to your most important actions. Things like ripple delete or cut, since you'll be using them all the time.
You also want to think about hand placement and choose keys that feel comfortable and natural to press while you're editing. For example, I changed command B. which does the cut to just the letter C.
It's easy to remember because I think cut and cut starts with a C. And it's right next to my left index finger so I can hit it without thinking. Real quick, let's go through a one minute rapid fire round where I will quickly go over some useful, less technical ones.
Also feel free to bookmark this video and come back to it whenever you need to reference these. To duplicate a clip, you can hold down option and drag that video or audio to another track. To copy a video, you can select the video and then hit command C.
To paste the video, you can hit command V. Additionally, you can control where clips get pasted using the auto track selector. Let's say I want to paste a clip onto video track four.
First, I will disable the auto track selectors on all the other tracks and only leave it enabled for track four. Then I will select the clip that I want to copy. And then I'm going to hit command C, move the playhead to where I want to paste that clip.
And then hit command V. And boom, just like that, it will land exactly where you want. Now notice right here how the audio was pasted onto the first audio track.
If we wanted the audio to get pasted on a lower audio track, we would just have to turn off the auto track selector for those. So now if we delete that, we select this again and hit paste. Notice how that pasted the audio onto a lower audio track.
Now I can take copy and pasting a step further by pasting specific attributes onto certain videos. For example, I'm going to delete this. And let's say this video right here had a really cool color grade, something like that.
Now let's say I wanted to copy this color grade and paste it onto another clip. All I had to do is select the clip with the color grade, hit command C. Now I can select the clip that I would like to paste it onto.
For example, this one right here. Now I can hit option V. That's going to bring up this menu right here.
And I just want to make sure color correction is selected because that's what I want to paste onto this clip. I can hit apply. boom just like that if i go over this clip now we have this really cool color grade applied to this clip as well also for the buzzer beater one of my absolute favorites is forward on all tracks this allows you to select all clips forward from the playhead so for example let's say i wanted to add a clip in right here but i have this really complicated timeline all you have to do is click option y and that will select every clip past the playhead this will allow you to click and drag them all over over at once so you can add that new clip in.
Then all you have to do is click the delete key on these blank areas right here and here, and that will remove the gaps. Keyboard shortcuts are a total game changer. Feel free to customize them so they feel natural and easy to remember.
Also remember, you can always go back to the default DaVinci Resolve keyboard shortcuts. So don't feel like the decisions that you make are permanent. You can always revert back to the original keyboard.
So feel free to experiment and see what works best for you. All right, the next section is all about using pre -built editing templates to speed up the workflow.
I find these very helpful when you're a beginner because they allow you to get the type of quality that you want without having to learn complex animations or key framing. I think the best starting place with pre -built templates are DaVinci Resolve macros. They act like presets and are installed into DaVinci Resolve so you can use them on any project.
For example, a super popular template is a lower thirds text template. You'll see these a lot in YouTube videos.
Now, making this from scratch is an absolute nightmare. You'd have to go into the Fusion panel, build a shape, keyframe in and out points, and add effects like drop shadows and glitches. It's very technical and takes a long time to learn how to do that.
Instead, with prebuilt templates, you can simply download a macro and start using it immediately inside of DaVinci Resolve. Other really useful macros are transitions effects.
They work pretty much the exact same way as titles do. Once they're installed in DaVinci Resolve, you just have to drag and drop them onto your timeline. Transitions go between two clips and effects get dropped on top of the clip.
I think the only downside with templates is that they're pretty hard to find. And when you do find them, they're usually very expensive. I think the best solution that solves both of these problems is content creator templates.
There are thousands of editing templates for DaVinci Resolve and hundreds of macros that you can use. Everything is organized and in one place. And there's even an extension that you can download that installs the macros for you.
When you're using the extension, all you have to do is click download and that will automatically install that macro into DaVinci Resolve. . I love it so much.
Content Creator Templates also has a lot more that you can download outside of macros. There are tens of thousands of sound effects. hundreds of LUTs, thousands of motion graphics like these cool arrows, light leaks, film burns, everything you need to make your videos look more professional without spending a fortune.
If you're interested in learning more about content creator templates, there's a link below that you can check out. All right, moving on to section number five, where we'll be going over some unique time -saving features that are super valuable. The first one is the smooth cut transition.
Whenever I'm recording talking head content like this, I tend to have a lot of mess. To prove it, what if I told you this was three different clips? You see, normally it would look something like this.
I would be talking, maybe I mess up, and then I would have to redo the line. Notice the three individual cuts, but with smooth cut enabled, it looks like this. I would be talking, maybe I mess up, and then I would have to redo the line.
All right, so as you can see in our test video, we have three different clips right here. If I were to play this back, this is what it looks like. All right, here's a quick test video where I mess up in between, but it's saved using smooth cut.
So not bad, but it just looks a little awkward with those hard cuts in the middle. So we can use smooth cut to kind of get rid of those. And to do that, we're going to go to effects up here.
Then we're going to go to video transitions and we're going to click smooth cut and drag and drop that in between the two clips. So we can do that with the other one as well. Now what we want to do is just kind of bring these in a little bit.
You can play around with the duration of them. Just going to bring them in right about there. And now if we play this back, it'll look something like this.
All right, here's a quick test video where I mess up in between, but it's saved using smooth cut. Awesome, I think that looks super good. Definitely not perfect, but it is a cool way to seamlessly blend clips together.
To get the best results with smooth cut, you want to make sure the cuts aren't too drastic. For example, if my arms are down here in one clip and suddenly up here in the next, it looks a little weird. In cases like that, it's usually better to just punch in on the second clip so it feels like a second camera angle.
