Using multiple timelines to create a single project - 5 Minute Friday #20

[@BrianWhitmerMusic]

Started using this feature yesterday because of your video, Alex, so I wanted to come back and thank you. Also, I just discovered that even though DR turns your additional timelines into single clips when you drag them onto your main timeline, you can still tab back into those other timelines, make changes, and all those edits will automatically appear in the single clip on your main timeline. That just blows my mind.

[@chrisward6296]

Thank you, I came here to ask exactly that question. I think I have just found my new workflow.

[@Chan4k]

Hi Brian, But it doesn't work for me, is it because I use the free version? For example, I create a timeline-x with few clips, and import it into my main timeline. After that I open timeline-x and do some modifications like extend, add, delete etc etc. But these changes never follow to main timeline and I need to re-import again instead all the changes updates automatically. Why? Thanks

[@BrianWhitmerMusic]

@@Chan4k Sorry for the very late reply, Chandra, and I'm also sorry that I don't have an answer for you. Like you, I'm using the free version of DR, so I don't know why yours is behaving differently.

[@FlyingAroundOz]

You just answered the exact question I was going to ask. Thanks heaps!

[@FlyingAroundOz]

@@Chan4k I would guess you've figured this out already, but just in case you haven't, I did some experiments with this. I found that changes that don't alter the length of the sub-timeline(s) will go through to the master timeline immediately. If you change the length of any sub-timelines, just go into the master timeline and delete that sub-timeline and re-insert it into the master timeline.

[@New.Adventures.Sailing]

You Just saved me a TON OF TIME! I had a very long and detailed video when the client said, can we just break it up into smaller chunks to put online? Sure!?! So I made smaller chunks of 5-10min each, then "Maybe we can put the whole thing up too" well the finer edits were done on the smaller chunks so I was trying to find all the edits from the smaller timelines to re-incorporate into the compilation. Well, after watching your video, 5 minutes later, I had the compilation complete from all the separate timelines! Enjoy the coffee I'll be getting you. Thanks!

[@MrAlexTech]

Thank you Tim! Much appreciated and I'm glad the video was useful :)

[@mjeol]

I just found out you can save your Timeline clips to your Power Bin too. **head smack** Such a time-saver.

[@TheThaiLife]

*Wow!* Awesome!

[@AllThingsFilm1]

True. But, the Power Bins are most effective when used to contain footage or elements that you want to use in multiple projects. For instance, an intro to your vlogs, etc. Anyway, I just thought I'd throw that out there. Cheers.

[@asphaltandtacos]

@@rc5932 Resolve considers compound clips as a timeline. What you could do is export a timeline and import into any project you need it for. The other option is setting up a project template. This is a bit of work upfront but it will be a huge timesaver later on. It is relatively easy to do.

[@chrismantonuk]

This is really good, no nonsense advice. Thanks! Just started using Resolve and already finding I was tripping over myself with one big timeline. Found the “new timeline” feature and wondered how it could be used. Thanks for the advice mate.

[@pdep]

Why is it that when I need DaVinci Resolve advice, I search everywhere, getting confused and convoluted explanations but finally end up finding simple, straightforward answers on your channel? Whatever you're doing, you're doing it right - so keep doing it. The rest of them seem far too clever for their own teaching good. Great job, Alex; you're much appreciated. Thank you.

[@roryfiler214]

Thanks Alex, I had the inkling to try using multiple t'lines on a recent project. A few vids came up but your's is nice and concise and .. it just works. Cheers!

[@averagedudeusa9722]

I appreciate your clarity. Finally someone who made it make sense. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ you rock!

[@infodiff]

tHIS IS A FANTASTIC TIP. i KNEW ABOUT MULTIPLE TIME LINES but didnt know this way also it could be done. Thanks Bro.

[@TroyQwert]

4 y old vid looks and feels like it's just been made and published today in the morning. Thanks, Alex! I will use additional timelines for my intro and outro.

[@Reac2]

I have a pretty old/weak computer and am working on a project with a highly edited intro and this will work wonders not to bog down my PC with the intro every time I work on the less intensive main content. Thank you.

