DaVinci Resolve for Busy People: A Video Editing Course

1. Course Introduction: What You Will Learn: Hi and welcome to DaVinci, Resolve for busy people. My name is Jason Georgiana. I am a professional filmmaker, producer, and video editor. I have a master's degree in film directing from Disney's CalArts and worked in Hollywood as a professional editor, vice attention media, Warner Brothers, and the Hollywood Reporter. In that time, I've also produced, directed and edited to feature films, conditional distribution from 1091 in gravitas ventures. In fact, my most recent feature, beneath the green was edited and color corrected using Da Vinci Resolve. I'll be using a simple step-by-step guide that requires you to follow along with each demo. Using audio and video files really provide to you so you don't need to use this footage. You can actually use your own footage if you like. By the end of this course, you will learn how to import footage, edit video and audio, create basic text elements, transitions, and finally, export the edit for sharing. This course is designed for people who don't have time to spare and really need a course that cuts to the core of editing individually. So if you're a busy beginner, this course is definitely for you. All you need to do to get started is a working laptop or desktop computer with a working version of DaVinci Resolve for Mac or Windows. If you don't have it already, That's okay. I'll show you how to download the program absolutely free. Later in this course. The class project will be to create your own edit from start to finish, using the course materials provided to you or feel free to upload your own edit in the course materials page. So if you're ready to begin, let's get started. 2. Install Resolve: The Vinci Resolve is one of many pieces of software that allow you to import, edit, and export video footage. What DaVinci Resolve offers that most programs don't is a free version of the software that you could use forever. What's the catch? Not a whole lot, but the major difference between the paid and unpaid versions of the program is what the program can output in terms of resolution. In the paid version, you can export anything above four K. For the unpaid version, it's everything below for k or 4,000 pixels might be moaning and groaning about this. But honestly in my opinion, most of us export content including myself for Facebook or YouTube, where resolution beyond TK is more than enough for our purposes. In the course resource page, I gave you a link to download Da Vinci Resolve 18, which should take you to their website, as you can see right on the splash page. Here, you can see all the films that use Da Vinci resolve in post-production. So everything from the Green Knight protege, lots of music videos, car commercials, you name it. So if you just scroll down a little bit, you'll see a link to free download now. You'll click that, which will pop open a box, two options. You'll notice the difference is one says Resolve Studio and the other does not say Resolve Studio. We want the version on the left, which is the unpaid version. The paid version is on the right-hand side, so we don't want that. On the left-hand side. Just go ahead and select what your operating system is in order to use resolved. So Windows or Mac, I'm running it on a Mac, so I'll click that. One of the issues in downloading the new version of resolve is that your operating system might be too old and resolve will not be able to install itself. So in that case, we need to just download an older version of resolve in order to find that, all you have to do is click the link in the course resource page. To download older version of Da Vinci Resolve. It'll take you to the Support Center website. It looks a little tricky, but if you just scroll down a little bit, it says latest downloads. If you can find March 29th, 2022, you'll see Da Vinci Resolve 17.4, 0.6, and Da Vinci Resolve Studio 17.4, 0.6. We want the unpaid version, so we're gonna go ahead and select 17.4, 0.6, which will install Da Vinci Resolve 17 as opposed to 18. Either way, just make sure the software installs itself properly. And we'll see you back here for an overview of the program. 3. Create Your Project: Okay, so let's go ahead and open Da Vinci Resolve for the very first time. I'm actually running version 17 because my operating system is a little older. If you're running 17 as well, that works perfectly for this demo as does version 18. So either version of Da Vinci works fine for this course. The very first thing that you're going to see is a box that opens up and the program is asking you which project you'd like to work on for today. If you create 20 projects, 50 projects over the course of the coming weeks, da Vinci will ask you which one you'd like to work on. Don't worry about all these other tabs and options here. I rarely use them. I just select which project I'd like to work on for the day. In order to create a new project. We're going to come down here and select new project. We're going to label it, demo or whatever you like. Click Create. And there you have it. We are brought into the main workstation of DaVinci Resolve. If you bear with me for just 1 s, I will quit Da Vinci resolve. And if we reopen Vinci Resolve, let's say tomorrow to work on the project that you were just working on today. We're going to open up the project and we should see your project created right here. Here it is demo. So any one of these can be opened in order to access your project files. So we'll go ahead and click double-click demo, which will load the project so we can continue working. 4. Saving Projects: The very first thing I want you to do before we dive into editing is set up da Vinci resolve to save and backup your projects should your computer or program crash without much time to save it. Let's take a look. Okay, so let's set up da Vinci resolve to make sure or double-check that everything is saving correctly. What I'm gonna do is head to the top left here where it says da Vinci resolve. I'm going to click Preferences, which will open up this little window. I will then select User up here. Then I will go to projects save and load. And I will make sure that lives save is turned on as well as Project backups. Live Save, we'll save your project every second that you work on it. Project backups saves your project in terms of time intervals, meaning it will save it every hour. In this case, it's set to every 10 min. And these options down here just clear out older files, older project backup file so that it doesn't clog up your hard disk space and take up too much room. You are going to want to specify where that project backing up takes place. My recommendation is actually to use an external hard drive. So just in case your laptop, something happens to your computer, burns down whatever have you, you've saved your projects to a separate external drive. If you don't have an external drive, that's totally fine. But just make sure that you're setting this location to backup your projects at a regular interval. Go ahead and click Save, and we'll see you in the next section. 