All language subtitles for 1. Media Tab - Interface Media Tab Kolder Creative

In this lesson, we're going

to be talking about the media tab
with individual resolve.

This is where we import and organize
all of the media

that we're going to be working with
in our project.

Now, the media tab
also has some other really cool features

in it,

like annotations and scene cut detection,
which we're also going

to be learning about.

I personally love that
this is its own tab within the program

because it just gives me a lot more space
to import and organize all of my files.

And once that's done,
I move on to the next tab

and this one just stays out of the way.

So this is a pretty straightforward
section of Da Vinci,

so let's just jump right into it.

So this is what you're going to see
when you first open up the media tab.

Now, the media tab is the first one
here in the bottom left.

And this is what it looks like when
there is no media within your media tab.

So let's start off
with just the interface.

So we'll start off from the top left
and we'll go down from there.

So this is media storage.

This is where you can search your computer
or your hard drives for media

in other places and reveal it in here.

So, for example, let's check out the
project that we're currently working on.

We can

see that these are folders
within this drive here.

Now, personally, I don't like
to view things in the icon view.

I like to see them in a list.

It makes things a lot easier for me.

And we have the folder
that we're working on here, one plus

phone project,
and we have our video folder here.

I'm going to click on this clip
in the media storage

and it's going to load it up
in my preview window right here.

Now, I don't want to play back with audio,
so I'm just going to mute it right there

and we can scrub through
and watch our clip.

So this is a preview window
that will allow us to preview

any media that we have selected over here
to the left and also in the bottom here,

which is our media pool.

So we can preview individual clips
and we can drag clips that we want

into our media pool like this
so we can take it, just drag it in there

and it's going to ask us
if we want to change the project

frame rate

now because we

already modified our project settings
in the project settings option down here.

I do not want to change the project
frame rates,

so we're going to click Don't Change

and we've successfully

imported
that one clip into our media pool here.

Now, the way that I typically work is
I won't just go in

and select individual clips
and drag them down here.

I might do that later on when I'm just,
you know, bringing in individual

pieces of media that I've downloaded
from the Internet or something like that.

Later on.

But the way that we want to import
this project is

we want to import everything because we've
already organized all of our footage.

It's in the correct folder structure.

So everything's really organized.

We we wouldn't
want to just import individual clips.

So the way that I like to work
is to bring everything in

and then go through the process

of refining our selects
and leading the garbage and

cutting out the stuff that we don't want.

So this is the actual media
pool down here.

And the media pool

is something that we'll be able to access
through all of these tabs here later on.

So all of the media that we're bringing in
here, we want to keep it organized

because we're going to be going back
to this media pool

in all the different tabs individually.

We can access the media pool.

We can see it's here in the edit tab.

It's over here in the cut tab.

We'll also be able to access it in Fusion

and the color tab fairly, all of it.

So because we are going

to be coming back to the media pool,
we want to make sure that we keep it

organized and everything
is kind of structured in here.

Organization is key.

So I'm just going to delete this clip
because I don't want to bring in

just one clip.

I want to bring in the entire folder,
the entire video folder for our project.

So I'll go into
the original root folder here

where we can see the entire video folder.

And what I'm going to do
is just click and drag and drop

this entire folder into the media pool.

We're going to have the same question
Do you wanna change the frame rate?

Do not change.

And it's
going to bring all of that footage in.

Now we have an issue.

It brought in all of this footage,
but if we take a look at it,

it's all just in one folder.

We don't have that folder structure that
we spent so much time creating over here

with each individual day
and then with each camera within each day.

So what can we do to maintain
that folder structure?

Well, I'm glad you asked.

So let's select everything.

Hit Command a and we are going to delete
all of that because we don't want that.

We want the folder structure.

What we're going to do
is go back to that root folder over here.

Now we're going to do the same thing.
We're going to drag this video folder.

But instead of dragging it into this area
here, we're going to drag it into this

area right here,
right under this little master right here.

We're going to drop it.

And that is going to allow us to maintain
that folder structure.

We're going to click Don't Change.

We'll give it a second.

And we can see that
our folder structure is here. Yay!

This is super important.

It would be absolutely horrendous

if we had to remake that entire folder
structure in here again.

So if we click master,
we can open up video and we'll be able

to see all of our folders right in here.

And just like in media storage,
if we open up one of our clips,

we can select it
and view it in our preview

window right here.

Now, down here in our media pool,
we can see a lot of information

about our clips.

So in this case, we can view
the frames here, the frames per second,

and we can see what resolution
it was shot at, what type, you know,

if it's just video or if it's just audio
or if it's both here, how many frames,

all that information, all of that
kind of metadata can be seen here.

