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REVIEW www.postmagazine.com 31 POST JAN/FEB 2021 shuttle wheel as the best combination of the tool to create the edit. An addition I would like to see is a key combination to play the clips at half speed. I very often hold the "K" key and press the "L" key to run the footage at half speed on the keyboard while editing. In terms of the key layout and the controls, I found it's best to use the Speed Editor controls with two hands. I really did my best to edit using the Speed Editor without touching the keyboard or the mouse. And I was able to do that effectively in the source-tape mode because I didn't have to switch any camera angles and I was just building a long string-out. When working with multiple camera footage, you can use the dedicated camera angle control keys on the small keyboard on the Speed Editor to switch camera angles very effectively. The Cut Page is designed for doing fast assembly work because there's only one audio track, so you're not going to do your fine editing and adding music and sound effects there. However, trimming is very fast using the Speed Dial and the dedicated trimming mode options built into the Speed Editor. The Speed Editor also has a few color-coded keys and the best of those is the red, full-screen/trim-review button. For editors without a broadcast monitor, this one button flips the Resolve GUI into full-screen mode for reviewing your edits. As mentioned earlier, this red button also has a secondary function of edit review, the play around edit function. So the combination of this Speed Editor and the Cut Page is a great way to get through a lot of footage, especially in a multi-camera situation for reality TV, cooking shows, sports, competitions and that sort of thing. You can use the Speed Editor to essentially create a fast line-cut from multi-camera footage and then fine-tune it after the fact with a full multi-cam clip placed underneath it on the timeline. During the Resolve 17 intro video, Grant Petty announced that when you buy the full version of the Resolve through a reseller, you can get the Speed Editor for free, so that makes the price of admission worthwhile. To wrap up, going back to this edit controller paradigm paired with the digital file-based workflow for multiple cameras does make a lot of sense and is a very effective way to quickly go through a heap of footage.