Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Most DaVinci Resolve editors are only using a fraction of the program, and a set of keyboard shortcuts, tracking tools, and automated audio rules turns hours of repeated manual work into single keypresses and saved presets.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…

An editor who already knows DaVinci Resolve's basics but is still dragging clips by hand, keyframing volume manually, and rebuilding project setups from scratch each time.
Someone cutting multiple videos a week who wants concrete shortcuts and presets, not another explainer on what DaVinci Resolve is.
A creator switching from Premiere Pro or Final Cut who wants the Resolve-specific equivalents for trimming, color tracking, and batch exporting.

SKIP IF…

You've never opened DaVinci Resolve and need to learn the interface first; the tips assume you already know the Edit, Color, and Fairlight pages.
You're after cinematography or color theory instruction rather than software mechanics and shortcuts.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

The video runs through 35 DaVinci Resolve tips in four clusters: timeline speed (snap-to-playhead with E, nudge clips with Command+Shift+Comma/Period, ripple-delete with Q/W), color tools (Power Window object tracking with zero keyframes, local color versions, color isolation via the Qualifier), Fairlight audio (sidechain ducking, loudness normalization, a -1 to -2 dB limiter), and organization/export (project templates, Power Bins, stacked timelines, the render queue for batch exports). Each tip is demonstrated on real footage with the exact menu path or shortcut. The through-line: build presets and templates once, use shortcuts instead of dragging, and the time savings compound across an entire edit.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:42

01 · Extended Edit

Switch to Trim Edit mode, drag across multiple clip ends to select them, then press E to snap every selected track to the current playhead position instead of dragging each layer by hand.

00:42 – 01:29

02 · Shuffle & Swap

Select a clip and press Command+Shift+Comma or Command+Shift+Period to nudge it left or right one position at a time, even across multiple selected clips.

01:29 – 02:29

03 · Power Window Tracking

Add a tracking point in the Tracker tab and let Resolve follow a masked object, like a moving license plate, through the frame with no manual keyframes.

02:29 – 03:23

04 · Color Grading Versions

Right-click a clip, create a Local Version to build a second grade without duplicating the clip, and press Command+B to switch between saved versions.

03:23 – 04:37

05 · Stacked Timelines

Enable Display Stacked Timelines to keep a rough cut intact on one timeline while copying selected clips down into a second, editable timeline for the final edit.

04:37 – 05:56

06 · XPPen Pilot Pro

Sponsored segment on a customizable hardware controller with buttons mapped to scrubbing, zoom, and track height for common editing actions; discount code and links are in the description.

05:56 – 06:37

07 · Isolated Trimming

Hold Option+Command while dragging to trim a clip's linked audio or video independently, without unlinking or breaking the relationship between them.

06:37 – 07:30

08 · Audio Track Presets

Save a Fairlight Configuration Preset from an already-organized set of voiceover, music, and sound-effect tracks so future timelines start with the same structure built in.

07:30 – 08:14

09 · Project Templates

Build an empty project loaded with your usual timelines, bins, and audio structure, save it as a master template, and open it instead of setting up every new project from scratch.

08:14 – 09:21

10 · Sidechain Compression

Add a compressor to the music track in Fairlight, sidechain it to the voiceover track, and set the threshold around -30 to -40 dB so music automatically ducks under dialogue.

09:21 – 11:01

11 · Color Isolation

Use the Qualifier tab's pipette to select a specific color in the image, then adjust it in Curves > Hue vs Hue, or isolate with a Power Window for one part of the frame.

11:01 – 11:59

12 · Timeline Zoom

Map Full Extend Zoom to a shortcut (Shift+Z) to see the whole timeline at once, then press Z again to snap back to your previous zoom level and position.

11:59 – 12:42

13 · Custom Guides

Turn on Rulers in the View tab and drag guide lines from the edges to check whether something in frame is level or precisely positioned.

12:42 – 13:07

14 · Clip Attributes

Select every clip that shares the same wrong setting in the media pool, right-click, and use Clip Attributes to fix aspect ratio or frame rate for the whole group at once.

13:07 – 13:44

15 · Source Tape

Enable Source Tape on a bin so DaVinci treats every clip inside it as one continuous reel, letting you set in/out points and drop shots onto the timeline without opening each clip.

