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So, they updated Da Vinci Resolve. I tried Da Vinci Resolve around a year ago, and I missed quite a few essential features to my own workflow. So, I'm updating it right now, and I'm going to give this another shot to see if it's better than Adobe Premiere Pro for my workflow. My workflow is the keyword here. I don't really care about the fancy cool features. I just want to do a few specific things very, very fast. So, if you're looking for a comprehensive review, this is definitely not it. Here we go.
What's new in Da Vinci Resolve 20.2? Option to ripple deletes silent time gaps across clips. Okay, I'm getting a little excited. All right, here we are. And I'm going to need a clip to edit. Let's drag that straight into Da Vinci Resolve. Change project frame rate. Yes, I remember there's a way to view audio meters like more full screen, isn't there?
So, the thing that I came here for right here, guides. Okay, nothing happens once I click. Oh, rulers as well. Okay. So, presumably I just drag. Beautiful. Now, you might be wondering, why do I care about guides? And I'll show you. Oh, wait. This is cool. This didn't used to be here before. You can change like the pitch and the yaw.
I also just discovered that there's a new key frame editor right here. Not sure how to use it yet, but this sounds very promising because last time I had a massive problem with key frames because you had to edit them on the clip, and it was like slow and horrible. Let's create like a simple zoom-in animation. This is locked. So I'm assuming X and Y zoom is the same. So just boink. Yes, it adds key frames automatically to both. Then I add position X and Y. Move some amount to the right. Add all the key frames and then change their values, which I can do by clicking this thing and dragging, presumably. Assume I want to zoom in right here where I'm reading. Does it let me set these to like bezier key frames? Key frame lanes. Key frame curves. This looks like Blender. Oh, look. And there's a cool mouse cursor. So, I can't set like an ease-in or out preset. I have to edit the curves. I'm not sure how the curves work. Wait. Linear ease in. Whoa. Whoa. Was this menu here before? No. Okay. So, I switch to curves. This is position Y, position X, and zoom. So, I think I select all of them. Go here and choose ease out. Boink. Slightly more steps than in Premiere. But how easy is it to control? If I select everything. Oh, I can do them all at once. You can't do this in Premiere, by the way. This is going to look super weird. Imagine this is not the final result. Oh, okay. Let's just reset it back. This is what it will actually look like. If you click alt space, you'll be able to see all of these things. Such an amateur zoom in. Move these closer together. And this is what we get. All of these things. This was much easier to do than the previous time.
Does the playhead still continue after you move it somewhere else? It does continue. Maybe they added an option for it to not continue. Sure. Wish this were a feature. I spent a lot of time chasing down the wandering playhead after I've moved it to a position that I want to see and study. Think I completely agree with this person. Just add a toggle that would let me pick whether I want the playhead to stop or not stop when I interact with it. Oh, wait. If I hold it, it doesn't continue moving. This might be it. Actually, you just continue playing. Then you grab it. Then it can't move. You make your edit and then release. And then it plays. I see the vision. Never mind.
Is there a way to quickly make all of these key frames nonlinear? What does this do? Boink boink. Does it maybe enable this in the graph view? Yeah, this has pitch now. Okay. So, if I uncheck it, hides the graph in the graph view. So, I want to edit zoom X and position X and Y. I want to ease out. Then go back to the other viewer. And for these, I go back in and then wait. So, how do I set these ones to ease in? Ease in. Now, they are ease in, but these are linear now. Ease out. If I change one of them, the other one like goes back. I don't fully understand this graph editor. Definitely a skill issue. I'm an idiot. This displays all the key frames. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, just zoom in. This is where it starts. All three are right here. So, I only select this, choose ease out, and then for these three, I choose ease in. Yes. Beautiful. Now, this will have like nice smooth motion. By the way, this is how linear looks like. It just starts and stops abruptly. And this is how bezier key frames look. Let's see this now. These things such as Oh, look at that smooth zoom in. I'm still much slower with Da Vinci Resolve than with Premiere, but I'm sure there's like a one-click solution to apply easing to key frames without having to go into the graph editor every single time. Right.
Okay. This is the same clip inside of Premiere. And if I want to zoom into it, I can go into effect controls, add in position and scale key frames. Zoom in like this. That was pretty fast. And now if I want to apply easing, I can just select. Boom. Boom. Now if I look at these curves, you can see that the speed of the zoom in starts off slow, then it increases. So this is the fastest point, and then it decreases at the end. So you get this nice smooth motion. Beautiful. Obviously, I did this a lot faster in Premiere just because I'm used to it. So, I'm hoping I can get to a similar speed inside of Da Vinci Resolve.
