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@Tomas
Yes, I’d also like it to behave exactly like those classic jog/shuttle knobs, think Sony BVE. Might be difficult to achieve at that price point, remembering their prices at those times.
There’s a specific tutorial here https://www.rippletraining.com/products ... -cut-page/
Not free, but their tutorials are worth every cent.

The Cut page section is missing from the new Beginner's Guide 18 book. Is that on purpose?

RenanMDP wrote:The Cut page section is missing from the new Beginner's Guide 18 book. Is that on purpose?

I sent an email to BMD and this was their response:

Hello Renan,



That is correct – the section on the Cut page is being updated and will be uploaded at a later date.



Thank you for your understanding,

- The BMD Training Team

For a chubby, old, disabled, retired guy that just wants to get a very basic, VERY BASIC knowledge of DaVinci Resolve what is the best source. A Youtube Video or a Web Page? I don't care what it is. I am never going to make a movie. I just want to learn the basics of cutting, transitions, texts and outputting. Not much more.

What is the best introductory source?

Casey Farris on YouTube

jgugenheim wrote:Casey Farris on YouTube

Is that in answer to my question about beginner training?

matonanjin wrote:

jgugenheim wrote:Casey Farris on YouTube

Is that in answer to my question about beginner training?

Yes, indeed it is. He does training at several levels, and all is excellent but his beginner level stuff is very clear and easy to follow. I used him a lot in my early days, and still dip in when I need a quick clear refresh on something. I have also used Ripple Training (which costs) but, honestly, Blackmagic's own guides are the best thing I've used - and free.

They may be a bit deep for what you want, so take a look at Casey.

Hope it helps - enjoy!

jgugenheim wrote:They may be a bit deep for what you want, so take a look at Casey.

Hope it helps - enjoy!

I quickly glanced at one of his YT videos and it looks like exactly what I need. Thank you for taking the time to recommend something for me.

matonanjin wrote:

jgugenheim wrote:They may be a bit deep for what you want, so take a look at Casey.

Hope it helps - enjoy!

I quickly glanced at one of his YT videos and it looks like exactly what I need. Thank you for taking the time to recommend something for me.

A lot of people have helped me over the years on my journey. It’s the least I can do to put something back. I hope you get to where you want to with Resolve, it’s a terrific tool.

jgugenheim wrote:...
but, honestly, Blackmagic's own guides are the best thing I've used - and free.

They may be a bit deep for what you want, so take a look at Casey.

Hope it helps - enjoy!

Thank you again, and, again, Casey's video was exactly what I need. I did start one of the Blackmagic videos. And very soon into it he was using terms that I have no idea what he was talking about. "B" roll or "B material" and other terms. Many of them. It was billed as a beginning video and I had no idea what he was talking aabout.

I'm now back to Cassey

Really the Blackmagic videos are to prep you for their guides which teach you toward taking the Blackmagic competence exams, so I can see they are probably beyond the level that you are looking for at the moment. I hope (and I’m sure Blackmagic do too!) that you get sufficiently inspired to progress further!

Good luck with it at whatever level you settle - I’m sure you’ll enjoy it

You should also try YT tutorials by Darren Mostyn. Free and excellent.

Or Cullen Kelly.
These two are the ones you can take serious on YT regarding DR.

matonanjin wrote:For a chubby, old, disabled, retired guy that just wants to get a very basic, VERY BASIC knowledge of DaVinci Resolve what is the best source

Get a copy of the Version 17 Beginners and Editors Guide, and work through them.

I don't know if this is the place...

in the editor's guide for r18, page 114 bullet 2 estates "Navigate to R17 Editing..." should be "R18"

Thanks!

I love your Resolve training.

I'm an old dog who likes to use the written word and your PDF files a perfect for me, I can refer to a previous page if I need to move at my own pace and go over things multiple times if I don't get it.

thx so much

Stewart Hemley wrote:You should also try YT tutorials by Darren Mostyn. Free and excellent.

Yeap. Darren's tutorials are really excellent. There are his and others' reccommendations also at https://dvresolve.com/tutorial/

Just like Cullen Kelly's.