[@PaulDickson7]

Man this is a game changer, I have been knocking my audio and clips out of whack for each section and I could have just placed them on multiple timelines. Thanks Alex

[@Battlestarcallisto]

Great tip! It will make editing complicated scenes very easy by doing it this way! Thanks!

[@Bradley-tr7mg]

Very good and straightforward explanation with no hype. I feel like this opens so many directions in my workflow.

[@t2trix1]

I always find myself coming back to this channel. You've helped us so much with davinci resolve, thank you.

[@AnkhAndy]

I didn't know what I was looking for initially but once I realized why editing was getting convoluted like you said I knew there was a better solution out there. Thanks for the quick and clear explanation.

[@Eyetrauma]

Terrific info, thank you! I’m a complete Resolve neophyte and while I understand the basic timeline behaviors I kept having exactly the scenario you described: stumbling over myself while making unrelated edits. I kept thinking “people make multi-hour videos in this thing, no way there isn’t a way to encapsulate stuff” and lo, here I am.

[@jaredbunga4763]

Thank you so much for this help Alex. Really saved me a lot of time. I'm a videographer in Zimbabwe creating content using Resolve. Appreciate the help !!

[@GoapprStudios]

"Keep Creating" you're changing the world.

[@MrAlexTech]

Thank you!! :)

[@Radian327]

Also very good when multiple people are working on the same project. Each can work on their own timeline and then they can be put together later.

[@christophmueller1087]

Man, I love how you easily explain stuff - others take much longer and make it more complicated. Thanks and congrats!!!

[@TheThinkersBible]

This is very useful. I'd been wondering exactly what utility multiple timelines had -- now I realize I'll be needing additional timelines very soon. Thank you!

[@ProfBalaS]

Your knowledge of what one can do with DR and your willingness to share it free, in a style punctuated by clarity and crisp delivery, ... amazes me. Keep going Alex, great!

[@joyoffilming9500]

That's the way how to edit large documentaries. Even better: as DR considers timelines within a timeline as clips you can even color grade those like clips (in addition to any grading within the nested timeline) - awesome!

[@PaulRichardRead]

Thanks. Saves a lot of hassle re-doing things.

[@-_altex_-4632]

Thank you sir for helping me understand tinelines like no one else could!

[@NadineSchelenz]

Got it!! Thank you so much, Alex!! :) I´ve always wondered why to use different timelines. This was the explanation I needed!

[@Effectivebasketball]

Older video at the right time, exactly when it starts to be overwhelming 4-5 levels. Even I knew how to do it watching your video I got a better idea of how to rearrange all things including the master timeline and the rest.

[@RamHomier]

Hehe this is the joy of self teaching something, I spent dozens of hours in Resolve making devlogs and I just learned that feature I whish I did at the start.

[@aliallen7777]

I have wasted months without this! I appreciate this!

[@SteveMartinUSA]

I’m new to DaVINCI and now find that having multiple timelines is a pretty convenient way to organize. Your video really helped show me some of the best practices of using multiple timelines, like how to merge the timelines back together later -- thank you. I’m also using Bins to sort out my shots to help to keep things organized and I’ve discovered that you can right-click on a bin and choose “Create New Timeline using Selected Bin”. That creates a timeline that seems to have the same settings as “Timeline 1”, and the new timeline has all of the clips from the bin already. The only thing that's weird is that things slowed down on the new timeline but that seems to have been resolved with a second "Generate Optimized Media". I'd already done that for each item in each bin. It would also be nice to be able to color code the entire clip to help reduce confusion, rather than just inserting a marker.

[@annihilatedfilms1173]

Thank you for this short explanation on multiple timelines! It helped me with an edit I'm doing.

[@taruculturademundo]

Thanks for these tips! I start to see a timeline like a single clip! Helped me a lot!👏👏😃

[@deanmitchellphotography8292]

Brilliant!!!! Quick answer to the problem I was having. Love it.

[@steveliddle8417]

Brilliantly simple to understand! Just sorted my headache with this info. Cheers!

[@bulcub]

Why does this dude that is putting out excellent content and teaching only has 8.9 subscribers? Cmon folks excellent quality deserves more likes and subscribers! Don't just mooch/leech and say goodbye.

