Davinci Resolve Speed editor tools and functions complete

Every key and every function of the controller will be covered! Let’s go through this nifty hardware control panel, to find out how it might enhance your editing workflow. This tutorial contains a few video editing tips and tricks as well.
Post-production run-through tutorial from a Blackmagic certified trainer.
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00:00 - Start
00:36 - General Layout
01:44 - Start playback, Stop playback spacebar key
02:22 - Search dial
02:37 - General rules
03:14 - Smart insert / SMART INSRT key
04:19 - Append / APPND key
05:00 - Ripple overwrite / RIPL O/WR key
05:30 - Close up / CLOSE UP YPOS key
06:09 - Place on top / PLACE ON TOP key
06:46 - Source overwrite / SRC O/WR key
07:16 - IN and OUT keys
07:56 - Trim in / TRIM IN key
08:09 - Trim out / TRIM OUT key
08:31 - Roll Slide / ROLL SLIDE key
09:13 - Slip source / SLIP SRC key
09:28 - Slip destination / SLIP DEST key
09:53 - Transition duration / TRANS DUR SET key
10:02 - Cut / CUT key
10:13 - Dissolve / DIS key
10:33 - Smooth cut / SMTH CUT key
11:02 - Escape / ESC UNDO key
11:33 - Sync bin / SYNC BIN key
12:03 - Audio level / AUDIO LEVEL MARK key
12:34 - Full view / FULL VIEW RVW key
12:49 - Transition menu Title font / TRANS TITLE key
13:12 - Split clip, Move clip / SPLIT MOVE key
13:35 - Snapping Resize / SNAP key
14:00 - Ripple delete / RIPL DEL key
14:13 - Camera 1 - Camera 9 / CAM1-CAM9 keys
14:37 - Live overwrite, Random / LIVE O/WR, RND key
15:35 - Video only / VIDEO ONLY key
16:03 - Audio only / AUDIO ONLY key
16:16 - Source Tape view / SOURCE key
16:30 - Timeline / TIMELINE key
16:49 - Shuttle mode / SHTL key
17:06 - Jog mode / JOG key
17:28 - Scroll mode / SCRL key
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[@isitthatway]

This video was fantastic. I love the sequential explanation and not jumping all over the place.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you, I'm glad you like it! More on Resolve and video editing in general is coming up, soon-ish.

[@djvphotography]

I must agree this video is definitely one of the best explanations of the Speed Editor I have ever seen, and I have watched pretty much every video I could find on KZbin about the Speed Editor. It's a shame there are only 565 subscribers to this KZbin channel. More people need to be watching the channel's videos.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

@@djvphotographyThank you very much for your kind words! More videos is in the works, but I do wish I could publish videos more often!

[@joekokesh8344]

This is the BEST explanation of the speed editor. Hope BM takes note of it and brings this guy on-board as a major contributor !

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you very much for your kind words! 🙏

[@Anonymous-ft7ut]

Copy that. Since he is teaching us, I would say sir is the best. 😃 ♥️ ♥️ ♥️

[@tebscat]

This is the best descriptive explanation of the Speed Editor so far. Well done!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Glad you think so! Thank you.

[@ramy4427]

Ii've been searching for a video like this for a very long time, thank you!

[@psycholarge]

Another detailed video.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you! More is in the works! 🙏

[@chadsahley6440]

Best speed editor video. They really need to let us customize buttons on speed editor. the multi cam is buttons are cool but the majority of todays editors aren't using multi cam. Make them customizable.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you very much!

[@bildkistl]

same here, I don't see me using multi cam too, so yes wasted space.

[@thedjnamedves]

The most detailed video on the Speed Editor!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you for your kind words! 🙏

[@bildkistl]

Thanks, watching this video will be my morning routine for a while!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you, it's such a nice idea to think that someone finds this video useful.

[@jeanlucvassort6411]

we are lucky that you did such a work !!! excellent !! and of course so many tanks

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you very much for your kind words!

[@gtamediaproductions1]

The cut page is being used by me a lot. With the speed editor, it makes it even more efficient. Thank you for your video. Very informative!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Glad it was helpful!. There's some learning and getting used to with the speed editor, but once that is done, it does make many things faster and easier.

[@alex_linde]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you !

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Glad I could help!

[@CrewElite]

Amazing voice! I just purchased one a few weeks ago and enjoy using it!

[@a2roland]

Awesome! THANK YOU!!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

My pleasure! There’s plenty of content on video editing with DaVinci Resolve coming up.

