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1. Introduction to Davinci: You got a great idea
for Youtube video, but you just don't
know how to edit it. This class will take you through everything that you need
to know to be able to edit your very first video for Youtube, Tiktok, or Instagram. And the best part about it, the software is completely free. Let's break down
this daunting task in the small, manageable steps. We'll be taking a look at how to download and install
the venture resolve, the basic layout of it, your standard workflow
tips, tricks and effects. And how to use
different transitions. And also how to export a video. This class will give you the confidence and knowledge that you need to be able to understand and edit
your first to video. I'll see in the next
lesson where we're going to go over the
project for the course.
2. Our Class Project: This course, you'll
be creating a video using Da Vinci Resolve. This is going to
let you practice and show off your new skills. Let's go through
what a good project will have in your project. You should at least
have two clips and some form of
transition between them. There should be text used within your video and audio
which could be from your clips or the
footage that you use or some form of
background music added in. You can use your
own footage or get some free stock footage
from a website. I'll provide the link to Pexels in the projects and
resources section, which is a stock website that
I love to use personally. So don't be scared to
experiment with the software. It's going to be the
best way to learn. Don't you have finished all the lessons here and worked on your video uploaded to the projects and
Resources section. Click Submit Project,
and if you want, you can also upload a cover
photo or a thumbnail here, I know your project,
whatever you want and include a
short description. This is where you explain
what your video is about and how you got on
completing the project. Next click video, you will
see this section up here, and this is where you can post the link to your recording. If you are unsure how to
add a link to your video, upload your recording as
an unlisted Youtube video. This means that no
one will be able to find or watch your
video on Youtube without the link. And then
once you're finished, click Publish at the top. My other course on OBS has
a complete breakdown of how to upload an unlisted Youtube video if you
need help with it. Once you've uploaded
your project, I'll be able to watch
it and comment on it, and potentially give
you some feedback. If you have any questions
about the project, please ask about them in
the discussion section. So let's move on to
our very first lesson. Here I'll show you how to download and install
the Vinci resolve.
3. Getting Set Up: Our very first step is
to get you the software. If you haven't already, you'll need to go
to this website, Blackmagic Design.com
The full URL here is on screen for you. You'll need to scroll
down a little bit to find this section
where you can choose to buy the version of resolve or download
the free version. The pre version has
all the tools and functions that you need to get started on your
edit and journey. And we're choosing
from either Mac, Windows or Linux here. Click on the right one
for you and Window open, where you need to
enter some details. Once you've done that, click the register
and download button. And once that's finished, find it in your downloads folder, click the folder
and click Extract. All make sure that this box
is ticked and click Extract. And when that finishes, it'll open the new folder for you. Here, just double click on the application file and it'll start the installation
process for you. In the set up wizard, click next to Continue and read
and accept this. If you want to change
the installation folder, do that here. And now we can start
the installation, and then click Finish
to exit the set up. Once the process is done, when you first opened Vinci, you can skip these
steps for now. And it will take you right into the main editing page
that's installed. Now let's figure out more about the layout and understand
what we're seeing here. I'll see you in the next lesson.