[@MrAlexTech]

Thank you dude, I really appreciate that! 😊😊 I'm glad you're enjoying the content. My subs are going up! Another month or two and hopefully i'll hit 10k which is waaaay more than i ever expected to get! 😃

[@CringeworthyOverland]

Amazing. Easy to follow and very useful!

[@barbaradyce3853]

You saved MEEEEE! Thank you! New to editing. I have 18 interviews with pictures and titles. This is awesome!! Thank you. Hugs Hugs!

[@philosophicsblog]

Brilliant. Thanks for being here in my moment of need. 😉

[@mysouthernexperience7747]

Thanks for making this video. I needed to create a different timeline for adjusting my audio clip to move it later to my main timeline. I'm glad you helped :)

[@NoxorionZ]

You did help me indirectly jeje I needed to know how to import other timelines and I discovered it on 1:49 jeje. Thanks!

[@GanderupMusic]

Great efficient tutorial, thanks! I had one question but turned out Brian Whitmer already answers it.

[@nikolaki]

Awesomeness. Thank you.

[@thomasfromnorway]

Oh my Lord this is huge!! Thank you, Alex!🎉❤

[@ansems3309]

o.0 thank you so much! I saw your video a few days ago and since a few weeks I am working on a video with roughly 30 cuts per minute and different chapters. And changing and cropping things at the beginning are so tedious and sometimes I am working on something at the end and maybe accidentally delete something from the beginning. When I saw your video title I sat here like "o.0 Wait... THIS IS A THING??" you saved me so much time! xD

[@sorosaltgaming]

Thank you so much for this. I knew it was possible in premiere but I didn't know how to do it in DaVinci

[@DacioNerdTV]

I've always wondered how'd that worked when it came to video editing and this video gave me that question that's been in the back of my mind for a couple of years. Thank you.

[@arsreedhar]

Excellent. I am happy to see these best practices. I am new to Davinci Resolve, but not to dealing with complexities as a passionate developer. So i was looking for all the ways to abstract, parameterize, create reusable entities, and understand programming model to create and use building blocks for creating things from the get go, rather than learning them later as an afterthought. And avoid plunging into laborious tedium in the way of ramp up learning. So please share more of these, on all such topics that enables working with DSR smartly rather than laboriously where not needed. Thanks Sri.

[@FKeyPianoMan]

Perfect for longer videos. Thank you

[@AmazingKitchen]

Thanks for sharing. Love your tutorials. Bite size and easy to understand.👍🙂

[@mylifeswork101]

Thanks Alex, very straight forward!

[@TheHerosBlade]

This is SO very helpful. Thank you for sharing this!

[@noahjamesw]

Thaaaaaaaaank you so much for making this video. It really did make my life a little bit easier!!!

[@graysonrodriguez9123]

Life saver. You're getting a sub for this! Needed this, searched numerous tutorials and couldn't find anything until now. Thanks!

[@MrAlexTech]

Awesome, glad it was useful dude!

[@NexyiaArt]

Super informative and straight to the point, exactly what I needed :D

[@ochareofrankbell]

Thank you Alex for your kindness

[@jjisnow]

Also, don't forget to have the option Edit -> Decompose compound clips on edit. Turned OFF - otherwise you'll spend a few days trying to work out why a big mess of clips got dumped on your clip each time!

[@zibrankhan6278]

Really useful tip. Didn't know about this. Thanks mate.

[@DerekHuntArtist]

Great little vid Alex, clear and to the point 🙂

[@Kurtie7]

Thank you Alex... another handy dandy tidbit...

[@rckeith]

Thanks, Alex, just what I needed. Simple and to the point.👌

[@dennisperrie]

Good video simple and easy to understand. Good job

[@SupunWiratunga]

Alex and KZbin. This is awesome! 😊 I was editing a project yesterday and I was deleting existing clips by mistake all the time because of lots of clips. I'm really grateful for these videos Alex. Subd and bought you a coffee too Cheers! 😊 🍻

[@Colthrone]

Thank you Alex. Good tutorials.

[@TheThaiLife]

Oh my gosh, I didn't know you could drag all the other timeline footage in a single section. It was staring me right in the face and I had no idea. This was very valuable, thank you!

[@olo997]

I was actually wondering how I could use multiple timelines as I found them in Resolve. Thanks. It's a great channel. Well done Alex.

