DaVinci Resolve 101

1. Intro: Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining me on this class. I'm Mark Machik. Abby your trainer here on this journey through DaventiRsolve, editing, Abby in Daventi Resolve 19, but it will be the same in version 18. And I'll show you how we can use different pages here, how we can find the content, import it, how to create timelines, how to put somebody's together. We're going to work on this Tai Promo sequence. This one here, we're going to add some titles into it and some transitions as well. We'll make the clips fade in and fade out in here. We'll add some titles, we animate them. We'll also adjust the we'll add some music. We'll make it quieter we'll be too loud initially. And I'll show you how can quickly add these animations and, of course, how to also deliver, how to export your video. So you get small file size, great quality. So be exporting it as Pi fours. Got some P fours in here, or if you want to export them in different formats, different codec, or have look at all of these, and how to actually bring your project into here as well. So if I close this project, how to bring it into resolve from there. This is the project we're going to work on. So I hope you're going to enjoy it. Thank you for joining me on this resolve, one on one introduction course for video editors, using DaventResolve, I'll using the free DaventRsol version, which can do almost everything you ever want to do. So you can just download free version of DaventRsolve from Black Magic website and join me on this course. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you in the next video. 2. Exercise Files: Okay, so let's open Resolve, and you have access to the Excess files to start with. We'll get into actually open a project in here or restore project. So you have the zip which you have downloaded, which will have this DRA folder here. And there's a project inside. There's a cache folder, and it's also a media files folder which has the media. So it's got the videos. We're going to use them through the course. It's also got the audio, one audio clip in here as well. So what you can do? So first, when you download the exercise files, extract them. So you have a zip. I've got a zip here on the desktop, and we extract it. So you get this folder, which we inside right now in here. And then once you have it somewhere on your computer, we're going to go into resolve. Just want to mention that resolve creates links to the files on your computer. It doesn't embed them. So put your files wherever you want them to be and keep them there. Don't move them because the links will be broken or don't delete them, okay. So make sure you have it all extracted. You have it already, open resolve, okay? And you see something like this when you open it, and we'll catch up in the next video. 3. Open Project and Pages: Welcome back. So in this video, we're going to start working in Result Resolve. So when you open Resolve, you'll be greeted with this screen here. And so what we're going to do here is just so you can have a look around. So you can explore the interface as well, because this may be what this would be different from some other analys in here. So we're going to do is in the empty area, I know here, you're going to right click and you're going to restore Project Archive because we do have a project here already. Okay? So go restore Project Archive. And then we'll navigate to our fold on a desktop in here start project, and we're going to open this DRAy, okay? This will import this project into resolve. So I've got this project here where we all have this project here called Resolve one oh one. That's an example project. Now we can double click on it to open it. This will relaunch we kind of relaunch resolve and we'll see something like this. Now, when it opens, just a few things to get you started. Resolve has a number of different panels here or different screens. So if you look at the bottom of the screen here, you get a bunch of icons in here, okay? So I'm on a second icon at the moment, which is the CAT page, okay? Now, anywhere here, if you right click, you can choose if you want to see icons and labels, the texts, the names or just the icons. The icons and labels will not be available on a smaller screens, okay? So because I'm recording this on my laptop, this is not available, okay? That's fine. That's fine, okay? Because we get the tooltips anyway. So we got the first, we got media. Then you've got CAT page, then you've got the edit page. Then you've got the fusion page, Color page, Fairlight, and the deliver. Okay? So if we go to the first one to the media page, where we'll start, you may as well see this to start with, okay? So we'll start with the media page first. But if you want to have a look at this, so this is the media page. This is the CAT page. That's the edit page. They all going to look a little bit different as you switch between them, okay? That's our fusion page in here. Ignore it for a moment because they may look really complex. That's fine. Then you got the color page for Cala correcting, color grading. By the way, with the fusion page, this is where you can add effects and animations and layers and stuff. Okay? That's the color page for color correcting, okay. Then we've got our ploid. This is where you can do some audio editing. They'll go deliver page, which is where you do the Export, okay? So normally, you're going to start with the media page first, okay? And we're going to explore the media page in the next video. So if you switch to media page for now and they explore it in greater detail next. 4. Media Page Overview: Okay, so we're in the media page in here. That's where we're going to start in the media page. I think what we should have a look at first and something that I'm going to do first, you probably don't have to do it, especially if you open the resolve for the first time. I'm going to go to the Workspace menu here and I'm going to reset UI layout because I may have customized something. I may have changed something. So if we reset it, we are going to see exactly the same things in exactly the same way as well. So just reset UI layout. Well, mine hasn't changed much. Okay. Now, so the media page is where you start. This is where you input the content. That's where you can preview it, organize it. That's where you can create bins in here, like folders and timelines, as well, you know, so first, something that you should be aware of with resolve in general. What this is going to be different from some other annals, non linear editing video applications, so we have a bunch of panels here, like in other applications. However, in here, we can't move them, okay? Or you can't fly resize them, okay? So for example, have a look on left hand side. Got a media storage here, which is active because it's highlighted in here. So you can click on it to turn it off and click on it to turn it back on. Got a clone tool here as well, leave it for now, and here at the bottom, we got this master here. Now back to the top left corner. So on the media storage here, you got this little triangle where you can expand it so it shows vertically for the whole height of the application frame. This is pushing all the media to the center because now media storage takes up all the space in here. We can clue on the same icon here to shrink it. So it's just in a top left corner, okay? When you can select anything here, you can actually search for S. You can also resize this section there. So, for example, you go to my local disk and I can look for my users, Mic and my desktop, and I files here and say videos. Okay? And you can preview the videos. Now, we haven't imported anything here yet. We just previewing the content. Now, when you put a curse on the edge here, you get this icon where you can click and jack to resize it, so you can make it wider up to some extent. You can also make it narrower. Okay. Oh, let's say three columns will be fine. When