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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

Using Smooth Cut to hide an edit

Smooth Cut works best when there is not too much movement within the frame.

Much like the frame replacer FX plugin we used in Chapter 6, to replace a missing frame for the archive footage, the Smooth Cut video transition takes information from frames on both sides of the cut and blends them to hide the cut.

In this exercise, we are going to cut out the section of the clip where the groom looks at the camera, as this might be distracting for the audience and can break their immersion in the intimacy of the scene. Then, we will be removing the resulting jump cut with a Smooth Cut transition:

  1. Move the playhead to timecode 01:00:48:17 of the Timeline and add a cut.
  2. Move the playhead to timecode 01:00:51:19 of the Timeline and add a second cut.
  3. Ripple delete this section of the clip by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard. The section of the clip will be deleted, and the rest of the clips on the Timeline will be rippled up to fill...