Source tape editing - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

- Let's go ahead and switch back to our B-roll timeline. I'm going to do that now by coming up above the viewer and we can choose our various timelines that we have active and let's do our B-roll selects. All right, we've flipped over. And now let's go to our bin and select our B-roll bin. And remember earlier when we were putting these selects together how we were kind of double clicking and pulling each one of these up individually, that's extremely inefficient. DaVinci Resolve has a fantastic feature for viewing every single clip that's active in your bin and viewing it in here as your source. And you can quickly edit into a timeline and that's this option above the viewer called source tape. So if I go ahead and click source tape, notice I've got this long timeline underneath the viewer with these white tick marks. These tick marks are the ends of clips. So every one of these is an individual clip directly corresponding to the clips in our bin. Notice that if I were to go ahead and click on B-roll and then shift click on interviews, watch what happens in this area down here when I do that. It updates, and you can see I've got these long clip areas down here that represents the interviews that are now showing in our bin. So our sort view right now is by bin and because we have multiple in selected, we're now seeing in this source view all of the clips in all of our bins that are being viewed. Now, this is fantastic, cause it allows us to quickly scan through and start selecting shots. And I'm going to mute our audio here and start selecting shots and just dropping them into the timeline. So right here, for instance, I find this shot here. All right so let me mark it in and then mark it out. And then I want to append this to the end. So remember up here in the edit menu, append to end of timeline is Shift + F12. So I'll just go ahead and press Shift + F12 and it just dropped that clip to the end of our timeline. As we continue building out our selects reel this looks like it might be interesting. So I'm playing backwards and now forwards mark in let's get a couple of these, mark out and then Shift + F12 and I will keep going through an entire bin of selects. And this is anything this selects reel is for anything that has products. So this is kind of cool this exterior here, even though it's exterior it's not really an establishing shot which is what I kind of mean by those exteriors. And we'll just take a couple instances of them. You know what? We already pulled him up didn't we? All right, so let's keep going. And now I'm just double tapping on the L button to play double time. I'll triple time through this. I'll mark it in. There we go, yeah, let's take this, mark it out, Shift + F12, continue double tapping. All right, this guy looks interesting. I could see us using that. So I'll take the motion up, mark out, Shift + F12, double tap to play forward, tap again to play it even faster. That one looks like it could be a useful shot. Starts on the ground. It has action and interest with that action, mark it out, Shift + F12. And so I go through our entire reel here pulling up my select reel, finding those moments that I think are particularly interesting. Maybe some close ups always good to get a human face and then the tilt down, that's good, Shift + F12. And if I use the down arrow I can now jump to the next clip in my source reel. Triple tap L, triple playing now. K to pause. I think we already got that one. We already got that one, down arrow, down arrow. So I quickly go through here and that's pretty good. So you can see how that source tape view is an extremely fast and efficient way of getting through a whole bunch of clips from a camera card or even multiple days of camera cards. And then as you start using the keyboard and start memorizing and internalizing those keyboard shortcuts, you can very quickly sort through a large number of footage, take your selects, drop them into a timeline get that timeline built out, move to your next timeline for your next range of selects and build these kind of conceptual timelines that we'll then use to build out our final little piece.