Description
In this course, you will learn:
- Setting up a project and key preferences
- Organizing your media
- Editing to the timeline
- Color correcting to fix problems and add effects
- Copying color corrections across clips
- Making targeted fixes
- Mixing audio
- Using audio busses
- Rendering to nonlinear editors
Syllabus:
- Introduction
- Understanding the exercise files
- Restoring the exercise files
- Restoring the DaVinci Resolve archives
1. Part 1: DaVinci Resolve Quick Start
- 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
2. Part 2: Getting Comfortable in DaVinci Resolve 14
- DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
- What computers can you use for DaVinci Resolve?
- Essential user preferences
- Essential project preferences
3. Media Page 101
- Revealing display names
- Power bins: Sharing bins in a database
- Setting poster frames
- Creating Smart Bins
4. Edit Page 101
- Editing and transport controls
- Editing in the timeline
- Selection mode
- lip 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
5. Color Page 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)
6. Fairlight Page 101
- Thoughts on the Fairlight page
- Fades and cross fades
- Clip-level EQ
- Mixer 101
- Bus formatting and assignment
7. Deliver Page 101
- Rendering to nonlinear editors