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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 Chapter 3:

  • You have learned why separately recorded audio is better than in-camera sound and the best practices for recording it
  • Synced separate audio to video footage using waveforms
  • Fixed common sound issues using Fairlight FX
  • Used Voice Isolation AI to fix audio

You now know which microphones to choose to help get the best sound recording. Also, you know how to use the Media page to sync separately recorded audio to your video to create a cleaner sound. Additionally, you know how to work with audio on the Cut page to fix common audio issues without having to learn how to use Fairlight.

In Chapter 4, we will further enhance your video by adding extra audio through recording narration and voice dubbing on the Fairlight page, as well as adding subtitles on the Cut page so that your video will be more accessible across different audiences around the world.