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Opening Clips in the Source Viewer
There are two methods of opening clips into the Source Viewer. Which is enabled depends on the “Live Media Preview” setting found in the Viewer options menu (the three-dots menu found at the upper right-hand corner of the Viewer).
— When Live Media Preview is enabled (by default), skimming a thumbnail in the Media Pool also shows the skimmed frame in the Source Viewer, effectively opening each clip you skim in the Media Pool into the Source Viewer. As you skim, the playhead that appears in the thumbnail is locked to the playhead that’s displayed in the Viewer’s jog bar.
— When Live Media Preview is disabled, you must either double-click a clip in the Media Pool to open it into the Source Viewer, or you can select a clip in the Media Pool and press the Return key to open it into the Source Viewer.
Which method is best is purely a matter of preference.
Timeline Viewer Edit Overlays
Dragging a clip from the Media Pool or Source Viewer onto the Timeline Viewer also exposes edit overlays that let you choose what kind of edit you want to make by choosing which overlay to drop the clip onto.
The overlay that appears when you drag a clip onto the Timeline Viewer lets you choose from a variety of edits
This overlay exposes every type of edit that’s available in DaVinci Resolve, including the Insert, Overwrite, Replace, Fit to Fill, Place On Top, Ripple Overwrite, and Append at End edits, all of which are also available from the Edit menu. It’s a useful method of making three-point edits if you like drag and drop editing, but it also provides a nice reminder of what types of edits are available, given all the different options that are available.
By default, the larger empty area to the left of these overlays defaults to the highlighted Overwrite overlay, while all the smaller buttons let you perform each of the other edit types that are available.
However, the “Timeline overlay retains the last performed action” checkbox in the Editing panel of the User Preferences can be turned on if you want DaVinci Resolve to always remember the last edit type you used, and highlight it on this overlay whenever you drag another clip over the Timeline Viewer to let you know that the last edit you performed is the new default edit if you drop clips to the left of the