Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve 18/17: Beginner to Advanced

Learn Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve with Color Correction & Color Grading & Visual Effects in DaVinci Resolve 18.5

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Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve 18/17: Beginner to Advanced
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What you will learn

Mastering DaVinci Resolve for Video Editing: A comprehensive guide from novice to expert

Quick and Efficient Video Editing using the Cut Page

Implementing OpenFX Effects to Elevate your Videos

Accurate Color Correction Techniques in DaVinci Resolve

Multi-tool Color Grading for Professional-looking Videos

Infusing Your Videos with Motion Graphics

Navigating Nodes in DaVinci Resolve: From Serial to Layer, Parallel, and Beyond

Practical Usage of Curves, Color Wheels, Qualifiers, Power Windows, Scopes, and more

Complete a full-scale project: From Importing Media, through Video Editing and Color Correction, to Color Grading with Motion and ResolveFX

Why take this course?

Hello there! I'm Louay, a seasoned instructor specializing in Premiere Pro, After Effects, Video Editing, and Motion Graphics courses, which are highly rated and bestselling.

Today, I'm thrilled to introduce you to "Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve - Beginner to Advanced".


DaVinci Resolve is a widely used, free professional video editing software, cherished by both amateurs and professionals. Its simplicity and user-friendly interface are coupled with robust tools, enabling you to produce high-quality video content.


I've designed this course specifically with beginners in mind. If you're new to Video Editing or DaVinci Resolve, this is the perfect starting point. We'll begin at the very beginning, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to use Resolve proficiently and professionally for video editing, color correction, color grading, visual effects, and motion graphics.

But don't worry if you already have some experience with editing - this course is still for you! If you're looking to upgrade your skills and learn how to use DaVinci Resolve at a professional level, you're in the right place. Plus, I've included a quick dive into the most crucial techniques in Resolve that I'm confident you'll find valuable.


We will dive right in, creating your first video and enriching it with music, text, graphics, and a few transitions. There's no wasted time on irrelevant topics. Within half an hour, you'll be navigating DaVinci Resolve with confidence.

Throughout the course, you'll learn everything from video editing, visual effects, motion graphics, to color correction & grading, and audio editing. Together, we'll produce a video from start to finish, allowing you to understand the entire process, from importing your video clips to the final stages of color correction and grading.


I fully understand your eagerness to apply what you've learned right away. That's why I'm providing you with a complete set of over 100 sports/action-themed video footages. These materials will give you a great platform to practice and fine-tune your skills.


In this DaVinci Resolve course, you will:

  • Learn the concepts behind the workflow in DaVinci Resolve.

  • Experience swift and effortless editing on the latest Cut Page in DaVinci Resolve.

  • Learn to efficiently import and arrange your media, moving from Bins to Power Bins.

  • Gain all the necessary skills for proficient video editing in the Edit Page.

  • Jump right in and construct your inaugural short video – an exciting starting point.

  • Explore diverse methods to piece together your video – ranging from insertions to exchanges.

  • Execute meticulous edits on your clips, frame by frame.

  • Engage in the fun of adjusting your clips' timing with speed graphs – both Slow Motion and Fast Motion.

  • Become proficient in transitions and even create your own unique ones.

  • Enhance your project with Graphics, Lower Thirds, and Titles, including the creation of an Intro and Outro.

  • Delve into the advanced features of Fusion Text, Text+ and Rich Text

  • Apply and personalize Effects drawn from Resolve FX and Fusion FX

  • Achieve flawless Color Correction – even with Log footage.

  • Utilize Power Windows, Cloud and Point Trackers to accentuate features in your clips.

  • Grasp and operate advanced tools like Curves, Qualifiers, Keys with precision.

  • Embark on your Color Grading journey like a promising colorist and create impressive grades.

  • Master sophisticated editing methods, including three-point edits, J-cuts, L-cuts, and beyond.

  • And a top-notch learning experience with easy to follow video tutorials

  • Plus: The professionally shot videos will allow you to complete different projects and apply all the skills you acquired.

Whether you aim to edit videos for your YouTube channel, create exciting videos for your family album, market your website through video content, start your career as a video editor, or simply want to create your first demo-reel, this course is tailored to your needs. I'm committed to your individual success and can't wait to see you in the course!


