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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 a greenscreen effect on the Edit page using the 3D Keyer

The 3D Keyer is a chroma key tool where you can quickly draw lines over the color you want to key (remove) from the background.

Every line you draw selects the corresponding colors in the 3D color space of the video. A color space is a 3D representation of all the colors available for your video. See Chapter 11, for a more detailed explanation of color spaces. Hence why the tool is called the 3D Keyer, as it takes a key from the colors in this 3D color space.

You can apply the 3D Keyer on either the Cut or Edit page (of course, you can also use the Fusion and Color pages, but that is a bit more complicated than you need it to be).

Applying the 3D Keyer

After locating the 3D Keyer in Effects > Video > Resolve FX Key > 3D Keyer, you can apply the 3D Keyer to the selected clip in the Timeline using any of the following methods on either the Cut or Edit pages (Figure 9.11):

  • Double-click on the...