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— Transport controls: A set of buttons provide clickable controls to control playback of source clips and the Timeline, whichever the Viewer is set to display; each button has a matching keyboard shortcut. These include Previous Edit (Up Arrow), Stop (Spacebar), Play (Spacebar), Next Edit (Down Arrow), and Loop Playback (Command /).
— Mark In/Out: Clickable controls to set In and Out points respectively.
— Playhead timecode: A number field shows you the timecode value at the playhead of a clip or of the Timeline, to give you a numeric reference for where you are. There is also a dedicated timecode entry mode for the Cut page. There are three ways of telling DaVinci Resolve that you
want to perform a timecode action, regardless of what the numeric keypad keys are assigned to in the Keyboard Customization preferences.
— Select Playback > Goto > Timecode (=) and enter your timecode value.
— Press “+” or “-“ keys, and enter your timecode value to move the current position forward or backward by that amount.
— Click on the Timeline Timecode display on the Viewer, and enter your timecode value.
Scrolling Through the Timeline
The playhead in the Cut page is fixed. When you play, shuttle, or jog through your program, the clips in the Timeline flow past the playhead from right to left if you’re playing forward, or from left to right if you’re playing backward. This means that for playback, editing, or trimming, you bring the frame you
want to see to the playhead, rather than bringing the playhead to the frame (as you do on the Edit page).
— Set the Viewer to show the Timeline, then use any transport or playback controls or keyboard shortcuts to move the clips in the Timeline back and forth, with the playhead indicating the current frame.
— Position the pointer within the Timeline Ruler of the Upper Timeline, and drag to the left or right to scrub through your entire program.
— Position the pointer within the Timeline Ruler of the larger Timeline Editor below, and drag to the left or right to scrub through the immediate vicinity of the current frame.
TIP: If at any time you need to analyze the video in the Viewer, DaVinci Resolve’s full set of scopes is available in the Cut page by selecting Workspace > Video Scopes > On (Shift-Command-W).
TIP: If at any time you need to analyze the video in the Viewer, DaVinci Resolve’s full set of scopes is available in the Cut page by selecting Workspace > Video Scopes > On (Shift-Command-W).
TIP: If at any time you need to analyze the video in the Viewer, DaVinci Resolve’s full set of scopes is available in the Cut page by selecting Workspace > Video Scopes > On (Shift-Command-W).
— You can use the navigation tools Playback > Previous / Next > Clip (Up Arrow/Down Arrow) or Marker (Shift - Up Arrow/Shift - Down Arrow) to navigate the Cut page Timelines.
Display Clip Names and Status in the Timeline
If you wish, you can see clip names and clip status icons directly on your clips in the Timeline, for easier identification.