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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

By : Lance Phillips
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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
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Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Using Face Detection on the Cut page

Thankfully, with the Studio version of Resolve, we don’t need to add the names manually to each clip’s metadata. We can use face detection to automatically recognize faces using Resolve’s Neural Engine and add their names to each clip as metadata. Unlike typical metadata entries, we can do this on the Cut page. For this exercise, we are going to use our The Wedding project and select all the clips in the Cake bin:

  1. Right-click on one or several clips you have selected in the Cut page’s Media Pool. If you select a bin (with clips in it) as well as a bunch of other clips next to the bin, Resolve will search the clips in this bin as well as the other clips you have selected that are not in the bin.
  2. In the drop-down menu, select Analyze Clip for People. A progress bar will appear as Resolve analyzes your clips for people’s faces (Figure 12.11).
Figure 12.11: The Searching for faces progress bar

Figure 12.11: The Searching for...