Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18: Create quick video content for your business, the web, or social media
- Length: 374 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 2023-05-09
- ISBN-10: 1801075255
- ISBN-13: 9781801075251
- Sales Rank: #1722152 (See Top 100 Books)
Boost your audience on social media by leveraging DaVinci Resolve 18 and share impressive micro-content with the guidance of a certified Blackmagic Design training partner
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Key Features
- Enhance your content with creative editing, VFX composition, color grading, and sound editing techniques
- Learn techniques to generate quick video content to engage and increase your audience
- Discover the latest features and hacks of DaVinci Resolve 18 to realize your creative ideas
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- Explore how to edit, add effects, and post to social media using the new Cut page
- Deliver video projects swiftly to a variety of social media formats using the Cut page
- Fix problems with videos, such as stabilizing footage and syncing audio
- Enhance the quality of your videos through color correction and other visual effects techniques
- Discover how to use the Neural Engine AI in the Studio Version of DaVinci Resolve to speed up your work
- Add subtitles and dubbed audio to help your videos reach a wider audience
Who This Book Is For
This book is for beginner content makers looking for quick techniques to improve their skills and work. It’s also useful for experienced content makers who want to begin using DaVinci Resolve for its advanced features. The book acts as a practical training manual for social media marketers, influencers, short film makers, small business owners creating their own content, vloggers, and film/media studies students at schools, colleges, or universities.
Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18
Foreword
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewer
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Conventions used
Get in touch
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Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Resolve – Publishing Your First Cut
Technical requirements
Creating your first project in DaVinci Resolve!
Opening Resolve for the first time
Cache files
Stills
Creating your first project
Customizing your digital workspace
Understanding the Resolve pages
Simplifying the workspace
Getting your media files in and organized
Import Media
Media pool – changing your views
A few words about bins
Reviewing your shots and cutting it all together
Reviewing your footage
Editing your footage together
Adding footage to the Timeline – using Track 1
Adding footage to the Timeline – using Track 2
Let’s publish!
Setting up your social media accounts in Resolve
Publishing to social media within Resolve
Preparing a video to upload to social media outside Resolve
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 2: Adding Titles and Motion Graphics
Technical requirements
Opening, saving, and sharing projects
Exporting a project
Exporting a project archive
Importing a project
Importing a project archive
Relinking media (version 16 and earlier)
Relinking media (version 17 onward)
Transitions – moving from shot to shot
Transitions button (Cross Dissolve)
Transitions browser
Saving your favorite transitions
Customizing transitions
Removing transitions
Adding a title and changing it
Basic titles
Text+ titles
Fusion Titles
Saving titles as favorites
Adding visual effects
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 3: Polishing the Camera Audio – Getting It in Sync
Technical requirements
Understanding sound and different ways to record it
The properties of sound
Microphone types
Microphone pickup patterns
Microphone placement
Syncing audio
Auto-syncing audio to video
Manually syncing audio to video
Fixing sound
De-Esser
Removing hum
Changing stereo to mono
Noise reduction
Voice isolation
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 4: Adding Narration, Voice Dubbing, and Subtitles
Technical requirements
Welcome to the Edit page
Edit Index
Sound Library
Metadata
Mixer
Importance of subtitles and closed captions
Legal requirements to add subtitles to your video
Subtitling and SEO
Lower thirds
Subtitles versus closed captions
Creating and working with subtitles
Creating your own subtitles
Adding a new subtitle clip
Adding a new Subtitle track
Renaming a subtitle track
Changing default subtitle settings
Formatting our subtitles
Exporting and importing subtitles
Exporting subtitles to upload to YouTube or Vimeo
Exporting subtitles in the File menu
Exporting subtitles in the Subtitle track header
Exporting subtitles on the Deliver page
Importing subtitles into Resolve
Positioning subtitle clips on the Timeline
Welcome to the Fairlight page
Index
Meters
ADR
Creating a new audio track
Patching, arming, and recording
Patching tracks
Arming tracks
Recording audio
Voice dubbing in Fairlight using ADR
Creating a new Timeline using selected footage
Adding scene cuts
Scene Detect
Ripple deleting clips on the Edit page
Ripple-deleting clips on the Cut page
Smooth Cut
The ADR interface
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 5: Creating Additional Sound
Technical requirements
Enhancing the vocals
Pitch
Vocal Channel
Dialogue Processor
Importing audio effects plug-ins
Installing AU or VST plug-ins into Resolve
Applying plug-ins
Importing an SFX library
Importing the Fairlight Sound Library
Creating your own SFX library
Auditioning and adding SFX to the Timeline
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
Chapter 6: Working with Archive Footage
Restoring video using Fusion FX
Resolve FX Revival (Studio version only)
Changing audio speed
Changing the audio speed in the Inspector
Changing the audio speed using the Cut Page tools
Using Elastic Wave
Normalizing audio
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 7: Stabilizing Shaky Footage
Technical requirements
How video stabilization works
The steps of video stabilization
Creating a new Timeline and reviewing our footage
Stabilizing our video footage
Stabilizing video on the Cut page
Stabilizing video in the Inspector on the Cut and Edit pages
Stabilizing video on the Color page
The Classic Stabilizer
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 8: Hiding the Cut – Making Our Edits Invisible
Technical requirements
Understanding cutaways, cut-ins, and the editing process
Cut-ins
Cutaways
The editing process
Understanding continuity editing
Creating cut-ins
Creating cutaways
Using Smooth Cut to hide an edit
Hiding cuts with a split edit
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Part 3: Advanced Techniques
Chapter 9: Adding Special Effects
Technical requirements
Understanding codecs
What is a codec?
