So we're gonna begin what's called the rough cut,

or sometimes it's called the assembly cut of the edit,

which means we're gonna take our raw footage

and trim it down until it's in a usable place.

And what that means is we're gonna get rid of some

of the ums and the uhs

and get rid of some of the gaps, the bad takes, et cetera,

until we have usable footage for our edit.

And there is one thing in particular that I'm gonna show off

that is a very important concept in Da Vinci Resolve that.

I'll take a couple minutes to talk through,

but it is very important to understand and know how to use.

So let's go ahead and hop back into resolve. All righty.

So let's go ahead and do some editing.

Quick reminder, bottom left hand corner is my input history.

So as we continue to move along in the course,

you should be able to keep track of what keys I'm pressing,

but your timeline might look a little

bit different than somebody else's.

So what I'd like us all to do is to start fresh together.

Hit ask to zoom all the way out on your timeline so

that you can see all of your footage drag and select it all

and hit the backspace key to delete it or F.

Or you could hit F to delete it.

Now what I want you to do is go over

to the upper left hand corner here for our media pool.

Go to the video folder, find your a roll

and let's re bring in our footage.

There we go. Now this is personal preference,

but I like having the entire bottom section here

for my timeline 'cause I like having a

little more working real estate.

So what I'll do is up in the upper left hand corner

of Da Vinci Resolve, there's this little square with

what, what'd you call that?

A carrot carrot icon.

Go ahead and click that and it will collapse the media pole

to just be on this upper portion so

that way we have our entire bottom half for our timeline.

Now, unfortunately, in Da Vinci Resolve, you can't drag

and drop menus around to be in different locations,

but we can always grab dividing lines

to make sure things fit however we feel best.

So sometimes you'll even see me grab this middle bar in

between the video and audio tracks to move things

around a little bit more if I need to see the audio

or if I wanna see the video a bit better.

So with all that said though,

what we're gonna be doing today is I'm gonna hit

DA couple times to zoom in.

We're gonna be cleaning up our footage a little bit.

I might throw out terms like working through our footage

or trimming it all kind

of means the same thing, different context.

All I'm trying to say is that in our video you see

how there's these little gaps in here

where nothing's being said.

We're gonna try to get rid of those.

There's gonna be sections where I goof up.

We don't wanna include the goof ups there.

And we also need to be aware

of the things I'm saying in this footage.

You see, editing is a very active craft, which means

that we can't just go along, look for where the audio is

and get rid of stuff where there's no audio.

We need to be aware of

what our subject in this instance me is saying.

'cause at the end of the day, we need to string together all

these little bits and pieces so that it makes

one cohesive message slash story.

So there are moments where you can kind

of turn your brain off a little bit,

but the sorting process, the the rough cut process tends

to be something that you do need to pay attention to.

So let's start working through it.

First things first, I'm gonna drag my

play head all the way to the beginning.

Oh, it looks like I didn't bring our footage

all the way snug on zero zero.

So make drag and slide that over made space bar to play

and stop it right before I'm about to speak.

Something else you'll see me do throughout this

that I wanna call out now in case I've already done it a few

times, is as the video is playing, I'll oftentimes hit s

to zoom out to see kinda where we're at in the uh,

total video length and D to zoom in

so I can be a little bit more precise.

The other benefit to this, and this is what we discussed in

that last section, is it keeps our playhead mostly centered.

So as I'm playing I can zoom in

and it'll put our playhead right in the middle.

Alright, so I'm gonna drag our playhead

somewhere to the beginning here.

It does not have to be exact, you do not have

to copy my timestamps.

Those things are unimportant.

But I'm gonna hit a to cut select

that first half, that's to delete.

Now I'm gonna hit space to play through this little bit.

Well, hello crew.

Let's talk about some editing mistakes

that a lot of beginners make.

Perfect. And I tapped A to make a cut.

Now a common question that gets asked early on is

where do I cut things off?

At what point when I finish saying something,

do I make this cut?

And what I'd like to say is this.

What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit shift

and use my middle mouse button, excuse me,

shift in the scroll wheel to expand our audio track here.

And this is uh, a little exaggerated for the purpose of

what we're doing, but it is nice

to kind of visualize what I'm saying.

Most of the times when somebody is speaking,

there is a little tale at the end of their annunciation.

This tale might look different depending on what's being

said, but I would say 99 times outta a hundred there's this

little trail that carries through

what whatever the last word is that we said.

So what I would say is try to get your cut to be kind

of close to where that tail ends.

Doesn't have to be exact,

but what will happen is if, let's say I make a cut

before there, so like right here,

I'll play this before I cut it off.

So this is the talking section.

I'm the beginner's make it looks like

make is the final word.

If I were to cut off somewhere right here, if I were

to ripple, delete this with F

and you do do not have to follow along here, I replay this.

I'm the beginner's make. Can you feel the abruptness?

Maybe you can't. Depending on where you cut off this tail,

it can feel pretty jarring.

So our goal is to leave that little bit, hey,

shift in the scroll wheel to kind of recon,

condense our audio ways here.

Now a skill I'd like you to try to form as we begin to work

through this footage is looking at these audio waves

and trying to determine what's going on.

We can use our first clip as an example.

You can see kind of the shape and the fullness here.

This is when somebody's speaking up ahead.

We've got a lot of these little like blips.

I would wager that it's me kind of grunting

or making some noises or trying

to start what I'm about to say.

Yeah, we don't need that.

So I'm gonna hit a here to make a cut.

F is ripple, delete, go ahead and play this forward.

Hey, let's talk about some editing mistakes

that a lot of beginners make.

Perfect a cut.

And what we're gonna do is we're gonna continue to get rid

of some of these like weird

noises and some of these bad takes.

But before we do that, I need to cover a very important

editing concept slash technique.