Your journey from beginner to Advanced starts here in my Complete DaVinci Resolve Video Editing Course. Don't just take my word for it – here's what some of our students have to say:

Gideon pepple: Honestly, I was very skeptical about getting the course but I am so glad I did. At various parts of the course I was like now I see how they did that. I also took notes so that was a huge bonus. If you're on the fence, I advice you take a leap and get the course. It's just awesome.

Timothy Larson: I was pleasantly surprised at how well this course began. The pace is excellent and I learned useful things constantly even though I had done some work already, so this will help the speed and efficiency of my workflow.

Joy Billel: I am new to DaVinci Resolve so the course is very insightful and helpful. I love that you've provided materials for your students to easily do the edits with you which make it so much easier to understand the features provided on the video editing software. Thank you!!! :D

Marco Túlio Avila Santos: It's just exactly what I was searching for and needing! I'm a complete beginner in video editing with Resolve and I came from iMovie from Apple. This course is just a MUST HAVE for everyone that wants to start working with DaVinci Resolve AND video editing! Thank you so much!

Dhiren Adatia: Thank you Louay. I have learnt to edit in DaVinci at a great level. I can import media, and edit clips to music as well as creating transitions and learning to add text. I've learnt to add music and cut to music, add effects and much more. Brilliant and well recommended course to anybody wanting to learn such a powerful editing software.


The course guarantees your satisfaction. If you're not happy with your purchase, we offer a 30-day 100% money-back guarantee. So why wait?

Enroll now, and let's start this creative journey together!

Cheers   

Louay


Content

Quick and Easy Video Editing in the Cut Page (Resolve 16)

How to Download your Free Copy of DaVinci Resolve 16
Watch Other Student's Completed Assignment
Launching DaVinci - New Project & Workflow
Download your Media for your a Quick Start
How to Import Media from within the Cut Page
How to Preview Your Media
Create your First Rough Cut in the Cut Page
How to Insert Clips
The Smart Insert
How to Ripple Overwrite
Swapping and rearranging Clips
The Cut Page Transitions
Adding Audio Tracks
Quick Export to YouTube, Vimeo & Local Drive

More Editing techniques in the Cut Page (Resolve 16)

Fast Preview the Timeline
More about Trimming
Split & Join
Right Click Playhead
Slipping a clip

Clip Tools in the Cut Page (Resolve 16)

Titles
Transform
Crop
Playing with Clip Speed
Stabilize a clip
Dynamic Zoom

Let's get started

Starting in the Edit Page
Getting ready to Edit: Import the Media into the Media Pool
Start Editing: Your First Rough Cut
Work with Audio and Add Music
How about a couple of Transitions
Smart Render for faster previews
How to add simple Lower Thirds and Titles
Export and Produce your Video
* Your Assignment: Assemble a Simple Rough Cut

Adding, Inserting and Moving Clips to the Timeline

Populating the timeline
How to Import the Project to follow along
The Menu System Demystified
Preferences & Keyboard Mapping
How to create Smart Bins and Timelines
Timeline Navigation & Preview
Performing Lift and Extract & the Auto Select
Performing Insert Edits with track selection
Performing Overwrite Edits with track Selection
Marking on the timeline - 3 Point Edit - Insert and Overwrite
How to perform Replace Edit
How to perform Ripple Overwrite
Copy/Paste and Insert Paste
How to perform a Lift & Insert
How to swap clips on the timeline
Selecting and Moving Contiguous Clips
Tip: Match Frame & Find timeline clips in the Media Pool
Tip: How to Add, Move, and Remove Tracks
Tip: When you can't target a track
Tip: How to Extract Overlapping Gaps
** Your Assignment: Assemble an Extended Rough Cut

Timeline Editing Techniques & Editing Tools

Edit your clips in the timeline - Your learning Take away
Importing the Project to follow along
The Concept of Handles
The focus of this section and Modes vs Tools
How to perform Basic Trim in the Selection Mode
How to perform Basic Trims in the Trim Edit Mode
How to edit Timeline Clips in the Source Monitor
How to Trim Start/End, Resize and Ripple
How to perform an Extend Edit
How to perform Precision Trimming - Nudging with the right Point Type
How to perform a Roll Edit
How to perform Slip & Slide Edits
How to use the all famous JKL in the Timeline
How to use the Dynamic Trim Mode with Selection Mode - Slow Motion Editing
How to use the Dynamic Trim Mode with Trim Edit Mode
How to perform Lifts & Extracts with Cuts: Blade Mode vs Razor/Split Clip
Tips: Easy Marking and Cuts for Lift & Extracts
*** Your very important Assignment: Fine Edit your Extended Rough Cut

