Guide to DaVinci Resolve 16 Video Editing

What Will I Learn?

The basics of how to edit a video from start to completion

Learn techniques for adding visual effects, transitions, audio effects, and titles

Creating 3D fusion compositions for titles and special effects like particles

Color grading adjustments to your video so you can change the look of your video, even targeting changes to specific objects in your video

Requirements

Pickup DaVinci Resolve 16 free from the Blackmagicdesign website

Ideal if you have good general computer skills – they’ll be a lot of dragging objects, pressing and holding, and hotkeys (shortcuts)

Description DaVinci Resolve 16 is a fully featured cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) video editor that comes in the base version for free and studio version. There are no watermarks in your export and the editor is very comparable to other top editors like Adobe Premier or Sony Vegas. In this course, I’ll teach you what you need to know to produce quality videos out of your raw footage.

Learn how to add video effects, transitions, and custom titles to your videos

Explore the new Cut editing workflow

Create 3D special effects and custom titles with Fusion

Manipulate your video’s look by making changes to the coloring.

Learn more about exporting your video including how you can upload straight to YouTube automatically

The program can be broken down into 6 main areas, including the new Cut editor, for importing and managing your video, audio, and image assets. The editing tab where you will do the bulk of your work actually placing video clips on the timeline, cutting away unnecessary footage, as well as adding effects and titles to your video. The cut editor serves as an alternative to the edit tab focused on a faster workflow, less interface clutter, and 3 easy to use timelines for different levels of precision in your adjustments. The fusion tab allows you create and modify powerful 3D effects creating objects and manipulating lights, color, 3D rotation and position, and more straight from within Resolve. Next, we will jump to the color tab where you can create advanced custom effects changing the visuals of your video with tools like layer masks and power windows. The Fairlight tab allows you to manipulate and improve your audio with VST plugins and record new voice overs inside the program. When all is said and done, you finish up your project by exporting inside of the deliver tab. Let’s get to it!

Who is the target audience?

Anyone who wants to learn the Resolve video editor

Beginners to video editing who want to increase their skillset

People who are on Mac or especially Linux where the available video editor choices are limited

People who want to use a great video editor without breaking the bank.