User Manual

Audio/Video Linking
DaVinci Resolve gives you complete control over the linked relationship between the video and
audio associated with a clip. By default, DaVinci Resolve tries its best to keep the video and
audio of clips and timelines in sync. However, there are several ways you can suspend
automatic syncing when you need to make a specific kind of edit.
Controlling Linked Selection
While selecting edits and clips, you can also choose whether the video and audio associated
with a clip should be selected together (linked) or not. This determines whether operations
performed to the video of a clip automatically affect the audio of the clip, and vice versa. In
most instances, you’ll probably want to leave Linked Selection turned on, so that selecting the
video of a clip to move it elsewhere in the Timeline also results in the audio being selected and
moved at the same time. Disabling A/V linking in this case could cause your video and audio to
go out of sync undesirably.
However, there are plenty of instances when you’ll want to temporarily suspend this linked A/V
relationship, such as when you want to create a split edit, where a clip’s audio In point is at a
different frame than the video In point. In this case, you can suspend Linked Selection to select
just the audio In point, then roll it either farther back or forward to create the split, without
changing the In point of that clip’s video. When you’re finished, you can re-enable A/V linking.
At all times, the state of Linked Selection is visible via the Chain-link button at the right of
the toolbar.
The Link Audio/Video button
To turn Linked Selection off and on:
Click the Link Audio/Video button (or press Shift-Command-L).
To temporarily suspend Linked Selection while making a selection:
Press the Option key while clicking a clip or edit point to select the video without
selecting the audio, or vice versa.
Linked Move Across Tracks
The Timeline > Linked Move Across Tracks setting works in conjunction with Linked Selection
to let you change how linked video and audio items move in the Timeline when you drag them
up and down to reorganize clips from track to track. Depending on the task at hand, one or the
other behaviors might be more convenient, but no matter how you have this mode set, video/
audio sync is always maintained when you move clips left and right.
 When Linked Move Across Tracks is enabled: (On by default) Dragging one of a linked
pair of video and audio items up or down in the Timeline moves the linked item up or
down as well. So, moving a video clip from track V1 to V2 results in its linked audio clip
moving from track A1 to A2 as well.
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