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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

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

Contrast Pop (Studio version only)

Contrast Pop is a Resolve FX Color plugin that allows you to add more (or less) contrast to a selected part of the video clip’s tonal range (i.e., you can make the mid-tones have more contrast while leaving the shadows and highlights of an image alone).

Applying the Contrast Pop effect

Apply the Contrast Pop FX plugin to the same clip on the Timeline, just as we did with the Color Stabilizer effect. You will find the plugin in Effects > Video > Resolve FX Color > Contrast Pop.

Even though we have applied the Contrast Pop effect, it will do nothing until we adjust its settings.

Adjusting the Contrast Pop effect

Let us look at the Contrast Pop effect’s controls in the Inspector panel and how we can use it to improve an image’s contrast:

  1. Select the clip in the Timeline and then open the Contrast Pop controls in the Inspector panel: Inspector > Effects > Open FX > Contrast Pop (Figure 11.9...