STOP Using This Davinci Resolve Tool Right NOW!

If you are using the blade tool, you are actually wasting so much time! Doing this will be 4x FASTER!
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[@BillyRybka]

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[@ATLJB86]

I never do all that to cut. If i need to cut one clip, I select it and hit control B then hit backspace to remove the unwanted area or delete if I want it to slide into position. If I want to cut all clips from top to bottom on that section then I will just hit control \ and that’s it. Everything else is unnecessary. Backspace and delete gives you the two methods you need, no need to right click and all of that.

[@DaLoveDonkey69420]

That's what I do, CTRL B, then either Delete or Backspace pending on which is desired.

[@SKIDSnSTUFF]

Until this video I figured everyone did it this way

[@brunoouellette2]

Same here, i think i learned that in fcp way back when

[@M_Jaggard]

Agreed, in my workflow the number of times I want to ripple cut is very very limited - it normally results in a jumpy video that is too obviously edited. I use Ctrl-\ to cut and then generally I want to put something else inbetween so I'm happy to leave a gap where the removed section was.

[@edfromyoutube3917]

Yeah backspace for ripple and del for non ripple

[@cinematic.visuals]

That's basically the same way I do it, only I use Ctrl+B to cut the clip where the playhead is placed then Shift+[ or Shift+] to trim to the playhead. Same actions, just different keystrokes :)

[@Chewyshoot]

I discovered this a few months ago and it has amplified my workflow like 3 fold! Legendary. I'm sure many people will appreciate this one, Billy. Keep it up!

[@BillyRybka]

RIGHT! Stright up game changing man!

[@halbrooktechnologies]

I've been using a Tartarus V2 for about a year to help in some audio work I do, I'd love to see setups and ideas on how to use it in Resolve as well. I love the macro ability it gives.

[@ArtDigitalMediaTV]

I’m confused. I thought this already existed. I’ve been using command + backslash which slices. Then shift + delete which ripple cuts. Didn’t program them, they were already there.

[@werdwerdus2]

looks like it's the same, just different keyboard shortcuts

[@TroyDan89]

I've was using a free version of video pad for the last 5 years, but now that I've recently brought davinci Resolve i cant stop being amazed by what it can do and what a difference it creates, and thanks to your videos i no longer feel completely lost and overwhelmed. Great Work! thanks.

[@xjet]

Doesn't Control-B do the same thing already? (ie: create a cut at the playhead position)?

[@BillyRybka]

Yeah, however it's not close to the other controls, so you have to go all around the keyboard and it become super inefficient

[@mithileshlokhande]

@@BillyRybka its also one more button to press.. i was already using Q/W but not the razor instead i did cmd+B.. I'll change to razor rn

[@wadespees7283]

hey thanks for all the info. i did exactly as you said . is there some thing i have to unlock to be able to do this thanks.

[@TDHobbies]

I'm new to resolve, so this really helps me out a LOT, Thanks I found that in multiple video and audio the timelines need to be linked if you want to cut them all together, but this does save a lot of time and is much easier.

[@neveoney7865]

Hi, like your videos very much. For high quality reels, on the IPhone then film in 4K at 30 fps? Or 60 fps? How do I get rid of the black bars left and right on davinci? So that as full screen the reel is exported? What are the best settings for the export ?

[@iliaskapatos]

Thank you for this great video :-). I just can't make it work like in your case. When I set the keyboard like you did, it makes the "End to Playhead" to work only in the "cut" mode of DR 18.0.2 but not in the "edit", same with the "razor" it works only in the "cut" window. Now the "Start to playhead" is not working anywhere not in the "cut" and not in the "Edit" window. It would be great if you would have a advice for me.

[@mariaeduardagoschmarafon3043]

I paused as you went along and did the steps myself and that helped a TON.

