Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients
Lesson 8 from: How to Edit Video in DaVinci ResolveCasey Faris
Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients
Lesson 8 from: How to Edit Video in DaVinci ResolveCasey Faris
Lesson Info
8. Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients
Summary (Generated from Transcript)
The lesson is about how to use the source viewer in DaVinci Resolve to inspect video clips before editing them, including using the transport controls, looping footage, and organizing clips into bins.
Q&A:
- What is the purpose of the source viewer in DaVinci Resolve? The purpose of the source viewer is to inspect video clips before editing them.
- How can you view a larger version of a thumbnail in the source viewer? By default, when you mouse over a thumbnail, a larger version of it will appear in the source viewer.
- How can you view a clip in more detail in the source viewer? You can double-click on a clip in the source viewer to open it up and take a more detailed look at it.
- What are the main buttons in the lower part of the source viewer? The main buttons in the lower part of the source viewer are the transport controls, which allow you to play forward, play backwards, stop, skip to the end, and skip to the beginning of a clip.
- How can you scrub through footage in the source viewer? You can grab the little dot in the lower part of the source viewer and move it back and forth with your mouse to scrub through the footage.
- How can you organize clips in the source viewer? You can create bins in the media pool and drag and drop clips into them to organize them.
Lessons
Class Introduction
01:14 2Hardware
01:34 3DaVinci Resolve Overview
02:34 4Edit Page
02:42 5Cooking a Story
01:48 6The Ingredients For the Story
04:47 7Media Pool - The Pantry
05:25 8Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients
02:15The Cutting Board
07:00 10Timeline is Where the Story is Made
02:51 11Controlling Clips on the Timeline
02:55 12Control the Clip Order
01:55 13Trimming Clips
02:28 14Control the Timing of the Story
04:26 15Setting In's & Outs in the Source Viewer
05:04 16Editing In Passes: Intro
02:30 17Edit Pass #1: Rough Cut
13:45 18Edit Pass #2: Smooth It Out
13:33 19Edit Pass #3: Get Picky
13:19 20Audio
12:29 21Basic Titles
05:54 22Rendering
04:53 23Further Learning
02:27Lesson Info
Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients
So we're making our story soup. We went to the supermarket. We got all of our awesome ingredients. We brought them back. We put them in our pantry, and ah, now what do we do? Well, if we wanna start cooking, one of the first things that we gotta do is grab the ingredients out. Maybe take a look, make sure that they're actually what we want before we kind of prep them and put them into our soup, into our story. So this process of picking up an ingredient, maybe an onion or something, and looking at it is pretty much what we do here in the source viewer. You'll notice that if you mouse over any of these thumbnails, by default it shows you a bigger version here in this viewer. And if I double click on it, it will stay there and I can move back and forth. So this is really just a way to get a little bit more detailed, make sure that this clip is what we actually want. We can scrub through it and find the different parts that we like. And kind of just double check which of these clips are g...
ood and which of these are bad. One thing that I like to do sometimes is maybe make a bin over here in the media pool and we'll call this bad. And if it's something that I don't like, I can take this clip and put it into bad and move on and look at the other clips and see what might be good. I could leave the good ones here. I could make a bin for the good ones, whatever we wanna do. Down here in the lower part of the source viewer, we have a few different buttons going on. The main ones you probably work with are the transport controls, so that's just the play forward, play backwards, stop, skip to the end, skip to the beginning. I can click this little button and loop it. You can also grab this little dot and move this back and forth with your mouse. And that's a really nice way to kind of scrub through your footage without having to be so precise by clicking this little playhead right here. So that's the basics of the source viewer. Really, we're just double clicking on a shot and we can open it up and take a detailed look at it. Make sure we like it. And if we don't, we can organize it accordingly.
Class Materials
Bonus Materials with Purchase
Ratings and Reviews
Stan
This is a great class! Probably my favorite Creativelive class so far. I've been a fulltime photographer for 13 years now, I guess it's about time I get back into video. I love that Resolve has a free version to learn on. The pace of this class was perfect, can't wait to watch the rest of Casey's DaVinci classes.
Simona Geneva
Thanks to Casey Faris for the interesting study material. I have been looking for a creative life course for DaVinci Resolve for a long time and I am very happy that one has already been created on your platform. I look forward to the other pieces. Thanks again for the shared knowledge!
user-ada623
I've seen many DaVinci tutorials that seem to just make things more confusing but Casey's tutorial really took a simple step-by-step explanation to really show how powerful and yet simple it is to use Davinci. The tools Casey covered in this course gave me the confidence to edit the ton of videos I have collecting dust on my hard drive. Great job Casey and a great sense of dry corny humor...lolol highly recommended!!