Overview
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Learn the key techniques video editors need to transition to DaVinci Resolve. Learn how to edit video, adjust audio, correct color, apply effects, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Note on screen size
- Using the exercise files
- Thoughts for FCP7 and Premiere users
- Thoughts for Avid users
- Thoughts for FCPX users
- System requirements for Resolve
- Quick tour
- Major difference: Project type
- Remapping the keyboard—or not
- Autosave and Live Save
- Starting a project
- Importing media on the Edit page
- Importing media on the Media page
- Display names and saving bin views
- Smart bins
- Clip Attributes
- Dual sync sound
- Notes for all editors
- Playing and marking clips
- First edits
- Insert, Overwrite, and three point edits
- Basic Timeline navigation
- Backtime edits and more
- Premiere, FCP7, and Avid thoughts
- FCPX editor thoughts
- Match Frame and Find bin
- Deleting clips
- Linking and how it affects clips
- Razor edit mode
- Copy and paste
- Moving and swapping clips
- Edit Index
- Editing thoughts for track based editors
- FCPX editing thoughts
- Trim mode means ripple
- Tops and Tails
- Roll and extend edits
- Slip and slide
- Dynamic Trim
- Thoughts on trimming
- Adjusting clip volume
- Adding clip and track effects
- Audio dissolves
- A word about Fairlight
- Multitrack masters
- Thoughts on audio
- Adding transitions
- Adding effects
- Opacity and built-in effects
- Dynamic zoom
- Keyframing
- On-screen controls
- Reusing effects
- Changing clip speed
- High frame rate clips
- Adding titles and generators
- Smart caching and rendering
- Thoughts on effects
- Moving to the color page
- Where are my scopes?
- Where are the color wheels?
- Where are curves?
- Auto correct and shot matching
- Nodes
- Workaround for effect keyframing
- Quick word on qualifiers
- Quick word on copying grades
- Quick word on LUTs
- Thoughts on color for the Premiere user
- Thoughts on color for the Avid user
- Thoughts on color for the FCPX user
- Watermarking
- Output for YouTube
- Output in a master format
- Creating multicam clips
- Adjusting multicam sync
- Editing multicam
- Where is my project?
- Improving performance
- Building optimized and proxy media
- Project management and archiving
- Media management
- Closing
