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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

Welcome to the Edit page

As easy and powerful as the Cut page is, it does have its limitations in order to be as streamlined as possible.

One of these limitations is that the Cut page cannot add subtitles. In order to be able to add subtitles, you need to use the Edit page. When you click on the Edit page, all of your video edits from the Cut page—including titles and effects—are instantly accessible on the Edit page.

Before we look at adding subtitles on the Edit page, let us first look at its interface to see the similarities with and differences from the Cut page:

Figure 4.1: The Edit page

Figure 4.1: The Edit page

As you can see, the Edit page has the same access to the Media Pool and Inspector, which are in the same places as on the Cut page.

However, there are some notable differences from the rest of the interface. There is only one Timeline rather than the two on the Cut page. This Timeline is similar to the lower “zoomed-in” Timeline...