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‌Using Presentations‌‌‌

The heart of Presentations is the Viewer; here you can both video conference and control the playback of a clip. The Viewer provides a low latency, streaming video that you can use to accurately mark and comment on, as those comments show up in real time to other users and on the

DaVinci Resolve timeline.

Video Conferencing

The top strip of the Viewer contains a basic video conferencing interface, with each user’s video stream appearing in a live thumbnail. By default the camera and microphone are turned off, so you will need to switch them on manually.

The video conferencing interface; note the Camera and Microphone on/off controls in the upper right.

To Turn On and Off the Camera and Microphone for a Blackmagic Cloud Presentation

1 Click on the Camera and/or Microphone icons in the upper right of the Viewer.

2 Give your OS and browser appropriate permissions to use the devices.

3 To turn off the Camera and Microphone, click their respective icons again.

With your camera and microphone on, all other connected users will see and hear you through their web browsers, so be generous and discrete with your comments.

Controlling a Clip in the Viewer

Each user can view and comment on any of the clips (including the same clip) in real time. The Viewer for each user is independent of all the others, though the administrator has the option to sync everyone’s Viewer to their own, in order to watch the same clip at the same time.

Selecting a Clip

Selecting a clip to view is as easy as clicking on the clip’s thumbnail in the Clips column. Clips are sortable by date, duration, and name in ascending or descending order. The Clips column is also searchable by clicking on the magnifying glass to the right and entering your search terms. Only clips matching your search terms will be shown. You can also hover your pointer over the clip thumbnail to scrub through the video.

Administrators can edit the names, and delete clips from the presentation by hovering over the thumbnail and selecting the appropriate icons (pencil and trashcan) in the upper right.

Administrators can edit the names, and delete clips from the presentation by hovering over the thumbnail and selecting the appropriate icons (pencil and trashcan) in the upper right.

Administrators can edit the names, and delete clips from the presentation by hovering over the thumbnail and selecting the appropriate icons (pencil and trashcan) in the upper right.

The Clips column

Viewer Controls

The Presentations Viewer has a set of playback controls at the bottom of the browser that you can use to position your playhead exactly.

The Viewer controls

Jog Bar: The long line across the bottom of the browser shows your current playhead position as a rectangle and any markers that have been set. You can click and drag the playhead to scrub back and forth in the clip.

Timecode: The timecode of the current clip that refers back to the original DaVinci Resolve timeline.

Previous Clip: (Up Arrow) Loads the clip above the current clip in the Clips column into the Viewer. If the current clip is already at the top of the stack, it will wrap around to the clip at the bottom.

Stop: Stops playback of the clip in the Viewer.

Play: Plays the clip in the Viewer forward at 1x speed.

Next Clip: (Down Arrow) Loads the clip below the current clip in the Clips column into the Viewer. If the current clip is already at the bottom of the stack, it will wrap around to the clip at the top.

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