5. Where to Begin: So what do we have here? How do we get started? I just want to get editing quickly. Davinci Resolve has thousands of options, many options, sub menus, all that jazz. We don't care about the majority of it. We just want to get started. So do I so I'm gonna make sure that at the bottom here I've selected edit. This is one of seven workstations that Da Vinci has developed in order to carry your footage from start to finish. You can browse them at your leisure. I don't use the first two. I just go right to the third option, which is edit. When I'm done with my edit, I moved to color, which is the fifth one here. When I'm done with color, I had straight to delivery. I've edited feature films and only used three of these tabs. So you really don't need the majority of it. If you're a busy person or you just want to get moving. Always, always, always. In my opinion, if you don't have much time, save yourself the trouble, and just start with a third option, which is edit. And that's where we're going to start as well, right? So the edit area is where you'll be spending all of your time editing. I like to think of editing like painting. This tab is sort of like your painting studio and we need a canvas to paint. So when we go to the store to buy a canvas, we're confronted with many different sizes and dimensions. Some big and some small. So which one do you choose? Well, we can tell the store clerk how big we want our canvas to be in terms of measurements and video editing works in the same way. So when we go to the store, or in this case, open DaVinci Resolve need to tell the program how big our Canvas needs to be. But instead of measuring in inches or centimeters, we use something called pixels, which I'm sure you've heard a lot of before. If you're too busy to care about pixels, you can skip ahead to the next lesson, or spare me a few minutes to tell you what a pixel actually is. 6. What is a Pixel?: A pixel like inches, centimeters, millimeters, cookies, elephants, or whatever measurements standard you want to use is the size of a little square. And we use this little square to measure how big or small or canvas size is. So instead of saying 300 cookies by 400 cookies, we say 300 pixels by 400 pixels. So when we say a project is 1920 by 1080, that means it's 1920 pixels or little squares across by 1080 pixels high. So it's really that easy. Let's jump back into DaVinci Resolve to create our first Canvas. 7. Project Settings and Importing: There are a couple of major obstacles that most new editors face when opening Da Vinci for the first time. And what are those obstacles is how to get footage into resolve? Well, it depends on where it's coming from, but most people tend to shoot video on their phones. But since we all use many different types of devices and phones, it's impossible to cover all the different ways of getting that footage into da Vinci in this course. So instead, I've provided a helpful link to some sample footage to help get you started. I recommend that you use these files because it will make the course a lot easier to follow along with. But if you just want to use your own footage, feel free to do so. Okay, so we're in the Edit tab. And what we really need to do is set up our canvas. I like in editing to painting. I think it's actually very, very similar in process. Likewise, we need to set up a canvas to pain on the size. How big are we painting this picture? In order to do that, in order to purchase a canvas at the da Vinci store. Let's say we're going to head to this bottom settings wheel, this little machine wheel here. At the bottom right-hand corner. It's the Project Settings tab. Here we are. We have a bunch of options here. And the one that I'm going to want is under master settings on the left-hand side, this is where we tell Da Vinci if it were a painting store, this is the size of the canvas I'd like to paint on. If you took the pixels demo, if you stayed and participated in that. This is where we tell Da Vinci how big we want to go. This is where those things like to k and for k come into play. So here we are, here we're going to set our timeline resolution. This is the size of our canvas, but instead of Canvas, Da Vinci calls it timeline. It's the same thing. So by default it should be set to 1920 by 1080 HD. We'll go ahead and set that. Remember those are pixels about almost 2000 across by 1,000 high. Leave that at Square and the timeline frame rate is gonna be 23, 976. Okay, so once we're done with those settings, we're just gonna go ahead and click Save. Okay, so the next step that we need to address here is getting our content into da Vinci. So we do that within the media pool by right-clicking and selecting Import Media right here. So I'm gonna go ahead and click Import Media. I will then navigate to where I downloaded my exercise files for the course. If you're using your own footage, this process is identical. So I will go to demo.drt. That's the actual project file that we're going to use in this demo. I'll click that. Select Open. The selected clips have a different frame rate to the project. Would you like to change your timeline frame rate to match? You can't undo this action. I'm gonna go ahead and click Change. And as you can see, all my clips have imported successfully. We can look at them by clicking the icon to the left of the name of the clip. I'll double-click that. And as you can see, all of our clips are here, including some audio as well. So we will see you right back here for the editing. 8. Make Your Screen Look Like Mine: Before we get started, I want to make sure that your screen looks like mine. You may notice that there's two screens here. One is a viewer so that you can watch down footage. And the screen on the right is everything that you put together for your edit. So everything that you see down here, the edits that cuts any changes you make will be seen on the right-hand side panel that's known as the Canvas. So if you're not seeing this, this might have something to do with your display settings. In the upper right-hand corner, there's a little square icon here, if you could see it in the top right where my cursor is, that activates whether the canvas and the viewer windows are collapsible into one. So if I click that, you'll see what happens here is I'm just seeing the canvas. And if I double-click any of the clips on the left in the media pool, you'll see that. I'm now only seeing the clips to view so to speak. But if I want to see my edit, which is down here, and I scroll, it'll swap back to the Canvas, some students like that. And it's actually quite helpful if you're working with a minimal setup like you're working on a laptop. So having the two b1 is actually quite advantageous to just save some real estate on your screen. I like it that way. And you might too. So make sure that that upper right hand icon