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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)
1
Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
7
Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Understanding basic color theory

Color can be measured and described in many ways, probably more than any other medium. There are whole topics dedicated to color: science, psychology, sociology, and of course, technology. Let me explain each of these in relation to color and why they are important.

Color science

Color reaches our eyes through visible waves of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun and is measured in nanometers (nm). Our eyes, along with our brains, translate light into color. The perception of each color we see is based on a different wavelength of this radiation, with red (740 nm) being the longest wavelength we can see and violet (380 nm) being the shortest (Figure 11.1):

Figure 11.1: Wavelengths of visible light (image: Lance Phillips)

Figure 11.1: Wavelengths of visible light (image: Lance Phillips)

Artificial light mimics these wavelengths of the Sun. All the color that we see with our eyes is light either reflected off surfaces or emitted by a light source.

The retina in our eyes is most...