13:44 – 14:54

16 · Freeze Frame

Move the playhead to the frame you want to hold, press Command+R, and choose Freeze Frame to turn that moment into a still section you can drag to any length.

14:54 – 15:18

17 · Copy a Color Grade

Middle-click a graded clip onto an ungraded one to copy the grade directly, or right-click and Grab Still to save a look in the gallery for reuse on any clip later.

15:18 – 15:40

18 · Gallery Stills

Save a finished grade as a still in the Color page gallery so the reference look is always available to apply to future clips.

15:40 – 16:11

19 · Power Bins

Store frequently used assets like intros, effects, and titles in a Power Bin so they're available to drag onto the timeline in every project going forward.

16:11 – 16:30

20 · Ripple Delete

Press Q to remove the clip before the playhead or W to remove everything after it, both closing the resulting gap automatically.

16:30 – 17:15

21 · Delete Gaps

Use Delete Gaps in the Edit tab to pull every empty space in a timeline together automatically instead of closing multiple gaps one at a time.

17:15 – 17:46

22 · Render in Place

Right-click a clip with heavy effects and choose Render in Place to bake those effects into a rendered file so timeline playback stops stuttering.

17:46 – 18:15

23 · Disable Clips Instead of Deleting Them

Right-click a clip, graphic, or effect and choose Enable/Disable Clip to preview the timeline without it, without deleting the file from the project.

18:15 – 18:54

24 · Compound Clips

Select multiple clips, right-click, and choose New Compound Clip to treat them as one unit that can be moved, trimmed, or effected together.

18:54 – 19:17

25 · Decompose in Place

Use Decompose in Place to break a compound clip back into its individual clips at their original timeline positions, without manually pulling them out.

19:17 – 20:02

26 · Custom Render Presets

Dial in export settings once on the Deliver page and save them as a custom preset so future exports for the same platform or client skip the setup step.

20:02 – 20:49

27 · Render Queue

Add multiple export jobs, like a 4K master and a vertical cut, to the render queue and hit Render All so Resolve works through every version automatically.

20:49 – 21:37

28 · Match Frame

Press Shift+F, or hold Option and double-click a clip, to jump straight from the timeline to the exact frame and in/out points in the original source file.

21:37 – 22:01

29 · Select Clips Forward & Backward

Press Period to select every clip forward from the playhead or Comma to select everything backward, then move the whole section at once.

22:01 – 22:44

30 · Relink Clips

Select the offline clips in the media pool, right-click, choose Clip Attributes > Relink Selected Clips, and point Resolve to the new folder to reconnect everything it can find.

22:44 – 23:39

31 · Global Timeline Node

Switch the node editor from Clip to Timeline and press Option+S to create a node that adjusts every clip on the timeline at once, useful for a blanket note like 'make it warmer.'

23:39 – 24:20

32 · Normalize Audio Levels

Select audio clips, right-click, and choose Normalize Audio Levels to bring inconsistent volumes to a shared target level before fine-tuning individual clips by ear.

24:20 – 25:08

33 · Limiter on Main Bus

Add a limiter to the output bus in Fairlight with the ceiling set around -1 to -2 dB as a final safety net against unexpected audio peaks.

25:08 – 26:26

34 · Individual Clips Export

On the Deliver page, switch from single clip to individual clips so a finished timeline exports every clip in it as its own separate file in one batch.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

