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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

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

Summary

You now have an overview of basic color theory, which can act as a good foundation for further learning and understanding how to use color in videos. You have used the Resolve FX Color plugins, Color Stabilizer and Contrast Pop, on the Cut page to correct the changing color and exposure of the video and enhance the contrast of the clip. You have used the Auto Color tool on the Cut page to quickly enhance the video’s color and, finally, explored DRCM to automatically match the camera’s color space. We’ve done all of this with the overall objective to enhance the color and look of your video.

Here is what you have achieved in Chapter 11:

  • Understood basic color theory
  • Learned how to use Color FX Color Stabilizer to change the color of the footage
  • Learned how to use Color FX Contrast Pop to change the contrast of the footage
  • Learned how to use the Auto Color tool on the Cut page
  • Learned how to enable and use DRCM

In Chapter...