All language subtitles for 1. Edit Tab - Part 1 Edit Tab Kolder Creative

So if
you're already coming from Premiere Pro

or Final Cut, then the edit tab within Da
Vinci should feel pretty familiar to you.

It consists of a timeline at the bottom.

Your preview window in the top right,

media pool, top left and a window
for your effects, in effect, controls.

Now Da Vinci edits have also
has some additional features that make it

stand out to me, which I'll be going over
in this video for my workflow.

The edit tab is basically where
the main video starts coming together.

I use a previous
cut tab to make my selects and cut out

all the excess footage that I know
I'm not going to be using that way

when I'm ready to start piecing together
my main video in the edit tab.

I don't have to spend so much time sifting
through hours and hours of footage.

Everything is already cut up and ready
to be thrown into my main timeline.

And of course,
because I took the time to make selects,

I'm now more familiar
with all of the footage

which will allow me
to navigate the project much faster.

Now, before I show you guys my process
of piecing together my main timeline,

let's first jump into the edit tab
and see what it has to offer.

So the edit tab
is the third tab down here on the bottom

and we can quickly access it
by pressing shift four.

Remember shift

two through Shift eight
Allow us to go through

all the different tabs
down here and shift.

One brings up the project manager.

Shift nine brings up project settings.

Good shortcuts to note, but this is
what we see when we open up the edit tab.

Now we have the familiar

media pool up here in the top left
where we can access all of our footage.

In the top left, we have the ability
to close off this bin list over here

so we can press that, close

that off, gives us more room
to actually see our media over here.

We can also change the way that we view
our media from list view

to thumbnail view.

And of course, we have
the metadata view as well over here.

Of course, we got to be over some footage
to actually see any kind of metadata.

I usually keep it in list view,
but that is the media pool, pretty much

the same thing that we've been looking at
for the first two tabs of DaVinci.

It's going to go back to

the root folder over here
so we can see all of our folders.

And the really cool thing is
we can actually hide the media pool

when we don't want to be using it

simply by just pressing the media pool
button up here.

When it's grayed out,
that means it's inactive.

And when it's white,
that means it's active.

And if we want to expand it,
we can press the button

to the left of media pool over here

and it'll expand it
to fill the whole left section.

So this is great when you are
maybe just going through lots of footage

and you want to see all the stuff
inside of your folders.

Maybe you haven't made selects yet,
so then you can just view everything.

You could probably put it in, you know,
thumbnail view, get a better idea of where

everything is and you can just start
dragging clips in like this.

I guess that's more of a route
you would go

if you didn't already make selects.

But in my case, I've already made select
so there's no need to have the media pool

even visible.

Really.

Now, next to media pool,
we have effects library.

This is pretty much the same effects
window that we saw back in the cut tab,

except now we have the titles and
transitions all grouped into here as well.

So titles and transitions
are not their own separate tabs.

You'll find them over here to the left.

It's pretty straightforward.

There's tons of options in here
and you can just hover your mouse over

top of anything to get a bit of a preview
in our preview window.

And of course,

if there's something
that you find yourself constantly

going back to hit that little start button

and it's going to add it to your favorites
over here,

it's stuff we really important for you
to not spend time

typing in the same effect
every time to go access it.

Make sure that your favorite is
so that it's very easily

accessible over here to the left
so you're not wasting time.

Next to Effects library,
we have added index

and this is going to show us everything
in our timeline from start to finish.

So it just puts things
into chronological order.

So if I go back to the media pool,
I can open up

one of the timelines that I cut together.

So let's do kelp forest dive and
we can see that it's opened up down here.

So if we go back to our edit index,

we can see all of our clips
in our timeline in chronological order.

So if I wanted to quickly jump
to one of them, I can simply just press

that one and get the play head instantly
to that one clip.

Except in this situation,
this isn't really going to be handy

because there's no metadata
for each one of these clips.

And there's no way for me to know, based
on the name or any of this information,

what is actually in the clip.

So, you know,
if you did go through the process

of adding metadata or,
you know, choosing a color for your clip,

then it would make sense for you
to use the index a bit more often.