you move the cursor down here, you can also make it taller, okay, or shorter. So you got a bit of flexibility, I would say. But unlike in other applications, you can't move these panels. Which might actually be an advantage because media storage will always be here in the top left corner. Your content, your bins, your folders will always be here at the bottom, okay? Now, at the moment, if we look down, it says master, okay? That's our let's say master bin, in a way. And we've got a bunch of videos here. There's also an audio file there. You can preview them. You can roll over over the clip. There it is. And you can preview the video here in this viewer, okay, in this monitor. And at the moment, we haven't got any bins here. We haven't got any folders, okay? What I did with this project, when I made it for us to work on it to get started here with the resolve, is I just imported a bunch of videos and audio and just put them together on a timeline, but without making any bins because that's something we're going to create ourselves in here. Okay? Now, on the right, you also have quite a few panels, actually. So you've got audio, which is turned on. That's the audio panel here. So when I preview anything, on the clips which do have sound, you see these volume meters going up and down, especially the music. You can see the music is really loud. It goes into red. It goes all the way to zero, okay? Also got a metadata panel selected, which is here in the bottom right corner. So if I select any clip, just a single click, you get to see some stuff in here, okay? Now, we're going to explore them in just a moment, but let's just have look at some other. We've got inspector swell, which you can turn on. This will turn off audio automatically because there's no space for both of them. Got a capture swell, which will turn off metadata in this case, but we don't have any device connected here. I got your turn off capture. I'll go back to the metadata. Maybe no audio. But let's say if I go back to the default, which was like this initially, okay. And then I'm going to explore this more in the next video, so we can just put this in chunks in here. So keep this open, and we'll continue in the next one. 5. Media Page Metadata: So as you input the content, you've been with another panel. But for now, we're going to stay in this edit page on this media page in here. And for example, something I mentioned earlier in an earlier video is with these icons at the bottom. You can click anywhere here or anywhere here, and if it's easier, you can enable labels if you want, so you can see what each other down is, okay? Remember, this may not be available if your screen resolution is too low, okay? This will be a common fin here in resolve where some features will appear disappear. Well, some features will be hidden on a small screen on a low resolution screen, okay? So, so we browsing through the media at the moment here in top left con media storage. And when you browse through the media, so at the moment, top left corner, media storage is where you browse through the content on your computer. At the bottom here in the master, we have the content which we had imported into our project. Okay? So these are in the project already. These files here. Now, here's something interesting about the metadata panel here in the bottom right corner. You can use metadata panel, excuse me, to get some more information about the clips you've imported. So I've got this video selected at the moment, Bangkok, what you see here, Bangkok 31965. I can see some properties of this clip in here in the Metadata panel. But also the interesting thing is you can get metadata information about the clips you browsing through in media storage as well. So here, I can select maybe this one, Asia and look at the metadata panel, it says Asia 31787 PfurFle using H 264 Codec 25 frames per second, and it's 12 80 by 720 as a resolution. And there'll be some more information here. You can customize what you see in metadata panel using this button here or the free dots, and you got settings here as well. So for example, with this icon here, we can choose to view maybe some maybe camera settings. Well, this one doesn't have anything, okay? But you can choos what you want to see, maybe tech details, okay? Nothing here either. These are just stock videos. So nothing here really. So let's say, I'll go back to clip details maybe we'll just do say clip details so you can see some more information about the actual clipping here, okay? So Made the data panel useful if you want to check more data about the files, more information about the files. Whether they have been input into the project already or you're about to input them soon, okay? Okay. Now, you got this viewer here in the center, where you can preview your content in here. Okay? So for example, if we click on this video or even if you just roll over over the video, you get a preview in the viewer in the center here. So you can just preview all of these clips with the sound. Okay? This is our timeline. So this is our timeline. Okay? So if you click on it, we can now play this timeline. You can use Space Bath for the playback. That's something that we'll be putting together. Oh, this is an example. I'm sure you can do it better than that. There's some titles here as well, and some music playing in the background. You can also use Space about to stop it. So you can space about to play and stop. And just remember that if you select the timeline, this is the timeline where it's like a tick here and this icon here. This is the timeline. When you select the timeline, you can play the entire timeline here in the media page, right, you're losing the viewer. You don't have to go back to Edit or anywhere else. You can just preview it in here, ok? And also, when you put a cursor over your timeline, you get this little I like an info, and you can click on it to get some information about the timeline. Like the frame rate of the timeline. Okay. And when it was created and the duration as well. So this one seems to be 50 seconds and 19 frames. Okay, we'll do a few more stuff. Looking to maybe organize the content here in the media page in the next video. Just keep it open. No need to save anything right now. 6. Bins and Media: Let's organize things a little bit more here. So still in the media page. And just a quick recap. We have a timeline here already. That's our timeline with some videos and sounds and titles. And the moment, it's all right in here inside this master. But there's no say organization is such in here. And what if you're going to work on multiple timelines? So what I would do here is create some bins. Bins are like folders in here. If you want to make now, decide how you want to organize your content. As we organize it here in our project, there will be no broken links, so you don't have to worry about this. Everything's going to be okay. You can organize them however you want to, and you can reorganize them at any time. So, for example, I'm thinking, first of all, I would make a bin for all of this in here. So anyway in the empty area, I'm going to right click and I'm going to make a new bin in here. Remember, bin is like a folder here. If you want to name it, we can name it now. So see this would be Thailand promote Thailand promo, for example. Okay. And excuse me, then we can select everything and we can move it into this bin. So we could select one of the clips, for example. You could do Control A or command on a MAC to select everything. Then we'll just drag and drop everything into this bin here. So it's there. When you create a bin, this also appears on the left hand side here on the Master. So we can click on the name here and see what's inside. And you can have obviously a number of bins in here. We will, as we create our own content, okay? But for now, I just want to show you how you can create a bin and how you can organize the content. As you continue working here in Resolve, you're