Keyboard Shortcut Improvements

Also, could we have different shotcuts for Tracking and Stabilize ?

Given the various adjustable parameters, how would these work?

Want keyboard-mappable command for switch to last project
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i would like to map the three Buttons “Full Extent Zoom”, “Detail Zoom” and “Custom Zoom” to custom Keyboard shortcuts, please add this feature.

Thought of a new one I'd like to see.

Shortcuts for the Full Extent Zoom and Detail Zoom levels on the Edit page, along with adding those options to Fairlight and Deliver.

+1

i would like to map the three Buttons “Full Extent Zoom”, “Detail Zoom” and “Custom Zoom” to custom Keyboard shortcuts, please add this feature.

I would use those.

A LOT!

I would love a shortcut for "Position Lock" (and also a way to set it with Python and I know it is not the place to ask for this)

Fairlight - Lock Track Height.

Would be great to be able to have a key command to quickly set track heights for this!

Also, a key to show / hide tracks in the Fairlight Tracklist would be great. Currently, it is a mouse toggle over the eye only.

Also, need one urgently for Focus Tool in Fairlight page

I recently learned about Alt+Up/Alt+Down to move the selected clips vertically between tracks. It'd be nice to have Alt+Shift+Up/Down copy clips vertically between tracks the way Alt+Shift+Drag does.

PLEASE - KB shortcut for Render Cache Color Output in Color


The Edit Page shortcut doesn't work in Color and there is no way to add it in KB Prefs.

Also, a key to show / hide tracks in the Fairlight Tracklist would be great.

What if you have 32 tracks?

I recently learned about Alt+Up/Alt+Down to move the selected clips vertically between tracks. It'd be nice to have Alt+Shift+Up/Down copy clips vertically between tracks the way Alt+Shift+Drag does.

YES!! This would be so helpful for moving clips up or down several tracks without overwriting clips in between.

I recently learned about Alt+Up/Alt+Down to move the selected clips vertically between tracks. It'd be nice to have Alt+Shift+Up/Down copy clips vertically between tracks the way Alt+Shift+Drag does.

YES!! This would be so helpful for moving clips up or down several tracks without overwriting clips in between.

I don't think that would solve the problem of overwriting clips. What jjsawdon is talking about is making a copy of the clip instead of moving it, but the copy of the clip would still overwrite other clips in between.

To address the problem of overwriting clips, BMD could add Layered Video Editing just like they already have for Layered Audio Editing. Then stacking clips on top of each other (like when moving clips up or down several tracks with shortcuts) would not overwrite anything underneath it.

To enable this for audio:
Timeline -> Layered Audio Editing

You can also show the audio layers from the View menu:
View -> Show Audio Track Layers

I've noticed a couple problems with the Layered Editing, so some tweaks would have to be made to it first. It doesn't work with the shortcut keys (Alt+up/down arrow) at all because the audio clips are still overwritten. It also doesn't work correctly if the audio clips are linked to video clips because the audio clips can still be overwritten.

There is a very straightforward fix for this, just make sure the clip being moved always goes to the top layer over the other clip(s) instead of staying on the same layer and overwriting it. This would fix both problems. If you want the clip to go underneath, then you can manually move the clips around with the Show Layers (dragging up moves the clip up a layer and dragging down moves the clip down a layer). But by default, choosing the top layer makes the most sense.

In addition, I would also really like an Auto-crossfade mode, which would add a crossfade when clips overlap instead of overwriting. Having both Layered Editing and Auto-crossfade options would completely eliminate the problems of overwriting clips, which is one of my biggest complaints about Resolve.

Hi Sean, sorry for the confusion - you're right, jjsawdon was talking about copying rather than moving. I actually just meant that moving items across tracks via ALT+UP/DOWN Resolve should not overwrite anything until the ALT key is let go.

The Layered Video Editing idea sounds wild (need to wrap my head around it).

I actually just meant that moving items across tracks via ALT+UP/DOWN Resolve should not overwrite anything until the ALT key is let go.

+1 to that. Not overwriting until Alt is released would be a great feature to have as well.

The Layered Video Editing idea sounds wild (need to wrap my head around it).

As for Layered Video Editing, it's like having multiple tracks (called "Layers") on a single track. You can create a test project and then experiment with the Layered Audio Editing (only for audio tracks) to see how it works. The same idea would apply to video tracks as well.
Timeline -> Layered Audio Editing

Then show the audio layers from the View menu:
View -> Show Audio Track Layers

When both of those settings are enabled, you'll be able to see visually what it's doing. Try dragging audio clips on top of each other on the same track and you'll see they do not overwrite each other, but one clip will move up or down on the layers so all of the clips stay in tact. I came to Resolve from Vegas Pro and this is the way Vegas worked, the clips didn't overwrite each other and it was so much nicer to work with.

