DUDE. You are a legend. Thank you. I am currently working on doing a documentary style video and I feel so overwhelmed. I have 140 hours of content and it's been a nightmare to tell a story! Thank you!!!
Living legend indeed! This kinda videos will definitely help us, get unstuck. I’m handling 3 years of footages and still figuring out a way to get to the middle line.. this video gonna take me there.
This video is forever pinned in my brain, to remind myself that every project, big or small, needs to be this thoroughly organized. Thank you for everything you provide the community.
This is probably one of the best workflow breakdowns I have ever watched and definitely a must-watch for every assistant editor out there. I have enjoyed it and learnt so much from you. Joshua, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.
This was literally one of the best tutorials I've ever seen on RUclips. About to dive in to editing my first long-form doc and will be using this as my guideline. Thank you!
I can't thank you enough for sharing your organizational process for documentary editing. I'm so glad that I stumbled upon your channel, as I'm working on my first documentary short. This window into your process is invaluable!
Brother, just made the switch from PP to Resolve and was going mad on how to have a nice workflow. Your vid came up, wow man you've saved me a ton of time. Coffee on me when I'm down your ways or when you're up here. Much love
I don't even do documentaries, but really enjoyed learning your workflow and your way of talking through things clearly. Thank you for sharing so all of us can learn!
This is just incredible ! Can’t wait to see more content like this, breakdowns, how to set the timeline, tips. Etc. The way you explain everything is amazing !
This video is AWESOME! I just found out about Simon Says doing Transcription in DaVinci Resolve, which I am just learning, so went searching for a video on how it works, You've shown us how to use it, along with the whole documentary organization and workflow. Exactly what I needed to know! THANK YOU!!
Glad it was helpful! I have another video talking about MacWhisper which is another option and also now with Resolve 18.5 the AI captions is another option, although not a great workflow for inputting them as markers in a timeline yet.
@@JoshuaKirkNZ Hi Josh, Thanks for this video. I will dig into it even more as I try out Resolve. Are you changing anything about your workflow with the new AI captions in Resolve? I haven't fully learnt about any of this yet, but am curious to know what you're choosing.
This was incredibly helpful. I've been stuck trying to start my documentary on thru hike of the Pacific Crest Trail (6 months worth of content) for almost a year! This is a very insightful video to help organize my workflow and start creating a story. Thank you!
Joshua this is so amazing. I just watched the whole film and every aspect of it is so great. Wonderful cinematography, excellent music choice, great story (A-roll selection). Simply just wow! I don't want to mention level of organization in edit section because it's way above mine so hats off. So inspirational production. Huge fan here!
@@JoshuaKirkNZ This is really big project so I think you could do the whole series about that. Pre-production section (all about talking with client, location scouting, storyboarding etc. / production section - gear, crew, your vision, explenation about composition, your techniques with outdoor lightning / Post-production section exactly like this one, something about color, something about audio etc - if you hired people for specific job consider record video with them. I watch youtube alot. I am using it mostly to learn something new, looking for great creative artists and discover their technics. This video is definitly something on higher level than begginer or even intermediate so this is why I'm here and why I watched whole film. it's up to you what kind of audience you want to hit and what level of knowledge to share but if it's someghing advanced I stay ✌️
Hi Joshua Kirk. I just start watching this video, I’m in the beginning. Before finish I decide to leave my comments because. This one I search for long time. You gave us a great lesson us. Thanks. Well done.
This is the video I never imagined might exist. It's such a gift to new doc filmmakers who have so many things to learn at once. I knew I needed to be doing something along these lines for my projects, but wasn't quite sure how to do it. Thanks, Joshua.
Just having returned from a 10 days holiday trip with appr. 250 video clips from 3 different cameras I went nuts with the traditional way of having just one timeline and throwing all footage in just three bins (one for each camera). Now, with your great tutorial I will setup the whole footage structuring from scratch, making a timeline per each day or even scene per day, adding all media to it. Thanks so much for sharing your professional experience with us!
oh wow you just saved my life with this one. I just came back from an 3 months expedition to Greenland beeing totally overwhelmed by the amount of footage we took. I was searching for something like this for soooo long and couldn't ind any useful tips
The reasoning behind your organization and your very clear explanation absolutely amazes me. It's absolutely amazing how you can identify any place where a word is spoken and then use them as you want. My hat is definitely off, man. Stellar work.
This has been a huge help for someone just starting out with Davinci. Overkill for my current project but I implemented some of the ideas nonetheless in preparation for larger videos in the future. Much appreciated!
