This SIMPLE technique is surprisingly powerful

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Ah Clip Color! It's such a simple yet powerful little technique that can improve your whole editing workflow. It makes literally everything easier from simply navigating the timeline, to changing titles, copying clips and even color grading. Here's they Why and the How!
00:00 Intro
00:36 Navigation
01:25 HOW 1
02:28 HOW 2
03:55 FILTER
04:58 Titles
06:12 Color Page
07:34 BE AWARE
08:22 Good bye
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Mr Alex Tech

[@WaddleAero]

Awesome stuff! It would be a worthwhile option to allow you to set clip color on the bin level. Then any clip dropped into that bin would be colored by the bin.

[@laughingalien]

This for sure. Great thinking, Waddle.

[@Sustainavore]

I have been hoping they would implement exactly this with every update...

[@amoktimeflies]

The usefulness of these 5 minute Fridays cannot be understated! Yes I use bins and then colours to group clips together from the same camera so I can select them colour grade them all together. BUT - I didn't realise you could select all the clips in a bin and set the colour there! Life changer! Blimmin obvious when you think about it - as a 'button pusher' I don't know how I missed this!. Alex - you are one of my go-to resources for editing tips, to the point that you are even referenced in one of my vids as one of the 4 'editing gods' (have a guess who the other 3 are! 🤣) - thankyou so much for this! 🖖

[@celestepalm6949]

Yeah, I find applying clip colors thru the inspector a bit quicker than scrolling thru the long color submenu.

[@CaptainTae]

This is helpful, but I prefer track colors so I immediately know where VO goes or where dialogue goes. When companies want specific track assignments, this feature is necessary.

[@doug_vickers]

Good to see 5 minute Fridays back Alex. Well nearer 8.5 minutes but whos counting. 😉

[@PatrickHoodDaniel]

I love using clip colors. Now I can finally get better at using them!! Thanks!!

[@MyViewsOfTheWorld]

Nice Alex, thanks. However, a quick suggestion for BM - what if I could click on the BIN, set the colour for the BIN and everything inside would have that colour automatically? As I add new clips to that bin, they, too, inherit the colour? That would be very handy. I always organize everything in bins, so that would save even more time.

[@SPLMixing]

I do the same in Pro Tools for mixing projects. Colours tap into the creative part of the brain and help you maintain your flow state.

[@JackstaBlazer]

great tutorial, I can see that it will save so much time when I edit. please keep these "Five minutes" series going!

[@UkuleleJayBBQ]

So simple but really does save info overload when you have 100 clips trying to figure our what is what. Thanks for the super clear tutorials!

[@niemandschuldet]

Fucking amazing. I was searching for this solution a long time. Nobody could tell. You made it easy. Thanks so much!!!

[@JoppeDS]

I did ask this in the previous video!

[@kirbypfilms1]

Thanks Alex keep up the great work

[@garethgriffiths2307]

Brilliant work, thank you for these hints... they save me hours!

[@AbiofPellinor]

Learning something new every day!

[@Raima888s]

Another great piece of content. Keep them coming :)

[@_Clivey]

Being trying to do things in Resolve following your tutorials and I gave up with the free version due to limitations and now got Studio thanks to your channel

[@jamied6166]

Cool, I love using clip colours! Did you mention my favourite, Timeline>Select Clips with Color? Then stuff like paste Attributes is super handy.

[@MrAlexTech]

Didn't know that one! Ah thanks. I'll add that one to the list 😄

[@DellanaMetalArts]

Really helpful information, as always. Thanks, Alex!

[@demitool]

Thanks so much for this Alex! I've been color coding for a long time, but didn't know how to take advantage of them like you showed with the Index tab! Thanks for saving future me a great deal of time 🙏🏽

[@NeeMaarLekker_Films]

I am currently editing a film and I am already using clip colors but I never new about sorting by color in the color page. This helped SO MUCH!!!!! Thank you!

[@coucoutuveux]

Excellent, thanks !

[@piranha32]

I edit a lot of presentations and other interactive "talking heads" videos. Colors are indispensable in organizing videos where questions and discussion are intermixed with the main presentation, and in the final edit should go either into the Q&A section, or in a separate video. Colors also help better organize messy presentations, to keep similar subjects together.

