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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

Video Collage | Create Tile

In the Video Collage effect, Create Tile uses a layout that you design rather than the pre-made layout design of Create Background. Create Tile is a bit more work to set up; however, it gives you more options for the design of your layout.

Preparing our Timeline for Create Tile

This time when preparing our Timeline for Create Tile, we will put our background video on the bottom video track and lay our other clips on tracks above it:

  1. Duplicate our Split_Screen (Timeline) and rename it Create_Tile.
  2. In the Timeline, add two extra video tracks (tracks 2 and 3) above the composite clip that is already on Track 1.

With Create Tile, we leave the background video layer (i.e., our composite clip) on the lowest track (Video 1), as shown in Figure 10.16.

Figure 10.16: The composite clip left on Track 1

Figure 10.16: The composite clip left on Track 1

  1. In the Media Pool, find the other clips as before – MVI_2573.MP4 and Cake_Tile2. Drag each one onto...