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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

Shooting video for greenscreen

Just to clarify, the process of removing the background of a video to replace it in post-production with a new background is commonly called greenscreen, which is not to be confused with the name of the background which is filmed as part of this process which is a green screen.

Let us explain how this greenscreen process works so that we can understand how to light our video especially for it.

We start by filming our central subject against a single-color background (usually a green screen). Then, in the editing software, we identify the color of the background we want to remove from the video. The software removes the specified color from the video, leaving behind a transparent layer in its place. This leads to a transparent background. We can then put another video or computer-generated graphics behind this transparent layer of our main video. The newly added video or graphics will be seen where the transparency has been created by removing the...