DaVinci Resolve 18 Tutorial: Beginner's Guide to Video Editing

🎥 DaVinci Resolve 18 is the latest version of the software for video editing.

📥 You can import media into Davinci Resolve to start telling your story on the timeline.

🌟 By the end of the tutorial, you will have a good understanding of how to use Davinci Resolve.

🎥 Importing media is the first step in video editing, similar to gathering ingredients when cooking.

⏯️ Changing the frame rate of the project to match the footage is necessary for smooth video editing.

🖼️ The source viewer allows previewing and selecting media from the media pool for editing.

🖥️ Generating proxy media can help improve playback performance for editing on less powerful systems.

📝 The timeline is where the video story is built by arranging the clips in the desired order.

📺 The timeline viewer in DaVinci Resolve allows users to preview their project and see what viewers will see in the final movie.

✂️ Users can trim video clips by setting in and out points, selecting the desired portion, and adding it to the timeline.

🔀 Clips can be moved, split, and rearranged in the timeline, while gaps between clips can be eliminated to ensure smooth playback.

🎥 To control the visibility of clips in the timeline, you can place them in different layers.

🔀 You can easily move individual clips or groups of clips by selecting and dragging them.

🔍 You can adjust the view of the timeline by using the slider, holding down ALT and rolling the scroll wheel, or clicking and dragging on dividers.

➕ To build a story, you can double-click on clips in the media pool, select the desired portions, and add them to the timeline.

🎵 Adding music to the timeline is similar to adding video clips, and you can set in and out points for the music as well.

🔊 The audio layers in the timeline can be adjusted to control which audio sources are heard.

🔊 You can mute audio tracks in DaVinci Resolve to isolate specific sounds.

🔊 The volume of audio clips can be adjusted in the inspector, allowing for precise control.

🔊 Fade effects can be applied to audio clips to create smooth transitions.

🌈 Color correction tools in DaVinci Resolve can be used to brighten or enhance the visual appearance of clips.

🎨 Understanding color correction and its impact on footage brightness.

📺 Switching between color correction and edit pages to see the difference in colors.

🎥 Adding text and effects to clips in the edit page, including fade in/out and dynamic zoom.

🎞️ Explaining how to add transitions for a stylish video transition between clips.

DaVinci Resolve 18 is a video editing software that allows users to add different video transitions.

To add a transition, users must drag it in between two clips and can adjust its duration.

Users can customize transitions by accessing the inspector and modifying settings like feather and blur.