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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

Importing an SFX library

One of the great things about the Fairlight page in Resolve is that it allows you to add SFX from within Resolve without having to clutter your media bin.

Blackmagic Design helpfully provides over 500 royalty-free SFX for you to use in your projects, even commercial ones.

Let us download these free SFX to use in future exercises.

Importing the Fairlight Sound Library

Here are the links from where you can download the SFX, depending on your computer’s OS:

Figure 5.8: Blackmagic Fairlight Sound Library download

Figure 5.8: Blackmagic Fairlight Sound Library download

Once you have registered your details and agreed to the Sound Effects License Agreement...