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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)
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Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
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Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Removing chroma key background spill using the Despill Resolve FX Color plugin

The Resolve FX Color: Despill plugin is useful for removing despill from clips that have been chroma-keyed using chroma keyers that do not have a built-in despill function. The Despill plugin is also useful if you have been given a clip that has already been chroma-keyed but still has colored light spilling onto the subject from the original green screen or blue screen background that has already been removed.

For our clip, we will use the Despill plugin to remove the green spill that the HSL Keyer could not remove.

Applying the Despill plugin

Just as with the 3D Keyer, you can apply the Despill plugin on either the Cut or Edit page.

After locating the Despill plugin in Effects > Video > Resolve FX Color > Despill, you can apply the Despill plugin using any of the same methods described for the other keyers.

Adjusting the Despill plugin

Now that you have applied the Despill plugin...