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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

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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)
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Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
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Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Voice isolation

In the latest version of DaVinci Resolve 18.1.3, there is a new tool in the Audio section of the Inspector called Voice Isolation (Figure 3.16). Voice Isolation uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyze a clip and remove any unwanted background noise to isolate the voice. Let’s try it with the Fix_Sound clip:

  1. Select the Fix_Sound clip on the Timeline on the Cut page.
  2. Double-click on Voice Isolation in the Inspector window to reveal the Amount slider (Figure 3.16).
  3. Select the amount of voice isolation you want to apply using the slider, where 100 is voice isolation at full strength and 0 is no voice isolation applied.
Figure 3.16 – Voice Isolation

Figure 3.16 – Voice Isolation

Voice Isolation will not work for every audio problem, but it is a quick and easy place to start before you need to use the more involved Fairlight FX plugins.

Whichever method you choose to fix audio, it is important to fix the audio first before adding...