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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

Patching, arming, and recording

The process of attaching a microphone to Resolve, telling it which track to record to then recording it, is called patch, arm, and record. Let us look at each one in turn ready for our voice-over recording.

Patching tracks

Before we can record from any microphone, we need to make sure it is connected to the computer, recognized by Resolve, and connected to a track, ready to record. This operation is called patching.

First of all, connect a microphone to your computer. If you have a built-in microphone on your computer such as on a laptop, or if you have already connected a microphone to your computer before starting Resolve, then it should be recognized in the following steps.

Top tip – connecting a microphone

If you are using an external microphone, then you will need to save your work and restart Resolve to force it to recognize the microphone connected to your computer.

If your microphone is still not recognized, then make...