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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 this chapter:

  • Adjusted the volume of different frequencies and enhanced the vocals using Fairlight FX
  • Imported your own AU and VST effects and applied them
  • Created a Sound Library and imported new SFX into it
  • Used the Sound Library to audition SFX and add them to the Timeline

You now know how to work with some audio-editing techniques on both the Cut and Fairlight pages and import audio effects and plug-ins to expand Resolve’s audio-editing functionality.

Now you have completed Part 1 of the book: Creating Our First Project. Part 2 of the book begins with Chapter 6, where we will look at restoring and fixing archive footage.

In Chapter 6, we will also look at different file types and what video codecs are. We will look at importing and preparing different file types traditionally associated with old video footage into Resolve. We will then fix the video using FusionFX and the audio using Fairlight.

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