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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

Adding Titles and Motion Graphics

In this chapter, you will open the project created in Chapter 1 and learn how to share your project with other computers so that other people can also work on it. You will also enhance your video by adding a basic title and motion graphics using Fusion FX and transitions on the Cut page. You will also save your favorite effects and transitions to access them quickly for other projects.

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

  • Opening an existing project and exporting and importing it to use on other computers or share with others
  • Adding a title and customizing it
  • Adding transitions and customizing them
  • Adding Fusion effects and customizing them
  • Saving your favorite titles, transitions, and effects to access quickly later