From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training

The new user interface in 4 minutes - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training

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The new user interface in 4 minutes

- In DaVinci Resolve 12 the user interface is completely revised. My challenge that I've accepted is to show it to you and get you oriented in under four minutes. Here we go. So I've launched into a project and you can see already things have changed. Now, on this upper bar here, you're going to notice that throughout the media, the edit page here, the color page here, I've got this upper bar that exists almost everywhere. What the exact options are change, but this is all about customizing your work space. I even have a work space menu that's brand new in Resolve 12 and guess what? There are now keyboard shortcuts to move between the media, edit, color, and deliver pages, shift two, four, six, and eight. Now, these buttons up here are all about how things fly in, fly out, open, and close. For instance, you're going to notice this kind of disclosure here, the little box with the arrow down, this is a flyout menu, so whatever column is below that, when I click on it, it's now going to take the full screen. Then you'll notice that it looks like a little T.V. on a stand, when I click it it'll close it up. You'll see up here, I can click and close up, and now you see it's expanded this entire area to the metadata window, and I can even close that by toggling metadata on and off, I can go into capture mode, I can open up audio. Over here on the left-hand side, media storage, I can make that completely disappear if all I'm doing is viewing in my Media Pool. I'll click on it to make it reappear, clone tool pops up there. You'll see also I've got this icon here for folders to make them appear and disappear. Let's jump into the edit page, what's new there? Again, we've got this flyout menu box here that allows us to take up the entire timeline on the full width of the screen. I can hide the Media Pool to give me a two up view. I can switch it over to the effects library or the edit index. I can also flyout the Media Pool, then when I click on the effects library, I've got a two up view here, Media Pool, my effects library. When I go to the edit index, well this section down here is just a toggle between all these various options. And then, of course, we've got the Inspector up here, very similar to the previous version of Resolve 12. One quick point on the edit index, don't forget this little flyout menu here that gives us a bunch of quick little shortcuts to filter out the edit menu, and we can click on these edits and only show any edit that has a flag, we can click on it, it'll jump us to there in the timeline. In the color page, very similar. Let me go ahead, reset our layout, so this is what the default looks like. I'm going to go and make Resolve instead of the windowed layout that it is, on my particular setup I'm going to go full screen, and again, I can turn the gallery off, I can turn the mini-timeline off, and I can turn off my thumbnail views, and now I've got a nice little custom work space. I can even close up the node tree or give over the node tree to the open effects menu. Also brand new in Resolve 12 is our little scopes display, so that we can take our keyframe menu and have a little built-in scopes. I can still do command shift w or control shift w on a PC and pull up my four way scopes, but I can also put them away and just have a little scope here, just as a quick reference as I'm working. Finally, the deliver page, it's pretty much what it's been. You can go ahead and flyout the render queue and pull it back up. You can do the same thing on your render settings, because, of course, this is a big scrolling box. Also new is they've gotten rid of that basic, intermediate, and advanced concept and all of our options are now in this single column and then you'll just disclose additional items and additional options as you need them. And we've also got timeline filtering. If you've got these thumbnail clips showing up, you have a little flydown window that shows you all the different timeline filtering options for when we're rendering out just portions of our timelines, and, of course, the color and edit view of our timeline is now clearly and explicitly laid out. And there it is, my overview of the revised DaVinci Resolve interface. I don't know, maybe I made four minutes, maybe it's closer to five.

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