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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

Restoring video using Fusion FX

Often, when we use old archive videos in our projects, they can be scratchy, missing frames, and possibly have flicker. Of course, the amount of damage that will have occurred to archive footage will depend upon when it was originally recorded and how successfully it was converted into a digital format. Videos with scratches, missing frames, or flicker can be distracting to modern audiences. It can also seem out of place when mixed with modern video footage. Thankfully, Resolve has dedicated tools to restore old archive footage so that it is compatible with our audience’s tastes.

To showcase just that, we will now restore a short clip from a 1920s Buster Keaton silent comedy called One Week.

In Chapter 4, we used Scene Cut to detect cuts in archive footage and added scenes to a new Timeline. We also dubbed in our own audio over the silent film. If you have not already completed Chapter 4, I highly recommend that you do so before you continue...