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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

Stabilizing color (DaVinci Resolve Studio version only)

Sometimes, when editing video footage, we might have single camera shots with unwanted changes in exposure and color, such as when a shot moves from outdoor sunlight into indoor light.

Resolve has a Resolve FX Color plugin called Color Stabilizer that corrects this and any other unwanted changes in color and exposure within a single clip. Let us see how it works in practice.

Applying the Color Stabilizer effect

This is how you can apply the Color Stabilizer effect:

  1. Open your Color.dra archive.
  2. Create a new Timeline and call it Color.
  3. In the bin named Color in the Media Pool, drag the clip called MVI_2572.MP4 onto the Timeline.
  4. Apply the Color Stabilizer FX plugin to the clip on the Color Timeline, as we have done in previous chapters. You will find the plugin in Effects > Video > Resolve FX Color > Color Stabilizer.

Even though we have applied the Color Stabilizer effect, it will do...