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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

Summary

We now know how to create split-screen and picture-in-picture effects. These effects are useful for how-to videos where we want to show a picture of the presenter and a close-up of their hands at the same time. Other uses for split screens are shown in the Further reading section at the end of the chapter.

We also know how to create compound clips, which are useful for applying effects to a whole group of clips at the same time.

Here is what you have achieved in this chapter:

  • You learned how to create a split screen by resizing and recomposing composite video footage on the Cut page
  • You learned what a compound clip is and how to create one
  • You learned how to create a picture-in-picture effect using Resolve FX’s Video Collage | Create Background effects
  • You learned how to create a picture-in-picture effect using Resolve FX’s Video Collage | Create Tile effects

In Chapter 11, we will look at how to adjust the color of our clips so...