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Beginner's Guide to Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve 17
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Beginner's Guide to Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve 17

Learn Editing Workflows, Titles, Effects, Animation, and More
Created byChris Tutorials
Last updated 4/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Video editing workflows that you can use to take your raw footage into well editing clips
  • Utilize special effects, titles, audio effects, and animation to enhance your videos
  • Customizations you can make with Resolve's powerful Fusion, Color, and Fairlight Pages
  • Learn the basics of the essential pages of Resolve from Media for importing assets to Deliver for exporting videos

Course content

6 sections25 lectures3h 40m total length
  • What to Expect2:40

    This beginner guide covers importing videos, editing on the timeline, adding titles, color work with lookup tables, fusion effects, keyframes, greenscreen removal, audio with Fairlight, and exporting to YouTube.

  • Preferences Setup7:23
  • Timeline and Project Resolution and FPS Settings ~ User Default Project Config9:38

Requirements

  • Ideally, you should download DaVinci Resolve 17 off the Black Magic Design website for free before starting the course.
  • Only the free version is required, the paid version of Resolve 17 is completely optional for this course.

Description

This is a quick start guide on how to use DaVinci Resolve 17 to edit your videos. The top goal of the course is to familiarize yourself with the different stages of the video editing workflow in Resolve and to learn many of the basic tools and options you may want to use for editing many different types of videos. We'll cover setting up resolve, adding transitions, adding special visual effects including custom titles on the Fusion page, audio editing, and of course topping everything off with how to export your videos.

By the end of the course you should have a good idea how to take your raw videos and turn them into reasonably edited final video with an collection of techniques and effects to assist in your editing process.

Here are some of the key topics in the course

  • Customizing DaVinci Resolve Preferences and Project Settings for Your Projects

  • Importing Assets to Use in Resolve

  • Timeline Edits including the Blade and Trim Tools

  • Keyframe Animation

  • Video, Transition, and Audio Effects

  • Using and Editing Titles

  • Creating Custom Titles and Node Setups in the Fusion Page

  • Color Grading Tools such as Lookup Tables, Auto Color, and the Color Wheels

  • Masking with Power Windows, Face Tracking, and Blur Effects

  • Removing Green Screens and Replacing with Backgrounds of Choice

  • Audio Effects and Mixer Tools

  • Exporting Videos

Who this course is for:

  • Students whom have little experience editing videos but want to learn starting from scratch with Resolve
  • People returning to Resolve or want to keep their skills up to date by learning about some of the new features in Resolve 17