5 HUGE MISTAKES New Resolve Editors Make (And How to Avoid Them) - DaVinci Resolve Tips

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Whether you're brand new to using DaVinci Resolve or an experienced editor we all make mistakes. So today I wanted to talk about 5 huge mistakes new editors make, teach you how to avoid them, and maybe remind some of you old dogs of somethings to avoid.
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[@CaseyFaris]

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[@JasonYadlovski]

Yes! Audio is super SUPER important 💯! Thank you for the mention Casey, love you man! 😁👍

[@AndrewBerube41]

There's a handful of youtubers I watch for resolve and you 2 are at the top.

[@Recyclops]

In regards to Audio, you should always get 30 seconds of room tone so you can put that into the silent parts of your video

[@Turtlpwr]

Amazing tip, never thought about doing that, thank you

[@805productions3]

great idea

[@AAvfx]

Dear Casey, your channel is one of the most helpful for my workflow. Many many thanks!

[@killerpankakes]

I’ve literally gotten to the point with resolve, partly because of you, so thanks lol, where instead of playing video games on my pc when I don’t have work to do, I just mess around in fusion and try and make the most complex motion graphics I can think of and I have more fun doing that in my down time then I ever used to have just playing videos games in my down time

[@CaseyFaris]

This one thing is going to help you so much.

[@ZAFuzzy]

I love fusion, I edit gaming videos mostly and I ditched Vegas Pro and After Effects to use only DaVinci, I've been using the tracker a lot and recently learned to do water reflections in Fusion

[@drplex5999]

Congratulations on reaching 400,000 subscribers! You really deserve it. Thanks for the great videos! Keep it up man🥳🥳🎉

[@crazyleg2006]

Really good video. Thanks for taking the time to put it up for me and everyone else. It's always nice to find videos and information that help us solve problems.

[@TacoEditing]

Such great tips! Thanks Casey! I cant believe how many people skimp on audio. And learning basic fusion and color grading will drastically change your abilities in resolve! I have to admit though, im bad about the proxies. I need to get better at using them.

[@EncourageFaith]

Very helpful. Thanks, Casey!

[@producermind9030]

That fusion smoke screen was sickkkk.

[@chrisretrocool]

Merry Christmas Casey! 🎄

[@ggproductions7078]

as always, awesome work and we thank you for it

[@ElmStReactions]

Love your channel mate, although i am just trying to get the confidence to do a reaction channel, your videos have been super helpful for me learning the editing side

[@JamesKelly81]

I have been using Resolve commercially since 2017, ditching all Adobe after 15 years. I still watch all your vids, as often I'll learn something new, even if it seems minor, it still makes a difference. Thank you :)

[@Coatsey007]

Casey, as always a great video, between you and Mostyn, Darren that is, you are both the best at explaining DaVinci, oh and Alex. What would have been interesting is what proxy settings you would've used. For example, use a next studio ultra with those types of encoders, which type of proxies is the million dollar question my friend. I shoot with a Sony A1, 8K, mainly because I'm rubbish, but at least I can reframe up to 4 times and still keep 4K resolution. Appreciate your busy and wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas.

[@StuartHetzler]

additionally with audio, learn what True Peak is and pay attention to it. If you ever upload to a platform and your audio is quieter than it sounds in resolve, it's because your true peak level was too high!

[@DavidGilden]

Love your channel and Fusion 🎉

[@cameronpatrickscott]

Brilliant, masterful, thankyou.

[@AaronMoneyMindset]

You're one of my favorite teachers/Creators on Davinci Casey. Keep up the great work!!

[@albiss1164]

That OK at the end 😄 Thanks for those precious tips !

[@Kryzvlogs]

Thank you so much sir. I just got DR18 and theres too much to learn. Sometimes I'm so lazy or afraid to touch it and learn. But these videos always gets me right back in.

[@Evolved_Thinking]

I learned how to use fusion simply watching your videos! We just dropped our first one, and I owe you the thanks for the skills used to make the video possible! Much appreciated Casey, I'm for sure watching everything else. Clear and concise instruction. :)

[@djromanremix8908]

always a easy to follow along tips video

[@inari_asmr]

Thanks for the video, will definitely need to use proxy more since my friends laptop lags a lot during editing. :)

[@Larr2010]

Happy Holidays to you Casey, Been watching and learning Resolve for years and still not there. But your latest 5 mistakes was great...I started using Proxies, jumped into the Cut Page with the Speed Editor and lots more.....With your help, getting better in the Color Page, maybe next year.