[@a2roland]

Looking forward to it! Thanks!

[@maxvorobey1316]

This is so great. Thank you for this!!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Glad it was helpful!

[@EdwardKilner]

Since I’m new to the Speed Editor, I had high hopes for this video. Alas, it was aimed at someone who actually had detailed experience with Resolve editing, which I don’t have. There was reference to a location such as “at the ??? Point, which might have been shown, but wasn’t, leaving me once again to guess. I assume this would be quite useful to an experienced editor moving to the speed editor. Perhaps I will try it again in a few months. Oh, the 4000+ page manual gives references without illustrations too. Yes, that would make it longer. But useful.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

If the basics of video editing are still not familiar to an aspirant, then this video can seem to be a bit of an overload of information. Often the key to learning is patience. A good idea is to pause the video at each key and give time for trying out each function in practice, at your own pace, and the concepts will slowly start to clarify.

[@amitkalra9391]

Thanks. Best one for a beginner!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

You're welcome! My next video will be on the Editor keyboard.

[@DukeDamnChin]

Oh wow i had nooooo idea double tapping ESC was undo!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Glad to be of assistance! 👋

[@seanmartinflix]

Ya this was grate. The best I have ever seen. I saved it. Thanks

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you very much! 🙏

[@andy.underwater.videos]

Excellent tutorial, helped me a lot thank you, ive booked marked it to refer too

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you. That is such a great thing! Lately I'v been focusing on making shorts videos on the fundamentals of video files, hopefully I will have time to make some long form videos as well.

[@cinematiceditor-Videography]

very helpful thank you

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Glad it was helpful!

[@supercanardo]

Thanks. I thought this thing was useless for fiction editors, and you just confirmed it.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Now I'm curious, what makes this tool useless particularly to fiction editors?

[@supercanardo]

Looks like it's great to place shots in the timeline. But this is bricklaying. Editing fiction and long form docs sees you using trim tools all the time, especially asymmetrical trims, once the shots have been placed in the timeline. And that's clearly an area where this tool seems to have little to offer. Back in the days, Lightworks came up with a jog-shuttle device and it allowed you to do everything without to have to touch the mouse, including complex trims with many tracks. Davinci is very fiddly, the more I use it. Shame because I really wanted to like it as I like the company being it.

[@canadalawexperts_]

Great content and very helpful

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Glad to hear it!

[@xyzct]

It's wild to think many people avoid the Cut Page _and_ don't use the Speed Editor.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Yeah, it's often so that you really get it once you've done it yourself.

[@johnnycashlesscomedy8616]

Really fantastic. Will watch again! I love the speed editor, but wish it could do more in the edit page - would love if it could target tracks and choose A or V. Would I need the editor keyboard to do that? I'm out of desk space with the Advanced Panels V2, Mackie midi mixer, Editorkeys backlit keyboard. The speed editor sits on the main panel, below the trackballs. Not ideal, but it fits.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you! Track locking and activation have keyboard shortcuts for audio and video separately. Editor keyboard not required. My next video will be about the editor keyboard!

[@riccardosforza]

Thank you!!

[@VIDTOOLZ]

You're welcome!

[@endymionas]

great

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you very much!

[@pixyarn3666]

I really cannot wait for this to be published! Can you?

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you very much!

[@Anonymous-ft7ut]

Nice. Perfect voice over too. Can you please make a detailed video on editor keyboard too? I own it but still don't know how to make full use of it. There are hardly any video for it. Thanks in advance ❤

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Thank you for your kind words! I am actually currently creating a video on the Editor keyboard. Most likely I will have to release the video in 3 parts as there is quite a lot of functions to cover.

[@Anonymous-ft7ut]

​@@VIDTOOLZHi!!! Wow!!! Thank you so much for replying. I just saw the reply. I guess since my notifications are off that's why. Also, thank you sooooo much... I saw you made a video on editor keyboard part 1. You are awesome!!! I'll go and check that out after completing this video. 😃 ♥️ ♥️ ♥️

[@PhoenixNomads]

How did you do the J & L Cut using the Roll Key? On my DaVinci i first have to resolve the Link from Clips to actually do that. If i keep the Link of clips it will always select the video and the audio clips. So how did you do this just with the Speed Editor? If i have to click, and use my mouse anyway... than the Speed Editor is no use for doing the J & L Cuts. Maybe im missing something. I rewatched your ROLL part multiple times. Don't know how you did it. Please explain. Good Video Cheers Daniel

[@VIDTOOLZ]

Could this be because you use the audio from your camera, in which case the video and audio are linked automatically. I tend to not do that, instead I use audio from my external recorder, in which case the video and audio are initially not linked, until I manually link them. This was the first thing that came to my mind.

