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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

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

Summary

Here is what you have achieved in this chapter:

  • Learned how to open an existing project and export and import it to use on other computers or share with others
  • Added a title and customized it
  • Added transitions and customized them
  • Added visual effects and adjusted them
  • Gained an overview of all the effects available and their categories
  • Saved your favorite titles, transitions, and effects to access quickly later

In Chapter 3, we will make the video you edited in Chapters 1 and 2 sound better. We will do this by adding separately recorded sound, synching it with the video, and fixing and enhancing the sound with built-in and imported audio effects. We will also look at some basic sound theory, such as microphone choice and placement, to get the best quality sound in the first place.