Crew, the glasses are off.

So you know this is about to get serious.

So where we're at right now is we have our timeline set up

and we're ready to begin editing our footage,

which means we're gonna have to start using our keyboard

and mouse to do some editing.

So this section lays out the foundation

of how to use those tools.

Now, big disclaimer, I'm going to use my keyboard shortcuts.

You do not have to use them,

but in the course resources there will be a file

that says B'S Keys.

Those will be importable keyboard

shortcuts that I'll show you how to use.

Again, you don't have to use them,

and I will call out when I'm using a specific shortcut

and what the default button would be in Da Vinci resolve.

This is the system that I found works best for me

and I think is easy to pick up.

With that said, let's hop back into Da Vinci Resolve.

All right, so there's one thing I'd like

to call out real quick, and that's over here.

In the bottom left hand corner,

I've added a keyboard overlay to my Da Vinci Resolve,

which means that as I am navigating in Da Vinci,

it will update to whatever key I'm pressing.

Now again, these are using my keyboard shortcuts.

So let's talk about how we can get those all set up.

All the way in the upper left hand corner

of Da Vinci Resolve, there is a Da Vinci resolve menu item.

Go ahead and click that button

and then we're gonna find, oh, keyboard customization.

Go ahead and open up that guy.

This is gonna open up our keyboard customization menu,

which is actually pretty well done for Da Vinci Resolve.

You can click on any key in here

and it will tell you, uh, which function

or command it is linked to.

If you're ever looking for a certain keyboard hot key,

you can go over to this little search bar

and type in things like Ripple delete,

and it'll tell you which button it is associated with.

Go ahead and clear that real quick. Now

for you guys up in the upper right hand corner over here,

it's gonna say Da Vinci resolve

because this is the default keyboard layout when

you start up DaVinci Resolve.

If you're somebody who's coming over from uh, premier Pro

or Final Cut, they do have some presets for those.

I don't know how accurate they are to those programs,

but they are an option for you if

that's something you're already comfortable with.

But what I would like you guys

to do is all the way in the upper right hand corner

of this menu, click these three dots right here,

and there's an option to import a preset,

which is what we're gonna do.

So go ahead and click that button

and locate the folder in your course resources

that have my keyboard shortcuts in it.

It should look something like this B'S keys or B Bs keys.

It'll be this dot text file.

Once you find it, go ahead

and hit okay in this menu to import that preset.

And if you've done it correctly in the upper right hand

corner, it should say BS or BS keys.

Now, something else that I have

provided is this hot key cheat sheet.

So as we are going along, if you are ever confused or forget

or if you don't want to use my keyboard shortcuts,

but you're hearing me talk about something with navigation

or editing, you can always refer to this

to help refresh your

Memory. Once these

are all imported, go ahead and hit save

and then close.

Now from here on moving forward, I'm going

to be using my keyboard shortcuts.

I will do my best to call out what the default bind is

for a certain function or command,

but I'm gonna be assuming

that you imported my keyboard shortcuts.

With that said, before we start actually editing our

footage, something that I would highly encourage you doing

is to update your keyboard shortcuts as we go along.

These have been set up for me

and what I feel like are the easiest

and strongest set of keys for beginners.

It's something I've developed over time

and it's something that is going to continue to change

as I continue to edit.

So you should do the same within the first couple lessons.

You're probably not gonna know what works best for you,

but as we continue to move along, you might find things

that you're doing over and over

that you wish you could just press a button to do.

So feel free to change these layouts if

that is something that you want to do.

Again, go in the upper left hand corner, da Vinci,

resolve keyboard customization.

Find whatever command that is.

So maybe you want to change the fast forward hotkey.

You can type in fast forward, hit the X on the

existing hotkey and add your own over here.

Once it's all said and done, go ahead and hit save

and it might not even be a bad idea to go up

to this upper right hand corner

and save your own keys as a new preset.

But for now, I ask you to stick with my keyboard shortcuts

through the beginning sections of this course.

So my right hand is gonna stay on the mouse

and my left hand is going to sit on the home row,

which is the biggest thing that I'd like you

to take away from this section.

When I say the home row, I mean the A, s, D and F keys.

So I've got four fingers on the a, s, D, and F keys,

and my right thumb is on the space bar.

The first few buttons we're gonna talk about are the S

button and the D button.

S is timeline zoom out

and D is timeline zoom in so we can use S

to get a better look at all of the footage on our timeline

and we can use D to be a little bit more precise with

how we're making cuts, changes, adjustments

to anything on this track.

Now the reason why I like using s and d so much is

because as we begin editing and as we begin using more

and more clips and footage

and music, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, if I need

to jump to a later part in our timeline,

there's a few ways we can go about doing it.

But the way I like is if I hit S to zoom out, I can click

and drag my playhead to a later part in the timeline

and I'm gonna hit D to zoom in,

but keep an eye on where our playhead goes

as we continue to zoom in.

So I'm gonna hit D to zoom in

and you see how our playhead stays dead center frame.

