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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

Enhancing Color for Mood or Style

One of the most common aspects of filmmaking I have noticed that sets professional-looking videos apart from beginner ones is the use of color to tell a story.

Color is important for filmmaking on so many different levels, and there are whole books written about it.

Rather than replicate what is written in those books, I aim to summarize the color theories so that you can begin to understand how to use color in your videos.

So, in this chapter, we will introduce color theory as used in Hollywood films. Then, we will use Resolve Color FX on the Cut page to transform, compress, and stabilize color. We will then introduce you to the automatic color tool on the Cut page and look at the Color Management settings in Project Settings to help automatically optimize your image there.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding basic color theory
  • Stabilizing color
  • Contrast pop
  • Auto Color
  • ...