[@DavidWinstead]

That's a great way to keep everything in order for sure! Thanks of sharing the info!!

[@mattblanes]

damn so simple yet so clean! by the way, your resolve videos helped me understand this app way more than i could have ever learned by myself. big thanks, good sir!

[@Alanwking]

I love the Index! I set markers and color code them, then use the Index to jump around the timeline.

[@mysticgorkha1028]

Bro this is soo cool. Thanks myan

[@DrOrion]

That was great! Thanks.

[@TheSoundofU]

Amazing educational video once again Alex, thank you so much

[@QuinnyWinny]

A great idea!

[@Dreymasmith]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@unclerichard6729]

I've learned so much from these 5 Minute Fridays that likely would have been overlooked in long form tutorials.

[@mc25141]

I've use this features for awhile. Very useful, very neat, especially when you love to organize and love tidiness. But I didn't know it works in color page too. Thanks a lot for the tips!

[@tvchris]

Dang, I friggin love this software. That color page clip filter is brilliant.

[@outdoornut]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Thanks! Very useful!

[@BrianTheCameraGuy]

Alex another powerful editing tip on a Five Minute Friday. Thank you for sharing!!

[@Kemstylebossy]

Very useful

[@RafalGendarz]

Nice, thank yiu

[@slycendycemakesamovie7582]

Wow ❤🤯move over Andrew Kramer

[@JohnBradford14]

I like to have my a-roll (talking head) footage be the standard default blue. But whenever it's zoomed in, that's when I label it Navy. That way it's not TOO different from everything that I mistake it for b-roll.

[@JWS1968]

SMART Bins are the way forward. Like you say here it helps to establish a method and stick with it over multiple projects so that it becomes second nature. SMART bins enable Davinci to do the picking for you. I have smart bins set up for unused clips. a smart bin for each of my actors characters, B-Roll, Drone, etc. It is then important that the meta data is filled in when importing clips into the project so that the smart bins can identify the clips. This does take a little bit of time at the import stage but totally worth it when you start editing.

[@aricloudstudio8544]

If edit index has thumbnail view option, then it'll be much much great because I'm used to work with selects timeline instead of picking shots from media pool. so a thumbnail view be so useful to navigate to clips instantly instead of scrubbing the timeline back and forth

[@airstreamer]

OMG! I feel like such a moron for not doing this! Thank you so much!

[@HeyAdamGrasso]

All these techniques are ace, but I still think the Davinci timeline has organisational limitations, especially if you have to layer similar effects on top of one another, (three text+ clips for example that need three separate tracks). An easy fix would be if Blackmagic introduced some kind of collapsible group track option, for audio and video. That way you could minimise all sfx clips that might be spanned over 3-4 tracks, into one toggleable group track. Fingers crossed this get implemented in the future. Especially when working on laptops this would be a big help for screen real estate.

[@paultsworld]

Excellent tutorial - thanks! Would be nice to be able to change the names of the colours to something like B-Roll etc. That's what I used to do in Premiere Pro

[@pplusbthrust]

POW ER FUL STUFF.

[@spielberg152]

muito bommmm!!!!

[@PeeJ_ENT]

Nice Tip

[@fischermanslens]

I would wish there is an option to create own colors for the clips, like over a RGB-Wheel. So I have more individual colors. Maybe like white🤭

[@FlydreamMedia]

I use colors first to rate how good the clip is so I know what to cut. Then I reset all colors and then use colors for sections

[@JeffreyJDavis]

Thanks, useful tip. I use a similar technique in Lightroom and you can actually rename the color labels. I imagine that there isn't a way to do this in DVR?

[@kukukachu]

I love my editing looking like a complete chaotic mess, then again, I edit differently than other people.

[@MrAlexTech]

Ha whatever works for you tbf! Clips Colors is handy though, if even for the filtering!

[@kukukachu]

@@MrAlexTech I think that if I was doing this for a job, like someone else was looking at this hot mess, than yea, it'd probably be extremely useful since I could easily direct my client to certain parts in the video.

[@mccartikiss]

I always use clip colours, I wish though there were more to choose from for those larger projects. Also the yelloew and apricot colour are too similar, they need to adjust this in an update. Hard to spot sometimes

[@CreativeCookingVideos]

What happens if you're color blind? Just kidding, great video Alex!

