Please add these efficiency features!!

Please, Blackmagic add these changes and features to Davinci! It will improve my work and efficiency dramatically


Edit Page Enhancements:

-Create multiple individual compound clips in one click on timeline and directly in the media pool.
-Auto cut AI feature that trims broll clips to remove all the most shaky parts leaving only the most usable part of the clip.
-Allow extension of auto synced external audio beyond video edges, to allow easy longer audio handles.
-Reveal synced audio for all channels not just the first one. So you can reference multiple audio sources.
-Voice isolation that can actually isolate a specific persons voice and it not sound rubbish when there are other competing voices and frequencies. Maybe use AI to learn the speakers characteristics and rebuild the bits that aren't working
-Add spell checker to subtitles
-Add auto translation subtitles from spoken language to a chosen language. E.g. English subtitles for Spanish spoken word
-Screen cut detection in edit page
-Ability to add grid lines in the edit page like u can in the Fairlight page
-Ability to auto mix a track like u can in adobe where if u have made a cut and changed the timing of a song, it will automatically line up and create a new complete shorter track from where you made the cut.
-Add gyro stabilisation support for red raw and other cameras that have the gyro that isn't just Blackmagic cameras
-Create a Fairlight effect that works just like ambience match so you can build ambient sounds to fill in gaps in audio. Or to create accurate ambience to place behind speaker audio.
-Auto crossfade for joined audio clips.
-Search option for custom bin names. E.g. if you made a bin called “walking shots” then you can search this amongst the 100 other bins you have made to find this easily.
-Auto beat detection markers for music in the edit page.
-Auto timecode drift compensation based on clips selected in media pool.
-Stabilise multiple clips from inside the media pool
-Option to show a thumbnail preview of only the selected in and out points in the media pool

Colour page:

-Accurate one click auto white balance adjustment in colour page.
-Add a dial wheel for raw video white balance changes rather than just the option to change the number of tint and warmth separately

Bug fixes:
-Remove the issue when using gyro stabilisation, where the first second of the clip after stabilising moves upwards for no reason.
-Fix auto cut silence feature issue where the first syllable is cut off from each word from transcript
-Allow accurate auto sync from audio that actually lines up perfectly instead of a slight frame off every time
-Remove bug where for some reason audio fades just stop working

Thanks!

Sonny

Screen cut detection in edit page

Do you mean "Detect Scene Cuts"? We have that already, under the Timeline menu. It works surprisingly well, especially if you give the clip(s) enough contrast for the detector to work correctly.

Stabilize multiple clips from inside the media pool

Well, you can do that on the Edit page now. I think for a lot of reasons, it's dangerous on the Media Page, because you're basically working blind.

Accurate one click auto white balance adjustment in colour page.
-Add a dial wheel for raw video white balance changes rather than just the option to change the number of tint and warmth separately

Color temperature adjustments are very complex, and I don't think there's a "one button" auto solution that's going to work, not ever. You CAN add a Chromatic Adaption OFX plug-in to the node window on the color page and very accurately adjust overall color temperature. Learn to use scopes, and you can get very good results with this method. With "baked-in" camera files, that's one of the first things I grab to create a reasonable starting point with problematic material.

Detect screen cuts is only available in the cut page not the edit page.

I know you can stabilise multiple clips on the timeline in the edit page, but that requires dropping them all on the timeline before you can then hit the stabilise button. You are't working blind in the media pool because you can view the previews of each clip. All the other video transforms are available in the preview from the media pool but stabilisation is greyed out.

I know colour adjustments are complex but cameras can do it in camera pretty well, if a camera can do it why cant davinci with all the processing power and AI? Even if it put you in a ball park it would be helpful as a starting point. I know how to use scopes and I can white balance myself easily, but this is about efficiency. Not everyone has the privilege to take hours to turn round a full videos colour correction. Individually correcting hundreds of clips is time consuming even for the fastest graders.

Thanks for the response though!

Detect screen cuts is only available in the cut page not the edit page.

Studio 19.1.3 has it on the Edit page...

Detect screen cuts is only available in the cut page not the edit page.