is selected. If you're not seeing that, it may be because these other tabs or open the inspector metadata mixer just turn those off. And we know that they're off because they're not highlighted in white anymore. So if you're not seeing it, notice that that little square icon is not there anymore. So just turn off the inspector and you should see that little square icon. I also want to make a quick note for any Windows users. Remember that Da Vinci Resolve is downloadable as a free trial version that works forever for both Mac and Windows. And the layouts look exactly the same. 9. Timeline: Okay, so what we're looking at here in the bottom is a painting that I painted for you. This is a Canvas that you pre bought at the store. Okay. You didn't create this canvas. We're going to use this as a reference to what we're gonna be doing in the course. So right down here is your Canvas. Da Vinci resolve calls them timelines. And what a timeline is, is a sequence of audio and video played back in time. This is your film. And what we do is we put a series of video and audio clips on this timeline or on this canvas in order to see it. So what I'll do here is I will just hit the spacebar to play back, and I'll hit the Spacebar again to stop playback. Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses. Okay, and I just hit Spacebar to stop playback. You'll notice that where this red bar is is equivalent to where you're seeing your audio and your video. All I'm doing here is dragging the red bar, this left and right. I'm holding down the mouse on the red bar and dragging it back and forth. This is actually called scrubbing. I'm just holding down on the red bar and I'm going to release it. Release my mouse click. And that's where I land on this particular frame and the canvas, I can hit Space-bar again, every power she possesses. And Spacebar again to stop, stop and playback. So I can actually drag this play head by holding and clicking the mouse and dragging all the way to the left to go to the beginning of the canvas, to the beginning of your painting, the timeline. I can press Spacebar again and again to stop. So get familiar with this mechanic. You're gonna be using it a lot. If you're noticing that the video is playing back a little too slowly, it may be because the video footage is a little bit too dense, a little bit too rich for your operating system. This happens to me all the time actually, especially if you're using high resolution footage, really, really thick fat files. And one workaround for this is to go into playback at the top menu bar here. And we will go to Timeline proxy mode. And I'll go into quarter resolution. Hopefully. What happens here is your footage will play back a lot smoother. So give this a try. And already I'm seeing a difference which is really awesome. Nature has given. So if you're having trouble playing back the footage, go ahead and go into playback and switch. That's the playback mode to quarter resolution. So what we have down here is the timeline as we discussed. And what this looks like, even though it looks super-complicated, is actually quite easy. All the blue blocks here represent individual clips in your Canvas, in your timeline. So if I just, I'm actually clicking in the ruler bar here in order to jump to specific clips in the timeline, I do this all the time. I'm a habitual mouse clicker, even though we're gonna get into shortcuts a little bit later in the lesson. I think it's the easiest way to get around. But maybe it's a bad habit. Who knows? It will save you time. In the end, maybe, maybe not. In any event, feel free to click in the ruler bar to browse around. These blue chunks are all clips and in the middle are the cuts. So this black line here represents a cut between one clip and the other. One of the things I like to do and I use a lot is the shortcut Command, left and right arrow keys. If I keep pressing the left and right arrow keys, it will take me frame by frame. I use that a lot. So get used to that as a way to playback your clips. On the bottom, the green is your audio. So timelines are divided into two parts, audio and video. You can put an infinite number of audio clips below. And you can put an infinite number of video clips above, but you can only see one video played back at a time. So what I mean by that is in this particular instance, as we, I'm just going to drag right back to the beginning of the timeline. I'm going to click Spacebar. We're hearing audio, two types of audio or hearing sound effects, and we're also hearing music behind it. So we're hearing two effects, but I'm only seeing one video clip. I know that may seem obvious, but it's worth noting here. So that's a great overview of the timeline, the canvas itself, which you can see on the upper right here. Again, you see a lot of different tabs, bells and whistles. We don't even use. One of the things that I really, really do like when I view my canvases is I like to see more than one canvas. And that's possible actually, since a canvas in this instance for DaVinci Resolve is called a timeline, we can see it here. It says demo. I'm double-clicking that and that is the most active painting or Canvas or timeline we're seeing. Well, what if we make more canvases, more timelines? We can do that. And we're going to do that because you're gonna be creating your own timeline to post in the class projects section for my review and for sharing with others. So let's go ahead and do that. We're going to right-click and this is how I do it every single time, even to this day. I will create a new timeline. Here. Timeline, create new timeline. Here we go. I will name my timeline here. Demo, class, project. Feel free to name it whatever you like. I'll click Create. What happens is two things. One, the previous timeline disappeared and to, a new timeline was created here in the media pool. If you're having trouble seeing things. Again, play around with this, this menu bar here, this line. You can slide it back and forth by dragging it, holding down, clicking and dragging a few other tabs do that as well. So if you're having trouble seeing elements and Da Vinci Resolve, tried to pull or drag up and down if you need a little bit more real estate. So what we have here is a blank canvas and empty open, white blank canvas. Well, what happened to the other one? Well, if we click the original demo file, double-click. There it is, but wait a minute, how do I get back to my other one? Well, we can do two things. One, we can double-click the demo class project that we just created or to see them at the same time. I think this is incredibly helpful and a great hack for switching between timelines. And we do that right here. There's a little icon here that looks like a little Lego Tetris style icon. I will click once on that and it will open up a timeline view options menu. