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+  "text": "Alright, let's get started on our project. The first thing I'm going to do is open up my project manager if it's not already open. I can do that by clicking this little home icon down in the lower right. And from here, I'm going to hit new project. I won't worry about saving my old one. I'm going to call this Yosemite 1A. And when I'm ready, I'll hit create. And that's going to open up a brand new project with no media, nothing imported. Let's take a look at how we'd get started. The very first thing you should do when you make a new project is make sure that your settings are right. So the way I'm going to do that is in the lower right hand corner, do before you import any media, just because it's tricky to change this later. You're welcome to set your settings for whatever you'd like, but I'm going to set mine to 1280 by 720 because the footage that we're working with, the transcoded footage is at 720p. That's just so it's easier to play back on everybody's system. And I'll leave timeline, frame rate and playback frame rate at 24 frames. If you have footage that's shot at 1080p or 2k or 4k, you'd want to set that here as well as set whatever frame rate you'd like to use. Everything else here, video monitoring doesn't really matter unless you have an external monitor. And again, some of this we might get into a little bit later, but that's what we need to look at right now. I'm going to go ahead and hit save. That's going to save all my settings for this project. Now it's time to import our media. There are a bunch of different ways that we can do that, but we're going to take this opportunity to dive into the media page, which is on the lower left hand side of our button bar here. I'll click on that. That's going to switch over to our media page. Now all of the interface changes from our edit page. And let's take a little tour of what we're looking at in this upper left hand corner. This is called our media storage. This is where we can navigate to different files on our computer and preview media before we import it into our project. So depending on where you downloaded your folder, navigate there and find the raw film trans codes folder. This is going to bring up all of our media that's included with this training. And if I hover over any of these shots, you can see it previews it in the viewer to the right. This is a great way to see if there is media that we like, media that we don't like without even importing it into the project. If I want to import a shot, I can select it, right click and say add into media pool. What that's going to do is throw it down here into this panel. This panel is called our media pool. This is pretty much where all of the media in our project lives. It's like the big box that you throw all the pieces that you're going to use go in here and it's actually imported into the project. Whereas up here, it's just on your system. You're just looking at it. So let's say I want all of this in our project. I can just select all of this and drag it down into our media pool. Now, all of these live in our project. It's imported. And from here, I can either start editing or I can get a little bit organized. There are a couple different ways to keep organized here. One of the most basic ways to keep organized is just to right click and select add bin. That's going to make a little folder here and we can put things into folders. So let's say time lapses and I'll select my time lapses and I can throw them into that folder. Now here on the left, I have my master bin and if I select time lapses, that's going to filter to just that folder. So that's a great way to keep organized. One other thing I wanted to show you is something called smart bins. These are really cool. They're like a folder that constantly searches your media pool and filters things based on what it finds. So let's say I took these time lapses out of our folder by just dragging it back to master and I could delete time lapses just by hitting delete on the keyboard, hitting remove. If I wanted to make a smart bin, I could right click under smart bins down here and say add smart bin. What that'll do is come up with the create smart bin dialog and I'll call this Timelapses. And now I can automatically filter things based on filename, based on a bunch of different stuff. So we'll do just a basic one called filename and we'll say contains timelapse. And I can hit Create Smart Bin. And now under Smart Bins we have one called timelapses. Now I didn't have to drag these in, it's just searching for the names of clips. And anytime that I add something to my master folder, it's going to add it to that Smart Bin. You'll also notice there's a Smart Bin here called Keywords and if you twirl that down, nothing's happening. That's because we haven't set any keywords for our media. But this is a really cool thing. If you have a lot of media in a project, let's say we want to get really organized and maybe we want to tag everything that's a wide shot, right? So here's a wide shot. Here's a wide shot. Kind of more of these big wide shots. I can hold down control or command and grab anything that looks like a wide shot. And with all of those selected, I can go over here to our metadata panel, click this little menu button and go down to shot and scene. And then I'll switch this out to a little panel where I can edit things for all of this media that I have selected. I'll click keywords and I'll add the keyword wide. I click off of that and it makes a little bubble there and I can hit save. And now that I have keywords added to some of my shots, if I go down to the smart bins under keywords and twirl that down, I have one called wide. I can select that and here are all of our shots that are tagged as wide shots. So that's a really powerful way to stay organized. And again, the cool thing is that because these smart bins are always searching, if I find something else that's a wide shot, like maybe this shot and I add a keyword to it, I can go back over to my smart bins and that's here in the smart bin as well. So there's a lot of ways to stay organized here in the media pool and the media page in general is where you import media into your project. You can add description, comments, keywords, all of those things to get really organized. So if you're one of those people that really likes to stay very, very organized, this is going to be probably one of your favorite pages. One thing to mention though, I'll just select these time lapses and delete them from our project. This is not the only way to import media. You can also go up to file, import file and import media that way, or you can even open up a finder or explorer window and select and drag things into your media pool like that. It all works the same. All