[@CaseyFaris]

You got this!

[@Flingwing24]

Thanks Casey. Yea, I am right at the bottom of the editing food chain, only making shorts and stem vids for a historic flight. This said, fusion has already helped a lot with moving arrows for drift and airflow vectors, as well as messing with 360 footage. I am coming back to davinci and the PC will hopefully get a grip. Con-fusion isn't easy, but from what I have seen it will be worth learning. Colour page is amazing, particularly for our use as the clips could be filmed months apart in different conditions. Opportunity based, you cannot always set things up. Great stuff, thanks again.

[@user-rj2gz2th8c]

thank you sir for all the tutorial videos on KZbin. I have be repeatedly watching your videos for about 20 times per video. You are fantastic teacher . this is the first time a put a comment just to cheer you on

[@MrVince1976]

Congrats on reaching 400k subs Casey !

[@a1uffy]

Thanks Casey. I've been learning as much as I can about all the rudimentary basics. I'm extremely slow, but after about two months, I'm halfway through my first video. The majority of my frustration comes from lag when I try to rewatch and critique my efforts. Unfortunately, even if I pre-render clips, I still experience latency issues and it hinders my progress.

[@CaseyFaris]

Proxies. This is the way.

[@Lazarus007]

You're freaking amazing!

[@Imkenster08]

Another great video !

[@mymax43]

You Rock! These are great tips for a noobie like me.

[@bepowerification]

My computer isnt the fastest one and I had problems when editing 4K footage. Once I saw how you change the proxy resolution and then generate them.. this changed SO much.

[@harrisonwild9333]

Hey Casey, big fan of the channel! Thanks for all your tutorials. I have a request for one, if this is even possible... How can you have a project set up with multiple timeline formats? For example a Timeline in Vertical Format (For TikTok/IG Reels) and another in Horizontal Format (For KZbin) but in the same project? I can't seem to find information on this and I'm sure it's something a lot of people are looking for!

[@FergHyde]

I appreciate the bejeezus outta you for sharing your hard earned knowledge. Thank you so much.

[@VortexGamingandReacts]

Maaaaannn...that proxy trick is amazing...my pc is doing an ok job editing but it takes a long time when i have 1 hour videos or more...and now it's so much smoother to edit with proxy...only downside it takes a while to generate it...but it's nothing compared to the time i have to spend editing....so thank you for the tip👍👍👍👍

[@aliranjbar655]

خدا قوت کی سی... ممنونم از زحماتی که می کشید🌹

[@user-sh5hj2cl8b]

آره انصافا خیلی کمکمون کرد

[@MRJ13224]

It's a big time saver :D

[@SebastianReick]

Great tips. Do you change the proxy resolution or leave it on auto? I've observed that for 4K material, the proxies are 4K as well, and I've assumed that the proxies would be smaller.

[@undefwun2135]

I actually swapped to Davinci (bought the studio version after making a few videos with free) because of the colour page. Maybe because I am a photographer first, but I couldn't imagine not 'fixing' colours as part of the process. The interface is just a different league compared to PP, just to me personally more intuitive. Watched a few tutes from different people and I'm using I guess a intermediate level node tree. Love nodes, the modularity just makes sense to me.

[@mr_e_mc2]

Hearing about Fusion is the reason I ditched the adobe for the resolve. Fusion is a total game changer,

[@danielbr93]

Proxies are huge indeed. It's great looking through some footage at 64x speed when editing. The only issue with it is, depending on what you edit, it may take a lot of disk space. 500~ GB of raw footage turned into 2.5~ TB of proxies. Not ideal, but can probably be reduced with lower resolution ones. Also, it did take hours to make, but that can all be done while I'm not at the PC, sleeping, eating, etc.

[@MaikKellerhals]

The color page is where I go to have fun after i finished editing! ;)

[@realMartinHamilton]

Thanks for showing proxies. I'm using 8gigs of RAM and needed to see that.

