Trimming Clips
When editing clips you’ll want to trim them to include only the specific actions you want in each
shot. There are various ways, but the easiest is to adjust the clips’ in and out points on
the timeline:
1
After adding clips to your timeline, hover your mouse pointer over the start of a clip until
the pointer becomes a ‘trim’ icon.
2
When the ‘trim’ icon appears, click on the start of your clip and drag it forwards or
backwards to trim the in point. Watch the timeline monitor as you trim to find the
edit point.
3
Now click and drag the end of your clip to adjust the out point.
The zoom slider is located above the timeline, to the right of the tools that are centered in the
toolbar. By dragging the slider left and right you can zoom in and out of your timeline to make
fine adjustments.
Trim your clips by dragging their start and end points left or right, and press
the 'snapping' button in the toolbar to turn snapping on or off
Snapping is a helpful feature to keep your clips held tightly against each other, but can be
disabled for greater precision when fine tuning edits. Press the ’N’ key to quickly turn snapping
on or off.
Mapping Keyboard Shortcuts
If you are familiar with keyboard shortcuts used in other editing software, you can setup DaVinci
Resolve to use the same shortcuts. You also have the ability to create your own custom sets of
keyboard shortcuts to increase speed and optimize your workflow.
To map your own keyboard shortcuts:
1
Open DaVinci Resolve> Preferences and select the ‘user' panel at the top, then select
'keyboard mapping' from the settings list.
2
Select the shortcut you want to change from the categories provided, for example
timeline cut and paste shortcuts will be in the ‘edit’ category.
3
Click on the shortcut once to highlight the setting. Double click on the shortcut to
enable the change.
4
Press your new shortcut keys on the keyboard. If you make a mistake you can easily
undo the change by clicking the ‘undo’ icon next to the setting.
5
Click ‘save’ to confirm your new shortcut setting.
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