But in this situation,
the edit index doesn't really help,

but it's good to know
that we have that option there.

Next to the edit
index is the sound library.

Now I primarily do
my sound design stuff in Fairlight,

which is the second last tab over here,

but of course
we're able to do a lot of sound

design in the edit tab as well,
and the sound library is awesome

because it allows you

to very quickly access
any kind of sound files on your computer.

Okay, let's hide the sound library
and take a look at our preview

window over here.

So something really cool that we can do
to move around this space is to hold

the middle mouse button on our mouse
and we can move our image around.

We can also zoom in and out
just using the scroll wheel.

And this is really helpful
because a lot of the time

you're going to want to see past the edges
of your image when you're doing things

like masking or you're overlapping
two videos on top of each other

and you want to move things around.

It's nice to be able to just zoom out
like that,

and it's also really nice to be able
to move around by clicking

and holding the middle mouse button
on the mouse.

Now in the top left,
we have the ability to quickly jumps

to different zooms of our image.

So if we press fit, it's

going to scale everything
to fit to the preview window size.

So in the bottom left of our preview here,
we have some options down here

that allow us to change
how we interact with our preview window.

So the first one is transform.

If we enable it by making it white,
we can see that we now have the ability

to transform our image in the preview
so we can scale it up.

We can also rotate it
by using this middle handle over here.

You can
freely move your image around over here.

This is great for reframing sometimes.

Sometimes

you might want to crop in on your image
and just focus on like one section.

There might be a lot of dead space.

This is a great way to very quickly
do this

instead of trying to change
all of these parameters over here

and your inspector,
it'll definitely be much faster

to make any kind of zoom or position
changes in the actual viewer itself.

If you to go back to normal,
you can just press the reset

in the transform section right here

and we'll bring it back
to its original position.

Now, if we press the little arrow
next to the button over here,

then we can choose some different options.

We have the ability to crop so we can crop
these sides of our image as well.

Just like that
makes it much faster, much easier

and of course we

can reset it over here
as well in the inspector.

If we press the dropdown again,
we can choose things like Dynamic Zoom,

which we learned about in the Cut tab,
which is an amazing feature.

So same kind of thing here.

We're able
to choose the start and end frame

and we will be able to animate from that
starting end frame automatically.

We don't have to do any more work.

This is everything

and if we want to enable it,
we've got to make sure that dynamic Zoom

is enabled right here,

because sometimes
you might have these rectangles set,

but it's not going to be animating
between those scales and positions

because Dynamic Zoom is turned off
over here in the inspector.

So you got to make sure
that it is turned on.

And of course, just like in the cut tab,
you have the option to choose

between different animation styles
right here

and below that we have the swap button
which just swaps

the rectangles in the preview here
and below dynamic Zoom.

We have some other options here

which we will be talking about later on
in this course,

but we can also find the familiar
annotations option down here as well,

which we learned about in the media page,
which allows us to add markers

to our clip as well as add actual visual
elements on top of our image.

I'm just going to zoom into my clip
and delete that marker

because we don't need that.

Now, if I want to bring my preview window
back to its original mode,

I can simply just click on this button
over here to disable it,

and I'm just gonna scale this
to fit the frame size

in the top right of our preview window,
we have the bypass color

grades and fusion effect button.

So if we press this, it's basically
going to disable any kind of color grades

that are on it.

And because we have a lot on the timeline,
no tree for this timeline over here,

we're able to see a change in color
when we turn off the color grades here.

This is a great tool to very quickly
be able to see what your original footage

looked like.

So if you're deep into an edit, you've
done lots of color grades and stuff.

You want to see how much progress
you've made on a certain clip.

You can just click on this clip
to reveal what it looked like before

you did any kind of color grading or added
any kind of fusion effects.

And at the top of the preview window,
we have this dropdown that lets us see

all of the open timelines
within our project.

Right now,
we're not seeing every single timeline

from the project
because some of them are closed.

We have to open them first.

So we're only seeing the timelines
that are open within the project.

And if you ever want to switch to another
timeline, you can simply just select it

and it'll take you to that timeline.