[@limitlesswave]

WOW, Where's my sunglasses?

[@AkinAkin]

@MrAlexTech do you mind making tutorials on video edits in the style of magnatesmedia?

[@OriginalRaveParty]

I admit that I've still not figured power bins out. I do everything from scratch on every single project 😢

[@Las_cacas]

i shouldve watched this a LOOOOONNNNGGGGGG time ago

[@jaysondrona]

what are you using for screen recording in high quality?

[@charlieross-BRM]

The only issue I run into is that the colors available are fairly close to each other in hue. I get slowed down when I tend to double check I didn't pick a shade next to the one I wanted, so then I'm into trying to put the names of the colors to memory. Self defeating. I get the same thing with colors in spreadsheets and word processors where the differences are miniscule in vast palettes of choices so it's nothing new for me.

[@simoz78]

Is there any way to use clip colors when editing a multicam clip? like getting a different color based on the Angle? (without flattening the multicam)

[@mikecroakphone]

I usually change the colour on the left. Where is Video 1, Video 2... And do the same for the entire lane

[@drumslapper]

Always use Bins, never bothered with colour.....until now!

[@ZahidMehmood_JSF]

Thanks for your insightful tutorials. But I need to know one thing in DaVinci Resolve that after marking In and Out a clip at Media Source when I drag that clip in between a timeline, other clips after that clips are required to move forward automatically instead of first making a space for that marked clip by moving forward all clips from that point and then placing that marked clip there?

[@SCVisualArt]

Hi Alex. Sometimes I notice when I use a colour for my clips, some of them are a bit darker even though I use the same colour. For example I use orange colour for some clips but some of them turn out a bit darker orange. Any thoughts why this happens? Thanks

[@MrAlexTech]

It's usually if you have something else applied as well I think. So if you have a fusion effect also applied to the clip, it changes the colour a little

[@yungstyles4027]

I love clip colour but it's frustrating that it still doesn't work in a multicam clip, ie: the clip colours are not visible in the timeline. Alex, do you know if there is there a workaround for this? Am I missing something? Could you maybe flag it to Blackmagic as a bug, or future feature. It would make my multicam workflow so much better. Many thanks...

[@stevesculptor1]

Hi Alex, I have a talking head (no BG) over a still image in DaRes, the talking head is 'ghosted' i.e. only 50%, I removed the BG in Capcut and it works fine there, but what am I doing wrong in DaRes? Thx

[@moodberry]

As always Alex, good tips. Quick question though. Suppose I have a clip that is on the wrong track? Is there a way to discover that by color? For example, suppose a teal is on track 1 but it belongs with all the other teals on track 4? Can I view the entire project while showing ONLY the teals, so that I can visually see that a teal clip was misplaced?

[@MrMadhav]

Awesome stuff, not able to download your free plugins showing error when i enter email "Something went wrong. Please try again." Tried for both zoom and animate

[@MrAlexTech]

Make sure to put in a proper email address as it will be emailed directly to you

[@TynkaTopi]

I use Track colors instead of clip colors.

[@jaysonfontela5761]

👍

[@Gedaly]

Boop

[@helltioeverygames]

Don´t be mad at me but,isn´t it better to just put a name on the "A*" rhing? for example i call A1 intro and outro,A2 would be the video to edit,A3 is subscribe and all that,it´s very simple,if you know that it shouldnt be a problem,at last that´s i work and it´s good. Now,can you make something to edit audios?,for example my problem is the volume part,when i speak very low and in the video i have to level up volume or when i scream by mistake i have to turn down volume,is there something like an AI to just give a % of volume,add to the audio and set all the audios to that volume you desire?,that´s a real problem if you do for example gameplays of 8 hours,you have like 4 days to edit that or even more.

[@hartmanpeter]

TIL

[@basievanheerden]

Super powerful! But for the colour blind peole like me...

[@aghist2154]

First?

[@2424rocket]

I’ve been editing for at least 25 years. I’ve never used color clips and I’ve never had a problem without them. A roll goes on track 1, B roll goes on track 2, C roll goes on track three… So much easier. I suppose if you have hours of footage using colors could be a good thing… But for short videos, I just don’t see the point

[@JoeOberster]

C-roll?