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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

By : Lance Phillips
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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

Using Elastic Wave

Elastic Wave is a keyframe-based method of changing the timing of audio without changing the pitch. Audio keyframes are placed at points in the audio clip where you do not want the audio waveform to move or stretch. The audio between the keyframes can be stretched or compressed to then fit key timings in the actor’s performance:

  1. To enable Elastic Wave, you first need to go to the Fairlight page.
  2. Right-click on the audio clip you want to enable Elastic Wave for and choose Elastic Wave from the pop-up menu. This will reveal the Elastic Wave controls, shown by the words Elastic Wave now written across the top of the audio clip (Figure 6.9).
Figure 6.9: The Elastic Wave icon

Figure 6.9: The Elastic Wave icon

  1. Press Command (CMD) + click on the audio waveform where you want to add a keyframe. A green vertical line will appear on the waveform to show where the audio keyframe has been applied.

You will also see a W icon at the bottom left of...