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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 Color page

Stabilizing video on the Color page uses the same tools as the Cut and Edit pages, but the interface is very different. As the Color page interface is so different and can be confusing for even advanced editors, we will only look at how the Color page stabilizes video and not the vast amount of other tools we can access there:

  1. Place the playhead over the clip you want to stabilize on the Timeline.
  2. Go to the Color page; the clip you selected on the Timeline will already be selected.
  3. Open the Tracker palette (Figure 7.9).
Figure 7.9: The Tracker palette

Figure 7.9: The Tracker palette

  1. Select the Stabilizer icon (which looks like a camera shaking in Figure 7.9).
  2. The drop-down menu at the bottom right of the palette (Figure 7.9) allows you to select your stabilization method, just like we did on the Edit and Cut pages.
  3. Along the bottom of the Tracker palette (Figure 7.9) are the same stabilizer controls from the Inspector...