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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

Auto Color

All high-end films on streaming platforms and in the cinema will involve an element of color correction (commonly referred to as Grading). A professional colorist (the person who color grades a film) will remove any color cast or tint in the areas of the image that are meant to be pure black or white but have been created by the camera or lights set to the wrong color temperature for the scene (e.g., a scene was shot with reddish white light but the scene is meant to represent the bluish white light of midday Sun). This is an aspect of Grading called Balancing, as we are making sure that the whites (and blacks) are balanced between having a red or blue color temperature, resulting in a neutral white (pure white with no color tint).

However, you do not need to be a professional colorist to be able to improve your social media videos in Resolve. Resolve has an Auto Color tool in the Tools section of the Cut page that will quickly correct each video clip to correct the color...