Since my recent migration to Resolve, I’ve been running into functions that I miss nearly every day. Most of them exist in DaVinci’s ecosystem, but ascertaining their exact names is a bit of a chore, since they’re not standardized across all NLEs.

ChatGPT ends up being perfect for this, especially when traditional vague Googling isn’t delivering.

Anyway. I missed the function of being able to select all the clips on a timeline to the right of my mouse (or to the left, although I rarely use that function for some reason).

In Resolve, this is called “Select Clips” and you have multiple options — “Select Clips Forward” or “Select Clips Backward.”

I have mapped the following keyboard shortcuts:

“Select Clips Forward” = Alt+F

“Select Clips Backward” = Alt+B

In these cases, “F” stands for “forward” and “B” stands for “backward.”