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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

Split Screens and Picture-in-Picture

Have you ever wondered how sports broadcasts overlay one video over another so that you can watch a close-up of a footballer’s tackle in a small window, while we see the commentators’ reactions in the video behind? This effect is also used in news broadcasts and even some movies to show the action happening concurrently. If you are making a wedding video, you can show the groom waiting and show the bride preparing at the same time to show two different sides of the same story. This can be achieved with the help of a split screen.

In this chapter, we will look at creating similar split-screen effects using composite footage and video resizing, as well as picture-in-picture effects using the Resolve FX Transform Video Collage plugin on the Cut page.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • A simple split-screen effect
  • Composite clips
  • Picture-in-picture effects – Create Tile
  • Picture...