Let's go back to our original timeline.

Now. The really cool thing
about viewing timelines in the edit tab

is that we have some options
as to how we want to view them.

So if we press this button over here,
this is the timeline view options.

We can see that stacked timelines
over here in the top left is enabled.

I really like to work with this on
because it allows me

to see all of my different timelines
like this in a tab form

and I can also stack my timelines
on top of each other and see more than one

at a time.

Now, when you're first Reckoning DaVinci,
you'll probably have this turned off,

so it's going to look more like this,
but you can very quickly turn it on simply

by going over there,
clicking stock timelines.

And now we have the ability to add tabs
for each one of our different timelines

over here.

So I opened up a new tab here
and I can select

another one of my timelines
that's currently open in the project.

So let's choose this one over here
and we can see that the timelines

that are already open over here

to the left are grayed out
so we can't select those.

Now you guys can see there's a little bit
more going on in this timeline.

I got some markers and I got videos
in different tracks over here,

but you'll be learning about exactly

what's going on over here
in the refining your select video

so I can just keep opening up my timelines
next to each other.

And this is awesome
because I can very quickly

just go between any of my timelines
just like that.

Now you're probably thinking, Yeah,

that's cool, but can you view
two timelines at the same time?

And that's one thing that I thought
really sucks about Final Cut

is that you can see more than one
timeline at a time.

So I'm really stoked that DaVinci does
give us this option and it's really easy.

We just press this button in the top
right of our timeline over here

and it gives us a new timeline down here.

Now we can open up even more tabs for this
second to timeline view down here.

But if we want to move one of the tabs
from up here to the bottom timeline,

we'll have to close it up here first
and then we can access it down here.

Now, if we want to add another timeline,

we can do that as well simply
by pressing that same button over here.

Now we have three
timelines stacked on top of each other.

Three timelines is pretty tight.

I still haven't found the need to do this.

Two timelines
usually does the trick for me.

If we want to close
one of these timelines,

we can press the button to the left
over here

and it's going to close the timeline.

So I love working with stock timelines
because I can bring all of my selects

to the timeline up above,

bring my main video down below
and I can just start dragging clips

from the top timeline to the bottom one
and building out my main edit down here.

You guys will see me go through this
exact process later on in the course.

Now I'm going to close this
second timeline over here as well,

and I want to show you guys

some of the options that we have
within the timeline here.

So each one of these are tracks,
these are audio tracks

down here below in the green
and we got video tracks up above.

We have the ability to mute or

solo each one of these tracks down here
in the audio section.

So if we want to play one track over here

by itself without anything from the other
tracks down here, we can solo it.

So that will basically mute
everything else

and just let this one track play,
or we can choose to mute it,

which will mute that track and play
all the other tracks.

And over here

we have this little lock button
which will allow us to lock the track.

So any changes that we make
to any other clips in the timeline

will not affect those clips
in that specific track.

Same goes with video over here.

It's got this same lock button.

So if we have that selected,
we can't accidently move something over

or make any changes to that track.

It's locked in place.

I'm going to press Command Z twice
to bring us back.

And up here on the video tracks

we have the ability to disable
each track individually.

I personally don't really use this
because if I ever need

to disable a specific
clip, I'll just press D on my keyboard.

That's the Raven keyboard shortcut
for disable and it will disable it.

I rarely find myself
having to actually disable a full track,

but we have the option here
if we ever need to.

Now between our

preview window in our timeline,
we have some tools and options over here.

So to the left we have different options
for what we want our cursor to do.

So to the left we have selection mode,
which is the default,

which allows us to select clips like this
and just move things around normally.

Next to that we have Trim Edit Mode, the
Ravenclaw Keyboard shortcut for this is T.

So when we pressed T, we can see
that our cursor has changed into the trim

edit mode.

And now let's take a look at how we can
interact with our clips with this tool on.

So if I trim this clip, make it shorter,

we can see that it is also moving
everything to the right with it as well.

Now, the reason
the audio wasn't trimmed down with

it is because we have
that track locked over here.

So let's unlock it.

