The Beginner's Guide to DaVinci Resolve 16. This official Blackmagic Design Training and Certification book teaches editors, artists and students how to use DaVinci Resolve 16, the only film and video post production solution that brings editing, color correction, audio post and visual effects together in the same software application! This guide will teach you how to use the revolutionary new cut page, which is designed specifically for editors that need to work quickly and on tight deadlines. It also covers DaVinci Resolve's advanced color correction, powerful editing options on the traditional edit page, Fairlight digital audio tools and fast 2D visual effects compositing on the Fusion page. Best of all, the DaVinci Resolve 16 software is absolutely free! So you can start learning today! The free version of DaVinci Resolve actually has more features than any paid editing system. That’s because at Blackmagic Design we believe everybody should have the tools to create professional, Hollywood caliber content without having to spend thousands of dollars. What You’ll Learn:• How to edit, add effects and post to the web, fast using the new cut page. • How to setup projects, import media and use metadata to speed up your work. • Marking selections, editing clips in the timeline, and context sensitive trimming. • How to retime clips, add transitions and pan and scan photos. • Working with new title templates, creating your own titles and adding animation. • How to navigate the Fusion page, use a node based interface for visual effects compositing. • Primary and secondary corrections using DaVinci Resolve’s legendary color tools. • How to match shots, use color management, create looks, grade multiple clips. • How to use PowerWindows, track objects in a shot, use curves and add ResolveFX. • Audio sweetening and mixing using the Fairlight audio tools. • Record voice over directly into the timeline • Use new FairlightFX to improve audio quality • How to deliver projects to a variety of formats and share directly to YouTube and Vimeo. • Dozens of tips and tricks throughout the book that will transform how you work!
Author(s): Dion Scoppettuolo; Paul Saccone
Series: The Blackmagic Design Training and Certification Program
Publisher: Blackmagic Design
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 444
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Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Getting Started
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction to Editing in the Cut Page
Starting in the cut page
Adding clips to a timeline
Reviewing clips using source tape
Appending clips to the timeline
Marking In and Out with precision
Using intelligent editing tools
Editing multiple camera angles
Trimming edits
Lesson Review
2: Adding effects and publishing in the cut page
Mixing audio
Switching transitions
Resizing and stabilizing clips
Changing a clip’s speed
Adding a title
Using the effects library
Panning and zooming clips
Applying audio effects
Sharing to YouTube and Vimeo
Lesson Review
3: Organizing a New Project
Configuring essential settings
Exploring the DaVinci Resolve interface
Reviewing and scrubbing clips
Viewing clip metadata
Adding custom metadata
Making new bins
Displaying keyword smart bins
Saving custom bin views
Lesson Review
4: Assembling a Rough Cut
Creating a timeline
Making the first edit
Scrubbing with JKL keys
Inserting clips into a timeline
Using timecode
Overwriting video only
Editing from a bin
Replacing a shot
Lesson Review
5: Moving Clips in the Timeline
Importing projects and relinking media
Color coding clips
Deleting clips without leaving a gap
Splitting clips
Cutting and pasting clips
Lesson Review
6: Refining a Timeline
Customizing the Layout for Trimming
Trimming to the Playhead
Ripple Trimming
Selecting Tracks to Trim
Using Roll Trimming
Slipping a Clip
Trimming with the Selection Tool
Lesson Review
7: Applying Transitions and Effects
Fading Clips In and Out
Adding Cross Dissolves
Customizing Transitions
Saving Custom Presets
Applying Transitions and Filters from the Effects Library
Reframing Shots
Rendering and Background Caching
Creating a Constant Speed Change
Lesson Review
An Introduction to Audio Post and Sound Design
8: Working with Audio on the Edit Page
Working with Markers
Marking a Range of Frames
Annotating on Clips
Customizing the Interface for Audio
Adding and Patching Tracks
Color Coding Tracks
Finding Markers using the Edit Index
Viewing Markers in a Bin
Linking Clips
Monitoring, Soloing, and Muting Audio
Reading Meters and Setting Targets
Changing a Level within a Clip
Adding Audio Fades
Lesson Review
9: Mixing Sound in Fairlight: Exploring the Interface
Exploring the Interface
Renaming and Color Coding Tracks
Viewing a Spotting List
Changing Track Formats
Trimming Clips in Fairlight
Aligning Sound Effects
Recording Audio in a Timeline
Modifying Clip Attributes
Using Fairlight FX
Setting Track Levels
Lesson Review
An Introduction to Visual Effects Compositing
10: Creating Graphics and Effects in Fusion
Exploring the interface
Adding clips from the media pool
Understanding the merge node
Inserting and adjusting effects
Chaining merge nodes together
Masking effects
Adding effects from the effects library
Using Layers from the Edit Page
Pulling a Green Screen Key
Adding a Solid Mask
Adding text+ in the Edit page
Adding effects to text in Fusion
Animating with Keyframes
Lesson Review
An Introduction to Color Correction
11: Quick start: color correction
Learning the Color Page Layout
Modifying Lift, Gamma, and Gain
Using other Primary Corrector Controls
Understanding Nodes
Making Secondary Color Corrections
Applying Resolve FX
Tracking Power Windows
Lesson Review
12: Performing Primary Color Corrections
Using DaVinci Resolve Color Management
Making Automatic Corrections
Balancing Color and Brightness using the Color Wheels
Checking Adjustments on Scopes
Making a Neutral Color Grade with the Primaries Bars
Balancing with the Additional Primary Controls
Using Curves for Primary Color Corrections
Copying Corrections between Similar Shots
Lesson Review
13: Making Secondary Adjustments
Making secondary adjustments with HSL Curves
Selecting areas with Qualifiers
Reversing selections with Outside Nodes
Combining Qualifiers and Power Windows
Using the tracker
Stabilizing a Clip
Lesson Review
14: Designing Creative Looks
Mixing a Black-and-white Shot
Using a Look up Table for Quick Looks
Creating a Bleach Bypass
Saving Grades Across Projects
Lesson Review
15: Delivering a Final Program
Creating a Web Streaming File
Creating a Custom Preset
Lesson Review
16: Managing Media and Databases
Consolidating Media
Copying Projects and Media to a New Hard Drive
Working with the DaVinci Resolve Database
Lesson Review
Index
About the Authors
