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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)
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Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
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Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
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Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Creating cutaways

When inserting in a cutaway, it is best to find a particular point in the main shot that motivates the cutaway. Play through the edit on the Timeline and mark any key moments where the subjects look away off-camera or seem to be thinking. Here’s an example of how to do that:

  1. Move the playhead to the following timecode of the Timeline: 01:01:13:05. Both the bride and groom see something outside the shot (off camera) that attracts their attention. Notice that their eye-lines are looking to the lower-left part of the frame. We will need to find a B-roll clip where the action matches the direction of their eye-lines.
  2. In the Media Pool, locate clip A001_04041629_C028.mov and load it into the Viewer.
  3. Play it until you reach 16:29:09:02, where the B-Roll is of a little boy and girl walking up the steps. This shot matches the direction of your couple’s eye-lines.

Add an In point mark.

  1. Add on Out point mark at 16:29:13:07 before...