Also, there are now guides in Premiere. If I want to enable guides, I just click a keyboard shortcut. Oh, view guides. Let's do shift G. Beep beep. Also, quick bonus points to Da Vinci Resolve. Can you see this top bar here? If I move it away, you're immediately blinded by Premiere's top bar that's just white. Doesn't matter if you go into personalization colors and set your windows to dark mode. This top bar will forever blast white light into your retinas.
So in Premiere, if I add position and scale key frames, I can easily set them to ease out and in with a keyboard shortcut. So I want to find a similar keyboard shortcut here. Ease in. No. Bezier, no. Add a key frame. Ooh. In Premiere, you can't add a key frame with a keyboard shortcut. Doesn't matter where you are. You always have to come here and then you have to click on this little clock every single time. So hold on. Key frame editor widget. Add key frame. First of all, this is a terrible combination because when you're editing, you always have one hand right here and the other hand on the mouse. So if there's a keyboard shortcut like control open bracket, you can't press it with one hand. This distance is too far apart. So you have to bring your hand from the mouse to your keyboard to press this keyboard shortcut. Overediting hundreds of videos. This letting go of the hand and moving it back and forth adds up to a bunch of extra wasted time. The default keyboard shortcut for adding a cut, I think, is Ctrl K. So, I just use S. If I click S, it adds a cut. It's so much faster than pressing Ctrl K.
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This is an amazing new panel. Oh my god. Toggle key frame curve. Let's do shift H. What does that mean? Boom. Boom. Oh, it switches between these views instead of me having to click here with the mouse. And so then here, I select and then Oh, wait. That was so intuitive. I just selected these key frames and right-clicked. And you can see it gives me options for what kind of easing I want. So then I'm assuming that there's no way to just apply a preset curve to these key frames. You always have to go into the key frame editor. Or is there? Imagine. Yeah, I don't think there is a way because it only has toggle key frame curve, but it doesn't like have curve presets that I can simply apply in this view. I mean, surely they could just make it so I can right-click right here. The same way I can right-click right here and just choose one of these. That's just an easy fix. Oh, it stayed for some reason. See, this setting even wants to stay. Just let me right-click.
Another super useful keyboard shortcut in Premiere that I use all the time is this one right here. Shift 1 and 3. If I click shift 3, it moves my playhead to the right over five frames. So, boink boink boink. And if I do shift 1, it moves it back. And if I do control shift, it moves by one frame. The reason I'm using shift 1 and 3 so I don't have to move my hand from right here over here to move my playhead in the timeline. Let's see if I can do this in Da Vinci. Right. Key frame editor widget. Move selected key frames right. But by how much? If I do shift 3. Let's see how much does it move. Boink. I think it's one frame. Jump right. Ctrl Alt right. Ctrl Alt right. Oh, it just moves the sequence like this thing to the right or left. Show key frame tray. Wait, the same thing is here. And it shows where the key frames. Oh, this is so much better. Can I right-click here? No. So, shift H will show me the graphs. And I can just right-click ease in. How do I select all of these without grabbing the playhead? Oh, I start from the bottom or no. If my mouse is like here, it still moves the playhead. And if I move it more down, then I can select. Oh, it's no longer selecting. What is happening? Why is it not selecting?
Either way, what I wanted to say is that now this here matches the length of the clip, so you know exactly where the key frames are. In Premiere, both of these effect controls and your timeline can have different zoom amounts. I'm moving this playhead here, and that other one barely moves. So, it's very nice to have them matched up. Still can't select the key frames, though.
Say I want to quickly zoom in to calculate mathematical equations. I'll place my guides here because my mouse just arrived here, which means that the viewer is probably looking here. Position it like this. Add key frames on zoom and position. Then go back. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. And reset all key frames. Here we go. Oh, wait. It just actually deleted all key frames. This deletes the key frames. Oh, no. Double click. Okay, double-clicking on the word resets key frames. Now this is how the video looks like. But you can't reset key frames here to default values. Or maybe if I double-click on the word. No, that's such a missed opportunity. Why can I double-click on position here to reset the values but not over here? So now every time I want to reset position, I will have to just needlessly navigate over to the right of my screen to this panel and double-click. It could have been just a double-click here. And why does the reset button delete all the key frames? It should look like the trash can, not the reset icon. Oh, this window pops out. The more reason to have the ability to reset key frames to their default values within this window since it pops out from the interface.