4. Learning the Layout: Software can be daunting. But in this lesson, we will
start to break down the lead and figure out exactly what
we're looking at here. When you open
Davinci resolve it, should bring you to this screen. This is your project manager. Here, you will see all of your previous editing projects
to create a new project. Either double click the
Untitled project icon here or click New
Project at the bottom. At first glance, this
screen looks like a lot. Let's break it down together. Along the bottom here we
have seven different icons. First is the media page. You can import, manage, or sort your media here. You can look through
files on your computer in this section and add it
to the main media pull. The media pull is all
of your clips, images, videos, and audio that have been imported
into the project. Added media this way isn't
the only way though. We're going to make
it a little bit simpler for our first video, so don't worry about
this page just yet. The second icon
on the bottom bar takes you to the cut page. This is for speedy
edits and it is often used before getting into the
finer details of the edit. It can be overwhelming
to learn both, so we won't be focusing on
that during this course. The third page is the edit page. This is the most important one
for us during this course. So let's spend a little
bit more time on this one. Let's start by clicking
the Effect button up here. This
brings up a section which includes transitions, titles, text, filter
effects, and more. Now up in the top right, click the inspector button. When we have clips, we can change some of the
settings for them. Here in the top left area,
we have our media pool. In the middle, we have
our preview window where the video will play. And along the bottom here
we have our timeline. The timeline is where
we'll be arranging our clips and making all
of our edits to our video. The Fusion page is where you can add some more visual effects, motion graphics, and edits if you enjoyed eventual resolve. It'd be beneficial to learn more about this in the future, but for now it's not necessary as we won't be
using it in this course. The colors page is where
you can professionally manipulate the colors
in your videos. The far out page
allows you to edit the sound and audio
of your clips. And finally, the deliver
page is where we finalize our project
for distribution. Most often this will be to save your edited project to a
file on your computer. We'll look more at this
page later on though. Two more things to mention. In the bottom right, you'll find the Home and Settings icon. The home button will bring
up your project manager and the settings button will bring up the settings for the project. That's all you
need to know about the layout of Davinci resolve. For now, let's get stuck
into making our first video. I'll see in the next lesson.
5. How to Edit: Lesson will be the
most important part of the class I'll be taking through a very basic
and quick workflow for editing a video. Once you've learned
this, you'll be well on your way to publishing
your very first video. The first thing to do is create a new project and name it. I'm going with
Skillshare class Project and clicking here to Create. Once we're in, we're going
straight to our Edit tab. In your Documents folders, find the footage
you want to edit and drag it into this area. You might get this pop up. It's just like, you
know, your project and your footage have two
different frames. Just click change
here and it will make the project's frame exact same as the frame
rate in your footage. My goal here is just to make a very short ten second promotional video
for piano lessons. I'm just using
some stock footage which you can find in
the resource section. If your clips aren't already
in the correct order, just simply click and drag them to move around
until they are. Make sure that
this magnet is on. It'll turn white whenever it is. Make sure that your clips will snap together and
not leave gaps. You'll see these
arrows in a line appear when it is snapping to. I'm going to start by cutting my clips down to
the right length. Pressing Space bar will
play the footage on your time line and then by
pressing Space bar again, it will pause this first clip. I want to start roughly here to get the frame you want
with more accuracy. Click the plus button here. These are zoom in
and out controls. This red line is your playhead. And you can move
around by clicking on the timing bar across the
top of your time line. You can also move one frame at a time by using the left
and right arrow keys. Once you know where you
want to start the footage, we can use the razor blade
here to make it a cut. Let's click it, Then click our clip hovering
over our playhead. Now if I move the playhead, you can see that there
is a split in the clip. This first part I don't need. So let's go back to our
normal mouse pointer or selection mode
by clicking here. And now click this first part. And to delete it, we just
use the backspace button. I'm going to continue
doing this to make cuts at the start
and end of our clips and deleting the parts that I don't want to use in my video. Now, once we have our clips cut, we can now make some
more edits to our video. Let's start with our inspector. Here we can change
the zoom position, rotation, crop, and lots more. I'm clicking on my first clip
and zooming it in slightly until there is no black line along the top and
bottom anymore. To change these settings,
you just click on the box and slowly
drag left or right. I'm going to repeat that
with all of my clips. Then with the last clip, I'm zooming in a little
bit more And moving the position of the clip up so that the piano
is more in frame. I'm going to add some music. This line of green
bubbles is called one. It is my first audio track. It holds the sound for
the videos I've input. I'm going to drag
music into below that. Two, I don't want any audio to play for my
video clips at all. I'm clicking on the M button on this audio track to mute everything that will
be along that line. Next, select the audio
that you have input and in the inspector you can
change the volume of it. I'm just going to
lower this slightly. I want to immediately
start playing. I am using the same method
as before to make a cut and delete that first bit. Next, I'm going to
spend a bit of time allowing my video
clips to the song. This can take quite some time, depending on how many video
clips that you do have. Once you've finished your video, maybe in the next lesson, where we'll add some
transitions and effects.
