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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 HSL Keyer

The HSL Keyer has different options from the 3D Keyer as you can choose to select the key based on the hue, saturation, or luminance (HSL) of pixels in the image. This allows you to have more control over trickier keys as you can select any combination of hue, saturation, or luminance to get a successful key.

For example, there may be a background that is not a uniform green that also matches the green the subject may be wearing. However, if the background is less saturated and bright than the subject, you can still separate the background by only selecting the saturation and luminance of the green background and not the hue.

However, unlike the 3D Keyer, the HSL Keyer does not have a Despill option, so it is best to only use it if you cannot get a successful key using the 3D Keyer.

Let us create a new Timeline to try the HSL Keyer on different footage. To get our greenscreen footage and create a new Timeline...