right. So we've imported some of our media into our project and we've taken a look at the media page. Now we're going to take a look at the edit page and how we actually make a timeline and start to edit with all of my media imported into my media pool. All I have to do to start editing is just go down here to my buttons and click on edit. That's going to switch out my layout. to in the media page. Just in the media page, it goes along the bottom and in the edit page, it's on the left. Still the exact same thing. You can drag media into this panel. You can right click and add bins. You can add smart bins down here. It works exactly the same. It's just here in the edit page. The media pool is in almost every page of resolve. So you can access your media pretty much from anywhere. So we have all of our footage. Now it's time to actually edit something. When you're actually putting together an edit, stuff happens in a timeline. Some programs call it a sequence, but it's basically all of the clips put together. I can make a timeline in a couple different ways. One way is I can right click on the media pool and go to timelines, create new timeline. Then it will ask me some information by default. These are set to our project settings. I can also click to use custom settings and change the different format and anything that I want to, but we'll just use basic settings. It's timeline. I'll call main edit and everything's okay. I'll hit create and now things look a little different You have these video tracks that show up here in the timeline panel and we also have a new little thumbnail over here called main edit You'll notice this little white icon. That means that this is a timeline There's a few different kinds of things that live in the media pool this media that we have imported These are clips any kind of video that you have imported into the app the timeline is like your actual project that you're working on so we'll get into how the to before you commit to putting it here in the edit. Also, if you just hover over something, you can see kind of a bigger preview here in the viewer and you can double click to open it up and play with it here in the viewer. So let's say I want to add this to our timeline. There's a bunch of different ways that I could do this. Probably the most basic easy way is to just grab this image and drag it down here into the timeline. That's going to add a clip here in my timeline that I can move around by clicking and dragging and I can adjust the length of by just grabbing the end and dragging it down. And this is where you work with and combine the different clips. Everything that happens here in the timeline, you'll be able to see up here in the viewer. This is the timeline viewer. So this is what whoever watches your movie will actually see. This is your timeline from beginning to end. Whereas this viewer over here is just a clip from your media pool. So let's add another clip. Double click on shot 111. I'll double click on really any shot, maybe this one shot 103. And I can grab that and drag that down into the timeline as well. Now I can drag it to the first track and overwrite my other clip, or I can drag it to the second track and put it on top, whatever is on the top layer. That's the one that's going to be showing up. So when this clip ends, we'll see the clip that's under it. Now let's add another clip, but let's say I don't want to add the entire clip. I just want to add a part of it. We'll open up shop 106 and I can scrub through here. But this time, instead of adding the entire clip, I just want to add to write about where she stops right about in the middle of the clip. I can actually make a selection here before I add it to the timeline to save myself a little bit of time. So let's find where we want this to begin. Let's say maybe right around, and I'm going to hit I on the keyboard. You notice this makes this little gray bar right here. This lighter gray bar is my selection. And when I hit I, I actually set an in for the clip. So we cut into the clip right there, and then let's end our clip right before she stops, maybe right there, and I'll hit O for out. This is just selecting a part of the clip using in and out. That's kind of like the beginning and the end of our selection. And now when I grab this and drag it down into the timeline, I'm not going to have the entire clip. I'm just going to have that part that I selected. So I could go through all of my media and pick just the parts that I want. Hit I on the keyboard for in and O for out and drag each one down into the timeline to start building the different shots in our edit. But there's a slightly more efficient way to do this same thing. I'm going to delete these last two clips and you don't have to do this exactly with me because we're just kind of learning the basics here. Then we're going to use all of these tools to actually build our edit. But I'm going to pick a random shot. This one works fine where she's walking. I'll set my beginning for I and right before it cranes up. I'm gonna hit O for out Here's our little clip and now I can grab this and instead of dragging it to the timeline I'm gonna drag it to the right over our viewer and now this little window pops up wherever I drag this and let go That's what I'm gonna select from this menu each of these menu items are different ways to add this clip to the timeline and it's worth playing around with all of these The one that I like to use a lot is called append at end. What that'll do if I let go on a pendant end is put whatever clip I have here in the source viewer at the very end of my timeline. It doesn't matter if I'm looking at the beginning of our timeline already. If I grab a clip here and drag it over a pendant end, it's going to add it to the end. And each one of these options does something different. If I were to let go of this on insert, it would put this clip right where that orange playhead is. Just like that. And I'll just undo. Overwrite, we'll just kind of delete everything under it and just put it right there in place. Again, right where the playhead is. Replace, we'll take the shot that's under the playhead and replace it with the shot here in the Source Viewer. Just like that. Fit to fill is similar, but it will speed up or slow down the shot so that it fits exactly where that shot that I replaced was. Place on top, places the clip in the the layer above and ripple overwrite is really interesting. It'll replace the clip that we're over and it'll slip everything else down in the timeline so that it kind of hugs the clip that I just put in. Again, definitely worth playing around because it does some fancy things that if you get used to it can really save you time. So that's how you add clips into your timeline.",
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