[@CaseyFaris]

No problem 👍proxies are super helpful

[@okechukwuanudokem2060]

am dealing with this right now so it would be cool if u made a video on how to restore a database and get all the macros and shortcut u used like a hands on video , there isnt one on utube , basically switching to a new computer scenerio.

[@TRRULAG]

Hi, this proxy is not effecting your color grading potential? And it's working smooth even for a relight? thank you:)

[@pupstudio]

You are a GREAT instructor on Davinci! But I have to change the speed down to less than 50% to catch all you say! Thank goodness we can do that. Again, great instructional video! (at 50% speed) lol

[@DevonSpittleREAL]

I'm a bit confused with using proxies. What if you need to do color correction? Or work with the clip in fusion? Will it automatically use the correct clip with the full resolution?

[@user-HagaiEitanOfficial]

Hello. And thank you for all the videos. I wanted to ask you if it is possible to burn an srt file in a video in Davinci software so that the subtitles are in Hebrew with a wiindowes operating system? Many try and fail

[@mgv.videostudio]

I have a question. When I want to track masked objects, as in your case, where the objects is in other object, I guess I should add Planar tracker to Media1?

[@UltraSquad]

I discovered your channel after I had watched your DVR18 guide tutorial for beginners in another prominent ytber channel. To conclude your context seems to be explicit and very fluent voice, and ultimately DVR seems a lot less complex to use after watching your video, although I had never used DVR software before I will begin applying it in future, as I stopped using PR after I had found out that it is a lot more expensive than DVR18.

[@Thebarebones_]

njoyed

[@batworker]

I tried your tips on my latest effort, the thing I found was that after generating proxies the video and audio were no longer linked, and because a lot is me talking to camera it was a bit of a shock. Is this a thing or did I make mistakes generating them

[@spartamerican6758]

One day I hope to thank you in person for all that you have done for so many.

[@daithi007]

8:30 DaVinci Resolve Colour Grading... - "La La Land" (2016) - "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) - "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (2015) - "The Martian" (2015) - "Spectre" (2015) - "The Revenant" (2015)

[@littlehopeleft]

Thanks so much Case. One thing that drives the absolute madness over my eyes is the symmetry transform in everything. If I want to resize se thing from the left I want to resize it from that side only, not from both. This is not a feature and I forever curse whoever come up with this as a default with wooden spoon getting stuck in your kitchen drawer for the rest of your days!.

[@Poggy]

RE: Keyboard shortcuts, can I just say the ones you mention are the MOST important I think. The ones most editors will use are blade tool, ripple end and start and there are a handful of similar ones. I use a Logitech G503 Hero mouse, and I can map them to my index and thumb while I'm editing. It makes editing almost faster than I'm able to think about it. I think besides keyboard shortcuts, you can't understate the importance of a good mouse with mappable keys.

[@BrunoReisVideo]

omg thanks for proxy representation!!!! it is NOT overkill to make proxies on an M1 Max Mac Studio and it should be said!!! 🤣

[@Larr2010]

Hi Casey, Need some adult editing guidance, still can't get keyboard customization to work with Ripple end to playhead with the letter "W" as in the video. How does the speed editor recognize this command? Do I have to use the virtual keyboard on the screen? Probably making this too complicated and there is one checkbox that keeps this from working. Your help would be appreciated. Not seeing anything in the members blogs that comes close to this.

[@jurnet9]

My original video looks ok in playback but when I generate proxy media and then check prefer proxies, in my preview screen I get just green and no picture. Any ideas please?

[@davescorneroftheworld1147]

How do you delete old proxy files?

[@misiek07d]

I had a problem in Da Vinci Resolve when I wanted to use the Effects - Toolbox - Video Transitions tool. The problem is that when I moved the mouse over a specific effect, I could see how it worked, but I could not apply the effect to the video materials edited in Timeline. And I don't know why - I don't know what's wrong. I updated DaVinci from version 18.5 to the new 18.6 and the problem was the same - updating the program did not solve the problem - which means that I probably must have done something else wrong, probably some so-called minor (but important) detail.

