Grading & Finishing Techniques in under 5 minutes. In this lesson were going to take

a look at another one of DaVinci Resolve 12's new features and this is the ability to optimize

clips that you've imported into your project. Optimizing Clips is very straight forward.

So, What I've done is I've created a smart bin this is another on of DaVinci Resolve

12's new features and this smart bin, if I double click it to edit it. Is using the media

pool properties group of metadata, I can use all kinds of criteria for example if I go

down to codec, I can use the codec. The codec contains dng. There are all of my CinemaDNG

clips. Now if I want, I can select these clips, right click and choose generate optimized

media and if I do so, I'm gonna do so with this one clip right here. I get a dialogue

with a progress bar that lets me know how long its going to take. This happens to be

a really long clip. So I can go have a coffee, before coming back and being ready to go.

I'm gonna cancel this, because if I ever have any question as to which clips have been optimized

and which clips haven't. I can put the media pool into list view, and in list view there's

a new column, Optimized Media. If it's not shown, you can show it by right clicking in

the headers of the column and choosing Optimized Media. You'll see that the optimized media

column is showing me which clips have optimized media and also what resolution the optimized

media is in. And this brings me to a good point If I open up the Project Settings and

go down toGeneral Options. There's a new section here for Optimized Media and I have two choices

I can make. Choice number one is what format I want the optimized media to be in and you

have a selection of high quality to low quality formats. I've got all the pro res codecs,

I've got all the new DNXhr codecs from Avid, and up at the top, I've got uncompressed formats.

These are proprietary Black Magic formats up here if I need the absolute best quality

media. In addition I have the ability to choose what resolution I want the optimized media

to be in. Chose automatically, basically tries to use whatever ration of shrinkage is required

to make my clips math as closely as possible to current resolution of the timeline. That's

why these optimized clips are all showing half res. They were 4K clips and at half res

the matching the 1080 resolution of my timeline nicely. So, I'm gonna cancel out of this,

once I've optimized my media it a very easy thing for me to use it. It just works like

any other clip. If I go up in the playback menu, theres a command Use optimized media

when available. When this is checked I'm using optimized media, so if I open up a clip in

the source viewer, I'm now using the optimized media rather than the raw media, and if I

jump into the color page, same thing I'm just invisibly behind the scenes using the optimized

media. So, if for example I were to go into the motion effects palette and add a little

bit of noise reduction just to stress my computer out. You can see that right now I'm maintaining

about 20 or so frames per second of performance and again this is my 27 inch iMac. If I go

back up to playback and turn off Use Optimized Media if Available. I've now behind the scenes

gone back to using the Raw Clip. Now I'm only getting about 13 frames per second of performance.

Because now, I'm noise reducing a much bigger resolution piece of media. So thats how to

use Optimized Media in a nutshell. There's more detail about this function and all the

other new features in DaVinci Resolve 12 in my new title for Ripple Training New Features

in DaVinci Resolve 12. Thanks a lot for listening.