You are very much mistaken. Edit page below (with your own timeline):



I strongly suggest you read the manual, if you haven't already. The new updated February 2025 manual just hit a few days ago:

https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/ ... 0643210000

I think a lot of what you ask for is not possible in the real world. But if you tone down your attitude and consider there might be alternative ways to accomplishing the same thing, you might see it can be done to a point.

OK thanks for pointing out that it's in the latest version as I was on the version before.

In regard to all the other suggestions I hope Davinci can address them because any workaround I have currently is time consuming and I really need to cut down my editing time.

My process for documentary film making is to cut down each shot to only the best, usable part of the shot.
I do this by setting in and out points in the media pool previews. This is a super fast process but then I need to create compound clips for each cut down shot. I dont use subclips because they are less flexible if you want to revert to the original clip, compound clips are non destructive to the original.
To do this, I bring all the clips on to the timeline and then create compound clips for each shot individually. If I could just have one button to create multiple separate compound clips in one go it will speed up my process, especially if this just from the media pool.
I then put the compound clips into labelled bins. So then when i come to starting my edit, I have all the usable clips compound clips available in the media pool bins and all I need to do is drop them on the timeline.

Currently I have a speedy process for doing this that takes about 20 mins per scene, but I want to cut this down to 5 mins per scene.

Also the fact that you can't extend auto synced audio handles beyond the frames of the video, makes it really time consuming to find filler audio. You need to find the original audio, auto-sync based on waveform then replace the original audio just to extend the audio points out further, in case you need it for fades or filler audio between shots etc.

I appreciate your responses but I will only seem like I have an attitude if you act like I am a noob at Davinci. I am not a noob, I am a very experienced Davinci resolve editor and I understand the limitations of the software, in terms of the way I use it anyway which I reckon is already faster than 99% of anyone else on this forum.

Thanks!

...which I reckon is already faster than 99% of anyone else on this forum

How do you know that?!!

Lots of good suggestions!

thanks for pointing out that it's in the latest version as I was on the version before

Not sure which version 'before' you were on, but 'Detect Scene Cuts' has been available in the Edit page Timeline menu since Resolve 17... good luck with your other requests tho.

OK thanks for pointing out that it's in the latest version as I was on the version before.!

No, it's been in Resolve for nearly two years (since the Beta of 18 from 2023 I think).

\I appreciate your responses but I will only seem like I have an attitude if you act like I am a noob at Davinci. I am not a noob, I am a very experienced Davinci resolve editor and I understand the limitations of the software, in terms of the way I use it anyway which I reckon is already faster than 99% of anyone else on this forum.

I'm not seeing any credits listed for your name on IMDB, but it's possible your experience doesn't lend itself to actual "industry" projects. I get that there are people doing shorts and commercials for decades who have zero (or very little) IMDB credits or any awards.

Again: 90% of your questions are answered in the manual, but I can't force that knowledge into your head. You have to sit down, read it, and absorb the material. The lessons are good, too. I would recommend Team2Films as having a good Resolve-specific editing tutorial, and I learned a lot from it (and my editing experience goes back to film in the 1970s).:

https://training.team2films.com/davinci ... or-editors

I really can't believe you are creating compound clips for this!
You can use subclips and refer to the original at any time using the "edit subclip" command, then the "Use full extents" option. This avoids a lot of work and avoids the need for a new feature.
You can also mark ranges and convert to duration markers so you can have multiple selections, even overlapping, on one clip.

I really can't believe you are creating compound clips for this!
You can use subclips and refer to the original at any time using the "edit subclip" command, then the "Use full extents" option. This avoids a lot of work and avoids the need for a new feature.
You can also mark ranges and convert to duration markers so you can have multiple selections, even overlapping, on one clip.

I understand why you would say this but for many reasons it's a less efficient workflow for me.
Unless I show you my process it is hard to explain, but you have to trust me that my process is way faster.

But even with subclips you still need to create individual subclips each time, then select use full extents each time, rather than bulk creating subclips. If davinci had a bulk create subclips option then I would probably switch to subclips. The annoying thing is also when you create a subclip or even a compound clip, it asks you to name it. That on itself slows me right down as its an extra click, why doesnt it just auto name it if we want that option? Either way, a bulk create based on the in and out points created in the clip in the media pool will fix all this.

I get that you are trying to help, but just you commenting this just makes me realise you are working way slower than me with whatever method you have, because I've tried your way already so I know its less efficient.

