User Manual

Scrolling Through the Timeline
However closely you’re zoomed into the Timeline, if you’re zoomed enough so that clips extend
past the visible area of the Timeline, scroll bars appear below. If the playhead is offscreen, a
small orange tic mark indicates its position relative to the entire timeline, which is represented
by the total width of the scroll bar’s background.
If you drag the playhead, or otherwise use any of the transport controls or playback key
shortcuts to move through the Timeline, the contents of the Timeline refresh every time the
playhead hits the left or right edge of what’s visible.
Using Flags
Flags are meant to mark an entire clip, and they also flag every other clip in the Timeline that
shares the same Media Pool source clip, making this a handy way of quickly identifying which
clips in a given timeline come from the same Media Pool source. Flags are visible in every page
of DaVinci Resolve, making them an excellent method of tracking media from page to page.
The Flag and Marker buttons and pop-ups.
You can apply multiple flags to clips, with a variety of colors to choose from. In addition to
flagging specific media files, flags can be useful for sorting by column in the Media Pool, as well
as a variety of other operations.
Methods for flagging clips in the Fairlight page:
 To flag a clip: Select one or more clips, and either click the Flag button to flag that
clip with the current color, or click the Flag pop-up in the toolbar to choose a different
color and then click the Flag button. In the Edit page, flags appear in the Timeline
superimposed in the name bar of each clip.
 To remove all flags from a clip: Select one or more clips with flags you want to remove,
then click the Flag pop-up in the toolbar, and choose the top “Clear All” option.
Using Markers
Markers are used to call attention to a particular frame within a specific clip. Markers can be
individually colored, and can have customized name and note text. Whenever you enter text
into a marker, that marker displays a small dot that indicates there’s more information inside of it.
Once placed, markers snap to In and Out points, edit points, the playhead, and other markers
whenever snapping is enabled, making it easy to use markers to “measure” edits and trims that
you make in the Timeline. Markers are visible in every page of DaVinci Resolve, making them an
excellent method of tracking frames in clips and specific moments in the Timeline from
page to page.
You can add markers to the Timeline (in the Timeline ruler) or to clips. The full procedures for
placing and editing markers in the Fairlight page’s onscreen interface are identical to those
for the Edit page, so for more information, see Chapter 31, “Marking and Finding Clips in the
Timeline.” For now, here’s a summary.
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