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to select the first item. And what happens is it'll be highlighted in white. I'll click away from that menu bar. There you go. What happens is it lists the canvas that you're looking at right here. Now, why is that important? Well, if we go back into demo, double-click the original demo file, it pops up right here. So all I have to do in order to bebop between the two is click demo class project here and demo here. This is gonna be very helpful in the demo itself because we're going to reference this original file when we do the actual work, so well done on creating your first timeline. And we'll get to editing in just a second. 10. Shortcut Commands: I love clicking around, but using some quick shortcut commands can really save you a lot of time as a busy person. There are thousands of keyboard shortcuts, but here are the only ones you'll ever need. In my opinion, I recommend writing these down on a post-it note and placing it near your station for quick reference and memorization. Okay, So D deactivates, Shift Z, zooms out to see all footage. Command a, select all clips on the timeline or canvas. Be razor-blade for cutting J and L for playback speeds, spacebar, stopping and starting your video. Command plus and minus zooming in and out of your canvas. A for arrow, INO for marking in and out points and left and right arrow keys for moving one or two frames at a time. We're going to cover all of these commands in the following demos. So don't worry about understanding them for now. So let's jump back to editing. 11. Working with Video: Back in Da Vinci, Resolve. How the heck do we get our paint onto the canvas? How do we get footage onto our timeline? Well, it's very, very simple. So on the left-hand side we have our media pool. This is all our paints. This is what we're going to use for the class projects. So I will double-click each clip to view it. Again, you can switch to this list view up here or the icon view. If you like it better, It's totally up to you. I like to use ListView. It's just an old habit that I have, but feel free to do whatever you see fit. So I'm going to work through some of these clips just to kind of get an idea of what I have to work with. This is also really great as an editing tip in general, just to work through your footage to see what you have in order to make a great edit. So we have a bunch of video clips. We also have some audio. I'm just double-clicking through it in order to play each of these clips back. Just use spacebar. We've got some audio music here and some clips. So in the demo, which I'll click back here to view under demo, we're going to want to start with this shot of Rosetta walking down the, the steps here to the beach. So I'm going to find that clip in my media pool. Here. Here we go. And I'm going to hit the demo class project canvas, timeline. I'm going to click once and there we go. Blank canvas. If I put my mouse cursor over the footage itself, it'll give me two little options here. One is for video and one is for audio. If I just pulled down from the image, it will drag both the audio and video associated with the clip. Why is this important? Well, sometimes we just want the video and we don't want the audio where we want the audio, but not the video. And this gives you the option to do that. So in this instance, we'll just pull the whole clip down. And I'll do that by holding down in the image, in the viewer. We call this the viewer and just dragging down. Boom. So what we see here is video and audio pulled together. I'm going to use this excellent, highly recommended shortcut Command key that I always use every time I edit Shift Z, shifts z is awesome. It allows you to pull back on your timeline, on your canvas in order to see all the clips that you're working with. So if I had 100 clips, I'd be able to see them all at once. So if you're having trouble seeing the clip itself, just hit Shift Z to get a better view of the clip. Now, if I play this back spacebar, There's no audio associated with this. So I'm gonna go ahead and select the audio by clicking once. Notice that I can select the individual elements of the clip, video or audio. I'm just going to select audio here and click delete. Another way to do this is to just drag down the video itself, which we previously discussed. I'm gonna go ahead and select this video, hit Delete. And now I have a blank canvas again. And in the viewer, I'm just going to drag down video, this, that little film strip there. Just drag down from this tab. And you'll see that just the video has been imported. Another great quick command that I'd like you to get comfortable with is using command minus and plus. Command minus and plus. I'm just holding down command and pressing the minus key, by the way, allows me to zoom out of the timeline in Canvas. And if I reverse that, I'm still holding down command with my thumb. And I'm pressing the plus, even though it says here equals, I'm actually pressing the Plus Command plus an equal sign are the same on my laptop. So disregard that. So I'm going minus and plus get familiar with that because it's very easy to get lost in a Canvas if there's thousands of clips and audio, you don't really know where you're at necessarily. So using things like shift, Z and Command Plus, or a really great way to zoom in or zoom out using Command minus. So you can get a sense of where you are. It's a little bit like painting very close to it, a painting or a canvas. Not really knowing where you are, you need to step back and look at it in order to evaluate where you are. I use this a lot when I'm editing. So what I'd like you to do is start dragging video only. Onto the timeline. So your goal here for this demo is to drag down clips. Remember I'm just going to double-click them to activate them in the viewer. And I'm just pulling down the video only. So you'll notice that the clip, as I pulled it down to the timeline, there's a gap here. If I play it back, it's black. I don't want that. Right. I don't want that at all. That's terrible. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to click the clip down on the timeline and I'm going to drag it to the left. I'm going to click Command Z to undo. This happens all the time and editing don't freak out if something happens as it just did. Just hit Command Z to undo, just like in Word. Now, the problem with what's happening here is I'm too far out of the timeline to see what's going on. So I'm going to use the command shortcut, Command Plus I'm holding down command and I'm hitting the Plus key on my keyboard to zoom in a little bit better into the timeline. Here's my tried and true way of connecting clips together. I move the timeline playhead. This is called the playhead. To the end of the first clip. I click the clip and I just drag it to the left until it snaps to my playhead. That's it. And I'll continue doing this over and over again until I get the result that I want. There's a little bar down here to go left and right. I don't know if anybody noticed that, but if you need to move to the right, just scroll with this little bar here. So continue to