Thanks for your help though!

OK thanks for pointing out that it's in the latest version as I was on the version before.!

No, it's been in Resolve for nearly two years (since the Beta of 18 from 2023 I think).

\I appreciate your responses but I will only seem like I have an attitude if you act like I am a noob at Davinci. I am not a noob, I am a very experienced Davinci resolve editor and I understand the limitations of the software, in terms of the way I use it anyway which I reckon is already faster than 99% of anyone else on this forum.

I'm not seeing any credits listed for your name on IMDB, but it's possible your experience doesn't lend itself to actual "industry" projects. I get that there are people doing shorts and commercials for decades who have zero (or very little) IMDB credits or any awards.

Again: 90% of your questions are answered in the manual, but I can't force that knowledge into your head. You have to sit down, read it, and absorb the material. The lessons are good, too. I would recommend Team2Films as having a good Resolve-specific editing tutorial, and I learned a lot from it (and my editing experience goes back to film in the 1970s).:

https://training.team2films.com/davinci ... or-editors

Oh right because you did this course for beginners and read the manual you are an expert? If you have a video on your process I would be happy to watch and then make a judgment on how fast you are at editing but none of your advice apart from the bit about edit page screen cut detect has been useful. The manual doesn't solve any of the other issues I mentioned. Thanks for the marketing plug on the beginners course though!

I really can't believe you are creating compound clips for this!
You can use subclips and refer to the original at any time using the "edit subclip" command, then the "Use full extents" option. This avoids a lot of work and avoids the need for a new feature.
You can also mark ranges and convert to duration markers so you can have multiple selections, even overlapping, on one clip.

I understand why you would say this but for many reasons it's a less efficient workflow for me.
Unless I show you my process it is hard to explain, but you have to trust me that my process is way faster.

But even with subclips you still need to create individual subclips each time, then select use full extents each time, rather than bulk creating subclips. If davinci had a bulk create subclips option then I would probably switch to subclips. The annoying thing is also when you create a subclip or even a compound clip, it asks you to name it. That on itself slows me right down as its an extra click, why doesnt it just auto name it if we want that option? Either way, a bulk create based on the in and out points created in the clip in the media pool will fix all this.

I get that you are trying to help, but just you commenting this just makes me realise you are working way slower than me with whatever method you have, because I've tried your way already so I know its less efficient.

Thanks for your help though!

I defer to your superior editing speed even though you know nothing about me or my more than 40 years in the business. Good luck with your cumbersome (but fast) methods.

C’mon people. Let’s try to avoid comparing who’s faster and instead be curious about what others have found.

I bet the OP has a very fast and efficient workflow and it’d be useful for many of us to understand it.

Those here who aren’t doing tons of cuts all the time may not see the utility but for both doc and long form narrative editors it’s probably useful.

I think everyone here is constantly in search for faster workflows.
Sonny, I am still having a hard time to visualize your approach. Would it be possible to create a screen recording of your workflow with a sample project? So we all could have a look and see if there is an overlooked issue which could get resolved in a better way?
Also I find it super interesting to see how other editors approach their tasks.

Are we entering the swinging Duck competition?

Sonny, care to elaborate a bit more how you prefer to work?

It is OK if the OP found a super efficient way to edit .. that is realy good and would be great to share ..howeve I dont like his attitude and believing that he is 99% faster than anyone else in this forum! Dose he know everyone on this forum? Of course not

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real"

Yup. Pride isn’t helpful. Just trying to get this conv back on track. No need to call anyone out I think.

Thanks all, I will make a video and post it when I find some time!

Thanks all, I will make a video and post it when I find some time!

Looking forward to this

Here's the loom video link showing my process. I just wish that Davinci could help to automate the whole part of this process or make it more efficient with some of the suggestions I had in my first post. Like I said, having to create individual compound clips each time separately is frustrating, even though I have fast shortcuts set up, if there was a create multiple individual compound clips option then it would be so much easier.

https://www.loom.com/share/319bbfa47e2e ... af3c3e3712

Again any suggestions of how to make this more efficient I would like to hear it.

Thanks!

Any chance you can add narration to this so we know the intent of each thing you’re doing?