So now
if we drag the right of this clip over,

we can see that

it's not only trimming this clip,
but it's also moving everything

to the right over with it.

If we were to do this with the standard
selection tool, shortcut is A,

we can see that
it would leave a gap for us.

So using trim mode allows us to bypass
the need to have to delete

that gap afterwards.

So yeah, I find that the trim mode
definitely helps save a lot of time

in a lot of situations.

With trim mode,
we can also hover between clips and move

the start
and end points of those clips like this.

So not only are we expanding this clip
here, we're shrinking the clip next to it.

Now, this can be a great tool

if you're trying to line up the cut
between two clips to a point in a song.

And you can do that very easily like this,
instead of having to, you know,

first line up the first clip with the beat
and then move the second clip over,

we are able to very quickly move
that cut point to anywhere that we want.

Now, also with the trim tool selected,
we are able to slip our clips

left and right.

And basically what that means is we can
maintain the same duration of the clip

but change the actual part of the clip
that is going to stay within

this duration here.

So if I click on this upper
half of my clip and drag left and right,

we can see that
the duration of the clip stays the same

and it stays in the same place
within the timeline.

But I'm actually changing
what part of the clip we are using.

This is awesome to have when you have
your clips cut up to your music already.

So all your clips are the right duration

and they're in the right place
on your timeline,

but maybe you just want to change
the actual part of the clip

that you want to use.

You can simply just use trim edit mode

to slip your clip back and forth to choose
a different part of the same clip.

Now, next to trim

edit mode, we have dynamic trim mode,
which personally I haven't really used

because I don't really see how it's better
or why I would use it over trim mode.

So I'm not going to be going over it
in this video.

In my personal editing workflow,
I wouldn't really use dynamic trim mode.

Trim edit mode works great for me.

And to the right, we have the Blade tool,
which is something that I never ever use,

but if you do want to use it,
you can just press B on your keyboard

and it will turn your cursor into a blade
and you can cut wherever your mouse is.

What I prefer to do
is simply just to drag my play head

to wherever
I wants to cut and just press. W

That's always been my method,

but I actually do have some friends
that prefer to use a blade tool.

So if that's your thing,
you can press B change

your cursor to a blade tool and cut up
whatever you want.

Now next to our cursor,
two options over here

we have a couple of different options
as to how

we want to insert the selected clip
from our media pool into our timeline.

So let's take a look at how these work.

So I'm going to open up
the media pool over here

and I'm going to select any clip here.

Actually,
let me first just zoom in on my timeline.

So we can get a better view
of what's going on here.

So I'm going to select a clip
from my media pool here.

And just for example
sake, let's set an in and out

point over here for four in five,
four out.

And of course,

we can simply just click and drag
to drop the video into our timeline.

But these buttons down here
are like shortcuts as to how

you would want to bring this clip
into your timeline.

Now, also take note that we

have the ability to just drag the video
over here or the audio separately.

So if we just wanted the audio,

we can click and drag the audio right here
down into the audio tracks.

Same with the video.

Now let's try this first button over here.

If we hover over top of it,
it says insert clip.

So let's insert this clip over here.

Cool.

And we can see that it inserted the clip
exactly where the play head was.

So the play head was in the middle

of this clip over here so we can see that
it actually split that clip in half

and we can see that it inserted that clip
in between that first clip.

Now, take note that
because we use this option,

we didn't lose any footage,
nothing was overwritten.

It just pushed everything over

to the right and inserted the clip exactly
where the play head was.

So I'm just going to click on this clip
to reveal it in the media pool.

Again, let's open it up here and let's
try this again.

But instead of inserting, let's try the
second option here, which is overwriting.

So I'll go to a different
part of the timeline here,

and I'm going to go back

to the clip that we just inserted

in my timeline and let's press overwrite

so we can see that it kind of
did the same thing.

But the clips weren't pushed over.

It didn't like make room for the clip
and then bring it in.

It just place the clip over
top of the clips

that were here
at this point in the timeline.

So wherever the play head
sits, it's just going to place it there,

but it's not going
to push everything over.

So it basically deletes the clips
that were already here.

