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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

Summary

You now know the range of stabilization tools available in DaVinci Resolve, whether it’s a quick and easy video stabilization on the Cut page or a more involved stabilization on the Color page. You can now choose the best stabilization for the needs of your footage, always knowing that you have access to some advanced stabilization tools should you ever need them.

Here is what you have achieved in Chapter 7:

  • You learned how video stabilization works in editing software
  • You learned how to stabilize footage on the Cut page
  • You learned how to stabilize footage on the Edit page
  • You learned how to stabilize footage on the Color page using both Cloud and Point trackers

In Chapter 8, we will look at using cutaways and cut-ins on the Cut page to hide bad edits. We will also look at how to do this on the Edit page.