PS YouTube links work here as well if that’s easier. Certainly is more common.

Thanks for the video, Sonny.
I can see what you are doing. The issue here is it would help to see the whole editing process to really grasp what’s going on.

It looks like you are editing YT travel docs as a contractor, right?
So what you are getting is fast paced handheld shots, filmed in a formalized style like establishing shots, medium shots, insert shots, people cooking, food details, people eating - correct?

Do you get a recorded voice over before your edit, or is there a narrator on location filmed?
What’s the process?

At the moment not much can be said about a different approach.

My working style is completely different, but I also do the filming.

As best I understand the process, you're

1) setting in/outs on each clip in the media page,
2) adding these marked clips to the timeline
3) creating a new "compound" bin in the media page
3) creating a compound clip for each marked clip on the timelime, which in turn
4) populates the compound bin with these compound clips, and then
5) adding these compound clips into separate bins by category.

I'm not convinced this is any faster than subclip creation, and subclip creation allows for more than one subclip per master clip, but that aside, compound clip creation would seem to be unnecessary. If you simply drag all the marked clips at once from the timeline into the "compound" bin, you'll get the same result, but with less trouble.

I was thinking this over and maybe I am missing the point here...

Why on earth would you create compound clips?

What I do:

Media Page
Tag all the shots by content. Let Resolve auto create Smart Bins from those tags. Sorting done.

Edit Page
Select all Smart Bins to see all clips at once, go through them set IN and OUT, F9 to populate them into the timeline.

If you are worried about 4 audio tracks, first select all clips, go to clip attributes and set to mono or stereo and set the relevant tracks for those. You can shortcut through the tracks later on.

As best I understand the process, you're

1) setting in/outs on each clip in the media page,
2) adding these marked clips to the timeline
3) creating a new "compound" bin in the media page
3) creating a compound clip for each marked clip on the timelime, which in turn
4) populates the compound bin with these compound clips, and then
5) adding these compound clips into separate bins by category.

I'm not convinced this is any faster than subclip creation, and subclip creation allows for more than one subclip per master clip, but that aside, compound clip creation would seem to be unnecessary. If you simply drag all the marked clips at once from the timeline into the "compound" bin, you'll get the same result, but with less trouble.

The main reason for not dragging the in and out points into the compound bin, is that the thumbnail preview will show you the whole clip, so when it comes to me picking the broll shots I just want to see the best part of the shot. I want to disregard any part of the clip I don't want, so the method you described is too messy, especially if the clip is really long, with multiple different shots I want taken from the original.

Did you see how fast I created the compound clips? To create a subclip each time in the media pool it takes longer, you need select each one individually, my process of creating compound clips is so much faster when they are on the timeline.

Also did you see how fast I made multiple clips of the guy serving the food, just by duplicating the original clip? Rather than setting 3 in and out points and converting all of those to subclips? The subclip process is just slower in that regard.

Subclips are also frustrating because when you select "use full extents" that is the same issue described above, where the preview thumbnail of the subclip is still the whole original clip with in and out points marked. Also if you don't select "use full extents" then the process to revert to the original on the timeline is a long task as you need to do that for each individual clip separately. Whereas for compound clips, you can just decompose in place and there is a shortcut to do that across multiple at the same time.

So yeah, I'm still not getting the benefit of subclip creation over compound clips.

I was thinking this over and maybe I am missing the point here...

Why on earth would you create compound clips?

What I do:

Media Page
Tag all the shots by content. Let Resolve auto create Smart Bins from those tags. Sorting done.

Edit Page
Select all Smart Bins to see all clips at once, go through them set IN and OUT, F9 to populate them into the timeline.

If you are worried about 4 audio tracks, first select all clips, go to clip attributes and set to mono or stereo and set the relevant tracks for those. You can shortcut through the tracks later on.

It would be good to see how you do your tagging by content approach. Can you share that at all?

Im not worried about the audio part, like I said above, the main reason for compound clip creation is because I want to see the previews of only the part of the shot I like, I dont want to see the original but with just in and out points on it.

Yeah I edit for YouTube documentary style videos. Some parts may be voice overs, other just A roll where broll needs to put over it.

I get all the clips organised into bins before I start the final edit. So I have all my best shots available for me to drop on the timeline as needed. I can filter through and select my favourites easily.