[@mancavepc1730]

Thanks for the video. Honestly the fastest way for me is using the default ctl B and delete method. Specially because davinci will automatically highlight what's before the cut. That's an additional step automatically done for you. Once you factor it in you're flow and choose you're cut points in a systematic manner. It speeds up the cutting process significantly even when you have multiple tracks in your timeline.

[@HalfdeadRider]

Ctrl-B then Shift-[ done

[@DarkStarCoreX]

I do Ctrl+\ because it's right next to Ctrl so I don't need to use two hands to cut.

[@CorrosiveCitrus]

​@@DarkStarCoreXyou need 2 hands for ctrl+B? O.o

[@DarkStarCoreX]

@@CorrosiveCitrus Not really, I can do it with 1 hand, but I find it easier to use Ctrl+/ anyway.

[@mellow0161]

hi! i just wanted to ask if this works on multiple tracks...im struggling with it just cutting the top track and not the bottom if that makes sense.

[@ztekhouse]

Is there any way to split one clip into many clips and specify how long each clip will be? For example a 2 minute single clip, split into exactly 8*15 second clips?

[@coreybeall8964]

Yo, Billy. Thank you so much for this tip. It has helped me out so much on my editing time. Once I get it to be automatic this will drastically change my cut time.

[@PALBantha]

Tbh I still prefer the blade simply for the reason that the line of the playhead is too thick for me sometimes. B, left click, left click, delete. Still more steps than you need, but the blade just makes it easier for me to make a precise cut. I really like your videos, keep it up!

[@RonitBatra]

I am currently shifting from premiere to davinci and premiere actually had the same commands for Q and W keys. I've been editing videos for a while now and on a daily basis so this is something that's been holding me back to shift because I cannot waste so much of my time trimming each and every clip. Thank you for making this video I was searching something exactly like this.

[@Rood67]

I use a Razer mouse (the Hex, with seven button side panel) I have it set up to scrub both directions at increasing speed Pause Cut And ripple forward and backward I have the predecessor to the game pad you showed here, I have the Nostromo. I thought about setting it up; so I’d be interested in seeing what you did.

[@sunroameroverland]

so i did this and it only works in the cut page not the edit page ???

[@Gam3rC4m]

Dude you made my effing year. I came over to Resolve from my paid app Movie Studio 14 Pro (needed to be able to render at 1440p) and I was used to using S for split ALL the time. I thought the only option was to switch to the razor icon. Now I can split and cut with S and X - absolute beauty! Many Thanks!

[@lawfulmasses]

I prefer setting an In and and Out point and then hitting Delete.

[@twanhoward]

Good Day, Ive reviewed many vids, including most of yours; and I may have missed this paicular effects tutorial; if there is one, but Im new to DR18 and Im trying to make a telephone "ONLY", vibrate as it rings in my clip. can you explain how to do that?

[@UFODISCGOLF]

HEY MAN HOW U DOING? , I HAD A QUESTION IS THERE A WAY TO ADD CUSTOM BUTTONS BUT TO THE BUTTONS FROM MY MOUSE HAS SIDE BUTTONS?, EXAMPLE: REPLACE (BLADE) "B" TO MY MOUSE SIDE BUTTONS?

[@HikingWithCooper]

Thank you! I'd had this mapped in a round about way to my F1 key and somehow the mapping went awry. This is much more straightforward. And yes, I'd love to see a vid on that macro keyboard. I use a macro mouse which is amaaazing but it'd be nice to slowly step away from the mouse.

[@Zerkam]

Great tips!! I'll def check out more of your videos. Just started writing and making soft. I feel soft softs will help get to the next

[@ShobaSadler]

Hi Billy, recently I found that when I drag and drop images from my Media Pool, the images show up as just blue sticks on the timeline whereas in the past they show up as full frame photos. Do you know why this is happening? I can drag the blue stick out to the left to open up the full image, but it's just another step I have to do. It would be better if the images just show up in their full frames when I drag and drop from Media. Any advice please?