+1 to that. Not overwriting until Alt is released would be a great feature to have as well.

Yeah, this is more like what I intended - I'm an online editor and often (temporarily) duplicate shots up tracks when dropping in new versions of VFX to maintain any keyframes, etc.

Normally there's an empty space anyways, so I'm not actually overwriting anything. I think with the current mouse behavior is similar - it'll look like it's overwriting until you release, but if you keep dragging it up to higher and higher tracks, it doesn't actually overwrite it. Something like that (where you could theoretically keep pressing "Up" to go higher and higher) would be useful.

Would be great to be able to map the take selector to a keyboard shortcut, that way I could cycle through the different takes without having to open the take selector.

So say I click on a Take Selection I've created or hover the mouse over it, I could use Option UP/Down to cycle through. (or which ever keyboard shortcut I decide to map)(I also know there is a shortcut to open it, which I use , request is for ability to cycle through the takes)

Would also be great to be able to access it on the color page vs having to go back to the edit page. This is where the keyboard shortcut would come in really handy.

+1. The take selector would get a lot more use if switching between takes was easier. It would also be great if you could highlight a bunch of clips on the timeline and convert them to a take selector clip.

I'd like to see a keyboard shortcut to stabilize footage. I use this feature dozens of times or more in an edit, and it would help if it just applied and analyzed based my previous settings to the clip.

I haven't read all the comments, but what I am still missing is a way to use all of my keyboard shortcuts when I am in Cinema Viewer mode using two monitors in Dual Screen Mode. Please let me do it!

I have two shortcut requests.

First I would love it if there were a way to mark certain shortcuts as favorites and to be able to view those in a list. It would really help me to build up my capacity to use shortcuts and would be particularly useful for people learning to use Resolve (like myself).

Second I would like to be able to create shortcuts to places in the menus which are not final destinations and hence do not have shortcuts. My main specific example would be to get to Workspace>Layout Presets and then to allow me to choose from the list. Extra good would be able to choose the specific preset as a shortcut or even to be able to choose to toggle between a couple but just getting to the menu position would be a useful step as would be the ability to get to other menu positions which cannot or do not have the capacity currently to be given a shortcut.

Cheers Andrew

what I am still missing is a way to use all of my keyboard shortcuts when I am in Cinema Viewer mode

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Would love the ability to Select ALL clips under playhead. Also, select clips within In / out range.

Select ALL clips under playhead.

Just got added in 18.5.

Looking for Grouping functions such as "Add Into Current Group", "Add Into New Group", and "Remove From Group" to be made available in Keyboard Customization. Or added to the top menu so they can be programmed through Mac OS or a Stream Deck.

Original post from November 2022:
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Additionally looking for Keyboard Shortcut or ability to create a keyboard shortcut for switching between Node views. For example: Group Pre-Clip, Clip, Group-Post Clip, Timeline

Would be great to have more shortcuts for the tools of Color page. There is Primaries/Log wheels and would be great to have for all other tools as well (Curves, Qualifier, Tracker, Camera Raw, Motion Effects and also switching HDR wheels left and right. )

I don't know if it's been posted already, but my literally most-used shortcut from Premiere Pro doesn't exist in DaVinci Resolve.

"Move Playhead To Cursor"

I stumbled upon it by accident just browsing Premiere's keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things that doesn't make sense until you try it. Then after it's gone, editing just feels SO SLOW.

Requesting ability for shortcut for stabilization. Very tedious having to mouse click each clip to apply stabilization.

You know you can Stabilize multiple clips at once now, Jeremy? (In 18.5)

I don't know if it's been posted already, but my literally most-used shortcut from Premiere Pro doesn't exist in DaVinci Resolve.

"Move Playhead To Cursor"

I stumbled upon it by accident just browsing Premiere's keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things that doesn't make sense until you try it. Then after it's gone, editing just feels SO SLOW.

+1.

I ended up recreating it myself in autohotkey. Its a bit wonky but it works for now. Would love a native implementation.

I don't know if it's been posted already, but my literally most-used shortcut from Premiere Pro doesn't exist in DaVinci Resolve.

"Move Playhead To Cursor"

I stumbled upon it by accident just browsing Premiere's keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things that doesn't make sense until you try it. Then after it's gone, editing just feels SO SLOW.