So each bin will be a different scene, e.g. market scene: then further bins inside this: outside wide, inside wide, locals etc etc.

For your tagging approach, how do you differentiate each scene and type of shot, because your bins may end up being 100s of shots tagged a certain way, but to cycle through and pick the ones you want, that is a lot of scrolling and hard to refer back to which specific scene and shot you are looking for?

With CTRL + P you can set your poster frame to the current frame.
I made CTRL + D a shortcut for duplicate, so I can just duplicate (from the first instance of) a clip if I need another part of the clip.

With CTRL + P you can set your poster frame to the current frame.
I made CTRL + D a shortcut for duplicate, so I can just duplicate (from the first instance of) a clip if I need another part of the clip.

Yeah, I know about poster frame, but that just sets the image displayed on the thumbnail, once you hover over the clip it cycles back and forth through the entire clip. I like to preview and watch back the specifically narrowed down clip so I know exactly which part i'm working with. If only "set poster frame" just set the entire preview as only the in and out points it would save me lots of steps in my process.

I don't want to confuse you, but the whole point is making workable selects in the media pool with only the very specific parts of the shots being showed to me in the preview in the media pool. The whole in and out point markers inside a preview of the whole clip just makes things extremely messy and confusing when trying to pick shots quickly from my bins.

I have a shortcut for duplicate too and thats how I deal with creating multiple compound clips from within a larger master clip. Set in and out points, duplicate then set new in and out points.

Thinking about this more, if only you could select all your clips with in and out points all at once in the media pool, then if there was a button to "set media pool preview as in and out points" that would be perfect and save lots of time. So you could do this on a whole group of clips at once. Then when you add this to the timeline, you still have the ability to expand it if needed.

Davinci, if your reading please do this!!

This isn't Resolve-specific, but do you use any macro software? From your recording, it wasn't apparent what platform you're on, but all of them have keyboard macro software that can greatly help reduce your number of clicks and key presses. Keyboard Maestro for macOS, Autohotkey for Windows, xdotool for Linux are what I've used with a lot of success.

This isn't Resolve-specific, but do you use any macro software? From your recording, it wasn't apparent what platform you're on, but all of them have keyboard macro software that can greatly help reduce your number of clicks and key presses. Keyboard Maestro for macOS, Autohotkey for Windows, xdotool for Linux are what I've used with a lot of success.

Yes! Now this is good advice! Thank you!

Oh right because you did this course for beginners and read the manual you are an expert?

No, I'm an expert because I've worked in post-production for 45 years. (Though my IMDB post credits don't go back before 1979.)

Resolve is a very, very deep program that takes years and years to understand and appreciate. Don't dismiss it as something that doesn't work the way you want it to -- often, there's another approach that will give you the same results but doing it a different way. Give it a chance and you'll get there.

Oh right because you did this course for beginners and read the manual you are an expert?

No, I'm an expert because I've worked in post-production for 45 years. (Though my IMDB post credits don't go back before 1979.)

Resolve is a very, very deep program that takes years and years to understand and appreciate. Don't dismiss it as something that doesn't work the way you want it to -- often, there's another approach that will give you the same results but doing it a different way. Give it a chance and you'll get there.

I just googled you Marc and wow, you have impressive history and experience. I never expected that such a person would have time to participate in this forum. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I just googled you Marc and wow, you have impressive history and experience. I never expected that such a person would have time to participate in this forum. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Yeah, the awful thing is IMDB omits about 2/3 of what I've done. I remastered about 1200 films to home video & streaming in my career, but a lot of that was without credit. So not all the credits are "visible." I worked for 13 different post houses in LA from 1979-2020, most of which are gone now (though Digital Film Tree hangs on). Technicolor is gone, Compact Video is gone, Modern Videofilm is gone, Image Transform is gone, TAV is gone, Cinesite is gone, Complete Post is gone, Post Group is gone, Sunset Post is gone, Local Hero Post is gone, Command Video is gone, U.S. Video is gone, and Lowry Digital is gone, I worked for all of them and remember each one well. 22 of those years was spent at Technicolor, and I knew and loved that company best of all. My own little company, Chroma, soldiers on.

