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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

Smart Reframe on the Cut page

Occasionally, when you are shooting your footage quickly, you don’t always get the opportunity to frame your shot how you want. One of the advantages of shooting in 6K or even 4K is that you can zoom in on your footage to reframe your shot closer for a 1080p film with no loss of quality. However, this is usually a manually intensive job where, on the Cut page, you would use the Transform controls under the Tools palette to reframe the clip.

If you need a quick turnaround for your video and you have the Studio version of Resolve, you can use the Smart Reframe tool, which uses Resolve’s Neural Engine to recognize the subject of your video and reframe the video to create a shot centered around your subject.

This is particularly useful if you change the aspect ratio of your video from the horizontal 16:9 to the vertical 9:16 or square 1:1 aspect ratios often needed to display videos on social media platforms, such as Facebook or Instagram...