going to work out a system that's going to work for you, how youganize the content because everyone's different. Everyone organizes content in different ways. Some people will have a bin for all the timelines and a bin for all the videos and a bin for audio files and bin for images. Others will have a bin for each timeline with its own content grouped together. That's what I was doing here. So it's a matter of preference for how you want to organize in there. Okay? And when you make a bin in here, just so you know, this doesn't make any folders on your computer. No. This only exists here inside resolve. It doesn't exist anywhere else. Okay? You can also go to any clip in here, say, maybe this one, for example, you can right click on it, and you get a number of options in here. There's lots of options there, but what I want to show you is if you want to check where this is on your computer, you can do open file location. And it will show you where this file is on your computer in here. So it's there, okay? This will open your explorer or finder and show you the contenis in here. You can also right click and you can reveal in media storage as well. You know media storage in the top left corner here, in the media page, in there, okay? Hmm. Okay. So I think we're going to well, for now, I think we're just going to move on to the edit page in the next video so you get familiar with it. And then we're going to start putting everything together ourselves from scratch. So keep it open, and I'll see you in the next video. 7. Edit Page Overview: Okay, we're back here in our media page. We made a bin for our content called Thailand promo, and we do have a timeline already with the videos. That's our timeline here. So now we can go to the Edit page to have a look in there. Edit page is where you're going to spend most of the time as you perform edits as you put the sequence together timeline, as you put it together, as you add content. So in Edit page, you see the timeline at the bottom here. Remember, with the left hand side, we got a media pole. That's our media. That's our bin in here. At the moment, my media pool expands all the way to the bottom? Remember, we have this button here where we can shrink it. So you got more space for the timeline. I guess it depends how much content you have in media pos. I'm going to keep it like this for now, minimized or minimized, shrink. So we get more space for the timeline here, okay? We haven't got that many clips here anyway, and they're quite small. Now, with these clips here in your media pool, this slider allows you to make them bigger and smaller. So if you want into bigger, you could do that. Okay. You can also resize Media pole. You can make it wider, you can see more clips. Or we can make these big if you want to make them nice and big. Remember, we can preview them here so you can just roll over. What's really clever here with the media pool is as you're rolling over over the clip in Media Pool, you actually seen a real preview of this clip in the viewer in the source viewer here, which is super cool. Okay. And the same with the audio. Is audio, you can hear the audio as well. Okay. So I was going to make this smaller because we got the source viewer next to, media pool to make them smaller and make this a bit narrower as well. So I got more space for the source viewer. We can see it nice and big. Right? It's just scroll to access the rest of the content, or you can expand it depends on how big is the screen you're working on and what's the resolution of this screen as well. So here's the timeline at the bottom, where we can see your clips, your videos and sounds and titles and images, and so on. Okay? In the center, as you now know, we've got this source viewer. On the right hand side here, you got your program monitor that's going to show you what this is going to look like when you export it. So for example, when you play Spacebar to play it, you see the entire timeline in here. Okay. And space is about to stop, you know. So you can preview what your timeline is going to look like when you export it right here in this program monitor that shows you the preview. Okay? So our timeline, as a clip exists in the media pool here. That's our timeline. Our tilines called Thailand. And you can see the name of your timeline on top of the program monitor here. That's our timeline. If there were multiple tines, you could switch between the timelines right here using the drop down. So you don't have to worry too much about the media poll. You can just do it in here, okay? That's the Zoom. So if I just move in your Tim at the bottom, you got this playhead there. You also got a Tmn in the program monitor right there. So I can just move the playhead so you can see a video, maybe. And here we could zoom in, so I could zoom in to 100%. To check the quality, the preview, we can just zoom out, say fit mode, Z to see the entire video frame. Keep in mind that when you zoom in, if you zoom in to more than 100% view, things will start looking bad or pixelated because looking things bigger than they actually are in here, okay? Also, when you zoom in, when you start zooming in, so you pass the fit point, and me coming from other applications from other video editors, I would normally just hold space to pan around. But this won't work in here. Now, cause you know, in other applications, you can hold space by, click and drag to pan around. Now, in here, you're going to click and hold on the scrolling wheel on your mouse. Okay. And as you hold the screening wheel, you can drag around to see anything here. Release, click hold and drag, click hold and drag, okay? So quite a clever trick in here, okay? So it's the screening wheel on the mouse, and you click hold and drag to pan around. Mmm. Otherwise, we're just going to change this view back to fit, okay? Now, as you play your timeline or as you move your playhead, you're going to see the time code here. A time code here will always start with 1 hour, but just ignore the first two digits. And this is at the moment, my playhead is at 25 seconds and 23 frames, okay? And here, this is the duration of our timeline. So our timeline is 50 seconds and 19 frames. So at any time, you can quickly see how long is your timeline in there. And it's the time code. You can actually click on it and you can type in the numbers where you want to move your playhead. So I could do say 37. I'm just typing. I didn't delete anything 37, zero, zero. This will be 37 seconds. And I'll press on a keyboard to move the playhead to 37 seconds. Maybe not the best one because there's a transition here, so I'll click again. And maybe all the 30 300 and press Enter. Let's will move the playhead to 33 seconds exactly. So if you want to move the playhead to specific location, you can just click just a single click on this timecode here, and then start typing the numbers, okay? We have the position of the playhead in the timeline here as well on the left there in here. We can see it. But this doesn't do much in here, okay? So here, you can just click. The other one just shows you the timeline timecode. Okay. Okay, so you got some transport controls here in the program monitor. So go your playback controls. You can play on Stop. You can also play forward and backward. You can also go to next edit or the previous edit, which is quite cool. So you can move between the cuts in a timeline. Very clever feature. Clicking on this. You got your loop playback as well. We can turn the loop turn on and off. This will not affect your export. This is just the playback feature right in here. Mmm. Mmm. And you also got this jog wheel here where you can click and hold and drag to scrap the playhead left and right in here, or you can just click on the playhead and drag it like this. Different approach to it, okay? I think that's all we need to know about the program panel at the moment. So in the next video, we're going to focus a bit more on the timeline before we start putting together our own project and our own timeline. So let's keep this open. I will explore timeline in the next video. 