I just googled you Marc and wow, you have impressive history and experience. I never expected that such a person would have time to participate in this forum. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Yeah, the awful thing is IMDB omits about 2/3 of what I've done. I remastered about 1200 films to home video & streaming in my career, but a lot of that was without credit. So not all the credits are "visible." I worked for 13 different post houses in LA from 1979-2020, most of which are gone now (though Digital Film Tree hangs on). Technicolor is gone, Compact Video is gone, Modern Videofilm is gone, Image Transform is gone, TAV is gone, Cinesite is gone, Complete Post is gone, Post Group is gone, Sunset Post is gone, Local Hero Post is gone, Command Video is gone, U.S. Video is gone, and Lowry Digital is gone, I worked for all of them and remember each one well. 22 of those years was spent at Technicolor, and I knew and loved that company best of all. My own little company, Chroma, soldiers on.

WOW .. a big history you have. However your profile picture is missleading You look there mmuch much younger than you are.

So, Marc, hmmm ... the one constant in all those shuttered shops seems to be you worked there! Lol

Hope to share a beer at NAB soon.

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When it comes to opinions (or rather "mere opinions"), I wonder if there are really any "experts"?

Notions about about how to learn software, what reasonable expectations are, how other people should work, etc. are personal and, judging from this forum, inflexible no matter how much resistance they encounter. The result can be, in my view, doubtful pedagogical advice -- in the sense of "ineffective", or "not helpful".

For example, I've never encountered anyone who, outside a professional facility, succeeded in teaching himself how to accurately normalize log footage, compared to results obtainable with a technical LUT or color management. Never, ever. Similarly, if there's an individual somewhere in the universe-- other than the two advocates found here -- who mastered an NLE by actually forgetting how all the other Avid-based NLEs work so as to celebrate Resolve's NLE deficiencies with joy, he or she must be in the witness protection program.

What we can probably agree on is that it's the callow youths, not the 40-year guys, who are the future. Then again, it's the long-term editors here who reject the view that they ought to spend the next few years learning the Edit page, whose shortcomings they already understand far too well -- instead of asking or pleading, with varying levels of passion, exasperation or indignation, for significant improvements.

The idea being, bring it up to the industry standard of, say, the Color page -- as assessed by actual editors. Strange that anyone would objection to that ambition, but object they regularly do.

I don't want to be disrespectful to anyone with years of experience, I am sure you know far me than me about editing for TV and movies etc. If you have any tutorials on this then I would love to check them out, especially for documentaries as that is what I make.

But my main aim now is being as efficient with my editing as possible, while still keeping the quality of course. I have been utilising Keyboard Maestro and it is really cool. I can get it to create 1000s of subclips or compound clips automatically, I even have it set up to auto-create bin names for me.

I am now working to see how I can get the macro to drop b-roll over my a-roll for me on the timeline and cover any cuts. I reckon with the combination of BeatEdit and Keyboard Maestro I will even be able to automate creating a sequence of shots that are cut to the beat of a song.

Ideally Davinci would be advanced enough to do all this instead of using Keyboard Maestro, but I don't think their focus is on automation tools. It's all very much set up for the user to do everything manually. Hopefully there will get there soon though.

I don't want to be disrespectful to anyone with years of experience, I am sure you know far me than me about editing for TV and movies etc. If you have any tutorials on this then I would love to check them out, especially for documentaries as that is what I make.

But my main aim now is being as efficient with my editing as possible, while still keeping the quality of course. I have been utilising Keyboard Maestro and it is really cool. I can get it to create 1000s of subclips or compound clips automatically, I even have it set up to auto-create bin names for me.

I am now working to see how I can get the macro to drop b-roll over my a-roll for me on the timeline and cover any cuts. I reckon with the combination of BeatEdit and Keyboard Maestro I will even be able to automate creating a sequence of shots that are cut to the beat of a song.

Ideally Davinci would be advanced enough to do all this instead of using Keyboard Maestro, but I don't think their focus is on automation tools. It's all very much set up for the user to do everything manually. Hopefully there will get there soon though.

Well, the job of an experienced video editor is to edit and if everything is automated then what's the need for an experienced editor? Resolve was made for real editors who enjoy editing without relying too much on tools that are trying to automate everything.

