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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

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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

Summary

You now know how to set up a greenscreen shoot as well as how to remove the background in Resolve using tools such as the 3D and HSL Keyers. You also know how to apply the Despill plugin to remove background spill as well as Matte Finesse controls to better refine your key.

This will help you when you want to add different artificial backgrounds in your videos, such as slide presentations to help in presenting a video on a specific topic.

Here is what you have achieved in Chapter 9:

  • Learned how to shoot videos for a good greenscreen effect
  • Used Resolve FX keyers to create greenscreen effects on the Edit page using the 3D Keyer
  • Used Resolve FX keyers to create greenscreen effects on the Edit page using the HSL Keyer
  • Used the Despill Resolve FX plugin to remove green spill

In Chapter 10, we will look deeper into creating composite images by adding split-screen and picture-in-picture effects.