Just got done watching the documentary. Beautifully shot and edited! Good job 🙌🏽 This type of workflow tutorial is valuable for people wanting to go into serious documentary production. Thanks for the content!
This video has added the most value to my workflow this week, thank you for your detailed and phenomenal organization skills! I've just completed 6 interviews that will really benefit from the edit index / marker approach you've shared here. Keep up the great content!
I'm already feeling a bit overwhelmed. However, i really like how detailed it is. This is the kind of video i was searching for. Thanks a lot Joshua! :)
Extremely helpful stuff. I get overwhelmed anytime a video I produce gets above 10-12 minutes, so I can see why keeping hyper organized like this would be key. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Yeah it's totally important. The hardest thing to learn with long form edits is slowing down to take big broad brushstrokes first before getting stuck in the details.
I'm just starting my video editing journey and oh my gosh this was insanely helpful, thank you so much. I have been using Premier for about 18 months and decided to switch to DaVinci Resolve, still at the phase where where it's very overwhelming - I'm pretty inexperienced but you have given me a great direction to start in. thanks!
I've been editing for years but never really looked at any tutorials on how to attack edits, and have been inventing and improving my workflow on the go. I am currently editing a documentary with about 15 one-hour interviews, and I'm quite happy to see my workflow is very similar to yours. I still learned a lot in your video though, especially about the transcription part. I usually export the interview sequence, upload it on RUclips and wait for it to automatically transcribe the interview. I can then export the file with timings, and then search for a specific word in that file to find in the timeline after. A bit of a longer process, but it's free! Will definitely give Simon Says a go in the future though, that Edit Index technique is amazing. Thanks for the video!
I had a similar workflow to yours (RUclips transcription), if you take the resulting SRT file and convert it to markers in an EDL (using the free website en.editingtools.io/) - the result will be the searchable edit index that is shown in this workflow. To speed things up I generate the SRT from Adobe Premiere (using the new transcription / caption features) instead of uploading / waiting for RUclips. I hope this helps in some way!
this is great -- exactly the guidance I needed. Really looking forward to a Part 2 on your detailed approach putting it all together -- and your thoughts on how you might use the new Speed Editor/Cut-Page on future projects.Thanks so much!
@@JoshuaKirkNZ And please offer a way so we can show our appreciation (beer/coffee/Patreon, etc.) -- definitely want to say thanks for your generosity sharing your craft.
Hey Joshua, not only loved your video but also watched the documentary to see what you achieved with your workflow. Amazing Job, congrats! I am trying to make the footage organisation of a personal project way better, inspired by your tips.
Joshua, Thank you so much for this excellent video! You provided me with the 'big picture' necessary to produce my first documentary. Thank you for sharing your simple yet powerful method to organize and manage files! I have much to learn and look forward to viewing more of your videos. Thank you again!
Amazing video, I cant wait for the second part. I suscribe to your channel in this moment. Keep going and congratulations for your channel. Greets from Mexico.
Hey mate. I think this is the most valuable video I've ever watched about video editing workflow. Thank you so much. I'm taking that "transcribe technique with me. Cheers!
Joshua thanks so much for this video and advice. I'm new to Resolve and have some large documentaries on my horizon. I feel as if you have pointed me in the right direction to build my foundation of editing and organization. Driving the edit from the interviews/story to create themes has always been how I try to create, but I lacked the technical knowledge and skills to set up my raw footage to support that. Thank you so much!
Joshua Kirk thanks mate. I am watching from Zimbabwe. Please elaborate more on the theme based sequences and how you build the flow how do you rearrange the interview select bites and then putting on the master timeline
This information is insanely crucial and your workflow is godly my dude! The company I work at is transitioning into Davinci from FCPX and we've been pretty stumped at coming up with a solid workflow. Huge stuff here
I do a lot of wedding videography and I am definitely going to utilize these tips. Just found your channel and you have a lot of great content on Davinci. SUBBED!
The amount of footage you have is purely insane! How do you not get overwhelmed when selecting the moments to include? I personally find footage selection and take selection one of the hardest aspects of editing, and I have much-much less footage than you: some clips are definitely bad, but quite a lot contend to be included and it's hard to decide. Definitely waiting for part 2!
Excellent. Subscribed. Will never need such a detailed organization myself, but the video is chock full of ideas that I will be able to use. I’m no stranger to large, formal, hierarchies so I was pleased to see yours. Huge amount of work but without that insight into what you have available it would be difficult put the documentary together. Just an amazing narration as well. Thank you.
