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So Ravenclaw is a keyboard shortcut
layout strategically designed

to very quickly perform common
editing tasks with keyboard shortcuts.

It was designed in a way
that would allow you to initiate

most of these commands
with your left hand on the keyboard

and your right hand on your mouse,

allowing you to move through the program
in the most efficient way possible.

To me,

having a solid keyboard shortcut

layout like this is key
to getting into flow state.

When editing, you want to minimize

spending time on repetitive tasks
and maximize your time in a creative flow.

In this video,
I'm going to walk you through

some of the most important
Ravenclaw Keyboard Shortcuts

and explain exactly what they do.

You can also download a PDF Cheat
sheet down below

so you can always keep it on your computer
and reference it whenever you need it.

Now, if you're just starting out
in the program memorizing these shortcuts

right now isn't necessary,
but it can definitely be helpful.

The important thing is
that you are aware of the actions

you perform the most within the program
and to make sure that you're

using a keyboard shortcut
to perform those actions to save you time.

So let's get into it.

All right.

So the very first shortcut we should know
about is command AI.

This is not a new or custom shortcut.

This is a shortcut that just comes
with DaVinci and it's to import new media.

When you press command AI,
you're presented with a finder window

and you can select what media
you want to bring into your media pool.

So let's select all of this footage here.

Let's click open,
bring it into the project.

I'm not going to change my project
frame rate

because I've already set it to a project
frame rate that I want.

And just like that,
we've imported our footage to command.

I import media now.

Something I do all the time within

my media pool is I create new bins
or folders in the shortcut

that is command shift.

And that is the exact same shortcut that
I use on the Mac operating system as well.

So I can create a new folder
like that. Rename it.

Let's call this air to us.

And why don't we just drag all of this
footage into that folder just like that?

Now, when I'm in my media pool,

I can select any one of my clips over

here, double click it, and it's going to
load it up in my preview window over here.

Now, the next shortcuts I want to show
you are one, two and three.

And these shortcuts
basically allow me to play around

with the playback of my footage
in the preview.

So if I press three, it's
going to start playing forwards.

If I press three again, it's going
to start playing forwards at two speed.

We can see this two x pops up here.

If I press three again, it's

going to start playing
at four x speed again, apex speed.

So depending on how many times
I press three,

it's going to continuously start playing
faster and faster in the preview here.

Same thing goes for one,
except in reverse.

If I press one once, we're going to start
playing back backwards at normal speed.

If I press it for the second time,

we're going to start going to speed
backwards one more time for one more time.

And now any point
I can press two to stop playback.

So two is basically an alternative
to the spacebar, which allows you to start

and stop playback.
So I'm going to press two again.

It's going to start playing forwards.

So one, two and three are shortcuts
I use all the time,

not just when I'm using media
within the media pool,

but when I'm navigating
my timeline down here as well.

So why don't we bring some media
into our timeline here?

So I'm going to select
all of this footage over here.

And what I can do is actually just press
six, because six is a shortcut for insert.

So if I press six, we can see that all of
the footage that I had selected over here

has now been inserted into my timeline.

So every single clip
that was in this folder,

we can see that we've also created
a new timeline too, because by default,

if I just drag any media from my media
pool into the timeline window here, it's

going to automatically create
a new timeline

if there isn't already a timeline here.

So we just learned about the shortcuts
one, two, three and six.

What about four and five?

Well, four and five
allow us to create in and out points.

So why don't
I select a clip here in my media pool?

Any one of these clips,
I can play through this clip

and go to the point
where I want the endpoint to be.

So maybe around here
I can select four for the endpoint.

We can see within this little timeline
over here, we've created an endpoint

and if I press three to play forwards,
I can stop right there.

Press five to create an out point.

And now I've created this in and out
range right here.

If I hit six, it's going to import that
little section, that little in and out

point right here so that in and out point
that we selected right there, we've now

brought it into the timeline here
by selecting six.

So this is a great alternative
to just bringing the entire clip in.

If you just want a little section
of a clip,

hit four and five,
make those in and out points

and then hit six to insert it into your
timeline wherever your play head is at.

Now, the standard shortcuts for in our
I and O, but those shortcuts

are further to the right on your keyboard.

