DaVinci Resolve: Editing Basics

Course details

DaVinci Resolve isn't just an amazing color correction tool; it's also a full-featured editor. This course covers the key techniques editors need to transition to Resolve—and skip all the speedbumps. Video expert Jeff Greenberg introduces editing techniques such as three-point editing, drag-and-drop editing, and trimming in the Timeline. Then learn how to adjust audio using Fairlight, the powerful in-app DAW, and add transition and effects. Jeff then reviews the powerful color correction tools that Resolve is best known for, focusing on the features that are most useful to editors, such as video scopes. He also shows how to edit multicam footage using the MultiClip tool, and wraps up the course with a look at output and media management.

Learning objectives
Resolve setup
Auto Save and Live Save
Starting a project
Importing media
Smart Bins
Editing clips
Deleting, moving, and swapping clips
Trimming clips
Adjusting audio
Adding transitions and effects
Correcting color
Output
Editing multicam footage
Managing projects and media

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Note on screen size
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Editorial Viewpoints

04 - Thoughts for FCP7 and Premiere users
05 - Thoughts for Avid users
06 - Thoughts for FCPX users

2. Setup

07 - System requirements for Resolve
08 - Quick tour
09 - Major difference - Project type
10 - Remapping the keyboard or not
11 - Autosave and Live Save

3. Starting Projects

12 - Starting a project
13 - Importing media on the Edit page
14 - Importing media on the Media page
15 - Display names and saving bin views
16 - Smart bins
17 - Clip Attributes
18 - Dual sync sound
19 - Notes for all editors

4. Starting to Edit

20 - Playing and marking clips
21 - First edits
22 - Insert, Overwrite, and three point edits
23 - Basic Timeline navigation
24 - Backtime edits and more
25 - Premiere, FCP7, and Avid thoughts
26 - FCPX editor thoughts

5. Editing on the Timeline

27 - Match Frame and Find bin
28 - Deleting clips
29 - Linking and how it affects clips
30 - Razor edit mode
31 - Copy and paste
32 - Moving and swapping clips
33 - Edit Index
34 - Editing thoughts for track based editors
35 - FCPX editing thoughts

6. Trimming

36 - Trim mode means ripple
37 - Tops and Tails
38 - Roll and extend edits
39 - Slip and slide
40 - Dynamic Trim
41 - Thoughts on trimming

7. Audio

42 - Adjusting clip volume
43 - Adding clip and track effects
44 - Audio dissolves
45 - A word about Fairlight
46 - Multitrack masters
47 - Thoughts on audio

8. Transitions and Effects

48 - Adding transitions
49 - Adding effects
50 - Opacity and built-in effects
51 - Dynamic zoom
52 - Keyframing
53 - On-screen controls
54 - Reusing effects
55 - Changing clip speed
56 - High frame rate clips
57 - Adding titles and generators
58 - Smart caching and rendering
59 - Thoughts on effects

9. Color Tools for the Editor

60 - Moving to the color page
61 - Where are my scopes
62 - Where are the color wheels
63 - Where are curves
64 - Auto correct and shot matching
65 - Nodes
66 - Workaround for effect keyframing
67 - Quick word on qualifiers
68 - Quick word on copying grades
69 - Quick word on LUTs
70 - Thoughts on color for the Premiere user
71 - Thoughts on color for the Avid user
72 - Thoughts on color for the FCPX user

10. Output

73 - Watermarking
74 - Output for YouTube
75 - Output in a master format

11. Multicam

76 - Creating multicam clips
77 - Adjusting multicam sync
78 - Editing multicam

12. Project and Media Management

79 - Where is my project
80 - Improving performance
81 - Building optimized and proxy media
82 - Project management and archiving
83 - Media management

Conclusion

84 - Closing