drag down clips by double-clicking them and dragging them onto the time onto the timeline. You'll notice I can also drag clips directly from the media pool. So what's going on here is, I'm actually not pulling it down from the viewer. I'm pulling it down from the media pool itself, which is another option that you could do. The only caveat with this you could say is it's going to pull down by default. Both of your audio and video, you don't have any control over each elements. So I'm gonna go ahead and delete both of these clips. I'm going to select the next clip by looking at the demo. I'm going to go back to our demo here. Okay, So it's birds. We need to find the bird clip. So I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking. I'm going to click back on our class project. I've activated the bird clip and I'm just going to pull down the, the, the picture here and it will snap to the next clip. So if I play these three clips back, okay, so it's working out pretty good. I'm gonna hit Shift Z to look at all my clips. I'm going to zoom in using Command Plus. That's what we learned today. Command minus, let's say we're zoomed in all the way. How do we get back out? How would we get back out? Well, we can do two options. If you answered command minus, That's correct. So we can pull out with command minus or my favorite, That's right, shift Z. And you can see all three clips, your whole canvas on the timeline. So continue to add clips to the timeline. But just the video. We're going to tackle audio in the second section. So I'll see you back here when you have all the clips on the timeline, there's about 48, maybe nine more clips to go. So go ahead and locate those in your media pool and drag them onto your demo timeline. Down here. And we'll see you back here for the audio section. 12. Working with Audio: Okay, So let's tackle something that a lot of students are intimidated about, which is audio. Video seems pretty straightforward, right? We just drag a bunch of video clips onto the video track and we can play it back and see it just fine. But I've found that students really struggle with audio and there really isn't any need to struggle with it. I think the biggest challenge that they have is understanding how to mix things together. Because I think the tendency is to add too many sound effects, a lot of music together and it all just kinda sounds muddy. Well, in this lesson we're going to drag down audio clips and have a look at that in a rough way. And then in the next demo, we're going to fine tune that. So what's really important in editing is progressing through editorial, especially if you're busy in terms of stages. So you just want to get stuff in there and then worry about the fine tuning later, a lot of students like to jump ahead and start fiddling around with audio and color correction. Don't do that, just get your edit together first. And then we will dive into the fine tuning. It's like woodworking or sculpture. You kinda get the sketch down and then you kind of work into the details. You never start doing fine detail work in the beginning. What we're gonna do is try and look at our demo and mimic what we're seeing down here below with our audio. So let's have a look. Okay, so I hear what? I hear sound effects and I also hear music. So what we're gonna do is try and find both of those which are available to you in the exercise files in your media pool. I'm going to double-click this ES ocean traveler clip. I'm going to hit space bar. That's our music. This is our sound effects for the ocean. So let's go to the demo class project. And I will drag in our sound effects directly from the media pool. I'm gonna do that again just in case you missed it. I'm going to select this clip and click Delete. I have the clip right here. I'm too lazy. I'm too lazy to do things in a long form fashion, so I'll just drag it directly from the media pool. So here we go. Okay, so again, these are your audio tracks. You cannot drag audio onto the video track. You have to drag it down to the audio tracks. You can have an unlimited number of that. I'm going to shift the audio, the music down one track by holding down on the clip itself. I'm going to shift the music down one track to give us a little bit more real estate for our sound effects. I like to have music on the lowest track because it usually never changes. It's one continuous track that we don't have to mess with. So what I'll do is I'll click the clip here. I'll drag it down, I'll pull it down, and I'll release my mouse click. So once again, I'm clicking the clip, dragging it up and releasing my mouse click, Okay. Click, hold and drag down one. You could go down more if you want. And if this happens and you don't see what your where your tracks are, you can either scroll down using the the bar on the right here. Or we can collapse some of these columns, these rows by clicking and dragging them down, pulling them down. So what I'm doing is I'm clicking this line here in order to pull them together to give me a better sense, I find that the biggest challenge I have is an editor working from a laptop is just seeing what I'm doing. So to reverse this, I'll just select the line that the divider line between these audio tracks. And right now we have three going on to our blank and one is active. I can just pull it down to get a better view of the audio itself. So we're gonna go ahead and leave that there for now. Again, I could hit Shift Z. Watch what happens in this instance. I'm seeing the entire length of the music and our three little clips here. So how do we get back? Well, Command Plus, I love it. Okay, so we've got our music track down here, but we need to get some sound effects in here as well. So how do we do that? Same deal. We're going to find it in our media pool. And I'm going to pull it right onto either A1 or A2, whatever you prefer. If you mess up for whatever reason, don't panic. Just click the shortcut Command, Command Z and you'll hit right back where you started. So these clips, just like video clips can be manipulated, you can click and drag them around or he'd want them to start. Right now, remember, we're just getting the sketch of this in. We don't want to do any kind of fine sanding work here. We're just doing some preliminary groundwork to get the foundation of the edit. This is actually called rough cut stage, a rough cut of your edit. And it just allows you to get your elements in there to take a look at what's going on. So if I hit Playback, great, okay, so what else do we need to duplicate here? Let's take a look. Let's go into demo. And I think what's going to happen is we're going to hear some voice-over. Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses. Okay, so Rosita's voice comes in and we need to get that in there. So let's go back to the demo class project. I'm going to find the voice-over material V0. And I think it's here. Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses. Okay? I think we have another one too. So to the rational. Okay. So the voiceover was split into two takes. We did one take with a couple of different sentences, different takes, and then we recorded another version. So this is really great for our purposes because it allows us to splice the two audio clips together. You might be asking at this stage, well, how do I get it to where I want it to go? As a busy person, I like to drag to a point where I want the clip to go. This is my hack for busy people. I just work with the snapping, the magnetic nature of the clips wanting to go together, meaning that Da Vinci will guess that you want the clip to go where the play head is going. So I just work with the program if that's what it wants me to do, I'll just go with it and use it to my advantage. So to give you an idea of what I'm talking about, Let's go ahead and see the V0 here. Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possessive. Ok, so the problem is this isn't an audio file, it's also audio and video. We just want the audio. So how do we do that? Do you remember if I were to pull this file directly from the media pool onto the timeline, we would also be pulling the video which we don't want. So how do we separate it? I'm going to just hit Command Z to undo. Well, I'll need to activate the clip in the viewer by double-clicking it to activate and just pulling down the audio. So check this out. This is your audio right here. And I will pull that down by clicking and dragging, holding with the mouse and releasing the mouse here. Notice what I did there. I'm going to undo. I'm using the playhead to my advantage. So I am aware that Da Vinci wants to just snap like a magnet my clips together. That's the nature of the program. You can actually turn that off. Here. You see this little magnet. If you don't like that, feel free to turn it off. I actually don't. I actually find it very helpful, so I recommend you just leave it on for now. And I'm going to pull down the audio clips. So remember, I'm clicking once on this audio feature, I am dragging it or pulling it down to a one right where the play head exists. And I'm going to do playback has given to each college. I usually do Shift Z here again, my favorite. I will drag my play head back to the home, to the first frame by pulling and dragging it back. Zoom in if you'd like. Command plus and minus. I always use to drag, to scrub. Always, always, always. So let's hit Spacebar. Nature has given to each conscious being every power. This is great. Okay, so for the remainder of the demo and the exercise, what I want you to do is add the remaining V0 clip. We have one more to go. And what you're gonna do is they're going to Bebop to the other demo. And you'll notice that there's two video clips here. If I play it back and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself. So to the rational person is okay, will be bought back to demo class project. So we're going to need this other video clip to come into the timeline. So what I'd like you to do is pause the video right now. And when you're finished, hit the playback button again and we'll see if you've got the right answer. Okay, So what you should have done is located the other video clip, which is here. So to the rational person, notice that I'm actually using click and drag motion here to view it isn't elements of the chain, the V0 that I can scrub through. What kind of works the same way as this red scrubber. And I'll hit the Spacebar button to play every obstacle into an opportunity. And we don't want to start there. So I will drag this little, little, tiny little bar to the left, the beginning of the clip. And I will pull down just the audio onto A1. I'm going to make it a little bit trickier for me actually. By zooming in, let's say, Well, I don't want it there, I want it over to the right. How do I get over there? Command minus I will put my play head, the head or the tail, I guess the tail of the clip. And I will zoom in Command Plus. Notice that as I do Command Plus, it will zoom in where the play head is located, which is great. That's exactly what we want. So I will go up to my second video clip and I will just pull down the audio right to where the playhead is. It will snap because I have my snapping magnetic element turned on. And I will click on the ruler bar just a few seconds to the left. I'll click Spacebar. Puts them into making them a part of. So to do, rational person is able to excellence Shift Z to see where we're at. We're good to go. Now you'll notice that we still have some work to do in terms of the length, cutting, bleeding, etc. What we're gonna do now is we're going to attempt to chop off a lot of these elements that we don't need. We haven't even cut anything yet. You'll notice. And that's for a reason because I want you to get used to the program, how the program works, how we're getting media clips onto the timeline, onto the canvas, but before we do any actual cuttings, so let's get cutting. 13. Editing Basics: Okay, so we've got all of our video laid out on our track. But the problem is we need to start cutting stuff down, particularly this cliff atmosphere sound effect and also our music. So how do we do that? Well, the best way to do it is working with the play head element. I will just click in the ruler bar here to the end of the timeline and zoom in. I will hit the shortcut Command B For blade. What you'll notice is your cursor turns into a little razor blade tool. It's pretty cool. And minus, of course, huge. So yours will not be this large, but it allows you to razor blade or cut any clip you want, both audio and video. So I'm gonna go ahead and lop off are both our sound effects and music down here. I'm going to zoom in. If you're having trouble seeing, just zoom in a little bit more. You do need to make two cuts. So I'll undo that right now. And the cuts are occurring at the play head location. Use the playhead to my advantage. I basically tell it, I would like you to make a cut here. And I just razor-blade the clips where I want them to be cut. So sea cliff atmosphere, I'll click once. I'll move down to music. I'll click once. And now it has been separated into two distinct clips. You might be wondering how the heck do I get back to the arrow, just click a for arrow. And now we can see that both clips have been bisected here. So I will click this clip here at the end and hit Delete. I'll click the other one and hit delete. I will then hit my favorite Command Shift Z. And you can see now all nice and tidy. The whole canvas is just to the end of this clip, which is exactly what we want as per the specifications of our, of our demo. We're doing pretty good here. The voice-over nature has given to each conscious is obviously in conflict with the music, with the sound effects. Everything is just a little bit too loud. I need to hear her voice a little bit better. Don't worry about that. That's our fine tune editing. And by the way, the blade tool can be used in association with clips up here as well. In terms of