To control keyframes in DaVinci Resolve, especially to adjust their timing and the pace of your animation or effect, you interact with them directly on the timeline.
Adjusting Keyframe Timing on the Timeline
One primary way to control keyframes after they've been set is by adjusting their position on the timeline. This directly impacts when an animation or effect starts, stops, and how quickly it progresses.
Here’s how you typically adjust keyframe timing based on timeline interaction:
- Navigate to the timeline: Ensure you are in the Edit page and viewing the timeline for your clip.
- Locate Keyframes: You'll see diamond markings on the timeline, as shown below (referring to typical DaVinci Resolve interface visuals, though not provided in the text, the description confirms their appearance). These diamonds represent the keyframes you've set for various parameters.
- Reveal Specific Keyframes: Simply click on one of these diamond markers associated with your clip on the timeline. This action will often reveal the specific keyframes you've set for different properties (like position, scale, opacity, etc.) within that clip's timeline track or a related control area.
- Drag and Reposition: Once the keyframes are visible, you can then drag these keyframes, according to your needs. Dragging a keyframe earlier or later on the timeline will change its timing.
By dragging keyframes, you change the speed of the animation and when it specifically occurs. Moving keyframes closer together makes the transition or change faster, while moving them further apart slows it down.
Understanding Keyframe Control
While adjusting timing on the timeline is a crucial control method, keyframes offer several ways to manipulate animation and effects:
- Creation: Setting the initial keyframes for a parameter at different points in time.
- Deletion: Removing keyframes to eliminate specific animation points.
- Adjustment (Timing): Moving keyframes on the timeline (as described above) or within dedicated keyframe editors.
- Adjustment (Value): Modifying the parameter value at a specific keyframe point (e.g., changing position coordinates or opacity percentage).
- Interpolation: Controlling how DaVinci Resolve transitions between keyframes (e.g., linear, smooth, ease in/out) using editors like the Spline Editor.
Focusing on the timing adjustment using the timeline diamond markers is a fundamental step in refining animations and effects within your edit.
Adjusting keyframes is essential for bringing your creative vision to life, ensuring effects and animations occur precisely when and how you intend them to.
