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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

Opening, saving, and sharing projects

Before we start adding titles and effects to our video, let’s look at how we can share our project with others so that they can work on it, or even just so that we can open it on another computer.

Whenever we need to save, archive, import, or export a project, we do this in the Project Manager (Figure 2.1).

Figure 2.1: Project Manager

Figure 2.1: Project Manager

In the Project Manager, there are various ways to share our project outside of our computer, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Let us look at each in turn.

Exporting a project

In Chapter 1, we looked at how to create and save a new project, but we did not look at how we can access the project to share it with others. You may have noticed that when we saved our project, it didn’t ask us where on our computer to save it to. That is because Resolve saves our project into a database containing all our projects, rather than saving it as a discrete file.

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