8. Timeline Overview: Okay, now the timeline. The timeline is where we're going to spend most of the time. This is where the action happens. This is where the magic happens as well. Timeline is where you can see all your clips. So the timeline is right here in the bottom half of the interface here on the edit page. And you can see all these clips. So first of all, excuse me. You should be on the selection tool or selection mode, the arrow, okay. And you can then select any clip in here, you can select these videos or there's the music here. And we got these different trucks in here. So I've got video tracks, v1v2, and audio tracks A one A two. You can adjust the height of any track by moving this horizontal line up and down, so you can make this a bit taller. On V two, we can keep it as it is, but just wanted to show you how when you make your truck taller, I find it quite cool because a I haven't seen it in other applications, but here, it tells you how many clips you have per track, which is super cool. So on V two, we got three clips. V one has eight clips, okay? Now with the music, we can make this taller so we can see how many clips we have obviously, but also you can see the excuse me, audio wave phone better. A is. Okay. Of course, how tall you go depends on how much space you have. You can also use this FCA line to move everything up and down. So you can make more room for audio or more room for video, okay? If you move well, when you start resizing the tracks or when you move everything up and down. So say, if I move down, so I got more space for the video tracks, maybe like this. When you get to the stage where you can see all your audio or video tracks, you get a slide on the far right here where you can scroll up and down to see the content in here, okay? So normally this disappears. So I'm going to move this up a little bit so there's no slider. There we go. Let's say something like this. Okay? So I got this video and audio tracks, okay? As we selecting the clips, by default, the link should be turned on. So what this means is that when you click on any of these videos here, the audio gets selected automatically. You can disable this link selection. So you can select just the video or just the audio on its own. Now, here's something that I would person recommend. Kipling section turned on all the time. Leave it on at all times, okay? If you want to select just the video or just the audio, hold Old key, Option KineMac and then select. So as I'm holding old key, I'm selecting just the audio or just the video, one part. Okay. So, for example, holding old key, I'll select this audio here. I'll release the old key. I'll release the Mouse button already. And now I can make this longer, so I can put this cursor right here. I can just click and drag to expand a little bit. Maybe just a bit, okay? Just an idea. Okay? Then I'll just click on the audio and or video or click Away, select the video. They both select it, okay? Because link selections tend on all the time, okay? Also, if the trucks in the timeline, if you look on the far left, you got the padlock where you can lock the truck. So say, if we log V two, this can't be edited. So now I can't select I mean, I click on the graphic, but I can't select it, I can't drag it or trim it nothing because locked, it's protected. And it goes kind of grade out in the timeline. Same if I log V one. We can't perform this i same with the audio as well. Okay? When you start locking the tracks, just be careful because, for example, if I log V one here, but just view one, nothing else. And we've got Link Selection turned on. I'm selecting well, I'm selecting kind of both, but say if I select this clip here, and I prose delete on a keyboard. First of all, it's going to remove the gap, just as you've noticed. But more importantly, it's removed just the audio for this Buddha clip. I'm going to do Control Zt or Command set to And to show you what happened here. You can also do the back space in here, so I selected, press backspace. Backspace will leave the gap. Delete key doesn't. Okay? This is one of these different things in here. So I should have used the backspace, but I wanted to show you excuse me what delete key does because excuse me, in some other applications, it doesn't matter which key you press, but here it does. But what I wanted to show you, first of all, is link if you log, say, V one, by don't lock A one, you can select well, it looks like selecting both because they both have this board around them. But if you say delete, for example, or move, you're just doing it to just one part. So now, I've got a video with no audio here. I mean, the good news is there's a music playing in the background, but on the audio track, on the music, if I press the M button too muted, you'll be able to tell the difference. Because you'll be silent in a minute. Here we go. Nothing here. Hmm. So, you know, another finish the button for muting the track. Okay? We can mute, obviously multiple tracks. The button is the solo. So if you solo a track, this is going to mute anything else automatically. So no music. Okay. So I'm going to Zibo solo for now. So let's make sure we're not locking anything. We're not muting. We're not soloing anything in here, okay? Also, on the video tracks, you got this icon here. We can disable the track. It's a bit like a mute for video. So when you turn this on, this track is turned off. So there's no titles here. The titles are gone. And there. Okay? So leave this. We'll leave this one for now for the Track selector. This is turned on, so we'll leave it. Okay? Finally, with the tracks, you can rename them in here as well. So you can click on the name and see this could be titles. Then you can click on the first one. This is our ARO, our main content, just a single click. This is going to be S D D do? I'm going to call it main audio and At is the music. Okay. So you can just click single click on the name of the track to rename it in here. On the audio tracks, where you see this top dot O. This is a stereo, but you can change the type of a track on the right click. It can change track type. And yes, resolve supports 7.1, 7.0, so it supports a proper surround, okay. There's also support for Dolby Atmosphere. As you add more content, as you add more clips on your timeline, your tunnel will get longer. So I think we get with this for now. So we can start actually working on our own project. We can put this together ourselves instead, okay? So we can close this project file, close project. No need to save anything, it's saving everything, okay? And we can start, say from scratch in our next video. So keep it open, and I'll see you in the next video. 