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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

Compound clips

You can take a series of clips on the same track on the Timeline, or clips stacked on top of each other on different tracks on the Timeline, and merge them into a single clip. This single clip that has been created from various video and audio files combined into one is called a compound clip. The advantage of working with a compound clip is that you can apply effects and transitions to it as if it were a single clip, without having to apply the same effect several times to its parts. So, anything you can do to a normal clip, you can do to a compound clip.

Creating a compound clip

Creating a compound clip is easy:

  1. Select all the audio and video clips on your Timeline that you want to turn into a compound clip. You can Shift + click on each one to select them or, in our case, use Command + A (Mac) or Control + A (Windows) to select all the clips on the Timeline.
  2. Right-click on any of the selected clips and choose New Compound Clip… at the top...