[@hunerdpercent]

Basically setting up a Premiere work flow. Coming from Premiere I couldn’t get used to delete deleting everything before. I think was doing it wrong, but this is how I would go through my footage in premiere. Reading the comments helped me better understand how Davinci does this better by default. CTRL+B and delete. I’ll have to give that a try

[@garylawsonmedia305]

Hi Billy thanks for the video really want to set up the shortcut but the only problem is when I do my razor it only chops the video and does not do the audio am I missing something? Many Thanks

[@BillyRybka]

Thanks for the support man! So Deselect the video layer and use the razer tool on the clip. No layer should be highlighted when you cut

[@FFVison]

I thought there was something like this already, at least in 17. I think the keyboard shortcut for cutting was like the backslash \ or ctrl+B or something and then there were 2 other shortcuts that were like ctrl+shift+[ (left bracket) and ctrl+shift+] (right bracket). I'm a little hazy on if those are the exact shortcuts, but they should be something like that for what I was thinking.

[@dolphman85]

I also have the Tartarus for resolve but I still want to to see how you use it. I bet you have tons more shortcuts in it than I do.

[@antoniogarcia4599]

Let's say I accidentally cut the wrong section can I undo it or need to star all over again

[@FilNenna]

MOST USEFUL VIDEO EVER. I had “cut” mapped, but didn’t know about “start to playhead”.

[@Johow]

Great Video! Thanks! I come from AVID. I am used to edit like this. Set IN-Point with „I“ go to OUT-Point and hit „O“ and then „X“ to ripple cut. I am very used to this method. Can it be mimicked in Davinci Resolve? Thx!!!

[@zoolanderuk77]

Yes, you can I - O and then fn Delete (macbook pro key board) - so basically as others said Delete or Backspace for ripple delete or leaving a gap.

[@MARKHENSTROM]

Thank you so much for this video, Billy. Seriously. Gonna save me a ton of time in the future. I migrated from Premiere recently - and was frustrated out of my mind to map a key equivalent to Insert Cut. Razor is it. Thanks a bunch bro.

[@ulisserigamonti3172]

Great thank you, I'm looking for the opposite tool of razor, I think it should be Glue or something like this but I can't find it. It's possible to glue two clips that i cut before?

[@BillyRybka]

Yes, all you do is click the cut point and hit backspace. It will only undo a cut. If you removed something between the cut point then it wont work. Give it a try

[@ulisserigamonti3172]

​@@BillyRybka Thank you mate ;), but there is not another possibility to glue 2 different clip or the same clip but with a part removed as you said before?

[@lilyjkedits]

awesome tip! i ended up using the 2 extra buttons on my mouse. so much easier now compared to before, thank you

[@toth1982]

I did the same previously. I have mapped F1 to Razor and F2 to "start to playhed". But now I went back to blade. Why? It is more convenient. My biggest problem is that if something is selected, F2, or "start to playhead" does not work. So sometimes something is selected, sometimes it is not. You never know. The second problem is that blade tool is more visible. It has a smaller line and you will cut where your mouse is. You can do more precise work with it. If you want to do the same with the playhead, you have to adjust its position above your clips on the "ruler", not on your clips. That is usually far away, so it is harder to be precise. Also, with keyboard shortcuts you can use blade fast as well: B, cut, cut, A, select with click, del.

[@officialveneno]

how do make playhead continue at the start of the clip after ripple deleting during playback instead of playhead not stopping

[@FenixDown147]

do you have a video that shows us some common shortcuts you recommend?

[@epat6506]

Could you make customs transitions how to video? If you already have where can I find?

[@thomassorensen9749]

what if you dont want to trim audio as well? Im sinking drone video to audio

[@nestorisaacestoque5989]

I've been editing on a different editor for years and when I finally decided to move to Davinci Resolve, I was so confused where the cut button was. And almost literally all KZbin tutorials keep telling me to use the blade tool like, who the heck uses the mouse to cut. It's not precise and it takes forever. Thank you for this video.

