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Scene Cut Detection on the Timeline
If you need to break down a previously edited video into its component clips for re-editing or color correction, you can do so directly in the Timeline. Using the DaVinci Neural Engine, DaVinci Resolve can automatically analyze and split up an edited video into individual clips.
Timeline Scene Cut Detection is also available in the Cut page. If you prefer, you can continue to use the original Scene Cut Detection tool found in the Media Pool.
1 Select one or more clips you want to split on the Timeline. Alternately, you can limit Scene Cut Detection to just a portion of a clip by setting In and Out points on the Timeline around the section you want to analyze.
2 Choose Timeline > Detect Scene Cuts.
A dialogue box appears, “Detecting scene cuts in clips x of x.” This process can take some time, depending on the length, number, and complexity of the clips you’ve selected. When the Scene Cut Detection has finished, the clip you selected will be broken up into a number of through edits that now can be used as independent clips.
Checking and Fixing Your Results
If the Neural Engine has made an error, you can fix it manually by navigating to the cut using the Up and Down Arrow keys to go back and forth in the Timeline, and by then doing one of the following:
— To remove a Cut: Click the through edit to select it, and press the “Delete” key.
— To make a New Cut: Place the timeline indicator at the cut point, and choose Timeline > Split Clips (Command-\).
A single clip of a finished edit, consisting of multiple cuts before the Detect Scene Cuts command
Multiple individual clips extracted from the edited clip via Detect Scene Cut; the operation has been contained by the In and Out points, and one of the resulting through edits has been highlighted in green.