I'm just going to hit Command Z

so we could see that
this clip was originally this long,

but because we chose the overwrite option,
it just cut out a lot of it.

And all we're left with
is this little portion right here.

And lastly, we have the replace button.

So let's just go to a different part
of our timeline over here.

So with the same clip selected
in our media pool, let's press the replace

and we can see that it replaced the clip
that was at this part of the timeline.

It kept the same duration as the clip
that was here, but it replaced

what was inside.

So if we hover over to a different clip
and go back to that original clip

in our media pool,
let's press replace again.

We can see that the original clips
duration stays the same, but it's replaced

with the contents of whatever
we have in our preview window here.

So if we hover our mouse over
top of these shortcuts over here,

we can see that the keyboard shortcut
for each of them is F9, F10 and F11.

Now we also don't even need
to use these shortcuts right here.

We can simply just drag our clip over
from our media pool

over top of our preview window
and we can see to the right over here

we have a bunch of different options
as to how we want to insert that clip

into our timeline.

So here we can see that
we have even more options,

but we also have those same insert,
overwrite and replace options right here.

So if I press insert,
we can see that it's inserted

that entire clip over here
and pushed everything over.

You can see that
we have some other options here

as well, including place on top,
which is a great one.

If you don't want to sit on the same track
as everything else,

you can just drop it on place on top

and it will add that clip over
top of everything else.

We can also choose append at the end,
which will bring your clip

to the very end of your clips
in your timeline.

And then at the bottom here,
we have triple overwrite,

which will overwrite the clip
that the play head is currently over

top of and replace it,
but also repeal everything.

So if we were to have some random clips
selected here in our timeline

and I was to ripple overwrite it
with another clip, let's see what happens.

It replaces that clip

and changes it with the full

length of the clip that I just dropped in
from the media pool.

So it's great to know that we have
all those different options as to how

we want to drop our footage from our media
pool into the timeline down below.

Next to those three buttons
we have three more buttons.

The first one is snapping.

I turn this one on and off all the time
when I'm going through my timelines.

And basically what it does is it changes
the way that the play head behaves

when you're scrubbing through your clips.

If snapping is turned on,

then whenever you're close
to the start of a clip or, you know, any

any one of these points, the play
heads are going to snap to that place.

We can see that as I get close,
it kind of just snaps into place there.

And this can be very useful
in a lot of situations,

but honestly,
sometimes it can be annoying.

So it's good to know the shortcut
to turn it on and off whenever you want.

And for Ravenclaw, that's f f will quickly
turn it on and off.

So now you can see that
because it's off, I'm able to get closer

to those cut points
and not have any snapping going on.

I'm just going to turn it back on
by pressing F Now next to snapping,

we have a linked selection.

Now when linked selection is on,
when you have a piece of media selected,

it's going to automatically select
the video and audio file.

Now, if we unselected the clip
by pressing into our timeline

and we turn linked selection off,
we can press G.

That's a shortcut.

Then we can see now we can freely select
either the video file or the audio file.

So they're not linked now
and we can easily move things around.

So if we want to move the audio file
by itself for the video

file, we can do that.

And you can see that once we've done that,
we have this little red label

on each one of these clips and that's
pretty much there to let us know

that the video and audio from this clip
have been separated in the timeline,

and the number tells us the distance
between both of those.

So as we take things further away,
we can see that this is now 23 seconds

behind where it should be
to be aligned with the audio file.

So I'm going to undo that command.

Z Now, next to link selection,
we have position lock

and with this enabled, we basically
can't move anything in our timeline.

Everything is locked in place.

This can be useful in some situations.

Maybe when you are showing your project
to someone else

and you don't want them moving something
accidentally, you can just turn that on

and they can freely go
through your timeline without worrying

about moving anything
or making any kind of changes.

So I'm going to turn position
lock off and next to that,

we have two other options here.

We have flags and we have markers.

Now, both of these are kind of similar,
but at the same time they are different.

Let's start off with flags.

So if I have a clip selected
in my timeline and I hit the flag button,

we could see that
it's added this little flag here.

Now we can see that it's also added
a flag to the clips next to it as well.

