DaVinci Resolve 19.1 Release FIXES
DaVinci Resolve 19.1 Update
Ever since I started editing with Resolve full-time, I’ve tried to mimic methods that I’m comfortable with. However, timeline-to-timeline editing hasn’t always been the most flexible option on the Resolve edit page. Well, that changed today, and I’m stoked!
You can now target a specific track destination by cutting from one sequence to another for audio and video. You can even disregard specific audio channels you might not want to use in your creative sequence.
This allows editors to use a keyboard more efficiently to make a 3-point edit and markup a full breakdown timeline to master all of the footage in a project.
Swap Timeline and Source
The trick to making all of this KEM roll style of editing is the option under the timeline menu called “swap timeline and source viewer.” If you drag (not double-click a timeline), you can drag it into the left source viewer. Then, a simple hit of the command page-up shortcut will flip the creative timeline you have open and another timeline that is a long string of footage that you loaded in your source.
Another suggested option is the “decompose compound clips on edit” checkbox at the bottom of the edit menu in the new edit options category. I have this checked to avoid the mess of nested compound clips in my final creative timelines.
To target a specific track, right-click the track number on the creative timeline to which you want to send video or audio with an orange box and perform an overwrite or insert edit with the keyboard. F9 and F10 are the default shortcuts.
Swipe Track Controls
Another simple but elegant solution is to click and drag, or swipe in the track header controls. This allows you to enable or disable all of the controls to the right of the orange patch destinations for the timeline. Things like solo, mute, auto track selectors, and the disable video button can all be swiped (just like Dora the Explorer).
Microphone Channel Swap
If you work with multichannel polywav audio. Ya know? The audio from a sound recording device, or anything with more than 2 channels, it’s super easy to change the channel used on the timeline now. You simply command button press, right-click and can choose another audio channel (another microphone). This is fast, and helps maintain a tidy non-cluttered timeline.
Batch XML, AAF, DRT, OCIO Timeline Exports
This is so simple, but so needed. Shift select multiple timeline files and choose the interchange format you’d like to export and they will all export at the same time. This use to be one by one. The .drt or davinci resolve timeline files are a nice way to send the timeline to another editor without the media. They also make a nice tiny backup of the work.
Audio Track Control
The old annoying behavior is that if your timeline did not have enough audio tracks for a source clip, is that it decided by itself to just make new audio tracks for you. I hated this. I could never control a clip that had tons of tracks of sound for what I wanted placed on my timeline. Now there is a checkbox you can and should deselect under the bottom of the Edit menu - Edit Options - automatically create tracks on edit.
With that checkbox off, you can right click to patch whatever channels you want to go wherever. That’s creative freedom, and power!
There’s so many more cool things added in this dot release that I can’t wait to get back to editing.