[@Studio.15]

I tried using proxy video a few times and finally quit trying because it was taking longer to fix it than if I just used the 4K footage. Every single clip of my video, after it switched back to the 4K version, was about 3 to 5 frames off of where I cut it. In some cases of course that's OK, but many times it messed things up. So I would have to go and move over every single clip 3 to 5 frames. I never could figure out why that was happening and I never found anyone else who was having that problem. Any ideas or suggestions? I'm not opposed to using proxies, but I am opposed to wasting time re-editing every single clip in my movie.

[@AventurasconAlberto]

Audio and Fussion are my takeaways

[@Professional-workstation]

Enjoyed this - switched from PP/AE during th15 & 16 releases. Have to say that using nodes in Fusion is 1000 times more effective / intuitive than AE. Fusion might intimidate new users, it is so much better than AE.

[@ProMentalStudios]

Color Space. What option would people choose for video games? These preset options i need to know more about. Well for video game editing. Every single game is different so it gets pretty annoyingly complicated. If one of these presets is specifically for video game editing I could mess with it or them. Not sure, thanks. Great upload as always.

[@CaseyFaris]

If it's a video capture of the gameplay it's likely just rec.709, which won't need color managed unless you're doing something really tricky like matching it with a face cam and doing some heavy compositing or something.

[@ProMentalStudios]

@@CaseyFaris thanks! Whoever color graded the new Modern Warfare III should be sent to Antarctica. 😂💕 been messing with Halo infinite now and has been way more fun.

[@yuryerr]

I'm editing a video using footage from gh5ii (shoot on 4k), gopro max(5,6k) and gopro 7(4k). The footage from gh5ii is looking more sharper and better quality overall then gopros. How to match the quality of all videos. Not talking about colour matching(!). Final edit may be in ful HD, not necessarily in 4k. Searched thought YT, no success. Would appreciate the help🖤

[@kajodata]

This proxy thing man... SO MY 4K VIDS CAN ACTUALLY PLAY FLUENTLY DURING EDIT? Thx 💗💗

[@catsven1973]

Great!!btw .. books don’t make any paper noises when we move them .. just make sure not overdoing things ..too

[@CaseyFaris]

Mine do. I have very floppy books.

[@catsven1973]

cool so..@@CaseyFaris

[@princeajaero7903]

Hey nice🎉

[@orikhure]

Thank you, this was great! (But as a beginner, you lost me at the Fusion part ngl LOL)

[@brianhovis8239]

Thanks Casey. You and Jason are my lifelines. I will check out the other references and try in 2024 to not make these 5 mistakes.

[@StevenMaybank]

Guys I need mega help when I'm exporting any type of video I'm getting flickering up the top all the way through can anyone help?

[@denniskoster]

Okay, I did not know I could select the empty space and delete that. Been selecting *everything* after the cut and dragging it to where I cut the last clip. 🤦‍♂️

[@Relativizor]

If you cook this down to one tip only, it's gotta be audio for me. Spending time on audio will massively improve the quality of an edit far more than spending time on the image would.

[@micmul2211]

I tried the proxy, but a 1.27 GB movie clip was 107GB as a proxy. I don't do that much editing, no large projects and disc space will become a problem very quickly. I think for me it's not working. In Premiere Pro you don't need them at all. Why are they so big? And how does that make it faster? I thought it would be smaller.

[@stewartl5109]

Hi Casey can you answer what might be a silly question.. when i import my media and start to cut, trim etc Does my original media get changed? Im not sure if i asked the question correctly! Im brand new to this video editing☺️ Your help will be appreciated thx 🙂

[@CaseyFaris]

Nope. The original media stays the same.

[@stewartl5109]

@@CaseyFaris Thank you for your prompt reply Casey. Your videos are so intuitive 🙂

[@Docfly62]

@1:50 You meant to say "a smartphone" 😁😆😇

[@FlorenceKatoma-qr7or]

Nice job My brother, am asking tutorial on how to match movement of character and background image your tutorial you did it contain lot of node am a learner do it step by step My brother

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

most of it is over my head but very well explained, Thank you very much,

[@CaseyFaris]

Don't worry it'll start to be less intimidating soon.

