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A transition that’s aligned with the beginning, center, and end of an edit point
Changing a Transition to a Cut
TIP: Alternately, you can select one or more transitions in the Timeline and press the Delete key to remove them.
TIP: Alternately, you can select one or more transitions in the Timeline and press the Delete key to remove them.
TIP: Alternately, you can select one or more transitions in the Timeline and press the Delete key to remove them.
To remove a dissolve, thereby changing a transition to a cut, move the playhead at or near the edit with the dissolve, and click the Cut button, which is fast to do when you’re using the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard which has a dedicated Cut button.
Adding Smooth Cuts
Smooth Cuts are special-purpose transitions designed to make short jump cuts in the middle of a clip unnoticeable. This is done by using optical flow processing to match the same features on either side of a cut in order to automatically morph a subject from one position to another over the duration of the transition.
1 Place the playhead on or near an edit.
2 Click the Smooth Cut button at the bottom left of the Media Pool. A one second Smooth Cut will be added to the edit point that’s nearest to the edit point.
The Smooth Cut effect works best on clips such as sit-down interviews and close-up head shots with a minimum of background and subject motion, and where the subject’s position on either side of the cut is not significantly different. A good example of when Smooth Cut is effective is when you’re cutting pauses, partial repeats, filler sounds such as “um” or “you know,” or other speech disfluencies out of an interview clip to tighten the dialog, and you want to eliminate the little “jump” that occurs at the cut without having to cut away to B-roll. Applying a short two or four frame Smooth Cut transition to the edit can make this kind of edit invisible, as long as the speaker doesn’t change position significantly during the cut. The more motion there is in the background of the shot, and the more the speaker changes position, the harder it will be to get a useful result using Smooth Cut. Although the default duration for any transition is one second, you’ll find that Smooth Cut transitions may work much better when they’re short; 2- to 6-frame Smooth Cut transitions often work best to disguise jump cuts.
Adding Other Kinds of Transitions
In order to make the selection of transitions, titles, and effects more intuitive, DaVinci Resolve shows each effect as a thumbnail representation in addition to the text name. This allows the user to