[@agesadventures]

Awesome video! I appreciate you putting this together😁 I'm learning new things about Davinci Resolve all the time that help make things easier. This is awesome and will help me manage projects better. Thank you😊😊

[@presidentrr]

This tip was so useful I have no other choice but to give it a like.

[@adhoccerswings]

Was looking for this, very similar logic to FL Studio when making music. Definitely necessary, thanks

[@NotFinancialAdvice]

That's actually incredibly useful and easy.

[@MrAlexTech]

Yeah it really is! Especially if you're clumsy like me, I'm always accidently deleted/overwriting bits if i try and do too much on a single timeline. Thanks for watching 🙂👍

[@tommymejiaES]

Excellent video, just wondering how to mix two timelines with different fps. I just recorded a mentos and soda and other experiments and want to mix both, I already saw your different frame rates video but still am a little confused.

[@austinladouceur5536]

Did you ever find an answer to this?

[@BrentTouchstone]

Precise and just what I needed. Thanks :)

[@cvmccoy]

Thank you very much for sharing this timesharing feature of DR. Like many others have stated, it has saved me a lot of time and effort. Unfortunately (using version 18.6.6) I have found multiple occasions where while a timeline plays correctly in its own timeline, it will play (and render) incorrectly when placed inside another timeline (to be clear, it has been just one clip in each timeline that didn't play correctly and it has occurred on both video and audio clips). I played around with numerous work-arounds but the only one that appears to resolve the issue is placing the offending clip inside a compound clip first before applying effects, keyframes and the such. It seems to me to be a defect and hopefully it will get fixed in an upcoming release.

[@forester4ever]

Wonderful. You made my life easier.

[@1AXMRDR]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! You just saved me a lot of time and trouble.

[@masterg5168]

Thank you so much for this super helpful tip!

[@bmkq2007]

Great Tip Alex, really useful info. Much appreciated

[@MrAlexTech]

No worries dude. Glad it was useful :)

[@bernardwangg]

I wish i knew this beforehand, i created 8 different video and audio tracks stacking on top of each other for different chapter of the video causing a mess and accidental deletes. thanks for sharing :D

[@mirandasworld]

this is invaluable i keep getting flustered and mixed up with different clips thanks iv subbed

[@SlaughterHausD]

Thank you. I'm new to editing and wish I would have know this two weeks ago before I exported and combine 4 different projects. Oh well now I know.

[@cinemaipswich4636]

I can see the value of offering multiple time lines. Behind the back of your funder, you have created another story.

[@lkasthuri]

Thanks MrAlex. This solved one of my headaches

[@ClaudiaDeyulia]

Awesome!! Thanks 😊

[@pjtavera]

Smart and Easy, Mr. Alex!

[@art-of-happiness]

Thank you.... this is exactly what I was looking for... great.....

[@gaboaaa23]

Hello, i have a question: I have a 3:50 minutes long timeline fully edited with color correction ect.... My system struggles hard now and is on its limits. So my idea was to make a new project and do the rest of the video on another timeline. If i finished that, I would save this timeline and open up in the first project(timeline) to combine it and render it out at a single video. Is this possible? Thanks

[@natasha.ixtlan]

WOW that's amazingly useful! thank you!

[@DL-lt5ly]

Thank you brother that was Awesome!

[@roehaus1]

Another good one Alex... Cheers!

[@IndiWoolley]

Thank you so much this video was so helpful!!

[@storyfirstfilms149]

Brilliant! Like all your videos cheers

[@udofahlbusch]

Thank you for your excellent videos. 👌

[@robertosupertramp9322]

Thank you, this is very helpful!!

THANKS!!! your channel is awesome, always helpful :D

[@NovakTheEnjoyer]

Just what I needed, thank you!

[@pierrecastillothelifeofpierre]

thanks for sharing mate! God bless!

[@AllAccessConstruction]

Crazy, I was doing that but in one time line Putting each section of the on its on video line that putting it all together.. Thanks again..

[@Erica-ib1ih]

Thank you so much☺ a newbie here

[@TechJawir]

If I edit the second timeline (drone), will the combine clip in the timeline1 will automatically updated?

[@jobyjohn9615]

Wonder full.. thank you alex

[@switchflip9550]

Been trying to find a video about this! Thanks!