Video Speed Effects and Retiming

Retiming Clips - What you will learn in this section
Importing the Project to follow along
How to Retime an Entire Clip - Retime Controls
How to use the Change Clip Speed Panel - Ripple, Freeze and Reverse
How to Create Variable Speed Effects Using the Retime Controls
Introduction to the Curve Editor
Retime Frame - Using Retime Curves
Retime Speed - Using Retime Curve
How to Rewind a Segment
Tip: How to create a Freeze Frame Segment
Tip: How to create smart Reversed Segment
*** Your Assignment: Retiming Clips

Transitions: Applying and Customizing Transitions

Transitions and Effects - Your learning take away from this section
Importing the Project to follow along
How to use the Video Faders
How to use the Audio Faders
How Clip Handles affect Transitions
How to Customize Video Transitions within the Inspector
How to use the Keyframe Editor to edit the Transition Curve
How to use the Curve Editor to edit the Transition Curve
Tip: How to Save a Transition Preset for re-use
*** Your Assignment: Add & Customize Transitions

Transforms & Motion in the Edit Page

The Transforms and Motion you will learn
Importing the Project to follow along
Quick reminder of the Video Properties within the Inspector
How to Animate the Inspector Properties
How to Work and Animate with On-screen Controls
Smoothing the Motion Path and Creating non-linear Path
How to Customize the Dynamic Zoom
How to perform Paste Attributes to replicate properties
Your Assignment: Create an Intro for your movie
Your Assignment Tutorial : Create an Intro for your movie
Tip: How to Compound Clips

Text & Fusion Titles & Lower 3rd - Create, Customize and Animate

All about text. graphics and Fusion Text
Importing the Project to follow along
Single and Multiple Line Rich Text Formatting
How to Animate Text from the Video Tab
How to use the scroll Text
Introduction to Fusion Text from the Edit Page
Fusion Text: Directions and Write On in the Text Tab
Fusion Text: Rotation and more in the Layout Tab
Fusion Text: The Transform Tab per Character/Words/Lines
Fusion Text: The Shading Tab
Tip: Fusion Text: How to Roll and Scroll
How to add Motion Blur to Fusion Text
How to work with Fusion Titles & Lower Thirds Presets
Tip: How to Retime Fusion Titles & Lower Third Presets
Tip: How to create awesome text shadows in Fusion Text
Tip: Compositing Text - Text with Video Background

ResolveFX: Applying Effects in the Edit Page

Importing the Project to follow along
Applying Resolve Effects Inspector and On-Screen Controls
Applying, Customizing and Animating ResolveFX - Light Rays

The Color Page and the Concept of Nodes

Color Page and Nodes - Your learning Take away from this section
Download Special Color Correction Media
Create the Color Correction Timeline
The Ins and Outs of the Color Page
The Concept of Nodes
Working with Nodes
How to Add and Label Nodes
Changing the Connector
The Parallel Nodes
The Layer Nodes
The Spliter Combiner Nodes
What is an Outside Nodes
How to Combine Nodes
How to use the Shared Node
Timeline Nodes
Grouping Clips and Group Nodes
Your Assignment: Playing with Nodes

Beginner's Color Concepts & Definitions

Importing the Project to follow along
Color Correction vs Color Grading
The 3 Main Ranges - Highlights - Midtones - Shadows
What are Scopes
How to read the Scopes

Achieving perfect Color Correction with the Color Wheels

How to use Primaries Wheels
Shared Adjustment Controls in the Primaries Wheels
Color Corrections with Primaries Wheels
Color Correction using White and Black Point pickers
How to use the Primaries Bars for Basic Color Correction

Power Windows & Color Correction

All about power windows
Introduction to Windows
Color Correction with Power Window
Adding a Gradient Window
How to color Correct Over and Under Exposed Frame
Your Assignment: Color Correct and Grade

