Pressing the letter O will mark a corresponding end (out) point. When you are skimming through footage in the Browser (the part of the Final Cut Pro screen that shows all your raw footage) to find clips you want to add to your timeline, you can press the letter I anytime to mark a starting (in) point for a clip you want to use in your timeline. You probably use the following shortcuts every day in one application or another but for completeness’ sake it is worth confirming that they work – and are just as useful – in Final Cut Pro too: Copyīest Shortcuts for Importing Footage into Your Timeline 12 Random Annoyingly Difficult Tasks That Suddenly Become Easier with a Shortcut.Best Shortcuts to Use When Playing Back Your Video.Basic (But Essential) Editing Shortcuts.Best Shortcuts for Navigating in the Timeline.Best Shortcuts for Importing Footage into Your Timeline.Meanwhile, check out our entire catalog of tutorials for DaVinci Resolve here. Your keyboard preferences are essential, as they will help you get up to speed as quickly as possible, and get you editing your projects lightning quick! We want the “User” preferences, and once selected, you can head to to “Keyboard Mapping” preference, and either change the default keyboard layout, find a shortcut you need to know, or remap something to whatever you want it to be. Once here, there are actually two sets of preferences. Simply head to your preferences by hitting CTL/CMD+, on the keyboard. Now, with that being said, finding the keyboard shortcuts, or the “Keyboard Mapping” window is a little tricky, as it’s not readily apparent where it is.

If you aren’t migrating from another NLE, and don’t really care about how your default keyboard is layed out, you can simply select “DaVinci Resolve”, and go with that standard keyboard layout. One thing you’ll notice, right off the bat, when you install DaVinci Resolve, is that when you launch it for the first time, you’ll get a pop up asking you how you want to set up your keyboard shortcuts, assuming you’re coming from another NLE ( Premiere, Avid, Final Cut Pro X). In this lesson, we’re going to move on and talk about your Keyboard Shortcuts/Preferences, where to find them, and how to alter them if necessary.

In our previous lesson of our look at learning BlackMagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve, we took an introductory look at the Edit Module.

Davinci resolve keyboard shortcut