[Prasad Narasimha]

Sorry about the typos!

[Prasad Narasimha]

Hi..one simple question..feeling a bit embarassing ot ask this.

so we have this how to make a pizza video all edited…its got some 80 cuts to it..totalling 5 mins. Now that we have trimmed and edited – we want to introduce titles, lower thirds..etc. now i am not sure what option my kid chose, but when I click on title and drag it in between two clips..ideally I would expect the right clip to move 5 seconds to the right and the text clip would take up those five secs…this logic should apply say if i want to introduce a new clip in between two clips….

for some reason..whether in introduce a title clip or a new video clip inbetween two clips..the right hand parts are not moving few seconds to the right to accomodate this new clip. infact the title clip is overwriting say the first five seconds of the right hand clip…..

i hope my question is not confusing…we tried insert clip..overwrite..clip..etc and nothing works…its almost that we have made our entire video into some kind of lock mode where its not permitting the right side clips to move..

please help my kid out…he spent half a day editing the video…and now when the time has come to embellish the final product with titles and stuff..he is struggling. I obvious work around is select all the right hand clips and manually move it 5 seconds to the right and insert a title in the gap….it would have worked if i had 5-6 clips..he now has 70-80 clips and everytime selecting all of them and moving them to the right to create gaps isnt practical…

help him out!!

[Prasad Narasimha]

For some reason, the thumbs up green icon doesnt seem to work…so thank you!

[Prasad Narasimha]

Thanks for the reply!!

I shoot h.264 on phone. I tried 265 but resolve would not recognize the clip.

I will try and shoot more videos with my DJI Osmo Action as it has a flat profile and shooting during day time should make it noise free as well. Only issue here is that i cannot plug an external mic (the only adaptor available is expensive and not sold in India) – we will try and capture audio on phone and stich them together in post.

My input as I mentioned above is h.264 and my output out of resolve is 1080p MP4. Rendering isnt that bad – it is only during editing where it gets glitchy.

As I mentioned in my other reply…I will stop doing fast forwards as that seems to be the worst offender and keep on googling for more tips and tricks to make resolve more efficient.

Thanks again and stay safe!

[Prasad Narasimha]

Many thanks to both of you to respond. very kind.

I agree my kids videos are not very bad compared to other hand held jerky videos.

I bought a 3 dollar mike compatible with my phone..its not unidirectional and all that…but audio is way better than phone mic. Once they get more serious…I will buy a 10 dollar mic. (I live in India and hence amounts sound small in USD :))

I did google on tips to make resolve editing faster…..there were definitely many channels on youtube…we followed couple of them blindly and they did make a ton of difference.

One thing I see where we are struggling is increasing the clip 2-10X to decrease the duration. Now we are smartly editing by deleting 90% of the footage and running it at normal speed. that takes care of the issue.

We are learning – again, the channel is not intended to make them youtube stars – just to make them learn a new skill since the government here has locked us down for 2 months now and we are yet to hit the peak.

As far as the other suggestions to shoot in sound proof environment..etc. – Again life in India is very different – hence I normally shoot very late at night when the traffic sound is low.

I am looking at more tips and tutorials and also try and shoot more in day time to have noise free videos.

Thanks again for taking the time out to reply and stay safe and if possible..do subscribe to their channel!!