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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

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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

Working with Archive Footage

In this chapter, we will look at different file types and importing, as well as preparing these different file types in Resolve.

Additionally, we will look at using Fusion FX to restore old video footage, and change the timing of our dubbed audio to match the timing of the video. We will also use Fairlight to normalize the audio levels of our audio clips so that the sound volume of our video is consistent and easy for our video’s viewers to listen to.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Restoring video using Fusion FX
  • Changing audio speed
  • Using Elastic Wave
  • Normalizing audio

Let’s begin our journey into working with archive footage by learning how to restore videos using Fusion FX.