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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

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
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Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Video Collage | Create Background

In the Video Collage effect, the Create Background option uses a top layer of video as the background layer and punches holes in this layer to show the video on the layers underneath (Figure 10.6). These holes appear as video tiles on the final composite video.

Figure 10.6: A Create Background example

Figure 10.6: A Create Background example

We will be using the split-screen compound clip we created in the last exercise to overlay close-up shots of the cake being eaten.

We are going to use the Cut page for the following exercise; however, the effect works in exactly the same way on the Edit page.

Preparing our Timeline for Create Background

First, we need to add all the video clips we will use for the picture-in-picture effect:

  1. Right-click on the Split_Screen Timeline in the Media Pool, select Duplicate Timeline, and rename it Create_Background. We will use this new Timeline for our new effects without losing our original split-screen effects...