And that's
because those clips are the same clip.

I just cut up the same clip.

And these are different segments
of that same clip.

We can verify that by actually
reading the name of the clip down here.

We can see it's 171055.

Same with this one and this one.

So because we've added a flag to that one
clip, it's added it

to all the other versions of that
same clip in the timeline with the flag.

We're also not able to mark
a specific point on a clip.

So if I was to, you know, want to add
a flag to this part of the clip

and I select the flag,
but it's not going to do anything

because the flag's
already been applied there.

So you kind of just labeling the clip
as a whole by using a flag.

Now, we can add multiple flags
to individual clips.

You can just hit the dropdown
here, select a different color.

And now we have a blue
and yellow one on these clips.

Adding flags is really useful,

especially when you get to the stage
of color grading in the color tab.

You can filter out
your entire timeline here and just see

the flag clips as well as the marked clips
from with markers as well.

But you can filter it here
so we can choose any flag

and that way we can see
only the clips that we've flagged

or added markers to,
which is great because it isolates those

from the rest of the clips in the timeline

and we can just focus
on those specific clips.

So let's go back into our edit tab.

Now. Also, if we wants to add information
to any of these flags,

we can just double click
on them. We can add a note,

and if we press down, we can see that
we have a little black circle

on top of our flag, and that indicates
that that flag contains some information.

Now, in my personal workflow,
I don't really use flags as much.

I'll just delete these here.

What I use a lot more are markers
and I don't even really use this

marker button here.

The shortcut to add a marker
anywhere on your timeline is M.

When I press M we can see that a marker
has been added up here in our timeline.

Now, the reason
it was added to the timeline

and not the clip was because I made sure
that the clip wasn't selected.

I just clicked into my timeline over here.

If I do have the clip selected and I

am, we can see that
it's added a marker over here.

Now, it only added it to the video
because we have length selection turn off.

So I'm going to hit Command Z and do that.

Let's hit G to turn link selection on.

And now when we have our clip selected

and we m, we've added a marker
to both the video and audio tracks.

Now if we double click on the marker
or M again when our play head is over

top of it, we can name it.

Let's call this housing shot because
we can see that there's a housing here.

And maybe I want to add a note
to an editor or to my future self

use this shot for Beats intro.

Maybe this is great for leaving notes
for yourself or other editors

about ideas that you have or things
that you want to do in your timeline.

You can even add narration, things
like that.

In this way you'll see
later on in the refining selects video how

I use markers to easily define what's
bts's footage and what is my main footage.

We can also change the color of the marker
over here

and we can also change the duration.

But I don't change the duration over here.

The easiest way to change the duration
is to actually click on the marker

right here.

You can hold option on your keyboard
and you can drag it out.

Now, we can do the same thing up here
with the markers on the timeline as well.

This can be very useful
if you want one marker to cover the span

of a longer period of time
in your timeline to maybe

indicate what a group of clips is

or you know, what you want
a segment of your timeline to have in it.

You know, maybe there's footage
that you need to shoot

and you can use a marker to highlight
a section of your timeline

to show that you need to shoot clips
for that segment of the timeline.

We can also see in this marker down here,
we have that black dot.

The reason it's there is to indicate that
that marker has some extra information.

So if we double click on it,
we can see what that extra information is.

And if we ever wants to delete markers,
we can simply just select them,

hit, delete and it's as easy as that.

And lastly,
we have some zoom options over here.

So if we press the first button,
we could see that

it's scaled the entire timeline to fit
all of our clips so we can see everything

next to that.

We have Detail Zoom,
which just zooms in a lot more,

and then after that we have custom zoom,
which we're able to set over here

to the right with this slider over here.

And so if we bring it to full zoom,
we can go back to detail Zoom,

and then bring it back
to that full zoomed in mode.

So I don't really use these
to navigate my timeline,

but they are there
if you ever want to use them.

The way that I like to navigate
my timeline is with Shift Command

an option.

Now I'm going to close the media pools
so we can focus more on our timeline

over here.

So if I hold shift and scroll
with my mouse wheel, we can see that

I'm expanding the video tracks now.

