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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

Summary

Here is what you have achieved in Chapter 4:

  • Discovered the differences between the Cut and Edit page layouts
  • Added different format subtitles to your video and edited them
  • Discovered the unique layout of the Fairlight page
  • Patched, armed, and recorded a narration or voice-over in Fairlight
  • Used the ADR tools in Fairlight to create a voice dub for a video

In Chapter 5, we will look at creating a sound library and importing sound effects into Fairlight. We will also look at how to audition sound effects and how to apply them to a video in the Timeline. We will then change their speed and timing to fit the video.