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1 Move the playhead near the edit point you want to trim, and press V to select it.
2 Press the U to choose which side of the edit you want to select in order to ripple or roll it, and/or Option-U to choose whether you want to trim video+audio, the video only, or the audio only.
3 Press Command-Forward Slash (/) to enable looped playback.
4 Press Forward Slash (/) to play around the current selection. With looping on, playback will continue until you stop it. Pre-roll and post-roll can be changed in the Edit panel of the User Preferences.
5 During looped playback, press the Comma (,) and Period (.) keys to trim the selection back or forward by a single frame, or Shift-Comma and Shift-Period to trim the selection in 5-frame increments. If you do this during the post-roll of looped playback, the loop immediately replays from the beginning so you waste no time seeing the result.
TIP: When holding down the Shift key while nudging to do a “fast nudge,” the duration of the nudge is customizable in the Editing panel of the User Preferences. By default it’s five frames, but you can set it to whatever you want.
TIP: When holding down the Shift key while nudging to do a “fast nudge,” the duration of the nudge is customizable in the Editing panel of the User Preferences. By default it’s five frames, but you can set it to whatever you want.
TIP: When holding down the Shift key while nudging to do a “fast nudge,” the duration of the nudge is customizable in the Editing panel of the User Preferences. By default it’s five frames, but you can set it to whatever you want.
6 When you’re finished, press the Spacebar or K key to stop playback.
Dynamic JKL Trimming
One of DaVinci Resolve’s most interactive trimming features is the ability to dynamically resize, ripple, roll, slip, slide, or move selected edit points and clips using the JKL transport control keyboard shortcuts. This means that you can make an appropriate selection in the Timeline (edit points to resize, ripple, or roll, or clips to slip or slide) then trim them during playback, while monitoring audio and watching the video.
Trimming while viewing the selected clip or edit point playing back has the advantage of letting you get emotionally involved in what you’re watching, as well as experiencing the timing of a clip as it plays, in order to help you get a better feel for how, exactly, you need to trim a particular cut.
While you’re dynamically trimming, you see the same two-up or four-up display, the same Timeline overlays, and the same dynamically updating Timeline that appear when you use the Trim tool with the mouse. The only difference is that you’re trimming while your program plays.
There are two methods of doing dynamic trimming:
— Quick Trim: You can select one or more edit points or clips, and immediately trim it by pressing Command-J or Command-L to trim back or trim forward. This is a fast way of dynamically trimming, but you can only trim forward and backward at 100 percent speed or greater.
— Turning on Dynamic mode: If you want to do more detailed work, you can press the W key to enable Dynamic mode (or choose Trim > Dynamic Trim Mode), at which point you are in a
special mode where the JKL shortcuts only trim the current selection, whatever it happens to be. However, this mode also gives you additional options for controlling which part of the selection, in the case of multiple selection trims, you want to monitor for audio/video playback.
TIP: If nothing is selected while you’re in Dynamic Trim mode, JKL simply plays through the Timeline, as usual.
TIP: If nothing is selected while you’re in Dynamic Trim mode, JKL simply plays through the Timeline, as usual.
TIP: If nothing is selected while you’re in Dynamic Trim mode, JKL simply plays through the Timeline, as usual.