Course Highlights
  • 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
Curriculum

5 Topics
Welcome to Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve
How to Download your Free Copy of the latest DaVinci Resolve
Media Practice and Demo-Reel
Download your Media for your a Quick Start
Launching DaVinci - New Project

27 Topics
What will be covered within the Cut page
How to Import your Media from within the Cut Page in DaVinci Resolve
How to Preview Your Media in the Cut Page
The source Tape Preview - an advanced preview method
Create your First Rough Cut in the Cut Page
The Cut Page Timelines
Timeline vs Source - Trimming
Refining your Cuts: It's an art work
How to avoid losing your work
Cut Page Editing: How to use the Smart Insert
Cut Page Editing: How to Ripple Overwrite Edit
Swapping and rearranging Clips - Lift and Insert
**** Your Assignment - Practice Project
Introducing The Inspector
Previewing Transitions
How to add Transitions in the Cut Page
The Cross Dissolve Transition
The Standard/Default Transition
How to Customize Transitions
How to Customize Fusion Transitions
How to add Titles: An animated left Lower third
Quick & Easy Fusion Titles
Adding Audio in the Cut Page
When the ripple does not ripple anymore
Quick and Easy Export - Local Media Storage
Quick and Easy Export - Create your first Video & Upload to Social Media
**** Your Assignment - Complete project in the Cut Page

11 Topics
The Cut Page Clip Tools Overview
The Transform Tool (Create a PiP)
How to Crop a clip
How to use the Dynamic Zoom
Composite Option
The Speed tool with Clip Speed in the Cut Page
Playing with Clip Speed from within the Cut Page
Stabilizing Clips from within the Cut Page
Auto Color Correct in the Cut Page
The Audio Tool in the Cut Page
**** Your Final Cut Page Assignment - Create a top notch video

9 Topics
Introduction to the Media Page
Importing Your Media from the Media Page
Advanced Media Import through Mapping your Drives and Folders
Using Smart Bins in DaVinci Resolve
Using Smart Bins for Timelines in DaVinci Resolve
Speeding Up Playback in DaVinci Resolve with Smart Render
Exporting and Importing Projects in DaVinci
Restoring Backups in DaVinci Resolve
Relinking Media in DaVinci Resolve

2 Topics
DaVinci Resolve Menu System Demystified
Preferences & Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in DaVinci Resolve

22 Topics
Introduction to the Edit Page in DaVinci Resolve
How to Create a New Timeline in DaVinci Resolve
How to trim and add clips to your Timeline - The I/O Edit
How to add clips to your Timeline - The Blade Edit
How to add clips to your Timeline - Ripple Cut Edit
Timeline Zooms & Previews
How to Navigate the Timeline
Performing Lift and Extract with Auto Select
Performing Insert Edits with Track Selection
Performing Overwrite Edits with track Selection
Marking on the timeline
Three (3) Point Edit - Overwrite
Three (3) Point Edit - Insert
How to Perform a Replace Edit
How to Perform a Ripple Overwrite
Copy/Paste and Insert Paste
Performing 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: Extracting Overlapping Gaps

12 Topics
The focus of this section - Modes vs Tools
Media Pool Vs Timeline Clip
The Concept of Handles
How to edit Timeline Clips in the Source Monitor
How to perform Basic Trim in the Selection Mode
How to perform Basic Trims in the Trim Edit Mode
How to perform an Extend Edit
Nudge it with the right Point Type - Precision Triming
How to perform a Roll Edit
How to perform Slip Edits
How to perform Slide Edits
Combining the Edits - Examples of Fast Edits

4 Topics
How to use 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 do a Dynamic Slip / Slide

14 Topics
Retiming Clips - What you will learn in this section
Importing the start project to follow along
The Retime Controls
How to Retime an Entire Clip - Retime Controls with FPS
How to create a Freeze Frame Segment
How to create variable speed on the same clip
How to Create Variable Speed Effects and Freeze Frames In DaVinci Resolve
Creating Rewinds and Reverse Playbacks in DaVinci Resolve
The Curve Editor for Speed Variation in DaVinci Resolve
Enhancing Video Speed Variations with the Curve Editor
Retime Speed - Using Retime Curve
Tip: How to create Smart Reversed Segment
*** Your Assignment: Retiming Clips
The Completed Retime Controls Project

8 Topics
Advanced Transitions: Applying and Customizing Transitions
How to use the Video Faders
How to use the Audio Faders
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
How Clip Handles affect Transitions
*** Your Assignment: Add & Customize Transitions

7 Topics
The Transforms and Motion you will learn
Onscreen Transforms and Dynamic Zoom in DaVinci Resolve
Creating Smooth Motion Paths with Onscreen Keyframes in DaVinci Resolve
How to Copy and Paste Clip Attributes in DaVinci Resolve
Your Assignment: Create an Intro for Your Video in DaVinci Resolve
Your Assignment Tutorial : Create an Intro for your movie
Tip: How to Compound Clips

7 Topics
Single and Multiple Line Rich Text Formatting
Animating Rich Text in DaVinci Resolve: Techniques and Tips
Scroll Text in DaVinci Resolve: Tips and Techniques
Fusion Text/Text+ and the Write On
Tip: Fusion Text: How to Roll and Scroll
How to work with Fusion Titles & Lower Thirds
Tip: Compositing Text - Text with Video Background

4 Topics
Effects: Fusion and Resolve FX
Resolve Effects On Screen Controls
Applying Customizing and Animating ResolveFX - Light Rays
How to use the Adjustment Clip

17 Topics
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

4 Topics
Color Correction vs Color Grading
The 3 Main Ranges - Highlights - Midtones - Shadows
What are Scopes
How to read the Scopes

5 Topics
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

6 Topics
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

9 Topics
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

12 Topics
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

7 Topics
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

6 Topics
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

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

1 Topic
How to optimize your media for faster previews

1 Topic
Bonus: Your Next Step

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