Overview
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Learn how to get started with editing, color correcting, and audio mixing in DaVinci Resolve 14.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Understanding the exercise files
- Restoring the exercise files
- Restoring the DaVinci Resolve archives
- DaVinci Resolve overview
- Creating your first project
- Importing the practice footage
- Understanding the Media page
- Working with bins
- Create a timeline
- Understanding the Edit page
- Challenge: Quickly building a rough cut
- Challenge review
- Understanding the Color page
- Understanding the Fairlight page
- Challenge: Balancing the audio tracks
- Challenge review
- Understanding the Deliver page
- Render for Vimeo delivery
- Quick quick-start review
- DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
- What computers can you use for DaVinci Resolve?
- Essential system preferences
- Essential user preferences
- Essential project preferences
- Revealing display names
- Power bins: Sharing bins in a database
- Setting poster frames
- Creating Smart Bins
- Editing and transport controls
- Editing in the timeline
- Selection mode
- Trim mode: Slip and slide
- Trim mode: Ripple and roll
- Source trimming
- Track targeting with the auto track selector
- The Inspector: Opacity, resize, and cropping
- Transitions 101
- Effects 101
- Titles 101
- Using scopes to evaluate exposure
- Using scopes to evaluate colorfulness
- Setting up broadcast safe
- Closer look: The 3-way color wheels
- Closer look: Understanding nodes
- Copying color corrections
- Using the gallery
- Exploring DaVinci Resolve looks
- Targeting fixes: Hue vs. curves
- Targeting fixes: Sat vs. Sat
- Creating a look: Adding glows
- Power Windows 101
- Vignettes and the Tracker
- A note about LUTs (lookup tables)
- Thoughts on the Fairlight page
- Fades and cross fades
- Clip-level EQ
- Mixer 101
- Bus formatting and assignment
- Rendering to nonlinear editors
- Additional color correction resources
- Thank you and goodbye