Very, very helpful information. Definitely a professional way of oganising the project. Your video was straight forward and easy to follow. Well done Josh :)
Thank you for a great video. I would however love to know more about using Simon Says. I have looked at it a number of times and decided not to use it but the way you are using it I am sure would change my mind. Thanks Dave
Thanks Dave - I definitely think it is worth circling back around to software after a year or so if they weren't quite right at the time because they develop so fast. I am using a range of different services now including Descript and Rev.com for captioning which have great transcription features, but importing transcripts as markers is a special feature that I was using here with Simon Says.
@@JoshuaKirkNZ I have used many of the paid and unpaid transcription services including Rev and RUclips on my Jack Hargreaves programmes due to not finding Simon Says very accurate but following seeing you video this weekend I gave SS another try and Wow it is now the best I have tried. It was as good or possibly slightly better than REV paid service. I might have just been lucky but it was picking up words I was having trouble understanding in Jack’s chatty voice. He didn’t work from notes or scripts but just talked over the film inserts. What I still need to sit down and work out is the way SS exports the markers as I was in a bit of a rush to get the programme up on Sunday and that is why being lazy I thought maybe you could help explain this a bit more in depth especially as I cannot find anyone else including SS who has really done this. By the way love your videos and would also love to see how you actually physically do the edit with all the timelines. I presume you put up the time line you are taking the shots from and then copy them into your main edit timeline.
Hi Joshua, I just landed to your channel and apparently by chance this is what I am looking for in how to organize my workflow by categorizing each and every shots and recording into specific clean folders and bins which my current sucks! Thanks for this and will be applying this tutorial to my next small editing projects. Wow, this was done a year ago ~ Subscribed!
Great video, the best Ive seen organizational themed. Writing from Mexico we are starting a Docu shoot, so this helps a lot. Will see part 2 with answers see if my questions are there
I really want to learn your Shortcut - System. Somehow the link to your preset doesnt work anymore. Do you think you could refresh that? You would help me a lot. I will leave a tip for sure. @@JoshuaKirkNZ
Thank you for this intimate insight and sharing of knowledge...it melted my brain, but damn was it worth it! Incredibly humbled by your skill and tenacity with editing and organization. I have recently been studying Francis Coppola in film school and have watched some videos about Walter Murch talking about editing Apocalypse Now and having literally 7 Tons worth of film to sift through and edit, when you hit us with the 26 terabytes of footage that is instantly where my brain snapped to. Very impressive work, so many superstars behind the scenes when bringing a piece of film to life and you are certainly one of them!
This is really great. It helped me so much with editing my first feature length doc with months of footage. I did come across a Bug where Davinci stops responding when there are too many timeline markers - this bug still hasn't been fix since v16 up to the current 18.1.3, unfortunately, so just be warned. Otherwise, thanks so much again.
Started watching the video - and my brain we like "that accent sounds so familiar and then you mentioned New Zealand. Ahhh Haaa! I am from New Zealand too! - btw Great video mate
Thank you for the video! I had a question about color correction: for a large production, do you usually color grade all the footage at the beginning or assemble a timeline and color grade only the footage you use? I'm pretty brand new to editing.
Colour grading is normally the very last thing that takes place in the editing pipeline. Once the edit is locked you can then colour grade your final timeline. However you can use a colour managed workflow to view your clips with good colour while you;re editing. Check this one out: ruclips.net/video/vNZxo9vp9r0/видео.htmlsi=E15MFu_wPmICdB4U
Hey Joshua, big thanks, this is super helpful. Im working on short documentary project and switched from fcpx to davinci - been looking for a guide like this to get basic understanding how to approach the workflow.. I would like to ask for video that would explain a bit more the actual way you organize footage and create bins with timelines etc… kind of thoughts behind the workflow… thanks again, you got a new subscriber
I have been amazed by your content since this is such an outstanding tutorial from out there and therefore you earn a new subscriber. Anyways, can you please make a video about keyboard shortcuts and your workspace in Davinci? That would be really helpful for us to edit faster and save time in editing. I'm really looking forward to that.