Trim Edit mode plus the E key snaps every selected track on a timeline to the current playhead position in one keystroke, instead of dragging each layer by hand.
Command+Shift+Comma and Command+Shift+Period nudge a selected clip left or right one position at a time, and it works on multiple selected clips at once.
The Power Window tracker follows a moving object like a license plate or a face through a shot using point tracking, with zero manual keyframes.
Right-clicking a clip and creating a Local Version stores a second color grade on the same clip without duplicating or splitting it, and Command+B toggles between saved versions.
A Stacked Timeline keeps a rough cut untouched underneath a second, editable timeline; clips dragged down are copied, not moved, so the original never breaks.
Sidechain compression on the music track, keyed off the voiceover track with the threshold set to -30 to -40 dB, ducks music automatically whenever someone talks.
Holding Option+Command while dragging trims linked audio or video independently, without unlinking them first.
Saving a Fairlight Configuration Preset locks in track names, colors, and structure so every new project starts with the same audio setup already built.
Q removes the clip before the playhead and closes the gap; W removes everything after it and closes the gap the same way.
Render in Place bakes a clip's heavy effects into a rendered file so a laggy timeline plays back smoothly without Resolve recalculating those effects in real time.
Match Frame (Shift+F, or Option+double-click) jumps straight from a clip on the timeline to the exact frame and in/out points in its original source file.
Loudness normalization brings inconsistent clip volumes to a shared target level in one pass, and a limiter at -1 to -2 dB on the main bus catches any leftover peaks.
The Deliver page's render queue lets you stack multiple export jobs, like a 4K master and a vertical cut, and hit Render All once instead of exporting one at a time.
Clip Attributes applied to a multi-clip selection changes frame rate or aspect ratio for the whole batch at once, instead of fixing each clip individually.

Takeaway

The keyboard shortcut and the saved preset are the actual skill

WORKFLOW HABITS

Every tip here replaces a repeated manual action, dragging, keyframing, or rebuilding a setup from scratch, with a single keypress, preset, or automated rule, and the payoff only shows up once it becomes habit.

A handful of keyboard shortcuts (E to snap clips to the playhead, Q/W to ripple-delete, Period/Comma to select forward or backward) replace most manual timeline dragging.
Power Window tracking follows a moving object through a shot automatically, so isolating and grading a car, face, or sign no longer needs manual keyframes.
Saving your setup once, project templates, Fairlight track presets, and custom render presets, means every new project or export starts from a finished baseline instead of zero.
Sidechain compression on the music track, keyed off the voiceover with the threshold around -30 to -40 dB, automates the music-ducking that's normally done by hand with volume keyframes.
Stacked timelines and compound clips let you build and reorganize an edit without ever touching or breaking the original rough cut.
Loudness normalization plus a -1 to -2 dB limiter on the main bus is a fixed two-step habit that fixes inconsistent clip volume and catches any leftover audio peaks.
The render queue turns multiple exports, a 4K master, a vertical cut, a client proxy, into one batch job instead of a series of one-at-a-time renders.
Match Frame and Relink Clips solve the two most common 'where did that go' moments: finding a shot's original source file, and reconnecting media after it's been moved.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Power Window: A shape-based mask in DaVinci Resolve's Color page used to isolate part of an image for grading or tracking.
Qualifier: A color-page tool that selects pixels by color or luminance so an adjustment only applies to a specific area, like a shirt or the sky.
Node / node tree: The chain of image-processing steps in DaVinci Resolve's Color page; each node applies one adjustment before passing the image to the next.
Fairlight: DaVinci Resolve's built-in audio mixing and editing page, separate from the Edit and Color pages.
Sidechain compression: An audio technique where one track's volume automatically ducks in response to another track's level, commonly used to lower music under dialogue.
Compound clip: A group of clips merged into a single clip so they can be moved, trimmed, or have effects applied to all of them together.
Ripple delete: Removing a clip from a timeline while automatically closing the gap it leaves behind.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

05:37toolXPPen Pilot Pro Controller ↗

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

01:22

“A simple move, but over the course of an entire edit, the amount of time you save compounds really, really fast.”

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04:31

“The amount of time you save compounds really, really fast.”

restates the video's core promise in one breath→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

23:40

“One of the things that makes videos on amateur very quickly is inconsistent audio.”

blunt, specific claim that hooks editors worried about sounding unpolished→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

25:38

“This was a lot of information and I know you're not going to remember all of it. Five minutes from now you will forget half of the things we just covered.”

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Extended edit. Let's say you have got a bunch of different layers like text, b -roll and any kind of effects that all need to end at exactly the same point. Let's say right here.

Instead of wasting time dragging all those different layers manually, you switch to trim edit mode. Drag across the ends of the clips until the edit points get highlighted in green. Now press E on the keyboard and Resolve instantly aligns all those selected tracks to your current playhead position.