[@dumontbeeldmakers]

Do you know what the function is to click the wheel on the editor keyboard? Can't seem to find it/figure it out

[@VIDTOOLZ]

It has no function.

[@karakur]

Having trouble with my DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor keyboard. It's not responding during editing sessions despite being fully charged and recognized by my computer. Indicator lights aren't working either. Tried on different computers and reinstalled the software, but no luck. Any suggestions?

[@VIDTOOLZ]

It sounds like you have been doing quite a lot of troubleshooting so far, but can you think of what you haven’t tested out yet? Have you tried a different cable, to a different port? Is the behaviour the same when using bluetooth?

[@karakur]

@@VIDTOOLZ Yes, I have used different cables and different ports, both regular USB and type-c. Everything was working fine just a week ago. After installing the new version 18.6, the keyboard doesn't work. I installed an earlier version where everything was fine, but it still doesn't work with it. Maybe there's some issue with the keyboard itself. Although Bluetooth detects it right away

[@karakur]

@@VIDTOOLZ If I'm not mistaken, there used to be a separate keyboard update along with the program update. Now I can't find such updates in the support service. Or any drivers for this keyboard.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

So you suspect it might be a driver issue? I think you should write to the Blackmagic Forum about this, if other users are experiencing the same issue.

[@chadas]

After pressing the RIPL DEL key, the current clip is deleted, but there remains an empty space that I have to delete afterwards :( How to fix it so that the created gap is also deleted?

[@VIDTOOLZ]

As the name of the function implies, the ripple delete should both delete and close the gap in timeline. Are you using the cut or the edit page while experiencing this behaviour? Most likely you have some other command active, that overrides the ripl del command. For example, you could have the auto track selector (found in the timeline window) inactive on the track you are trying to do your delete.

[@chadas]

@@VIDTOOLZYes, used by the CUT site. How can I check and possibly correct the correctness of the command? I checked the keyboard shortcuts but I don't know how it should be to do it correctly. The track selector will be fine if it removes the current clip.

[@VIDTOOLZ]

The best way to make sure every keyboard command is behaving as they are supposed to, is to go to the keyboard customization windows and choose from the upper right drop down menu the default “DaVinci Resolve” keyboard layout. The RIPL DEL command behaves a bit differently in the cut page when compared to the edit page as in the cut page the ripl del behaviour on by default. Whereas in the edit page, the RIPL DEL is not active by default.

[@chadas]

@@VIDTOOLZYes, there will probably be an error. How should it be set correctly so that it works on the CUT page and deletes both the clip and the gap at the same time?

[@VIDTOOLZ]

@@chadasThe problem you describe is most likely related to the timeline you have open and the settings you have on that specific timeline. You can verify this by creating a new timeline and trying the same function there, does it now behave the same on the new timeline?

[@irondennis1]

how do you make it work tho? whether it's connected through BT or USB, it never works. The lights are on and it's there in device manager with "this device is working correctly" and on davinci panels, but no matter what I do it never does anything in davinci.. I've been at this for 2 days now :')

[@VIDTOOLZ]

It could be anything really. I would start the troubleshooting by trying the device on some other system to see if it behaves differently. Good luck! 👍

[@leadinglightfilms]

Speed Editor or Stream Deck with profiles from Sideshowfx or both? I see Sideshowfx sells Pro and Color profiles now and I already have a Stream Deck XL. What control is most practical for editing and controlling color? Thanks

[@VIDTOOLZ]

The best tool for color is the Blackmagic design Mini panel, if you have lots of free desk space, if not, then the micro panel is the best. The Blackmagic design Speed editor is meant for, and is excellent for editing.

[@AlphaTroll]

@@VIDTOOLZ if someone will get the speed editor and also has a stream deck, does it make sense to use the programmed macros in the stream deck along with the speed editor?

[@VIDTOOLZ]

@@AlphaTroll When you look at working editors, everyone uses their tools differently. So, whatever method happens to work for the individual editor, that is the “correct” way to work. And our methods never stop to evolve as we get new tools at our disposal.

[@blacksolidChrome]

Its such a shame that BM doesnt allow customisation of the keys 😢😢😢😢😢

[@VIDTOOLZ]

​@@blacksolidChromehave you asked BMD to add it? Maybe they will add it ay some point.