It varies between projects and contract with client. Some clients pay for data storage and in those cases we keep everything as long as they need. I would like to get projects archived 3 months after completion though.
amazing organization. love your content. would love to see how you manage proxies / keep such a huge 4k workflow going without turning the computer into a hellfire machine
Great suggestion for a new video. A few pointers off the top of my head with big projects in DaVinci resolve are: - Use a PostgreSQL Database instead of a disk database (It always performs better) - Host the database on the network from a different machine. (This takes some strain off your edit machine and can focus just on editing) - Working off a fast server really helps - see my other video here - ruclips.net/video/zzWK2zOi4Sc/видео.html - Computer RAM is important with large projects. I have 128GB in the 27" iMac. I'll be sure to make a video about this in the future!
whenever i try to add videos the first videos go to last,Thats annoying when im editing a vlog because vlogs needs to be in sequence so i always needs to arrange the videos,How can i fix this?
watched the entire Doc. Absolutely brilliant. Curious as to the Hard Drives you are using as well as the specs on your edit machine. Thanks, Anthony NYC
Thanks for watching and appreciate the kind words. I’ve made this video which walks through our data setup. It’s mostly the same today with a few tweaks. ruclips.net/video/zzWK2zOi4Sc/видео.html
Hey everyone - I have made a short follow up video answering some of your questions here - ruclips.net/video/MlUzCTQBqIM/видео.html
Thank you so very much! This helps a beginner more than you know 🤗 So insightful and informative ❤
DUDE. You are a legend. Thank you. I am currently working on doing a documentary style video and I feel so overwhelmed. I have 140 hours of content and it's been a nightmare to tell a story! Thank you!!!
hey. i need some guidence can you help me .
Glad it has been helpful!
a legend indeed, thank you!
Living legend indeed! This kinda videos will definitely help us, get unstuck. I’m handling 3 years of footages and still figuring out a way to get to the middle line.. this video gonna take me there.
This video is forever pinned in my brain, to remind myself that every project, big or small, needs to be this thoroughly organized. Thank you for everything you provide the community.
Appreciate this!
This "tedious" stuff dealing with data management/organization is so valuable, thank you for making the effort to share your workflow!
This is probably one of the best workflow breakdowns I have ever watched and definitely a must-watch for every assistant editor out there. I have enjoyed it and learnt so much from you. Joshua, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful Martí - Thanks for watching!
Fantastic video... just blown away by how in-depth this goes. The marker/transcription tip is a gamechanger 🤯
Thanks!
This was literally one of the best tutorials I've ever seen on RUclips. About to dive in to editing my first long-form doc and will be using this as my guideline. Thank you!
How did it go?
amazing. it took me two years of experience and research to get where you just presented in 20minutes. so good.
Stoked it was helpful!
This video deserves 10x the views, incredibly valuable 🙏🏼
Cheers mate!
I can't thank you enough for sharing your organizational process for documentary editing. I'm so glad that I stumbled upon your channel, as I'm working on my first documentary short. This window into your process is invaluable!
Thanks for the comment Eric! How did the documentary go?
Brother, just made the switch from PP to Resolve and was going mad on how to have a nice workflow. Your vid came up, wow man you've saved me a ton of time. Coffee on me when I'm down your ways or when you're up here. Much love
Thanks bro! Welcome to the DaVinci club haha. Catch up soon!
I don't even do documentaries, but really enjoyed learning your workflow and your way of talking through things clearly. Thank you for sharing so all of us can learn!
Awesome, thank you - You're welcome!
Amazing video here. A bit more in-depth than what we need, but super helpful and picked up a bunch of tips. Would love to see that part 2
Cheers guys :-)
This is literally the most insane project that I've ever seen, jesus
Looking forward for part 2
Haha! Yeah it's chunky but it was built over months of gathering footage for this project.
This is just incredible !
Can’t wait to see more content like this, breakdowns, how to set the timeline, tips. Etc. The way you explain everything is amazing !
Hey Jonny, thanks - really appreciate the support!
@@JoshuaKirkNZ Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I’ve been learning a lot from you!
This video is AWESOME! I just found out about Simon Says doing Transcription in DaVinci Resolve, which I am just learning, so went searching for a video on how it works, You've shown us how to use it, along with the whole documentary organization and workflow. Exactly what I needed to know! THANK YOU!!
Glad it was helpful! I have another video talking about MacWhisper which is another option and also now with Resolve 18.5 the AI captions is another option, although not a great workflow for inputting them as markers in a timeline yet.
@@JoshuaKirkNZ Hi Josh, Thanks for this video. I will dig into it even more as I try out Resolve. Are you changing anything about your workflow with the new AI captions in Resolve? I haven't fully learnt about any of this yet, but am curious to know what you're choosing.