9. New Project and New Timeline: Okay, welcome back. Let's make our how project now. So you should be back to this home screen or welcome screen. Well this time, we're going to click on New Project in the bottom right quarter to make a new project. Give it a name. So I'm going to call it say resolve one oh one. Project. I'm just thinking, what was the other one called? Okay, so resolve one oh one. S Start project. Okay? Okay, create. Now I'm just made this. Here we go. So you can turn this back on. Now, we'll go to the media. We'll start here, and we'll input some content. So because we're looking at the media storage on the other video earlier and I navigate it to where the videos are, we can actually import them. But what you can also do is see the bottom, which says no clips in Media Pool, add clips from media storage to get started. What you can also do in here is you can right click and you can choose input Media. Okay. And then you can navigate to where you have your files. So I'm going to go to desktop. I've got this start project here and media files. This is the one that you downloaded, okay? And there's videos here, so I can input all of these videos. So you have your files on your desktop, on your computer, you can input something that you want to work on yourself, input some media, okay? So Importing, and you may see this message here. Change project frame rate. Well, let's just click Don't change for now. Okay? Let's not change anything yet. Don't change, okay? We've got these videos. I'm going to make a bin for this, but this time, we can highlight everything here. And we can right click any of the clips and we can actually create bin web slated clips. So this will make a new bin and put these clips inside automatically at the same time. And then on the left, there's Bin one it's great to click on the name. And this is going to be called Say Thailand Promo, for example, okay? Got everything here. Now, we could use the metadata panel to check the resolutions and frame rights for these videos here. So this is I'm looking on the right hand side on the meta da pano here, 12 80 by 720, 25 friends per second. Just using the right arrow on a keyboard to move from one clip to the other. They should be all the same settings. This one is 30, but we may not use it. It's a splash of the water. It's not really Thailand. Now, we need to go back left if you're using the arrows and then down. So all the rest is the same, okay? So we're ready to make timeline in here, okay? So we can right click anywhere in the empty area, timelines. Sorry, create new timeline here. But do you want to use any clips selected? Maybe not, because we could create new timeline using selected clips and bins, yes. But I'm looking at the settings in the metadata panel, and this is 12 80 by 720, 25 frans per second. I would rather make it bigger full HD, and the great fin is resolve or resize the clips automatically. So we could deselect everything first in here. So what we're going to do here now is we want to take control over the timeline. Want to create it from scratch first, set up some settings. So we're going to navigate to the Edit page in here. And in the media poll in the top left corner, look into right click in the empty area. I would do timelines, create new timeline. Because I want to take you for some steps in here and explain a bit more. I would take control. I want to make it bigger to start with and also use a different frame rate. So in the edit page, in the media pool, in the empty area, just right click and choose timelines, create new timeline, and name it, but don't click Create yet. So say Thailand promo. This would also become the name of the video where we exported by default. And let's antique use project setting so you can see more options here, okay? So you got these multiple tabs. We got format, we can see the tannin resolution. Okay? There's a drop down here where you can choose the resolution you want. I will go for 1920 by 1080 HD, which is the full HD resolution. This is perfect. We could even go to four K. Here we go a little bit high there. We got a four i as well, ultra HD, 38 40 by 21 60. 12 50 by 720 is what we call standard HD, standard high definition. It's not high enough anymore. We'll go for full HD. Full HD is pretty much a standard. And 1920 by 1080, it's great for web, social media. You can't upload Fok videos to X, for example, okay? So then for the frame rate, I'll go for 24 B 24 friends per second is what we use for pretty much almost everything here. In the past, we used to use 25 for broadcasting in UK, Europe, most of the world. We used to use 2997 for broadcasting in North America and Japan and Korea and a few more countries in Southeast Asia. But 24 is what we use for the web. It's normally 24 in cinema and on DVD and Blu ray, as well. So I'll stick to 24 here. Now, these settings, actually my settings from the project because that's what I always do, okay? But you can decide what you want in here. Resolve will resize the clips automatically. So as you saw earlier, these videos are not 1920 by 1080, they 12 80 by 720. So they're going to be upscale. Don't worry. They all look fine. They look just fine. Okay? Now, we're going to not worry about the rest on here. So I'm going to create I've got this new timeline, which is 1920 by 1080. So I got this new timeline here. If you click on the eye, you can see it's 24 Well, mine is 24 frands per second, okay? And no duration here yet, okay? So let's see what we could use to start with here. So let's have a look at these videos and pick something to start with. I was thinking maybe we could do is like in the one we opened earlier, we'll let maybe something quieter first, maybe one of these Buddha clips, and then we'll move on to Bangkok where there's all this noise and bustle and lots of people and cars and buses and everything, okay? So here, remember, you can make the fames bigger. Here in the media poll. You can also roll over and you can see them in the source viewer here. So let's look at the Budha one. So this is one. Let's say maybe maybe this could be the first one, for example. So I'm going to just preview this clip first. I'm going to select it, double click and move the play head back to the start and just play with this spacebar Okay, let's say, Well, we probably don't want the entire video. We just want a section of it, just a few seconds. So one of the things we could do is we can take this video. We can just drag it into the timeline. You get this highlight. So we'll drop it right at the bottom here on V A one and move it all the way to the start like this. And then drop it. Okay? Now, here in the timeline, you got this slider here and plus and minus, we can zoom in zoom out. So you could just zoom in or zoom out. You also got these icons. So you got your custom Zoom, you got a detail Zoom, and this one is great, full extent zoom. What this does is it makes your entire timeline or all your clips fit into the timeline. Now, I know this may not sound like anything special, but believe me, this is super cool because with this turned on, as you add more clips into your timeline, the tunnel will zoom out automatically and will always show you all the clips. It's like fit on screen in Photoshop, for example, okay? It's a really handy feature. I'm also going to make this a bit taller. B video audio tracks. Here we go. And I'll rename them, so this is going to be our Aon. And this is going to be say main audio or whatever you want to call it. And let's see which part we want, actually. So I'm going to use Spaceb to play this timeline. I'm thinking maybe from the beginning, but just a few seconds. So we can do is we can just play it from the start. And once you feel it's too much, we'll stop. So I'll stop after I don't know, maybe four or 5 seconds. Like maybe here. I want the selection tool. If you move your cast at the end of the video you get something like this. And it can click and drag to perform a trim like this. So we'll just trim the end. Okay? I know it looks like nothing happened, but I remember because I'm on this full extent zoom, it's zoomed out, but you can see that playhead is at the end, and it's just 4 seconds five frames. Let's just play this from the beginning. Maybe a little bit too much. I'm going to shot in a bit more. I think 3 seconds, five frames will be enough. So trim it a little bit more. Okay? Let's do one more clip, and then I'll show you some other techniques. Let's see what we can do next. Uh maybe this one, I'm going to this time from the media pole, I'll drag this clip down to the timeline, move it at the end. The Make sure there's no gaps. Drop it, and I can see the power of this full extent zoom. It's zooming out automatically all the time. Now, we don't want this entire clip, so let's just preview it here. You can see it in the program monitor this time. Maybe we can close these voices. So let's see So maybe here. I'm going to trim it right this. This may be a bit too long, so let's preview. A bit too long, but I want to keep the voices. I'm going to trim from the start, maybe this way, this time. Like this. I'm actually looking at the way from here, there to check when they start talking. So maybe a little bit more. Then we can just click in this gap and just press Delete on the keyboard to delete it. Okay. If you cancel your entire timeline, there's a slide at the bottom, so you can just slide. But it will do full extent Zoom. It just may slide to the right. Okay? So the last step I did here, Fondo controls that, you just click in a gap to select it. I just press Delete on the keyboard to delete it. Okay? So let's preview this. Okay, this will do for now. Let's keep it open, and I'll show you another technique in the next video. 