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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

Stabilizing video on the Cut page

As discussed at the start of the chapter, there are many reasons for needing to fix shaky footage in post-production.

Whatever the reason for the shaky footage, DaVinci Resolve has an excellent stabilizer you can use to convert unstable footage into footage that could have been created on a tripod.

As with all editing software stabilizers, Resolve will compensate for the camera movement by cropping into the video. So, with all video stabilization, there will be a slight loss of resolution and the image will be slightly zoomed-in, due to the need to crop the image.

Resolve has many different ways to stabilize video footage.

First, let us look at how we can stabilize video footage on the Cut page:

  1. Select the clip on the Timeline that you want to stabilize.
  2. Click on the Tools button (the sliders in Figure 7.5) to reveal the Clip tools.
Figure 7.5: The Tools button

Figure 7.5: The Tools button

  1. Click on the Stabilize icon...