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Tame Your Video Chaos: Master Smart Bins in Davinci Resolve

  Tame Your Video Chaos: Master Smart Bins in Davinci Resolve Are you drowning in a sea of clips? Is your media pool looking more like a cluttered closet than an organized workspace? Fear not, young video editor! There's a superhero tool waiting to save your sanity: Smart Bins. Imagine a magical sorting hat for your video clips. That's essentially what Smart Bins are in Davinci Resolve. These nifty little features automatically filter your footage, making it a breeze to find exactly what you need. Let's dive in and discover how to harness their power. What are Smart Bins? Think of Smart Bins as automated file folders for your videos and audio. They sort your media based on specific criteria, like whether a clip has been used, its audio type (dialogue, music, effects), or even its frame rate. This means less time hunting through endless thumbnails and more time unleashing your creativity. Getting Started with Smart Bins First things first, make sure Smart Bi...
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Transition Mattes & Style Mattes Solved!

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I came across some files on my computer which I hadn't looked at in a while, they consisted of a shattered glass wipe effect and some sound effects. I dragged them to my timeline over a cut transition and it looked awful. After a little research, I discovered that DaVinci Resolve treats transition Mattes and style mattes a little differently. To get them to work correctly took a little bit of experimentation but when I finally got there I wondered how many other people would be having this same problem. I fired up OBS and recorded my screen, the video is at the end of this post. I had a .mov which was a png sequence and a .mov file which was an Alpha Matte. The first oddity was you have to bring the matte in via the media page as a matte and not a video. I created some bins to keep everything organized "Matte" "SFX" "Wipe" & "Footage". I had to set the timeline to be the same frame rate as the transition otherwise the video of the transit...
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