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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

By : Lance Phillips
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Book Image

Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

5 (1)
By: Lance Phillips

Overview of this book

Micro content dominates social media marketing, but subpar editing and low-quality videos can shrink your audience. Elevate your social media game with DaVinci Resolve - the world’s most trusted name in color grading that has been used to grade Hollywood films, TV shows, and commercials. Version 18 enables you to edit, compose VFX, mix sound, and deliver videos for different platforms, including social media and the web. You’ll learn the basics of using DaVinci Resolve 18 to create video content, by first gaining an overview of creating a complete short video for social media distribution directly from within the “Cut” page. You’ll discover advanced editing, VFX composition, color grading, and sound editing techniques to enhance your content and fix common video content issues that occur while using consumer cameras or mobile phones. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to use DaVinci Resolve to edit, fix, finish, and publish short-form video content directly to social media sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Vimeo.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
7
Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Understanding continuity editing

One use of cut-ins and cutaways is to help with continuity editing. Continuity editing is an editing technique where we aim to maintain the timing of the clips on the Timeline as if the action is happening in a continuous moment in time (even if the clips were shot at different times or on different days). Rather than try and understand it with a definition, it is easier to demonstrate it in the following exercise using the The_Wedding project that we downloaded earlier.

Even though we have stabilized the wedding video footage, there are still parts of the clips that we cannot fix, such as the camera drifting in and out of focus.

We will need to cut these out and hide the resulting jump cut with other B-roll footage, which was shot at a different time by a wedding guest. I have already color-coded the B-roll footage we are going to use as a teal color and the master footage as a lime green color to make them easier to find and differentiate. If...