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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 a title and changing it

On the Cut page, open up the project you were working on in Chapter 1, or if you want an extra challenge, import someone else’s project so you can add titles to theirs.

There are many different types of titles:

  • Some appear on a black (or a solid color of choice) background before any clips are seen
  • Some appear over the top of clips where we can see the footage behind the title
  • Some are called Lower Thirds, and appear on the bottom of the screen, introducing the name of the speaker or video location
  • Some are called Credits, where all those who helped make the video are credited by having their name and contribution listed at the end of the video

Whichever title you choose (you are likely to use more than one), adding a title is extremely easy on the Cut page; there is even a special tab for it called Titles.

Let us add a title to our Timeline now:

  1. Select the Titles browser at the top-left of the screen near...