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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

By : Lance Phillips
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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

4.5 (24)
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)
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Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
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Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
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Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Understanding cutaways, cut-ins, and the editing process

To understand what B-roll is, let us uncover where the term first came from.

In the film industry, the main camera team (the main unit) shoots the central action of the film’s key characters with Camera A, and a second camera team (called the second unit) will shoot other footage with Camera B, where you do not need the main actors present. The footage from Camera A is called A-roll, and the footage from Camera B is called B-roll. Both were named in the early days when movies were exclusively shot using rolls of film (Figure 8.1):

Figure 8.1: Image of rolls of film (LDGE at English Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Figure 8.1: Image of rolls of film (LDGE at English Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Since B-roll from the second unit is used to capture elements of the story where the main actor is not needed, this frees up time for the main unit to focus on the main story, while the second unit captures other shots for the edit such as cut-ins or cutaways. Cut-ins...

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