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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
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Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Exploring DRCM

Now, I know plenty of professional colorists who find this topic too scary to mention. However, Blackmagic Design has made color management in DaVinci Resolve easy to use for all levels of experience.

So, what is Color Management? Well, firstly, it is much more than a tool; it is a different way of working. It is where we match the color space the camera recorded to our computer monitor’s color gamut and then to the color space of the final video. So far, we have been correcting the color of our video based on what we see in the Viewer with no regard to the color the camera captured. This is not always the most accurate approach, as our video could look different on various computer screens and may not look like what the camera saw.

Earlier, we mentioned the Rec.709 color space, which is the range of colors a consumer camera can record. Rec.709 (our input color space from our camera) is also the same color range as an SDR monitor using the standard sRGB...