So anytime I want to recenter

or jump to a different part in our timeline, I will use s

and D to make those jumps.

Now there's a few alternatives to this one.

Uh, there's this plus

and minus slider up above here in this uh,

little mini toolbar.

This will do the same thing. We can zoom in

and zoom out on our timeline.

The default shortcut

for doing this is alt in the scroll wheel

or option in the scroll wheel.

If you're on Mac moving forward, if I do ever forget

to say it, when I say alt plus a keyboard button,

it means option plus that button on Mac.

And same thing with Ctrl, it's the command key on Mac.

So alt in the scroll wheel, we'll do the same thing.

And if we are trying to actually jump

to a later part in our timeline up in our play bar up

above here, we can actually scroll

through the entire timeline.

Okay, so again, S

and D, let's get back to focusing on the home row.

So s and D are timeline, zoom in and zoom out.

The next big one that we're gonna learn is the A key

and if I press a, it is going to split our clip

or it's gonna make a cut.

Now the default for this I believe is CTRL and B,

but we are gonna be cutting

so much we cannot be two fingering the cut button.

So again, A is cut.

There is an alternative to using uh,

a in our little mini editing toolbar.

Up top here, there is this razor blade icon

and this is our blade mode.

I am not a fan of the blade mode,

but I know some people that will ride

and die with the blade mode and I'll show you what it does.

If I click it, it turns my mouse into a little razor blade

and now we can split our clips whenever I click.

I tend to find this less precise than moving my playhead

and cutting, but if this is something you enjoy, you know,

go crazy to toggle off the blade mode, you just need

to go back up top here

and make sure your mouse is highlighted in orange again.

Now to undo, I'm gonna hit control ZA few times if you're

ever wanting to redo and undo.

So if I undo too far

and I wanna redo those cuts,

you can actually hit control shift in Z

and it will redo your edits.

And again, if you're on Mac,

that is gonna be command shift and Z.

Alright, so we've got our two uh, two little cuts here.

How do we now get rid of these clips in here?

Now this is actually a bigger decision than you might think

because there's two primary ways of deleting footage.

First of all, to select this clip, you can either click it

and that'll select the video and audio.

Or what you'll often see me do is drag and select.

This is just a habit I've got into mostly

because we often work with more than one track,

or what we'll end up talking about later is like the video

and audio might not be linked together.

So I end up dragging, selecting.

So you don't have to do this, you can always click,

but just, you know, FYI.

Now the first method to delete this is actually gonna be

the backspace key.

So I'm gonna take my right hand off the mouse

and hit backspace.

What that does is it deletes the selected footage.

Now the backspace key is the default key to do this,

but now we have this, this gap in here.

So to fix this, one of the things that we can do is we can

drag and select the right side of our footage

and then left click drag and move it over

and it'll actually snap into place, which is pretty handy.

Now that's not too bad, but

what happens if I need to do this again?

So we've got this other section that I wanna get rid of,

so I'll click it, hit backspace,

and again, now I've gotta drag and select

and pull this over.

Now that's not too bad, but

that is three actions required out of us.

Every single time we wanna make a change, we have to

delete the clip, select the footage to the right,

and then pull it over.

And what were to happen if say,

we had more than just this footage here.

So what if we had five clips, 10 clips, 20 clips,

4,000 clips?

I think you can see where I'm getting at.

So I'm gonna hit Ctrl ZA couple times.

So we have our two splits here remaining.

So the second method to remove

or delete footage slash clips on your timeline is our fourth

home row button, and it is ripple, delete,

and it's the F key.

So I'm gonna select this clip

and watch how these cut points move

to the right of this footage.

I'm gonna hit the F key, which ripple deletes the footage

and see how everything shifts over to the left over here.

Ripple, deleting, closes,

any gaps created when you delete clips on your timeline.

So again, I could click this clip right here, hit F,

and it ripple deletes our footage.

And on the surface, that seems much better than just

hitting backspace, right?

So why would we ever do that?

Well, you have to be careful when you ripple delete footage

because if you have more than one track

or you've got things that aren't quite lined up

with the audio, ripple, delete will slide

everything over to the left.

So it's a very powerful tool,

but with great power comes, uh, great responsibility.

So you just have to be aware of what you're doing.

Something else that I just wanna point out real quick is,

uh, da Vinci Resolve is pretty dang awesome.

I don't know if I've said that yet,

but let's say I hit the backspace here

and I do have this gap.

DaVinci also has this very cool feature where if I were

to click in the gap, so if I left, click in this gap here,

see how a highlights in gray, I can now hit the F key

to ripple, delete that gap.

So even if you are editing

and you've got some space in here that you want to close,

or things are split for whatever reason,

you can always just click gaps and hit F

and it will close the space.

So again, I cannot emphasize enough how important it is.

We just really need four keys, the S key, the D key,

the A key, and the F key

that is gonna carry you 95% of the way there when it comes

to editing any

and all of your footage, which means

that if we've learned A, S, D,

and F, we're ready to start editing our footage.