[@goldfinger2839]

I make talking videos and sometimes I don't speak continuously in the video so there are silence parts in the video.... So I have to trim the silence part 1 by 1.. is there any way in DaVinci resolve to automatic detect the silence part and cut them there is silence detection feature in wondershare filmora is there such feature in Davinci resolve

[@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision]

This works in the cut page for me but when I go to edit page it doesn’t work

[@KogleyBroDude]

Bro im struggling rn trying to render my video with multiple audio tracks. And videos to point me to?

[@sorgulabiraz3161]

Thanks for the tip. You can also assign Q to Trim > Split Clip and W to Ripple > Start to playhead.

[@BillyRybka]

Beautiful! As long as you are cutting down on all unnecessary steps. It really doesnt matter how you do it, as long as you are not doing a ton of unnecessary actions ya know?

[@NighthawkX02]

I don't understand one thing though, what's the point of using the right click to display the menu and select "ripple cut" if you can simply press the "del Ins" key to delete the selected area? I always did it that way. Anyway, it didn't work for me, I was able to assign a key to the razor and it worked, but for some reason, when I did the same to the "start/end to playhead" actions it didn't work :(

[@claudiuvlad]

I want to cut only audio. How to do that only with shortcut?

[@nothingspeaks]

i dont know if its new, i guess it must be but i never played with the shortcuts and "CTRL+B" works for cutting and "DEL" ripple deletes where "BACKSPACE" just gets rid of the clip without rippling

[@GreenGreeny]

Watching the start of this video, imagining some people actually cut that way is mind blowing. Been using Ctrl+B and Ctrl+shift+[ / ] so much its muscle memory and even my default hand rest position position.

[@PrepMedic]

Hate using the playhead to edit. I just use the fast key for the blade tool, click what I want cut then delete the video and delete the dead space. It automatically ripples it and does what you need it to do.

[@janznowbowski9806]

why is there a gap in start to playhead? thank you very mcuh

[@JaswinderSingh-nl6gx]

what i do if ineed to cut only video

[@ViciousTech]

I 100% would like to see a video on the Tartarus I have the V2 collecting dust from when I used to play WoW heavily and if I could use it for editing that would be amazing.

[@selmanorhan8402]

Me newbie used more than 500 times razor to make amv, then see this video. Im like O.O . But with razor you can see video with hovering your cursor and thats so convenient for me to just dragging the line. Any tips for that?

[@d_image_planet]

very good. Can we combine two commands in one key, kind of macro

[@cosmashono7665]

I would really like to see a video on the Razor Tartarus.

[@sumantamunda843]

You can also do this using shortcut like ctrl+b and ctrl+shift+[ or ]

[@e.esiyok]

My question is, suppose there are 3-second gaps between the clips you cut. How can you combine all the clips with a single click, going through the gaps between them?

[@Hobynist]

Thanks for the tip! Will be using that for sure. I´ve been doing it a little bit faster, with shortcut (B) for the blade and (A) for the selection, and then hit delete for the removal of the clip. But your style will save even more time 👍

[@GameWithTonyYT]

What is the difference between "Delete selected" and "Ripple Delete" ?

[@MCobos]

what is the font you used here? appreciatte

[@JasonTaylor-po5xc]

If you have a Stream Deck, you could use that to map the shortcuts too.

[@VexedSinik]

The cut and select have their own keys already mapped. Backspace deletes the selection and delete ripple cuts. The shortcuts are already there. Why are we over complicating this?

[@jasonmurphy5139]

when im cutting i use "B" then click where i want to cut, "A", select clip (which has already been unlinked) and press backspace to delete in place or DEL to ripple delete. I am yet to try but i think im in the flow of what i use and i think this is not gonna save me much time at all :(

[@carlstunna1182]

Hi Billy can you make video that goes over how to make the effect where by jewelry shine and glistening very brightly in music videos?