the video, I'll just zoom in on one of the other things I like to do is if you use the left and right arrow keys, you can get really precise with where you want your your frame to be cut. So let's say your computer is lagging and right now my computer is lagging hard. So that shouldn't stop me because I still unable to locate precise points using the left and right arrow keys. So let's say I want to cut this clip down a little bit more, so I'll hit the playback button. I don't want it to be that long. I want it to be maybe a few frames short. So I will zoom in Command Plus I will be for blade shortcut before blade. I will hit my video to cut it, I will select a four arrow. I will select this clip and click Delete. Now, we have this gap. What the heck am I gonna do with this gap? There's different theories here. Some people will ask you to do this. They will say just clicking this little missing area and hit delete. But the problem with that is all of our clips Shift Z have been shifted down to the left, throwing off all of our beautiful timing. So don't do that. This is why I like shift Z so much. When I hit Shift Z, it allows me to click and drag all of my clips together. Now, all of the clips to the right of the edit have been selected because they're all highlighted in red. I will zoom in Command Plus to where the playhead edit is, and I will drag the clips to the left. This might be super controversial for experienced editors, but I'm giving busy people a quick way to do it. I click drag clips all the time. I just clicked down in a gray area and I drag, this little box gets created. In order to select multiple clips. You can actually shift Z again. Hit Command a to select all of the clips. Because a lot of these commands like Command Z, Command a, they all work the same way in other programs like Microsoft Word or other programs that use similar shortcut Command Keys. And I find them very helpful in DaVinci Resolve. So in order to de-select, just click away anywhere in the gray areas. And what we have here are some very precise edits that we can make and which we will do a little bit later when we start doing some audio fixing. So that's just a brief preview before we move on. But in any event, what I'd like to do now is show you a way to drag down clips, but not the whole clip. Maybe we just want a little bit of a clip and not the whole, the whole shebang. So we'll try that with our sea cliff atmosphere clip here. I'm gonna go ahead and click it once to select it. Man, I love Shift C. Have I told you guys that? I will click Delete in order to remove it. Okay, so now that that's deleted, I will head over here into my media pool. That's where all my clips are located. And I will double-click the sea cliff atmosphere clip by double-clicking. Here. I'll hit Spacebar for playback. So this is a good example where this clip is really long. It's way too long. But maybe there's a section that I like in the clip that's better than another. And I prefer to use maybe a section from the audio that occurs in the middle of the clip. Remember, I usually like to work quickly by clicking a lot. So right up here in the preview of the clip that gives you the whole clip preview. So I'll just click here. Maybe I like this a little bit better because of the audio. So the question becomes, how do I just grab this little section instead of the whole seven minute clip, right? Well, in order to do that, we use something called in and out points. And the way we do this is we have to identify where we want our clip to start. So let's just say that we want our clip to start. I'm clicking, holding and dragging, by the way, appear on the preview timeline. And I will click the space bar. And I'm dragging here and I will hit the spacebar to play. I can also use my arrow keys as well to really make this accurate. So what you're hearing is the clip at the points that I like, this is how I get a little bit more accurate with my endpoint. So I will press the shortcut command I as an igloo I to set an endpoint. And you'll notice what changed here is below. It's saying that everything to the left of the clip, I don't want, but I do want it to begin there. So let's hit spacebar. Playing, it's playing, it's playing. Maybe I only want like five or 10 s clip. I'll hit Space-bar again. Some nice birds there. Okay, great. So I'll hit Spacebar and then I will hit the 0 button on my keyboard. And that will set an out, 0.0 for out. And right here you can see that it has only selected these parts of my clip to use. So if you remember from our last lecture, what we're gonna do is we're just going to pull down, click and drag it down to our timeline anywhere. And as you can see here, it did not pull the entire clip, just the section that we told it to bring down. Now you can reset this any number of ways. I usually just set new in and out points by pressing I and 0. So let's say we want to go to the beginning. I'll click and drag to the front. I'll click. I. Then maybe set a new point here by clicking, oh, and I can do the same clicking and dragging. This is the system that I use most often. Again, in editing programs, There's a bunch of different ways to skin the cat, so to speak. So feel free to use the way that you feel accustomed to. I just find it a little bit quicker this way. So right down here as you can see, we have our ocean atmosphere clip, but it's not hitting where we need it to hit. We're just dragging it down to get the paint on the canvas, but we need to get it to where we ultimately want it to be. And do you remember what we do here for this? I usually use my playhead marker, the red line, and I just position it at the beginning where I want the sea cliff atmospheric sound effects to start. I'll just click the clip itself and hold and drag it to the left. Done. We'll hit play. Really nice, really nice. Nature has given him too. There you have it. Now, we need one more if I believe Let's head to the demo. Right? So at the end of the, at the end of our demo exercise, we have some more to make new ones like them, sound effects coming in. Just to close it out. What would work really nicely is we see some birds here. So maybe we get our birds from the sea cliff atmosphere clip and put it over here. So what we're gonna do is go back into the demo class project. And what I'd like you to do is for your last clip, if it matches mine. And again, feel free to just adjust the clips the way you want. You don't have to put them in this specific order. So play around as much as you want. But for the purposes of this exercise, the last bird, so maybe we want some bird sounds. And the way I do this is I'd go back into the sea cliff atmosphere and try to locate maybe some nice bird sounds. So what I'd like you to do is I'd like you to pause the video here and fill in this little sound effect at the end. From the beginning of the clip where we see birds to the end. We'll see back here. After you've done that, continue the video when you're done. Okay, so what I