Top 3 Tips to Speed Up Editing in DaVinci Resolve 16

hi in this video I'm going to show you

my top three tips to speed up your video

editing process in DaVinci Resolve 16 hi

welcome to sharing your passion calm

this is chill and let's get it on tip

number one if you have two types of hard

drives like I do on my laptop and one is

a lot faster than the other then I

suggest moving your media storage to the

faster drive in my case I have a laptop

with a fast solid-state drive and a big

regular hard drive the Vinci resolve

needs a media storage where it can do

its internal workings whether it's

caching some kind of video processing

needs some thumbnail creation for your

time lines all kinds of other internal

workings that da Vinci does it needs a

temporary folder system where it can

work all of this magic in the background

when I install DaVinci Resolve it

automatically chose my D Drive my slower

hard disk drive and I only realized that

recently in an ideal situation the

system should have known to install that

in the faster drive which is the

solid-state drive some say

solid-state drives are 5 to 20 times

faster than a regular hard disk drive so

you can imagine how how much faster

result can do things quicker and easier

because even us all solid-state drives

use less resources it's quicker it's

there there's nothing spinning files are

being read and written really quickly in

a solid-state drive so this tip is to

move your media storage into your faster

drive and this is how you do it you go

into DaVinci Resolve right here in the

upper left and go to preferences ok and

under the system tab go down to media

storage when I looked at this for the

first time a few days ago it showed that

the D Drive D da Vinci videos

folder directory was on the top and

there was no C Drive I had to do this

manually so when whatever's on the top

is the one the vinci resolved uses by

default so what I needed to do was

create the da Vinci folder in the C

Drive which was my solid-state drive by

just clicking on add look for your fast

drive which is my local disk C and

here's where I created a da Vinci folder

and saved it but once it was added it

was below the D Drive so that meant your

system was still using the D Drive the

slower drive so what I had to do was

remove the D Drive and then shut down

the Vinci resolve and start it back

again then it only had the C Drive to

work with the correct drive I just added

this D Drive again just to show you what

it looked like before so I'm gonna

remove that right now I don't need my D

Drive the Vinci folder so I'm going to

remove that I only want my my faster

Drive showing up here with my death

directory and save the Vinci resolve

will only start using your new

preferences once you shut down the

program and start back up and in that

way the vichy is a lot faster now

because it's it's just using the

solid-state drive when it makes all

these things happen in the background so

that's tip number one tip number two is

to change your video view options in

your timeline let me show you what I

mean let me start by bringing down some

video clips and a third one you see how

those thumbnails were being generated by

default the venturi resolve uses this

film type of view this is the most

accurate display telling you where you

are on your clip but in many cases I

never need to really know exactly where

I am on on the clip right here

my focus is really up up here and also

on the sound I'm normally my main edit

are in the sound where I cut out all the

unnecessary speech parts that I don't

want in the video so I'm really focused

on the speech part the audio and what's

up here I don't need to see all these

details here but that is kind of taxing

on your system especially if you have a

slower laptop mine's pretty fast so it

can generate these thumbnails really

quick but if you do a lot of edits

you're gonna see it start to slow it

down okay let me do some cuts here I'm

gonna do control B see how it has to

redo all these these thumbnails and I'll

make another cut here select 8 to select

all the tracks control B to cut there

you go again it wasn't reproducing all

the clips so that's unnecessary for me I

don't need that and it's slowing down my

process especially once you have a lot

of elements here it'll start to slow

down so just one more cut there it is

and also when you scroll over or you

jump into to a further point in your

timeline like this let me click over to

there right here on the scroll bar it

has to generate these you know takes a

while and if you have a slightly older

or laptop it's gonna take even longer my

mine is only a one year old gaming

laptop sets pretty fast and I have a

solid state drive handling all this all

these computations if I had a slower

system these refresh thumbnails will

take a lot longer I'll do another click

on the scroll to the right see it has to

go in there and just pull out each scene

and fill that up for you so my

suggestion is to speed this up to speed

up your editing change this view so you

do that by going here

this is the sort that your timeline

control this is the video view options

and it's defaulting to the film version

where you're seeing a thumbnail at every

segment if you change it to the middle

which is called thumb then it's faster

because now it only needs to generate

the first and the last frame of each

clip so let's scroll to the right see it

didn't have to generate these because

it's it's already it's only showing the

very end right there and the very and

right here so this is a lot quicker uses

a lot less resources for your computer

so that's a good way to speed up your

process and even if you really know what

you're doing you're working on clips

that you're very familiar with you don't

even need that these indicators anymore

these thumbs just use the plane this is

called plane so there are no images to

work with but you know your stuff you

don't really need to you see the the

video up here where you are in the in

the process so that's where I pay

attention that and the audio part I

really pay attention

but since the audio part is very

important to me I will go back here and

increase this audio track height okay

because that's where I can see the

waveforms and I make my cuts based on a

lot of waveforms whether it's there's a

gap in my speech and not okay another

thing to do is if you do a lot of

transitions using the corners of the

images I'll show you in a little bit

then you need to increase your video

track height okay to past halfway

when you're past halfway then these

little white indicators will show up now

and that's when you can fade in and fade

out in a transition okay that also works

for your audio where you can audio fade

in and audio fade out so that's tip

number two that's how I cut a lot of

time when I'm working with a big project

and I don't need to see these thumbnails

regenerating every time I make a clip or

a cut or a copy or a change to the to

the clip okay and tip number three is to

use two shortcuts two very useful

shortcuts that I found out recently

which could have saved me a lot of time

before the shortcut involves cutting

Clips so normally if if I have a cut

here and I want to make a cut way over

here I would do a control B to cut and

then click here and then press delete

again if I wanted to cut here I'd press

control B to cut use the mouse point

here highlight it then press delete that

was my old method of cutting let me

bring those back now I've been using

these two shortcuts which really make

things a lot quicker so position your

timeline header or whatever you call

this thing to the spot you want to cut

and all you have to do is press ctrl

shift start brackets or brackets the

starting bracket let me do that right

now

ctrl shift starting bracket so what it

did was bring it back what it did was it

cut here and removed that and made this

the starting point of the clip and

brought that over there right so if

you're doing a lot of edits

and cuts that little thing that little

shortcut will like half your time you

can do it with one like press of the

button instead of two or three actions

with you know button presses and using

your mouse to select that so that's

that's really cool when I found that out

the other part to this shortcut is the

the opposite end where you want to

remove this part normally I would go

like this put the header here pointer

here do a ctrl B for cut so it's cut

there but I still have this so nice have

to use the mouse to select this click

then press Delete okay that took like

three steps so let me bring that back

okay so now all I have to do is bring

the pointer over there and press control

shift and bracket or the bracket stop I

don't know what you call these buttons

but it looks like a bracket and this is

the end of the bracket the other one was

the start over the bracket okay

control shift and bracket whammo

it just cut that in one shot it saved me

the control be the select of this and

the the delete that's like three steps

cut down to just one step of the control

shift and bracket having these shortcuts

really saved me some time and also arm

fatigue because you know all these extra

things that you're doing with your hands

and with the mouse and the keyboard the

less you do the better it is for your

for your arms and you get less fatigue

by using these two important shortcuts

okay so I hope these three tips to speed

up your video editing process and

DaVinci Resolve will really help you

make things easier quicker and less

fatigue on your on your on your hands

and arm and I hope you can be even more

productive with your video editing and

your video creation