All language subtitles for 2. Cut Tab - Interface Cut Tab Kolder Creative

Okay, so

the cut tab is the second tab here
at the bottom of DaVinci.

If we click that
this is what you're going to see.

Now, in the top left,
we have the media pool.

This is the same media pool that we are
working with in the media page,

in the same media pool
that you're going to see

throughout all the other tabs of Da Vinci.

Now we're able to navigate the media pool
in the same way simply by using this file

path over here.

So if we want to go back to the root
folder, we can just click master over here

and it's going to show us our main folder

over here that holds all the other folders
of the whole project.

We can click into that.

We can view all these other folders,
and if we go into a specific folder,

we can double click any one of these clips

and preview it
over here in the right in our viewer.

Now, our viewer is used for both
the source

media over here in the media pool,
as well as the timeline down here.

So what we're seeing in the viewer
just depends on what's selected.

If we have a clip

selected in our media pool over here,

then that's what we're going
to be previewing in the viewer.

If we have a timeline selected down here,
then that's what's going to be previewing

in the viewer over here.

Now, if we double click
on one of these clips, we can see that

we have a bit of a timeline down here
underneath that clip.

This is basically the timeline
for the selected clip.

And we have this play head over here,

which we can use to scrub around
and view the entire clip over here.

Now to the right of our preview window.

We can see that
we have an audio meter here that tells us

the audio level at any point of our clip.

Now, you can see that
I set the audio meter to mute just because

I don't want to hear the sound
when I'm scrubbing through for now,

especially
because I'm filming this tutorial.

Now to insert the clip that we're viewing
in our preview window into our timeline,

we can simply just take the clip like this
and drag it into that top

or bottom timeline.

It doesn't matter
what timeline you drag it in the top

one here or the bottom one,
they're both pretty much the same thing.

They're just different views
of the same timeline.

So if I take this play head over here
in the top timeline, we can see

that the bottom one is also moving.

That's because they're both
the exact same timeline.

They're just two different views
of the same timeline.

The top one here is the full length of the
timeline, and it's always going to stay

the full length.

And the bottom one here

is basically like a zoomed in section
of wherever this play head is up here.

So I like to think of it
as like a magnifying glass down here

that kind of zooms in on
whatever this play head is on over here.

Now, just like I was saying before,
the reason

the cut tab is so fast for making selects
is because we have both of these views.

We have the full timeline up here
and then the zoomed in section down below.

Now, if we wanted to bring just a section
of a clip into our timeline down

here, we can simply go back into our media
pool over here.

Let's select a new clip.

And what we can do is mark in and out
points on the little timeline up here.

So obviously,
we don't want this entire clip.

The beginning of it is kind of useless.

I would say we probably only want
like this part here for this example.

So I'm going to hit four on my keyboard
for the endpoint

or I, I as a standard for endpoint.

But the Ravenclaw keyboard

shortcut is for four in
and then we can choose five four out.

You can see that we've marked these
in and out points on our clip.

Now, if I take this clip and drag it into
my timeline over here, I'm

going to bring it to the end and let go.

We've only brought in that one section
of the clip and not the entire clip.

Let's go back to that clip.

In the media pool, we've only brought in
this section and not the entire clip here.

Now, these in and out points,
we can grab the little handles

down here below and move them
wherever we want.

Now, we can see

when I grab this handle down here below,
we get kind of a zoomed in area

of the audio waveforms for wherever
the point sits on the timeline.

So this is great for marking,

very specific in and out points
on our timeline based on the waveform.

So let's say, you know, this waveform
here, something important is happening.

And I want to start it right before then
because it zooms in.

When I'm dragging that handle, it's
very easy to start it right before that

audio plays
right there versus trying to do that

When everything is scaled out
like this, it's going to be much harder.

It's really nice
that it zooms in like that.

We can also grab the handles on the left
and right of this little timeline here

to do the same things.

So on the left here, we're able
to move the endpoint just like that.

We can click and scrub with the mouse left
and right to find that exact point

that we want to start at.

So in this case, not really
going to need to look at the waveform,

just looking at the video.

And then on the right,
we have the ability to choose

where the exact out point is.

Now the Raven Clock keyboard

shortcut to insert a clip from our media
pool into our timeline is six.

So because we have our play head right
here, it's going to insert it

in between these two.

If I press six,
it's going to add it in just like that.

So I'm going to delete all my clips
in my timeline here

and let's drag all these clips in
so I can give you guys a better

example of how you can navigate
both of these timelines.

So in the top timeline here,
because we're zoomed out,

I can very quickly go to any part
of my timeline just like this.

If I want to go to the end,
I'll just click right here.

If I want to go to the start,
I can go here.

Whereas in the edit tab, this is the more
traditional way to view your timeline.