This was incredibly helpful. I've been stuck trying to start my documentary on thru hike of the Pacific Crest Trail (6 months worth of content) for almost a year! This is a very insightful video to help organize my workflow and start creating a story. Thank you!
Joshua this is so amazing. I just watched the whole film and every aspect of it is so great. Wonderful cinematography, excellent music choice, great story (A-roll selection). Simply just wow! I don't want to mention level of organization in edit section because it's way above mine so hats off. So inspirational production. Huge fan here!
Hey Karol thanks so much for the love 🙌 and appreciate you taking the time to watch the whole piece! What would you like to see more of in the future?
@@JoshuaKirkNZ This is really big project so I think you could do the whole series about that. Pre-production section (all about talking with client, location scouting, storyboarding etc. / production section - gear, crew, your vision, explenation about composition, your techniques with outdoor lightning / Post-production section exactly like this one, something about color, something about audio etc - if you hired people for specific job consider record video with them.
I watch youtube alot. I am using it mostly to learn something new, looking for great creative artists and discover their technics. This video is definitly something on higher level than begginer or even intermediate so this is why I'm here and why I watched whole film. it's up to you what kind of audience you want to hit and what level of knowledge to share but if it's someghing advanced I stay ✌️
Hi Joshua Kirk. I just start watching this video, I’m in the beginning. Before finish I decide to leave my comments because. This one I search for long time. You gave us a great lesson us. Thanks. Well done.
Thanks for the comment - Appreciate it :-)
This is the video I never imagined might exist. It's such a gift to new doc filmmakers who have so many things to learn at once. I knew I needed to be doing something along these lines for my projects, but wasn't quite sure how to do it. Thanks, Joshua.
Hey glad it helped in some way! Keep going!
Just having returned from a 10 days holiday trip with appr. 250 video clips from 3 different cameras I went nuts with the traditional way of having just one timeline and throwing all footage in just three bins (one for each camera). Now, with your great tutorial I will setup the whole footage structuring from scratch, making a timeline per each day or even scene per day, adding all media to it.
Thanks so much for sharing your professional experience with us!
Good stuff. hope it worked out for ya!
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDD!!! I am overwhelmed just by seeing your Da Vinci Resolve Timeline. Let alone the Raw data you have.
Haha, yes it’s a lot.
This is one of the most helpful resolve videos I have ever seen in my life, amazing job
Hey Jacob, wow thanks it means a lot! Glad I could help.
OMG! Thanks for this incredibly in-depth walkthrough!
Cheers!
oh wow you just saved my life with this one. I just came back from an 3 months expedition to Greenland beeing totally overwhelmed by the amount of footage we took. I was searching for something like this for soooo long and couldn't ind any useful tips
Holy moly! Lots of work, much appreciated Joshua! Thank you 😊
🙌
The reasoning behind your organization and your very clear explanation absolutely amazes me. It's absolutely amazing how you can identify any place where a word is spoken and then use them as you want. My hat is definitely off, man. Stellar work.
Great to hear, thanks for the kind words.
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you for the detailed video - would love to see more!
Thanks so much! Appreciate it :-)
Very impressive. Have yet to see any other doco editorial breakdowns this well done. You deserve a cookie!
Glad it was helpful!
This has been a huge help for someone just starting out with Davinci. Overkill for my current project but I implemented some of the ideas nonetheless in preparation for larger videos in the future. Much appreciated!
Great to hear! Thanks for the watch.
Just got done watching the documentary. Beautifully shot and edited! Good job 🙌🏽 This type of workflow tutorial is valuable for people wanting to go into serious documentary production. Thanks for the content!
Thanks Wade, and appreciate you taking the time to watch the final piece!
This is a great breakdown - a lot of work at the start but certainly worth it down the line
Organising everything is the tedious,boring part of the process but you have helped me so much with this lesson.Thank you very much,Joshua. Tanya.
Thanks Tanya, Glad it helped :-)
This is insanely helpful, Josh. Forever grateful. Thanks
Appreciate it, glad it was helpful.
Hey Joshua, thank you for sharing your workflow. Some gold in there, it is appreciated. All the best as you continue to create
Thanks so much for watching!
This video has added the most value to my workflow this week, thank you for your detailed and phenomenal organization skills! I've just completed 6 interviews that will really benefit from the edit index / marker approach you've shared here. Keep up the great content!
Cheers, thanks mate.