10. In and Out Points: Okay, here's one more technique we can use to add videos. So far, we've been dragging and dropping the videos into the timeline from the media pool or from the source monitor. But this is another way we can do it. Potentially, you know, a better one. Okay? So here, let's pick one more video here. So I'm going to move on to maybe the video with the statue of Buddha, maybe this one. So, double click on it. So the clip loads into the source monitor here. And here in the source monitor, just make this a bit narrow. Here in the source monitor, we can choose the part of the video we want to add to the timeline by setting this in and out point. These two, mark in, mark out. Let's have a look at the video first. Looks like we could pick any part of this video, any part we want. So we're going to move the playhead to where you want this to start. I'm going to listen to sounds of the birds in here. This is the only thing. Actually quite like it with all these birds in here. So if I'll go to the start, and I'm thinking maybe I'll make the in right at the start here, mark in, and then out after a few seconds. When you play the clip in the source monitor, you can see the time code here in the top right corner now. So you can make it say, three, 4 seconds maybe. Maybe here. So make the outpoint at 3:16. And this time we add the video into the terminal, this is going to insert just in and out. So click and, and I'll drop it right here. A lot preview, check the card. Okay, let's do more one more example of this one. Si me with this technique. So let's add just one more video here. So we hit these three. So maybe this one. So double click. Have a look at the video. So maybe here, I'll make the in point. This time, I'm going to use the letter I for the in and letter O for the out and letter O for the out. Okay. And once we start making in and out points in the source monitor, here you can see the duration of the in and out. So mine is just over 3 seconds, and I will drop it to the timeline. Okay, that's basically how we can add the clips. But I want to show you a couple more techniques in the next video, so we can add a few more videos in the meantime. I think we could move on to Bangkok section. So you can use maybe something else this time. So we do one more video, maybe. Let's see. Maybe this one so double click. Maybe this time, I'm going to start from the beginning, so no need for letter I. Just after a few seconds, I'll do the letter O for the outpoint, and I'll drop this right here at the end. This doesn't have any sound, but that's okay. We'll put some music in in here. Okay, which you could do even now, if you have some music. If not, we'll import it. So let's continue next video. 11. Add and Adjust Audio: So, for example, if you want to add some music, we can input it. So here, in Media Pool, we could right click and we could input media. You don't have to go back to your media page. You can input in Edit page as well. O can do Control or command I. We can input some music. So I've got this music you had earlier here in audioolFolder. Okay. And we could drop it on a timeline because I like it from the start, let's say. Okay. So we could drop it to the timeline, and then trim it if it's easier. So I can just drag it, drop it on the A two, right here, make the truck taller, rename it. Music. This is way too long, but that's not a problem. We can always trim it forth and back. So I can just trim it to make it shorter right now. Let's say to maybe up to somewhere here, because we'll have some more content anyway. Okay. Mm hm. And let's add one more video, then I'll show you one more technique in here. But with the music for now, we're going to drop it into the timeline here, okay? And when you play it, it's probably going to sound too loud. You can see the volumeres right here and when they go read, this is way too loud. So you may want to grab this line here, the volume line, you click and drag down to lower the volume. So if we drop it by maybe about eight or nine decibs normally we do ten to 12. So take it down a bit more like 9.9. This will do for now, just to make it quieter. So you can hear everything. So you got this volume line here. You got these two arrows pointing up and down, where you can adjust the volume. And when you play it, there should be no red in here anymore. You could do much more when it comes to audio and flight, but this will do for now. Okay. So that's our music, sorted for now. I'll show you a few more editing techniques in the next video where we do more edits on the timeline. So keep this open. 12. Insert Edit: I Let's add one more video clip to the timeline here towards the end. And I'll show one more technique in just a moment. So let's pick something from, say, Bangkok. So I'm going to make these bigger. I can see them better go the traffic first. So maybe one of these maybe go to one of these taxis. Let's see what this one looks like. So maybe this one. Not the whole video, obviously. So mark the outpoint here after 5 seconds and drop it into the timeline. Yeah. When you add in clips from your source monitor, you can also add just the video or just the audio by dragging these icons into the timeline. So I can just drag video only with no psychic. There's no sound coming through. Okay? On do or we can add just the audio. So there's audio here, but there's no video. Okay? Now, let's say, we put this video here, and then we decide, actually, I want another video in between these two video clips here. Maybe one of the shots for the taxis. Not a problem. So let's pick a video. Maybe this one. Let's have a look. Maybe when people get in. I'm going to make the outpoint maybe here and make the in point earlier just before taxi stops. So maybe here, I point. And we want this video to be right between these two. Now, here's what we can do. First of all, we'll have snapping turned on by default. What this means is, as you may have noticed, when you drag and drop the clips onto your timeline, they snap to one another, okay? And we're going to take advantage of this because now we're going to move the playhead and it should snap to the cut here as well. Okay. And now with the clip in the source monitor, we could do this. We could just insert it here. Now, get a couple of choices. You can insert. You can overwrite, you can replace. Now we want to insert. Here. Well, there's only one problem. It's one thing that we should have done first. No problem. We can always undo, obviously. But when we inside this clip, this also cut the music for us. So you know what to do. We'll undo. We'll lock the music, track, and then we'll do inset there. We'll inside the clip. Now it's the way we want it. And now we can unlock the music and make it longer. He with you. It's always here. Okay? So now we've got this clip with the taxi. The So if you want to drop the clip in a certain location, maybe you want something different at the start, you can just move the play head where you want it to be, and you can use this inset clip button in here. Okay, you can take your time. You can add some more clips here. But in the next video, I'm going to show you Well, so you know how to adjust the volume already for the music or for any clip which has sound. This is supposed to be just an introduction court to get you quickly started. So we don't spend too much time on lots of extra features. So we're going to add maybe some titles in the next video. So keep it open. You can add more videos if you want to, and I'll see you next video. 