You're going to have to zoom in and out
a lot

to get that close up
view of where your play ahead is.

And then if you wanna go back
to the beginning,

you're going to have to zoom out
all the way,

move your play head back to the beginning
and then zoom in again.

And that takes up a lot of time.

So the cut tab is great because
you no longer have to zoom in and out.

You can instantly

just go to any section of your timeline
just like this very quickly.

And the other cool thing about the way
that the timelines work here is

you can also just rearrange your clips
very easily.

So if there's a clip that you feel like
you want to have earlier on

in the timeline,
you can simply just click on it,

drag it and wait for that little blue

section to pop up and it'll show you
that little ghosted clip over there.

And if you let go, then it's going to move
that clip over to that new area

in the edit tab.

If you wanted to move a clip over
to a different part of your clip,

you would first have to make a gap here.

Now, it's not important that
you understand how to do this right now.

I'm just showing you guys
how I would do it in the edit tab.

You can press y to select all the clips
to the right of the play head,

and then you can take that clip
that you want to move over there,

drag it to its spot, delete the gap.

That's kind of how you would rearrange
clips over here.

Now in the cut tab,
you guys saw how quick and easy that was.

You can simply just click on a clip
and drag it over to any section

that you want and very quickly
and easily rearrange clips in here.

So that's definitely
a big advantage of the cut tab.

And I find myself going between the edit
tab in cut tab

even later on in my edit,
not just when I'm making selects

so that I can quickly rearrange
things over here.

Now you can also drag
clips from the bottom timeline

to the top timeline, even though they are
the exact same timeline.

So if I have a clip over here

that might be a bit smaller
and it's hard for me to click on it

over there, I can just take it down here,
move it to a different section.

Just like that.

It's super easy and a super efficient way
for us to rearrange our timeline.

Now, one thing I want to know

is that DaVinci also gives us the option
to unlock this play

head down here below by simply pressing
this button over here, free play head,

and that will allow us to move
this bottom play head left and right.

Personally, I never use that.

I find it very useful for that player
head to just sit in the center

and that's just works for me.

But if you ever want to be able
to freely move that play, head down below,

you can simply just press that button
over there.

Now, in the top right,
we have the inspector.

If we click on it, we're able to view

and change certain parameters
of our selected clip in our timeline.

So over here,
the play head is over top of this clip.

So if I go to the top left of the
inspector over here and click video,

we have a bunch of different parameters
that we can change of our clip.

So at the top
we have the transform parameters.

So we have things like Zoom, the position,
the rotation angle,

the pitch, the we can also flip the image

on each one of its accesses,
which is very handy.

I'm super thankful
that they give us the option to do this

very quickly and not have to apply
an effect in order to do that.

That's really cool.

And if we ever want to reset any of these,

we can simply click the reset button
to the right of the parameter.

Or if we want to reset the whole section,
we can click this little reset button

at the top right of the section.

And in here

we have a bunch of other parameters that
we can change about our selected clip.

The next one is smart Reframe,
which we're not going to talk about

right now,
but I do have a full video on this Later

on our next step we have cropping to open
that we can just click on it

and we have the option

to crop the left side of the image,
the right side, top, bottom,

make.

I'm going to close that.

We have something called Dynamic Zoom,
which I'll be talking about

in the next video,
but this is a huge, huge feature.

I'm so thankful that DaVinci implemented
this.

It's a huge timesaver.

It makes the process of adding
digital movement and zoom to your image

much easier.

So I'm going to close that.

Next up, we have composite,
which basically gives us different options

on how we want the opacity of our image
to be affected,

including an opacity slider down here.

This is great for when you're applying
things like lens flares or light leaks.

You can set the composite mode
to something like light in or screen,

and it's going to change the opacity

of the assets
to overlay on top of everything else.

Next up, we have the ability
to change the speed of our eclipse

so we can do things like change
the direction of our clip playback

so we can play it back backwards.

We can also freeze at a certain frame.

We can change the speed here,
change the frames per second down below.

We also have the option
to ripple the sequence.

Now, it's not important for you guys
to understand what any of this is.

I'm just giving you kind of a top level
overview of what you can do

in the inspector over here and personally,
I like to make speed

changes in the edit tab,
but you do have the option

to do
those changes here in the cut tab as well.

Below that we have stabilization
which allows us to stabilize

our clip and modify certain parameters
of how it's being stabilized,

which allows us to kind of fine tune

the stabilization depending on
what kind of clip we are using.

Below that, we've got lens correction,
which is awesome.

We can get DaVinci to analyze the clip
for us and automatically correct

the lens distortion,
or we can do it manually down here below.

It's going to reset that.

And then below that we have re time
and scaling,

which I'm going to dive into later on.

