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Editor task: Dealing with graphics, text and generators

Editor task: Dealing with graphics, text and generators - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: DaVinci Resolve Guru: Moving Timelines Between Editing Apps

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Editor task: Dealing with graphics, text and generators

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- Another thing your editor should do is organize other assets in your timeline. I'm talking lower thirds, text, graphic, opens and closes. Maybe you've got after-effects animations that have alpha channels that are on different tracks. What you want is for your editor to organize these and get common elements on the same tracks. This way, when someone like your colorist looks at the timeline, it makes sense to them. It's organized. They don't have to think about what belongs here and what doesn't. The other thing they can do is, for instance, on lower thirds, they may not translate across, your colorist can just turn off the track. And suddenly, every lower third in your job just disappears. They don't have to look at it. So it speeds up the conform process, it gets other people you're handing your timelines off to, gets them there much quicker. In this particular example, if I Shift + Z out, we've got this universal leader and we've got this lower third. So what I would do is just…

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