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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

Exporting and importing subtitles

Not only can you create subtitles within Resolve but you can also export your subtitles to share with someone else, or import subtitles created elsewhere to use in your project.

Exporting subtitles to upload to YouTube or Vimeo

Resolve supports two common web- and social media-friendly subtitle file formats: SRT (.srt) and WebVTT (.vtt).

SRT versus WebVTT

SRT is a basic universally recognized subtitle file format used on the internet. This subtitle file format is the preferred format for Facebook.

WebVTT is a more advanced subtitle file format that adds more functionality to your subtitles than SRT, such as supporting text formatting. The WebVTT subtitle file format is used by YouTube and Vimeo.

There are three main ways that Resolve can export our subtitles as a separate subtitle file.

Exporting subtitles in the File menu

Like most applications, Resolve allows you to export your subtitles from the File menu:

  1. In Resolve...