But these are basically
just different options on how we want Da

Vinci to process the re time
and scaling changes

that we've made to our clip
and next to the video tab we have audio.

If we click on that, we are able to adjust
different parameters of our audio here.

We can change things like volume.

The pan pan is basically just
how much of the audio

is coming from the left speaker
and the right speaker.

This is a really great option
for doing a bit more complex sound design.

We can change the pitch.
We have an equalizer here.

This is all stuff

that we're going to be learning about more
in the Fairlight section of the course,

but it is good to know

that you are able to make those changes
here in the cut tab as well

and all the way to the right here
of the inspector we have file

and this basically shows us the metadata
of our selected clip

and it also gives us the option
to input metadata

for the clips and also add things
like colors and things like this.

This is something that I would do
to make it easier to filter

through all of my footage later
on and find specific clips.

Now, next to the inspector,
we have the full screen button.

If I click this, it's giving me
a full screen display of my timeline.

Now, personally, I don't really use that
because then I don't have access

to my timeline.

What I like to do is go to workspace,
go to video, clean feed and select

my other monitor that I have over here
to my left as my video clean feed.

So I have my entire workspace
here on my main monitor

and I always have a full screen
display of the viewer here to my left.

Personally, I love this setup

and this is how I've been editing
all of my videos recently.

But obviously
if you're working on a MacBook

and you only have one display,
then you can't do this.

So the full screen button right here

is just a way for you to preview
your preview window, full screen.

And next to that, we have quick export.

This allows us to quickly export
our timeline here.

It just gives you a couple of different
codecs and formats that you can export at

most of the time.

I just stick to 264 and down here

we can see that it has the same properties
as what our timeline is set to.

So 4K, we got 24 frames per second

and we can select export
and it will give us a window.

We can select where
we want to save the file

and it will export
whatever we have here in the cut tab.

I'm just going to cancel it
because I don't need to do that

now. The normal
way that I would create a new timeline

in the cut tab or even the edit
tab is to press command end.

And then I get this create new timeline
window over here.

I can call the timeline
whatever I want, I'll call it test.

And over here we have the option to ensure
that it's using the project settings

that we set at the beginning.

If we uncheck this, we have the ability
to go into format over here

and we can change the properties
of the new timeline that we are creating.

But I'm going to select
use project settings

because we set our project settings
to do exactly what we want.

I'm going to click Create and we can see
that it's created this new timeline

over here in the main root
folder of our media pool in here.

We can also see the timeline
that we created previously.

Now remember,

we didn't create that timeline
by pressing command,

and we simply just
drag clips into the timeline

and then it automatically created
a new timeline and called it timeline one.

Now, just remember,
if you ever are creating a new timeline,

it's going to bring that timeline
back to the root folder by default.

So what I like to do is create a new bin
over here by pressing

command shift end, or you can also right
click and select new bin.

And I'm going to call this timelines.

Then I'm going to drag all of my timelines
into that one folder.

And this is just a good way
to stay organized.

Now, whenever I want to,
I can just go back to this timelines

folder over here and access all of my
different timelines just like that.

So I'm going to go back to the timeline
that we originally created by double

clicking on it right here,
and we are back in that same timeline.

One thing to keep in
mind is if you ever feel like you're

not really using the inspector panel
or you don't want it to be here,

you can just click on the inspector button

and it will hide that whole section
over there giving you more room

to play around with in your timeline
over here and your preview window

transitions, titles and effects
which can be found up here.

Let's start with the transitions.

Now. If we scrub through here,
we can see that

we have tons of different options
for transitions.

And if we hover our mouse over
top of any one of these transitions,

it can give us a little bit of a preview

in our preview window
of what that transition will look like.

So that's a really cool feature
and allows us to very quickly

get an idea of what
this is going to look like

so we don't have to actually apply it
to our clip.

First, we can get a preview of what it's
going to look like first.

Now, personally, do I use any of these?

No. Would I? Maybe in some cases.

Now you can actually download
tons of transitions, titles and effects

from the Internet, for example.

These ones down here are from Red
Giant Universe.

I personally haven't actually used them
yet, but I have them if I ever need them.

And if you ever want to download

your own transitions titles and effects
from the internet, you can no problem

and preview them just like you can
with the standard ones that come in.

DaVinci

Now let's say we want to apply this Arrow
Iris transition between two clips.

Well, what I can do is click on it
and drag it and drag

it between the two clips
that I want to apply it to.

Now we can see that nothing's happening.

We're not getting that little blue
ghosting to drop this in.

And if I let go, it's
not going to do anything.

Now, the reason that didn't work
is because this first clip

doesn't have any more frames
past this point,

and the second clip
doesn't have any frames before this point.

And that's because this is the hard
end of the first clip

and it's the hard
start of the second clip.