And we can choose to organize our footage
based on any of these categories here

simply by clicking on them.

And it will organize all of the media
based on what you've selected up here.

So if we want to organize things
by the amount of frames,

we can simply select that and you'll go
from highest frames to lowest

or the
frames per second, anything that you want.

Now we can actually add columns
to this simply by right clicking,

and we can select different things
that we would like to add.

So one thing that I like to add is usage.

And what usage basically allows us to do
is to see how many times

the clip has actually been used
in our project.

So later on you'll see

we're going to be going through
every single clip in this entire project,

laying it down in timelines,
and we're going to be,

you know, cutting out the garbage
and deleting a lot of clips

that we're not even going to be using.

So whenever we go back to the media pool
and we go to this usage column,

we'll be able to see how many times each
clip was actually used in our project.

So if there's clips
that we accidentally shot

or if there's any clips
that are not being used in any timelines,

then we can see those here
and we can delete them off of our drive

if we don't want them.

So one thing to note
is that if there's a folder, I find myself

constantly having to go back to
to import media from,

I can actually save it to my favorites
right here.

So in this case, let's say,
you know, we're going to be going back

and forth into this project file
that we're working on right here.

So what I can do is click on this root
folder here

and I can right click on it
and click add folder to favorites.

That way, it's added to the favorites
right here.

And that way I won't have to go up here
and keep opening up a bunch of folders

to access this one folder.

I can simply just click into right here

and I will have quick access
to those folders.

This is really handy if you find yourself
constantly going back to certain asset

folders like sound effects
or lens flares, stuff like that.

You can just add those to your favorites
right here and they'll be ready to go

whenever you want.

You won't have to click into a bunch of
folders to keep finding every single time

it's just here and your favorites.

Okay, so we have all of our footage
in our media pool down here.

Now, let's say we didn't have all of our
footage as organized as it is right now.

We might want to drag things from one
folder to another.

Well, to do that in one viewing

panel can definitely be challenging.

So DaVinci gives us an option to split
things up over here, which is really cool.

And I personally don't use this feature
a lot, but I see myself in the future.

You know, if my projects are getting messy
and I need to reorganize things,

drag things into folders, we can change
the viewing option right here.

So the layout right here, we can click
the dropdown and we can select this.

So now we have two media pool windows
here, which we can use to drag things

from one folder to another and vice versa.

It just makes this space
a little bit more interactive

and just makes it easier
to organize files in this way.

We can also change the layout
from this hamburger view to pancake view.

So the two media windows
would be stacked on top of each other,

which is side by side.

I'm going
to bring that back to our standard layout.

And next to that button,
we have different viewing options here.

So this is the list view.

I always keep it on list view.

That's just easier for me.

You can also view everything as icons.

I find this to actually be less efficient
because your eyes are traveling

from left to right and down
versus just list view.

Your eyes are just going up and down to
have to go left and right and up and down.

That's chaos for me,
so I'm not down for that.

But feel free to use whatever you want.

And next to that
we have this metadata view.

And if we click on that,
then when we have an actual clip selected,

it shows us a little bit more information
about the clip.

Now we can see that the metadata

isn't really that helpful for us
because it's just a bunch of numbers.

Maybe the time could be helpful for us
or the dates,

but there isn't really that much
information that I would find useful here

in terms
of like organizing my footage and stuff.

So what we could do is actually select
a clip or select multiple clips

and we can go up into the inspector
right here in the top right now.

Normally you would

you probably have this video button
selected, but if you go to the right here

under file, we're actually able to edit
the metadata for the selected clips

so we can add information like,
like clip color.

We can write some information about the
take the shot, the scene, the real.

So this can be very, very handy,
especially if you're doing something

like a short film
where you have, you know,

one scene with multiple takes
you can label each take.

In my case,
would I do this for a project like this?

No, because that is very time consuming.

But you are able to batch edit
the metadata like this.

So let's say, you know, I want to add
a clip color to all of these.

We can see I added it
and added it to all of the selected clips.

So, you know, if you wanted to maybe label
all of the clips

from a certain day with a certain color,
you can totally do that.

Or, you know, if everything in this one
folder was shot with a specific camera,

I can add that information here.

So this was the OnePlus

nine, but that's every single

shot in
this project was shot on the phone.

So that wouldn't really be that helpful.

But I do know in like short film scenarios
and stuff like that,

this can be very handy.

And if you got the budget,
then it could be great to just hire

someone else to add
in all the metadata for your project

and that way that information can come in
handy later on

and you'd actually be able
to sort your footage in your media pool

based on the scene and take, which can be
very useful in certain situations.