13. Add Titles: Okay, I've added a couple more clips in here. But for now, just so we can make it ready for the export, I want to show you how we can add some titles here, and boy you up for a treat because there are so many that you can add, and you don't need to know much about customizing them, okay? So in our Edit page, in the top left corner, you've got your media pool, and next to it, we've got this Effects button. So if you click on it, and just we can focus on the effects here. I'm going to expand that for a moment. And there's lots of stuff in here. But for now, we just focus on titles. And there are lots of them. Okay? So, for example, I'm going to move the playhead back to the beginning one at the beginning. And you can actually preview them, so you can just roll over and you see a preview in your program monitor. You see what they do. You could spend pretty much most part of the day just looking through these and customize them. So this one is quite nice. Call out. But I quite like the fad on. This is the one you saw earlier, this paid on where the text appears out of a blur, quite cool. So find something you like, and when you find it, we're just going to drag it and drop it onto the timeline. Going to drag it and drop it right here on the top on Video two Track. This is going to be titles now. Okay. I'm just going to make this shorter now. So get more space for the timeline. Here we go. Now, just before we start customizing it, we don't want it to be on top of the video, want it to be before the videos. So all we'll do is we're going to look this Vito track, and I will highlight not the music. The video, v1a1, all of this. Just pick and drag, and we move it. So it starts after the title. Then we can expand the music. Be too short now. Okay. Now with this title, so if you select it on your timeline, in the inspector panel on the right hand side, here, you can customize the text there. So puts a different text. So change it here. So let's say I'm going to do. Welcome to Thailand. I'm going to move the playhead so you can see it in focus. Here we go. I think this is too big. Well, first of all, we can change the font. It's good to pick a different font here. You get a live preview, which is great. It's good to go for Lato font. You can use any font on your system here, Lato, er, and size, this is too big, so take it down. I would normally do so if I double click here, you can see the size. I'm going to reduce it to 0.05. You can also adjust the tracking. You can change the color and got the line spacing, leading, as we often call it, tracking is the horizontal spacing. So you can put them closer together or add more spaces between them. Going to do Control z to undo a command zt. Anything you may want to customize is right here in the inspector with your text. Okay? Quick tip for you. If you want the text to be all caps, we don't have all caps button here as such, so you just type it all caps in here. If you want to so just take your time as you customize it. This is animated. Mm hm. So take your time as you customize it, okay? Just focus on this one and make sure you like it because next video, I'm going to show you how we can make duplicates, so we can have it more times. So for now, I'm just going to close the effects. I'll go back to Media Pool here and I'll see in the next video. 14. Duplicate Titles: We edit a title here in the previous video, and I would like to have another one, say, maybe the one that says Bangkok or you know, Live in the city or something like that. But I don't know about you, but I don't want to add a new title from the effects and then change the text and anything else and maybe make it longer, short, and so on. No. So we can just make a duplicate here on the timeline. So if your selection tool, you select the clip on your timeline. This will apply to any clip. Then you hold Old key option K&amAC and you click and drag to make a uplicate. Oh, make sure you don't have it locked. So make sure you unlock it first. Otherwise, it may not work. I won't work. So you just select it. Hold old key Ooma, click and drag, holding old key. So I want one here to make a duplicate. Okay. Now, I want this to be, again, between the videos. So I'm going to I'm not going to lock in anything here this time, just click and drag like this and move this. Thanks to snapping, they're going to snap. Okay? Music longer. Right? And then we can customize this one, so you just select it. Make sure your playhead is on it so you can see it 'cause, you know, you can have something else selected. L if I select this clip, okay? I'm looking, Okay, welcome to Thailand. I want this one to be live in the city. And I'm just wondering why is it not changing? Why still say, welcome to Thailand? Because I had this clip selected instead. So I'm going to undo. Move the playhead here, select the clip here as well, and then change it in here, life in the city. Now we have two animated titles. They animate exactly the same way. They have the same duration, but different text. Also, maybe the second one could be a bit smaller, so I may drop the font size a little bit, maybe to 0.04. Because it might be too big. The first one was like a main title. This is more like a subtitle here. So maybe I'll make this one a little bit smaller, maybe 0.04. Let's preview. It's still going to be quite big, okay? When one of the nice things in here, which I like is when you're playing your timeline with this space bar, say if I play it. If you click somewhere else to move your playhead, it will continue to play, which is quite cool. So I can just click. It's play and click again, and it's plain. Really great. Okay. We don't have it in some other applications. Okay, what I wanted to show you here as well. Well, show you, you can use it if you want to is under webspace menu, we have this viewer mode where you can actually view your timeline in cinema viewer, which is like a maximize mode in here, like a full screen mode. And in space but to play it. Okay. And then you can just use escape key to exit, or otherwise, this was Control F or Command F on a Mac, okay? So you can use cinema viewer to show it to someone like a client or like a colleague. You can show them what you've been working on before you even export it. What we'll do next Because you know all the main things right now. I was just going to add one more of these here, so I'll select it old key, click and drag. I want to do one more at the end, which is going to say the end. I make the music longer as well. And this one, again, make sure you select it, also move the playhead. And this is going to say D and something like this, okay. There's one more thing I'm going to show you with the music in the next video before we export it. We make it fade in and fade out. So see next video. 