+1.

I ended up recreating it myself in autohotkey. Its a bit wonky but it works for now. Would love a native implementation.

I've just download AutoHotkey and I've been watching tutorial and trying to learn it. Could you share that script with me?

I don't know if it's been posted already, but my literally most-used shortcut from Premiere Pro doesn't exist in DaVinci Resolve.

"Move Playhead To Cursor"

I stumbled upon it by accident just browsing Premiere's keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things that doesn't make sense until you try it. Then after it's gone, editing just feels SO SLOW.

+1.

I ended up recreating it myself in autohotkey. Its a bit wonky but it works for now. Would love a native implementation.

I've just download AutoHotkey and I've been watching tutorial and trying to learn it. Could you share that script with me?

I found this on YouTube if you're using a Windows machine (it uses AutoHotKey)

I also found a Mac alternative that's been working fantastically for me!

Hello everyone!

I apologize if this is perhaps not the right place to post this because the shortcut does indeed exist, but for the life of me, I can't seem to find it. And if it doesn't, then I'd love to leave my request.

Is it possible to assign a keyboard shortcut for this function found when you have Resolve color management set up, and then you right-click a video file either in your media pool or timeline:

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Thanks, appreciate any help I can get on this.

Alex

Not possible yet, Alex. This is the place to ask.

Not possible yet, Alex. This is the place to ask.

Awesome! Fingers crossed it's something the Blackmagic team can address sometime in the near future.

Thanks, Jim!

Hello, It was really nice to have an option for setting a shortcut for "Add Speed Point" function. When there is a lot of speed ramping to do, it would be a really time saver.

I'd be great to have the ability to have a keyboard shortcut in Fairlight for "Focus Mode"

Pointer Mode and Range mode are already there, but not for Focus Mode

Cleanup node graph tree is something I use A LOT, and I want to bind it to a shortcut key.

Would be great to implement it in 18.5 stable.

Kudos to the developers, you are awesome!

a keyboard shortcut in Fairlight for "Focus Mode"

In the 18.5 beta, there are shortcuts for Focus Start and Focus End. They're unspecified by default, you have to map them manually.

That's something.

Audio Transcription Shortcuts
Hoping that we can add this option to the keyboard customization in Davinci. Would speak up the workflow quite a bit as I am using "Transcribe Audio" command via mouse dozens of times per day.

Current workflow after highlighting clips in bin is
1-Right click-go down towards bottom
2-Select Audio Transcription - Select Transcribe

Erik

Often when working with Animatics i do a lot of retiming, i would love to create a hotkey for "add speed point". Instead of hitting the small triangle and selecting add speed point.

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Audio Transcription Shortcuts
Hoping that we can add this option to the keyboard customization in Davinci. Would speak up the workflow quite a bit as I am using "Transcribe Audio" command via mouse dozens of times per day.

+1 Right now it's a bit of a clunky implementation, but it's a new feature so hopefully now we'll see more functionality added in the not too distant future.

Hi there,

As an editor and I'm regularly having to edit from scripts handed to me from producers who create these scripts using interview transcripts. (and my producers don't provide me timecode Plus, I'm a freelancer so my hands are kinda tied with regards to changing that workflow)

I love it that DR now allows us to now search transcripts but it seems that the only way to load a transcript from an individual clip int the Media Pool is to;

•Right Click on the clip
•Drag down 29 different menu items to "Audio Transcription"
•Pause for a fraction of a second
•Slide the mouse over to the right and select "Transcribe"

Clicking on the clip and hitting a keyboard shortcut to accomplish this would bring much welcomed relief. Pretty please!

Thanks!
Rob

p.s. I realize I dump all the clips into a timeline and transcribe that and search that timeline as 'a work-around' but having the option to do it with a keyboard shortcut would certainly be a better option for me. Thanks again!

[Shrinivas Ramani]

Hi Robert

Just checking if you are aware of the transcribe icon on the media pool header?

Regards
Shrinivas

+1 to the ability of assign a shortcut to the stabilize button

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I think the ability to use scroll optionally for different purposes would be a nice to have. For ex. I like to zoom in where the play head is and I have to hold a plus key for that now.

I think the ability to use scroll optionally for different purposes would be a nice to have.

That would be more of a mouse issue. There is a separate thread on that topic.

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please add a shortcut / keyword for Add Speed point

I think the ability to use scroll optionally for different purposes would be a nice to have. For ex. I like to zoom in where the play head is and I have to hold a plus key for that now.

You hold ALT for that