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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

Voice dubbing in Fairlight using ADR

Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) is a particularly useful tool used in the film industry to rerecord actors’ voices to get a better take or performance. The ADR tool can also be used to dub over your video to add dialogue in another language.

Let us walk through the different options of the ADR interface as if we were going to record additional dialogue in a different language.

To understand how ADR works, we are going to walk through a practical example where we will add spoken audio to a short clip from a Buster Keaton silent comedy called One Week. You can download the original film here so that you can follow along: https://archive.org/details/OneWeek512kb.

We will also use this footage in Chapter 6.

Practice what you learned in Chapter 1 by creating a new project for this exercise:

  1. Create a new project and name it Chapter_4_ADR.
  2. Import the OneWeek512kb file into the Media Pool.
  3. Drag OneWeek512kb from the...