If you switch back to the selection tool, you can take this even further. Just move your playhead somewhere else on your timeline and press E again. Shuffle and Swap If you decide that some clips would work better somewhere else in your edit, you normally end up dragging everything around.

You create space, try to fit it in or drag the whole side here and there. This could get annoying very quickly. Select a clip and simply press command shift and comma to move it left or command shift and period to move it right.

You can keep pressing the shortcut to move that same clip through the timeline one position at a time. And it also works for multiple clips at once if you want to move a whole b -roll section. A simple move, but over the course of an entire edit, the amount of time you save compounds really, really fast.

Power window tracking. On this clip I created a mask on the license plate and used color isolation to change it to a different color. How to easily isolate colors is shown later in this video.

But since the bus is moving across the frame, we now have to track the license plate. and we will do that without setting up a single manual keyframe. We move to the first frame and head to the tracker tab.

Here you can choose different tracking modes like the point tracker. All the way down here we now add a tracking point. This little cross right here appears and we put it directly onto the license plate.

Now we have to track the mask forward and reverse and Resolve analyzes the movement and automatically tracks the masked object through the frame. So whether you're isolating a face, a car or a part of the sky with this tracking tool you avoid manual keyframes completely.

You will love this one. Did you know you can create color grading versions on the same clip without actually duplicating or splitting the clip or losing a grade you already like? Right click your clip head to local versions and create a new one.

Now you can create your clip differently from scratch or apply another power grade. I will leave this version raw for a better demonstration. To compare and switch between all the versions you created, you can either load them directly from here or you simply press Command plus B on your keyboard.

At the top left, you can always check which version is active right now. So instead of duplicating or splitting a clip to build other grades separately, you can do all of that a lot cleaner without ever leaving the color page. Stacked Timelines If you have created a rough cut with all your best takes, your timeline often looks like this.

If you now want to build your final edit from it, it's a massive waste of time if you're constantly rearranging and dragging parts of your whole timeline around. Instead, make use of a stacked timeline. In the Edit page, open Timeline View Options and enable Display Stacked Timelines.

Then click the plus icon to the right and it automatically creates a second timeline underneath. Create another timeline, select it here and now you can have both timelines visible at the same time. A source timeline and a working timeline.

Your original rough cut always stays intact and untouched while you just pick the clips you want to build your final edit separately. Since all the clips you drag down here are copied instead of removed or deleted everything stays in its original shape while giving you a proper structure and full flexibility.

You should always try to reduce your editing time. You can do that with the speed editor presets or keyboard shortcuts.

But for me, it's the Pilot Pro controller from XP -Pen. It offers multiple buttons, knobs and wheels that can all be customized exactly how I want them for my workflow. The speed editor has a lot of functions, but I found myself barely using half of them.

And with the Pilot Pro, nothing is useless. Essential actions I use every day, like scrubbing through the timeline, zooming in and out, or adjusting the height of my audio and video tracks.

Everything is within the reach of a single button. My favorite part is that it's designed for the left hand, so my right hand never leaves the mouse. You can also create different setups for the edit or color page and it also works with Photoshop or Lightroom.

With one click, an overlay shows which function is assigned to each button, so you don't have to guess or remember anything. I've been using it for a few weeks now and editing is not only way faster it's actually fun again. XP -Pen is currently celebrating the 21st anniversary and with my discount code you will save 30 % on this controller.

So if you're interested the link and code are found in the description. Isolated trimming. Let's say you want to do a JRL cut on the audio track on this b -roll clip.

Since the audio and video are linked I can't just pull the audio to the left or to the right, since I would delete the parts right next to it. Normally, you would have to unlink them, drag the audio to the side and then link them again.

But did you know, if you hold Option plus Command, you can drag either the video or audio independently? This is very useful if you want to adjust the length of a video or audio without actually breaking the relationship between them. Audio track presets.

If you build your audio tracks the same way in every project, you can save that entire setup as a preset instead of rebuilding it every time. For example, here I have my voiceover, music and sound effect tracks already created, named, color labeled and organized exactly the way I want them. Now I move to the Fairlight page, open the presets library head to the Fairlight Configuration Presets and choose Save New.

