Book Image

Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

By : Lance Phillips
5 (1)
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

Syncing audio

One reason that most fledgling filmmakers do not want to record sound separately is that they think that it is difficult to match the sound with the video they have recorded. The need to make the audio sync with the mouth movements of the video’s subject seems daunting.

Thankfully, it is very easy to sync audio with video in Resolve. There are a few ways to do this, which we will look at now. Firstly, you will need to go to the Media page, as you can only sync audio on the Media page. If the Media Page is still hidden from when we hid it in Chapter 1, you can reveal it again by selecting it in Workspace > Show Page > Media.

Auto-syncing audio to video

Even though we will not use the sound recorded by the on-camera microphone, it is useful to help sync our separately recorded sound.

As discussed earlier in the chapter, sound is recorded as waves; the shapes of these waves are called waveforms (i.e., the shape or form of the wave). Resolve can take...