Customers who need quick picture in picture effects can use F5 and apply them instantly. There's also a new transition window that uses the F4 key and pressing and rotating the search dial allows instant selection from all the transition types in DaVinci Resolve.

There are additional edit models on the function keys allowing more types of editing directly accessed from dedicated keys on the keyboard. The function keys along the top of the keyboard have now been taken and used for various editing functions. The live trimming buttons have been renamed to the same labels as the functions in the edit page, and they have been changed to trim in, trim out, transition duration, slip in and slip out. Multiple changes have also been made to the new DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard, including a new adaptive scroll feature on the search dial, which will slow down a job when editors are hunting for an in point, all automatically. This is incredibly fast to use as with one button click, the clips are cut immediately.

One of the most common feedback items requested was a faster way to cut clips in the timeline, and now DaVinci Resolve 16.1 includes a cut clip icon in the user interface and simply clicking on it will slice the clips in the timeline at the CTI point. The new smart indicator constantly live updates as the editor moves around the timeline.

This is where the new smart indicator provides a small marker in the timeline so customers get constant feedback on where DaVinci Resolve will place edits and transitions. The problem is in complex edits, where it is hard to know what the software would do and which edit it would place the effect or clip into. This is fast because the software guesses what the editor wants to do and just does it by adding the inset edit, or adding a transition to the edit closest to where the editor has placed the CTI. The new cut page in DaVinci Resolve 16 introduced multiple new smart features, which work by estimating where the editor wants to add an edit or transition and then allowing it to be applied without the wasted time of placing in and out points on the exact locations of the clips. An exciting feature to be added in this public beta is the new Smart Indicator.

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