I’ve mapped the “new bin” function to Ctrl+B in DaVinci Resolve. I believe my default was Ctrl+\ which makes no sense, so I’ve changed it. “B” stands for bin, obviously.

You’ll notice that this is my first post explaining shortcuts used in DaVinci Resolve. Why? Because I have officially switched to Resolve, after a myriad of disappointments with Premiere.

I’ve been working on several large projects in Premiere for months — a 6-part docuseries and a feature film. Needless to say, Premiere choked up and fucked me on both these projects. I will go into detail at a future time, because it’s really quite a story. Long story short, ep 1 of the docuseries was almost unopenable because the project was so slow. For the feature, I had 85 minutes of an assembly that also froze up and maxxed out my RAM any time I’d try to do anything. Mouse-clicks took three minutes to register.

After much troubleshooting, I got to the root of the problems, and basically it’s all Premiere’s fault. I’ve been pissed off at this program for quite awhile, and that was finally the last straw. If I get 85 minutes into a rough cut for a movie, and the project becomes unusable, that is UNFORGIVEABLE. Do better.

So it’s Resolve from here on out baby. And so far, I’m impressed.