[@spdesigns12]

A video on the Razor Tartarus would be great. I have been using one for a while but would love to see your take on it.

[@airecsy]

ive always done it the C+B way but after 5 hours my hands deff starts to cramp up. gonna try it this way when I can get a cheap keypad

[@NebulousFrivolity]

this is exactly what I've been looking for! It's so frustrating that I can't just right click and have a tool to select to "cut" a track or video into two pieces.

[@benjaminmaxant]

Quite efficient! Thanks a lot for sharing your tips👍

[@photojoseph]

This is great. I used to use "trim start" and "trim end" on Q and W, but that required one more step -- entering Trim mode. This bypasses that; awesome!

[@chuckmakesabuck129]

On my initial install, Razor is prepackaged as "b" Select is prepackaged as "a" The delete button on the keyboard deletes. Not that difficult... Don't mind me tho, I'm new at this.

[@LeboMakesFilms]

Cool stuff, always great to learn. I probably won't use these a lot as Razor is B and ripple cut is Delete but my workflow doesn't really require me to use the features you've highlighted in this video. Still cool though!

[@BingGeaux]

@3:26 - you were saying about wasting time? as you waste some time - LOL

[@nicholaspostlethwaite9554]

Well TY. At last I found out how to sort out the most basic thing in this software. Almost no one doing tutorials actually appear to member what it is like to be new at this ridiculous video editing stuff, with it's odd in house words and opaque controls. So I will use the nice way you started with! Proper clear and simple, with the blade.🙂

[@SaveTheGoonDock]

Noob switching from Premiere, frustrated with blade tool, "There must be a better way?!?" THANK YOU!

[@4ukigek81]

Thank you so much!!! Really helpful!

[@adrianstensrud]

Can this be done without actually removing any audio?

[@faithlessfather]

Thank you so much!

[@HarshB-v9o]

this is amazing , quick quest : Do you also turn on the force debater to highest quality while exporting especially for KZbin and Instagram ???

[@abecoin]

Thank you so much! Your videos are just teaching me everything I need to know........ Thanks man

[@EPlayzYT47]

Thank you so much.This helped me out alot.I wasted alot of time when i was editing but this technique really helped me out.Keep up the great work

[@jeremygreen8046]

Thank you. Very useful

[@pawanmandhotra4490]

Great tips brother thanku very much

[@alexreyes2887]

Thanks a lot bro very nice video

[@DSLRMAN01]

Please make a video on Razor Tartarus. I use it for color page, it is very handy and useful. And thank you for making these great videos... I greatly appreciate your work!!!👍

[@guich.mp4]

Hey Billy can you make a tutorial on how to make the bass displacement effect ( 3d tracked ) . I can't find any tutorial on how to make 3d tracked effects on davinci resolve ☹☹

[@edfromyoutube3917]

Bro, you are a genius. I was so annoyed the blade tool and you solved the problem. Thanks🙏

[@caribouroadfarm]

Great tricks. But to be honest I never cut my clips the way your showed. I watch video in preview monitor, mark in and out and then click F9 to assign selection to the end of my edit. I might do an actual cutting during my second cut, but it's usually only few cuts.

[@olivierdalmasso9434]

There is already a short key assigned to Q and W How do I do ?

[@robertwright8306]

I just switched to DaVinci from Premier the other day and this video popped up just in time! Thanks for the ideas!

[@CaptainTae]

Isn’t it easier to set an in and out and delete?

[@notrobmoto]

Thank you! This made my workflow even more efficient.

[@imchecotech]

Great one!! Thanks!!!! 🙌🏻

[@ScottSlykerman]

A review on the Razer Tartarus would be awesome. Can you do a video on your editing gear as well? (keyboard, mouse, etc)

[@strawberrymochiiz]

This is such a helpful video. Thank you so much.

[@JakeWipp]

The intro was amazing 😂

[@HUSS_BOSS]

you are a live saver man appreciate it thanks 😘