{"id":95300,"date":"2017-10-12T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=95300"},"modified":"2017-10-11T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:23:57","slug":"using-resolve-auto-select-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/using-resolve-auto-select-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"DaVinci Resolve Being Weird? This Is Probably Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t know how to use them, DaVinci Resolve’s Auto Select controls can trip up your workflow. Here’s everything you need to know about this highly useful (but sometimes tricky) tool.<\/h2>\n

Whenever you jump headfirst into new software, there’s always that one feature that keeps tripping you up, and it usually takes a bit of time to figure out what is going wrong. In DaVinci Resolve that feature is the Auto Select control<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It might be one of the most important functions on the timeline because it will directly\u00a0cause edits on the various tracks on your timeline to perform differently<\/strong>. The Auto Select is a multipurpose control that can increase the efficiency of an edit. What does it do? Its function is to\u00a0allow\u00a0editors to specify which tracks\u00a0will undergo changes\u00a0during an edit<\/strong> to multiple tracks.<\/p>\n

For example, in the screenshot below, I want to make an insert edit with the video and audio<\/strong> from the source monitor. I want the media to land in V1 and A1, so I have selected those tracks. I want the current media on those tracks\u00a0to ripple forward, and I\u00a0also need the score on A3 to remain as it is, and for the clip in V2 to continue the fade out.<\/p>\n

\"DaVinci<\/p>\n

However, when I do so, the insert edit has affected all of the tracks with clips<\/strong> that extend through the marked area. It’s separated the video on V2, along with the score on A3, even though\u00a0I was only inserting it to tracks V1 and A1. This is because the Auto Select is on for all tracks (it’s on by default). Now, let’s deactivate the Auto Select<\/strong> by turning off the Auto Select button on the track tools.<\/p>\n

\"DaVinci<\/p>\n

Here, I’ve turned Auto Select off on tracks V2 and A3, and now when I insert edit, something a little different happens.<\/p>\n

\"DaVinci<\/p>\n

Both the video and audio from the two deactivated tracks have been omitted from the process.<\/p>\n

We can see from this very simple edit that the Auto Select controls can be ideal<\/strong> for editing multiple tracks \u2014 or cause headaches if you only want to affect one track.<\/p>\n

An obvious question is Why not just lock the track?<\/em> When you lock a track, you completely remove the ability to perform any\u00a0<\/em>edit on the track or the individual clips<\/strong>. There may be some circumstances when this is the better tool to use \u2014 perhaps locking down a score to remain in place. But this is precisely the point of Auto Select: you are not disabling edits, you’re just removing the track from\u00a0a multi-track operation<\/strong> \u2014 and there are plenty of operations that will respond differently depending on the state of Auto Select:<\/p>\n