Error found in the new Resolve 18 Editor's Guide

Page 145/146 mentions the option in the menu "b) Timeline > Decompose Compound Clips On Edit"
but that option appears under the Edit menu, not the Timeline menu.

I know it's going to be asking a lot, but....
.... is there any chance of videos/trainings covering the VR aspects?
I know WSL has good content but just curious if BMD will release in-house things.....

I was just having the "Media Offline" issue trying to get started on the Fairlight tutorial and found this topic. The solution is to right click in the Project Manager and "Restore Project Archive..." rather than just opening the project. This allows you to select the .dra folder rather than the .drp project file and after that all should be well.

juanborras wrote:I don't know if this is the place...

in the editor's guide for r18, page 114 bullet 2 estates "Navigate to R17 Editing..." should be "R18"

Thanks!

Thank you! You can pass errors in the book to:
learning (at) blackmagicdesign dot com.

Uli Plank wrote:Just like Cullen Kelly's.

And I'll just add Daria Fissoun's Youtube channel here also. She use to call it Goat's Eye View but rebranding it now to DaVinci Master Key:
https://www.youtube.com/@DaVinciMasterKey

She's got a lot of videos in older versions of Resolve but is starting to post newer ones.

I am trying to do the "Editors Guide to Davinci Resolve 18" but when I download the lesson 1 files for that tutorial, I get the files from the " Beginners Guide to Davinci Resolve 18" which are the files for the video "Age of Airplanes" and not what I need for the " Editors guide to Davinci Resolve 18"

A big thanks for the training books. It's really helpfull for people like me who's really new into DaVinci. Well, it's helping me to create materials for my YouTube channel.

Is there any formal training coming for the Cloud / Cloud Storage workflows?

coldwater wrote:Is there any formal training coming for the Cloud / Cloud Storage workflows?

YES!! Needed!

Until then, this may help:

I am new to Davinci Resolve Studio. This sequence of training videos and supplied content is like no free offering I have seen. It is incredibly helpful and I give a big THANK YOU. I am halfway through the beginner lessons.

Hello new user here.

First of all thank you for creating these training ressources, they really are the best.

There's just a small problem I'm having with the render cache and I'm not sure what's causing this.

I've been completing the training video and I'm currently at the "Visual Effects in the Edit Page" one in the edit section. At around 7:30 in the video we finish moving the archive 4 compound clip using the transform.

When I try to run the timeline to see the result I get either poor performance(Render cache=None) or sometimes I'll see a couple of frames from archive 4 into archive 2(Render cache = user or smart). I can get it to work correctly sometimes by disabling and enabling video tracks, but I'm wondering why this is happening. Also while i was enabling/disabling tracks to see what happened, some frames of archive 3 clip started playing in the background where the Aerial_Alaska_Sunrise clip is playing. Has anyone encountered this before? I'm on windows, in case it helps.

Thanks!

Caching is a bit flaky in 18.6. Try deleting the cache completely and try again.

Sorry I forgot to mention I did that when I was trying to figure it out. If it gets fixed in a future update I can probably just wait for the next version. Or should I file a bug report? Not sure where I would do that though.

Thanks

Wonderful. Thank you

In the DaVinci Resolve 17 Edit Training - Visual Effects in the Edit Page tutorial, when it gets to the 3D keyer part at the 9 minutes mark, the foreground clip is stable. But when I downloaded and opened the project material on my computer, the foreground clip is moving and I can't seem to match with the background clip as I play the composite. Just starting out so I am wondering how to solve this and where do I download the correct material if there is any?

Hello, Ladies & Gentlemen;

I admit that - due to a serious illness - I only just returned to using Resolve after almost 4 years, so my question may be naïve - please bear with me. I'm browsing through the BMD's Colorist Guide and have encountered an exercise which - at least on my system (otherwise performing perfectly, given its age) is impossible to bring expected results: described in the "Understanding Timeline Resolutions and Sizing Palette Modes" Chapter, under "Sampling Visual Data with Node Sizing" subtitle (starting on the Page 277) there is a simple example of performing the Node mode sizing inside just 2 layers' mixer, of which one also contains a simple masking with a linear window. Before I go any more detailed on this, here are some important questions to you:

- is it already identified as containing an error in the description of the steps required?
- if not, could someone please recreate it and say whether actually there is an error and you also cannot end up with the exercise's intended output (in which case I'm dumb, and sorry for wasting your time )
- finally: if most of you (and by "most" I mean those more fluent with Resolve's CC) are able to end up with the exercise's intended result (which seems really simple indeed), could I humbly ask someone to try and re-word the (also seemingly straightforward) description of steps required for me, so that I could actually learn something through understanding which part I didn't understand.... TIA

Piotr

PS

Just to let you know that to get closer to the intended result I had to change the Composite mode to Difference (from Normal), and use quite substantially different Pan/Tilt/Zoom values in both layers in the Layer Mixer. Still cannot get rid of artefacting along the vertical division line between the two views though.

Anyone successful using the Tutorial suggested values?

Piotr

If you ignore the specific values and simply try to reproduce the images on pg 279, step 17, you should be able to achieve that without changing the compositing mode (leave it as Normal).

Note that you should be using node resizing mode for both the Backplate and Crop nodes although this doesn't seem to be spelled-out explicitly.

Thanks Steve - I'll try, just for the kiks of it

Piiotr

Steve Alexander wrote:If you ignore the specific values and simply try to reproduce the images on pg 279, step 17, you should be able to achieve that without changing the compositing mode (leave it as Normal).

Yeah. I was sort of able to recreate the exercise in Normal compositing mode, even though it required much more tweaking with Node sizing, exposure levels etc. than Difference mode. What I wasn't able to get rid of are the vertical "echo" lines along the two views border (most visible on the bright fender in the right view; I exaggerated the contrast so it's easily visible). Is it Resolve's glitch, or my fault?

Piotr

I'm not seeing that in my tests, but I'm not using that footage. If I download the media at some point I'll give it a try but that looks very odd. Sorry I can't be of more help.

One of our students made me aware that the Live Preview of the Layer Mixer Node doesn't work as described on page 173 under point 20 (the Tip) in the Colorist Guide. Wrong description or a bug in 18.6.5?
There are a few more things that are not consistent with version 18, e.g. the mode selection for the split view, which is not in the upper right corner any more, but in the fold-out men directly under the icons (see page 239).

Thanks, Uli.

Piotr

great thank you also for French translations

I've hit a problem with the Fusion training materials.

I am doing all 4 training courses; Color, Editing, Fairlight, and Fusion, and I've unzipped all the media files to the folder "S:\Resolve Training Media\Fusion". Not too long a name, right?

However, the foreground element of the Chapter 3 Sky Replacement section was showing as offline. Looking in the media pool, I can see that the source path should be... *deep breath*

"S:\Resolve Training Media\Fusion\DR18_Fusion_Training_Media\R18 Fusion Guide Lessons\Fusion 18 Lessons part 1.dra\MediaFiles\Fusion 17 Lessons part 1.dra\MediaFiles\R17 Fusion Guide Lessons\Media\Blackmagic URSA 1_1_2016-03-03_0739_C0013_[000000-001376].dng.mov".

That beast is 266 characters long, 6 characters longer than the NTFS maximum allowed path length. macOS users are fine, with the HFS+ limitation of 1024 characters, but all Windows users would hit this problem unless they unzip to the root folder of their media drive, which isn't reasonable IMHO.

Honestly, I'm confused as to how I've not seen anyone point this out already.

I think that all reference to "Fusion 17" and "R17" need to go, and these files need reorganising and republishing to avoid this issue.

Me again!

Chapter 6: The Art of the Credit Roll
This chapter has had us switch to just a single viewer, but repeatedly tells us to hit the '1' key to show our selected node in the viewer. Obviously, nothing happens because it's the second viewer that is shown in single viewer mode.

Thanks so much!!!

Hi, I am currently on Multicam Editing training module. As shown at 21:00 in the training video, the cutting mutlicam video view is lagging and making the editing experience not so smooth. Why is this so?

Hardware?

Does BMD offer any free training?

Tons of it, and all free and pretty good: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/produc ... e/training
Our students use it all the time. The tests offered for certification are not too easy