Give it a clear name and the track structure and configuration are saved. When you now create another timeline, you can choose the Fairlight Configuration Preset and have those tracks and setup already created for you. And this becomes even more useful when you combine it with the next tip.

Project Templates Instead of wasting the first 10 minutes setting up every new project completely from scratch, build yourself an empty project containing the things you use over and over again. Timelines, bins, the audio structure, graphics, your commonly used assets, basically everything.

Repair them as you like and once you've done that, save it as your master template. I have mine sitting in my YouTube folder right on my desktop. When I now start a new project I simply open the template and start my edit with the right environment already waiting for me.

With audio ducking music automatically gets quieter as soon as you start talking over it. So instead of manually keyframing the music volume up or down you'll move to the music track in the Fairlight page.

Here you click on Dynamics, toggle the compressor and then you simply choose your voiceover track, which in my case is A1 and then you activate the sidechain.

Now set the threshold to something between minus 30 to minus 40. That should be enough. to make the music sit perfectly in the background.

Every time you talk, the music now ducks itself automatically.

When you stop talking, the music gets louder again. And with the release setting, you can adjust how fast that happens.

The same trick with the license plate from before. Here is how it works. Since I don't want to destroy the finish grade of this clip I first make use of the color grade version that I showed you before.

To avoid confusion I put this whole node tree into a compound node for better visualization. Now I create another node and then I move to the qualifier tab. To actually see what exactly gets affected You simply press that highlight button at the top.

Select this pipette and now choose a part of the image you want to isolate. You can fine -tune the selection with the plus and minus button to really cover every small detail in your image.

Now you simply move to Curves, head to You vs You and here you choose any color you like. Easy! And if you just want to isolate a specific part of the image you could create a power window and move it around wherever you need it.

With this simple technique you can change the color of pretty much anything anywhere in a shot. And if you remember tip number three where we tracked the license plate you could now combine both techniques. First you isolate the area where you want the color change to happen and then you track the subject while it's moving.

As you might notice, all those tips go hand in hand with each other. And the more you combine different tricks and functions, the more powerful they become.

Timeline zoom and custom zoom. If you have zoomed far into your timeline and want to see the entire edit again, you don't have to keep pressing the zoom button over and over. In your keyboard customization, there is a command called Full Extend Zoom.

I have mapped it to Shift plus Z and when I press it, my entire timeline appears from start to finish. If I now want to jump back to the exact place and zoom level I stopped before, I simply press Z. That's the Custom Zoom command.

This is what these two buttons here would actually do. And while it sounds simple, manually zooming in and out wastes a lot of time. So Shift plus Z show me the entire edit and Z show me exactly where I was before.

If you want to check whether something in your frame is perfectly horizontal, vertical or sitting exactly where you want it, make use of rulers and guides. In the View tab, turn on Rulers and now you can drag lines from the left or from the top directly into the image.

Instead of guessing, I can easily adjust that clip so that everything aligns perfectly.

You can always right -click these lines to choose different colors and you can also create your own ruler first and put a shortcut on it to have them ready whenever you need them.

If a whole group of clips has the same wrong setting, you don't have to fix them one by one. Select all the affected clips in the media pool, right click, clip attributes. From here, you can change things like the aspect ratio or frame rate for all of them at once.

So instead of correcting the same problem over and over again, fix it once and apply it to the whole group. If you have got a bin full of footage and you're starting an edit, it's much easier to display them all at once instead of clicking and scrubbing through each and every clip. Select a bin in the media pool and then enable source tape in the source viewer.

DaVinci Resolve treats everything in that bin as one continuous reel. You now just set your in and out points with I and O and simply drop the shots you want straight onto your timeline. That's it.

One continuous tape instead of jumping between dozens of clips.

Freeze frame. If you want to hold one specific moment in your video, maybe to add text to highlight something or simply to give the viewer more time to see what's happening, you can do that with the freeze frame function. Move your playhead to the exact frame you want to hold.

Now select and right -click that clip to open Retime Controls or simply press Command plus R on your keyboard. Then click here on this little drop -down menu and choose Freeze Frame. DaVinci turns that frame into a still section of the clip and you can drag the edge to make the freeze as long as you want.