So just remember that you have the option
to add in the metadata

and change it for all of these clips.

Now I'm going to go back into the list
view here.

So we also have some other options in the
inspector here under video and audio.

So let's go into video and with a clip
selected, we're actually able

to make adjustments to this clip
so we can change things like the Zoom

stats, like the scale,
the position, the rotation,

all of this stuff, the pitch, the Yeah.

And if we ever want to reset something,
we can simply just click

this reset button on the right
or we can reset everything in that section

by pressing the reset button
in the top, right.

We and we also have other options
like the cropping.

We can also add other things
like Dynamic Zoom,

which
we're going to be talking about later on.

This is not the place that I would do it.

I would add dynamic zoom
and honestly even just play around

the transform cropping, all this stuff,

I would just do that in the cut tab
or the edit tab, the media tab.

I don't really see this as a place
to do that stuff.

You can and all of
this is available for you to do so.

But personally
I don't do any of this here.

We also have,
you know, other options here.

We could change the composite modes.

So that's kind of like
playing with the opacity,

the way that the image opacity
is overlaid.

And we also just change the opacity here.

Now, maybe if you're working
with a bunch of GoPros, you might want to,

you know, batch select all of those GoPros
and go into lens correction.

You can analyze them

and change the distortion of the GoPros
because GoPros are like fisheye, right?

So everything's a bit distorted.

You can fix that distortion in here,

but honestly, that's not something
I would spend time doing in the media tab.

I would just do that in the cup
or at a tab, but feel free to do so.

And we also have options in the audio
settings here as well.

We can change things like volume pattern,
which is how much

the volume is coming from the left side
versus the right side here.

The pitch
of the audio and a bunch of other things

which at this stage of the course
is not important, but it's good to know

that these are options that can be found
in the inspector in the media tab

and next to the inspector
we have this metadata tab

which allows us to see more metadata
of our selected clip.

You know, the frame rate up here,
the resolution,

the audio information, stuff like that.

Now, in our viewing window here,
we can zoom in and out with our mouse.

And my mouse here has, you know,

the scroll wheel,
which is also a button in itself.

And in Da Vinci,
we call that the middle mouse button.

And if we click the middle mouse button
and drag around, we are able to drag

and move around our preview,
which is very, very, very handy.

And you will be using this a lot later on.

Now, if you're using a MacBook,

you can simply just use
the mouse pad to move around like that.

You can pinch to zoom in and out.

But I do prefer using a mouse.

I find that a mouse is very handy.

Now in our preview window,
we also have this selection down here

which allows us to visually see the
the footage of our clip.

Or we can choose to see the audio
of our clip.

In some situations,
it can be handy to just view the waveform

of a clip, to select certain parts of it
and stuff like that.

But in this case, I don't really need to.

But it's good to know
that that is an option down here.

And below that we have annotations
which I'm going to get into

in the next video,
so I'm going to bring this back to source.

And now next to that,
we have this little jog wheel here.

If we click it and drag,
we can move forwards and backwards.

It's just another way to preview our clip.

It allows us to kind of

change the speed at which we preview
forwards and backwards.

I don't really use that.

I prefer to use the shortcuts

one, two and three, which
we will be learning all about later on.

And next to that
we have the standard play pause,

start of clip and of clip controls.

It's all straightforward stuff.

And we also have this button
and this allows us to loop playback.

So if we press play with loop
selected, it's going to continuously

loop the clip and not stop.

Now, in our preview window up here,
we're also able to make in and out points

on our selected clip.

So let's say we're scavenging
through our drive over here

and we found a clip that we want, but
we don't want to import the entire clip.

We only want to import a section of it.

This is a terrible example when we find
something that actually looks half decent.

So, you know, let's say

this isn't a massive project
and we only want to import

a couple of clips in that situation,
it would make more sense.

You know, this clip, let's say
we only want a little section of it.

What I can do
is for us to mark as an endpoint

and then five to mark is an out point.

Now that is the Ravenclaw keyboard
shortcut for in and out.

You can also use
I and O for the in and out points.

Those are the standard in and out
shortcuts.

Or we can use these buttons over here
to the bottom right mark in and mark out.

These will allow us to select the endpoint
and the out point for this case.

Let's just use this little section here
as an example, four and five.

Now let's go back into our root folder
just so we can see this clip.

Clearly, once we have our selection here,
we can simply just click on the

clip and drag it down here.

And if we

double click on this, we can see that
it didn't import the entire clip.

It only imported that in and out point.

So that's something really important
to keep in mind.

If you want to bring an entire clip in,
you can simply just select the in and out

point of that clip and only bring
a portion of it into your media pool.