I'm already feeling a bit overwhelmed. However, i really like how detailed it is. This is the kind of video i was searching for. Thanks a lot Joshua! :)
Thank you. Just take little steps and do one thing at a time you'll get there!
Extremely helpful stuff. I get overwhelmed anytime a video I produce gets above 10-12 minutes, so I can see why keeping hyper organized like this would be key. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Yeah it's totally important. The hardest thing to learn with long form edits is slowing down to take big broad brushstrokes first before getting stuck in the details.
The amount of work put into documentaries is impressive! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for commenting!
I'm just starting my video editing journey and oh my gosh this was insanely helpful, thank you so much. I have been using Premier for about 18 months and decided to switch to DaVinci Resolve, still at the phase where where it's very overwhelming - I'm pretty inexperienced but you have given me a great direction to start in. thanks!
Thanks - all the best for the journey into DaVinci!
You're a JEDI KNIGHT!!!!! Holy crap, this is awesome!!
Haha Thanks Matt!
I've been editing for years but never really looked at any tutorials on how to attack edits, and have been inventing and improving my workflow on the go. I am currently editing a documentary with about 15 one-hour interviews, and I'm quite happy to see my workflow is very similar to yours.
I still learned a lot in your video though, especially about the transcription part. I usually export the interview sequence, upload it on RUclips and wait for it to automatically transcribe the interview. I can then export the file with timings, and then search for a specific word in that file to find in the timeline after. A bit of a longer process, but it's free! Will definitely give Simon Says a go in the future though, that Edit Index technique is amazing.
Thanks for the video!
I had a similar workflow to yours (RUclips transcription), if you take the resulting SRT file and convert it to markers in an EDL (using the free website en.editingtools.io/) - the result will be the searchable edit index that is shown in this workflow. To speed things up I generate the SRT from Adobe Premiere (using the new transcription / caption features) instead of uploading / waiting for RUclips. I hope this helps in some way!
Great Tip!
this is great -- exactly the guidance I needed. Really looking forward to a Part 2 on your detailed approach putting it all together -- and your thoughts on how you might use the new Speed Editor/Cut-Page on future projects.Thanks so much!
Hi Dan, Thanks for the comment - I will defiantly put together a part 2 soon :-)
@@JoshuaKirkNZ And please offer a way so we can show our appreciation (beer/coffee/Patreon, etc.) -- definitely want to say thanks for your generosity sharing your craft.
Hey Joshua, not only loved your video but also watched the documentary to see what you achieved with your workflow. Amazing Job, congrats! I am trying to make the footage organisation of a personal project way better, inspired by your tips.
Awesome, thanks so much!
Joshua,
Thank you so much for this excellent video! You provided me with the 'big picture' necessary to produce my first documentary. Thank you for sharing your simple yet powerful method to organize and manage files! I have much to learn and look forward to viewing more of your videos. Thank you again!
Amazing video, I cant wait for the second part. I suscribe to your channel in this moment. Keep going and congratulations for your channel. Greets from Mexico.
That means a lot Serch - Thanks for the sub - More videos to come real soon!
Hey mate. I think this is the most valuable video I've ever watched about video editing workflow. Thank you so much. I'm taking that "transcribe technique with me. Cheers!
Glad it helped! You can now transcribe automatically within Davinci 18.5.
Joshua thanks so much for this video and advice. I'm new to Resolve and have some large documentaries on my horizon. I feel as if you have pointed me in the right direction to build my foundation of editing and organization. Driving the edit from the interviews/story to create themes has always been how I try to create, but I lacked the technical knowledge and skills to set up my raw footage to support that. Thank you so much!
Great to hear! Hope it has helped with your future work :-)
Joshua Kirk thanks mate. I am watching from Zimbabwe. Please elaborate more on the theme based sequences and how you build the flow how do you rearrange the interview select bites and then putting on the master timeline
Hey Colbert - Hello from New Zealand! Thanks for the comment. I will have to make a part two for this and expand on those items more :-)
Really great tutorial, loved it! Thanks :) Looking forward for your creative editing workflow advices.
I will definitely do a part 2 in the near future. Thanks for the comment :-)
This information is insanely crucial and your workflow is godly my dude! The company I work at is transitioning into Davinci from FCPX and we've been pretty stumped at coming up with a solid workflow. Huge stuff here
I do a lot of wedding videography and I am definitely going to utilize these tips. Just found your channel and you have a lot of great content on Davinci. SUBBED!
Awesome! Thank you!
The amount of footage you have is purely insane!
How do you not get overwhelmed when selecting the moments to include?