That's because my mouse is over
top of the video tracks.

If I bring it over top of the audio
tracks, I could do the same thing.

So holding shift and scrolling up and down
allows me

to change the size
of all of the tracks in my timeline.

That's one that I use all the time,

especially when you're working
with a bunch of different tracks.

Here you have footage on top of footage.

You want to make those tracks smaller

sometimes,
so you can see all of those layers.

But if you're just working with one track
and you want to get some more visual

thumbnail on each video,
you can make it bigger just like that.

Now, if I hold command and scroll,
I'm able to scroll left

and right in my timeline.

That's awesome. And I use it all the time.

Option allows me to zoom in and out
just like that.

So with those three shortcuts,
I'm able to very quickly

and easily navigate my timeline
and I use them all the time.

Now to the top, right, We have three
more windows that we can activate.

The first one is the mixer.

Now I'm going to be diving

deep into the mixture and how it works
in the Fairlight section of the course.

But all you really need to know

is that each one of these sections here
is for each individual track.

So right now we have three tracks,
and if we ever want to add another track,

we can simply just right
click over here, select, add track.

Most of the time
we're going to be working in stereo,

so we have a fourth track,
and if we move this over, we can see that

we've now created another section
for the fourth track that we just created.

And in

here you can change the volume
of each track individually.

So this is great for mixing because then
you don't have to go into each

one of your individual audio files
and change the volume like this.

You can simply control the entire track
just with this one slider,

and you can also apply effects
to entire tracks and change

like things like the ACU.

Over here,

we have tons of different options
as to how we can manipulate the track,

but this information is not that important
right now.

We're going to be diving deep into this
in the Fairlight section of the course,

but for now it's good to know
that we have the mixer here

and we can make those kind of changes
right in the edit tab.

So I'm going to deactivate the mixer.

Let's go to the next one. Metadata.

This basically just lets us know
of the information about this

selected clip within our timeline
so we can go to any clip over here

and it'll tell us the format,
the frame rates,

the Kodak, the audio information
and the resolution.

So personally,

I don't really use the metadata tab
that often,

but if you ever need to know
something about your clip,

you can very quickly just open it up

and just get the information
about the selected clip in your timeline.

And next to that, we have the inspector.

This is the exact same inspector
that you'll find in the cut page

where we can access

all of the controls to modify
the properties for the select clip.

So in the top
we have transform where we can change

the zoom position rotation,
all that kind of fun stuff.

It's the same inspector
as what we have in the cut tab,

and these tabs over here are not enabled.

We can't press them
because this is only a video file.

There's no audio.

We also don't have any effects on it.

We don't have any transitions.

So as soon as we apply an effect to this,
we apply a transition.

Those will enable
and we'll be able to click into them.

And this clip doesn't have audio either.

So let's go to a clip
that does have audio and make sure linked

selection is turned on by pressing
that way.

When we select a video file,
it will also select the audio file.

We can see that
the audio button here is enabled

and we can make any kind of audio changes
that we want over here.

And we have the same file button as what
we have in the cut tab, which allows us

to see the metadata as well as change
some of the metadata over here as well.

And lastly,
we have the volume control over here,

which allows us to quickly mute
and unmute the audio in our timeline

or whatever's playing back.

And we can also press this dim
button over here,

which basically
just brings the overall volume down.

So this is great.

If you are maybe hanging out
with other people

and you're both watching the same edit
and you want to talk about it

as it's playing, you can press dim
so it will playback a lot quieter

or you can just turn off the volume
overall just by pressing the mute

button over here. Awesome. So that's it.

I hope you guys enjoyed this little intro
into the edit tab.

Over the next series of videos,
I'm going to be diving into pretty much

every single feature found in the edit tab

and showing you guys
my exact workflow in here.

It's going to be exciting.

I definitely recommend
that you guys open up DaVinci yourselves.

Just throw some footage
in there, experiment

with the user interface, experiment
with the effects.

Just start experimenting
because the more time

you put in, the better you're going to be.

So that's it for this video
I hope you guys enjoyed.

I hope you learn something new
and I'll catch you in the next one.