So you actually have to move your hand
a lot more to get to Ayano

but I still have Ayano
set to in and out as well.

So you have both options.

You can use four and five or I
and oh whatever your heart desires.

Now four and five are shortcuts,
not just used for media

that you're viewing in your media pool.

We can also use four and five to create in
and out points here on our timeline.

So if I want to maybe just render
a certain section of my timeline,

not the entire thing, I can click four
over here and we've created

that endpoint over here and then maybe
I can select five over here.

So now we have this in outrage over here
and when we go to the deliver page,

we have the option to render
just the in and out range.

We can see that right here.

So, you know,
if you have a pretty long timeline

and you don't want to render
the entire thing,

maybe there's only one clip that you want
to render from within that timeline.

You can just create that in an outrage

and just export that one section
or one individual clip

and not have to export
the entire timeline.

So next up, we have option X.

If I select option X, we can see that
we've cleared that in and out

range On my timeline here.

This is something I use all the time
because I'm constantly making new

in and out points on my timeline
for many different reasons.

And when I'm done using that in and out

point, I'm
just going to hit option X to remove it

and then I'm back to a normal timeline
with no custom in and out point.

Now, another really
important shortcut is just X.

If I bring my play head to any clip within
my timeline and I select X,

we can see that a new in and out
range has been created.

That is the exact length of the clip
that my play head is overtop of.

So this is another really important one.

You know, if I'm wanting to export
just one clip, I can simply just hit X

and create that custom in and out range.

That is exactly the same length as
the clip that my play head is over top of,

and I can just export that or, you know,
if I'm doing some kind of sound design

and I want to just loop
a certain section of my timeline,

I can create that in and out point
very quickly just by hitting X.

So that's a great shortcut.

Another really good shortcut for custom

in and out ranges is shift A
and that is mark selection.

So let's say I have a selection of clips
over here and I hit shift.

A We can see that

we've created an in and out point for that
selection of clips in my timeline.

This is a great way to very quickly
make an in and out range here

without having to, you know, go here
click for go to the out point, click five.

A lot of time it can be much faster

to just select

the group of clips that you want
to create that mark in and out point for

and then just hit shift A
And just like that, we've created

the in and out range
just for that group of selected clips.

So I'm going to hit option
X to remove that in and out point.

And the next group of shortcuts I want to
show you is shift one through nine.

So if we press shift one,
we are presented with the project manager.

We have all our databases
here to the left.

We have all our project files within the
selected database over here to the right.

And this is a window

that I access all the time for things
like dynamic project switching, copying

one project file from one database
to another, creating new project files.

This is a window that I use regularly,
and instead of having to go down here

to the bottom right
corner and clicking the little house icon,

I always just click shift
one to open this.

It's much faster and it's a shortcut
I use all the time.

Next up, we have shift two through eight.

Basically, these shortcuts
just allow you to very quickly

navigate between all the different pages
of the program.

So Shift eight is the deliver page.

It's the last one.

Shift seven is fairly, shift
six is the color tab, shift five

is Fusion's, shift four edit tab shift
three cut tab shift two is the media tab.

So depending on
what tabs you go to most often,

you might want to memorize the shortcuts
for those individual tabs.

For example, the edit tab shift four

just by clicking that,
you can get to it pretty quickly.

Now obviously doesn't take too much time
to just click between these tabs down here

at the bottom.

But you know,
if your hands are already on the keyboard

and you want to quickly
get to the edit tab, for example,

you can just hit shift four
and you're there right away.

And of course, we have Shift nine, which
brings us our project settings by default.

We go to the master settings over here,
and this is where I choose things

like resolution for my timeline
and also the frame rate.

And I also am able to choose
my working folders

for where I want to export
proxies, cache files, gallery stills,

all that important stuff,

all the stuff we're going
to be diving into within this course.

But all you need to know right now
is that Shift

nine is the shortcut
to get to your project settings.

So next up, we have TAB.

When I press tab, it hides my media pool.

If I press it again,
it will show me my media pool.

This is a really, really handy shortcut
I use all the time

because a lot of the time when you're done
using the media pool,

you're done importing the media
that you want to bring in.

You can just hit tab
and free up all that real estate,

spread out your timeline
from the complete left side

and right side of your screen to fill up
as much real estate as possible.