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

yes Thank you it does get easier as you keep using it a bit at a time Thank you for getting back to me, @@CaseyFaris

[@ginamariephotography]

I just bought the studio version and I'm having more problems with it, than I did the free one. What am I doing wrong? Ex: can't export stills taken from the color page, screen keeps going white/freezing etc

[@CaseyFaris]

Update your GFX drivers and your OS

[@davejohnsonmusic]

Do you delete project proxies after you've rendered the project?

[@CaseyFaris]

They're usually not too big, so no.

[@freak49]

Don't forget that any microphone will pick up EVERYTHING. If you're walking along the street talking to someone your mind filters out all the traffic, etc. Your microphone won't and it willl be a mess cleaning it up.

[@mikevanchieri]

At 13:29 why is there no fog on the Edit page when it was showing fog on the Fusion page after Fast Noise was added?

[@JamesKelly81]

It is there. It just looks less detailed on the smaller viewer :)

[@mikevanchieri]

@@JamesKelly81 Ok, thanks 😊

[@JolanXBL]

The 9 nodes video doesn't have a scroll so there's no rewind or search, and the page it's presented on has sign-up spam with the typical fake countdown timer

[@blisssenseripzyzz4evermiri176]

That's cool but sound editing is not the same as sound design, for it to be sound design you have to create everything from zero, whether you use romplers, hybrids (like omnisphere) or any other synth or record foley yourself and edit it. If all you do is use sample packs and you put those together whether you use spatial effects or any other effect that's simply editing, not sound design.

[@mirkomisic5884]

Hello everyone. I have a little problem with the keyboard shortcuts. I listened and watched carefully, and my computer doesn't allow any of the shortcuts Casey mentioned. He simply says, "That letter has already been used as a shortcut to, and then lists for what, and shows me."

[@mirkomisic5884]

I would love if someone can help me with that Thank you in advance!

[@neveresttt]

Well, maybe I do something wrong, but the thing with the proxies is that they don't disappear from your computer after you're finished. A couple of months ago I suddenly noticed that my PC ran out of free space, and spent a few hours trying to understand why. Turned out, proxies from several projects ate up around 250 GB of disc space. I used them while I was working on the projects, but after I was done, they just stayed and it stacked over time. And now I don't use proxies.

[@CaseyFaris]

Real talk: you need to get more disk space of you're going to do video editing. It takes a lot of space. If you're worried about proxies taking up too much space, you need to get an external drive or something.

[@jaysonfontela5761]

👍

[@theindiefilmdude]

Audio is just as Important as the video. Sometimes EVEN MORESO!

[@Jessiekim]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@th8132]

Number 6: Thinking that watching youtube vids on Resolve editing is going to magically make you a professional and fully capable editors. No experience needed!

[@Poggy]

"The color page isn't intimidating at all", 9:00 - "just clickity clackity all these magic buttons here and do a summersault through a forest upside down and voilà"

[@GrantSR]

2:58 - OK, this is the absolute FIRST "baked-in" advertisement that I have ever agreed with whole-heartedly. And I have never heard of this company. So many people's interview audio is so awful that I can't watch the video. I comment that they just need to have the interviewee record their audio separately, even if just on their phone. The number of people who never thought of that just boggles my mind. I know about this, and I don't even DO videos. So, having something where the interviewee doesn't need to do ANYTHING special, is great. Now people have no friggin excuse for bad interview audio.

[@st.wassm.760]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWG2fYh-dtd9d8k What do i choose when i film BMPCC4k Film Gen5? Its so silly sometimes with Davinci....

[@CaseyFaris]

Blackmagic Gen 4/5 for Color Space Blackmagic Gen 5 Film for Gamma

[@st.wassm.760]

THNX! 🤓@@CaseyFaris

[@Dominik_bez_kota]

God, it seems u just had to release a movie

[@ReidVV]

Nitpicking comment of the day: it's suspension of disbelief, as in remaing in a state of willfully NOT seeing something as fake, or unbelievable. I know you know this. I said it was nitpicky.

[@davesdream]

Too much information. One step at the time. Still editing basic videos and adding some basic text. I need to step up to Fusion, Color and Fairlight part yet.

[@bonerici]

The speed he made those edits. Seconds. Crazy good in resolve.