15. Audio Transitions: Okay, I promised in the pres video that I'm going to show you how to make this music fade in, fade out because at the moment, it's plain. I mean, it's okay at the beginning, where it starts playing. But at the end, I know about yours, but mine. I just stops. I would rather have it fade in, fade out. Now, if we want to do it quickly, because this is the introduction course. This is your DaventRsolve, one on one, one oh one, one on 111, one on one. And we don't want to spend hours and hours doing something. I'll be recording some more courses with some other stuff. So here's a quick one. You know, if you watched any of my other echoes, you know, I like quick ways of doing things. I like shortcuts and stuff. So we're going to go to our effects. And this time, we're going to have a look at audio transitions here. I've got this cross fade. So initially, we're going to lift it plus free decibos. So we're going to drag this at the start of the music right here and you get this highlight. They will crossfate minus free decibs at the end. Just click and drag to drop it here. Don't worry. I remember we'll do one more video with video transitions before we export it. I remember. So let's preview this. Well, I wish it was a bit longer. No problem. I was going to grab the edge here. Then I'll get this arrow. No click and drag to make it I'll make it 1.5 seconds, so 112. Let's check the end. I want it to be longer, as well. Maybe even 2 seconds at the end. Let's try 1.5 first. Oh, I think this sounds great. Perfect. So now you know how you can adjust it. Also, I was thinking about this, say, the first one, for example, here. If you select the transition, the inspector panel is going to show you the properties for this transition and you can customize, fade in or fade out in here, okay? You can also customize the duration in seconds of frames. And you can choose the type as well. So you can switch between these. But in this case, we'll happy with what we have in here. So this is all fun. Going to check the volume. So look in here. Sounds good. Okay. So let's do video transitions in the next video, and then we'll be exporting. 16. Video Transitions: Well, you kind of know what to expect now because we've just done the audio transitions. We made the music fade in, fade out. So as you may have noticed, I'm sure you have is we have some video transitions here as well, which you can use with some videos. So, for example, how about we make the first video fade in here? Typically, when you watch films, videos, you see this fade that goes through black or from black or to black. That's where you could use what we call here dip to color dissolve. So you just drag this transition onto the video and you drop it at the start like this. You get this highlight. So you drop it, okay? And the preview. So the video fades in. Okay. Video transitions are 1 second by default. So if you select it on a timeline here, look at the inspector, you got 1 second transition. That's fine. Maybe we can also make the last video at the end fade out, so drag dip to color dissolve right here to make the last video fade out. Also do a couple more before and after the titles. So here and here as well. So dip to color dissolve, track and drop it right here, another one here as well on this video clip, okay? With dip to color dissolve, as it's called, right here. If you look in the inspector panel, you can actually change the color. That's the colors watching here. So you could change the color if you wanted to. It doesn't have to be just black. It could be any color you like. Okay? So this should look much better now. We fade out and then fade in. And then one here as well. Here we go. Perfect. And again, there's lots of these transitions in here. You could spend time exploring them. But the dip tuca dissolve or cross dissolve are the most popular ones in here, just drop them onto the clip. Make sure the clip has enough content to use the transition. And I think we'll export our timeline in the next video because we have it ready for exporting. As you may have noticed, we have been talking about saving because we don't have to resolve is saving automatically, it's creating backups of your projects, so we don't have to worry about this. So in the next video, we'll be exporting. 17. Export Your Timeline: Okay, it's time we exported our timeline. I'm going to close the effects or go to Media Pool instead. Okay. And we'll just jump into the deliver page here to export our timeline. When you go to deliver page, you got a preview of your timeline, so you can still preview it here. You can play it with the sound and the video, Okay. So you can check if you've got everything, if you haven't muted anything. But also what's really clever here is you can actually see your timeline right here. Second, so for example, if you mute a track, you can always unmute it. That's not a problem. Okay. Anyway, so on the left, we'll get a bunch of presets. So go to YouTube, Vimeo, Tik Tok, Dropbox, and some others here. We also get, say, normally, H 64 might be great, or you can do YouTube. There's also a little drop down here. So when you click on it, you can chot different resolutions. So let's say, I'll click on YouTube ten ATP. This will create a full HD video at our timeline frame rate. Using H 2644 Codec, which is perfect for the web for exporting. Or, we should give this a name first. So let's say this would be Ti Promo, for example. Then you click Browse to choose where you want to export it. I'll put it right on the desktop. Okay. And for now, we can just click Add to RendaQ in here. And you get this render Q here on the right hand side. We can start rendering. So you can click Render O here. And this is going to create a high quality MP four video file, highly compressed using H 264 Codec. You get a progress bar here as well. And the progress bar and the percentages. And when it's done, we could upload this video not only to YouTube bar anywhere, because it's just a standard MP four file and the one we just created here. So if I go to the desktop, open the video, this one is only 52 megabytes, so it's really small for full HD. Okay. It's also short. It's under a minute, under a minute. Quality wise is great because you need to keep in mind that not only we exporting it in a compressed format, lossy format, but also these videos were 12 80 by 720 to start with. We made our timeline, 1920 by 1080. So resolve upscale them as well, it's done a really good job upscaling the content, okay? When exporting, you can also queue. So, you know, we can do another one maybe H 264 mast. So say, I'll do Thai promo Must for example, also on a desktop. You can change the format and codec. So go for MP four, for example, H 264 or we can keep the quick time. Then you can add to randoQ. You can also do another one, so you could say, Okay, maybe quality maybe not the best, maybe high. So this could be promos let's say the promo high, for example, maybe you want to have different resolutions, different no resolution, different compression and different file sizes. I can dirandoQ as well. So I want to have two here. Type promo master and Type promo high. And then when you render, you know, you can say if we click away so there's nothing selected, we can render all. We can select just one, render one or Shift click to render two. So if I diselect, this is going to render all of them one by one. Oh, yes. The first one. Okay, so maybe don't render the first one, okay? Just the other two. Because it's trying to render all again. And then you can compare them at different sizes, different file sizes, different amount of compression as well. As you saw, you can also change the format because you get a format dropdown menu where you can change it. So there's quite a few formats to choose from in here. We can choose different formats and different codecs as well. So by default, it's well, by default, you'll be using PFOur as a format. H 264 Codec. You could just use the YouTube quick exxpot because it will create just an NPFour file using H 264 Codec. It's not just for YouTube. But you've got a number of format options here. But more importantly, if I stick to MP four, different codec. For example, you can use the new H 265 codec, HEVC codec, high efficiency video codec, which will either give you better quality of the same file size or the same quality at much smaller file size. Okay, and that's how you exporting your videos to have them ready for delivery using DaVinci Resolve. 18. Outro: I hope you enjoyed it. This intro, there's more coming if you want to get more in depth. But in this course, I just wanted to show you how you can just quickly get started quickly put some timelines together and add some titles and music and transitions and make them ready for the export as well. So thank you for watching, and I hope you enjoyed it, and let me know if you have any questions and hopefully see another course. Thank you for watching. Bye bye for now.