This is the best way to edit.

You don't want your media pool
to be taking up unnecessary space

when you're not using it.

So whenever you're done using your media
pool, hit tab, close it off and free up

more precious real estate for the windows
that are actually important for editing.

Now, next up,

we have Shift tab, which will open
and close the inspector on the right side.

So I created both of these shortcuts
for both the media pool and inspector,

because those are

the windows that are open and closed
the most out of any of the tabs.

So I wanted to create a shortcut
that would allow me to very quickly

open and close any of these windows.

So Shift tab
allows me to open the inspector.

I press it again and it will close it off.

Next up, we have the tilde key.

And if you don't know what to tell,
the key is it's the button

just to the left of the one right
underneath the escape button.

It's that weird looking squiggly line.

And if we press it,

we can see that the program now
has entered full screen mode,

so we no longer
have that menu bar at the top.

If you want to access the menu bar,
we got to hover our mouse

to the top of the screen
and that menu bar comes back into display.

This is great because it allows you to
fill your entire screen with the program

and not waste

any real estate with the menu bar up top
or the application bar down below.

You just have the program
filling the entire screen.

And if at any point
you want to leave this full screen view,

you can just press the till the key again
and we're back to where we started.

But for this tutorial,
I'm going to leave it in full screen,

so I'm going to press it again
and we're back in full screen.

Next up, we have command shift key,

and that just brings up our keyboard
customization window In here.

We are able to choose what keyboard layout
we want to be using, and

we can also customize any of our commands
with any keystrokes that we want.

This is a very powerful tool
that I use all the time.

And of course there is a separate video
dedicated just to this,

so make sure to check that out.

So next up we have Q, W, and E,
and these are shortcuts

that allow me to trim
my timeline in a cool way.

So first, let's start off with Q.

So let's say I have this clip over here
and I don't want the beginning of it.

We can see that

the drone kind of dips down and let's say
I want this the clip to start here.

Well, what could I normally do?

Normally, I could maybe select the Blade
tool, cut it over here,

go back to the normal tool,
delete this clip over here,

this section that I don't want
and then maybe delete the gap as well.

And then I've deleted that
first part of the clip.

Well, that takes a lot of work.

A lot of steps are required
to get to this point.

So what I can do instead of doing
all of that, is simply just select Q

on the keyboard.

When I select Q,

we can see that it cuts everything
to the left of the play head on that clip.

And not only did it just cut everything
to the left to play, had it also Ripple

deleted that section,
so everything to the right jumps over.

So if I was to
just cut this clip over here

and delete

this section, we can see that we are left
with a gap over here.

And that just gives us
an extra step to remove that gap.

We can select the gap and delete it, but
that is the old school way of doing it.

By heading Q We are able to not only
separate this first segment of the clip

and delete it, we're also deleting the gap
that would have been left over

if we went the traditional method as well.

So simply by pressing Q
we've done all those different actions

with one keyboard shortcut,
so that's an awesome keyboard shortcut.

I use it all the time.

Now the opposite of Q is E, so
it does the exact same thing, but it trims

everything to the right of the play
head on the selected clip.

So if I press e
we can see that the end of that clip

is now gone and everything to the right of
it has rippled over and there is no gap

left over. Q and E are amazing shortcuts.

Now my index finger
usually sits on E on my keyboard.

That's kind of where I rest my hand
and we can see my ring finger is on.

Q Now between those two fingers
I have W and

W basically
just allows me to split the selected clip.

So with any clip in my timeline selected,
I can just press W

and we can see that
it's added a cut to that selected clip.

So this is just a really fast
waits for me to make cuts to any clip.

Personally,
I never ever use the blade tool.

This is the alternative.

If you go over to the Blade tool or press
B, which is a shortcut to enable it,

you can also make cuts like this.

But in my opinion, I never ever do that.

I like to just stay in the regular
selection mode here with my cursor.

The shortcut for that is a

and I could just press w to make a cut
wherever the player head is.

Now, one really important thing to notice
is that whenever I move my player

head, we can see that

whatever clip my play head is over
top of automatically gets selected.

We know that it's selected
because it has that red border around it.

So this is automatically happening
as I move my head around.