So what we're going to want to do
is just trim it down a little bit

to give it
a little bit more room to play with.

And we can see that, you know, we're not
starting at the very start of this clip

and we're not ending
at the very end of that clip.

And that gives DaVinci
a bit of extra frames

from each clip to create that transition.

Now, if you grab that same arrow,
iris transition dragging in between,

we can see that
we have this little effect that pops up.

Now, if we let go, we can see
that that transition was applied.

So if we scrub

over here, we can preview that transition
and we can also change the duration

of the transition as well just by clicking
and dragging on it like that.

Now, we can't go any further

because we running into the same issue
as we were before.

It doesn't actually have enough frames
to prolong that transition.

So what we can do is do the same thing
as before.

We can start the second clip
a little bit later

and finish the first clip
a little bit earlier.

That way now we can extend that transition
even further.

Wow, what a cool transition.

Now, that's that's pretty cheesy.

Not something I would actually ever do,
but this is just an example

of how you can apply this.

And honestly, transitions
like this could be pretty cool for,

you know, YouTube videos
and like review videos, stuff like that.

It's pretty simple
and it doesn't look too bad.

Now, if you ever want to delete
a transition,

you can simply select it like that.

You'll see that red outline
and you can hit delete and it goes away

just like that.

If there's ever a transition in here that
you find yourself going back to a lot,

press this little star button next to it
and it will be added to your favorites.

And then whenever
you want to apply a transition,

you can simply go to your favorites

folder here and quickly get access
to all of your favorites just like that.

So next to Transitions,
we have titles, same kind of a vibe.

If we go into this titles section here,
we have tons of different titles

that we can preview simply
by scrubbing our mouse over.

We get an example in the preview window
of what it's going to look like

if we find something that we like,

we can simply select it and drag it over
our timeline wherever we want.

Does it matter if it's in the top timeline
or the bottom one? Here?

You can drag it wherever,

let it go, and then we have that text
ready for us to edit.

We can select the text and go up here
into the inspector in the top right.

And here we are able to change the text
to whatever we want

so we can call this skateboarding.

And down below that we have the ability

to change
all the other properties of the text,

like the tracking line spacing,

all that fun stuff, even the color.

And again, we can simply select

that title down
here, hit delete and it's gone.

And just like we can make our favorites
for transitions,

we can also make favorites over here
as well.

Simply by clicking that star.

And your favorites are going to show up
in the Favorites tab right here.

So next step, we have effects.

So these are all the effects
that we can apply video

and audio to the media in our timeline.

So one effect that I find myself
going back

to all the time is lens
blur, as well as directional blur.

So I could favorite both of those
and whenever I'm in my favorites,

those are going to pop up.

If we ever want to apply an effect,
we can simply just select it

and drag it over the clip
that we want to apply it to.

And then when we check our inspector
over here,

we can see that this effects tab
is now enabled.

We can click into it

and we can see the effect
that we applied it to the selected clip.

So over here we can see that
we have lens blur applied to this clip

and it gives us a bunch of different
properties down here that we can modify.

So the blur size, the blade curvature.

So that just affects how the blur kind of
looks like the aperture in the lens.

But this stuff isn't really important
for you guys to know right now.

All you need to know
is that when you apply

an effect to any one of these clips,
you'll be able to view that effect

and modify its properties in the effect
tab under the inspector.

So just like in transitions and titles,
we're able to hover our mouse over

top of the effects

to get a bit of a preview of what it's
going to look like on our selected clip.

So let's grab this invert color effect,
drag it over our clip again,

and we can see under that same effects
tab, we have invert color as well

and we can turn it on and off
simply by pressing this switch over here.

And if we don't want it,

we can simply just click on it
and select delete over here.

And now that invert color effect is gone.

Now we can see
that we have open effects here and fusion.

So there's two different types of effects
that you can apply onto

your clips in the effects tab over here.

So we got resolve effects
and then we also have fusion effects

which are going to be applied to your clip
in a bit of a different way

and you'll be able to view them
in this fusion tab over here.

So let's grab this first one here,
drag it over top of our clip.

Now we can see that nothing was added
to our effects tab over here,

but this little fusion
button is now enabled.

If we click into that,
we can see that this fusion effect

is now inside of our inspector here,
and we're able to modify

the parameters just like before,
except this is only in the fusion tab. Now

we could turn our

effect on and off just like that,
and then we can also delete it.

Now, one thing I want to mention
is that we are able to keyframe

any of the properties
for any of these effects right here,

but that's not important
for you guys to understand right now.

We're going to be diving
a lot more into key framing later on.

And personally,
I don't do any key framing in the cut tab.

I do not think this is the place
to be doing key framing.

You can do some pretty simple stuff,
but the edit tab is

where I do my key framing because it gives
you a lot more functionality.