RGB Curves - Controlling Colors

A complete introduction to Curve and How to use them
How to work with Curves
Sample Color Correction with Curves
More Options in Curves
Hue vs Hue Curve
Hue vs Sat Curve
Hue vs Luma Curve
Luma vs Saturation Curve
Sat vs Sat Curve - Balancing Saturation

Using the Secondary Qualifiers + Green Screen Keying

Using the Qualifiers - Your learning take away for this section
Download your Media to work with Qualifiers
What are Qualifiers and Different Types of Qualifiers
The HSL Qualifiers - Selecting the Colors
The HSL Qualifiers - Refining the Matte
The RGB Qualifier
The Luma Qualifier
The 3D Qualifier
Green screen Keying with the HSL Qualifier
Green screen Keying with the 3D Qualifier
Your Assignment: Change the eyes colors
Assignment Solution

Controlling the Video

Controlling the Video - Your learning take away from this section
Download your Media to work in this section
Stabilizing Shaky footage
Tracking Power Windows
Point Tracking
The Blur Tab
The Sizing Tab

Color Grading Workflow Techniques - LUTs and More

Primary and Secondary Colors
How to Apply LUTs to Nodes and Clips - The Key Tab and Node Opacity
How to Create and Apply Project's LUTs
How to Copy Grades from one Clip to Another
Grabbing Stills & Working in the Gallery
How to Compare Shots for better Color Grading

Complete, Color Correct and Grade your Project

Complete the Video Editing
Color Correct properly all the clips
Color Grade all your Clips
Use the the Deliver tab to Render

Optimizing Your Media

How to optimize your media for faster previews

Bonus: Free & Discounted Courses

My other Courses at a special discount for students

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Our review

📚 **Course Overview:** The course has received an impressive global rating of 4.59, with all recent reviews being positive. It is designed to take learners from the basics to advanced levels of proficiency with DaVinci Resolve. The instructor's clear and structured approach, along with the comprehensive content, has been highly praised. The course is also updated for DaVinci Resolve 18.5, ensuring that the content is current and relevant. **Pros:** - **User Interface and Content Clarity:** The course interface is generally well-received, with the content being crystal clear and easy to follow. The instructor's explanation of concepts from the very basics to more advanced topics has been described as "one of the best courses ever." - **Comprehensive Learning Experience:** The course covers a wide range of topics, ensuring that learners who are new to video editing or DaVinci Resolve can gain a solid foundation. It also fills knowledge gaps for those with some experience. - **Structured and Effective Teaching:** The structure of the lessons has been appreciated, with many learners feeling confident in their ability to navigate DaVinci Resolve after completing the course. - **Up-to-Date Content:** The course content is current as it is updated for the latest version of DaVinci Resolve, which is crucial for staying relevant in the field. - **Highly Recommended:** Experienced editors have found the course helpful for learning the Color page features of DaVinci Resolve. **Cons:** - **Repetition and Basic Content:** Some reviews indicate that the course may contain repetitive or overly basic content, which could be seen as a waste of time for experienced users. - **Accent Challenges:** A few learners have noted the instructor's foreigner accent as being somewhat difficult to understand initially, but it is generally not a significant issue. - **Practice Opportunities:** A couple of learners have suggested that there could be more opportunities for practice within the lessons to help solidify the concepts taught. - **Social Proof Caveat:** One reviewer cautions against relying solely on positive reviews or social proof when choosing this course, emphasizing the importance of evaluating the content based on individual needs and expectations. **Additional Considerations:** - **Course Pacing:** Some learners have found the pace at which the course is taught to be quite fast, which may be overwhelming but has also been appreciated for not being boring. - **Community Engagement:** A suggestion has been made for the inclusion of a community platform or forum where learners can discuss and share their progress, experiences, and challenges with DaVinci Resolve. - **Software Updates:** Learners are advised to ensure that they are using an up-to-date version of DaVinci Resolve while taking the course to avoid discrepancies due to software updates. **Conclusion:** Overall, this course is a strong contender for anyone looking to learn or enhance their skills in DaVinci Resolve, with a particular focus on color correction and grading. Despite some minor concerns regarding pacing and content repetition, the majority of reviews are overwhelmingly positive, highlighting the course's clarity, comprehensiveness, and practical applicability. It is a highly recommended course for beginners and those looking to deepen their understanding of DaVinci Resolve.

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