All right, then next tool is animated subtitles. This one's really cool because it lets you create that trendy subtitle style that you see all over social media right inside DaVinci Resolve. All right, to get animated subtitles into DaVinci Resolve, what we're gonna do is go up to timeline, AI tools, and then create subtitles from audio.
Now we have this screen right here. I'm not going to change any settings. All we have to do is hit create.
And boom, here we go. Now what I can do is extend this out just like that, just so we don't have any blank spots. And now what I can do is go to effects.
Then I'm going to go to titles. Now I'm going to go to subtitles. And up here are our animated subtitles.
I can also click that and isolate the animated subtitles right here. Now all we have to do is select one that we like and drag it onto the header. So in this case, I really like this one.
I'm just going to click this and drag it onto the header just like that. Now I can go back to the beginning of the video and play this. All right, here's a quick test video where I mess up in between, but it's saved using Smooth Cut.
Awesome. I think that looks great. Now, if you want to customize the color or anything, all you have to do is select the caption and then go over to track up here.
And now you can customize this even further. So for example, let's make this green and let's change the font to this one right here. All right, here's a quick test video where I mess up in between, but it's saved using smooth cut.
Super cool. All right, next up is vertical video editing. When you're working on a vertical timeline and you want a little more room to see your footage, you can click this button right here to expand the viewer.
That gives you a little more space to see what you're working on, which is especially helpful for detail stuff. I use this a lot when I'm doing a mask. I'll expand the view and then zoom in or out with my mouse.
Just kind of makes everything feel easier to work with. Alright, the next tool is really helpful if you're editing with music. It's called Show Music Beats.
When you turn this on, DaVinci Resolve shows beat markers right on the music track. Your clips will snap to those beats when you trim, which makes it easier to line things up. Alright, so let's say you're trying to edit to the beat of this song.
A really easy way to show those beat marks is to select the music track, right click, and then go to Show Music Beats. That's going to do a little AI magic. And then from here, as we can see, we have these beat markers.
So I'm just going to zoom in so we can really see these. See these white little ticks here? These are the downbeats.
Cool. So now what we can do is zoom out a little bit. And now we have a reference point as to where these beat markers are happening.
So if I were to drag in some footage here, just like that. And let's drag in a couple more.
Now I could look at this timeline and have a couple of cool ideas of where I want to make these cuts. So let's listen to the music.
So the first like kind of drop is right here on this one. So what I could do is click and drag this and it's going to snap to that point right there. And I can move this over.
Cool and here's another good cut point right here so I can move this over a little bit Now I can move this over Awesome and you get the idea you can do this at certain points in your video I would recommend not cutting to every single beat as it might sound a little repetitive Alright, the last tool we're gonna cover is the audio balance tool This analyzes your track and automatically lowers the music whenever there's a voiceover or talking head.
If you do a lot of talking head content, this can save you a ton of time because you don't have to manually keyframe the audio. All right, so we're inside of DaVinci Resolve. We have our talking head audio here.
We have our music track here. So the tool that we're looking for in DaVinci Resolve to do this is the Ducker tool. So what we wanna do is go to our music track.
This is located on audio two. And we wanna go over here to the far. left this really small box right here and we want to click that.
That's going to bring up this box over here and now we want to toggle on Ducker. Now what we can do is change the source to Audio 1. This is telling DaVinci Resolve to listen to Audio Track 1 and to bring up the volume or bring the volume down depending on what's happening on Audio Track 1.
And right here we can change the duck level. So let's move this to 10. Essentially the bigger the number is here, the more it's going to duck.
And we have a couple more settings that we can adjust in the advanced tab right here. But for now, let's just close that up and see how it did. All right, here is an audio ducking test.
Let's see if it comes back down now.
Pretty cool. I'm sure we could get the results a little bit better based off of these advanced settings, but that's honestly a pretty solid result for not having to do any work. All right, that wraps up my favorite ways to edit faster in DaVinci Resolve.
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The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The pitch is edit 10x faster in DaVinci Resolve, and the opening beat is a one-click background removal demo before the video has even explained what section it's in.
Named ideas worth stealing.
10:39model
The reusable project template
- Media (A-Roll, B-Roll)
- Timelines (All A-Roll, All B-Roll, Working)
- Sound Effects
- Music
A fixed bin and timeline structure, plus a locked resolution/frame-rate setting, saved as a reusable project file so every new video starts already organized instead of from a blank project.
Steal forany recurring video format, course lessons, weekly recaps, or client edits that share the same folder needs every time
21:10concept
The pancake timeline
Stack an A-roll reference timeline, a B-roll reference timeline, and the working timeline on top of each other so footage can be scanned and dragged directly into the cut without switching tabs.
Steal forpulling footage fast on any long interview, podcast, or multi-clip edit
27:54concept
Ripple Delete Left/Right
A single command that trims everything on one side of the playhead and closes the resulting gap at the same time.
Steal fortrimming dead air or bad takes out of any long-form or interview timeline
34:16concept
The keyboard remap rule
Assign easy-to-reach, single keys to the actions used most often (like the cut tool), rather than leaving high-frequency actions on multi-key default combinations.
Steal forcustomizing shortcuts in any NLE, not just DaVinci Resolve
How they asked for the click.
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“I highly recommend enrolling in 14 Day Filmmaker.”
Single soft pitch placed after all five content sections are complete, bundled as one payment covering the course, lifetime community access, and weekly live Q&A calls; framed as the next step only for viewers who are 'pretty serious' about editing, not a hard sell.
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