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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

Studio-Only Techniques

In the previous chapter, we started to look at DaVinci Resolve Studio-only tools that use the Neural Engine, such as the Color Stabilizer or Contrast Pop. As the Neural Engine needs a more expensive computer with a newer and faster processor, the tools that require this are usually only available in the full paid-for Studio version of Resolve and not available in the free version.

In this chapter, we will look at the Neural Engine’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, only available in the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve, that can speed up your edit process. We will look at Smart Reframe to recompose your video for different social media formats, Smart Bins to quickly organize video footage of people into their own individual bins, and finally, Face Detection and how to use it to search for and identify people in your footage.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Smart Reframe on the Cut page
  • Smart Bins...