I personally find footage selection and take selection one of the hardest aspects of editing, and I have much-much less footage than you: some clips are definitely bad, but quite a lot contend to be included and it's hard to decide.
Definitely waiting for part 2!
Thanks Igor! Appreciate the comment. I think i'll release a video about this soon!
Learned. a lot and I appreciate your breakdown of your process!
Thanks Edward 🙌
The most valuable video for editor's. Worth watching video 🤞🏻🤩🎯
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This is so good! Thank you for the video
Glad you liked it!
This was so helpful for me. Especially as a self-taught editor. Thank you so much!
You’re welcome, glad it was helpful!
I really appreciate this. I have been trying to implement best practices early on in learning Resolve. This definitely helps. Thank you.
Was looking for something to prepare for interview edits. Great info! Thanks
Cheers!
It's so overwhelming, i hope they pay well for this long hard work
Wow what a great video! Thanks for making this, very helpful!
No worries!
Excellent. Subscribed. Will never need such a detailed organization myself, but the video is chock full of ideas that I will be able to use. I’m no stranger to large, formal, hierarchies so I was pleased to see yours. Huge amount of work but without that insight into what you have available it would be difficult put the documentary together. Just an amazing narration as well. Thank you.
I found this extremely helpful, thank you Joshua!
This helps a lot, and it's so clearly explained. Thank you !!
Beautiful Breakdown.
Thank you!
Hi Joshua, many thanks for your fantastic description how you have organized your documentary.
Hey thanks very much. Appreciate it.
Amazing. Using your workflow for my first short documentary.
Epic, have fun with it!
Very, very helpful information. Definitely a professional way of oganising the project. Your video was straight forward and easy to follow. Well done Josh :)
Thanks Jesse. Appreciate it
Thank you for a great video. I would however love to know more about using Simon Says. I have looked at it a number of times and decided not to use it but the way you are using it I am sure would change my mind. Thanks Dave
Thanks Dave - I definitely think it is worth circling back around to software after a year or so if they weren't quite right at the time because they develop so fast. I am using a range of different services now including Descript and Rev.com for captioning which have great transcription features, but importing transcripts as markers is a special feature that I was using here with Simon Says.
@@JoshuaKirkNZ I have used many of the paid and unpaid transcription services including Rev and RUclips on my Jack Hargreaves programmes due to not finding Simon Says very accurate but following seeing you video this weekend I gave SS another try and Wow it is now the best I have tried. It was as good or possibly slightly better than REV paid service. I might have just been lucky but it was picking up words I was having trouble understanding in Jack’s chatty voice. He didn’t work from notes or scripts but just talked over the film inserts. What I still need to sit down and work out is the way SS exports the markers as I was in a bit of a rush to get the programme up on Sunday and that is why being lazy I thought maybe you could help explain this a bit more in depth especially as I cannot find anyone else including SS who has really done this.
By the way love your videos and would also love to see how you actually physically do the edit with all the timelines. I presume you put up the time line you are taking the shots from and then copy them into your main edit timeline.
Hi Joshua, I just landed to your channel and apparently by chance this is what I am looking for in how to organize my workflow by categorizing each and every shots and recording into specific clean folders and bins which my current sucks! Thanks for this and will be applying this tutorial to my next small editing projects. Wow, this was done a year ago ~ Subscribed!
🙌 Glad it helped you, thanks for the sub!
Thanks so much dude! This got me started in Resolve :)
Great to hear!
Solid content. Thanks from America
Thanks for watching, from NZ!
Great video, the best Ive seen organizational themed. Writing from Mexico we are starting a Docu shoot, so this helps a lot. Will see part 2 with answers see if my questions are there
Yeaahh This is soooo helpful! Thank you for making this video.
What an informative and useful video. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge 👏👏🙏
Appreciate it thanks!
Thank you very much, this is really helpful :)
You're welcome!
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge.
Glad it was helpful!
I really want to learn your Shortcut - System. Somehow the link to your preset doesnt work anymore. Do you think you could refresh that? You would help me a lot. I will leave a tip for sure. @@JoshuaKirkNZ
Thank you for this intimate insight and sharing of knowledge...it melted my brain, but damn was it worth it! Incredibly humbled by your skill and tenacity with editing and organization. I have recently been studying Francis Coppola in film school and have watched some videos about Walter Murch talking about editing Apocalypse Now and having literally 7 Tons worth of film to sift through and edit, when you hit us with the 26 terabytes of footage that is instantly where my brain snapped to. Very impressive work, so many superstars behind the scenes when bringing a piece of film to life and you are certainly one of them!
