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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
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Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Importance of subtitles and closed captions

There are many reasons to create subtitles for our video. All of them relate to making sure our video is accessible to a wider audience, whether it be those who are deaf or hard of hearing or viewers whose language is different from the language spoken in the video.

Legal requirements to add subtitles to your video

Some countries have made it a law to make your video content as accessible as possible, including to those with a disability.

In the UK, under The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018, all public sector (government organizations) video content made after September 23, 2020 needs to be accessible, including web- or app-based videos. This also applies to charities that are mostly public sector-funded. Interestingly, it does not apply to the websites or apps of public sector broadcasters such as the BBC.

This is good to know, particularly if you make video content...