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Smart Indicators
Some of the intelligent tools in the Cut page do not require you to select specific In and Out
points in the Timeline. They rely on the playhead’s relative position over a clip to guess where
you likely will want to make your edit. The point where DaVinci Resolve intends to make that
edit is marked using a Smart Indicator icon on the Timeline Ruler.
Smart Indicator showing where an edit will occur.
Drag and Drop Editing
Drag and drop editing can be an easy way of assembling clips into a loose edit. Once you’ve
defined a range of media using the Source Clip or the Source Tape, you can click and drag
either from the Viewer or the Media Pool to the Upper Timeline or the Timeline below to edit a
clip into your program. How and where you drag determines how that clip will be edited.
Append
If you drag a clip onto an empty timeline, or to the dark gray area to the left of clips in the
Timeline, that clip will become the first clip of your edit. If you drag a clip to the far left or right
edge of all other clips in the the upper or lower areas of the Timeline, you will append that clip
to the ending or beginning of the Timeline.
(Top) Dragging a clip to the far right of the Timeline
to append it, (Bottom) The appended clip
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