Now, if this isn't happening for you

in your timeline, that's because selection
follows player head is turned off.

So what we're going to want to do is go up
here to timeline in our menu over here

and just make sure that selection follows
Player head is turned on.

I always leave this on
because I always want

whatever clip is underneath my play head
to automatically be selected

because it allows me to use
the Q and E shortcut so much easier.

Q w in E will not work if the clip is not
selected under the play head.

So by making sure that selection follows,
play head is turned on, we're able to use

Q and E very fast
and efficiently to make our selects.

So next up
we have SX, which is ripple delete.

If I select this clip and press SX,

we can see that we've now
deleted that clip, but we also deleted

the gap that would have been left over
if we were just deleting the clip.

So let's hit Command Z to undo that
and you can see if I select this clip

and just press the delete button.

It just deletes the clip, but it doesn't
delete the gap that's left over here.

The beauty of Ripple delete is that it
not only deletes the clip,

but it also lets the gap
saving you a lot of time in the long run.

So next step we have command D, which
allows us to delete gaps in our timeline.

So if I have a group of clips selected
over here, let's say this group here

and I wanted to delete all the gaps
between all of these clips,

what I could do is hit command D
and we can see that it's grouped

all of those clips together
by deleting all of the gaps between them.

This is a very handy shortcut,
especially when I'm making selects.

You'll see me using this one all the time.

And next up we have Command
Z, which is one that we just use,

and that is to undo
whatever it is that you just did.

And if you want to continuously undo,
to go back to a previous stage

of your project, you can just keep hitting
Command Z and it'll take you there.

And if you find yourself going too far,
you're hitting Command Z too many times.

You can hit command shift Z to redo.

So if I command shift C,

we are moving forwards.

So this is kind of a way for us to move
forwards and backwards in time.

Command Z to go backwards,
command shift C to go forwards.

So next up
we have all of our arrow keys up and down.

When I'm in the timeline
view, allow me to jump between the clips.

If I press up, I'm
going to be going to the previous clip.

If I press down, I'm
going to go to the next clip.

So this is just another great way
to navigate your timeline very quickly.

If you want to jump to the start
or end of any clip,

you can just use the up and down
arrow keys.

Now, the left and right arrow keys allow
us to move around one frame at a time.

So if I press the right key, I'm moving
one frame forwards.

I can keep hitting it.

I'll just continuously
go one frame forwards.

The left arrow key
allows me to go one frame back.

I could just zoom in on my timeline
right here and we can see

the cursor moving one
frame at a time, left and right.

That is what the left and right
arrow keys allow you to do.

Now if we combine shift
plus the left and right

arrow keys,
we can jump one second at a time.

So this is just a great way for us to jump
around or to play ahead a lot faster.

You know, moving left and right one
frame at a time can definitely be tedious.

And a lot of the time just moving around
one frame at a time is not enough.

So if you just hold shift, move around,
you could jump one second at a time.

So next up,
we have a couple of different shortcuts

to perform this same command, which
is zooming in and out of your timeline.

So the first one is the plus and minus
buttons on our keyboard.

The plus allows us to zoom in
and the minus allows us to zoom out.

So that's pretty standard.

Most people know about those shortcuts,
but in Ravenclaw,

we've actually customized some shortcuts
to the left of our keyboard so

we don't even have to use the right side,
and that's shift W and S.

So if I hold shift and W, I'm able to zoom
in shift S is to zoom out.

Now in all honesty, I actually use
those keyboard shortcuts the least.

What I do most of the time
these days is just hold option

and I scroll on my keyboard
just like this.

I'm able to zoom in and out of my timeline
just like that.

And I don't just use the option key.

I also use command to move left and right.

So if I hold command in scroll,
I'm able to move left and right,

and if I hold shift, I'm able to shrink
the size of the tracks just like this.

So scrolling up, I'm able to shrink
it, scrolling down.

I'm able to expand it.

And the combination

of those three modifier keys
with my scroll wheel has been very,

very useful for me to navigate my timeline
in a very fast and efficient way.

Command to move left
and right option to zoom in and out

and shift to shrink and expand
each individual track.

These shortcuts are huge in my
personal workflow and are a big reason

why I'm able to navigate my timeline
so fast and efficiently.