E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten
Phillips Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80107-594-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection
Create quick video content for your business, the web, or social media
E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-80107-594-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection
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.
Fachgebiete
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitale Musik
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Multimedia
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitale Animation
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitales Video
Weitere Infos & Material
Table of Contents - Getting Started with Resolve - Publishing your first Cut
- Adding Titles and Motion Graphics
- Polishing the Camera Audio - Getting it in Sync
- Adding Narration, Voice Dubbing, and Subtitles
- Creating Additional Sound
- Working with Archive footage
- Stabilizing Footage
- Hiding the EditCut: Making our Edit Invisible
- Green Screen
- Split screens and Picture in Picture
- Enhancing Colour for mood or style
- Studio only techniques - so much quicker
- Glossary of Terms
Preface
DaVinci Resolve is used to enhance the color of Hollywood films, TV shows, and commercials and does so better than any other video editing software. Version 18 enables you to edit, compose VFX, mix sound, and deliver for different platforms, including social media – all in one piece of software.
This book provides a hands-on approach to using DaVinci Resolve to create and enhance your videos for social media and the web, using a Hollywood-standard video editing suite of tools.
Who this book is for
This book is for emerging creatives, social media influencers, and content makers; anyone with an idea they want to realize and publish online will benefit from this book.
Not only will the nascent content maker who is looking for quick techniques to improve their work benefit from this book but it will also be useful for experienced content makers who want to begin using DaVinci Resolve for its more advanced features. It is a useful and 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.
What this book covers
, , will teach you how to quickly import, organize, review, assemble, and publish video footage on the Cut page's Timeline.
, , will help you enhance the project you created in by adding a basic title and motion graphics, using Fusion FX and transitions on the Cut page.
, , looks at how recording separate audio can improve your video and how Resolve makes it easy to sync separate sounds with your video.
, , will look at making our now-complete video accessible by adding narration, voice dubbing, and subtitles.
, , will look at creating a sound library and importing sound effects into Fairlight to then use on our Timeline.
, , 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.
, , teaches you how to stabilize shaky video footage on the Cut and Edit pages.
, , will look at continuity editing and how to use cutaways, cut-ins, and split edits on the Edit page to hide bad cuts.
, , will cover how to shoot for a green screen and how to work with it in DaVinci Resolve, using different types of Keyers.
, , 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.
, , will introduce color theory as used in Hollywood films and how to use color FX tools on the Cut page to fix color.
, , will look at the AI Neural Engine tools, only available in the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve, that can speed up your edit process.
, , covers the definitions of all the key technical and film-making terms used in the book.
To get the most out of this book
For this book, you do not need to have any previous technical knowledge, apart from a basic understanding of how to upload content to social media and how to organize files on your own computer.
You will need at least the latest version of DaVinci Resolve 18.1 installed on your computer. The exercises in this book should also work with future releases of DaVinci Resolve.
Software/hardware covered in the book | Operating system requirements |
DaVinci Resolve 18.1 | Windows, macOS, or Linux |
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Conventions used
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Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “Where it says Save as, name your Bins.DRB file something useful such as Video Bins wo Credits.”
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