6. Transitions, Text & Effects: All right, let's
start this lesson by adding a transition
between two clips. So I'm going to zoom and place my playhead between
the first two clips. On the left hand side,
we can see our toolbox, which has a section
for video transitions. Click it and then
we can hover over these options and move
them from left to right. To preview the
transition effect, I'm clicking the
zooming transition and dragging it to my timeline, making sure that it is on both
my first and second clip. Clicking the transition
and looking in the inspector gives us
some settings to change. I'm changing the duration to not 0.4 seconds or 11 frames. I'm going to add in the same
transition a few times. Next I want to add some text clicking titles in our toe box. To find the text option, I'm using text plus click and
drag it to the time line. I'm putting it over
the last clip, so I'm using V two, the second video track. You could use the same way of cutting and deleting as before, but I'm going to show you
a different way to do it. I'm placing my
playhead where I want the text to stop selecting it. Then hovering over the end of the text clip until
I get the symbol. And clicking and dragging it backwards until it
snaps into place. Now selecting the text and looking at the inspector again, we can find our
settings for the text. I'm changing the words
to Let's Learn together. And choosing a different
font from the dropdown menu. I can also change
this font to be bold from the second
dropdown menu. And I'm happy with
the white font, so I won't be
changing the color. But scrolling down, I can
change the size if I want. I'm making it larger by clicking the box and dragging
to the right. The tracking changes the
space in between each letter. I'm going to make it smaller by clicking and dragging
it to the left. Along the top of the inspector, we can move to the
shading tub to make more changes like adding
outlines or shadows. I'm clicking element three, which is a preset black shadow. All we have to do is tick
this box to enable it. And then we can
change the settings. I'm lowering the opacity
and then making it softer by increasing the
values here in x and y. I'm gonna watch the whole video through to make sure
that I'm happy with it. When I'm happy with
it, I'm going to move on to the color page. This can look daunting, but we only need to know
the basics right now. This line here shows you
your clips on your timeline. I'm going to select
the first one and then change some of the color
settings in this area. Select the circle with
the.in, the middle. I'm going to increase the
saturation slightly to about 70 and increase the
mid detail to about 35. I'm going to check
each clip and make similar changes until they all
look high. I want them to. Once you've finished
that, we can now move on to the next
lesson where I'll be giving you a few
tips and tricks to help you in your Devin
resolve journey.
7. Time Saving Tips & Tricks: In this lesson, I'm going to
go over a few of Da Vinci resolves tips and tricks that will help you on your
editing journey. Let's start with
setting your timeline to always start at zero. You might have
noticed that whenever our playhead is
right at the start, it says one here,
that means 1 hour. I personally prefer to have
my timeline start at zero. To do that, all we do is
click Davinci Resolve in the top left and
select Preferences. In this window, we need to
choose user at the top. Then on the left choose Editing. And here we have our
start time code. Just change the one to zero and click Save in
the bottom right. Another feature I think
everyone should know about is how to use
multiple timelines. Using multiple timelines
can be a great function to use in your editing. I often use my main timeline
for a Youtube video, and then create a separate
timeline to use for short form content or videos that I can
post on social media. So instead of having to create
an entirely new project, it's so handy to have that
second timeline right here. Let's create a new timeline by clicking File New Timeline. Call it Short Form,
and click Create. Now let's click
this button here. This will bring up our
timeline viewing options. Clicking this one on
the left will bring up all of our timelines
in this project within separate tabs. An example used for
this could be to have a main Youtube video edited
on your first timeline, and then create a
shorter video for Instagram reels using the highlights from
your Youtube video. However, you would really
want a video on Instagram, Tiktok, or Youtube shorts to be vertical instead of horizontal. And that brings me
onto my next step, which is how to use
vertical timelines. So let's see how to make the second short form timeline
