So rather than me pressing shift four and shift six to move between the edit and color page, what I've done is mapped those keyboard commands to my stream deck. Along the same lines is this concept of what I've done here, which is I've kitted out my room with two stream decks, which are essentially gaming devices that allow you to map keyboard shortcuts to buttons. By the way, if you're looking for a keyboard shortcut for project settings shift nine is a very easy way of getting to your project settings. Shift eight takes me to the deliver page. Shift two takes me over to the media page. So as you move between the cut page and say the color page shift three and shift six, you can very quickly bounce between these different pages. So what you want to do is come up to a workspace, switch to page, and you can see that shift two through eight are the different pages here in DaVinci Resolve. So Blackmagic has been adding default keyboard shortcuts to these. Now you'll see fully what, 60, 70%, almost 80% of these have menu commands assigned to them. A couple of years ago in early versions of DaVinci Resolve, maybe only 20 or 30% of these menu items ever had any keyboard commands assigned to them. How do you find them? Well, if we come up into the workspace, now you'll notice in any menu item that as we go through these menu items that most of these now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them. And it turns out that there are keyboard shortcuts for this. For me, these are my most frequently accessed menu commands. I find myself moving between these all the time and then into the deliver page, and then back into the media page. So one of my most common menu items that I'm always going for is moving between the edit page and the color page. And it will go ahead and find all the media that's in there.

So I've got this relinking, if not, if you're having trouble and this is all showing up as media offline, which it shouldn't be, but it might be, go ahead go into the media pool, right click on master and choose re-link clips for selected bin and go ahead and navigate to the desktop and go back to that dra folder and choose that as the bin that you want to relink to. Now the advantage of the dra is it should automatically link to the footage on your hard drive, even though your file path is different than mine. And on the desktop, in our exercise files, we're going to dig down into our project's media folder, and you'll see this dot dra let's go ahead and import that. So we're going to go ahead and restore this archive.

First thing we're going to do is import a new project, which I've delivered to you, and this is a project archive. One of the ways of speeding up your work is to pay attention to the menu items you keep mousing for. In other words, the more work you can do with two hands on a keyboard, the faster you'll become.

As you're learning the DaVinci Resolve, one of my favorite tips for you has to do with getting your hands off the mouse and onto the keyboard.

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