DaVinci Resolve: Software Features and Workflows

Course details

DaVinci Resolve is constantly being updated and refined. In this course, instructor Patrick Inhofer shows you how to work smarter with this feature-rich platform, sharing important workflows and options that every Resolve editor, colorist, VFX artist, or audio mixer should understand. Learn how to efficiently manage databases and project files, customize the user interface to suit your personal preferences, and optimize playback performance—including how to leverage Render Cache and proxy options. Plus, discover how to move a project between Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve, as well as add additional hardware to speed up your editing, color grading, or mixing workflows.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Software features and workflows within DaVinci Resolve
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Project Management and Preferences

03 - Databases vs. projects
04 - Understanding Resolve databases
05 - Creating a disk database
06 - Backing up and restoring databases
07 - Deleting and relinking databases
08 - Using the Davinci Resolve project server software
09 - Organizing databases and projects
10 - Sharing and backing up projects
11 - Exporting DaVinci Resolve bins and timelines
12 - Sharing bins and galleries in the same database

2. User Interface - Getting Resolve to Operate Like You Think

13 - Assigning menu items as keyboard shortcuts
14 - The middle scroll wheel
15 - Edit page viewer options
16 - Color page viewer options
17 - Managing timeline overwhelm
18 - Advanced timeline view options
19 - Simplify the Resolve user interface

3. Enhancing Playback Performance

20 - Playback optimizations - What are your options
21 - Performance mode
22 - Render Cache - Overview
23 - Render Cache - Smart mode
24 - Render Cache - User mode
25 - Using optimized media
26 - Enabling timeline proxy mode
27 - Proxy media - Resolve 17+ overview
28 - Proxy media - Proxy archives (R17+)
29 - Additional performance tweaks

4. Sharing Timelines with Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro

30 - The challenges of importing exporting timelines
31 - What is an XML
32 - How to prepare the timeline for XML sharing
33 - Exporting a reference movie
34 - Exporting a timeline for XML
35 - How to conform XMLs
36 - Understanding the flat file workflow

5. Hardware Options for DaVinci Resolve

37 - Using external hardware
38 - Blackmagic Speed Editor and Mini Panel
39 - DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard - Overview
40 - Using third-party hardware with DaVinci Resolve
41 - Dedicated client displays - Concept and overview

Conclusion

42 - Thank you and goodbye