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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

By : Lance Phillips
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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
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Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Understanding codecs

Usually, when we save our video in any editing software, including Resolve, we will be presented with a confusing array of different file formats to save our video in.

The main difference between each of these video file formats is the codec that they use. When exporting our video on Resolve’s Deliver page, we are shown options for both Format and Codec (Figure 9.1):

Figure 9.1: Export Video settings on the Deliver page

Figure 9.1: Export Video settings on the Deliver page

Essentially, a video file format such as .MOV or .MP4 (shown by a dot followed by a three- or four-letter code at the end of a filename) is a container to store the video file in.

Each of these video files uses different ways to squeeze the video and audio information into the container. The way the video is squeezed into this file container is called a codec.

What is a codec?

A codec is a set of instructions (known as code) for the camera to help it compress a video to store in a computer file and...