PS. I am not an experienced editor, yet I enjoy editing with Resolve. And by the way, if you care too much about speed editing, then I recommend to get DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor or even DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard.

The Davinci speed editor is not a good option. Spending more money on something that a mac keyboard can just as quickly does not make sense. People should just learn the shortcuts on the keyboard and how to use the arrow keys to move about the timeline quickly rather than wasting more money on something they think will make it all faster. Also I travel so it doesn't make sense to carry round a huge extra piece of kit.

I enjoy editing too but there are some parts that are a drag, so using tools to speed that up is just the best approach for me. Automation tools are used in all industries now, why not also video editing? It doesn't mean it will replace video editors yet, but its just a tool like any other tool. Also if you cut out all the mundane slow parts of editing you have more freedom to concentrate on the more creative elements. Also you save yourself some wrist and finger strain from repetitive hand movements using the speed editor or a keyboard.

I think the Speed Editor works for those that need what it offers. It may not work for you but that does not make it useless. It does things the Mac keyboard does not. We all have our opinions on what works in certain workflows but Blackmagic must try to keep everyone happy, so there will always be things in Resolve that will be criticised by some users and not changed by Blackmagic to keep the other users happy. A lot of what you are asking for is for your style of working, which may not be a common way to work for others. You also did not know about quite a few basic things that are available. I think if you dive deep enough into Resolve you will find the tools & methods you need to improve your efficiency.

The Davinci speed editor is not a good option. Spending more money on something that a mac keyboard can just as quickly does not make sense. People should just learn the shortcuts on the keyboard and how to use the arrow keys to move about the timeline quickly rather than wasting more money on something they think will make it all faster. Also I travel so it doesn't make sense to carry round a huge extra piece of kit.

I enjoy editing too but there are some parts that are a drag, so using tools to speed that up is just the best approach for me. Automation tools are used in all industries now, why not also video editing? It doesn't mean it will replace video editors yet, but its just a tool like any other tool. Also if you cut out all the mundane slow parts of editing you have more freedom to concentrate on the more creative elements. Also you save yourself some wrist and finger strain from repetitive hand movements using the speed editor or a keyboard.

Hardware control surfaces are never a waste of money for serious people who utilize all their capabilities. Every professional I know, whither they are editors, colorists, audio engineers .. etc. all use a control surfaces (like video switcher, audio console, color panel, dedicated editor keyboard ... etc.)

No matter how fast you are with a normal keyboard, professionals who fully utilize control surfaces will always be much faster.
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This makes it sound like all control surfaces are created equal. Just looking at the raft of requests for the speed editor will show quite well what its deficiencies are. I have one on a shelf as do many here. If you could tweak the key bindings many here would give it another look. But you can’t.

Well, the job of an experienced video editor is to edit and if everything is automated then what's the need for an experienced editor? Resolve was made for real editors who enjoy editing without relying too much on tools that are trying to automate everything.

The job of an experienced editor is to create a compelling story out of the footage.
But repetitive non-creative work which could get automated, should get automated.
I don't want to waste time on manually doing things which the computer could do much faster for me.
Telling a story is the fun part, manually creating subclips isn't.

Very well said!

This makes it sound like all control surfaces are created equal. Just looking at the raft of requests for the speed editor will show quite well what its deficiencies are. I have one on a shelf as do many here. If you could tweak the key bindings many here would give it another look. But you can’t.

No, not all control surfaces are created equal and every control surface from any manufacturer has its pros and cons but that doesn't make them useless!

Resolve Speed Editor is like any control surface has its pros and cons for what it offers but still very useful for those who master it and utilize its functionality for faster editing.

Well, the job of an experienced video editor is to edit and if everything is automated then what's the need for an experienced editor? Resolve was made for real editors who enjoy editing without relying too much on tools that are trying to automate everything.

The job of an experienced editor is to create a compelling story out of the footage.
But repetitive non-creative work which could get automated, should get automated.
I don't want to waste time on manually doing things which the computer could do much faster for me.
Telling a story is the fun part, manually creating subclips isn't.

Correct, and I am not dismissing automation tools for certain repeatative tasks, I am just against automation tools that try to do everything that an editor should do otherwise what's the need for an experienced editor? One day, AI editor will do everything.. is that good? Of course not!