Thanks so much Brianna, Glad it helped bring some insight behind the scenes!
Fantastic information! I’m working on my first long video and struggling to organize the material. Great info!
Glad it helped!
This is really great. It helped me so much with editing my first feature length doc with months of footage. I did come across a Bug where Davinci stops responding when there are too many timeline markers - this bug still hasn't been fix since v16 up to the current 18.1.3, unfortunately, so just be warned. Otherwise, thanks so much again.
Hey Kirk, thanks for this. I think this has been fixed now with 18.5.
Just watched the doc. Its great.
On the timeline what is that title guide on the top layer? Just guidance on placement?
It was a just a PNG overlay guide that the title designer setup so I knew where to align all of the titles throughout.
I really learned a lot from this. Thank you.
Your welcome, thanks for watching.
Started watching the video - and my brain we like "that accent sounds so familiar and then you mentioned New Zealand. Ahhh Haaa! I am from New Zealand too! - btw Great video mate
Also,loved your colour grade on Rapaura Springs.
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Loved this video! I see you haven't posted a lot of tutorial videos, relatively speaking. But you should. Hope you'll be posting more.
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm definitely trying to balance this RUclips thing with real productions - Harder than I anticipated haha :-)
Thank you for the video! I had a question about color correction: for a large production, do you usually color grade all the footage at the beginning or assemble a timeline and color grade only the footage you use? I'm pretty brand new to editing.
Colour grading is normally the very last thing that takes place in the editing pipeline. Once the edit is locked you can then colour grade your final timeline. However you can use a colour managed workflow to view your clips with good colour while you;re editing. Check this one out: ruclips.net/video/vNZxo9vp9r0/видео.htmlsi=E15MFu_wPmICdB4U
@@JoshuaKirkNZ Thanks!
Amazing, thank you for sharing this!
Pleasure Aram!
Great video, thanks for posting! I’ve been in the game for over 30yrs and this method puts me to shame. Well done, liked and subscribed.
thank you so much! 😊
Hey Joshua, big thanks, this is super helpful. Im working on short documentary project and switched from fcpx to davinci - been looking for a guide like this to get basic understanding how to approach the workflow.. I would like to ask for video that would explain a bit more the actual way you organize footage and create bins with timelines etc… kind of thoughts behind the workflow… thanks again, you got a new subscriber
stoked it was helpful. Great suggestion for future videos!
I have been amazed by your content since this is such an outstanding tutorial from out there and therefore you earn a new subscriber. Anyways, can you please make a video about keyboard shortcuts and your workspace in Davinci? That would be really helpful for us to edit faster and save time in editing. I'm really looking forward to that.
Awesome, thank you! - Coming Soon!
How long do you keep the workflow folder after the project is finished? How long you keep footages until finally delete them?
It varies between projects and contract with client. Some clients pay for data storage and in those cases we keep everything as long as they need. I would like to get projects archived 3 months after completion though.
amazing organization. love your content. would love to see how you manage proxies / keep such a huge 4k workflow going without turning the computer into a hellfire machine
agree!
Great suggestion for a new video. A few pointers off the top of my head with big projects in DaVinci resolve are:
- Use a PostgreSQL Database instead of a disk database (It always performs better)
- Host the database on the network from a different machine. (This takes some strain off your edit machine and can focus just on editing)
- Working off a fast server really helps - see my other video here - ruclips.net/video/zzWK2zOi4Sc/видео.html
- Computer RAM is important with large projects. I have 128GB in the 27" iMac.
I'll be sure to make a video about this in the future!
whenever i try to add videos the first videos go to last,Thats annoying when im editing a vlog because vlogs needs to be in sequence so i always needs to arrange the videos,How can i fix this?
Great tutorial!!! Thanks
You're welcome!
Fantastic work
🙏 Thank you!
Amazing work..
watched the entire Doc. Absolutely brilliant. Curious as to the Hard Drives you are using as well as the specs on your edit machine. Thanks, Anthony NYC
Thanks for watching and appreciate the kind words. I’ve made this video which walks through our data setup. It’s mostly the same today with a few tweaks. ruclips.net/video/zzWK2zOi4Sc/видео.html
thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks!
Impressive documentary. Overwhelming workflow. I'm just trying to make better RUclips videos. Thanks for the workflow pointers.
Thanks for watching, hope it helped in some way.