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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

Chroma keying in DaVinci Resolve

For the following exercise, we will remove the background a of woman reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and replace it with an infinite zoom video showing dystopian settings, reflecting what she is reading about in the book.

Preparing our Timeline for the key

Even though we can apply Resolve’s OpenFX Keyer plugins to clips on the Timeline on the Cut page, we do not have the ability to select the color we want to remove (key out).

You can import the video clips and get the Timeline ready for keying on either the Cut or Edit page. Here, we describe the Cut page. If you want to use the Edit page, you can apply the same principles. Proceed as follows:

  1. In the Cut page’s Media Pool, select Infinite Zoom - 44658.mp4 and put it on Video Track 1 (V1) of the Timeline.

This will be our background clip. It is important to always put out a background clip on the lowest video track, usually V1.

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