If you’re a seasoned filmmaker, you know that when it comes to editing you just can’t beat the keyboard. We’re going to take a deep dive into changing your keyboard mappings in Resolve. You can watch the video or read the article!
Let’s first look at mapping three simple commands to specific keys on the keyboard. We will do Mark In, Mark Out and Clear In and Out.
The keyboard palette will display any current mappings or shortcuts that are setup in Resolve. You can remove these by clicking on the “x” by the shortcut, and you can add your own by clicking the plus sign.
If you try to assign a keyboard shortcut or mapping to a key that is already mapped to another task for the same area of the Resolve application, you’ll receiving a warning.
DaVinci Resolve will allow you to save the mapping, but it will not work. You must manually remove the one you don’t need. This is done by looking up the conflicting mapping and clicking the “x” to remove it.
To see active mappings for any specific key or key combination, simply click the key (or keys) on the keyboard palette which will highlight them in red. DaVinci Resolve will then display the current tasks assigned. To remove a mapping, click on it under the Active Key column, and then on the right either change or remove the assignment.
Multiple tasks can be assigned to the same key for different areas of the DaVinci Resolve application such as the Edit Page vs Fairlight, etc.
If you’re in the process of mapping your keyboard, you can view the current mappings by selecting modified from the drop-down menu in the Commands column area. This will display all of the mappings you’ve changed but haven’t saved yet.
When you open the keyboard palette, the top right displays the keyboard preset in use. The default is of course DaVinci Resolve. When you make changes and click save, Resolve will prompt you to name the mappings as a custom preset. This will then be the active preset even if you close and re-open Resolve, or change projects.
You can also also start by choosing custom default mappings from other non linear editing systems like Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere. And finally, you can click the three dots to import or export a keyboard preset.
The keyboard command palette in Resolve allows you to create an ideal editing workspace that is portable to any DaVinci Resolve editing workstation!
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