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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 Narration, Voice Dubbing, and Subtitles

With our short film complete, we will look at making the video accessible by adding narration, voice dubbing, and subtitles. To do this, we will start by exploring how to create and import subtitles on the Edit page, and then how to add narration and voice dubbing on the Fairlight page.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding the layout of the Edit page
  • Understanding the importance of subtitles and closed captions
  • Creating and working with subtitles
  • Knowing how to export and import subtitles
  • Understanding the layout of the Fairlight page
  • Knowing how to patch, arm, and record a narration or voice-over in Fairlight
  • Using the Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) tools in Fairlight to create a voice dub