What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Resolve – Publishing Your First Cut, will teach you how to quickly import, organize, review, assemble, and publish video footage on the Cut page's Timeline.
Chapter 2, Adding Titles and Motion Graphics, will help you enhance the project you created in Chapter 1 by adding a basic title and motion graphics, using Fusion FX and transitions on the Cut page.
Chapter 3, Polishing the Camera Audio – Getting It in Sync, looks at how recording separate audio can improve your video and how Resolve makes it easy to sync separate sounds with your video.
Chapter 4, Adding Narration, Voice Dubbing, and Subtitles, will look at making now-complete video accessible by adding narration, voice dubbing, and subtitles.
Chapter 5, Creating Additional Sound, will look at creating a sound library and importing sound effects into Fairlight to then use on our Timeline.
Chapter 6, Working with Archive Footage, will look at using Fusion FX to restore old video footage and changing the timing of our dubbed audio to match the timing of the video.
Chapter 7, Stabilizing Shaky Footage, teaches you how to stabilize shaky video footage on the Cut and Edit pages.
Chapter 8, Hiding the Cut – Making Our Edit Invisible, will look at continuity editing and how to use cutaways, cut-ins, and split edits on the Edit page to hide bad cuts.
Chapter 9, Adding Special Effects, will cover how to shoot for a green screen and how to work with it in DaVinci Resolve, using different types of Keyers.
Chapter 10, Split Screens and Picture-in-Picture, looks at creating a split screen using composite footage and video resizing, as well as picture-in-picture effects using the Resolve FX Transform Video Collage filter on the Cut page.
Chapter 11, Enhancing Color for Mood or Style, will introduce color theory as used in Hollywood films and how to use color FX tools on the Cut page to fix color.
Chapter 12, Studio-Only Techniques, will look at the AI Neural Engine tools, only available in the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve, that can speed up your edit process.
Chapter 13, Glossary, covers the definitions of all the key technical and film-making terms used in the book.