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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

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 in the Inspector on the Cut and Edit pages

Let us now look at the stabilization controls in the video stabilizer, which can be found in the Inspector panel on both the Cut and Edit pages. As the stabilization controls are exactly the same, we will stay on the Cut page to look at these extra controls in the Inspector:

  1. Select the clip on the Timeline that you want to stabilize.
  2. Click on the Inspector tab to reveal the Video Inspector controls.
  3. Double-click on the Stabilization tab to reveal the Stabilization controls (Figure 7.8).
Figure 7.8: The Stabilization section of the Video Inspector panel

Figure 7.8: The Stabilization section of the Video Inspector panel

  1. The Mode drop-down menu allows you to select your stabilization method, just like we did with the other simplified stabilization controls on the Cut page.
  2. The extra controls in the Inspector window, which are not in the basic controls on the Cut page, allow us to control the power or amount of stabilization. Every time...