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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

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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

A simple split-screen effect

Creating a simple split-screen effect is not unique to Resolve and has been used for decades in cinema to show two perspectives of a story at the same time. For example, in early cinema, it was often used to show two characters in different locations having a phone conversation with each other. You can also use split-screen effects to show a close-up of a product at the same time that a presenter talks about it.

The following approach can be used in any editing software and is a good way to understand how layering video works. Let us take the video of our bride and groom and show them cutting the cake with different camera angles, side by side as a split screen, to highlight the event to our audience:

  1. Open the Wedding project on the Cut page.
  2. Create a new Timeline (CMD + N) in the Media Pool and call it Split_Screen; then, select two video tracks in the Create New Timeline pop-up window (Figure 10.1).
Figure 10.1: The Create New Timeline Window

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