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‌Keyboard Shortcuts in This Chapter‌‌

Here’s a list of of keyboard shortcuts you might find helpful that relate to topics found in this chapter.

Introduction to Three-Point Editing

Three-point editing is a standard editorial method that’s shared with many other post-production applications, so this procedure should feel familiar. The idea is that you need only set any combination of three In and Out points in the source clip and Timeline to edit a clip into your program at a specific time, and DaVinci Resolve automatically figures out the fourth edit point that’s necessary to execute the edit. Three-point editing is most commonly accomplished using overwrite and insert edits.

‌Choosing a Track to Edit and Using Destination Controls

The orange destination controls, found in the Timeline header area, let you specify which video and audio tracks you want incoming source clips to be edited to when you use editing methods other than drag and drop. No matter how many video or audio channels may be embedded within a single clip of media, only one video and one audio destination control is available. In the case of video, you can only expose one video channel of a clip at a time. In the case of audio, all audio channels for a given clip are embedded within a single Timeline track, making it a snap to edit stereo or other multi-channel audio sources together. For more information about working with audio, see Chapter 44, “Working with Audio in the Edit Page.”

Setting the destination control of a track is a vital step in the process of creating an edit and is easy to do. You can set the video and audio destination controls to be separate tracks.

To assign the destination tracks of incoming source clips, do one of the following:

— Click the destination control of any unassigned track to enable that track as the destination.

— Drag the destination control to any unassigned track in the Timeline.

— Press Command-Shift Up Arrow and Down Arrow to move the Video destination control up and down among different video tracks, or press Command-Option Up Arrow and Down Arrow to move the Audio destination control up and down among different audio tracks.

— Press Option-1 through 8 to set a video destination, or press Option-Command-1 through 8 to set an audio destination on tracks 1 through 8.

— Press Option-Command-9 to set the audio destinations to all tracks.

Moving the destination control to track V2, labeled “Titles”

You can also disable the Video or Audio destination controls in situations where you want to edit a source video clip into the Timeline without its audio, or vice versa.

To disable or reenable a destination control, do one of the following:

— Click an already assigned destination control to toggle it off and then on again.

— Pressing the “assign destination control” repeatedly for a given track (Option 1-8 for video, Option-Command-1-8 for audio) toggles the destination track on and off.

Disabled destination controls are highlighted gray.

A disabled destination control

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