Overview
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Learn the fundamentals of editing, color correcting, mixing, and exporting your videos in DaVinci Resolve.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Learning DaVinci Resolve
- Understanding the exercise files
- Restoring the DaVinci Resolve archive
- Restoring DaVinci Resolve projects
- Common interface elements
- The grand tour of DaVinci Resolve: Part 1
- The grand tour of DaVinci Resolve: Part 2
- DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Can your computer run DaVinci Resolve?
- Essential system and user preferences
- Essential project preferences
- Creating your first project
- Importing footage
- Organizing your media into bins
- Viewing and managing bins
- Transport controls and marking clips
- Tagging clips by color and clip markers
- Creating smart bins
- Metadata management on the Media page
- Using face detection in Resolve Studio
- Modifying source clip audio settings
- Navigating the Cut page
- Creating, organizing, modifying timeline settings
- Editing 101
- Challenge: Building a rough cut on the Cut page
- Solution: Building a rough cut on the Cut page
- Fine-tuning edit points and adding B-roll
- Trimming audio
- Onscreen controls for transforms and dynamic zoom
- Adding transitions and graphics
- Working with music
- Navigating Resolve’s Edit page
- Organizing audio and video track layouts
- Track targeting with the auto track selector
- Understanding the Inspector
- Adding effects on the Edit page
- Animating audio and video using keyframes
- Understanding and navigating the Color page
- Three-way color wheels
- Custom curves
- Using scopes to evaluate exposure
- Using scopes to evaluate colorfulness
- Color grading with scopes
- Automatic color grading tools
- Serial nodes: Part 1
- Serial nodes: Part 2
- Using the Gallery
- Copying color corrections
- Exploring Resolve's built-in looks
- Targeting fixes: Hue vs. saturation vs. curves
- Power windows 101: Isolating corrections
- Tracking power windows
- A note about LUTs (look-up tables)
- Navigating the Fairlight page
- Challenge: Splitting audio tracks for mixing
- Setting clip-level audio levels
- Setting track-level audio levels
- Navigating the Deliver page
- Rendering to online streaming platforms and data burn-in
- Rendering overview for FCP, Premiere Pro, Avid, Pro Tools
- Managing the Render Queue
- Presets and individual-clip vs. single-clip exports
- Tip: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) export and playback
- Additional DaVinci Resolve resources
- Thank you and goodbye