The red section shows the part that's frozen. When you now play it back, the video freezes for the time you have set and then continues seamlessly.

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Thank you! Once you have finished a grade on one clip, you have several ways to apply this grade across other clips. You can simply copy this node tree and throw it onto another clip.

But you can also select an ungraded clip and middle click the mouse wheel on a finished one. Now it copies the grade directly onto it. But there is also another, better option.

Right click on your image and grab still. Now you have stored a reference look inside the gallery. You can always come back to the gallery later.

and apply the same look on any clip wherever you need it.

Next up, power bins. Power bins are your most used assets stored in one place. Your intro, visual effects, graphics, text animations, sound effects, overlays, basically everything.

If you put something in here, it can be pulled onto your timeline in every other project in the future. This isn't something new I know, but power bins are probably one of the most useful tools in DaVinci Resolve, so they are always worth talking about. If you want to remove parts of a clip and automatically close the gap, you don't have to split it first.

Just press Q to remove everything before you playhead or W to remove everything after it. Both shortcuts also close the gap automatically. If your timeline has multiple gaps, you don't have to close them one by one.

Go to the Edit tab and find Delete Gaps. Resolve removes all the empty spaces and pulls the clips together automatically. I have it bound to 5, since it's much faster than moving to the Edit tab at the top.

Another thing I recommend is binding 1, 2, 3 and 4 to different color labels. This way you can quickly add some organization when an edit has to be done fast. As you can see, shortcuts and presets for everything are the key to develop an efficient workflow and save time wherever you can.

If you have got a clip that's slowing your playback down because it has multiple or heavy effects on it, right -click the clip and choose Render in Place.

now creates a rendered version of that clip with all the effects already processed. So when you playback the timeline everything runs smoothly, since DaVinci Resolve doesn't have to calculate all those heavy effects again in real time. Sometimes you just want to see what your timeline looks like without a specific overlay like a clip, graphic or effect.

Instead of deleting it, simply disable it. Right -click on your clipboard effect and choose enable or disable clip.

The file stays exactly where it is, but you can instantly see how it looks with or without it.

When multiple things belong together, you can turn them into a single compound clip. Select all the clips, right -click, New compound clip.

Resolve now treats them as one clip, so you can move it, trim it or apply effects to everything at once. Perfect for b -roll sequences, multi -layered sections or basically anything that belongs together or needs to move together. You can always open the compound clip and make individual adjustments inside it.

So now you have a compound clip. But what if you want to get all the individual clips back without manually opening the compound clip and moving everything out? That's exactly what Decompose in Place is for.

Resolve removes the compound clip and puts all the individual clips back onto your timeline in exactly the same position. If you always export your videos with the same settings, stop rebuilding them every time. different presets for different platforms resolutions or clients are the key to guarantee consistent results on the deliver page set up your export exactly how you want it a 4k youtube preset or a vertical preset for reels and tick tock once you have dialed in all the settings and everything is correct save those settings as a custom preset now the next time you export a video You simply select your preset instead of going through all the settings again.

Set them up properly once and you will never have to deal with export settings again. And if you need several different exports from the same project, you don't have to export them one after another. Set up your first export on the Deliver page and click Add to Render Queue.

Then change the settings for your second version and add that one too. You can keep doing this for every version you need. A YouTube export, a lower resolution export, a small file size export, whatever.

Once everything is in the render queue, simply hit render all. DaVinci Resolve now works through every job automatically. So instead of babysitting and waiting for one export to finish before setting up the next one, you can queue everything at once and let Resolve handle the whole batch one after the other.

Match frame. Instead of scrubbing through a 10 -minute source file to find the exact sequence you used in your edit, you can use the match frame function. Simply press this icon here and DaVinci instantly loads the original source clip into the source viewer.

And it also jumps to the exact frame and the in and out points you used on your timeline. You can also hold option and double click a clip. And another way to find it is to move to the Timeline tab at the top.

In my case I mapped a shortcut on it. So when I press Shift plus F on my keyboard, Match Frame gets me where I need to be instantly.

If you need to move the whole timeline to the left or to the right, move your player to where you want the selection to start and press Period to select everything forward. If you press comma, you select everything backward from the playhead. Now you can move the entire section at once without dragging across every clip.

