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Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients

Lesson 8 from: How to Edit Video in DaVinci Resolve

Casey Faris

Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients

Lesson 8 from: How to Edit Video in DaVinci Resolve

Casey Faris

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8. Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients

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Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients

So we're making our story soup. We went to the supermarket. We got all of our awesome ingredients. We brought them back. We put them in our pantry, and ah, now what do we do? Well, if we wanna start cooking, one of the first things that we gotta do is grab the ingredients out. Maybe take a look, make sure that they're actually what we want before we kind of prep them and put them into our soup, into our story. So this process of picking up an ingredient, maybe an onion or something, and looking at it is pretty much what we do here in the source viewer. You'll notice that if you mouse over any of these thumbnails, by default it shows you a bigger version here in this viewer. And if I double click on it, it will stay there and I can move back and forth. So this is really just a way to get a little bit more detailed, make sure that this clip is what we actually want. We can scrub through it and find the different parts that we like. And kind of just double check which of these clips are g...

ood and which of these are bad. One thing that I like to do sometimes is maybe make a bin over here in the media pool and we'll call this bad. And if it's something that I don't like, I can take this clip and put it into bad and move on and look at the other clips and see what might be good. I could leave the good ones here. I could make a bin for the good ones, whatever we wanna do. Down here in the lower part of the source viewer, we have a few different buttons going on. The main ones you probably work with are the transport controls, so that's just the play forward, play backwards, stop, skip to the end, skip to the beginning. I can click this little button and loop it. You can also grab this little dot and move this back and forth with your mouse. And that's a really nice way to kind of scrub through your footage without having to be so precise by clicking this little playhead right here. So that's the basics of the source viewer. Really, we're just double clicking on a shot and we can open it up and take a detailed look at it. Make sure we like it. And if we don't, we can organize it accordingly.

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Stan
 

This is a great class! Probably my favorite Creativelive class so far. I've been a fulltime photographer for 13 years now, I guess it's about time I get back into video. I love that Resolve has a free version to learn on. The pace of this class was perfect, can't wait to watch the rest of Casey's DaVinci classes.

Simona Geneva
 

Thanks to Casey Faris for the interesting study material. I have been looking for a creative life course for DaVinci Resolve for a long time and I am very happy that one has already been created on your platform. I look forward to the other pieces. Thanks again for the shared knowledge!

user-ada623
 

I've seen many DaVinci tutorials that seem to just make things more confusing but Casey's tutorial really took a simple step-by-step explanation to really show how powerful and yet simple it is to use Davinci. The tools Casey covered in this course gave me the confidence to edit the ton of videos I have collecting dust on my hard drive. Great job Casey and a great sense of dry corny humor...lolol highly recommended!!

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