to the right resolution. Right click your timeline file. Then in the Timelines menu,
choose Timeline Settings. Tick use project
Settings, then Tick. Use vertical resolution
and click Okay. Now we can copy and paste any
of the footage we want to use from our main timeline
into our new timeline. Before doing that, let's change one setting to make this easier. Click File and then
click Project Settings. Move to the image
scaling category. And here in input scaling, change the setting to scale
full image with crop. Now let's see what
that looks like when we copy and paste
some footage in. It's filling the
entire screen there, which is exactly what I wanted. And if it's not the right place, we can just move it using
our settings over here. The next handy tip
is how to delete gaps between your clips
to ensure a seamless final product. It's so
straightforward to do, but slightly hidden a way where you might not
stumble upon it. Make sure you don't have
any clips highlighted. Then go to the edit tab at the top and delete
gaps from this menu. You can also delete a
single gap by clicking the space between two clips and pressing the backspace button. And my final really useful
tip is how to use auto save. This gives you some
peace of mind, knowing if anything crashes, you will have a
recently saved backup of all of your timelines. So to turn that on, all you
have to do is click Devin. You resolve, then Preferences, and again, select
User from the top. And then Project, Save and Load. From the categories
on the left tick the boxes for live save
and project backups. I'll set mine to save a backup every 5 minutes and then click
Save on the bottom right. This one has saved
me so much time. I'll see in the
next lesson where I take you through how
to export your video.
8. Finalizing : All right, so for
now we have all of the essential knowledge
to edit your first video, but how do we get
it out of Vinci? Let's go through how to
save and export a file. First we need to go
to the deliver page. This is the seventh and
last icon along the bottom. This section is just the timeline that we
were working with. And we have the entire
timeline selected here. And this is our
viewer where we can preview the video one more time. On the left hand side is where we'll choose
the settings for a video and we're going to
choose this preset Youtube. Then here you can
enter the title for a file and click
Add to Render Cue. Here on the right hand
side is our render cue. This is a list of all of the jobs that are
ready to be rendered, exported, or saved
to your computer. Let's add a second file and have them both be
rendered together. Head back to our
edit page and select the vertical timeline
that we have made before. And then back to the
Deliver page where we can add this to
also be exported. Select the Youtube
preset again and make sure to use vertical resolution, Enter a title, and add this
one to the render que To. Now over here in our que, we can click Render. All this could take
some time depending on your computer's hardware and
the length of your videos. Finally, we can right click this job whenever it's finished, open file location to view
our final rendered file.
9. What We've Learned: Have successfully
finished this class on how to edit videos
using Davinci Resolve. You have downloaded
and installed software, learned the layout, explored the basic workflow, and edited your very
own first video. You've added effects and
texts where necessary. You've learned some tips on
how to help you along the way and know how to export
and save your edits. You're in a great position now as a beginner video editor, but this is just the start
for you Get stuck into learning more and exploring
the Davinci resolve software. It is incredibly powerful. If you do have any questions, the discussion section of this class is a great
place to ask for help. Please don't forget to
complete the class project. It's a perfect chance to practice and demonstrate
what you've learned. I would absolutely
love to see what you're now able to do
by taking this class. If you'd like to, you
can leave me review on this class by selecting
the reviews section. And if you want to, you
can also follow me here on Skillshare to stay
up to date with my classes and be
notified of new releases. I'll be adding classes about
streaming, broadcasting, editing, content,
content creation, and so much more. If you do have any suggestions or even requests,
please let me know. Or also if you want to,
I stream over on Twitch. A twitch for slash review K. You can ask me any questions
there if it's easier. I wish you all the best with your journey with
Da Vinci resolve and I look forward to seeing you in a different class
here very soon.
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