If you have ever moved your footage or sound effects into another folder on your computer, everything in Resolve turns red with media offline. Let's say all my sound effects were originally inside folder A, but now I move them into folder B. Resolve still looks for them in the old location, so all those clips now show as media offline.

Select all the offline clips in your media pool, right click, clip attributes and choose relink selected clips. Now point Resolve to the new folder where those files are stored and Resolve reconnects everything it can find.

You finished an edit, sent it to a client and he comes up with the well -known, yeah, it's quite good, but can you make it warmer? Instead of rushing through each of your clips individually to fix the same adjustments over and over again, you can use a global timeline node. At the top of your node editor, where it says clip, you simply switch to timeline.

Here you create a new node by pressing Option plus S on your keyboard.

And whatever you change on this node will actually affect the whole timeline. Let's escalate here to demonstrate that. So if the client wants everything warmer, no problem.

Make your adjustment once and every clip on your timeline updates with it.

One of the things that makes the videos on amateur very quickly is inconsistent audio. Maybe one sentence is loud, the next one is quiet and then the music suddenly feels much louder than the voice. Instead of guessing or trying to fix every clip by ear, you can use loudness normalization to bring your audio much closer to a consistent overall level.

Select your audio clips, right -click and choose normalize audio levels.

You can still fine -tune individual clips afterwards, but this gives you a much better starting point. And once you've got your audio at the level you want, there's one thing I put on basically every project. A limiter on the main bus.

In the Fairlight page, find the output bus. If you press on this little plus icon, you can add an effect. Under Dynamics, Fairlight FX, you will find the limiter.

Here you set the ceiling to around minus one to minus two decibels.

This setting doesn't replace a proper audio leveling. It's basically your final safety net against any unexpected peaks or clipping. Set it up once in your project template and you don't have to think about it again.

Sometimes you may need to deliver all the clips from a final edit as single and separate files. Instead of exporting every clip individually, go to the Deliver page and switch from single clip to individual clips. Set up your export as usual, choose a file name to stay organized and add the job to the render queue.

DaVinci Resolve now exports every clip as its own file. All in one batch.

And the last tip is to save this video. This was a lot of information and I know you're not going to remember all of it. Five minutes from now you will forget half of the things we just covered.

And that's exactly why I made this video. Do yourself a big favor, save this video and come back to it the next time you're stuck with something in DaVinci Resolve. If you have made it this far, I simply want to say thank you.

You are the reason why I made this video and why I keep doing what I do. I highly appreciate your time and support. Thank you!

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

No preamble, no channel intro: the video opens straight into tip one, aligning a stack of mismatched clip ends to the playhead with a single keypress, and keeps that pace for 35 tips across editing, color, audio, and export.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

08:14list

Sidechain Ducking Setup

Open Dynamics on the music track in Fairlight
Toggle the compressor
Set the sidechain input to the voiceover track
Set threshold to -30 to -40 dB

The exact four-step path to automatic music ducking under a voiceover in Fairlight.

Steal forany voiceover-driven edit or podcast video that currently keyframes music volume by hand

03:23concept

Stacked Timeline Workflow

Rough cut lives on the source timeline, untouched
Working timeline sits stacked underneath it
Clips dragged down are copied, not moved

A way to build a final edit from a rough cut without ever risking the original assembly.

Steal forany edit where you want to protect a client-approved rough cut while building variations from it

23:39list

Two-Step Audio Safety Net

Normalize Audio Levels on all clips first
Add a limiter at -1 to -2 dB on the main output bus

A fixed two-step pass that fixes inconsistent clip volume and catches any leftover peaks before delivery.

Steal forthe audio finishing pass on any talking-head or voiceover-driven video

CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK

05:37link

“the link and code are found in the description”

soft affiliate mention (XPPen Pilot Pro, code MARIO30) embedded mid-tutorial inside the sponsored segment, not a hard sales pitch; a separate like/comment/subscribe ask follows later at 14:34 as a mid-video breather line

MENTIONED ON CAMERA

05:37toolXPPen Pilot Pro Controller ↗

FROM THE DESCRIPTION

PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.

OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.

Storyboard