Okay, here's a cool editing tip. I'll create a screen movement, and you tell me which one looks better. So, this is option A. These things such as calculating mathematical equations, accessing previously selected results. And this is option B. Of these things such as calculating mathematical equations, accessing previously selected result. Hopefully option A was a lot more pleasant to watch. This is option A. Let's place the guides where the viewer is most likely looking. So I'm reading this sentence. So you're looking here. Then I'm going to start reading the second sentence. And so I move my mouse cursor from this place over to the second sentence. And as the mouse cursor begins to move, the screen moves with it as well, which is very nice. And this was option B. The first thing that happens is the mouse cursor moves over here. And since our eyes follow what moves, you're probably already looking here. And so what an inexperienced editor might do is screw up the timing and then make the screen move after the mouse cursor already came here, which means that now you already started looking here, but the screen just randomly moves up. So now you have to find where to look. Horrible.
I just watched a tutorial. Look at this. Right-click. There are the options. So I don't have to switch to the graph editor to do this. Just select key frames. Oh, never mind. You have to hover over key frames, then select them, then right-click, and you can choose ease in. I mean, that's not as fast. It would be very cool if I could just select key frames, hit a keyboard shortcut, and it would apply easing. Not have to position my playhead over the key frames, then select them, then come here, right-click, and choose. It could just be a simple select. Boom. They're good. Especially since they already have presets for these key frames. Allow me to apply these with a keyboard shortcut. And I can't click on these key frames either. Why not? They're the same exact key frames that are here. So why can't I right-click on those? Some of these inconsistencies are not great. Just let me double-click on the word to reset key frames to their default values. And let me right-click on these key frames to set them to linear. This would just make it better.
Normalize audio levels. I don't remember what YouTube wants. Let's apply my YouTube very good quality preset. YouTube wants it minus 3, minus 14, minus 1 set level relative independent. Not sure what that means, but this audio should get quite a bit louder. Never mind. Oh, there's YouTube. Look at that. Oh, there's the audio mixer. It was just here all along next to inspector. I was trying to click these audio meters the whole time. I saw in the tutorial that you can add some cool stuff here like the equalizer. You no longer have to go into the Fairlight page.
Wait, I remember one more thing. If I nest these clips, one very important thing that I hated before is that when you go inside of the compound clip, it doesn't remember the playhead position. So, if I double-click, wait, how do you go into the compound clip? Right-click, select open in timeline, and the playhead position stayed. Beautiful. Is there no faster way to do this? I have to right-click and open in timeline. Can't I just like double-click? That is so unfortunate. In Premiere, I constantly create these and go back in and out of them. See how fast I was able to do that? Just double-click, change something, Ctrl W to close the tab, and I'm back where I started. Wait, edit timeline, open in timeline. Wait a second. If I do shift N, shift N. I take everything back, maybe I can create a shortcut to go back to the timeline. Please let that keyboard shortcut exist. Previous tab. Is that it? What if I do Ctrl W, shift N, Ctrl W? That's not what that means. How do I go back to the previous one after I'm here? I make some change and then I want to just boom click back to the original timeline. They made Da Vinci Resolve so much better compared to the previous time I tried it. I can't find a keyboard shortcut for going back to the main timeline after editing a compound clip. No, there are only keyboard shortcuts for menu items. Oh, so you can't. Damn, that sucks. To the Da Vinci Resolve developers, please create a keyboard shortcut. Yes. Why would a keyboard shortcut exist for going in but not out? That doesn't make any sense.
Let's try to edit this clip like I normally would in Premiere and try to see if I run into any major issues. Why is the playhead in this page super laggy? You can see how it lags behind my mouse cursor. Okay, it's a little stuttery. I have playback set to quarter, so it shouldn't be very laggy. Oh, it's very laggy. Oh, this is so cool. The key frame thing down here. When there's a cut between two clips and there are key frames going across, it just sort of highlights the part that you have. And I can delete key frames from other clips while still having some other clip selected. This is very good. Restoring key frames is easier. You just click this and it gets rid of all key frames from that clip. That's just one click. In Premiere, it's like four clicks.
I had a much better experience this time compared to the first time. This is pretty close now. I can do pretty much everything that I do in Premiere in Da Vinci at a similar speed or in some cases even faster. Like if I want to reset key frames on this clip, I just come here, boom, one click. What I don't like is that I can't get out of the nested sequence easily with one key. I have to come here and double-click this. But it's not that big of a deal. Obviously, these were things that only I care about because I edit a lot of screen-recorded footage. I didn't even look at the Fusion, Color, or Fairlight pages. But from what I saw, I am intrigued. I will have to experiment a bit with the lag. And maybe in the future, I'll try to edit a full video in Da Vinci. See what happens.
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