Types of compression
Types and uses of codecs
Shooting video for greenscreen
What is a chroma key?
Lighting your background
Camera settings
Filming your subject
Chroma keying in DaVinci Resolve
Preparing our Timeline for the key
Creating a greenscreen effect on the Edit page using the 3D Keyer
Applying the 3D Keyer
Adjusting the 3D Keyer
Creating a greenscreen effect on the Edit page using the HSL Keyer
Applying the HSL Keyer
Adjusting the HSL Keyer
Removing chroma key background spill using the Despill Resolve FX Color plugin
Applying the Despill plugin
Adjusting the Despill plugin
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 10: Split Screens and Picture-in-Picture
Technical requirements
A simple split-screen effect
Auto-aligning clips on the Timeline
Compound clips
Creating a compound clip
Video Collage | Create Background
Preparing our Timeline for Create Background
Applying the Video Collage | Create Background effect
Adjusting Video Collage | Create Background
Repositioning the videos under the tiles
Video Collage | Create Tile
Preparing our Timeline for Create Tile
Applying the Video Collage | Create Tile effect
Adjusting Video Collage | Create Tile
Assigning video tracks to tiles using Paste Attributes
Repositioning the videos in the tile frames
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 11: Enhancing Color for Mood or Style
Technical requirements
Understanding basic color theory
Color science
Color psychology
Color sociology
Color technology
Stabilizing color (DaVinci Resolve Studio version only)
Applying the Color Stabilizer effect
Adjusting the Color Stabilizer controls
Contrast Pop (Studio version only)
Applying the Contrast Pop effect
Adjusting the Contrast Pop effect
Auto Color
DRCM
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Chapter 12: Studio-Only Techniques
Technical requirements
Smart Reframe on the Cut page
Changing our Timeline aspect ratio
Using Smart Reframe
Smart bins for people
Enabling Smart Bins
Adding metadata manually
Using Face Detection on the Cut page
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Glossary
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Archive
B-roll
Bins
Cache
Caching
Clip
Code
Color cast
Color grading
Color management
Color model
Color space
Color temperature
Colorist
Composition
Continuity editing
Cut
Cutaway
Cut-in
Data
Database
Digital audio workstation (DAW)
Exposure
Exposure controls
Frame rate/FPS
Frames
Framing
Gamma
Graphics
Green screen
Gray card
Hard disk drive (HDD)
ISO
J-cut
L-cut
Lead room
Looking room
Media
Neural Engine
Neutral
Non-linear editor (NLE)
Plugins
Project
Reaction shot
Render
Resolve
Run and gun
Solid state drive (SSD)
Sound effects (SFX)
Split edit
Stills
Thumbnail
Three-point edit
Timeline
Tools
Transitions
Visual effects (VFX)
White balance
Answers to Questions
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Resolve – Publishing Your First Cut
Chapter 2, Adding Titles and Motion Graphics
Chapter 3, Polishing the Camera Audio – Getting It in Sync
Chapter 4, Adding Narration, Voice Dubbing, and Subtitles
Chapter 5, Creating Additional Sound
Chapter 6, Working with Archive Footage
Chapter 7, Stabilizing Shaky Footage
Chapter 8, Hiding the Cut: Making our Edit Invisible
Chapter 9, Adding Special Effects
Chapter 10, Split Screens and Picture-in-Picture
Chapter 11, Enhancing Color for Mood or Style
Chapter 12, Studio-Only Techniques – so much quicker
Index
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