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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

Creating cut-ins

Here, we will use the same clip to show how cut-ins work. We need to add a close-up of the groom signing the marriage certificate as a cut-in to help tell the story. We want to emphasize this part of the story, and getting closer will draw our audience’s attention to this key moment:

  1. Move the playhead to the following timecode of the Timeline: 01:00:55:17.
  2. Add a cut using the razor tool (the CMD + B key combination is the shortcut). This is the point where we will add our cut-in.
  3. Now, let us mark up our cut-in on clip A001_04041647_C034.mov:
    1. Double-click on the clip in the Media Pool to load it in the Viewer.
    2. Move the playhead in the Viewer until 16:48:37:11, and mark an In point (I).
    3. Move the playhead in the Viewer until 16:48:40:11, and mark an Out point (O).
  4. Drag the marked-up clip down from the Viewer onto Video Track 2 of the Timeline. Line up the start of our cut-in with the cut on Video Track 1 that we just made in step 2.
  5. Play back...