need to do now is add some sound effects here and I'll show you my method of doing this. Or a little too zoomed out here, right? Because we've done Shift Z. Well, I want to zoom into just this little clip. I want to go into this area as if we're painting a picture. If we're painting a beautiful seascape, maybe I just want to focus on the rocks. So I direct my focus there by using the shortcut command, command plus. And remember, if I zoom in, it'll zoom in where the red playhead is. So I'll just do Command Plus and that'll get me there. I usually just did too. They're just two pluses will get you there just fine. I never really go beyond that. If you go too far, just back out. I'm holding down command minus, minus, minus. And that gets me where I need to be, right? Okay, let's add some sound effects. So there's a couple of different ways to do this, right? So the first is to really locate what we want to use. Let's go into our sea cliff atmosphere. Double-click that. That's kinda nice. Let's see here. No birds. You can see, I'm just scrolling through, clicking through. No real birds yet, but I hear birds there. So next shortcut command that I love to use is J and L. So if I hit J, it will play back in reverse. Check this out. You see it moving backwards there. I'll hit Spacebar to stop. And I'll use L to skip forwards to play forwards. If I hit L again, it'll play back twice as fast. And I believe one more time, we'll do it three times as fast. So I'll hit Spacebar. I'll hit J ones, which plays it backwards. Onetime, J again two times, and j again three times speed. This can be useful if you're just using your keyboard to edit. And again, you can use a series of j and l to really pinpoint with arrow keys where you want that sound to come in exactly. So I'll use a little bit of this technique now by clicking and dragging in a rough area where I want it to go. Hitting the J key. Okay, I heard some birds there. I hit Spacebar to stop. I will hit I for n. That's where I want the clip to start. And I'll hit Spacebar to stop 0 for out. And then I'll just drag it right down onto the sea cliff atmosphere clip that we want. So if we play back, Great, Okay. There's a little bit of an issue. Maybe your clip wasn't as precise as mine and actually mine isn't either. There's still a little bit more I need here if you can notice it, if I zoom in Command Plus, I'm missing a little bit here, guess what? It's as easy as just dragging the clip to the right. I will hold down on the tail of the clip. I'll click down on the end of the clip here where my cursor turns into this double bracket. And I will pull the clip to the right. I am clicking and holding down on my mouse and I'm pulling to the right, and it has snapped correctly. Da Vinci guesses to the end of this video clip. Again, can't beat them, join them, just work with the snapping. If you think it's annoying, you can turn off that magnetic snapping. But I've been doing this a long time and I actually rarely turn it off. I only turn it off for very fine tuned edits if I need, which we'll cover a little bit in the next demo. So if you've gotten to this point, congratulations, you've done some audio editing, you've done some in and out points. And I've also just noticed here that our clip is a little long. You have two options. Really. You can drag this clip or pull it to the left. I'm clicking and holding down and dragging to the left. But sometimes as you can see, it's a little finicky. Also, my mouse cursor is a little large for the demo purposes, so hopefully yours is smaller. You could see this a little better and it snaps to the edge of this red line. So I really use the playhead marker as a way to edit in a way like I work with the playhead marker. Because da Vinci guesses that, oh, he probably wants to snap this audio clip to the edge of the red line, which it, which it correctly assumes is true. If the if the playhead marker was here, it would still snap. And guess that this is the edge point that I want to snap to as a guideline, which is very, very helpful and very, very quick way to do things. So the other way to do this, let's just go back is to just cut it. So you could press B for blade. And because snapping is on, it guesses that you probably want to cut. Want to zoom in here, right where these edits are located, which is correct. You can also do that with the play head as well just to get it to be super, super accurate. And in that case, I would just head to the end of the clips before blade. I would cut. It would correctly guess, even though you can't see it, that it's cut. A for arrow, which is a selection tool. I will select that little baby bit there. Hit Delete, you're done, and guess what? Let's do a little shift Z, looking really, really good. Now, for tidying purposes, I'd like to make sure that each audio track is dedicated to a specific thing. For instance, audio one is just our voice-over. Audio to A2 is just sound effects, and a three is just music. This is a really good way to stay organized. You don't have to do it that way, but it's a really great way as your edit becomes more complicated to know, especially when you have many layered effects and music where things are located. So if you're listening to a very complicated edit and you need to know where your voice-over track is. It will always be one of your choosing, and that's all that goes there. So feel free to do that. I think good house-keeping is necessary in editing, but you certainly don't have to do that if you don't feel like it's so for my OCD purposes, I'm just going to click and drag this sound effects clip down to its appropriate A2 level. That's where I have my other sea cliff atmosphere clip. So well done. In the next session we're going to do a little bit more fine tuning with audio and video. And we'll see you back here for the next demo. 14. Transitions and Fine Tuning: You've made it this far. You're over the most difficult parts of editing. You've downloaded Da Vinci, opened it, started a new project, imported clips and edited your first timeline. At this stage, we're going to look at how to fine tune your edit by adjusting audio and video clips, but also how to add some text elements and transitions. So we are finished with our rough cut. We've put in all the clips and audio that we can possibly put in for the demo, but we need to start cleaning it up a little bit. So when I know that I'm kind of done editing clips, I need to get a little bit more space to work with because I'm working on a laptop right now. And if any of you are looking at the same thing, it can get a little cramped. So one of the things I'll do first is I'll just turn off media pool. It gives me a little bit more room to work with and I can see my edit if you haven't already. Go ahead and hit Shift Z to see your whole timeline. And we can see that maybe there's some things we want to adjust right off the bat. Maybe this needs a little bit more sound effects here. And we're gonna go through a little bit more bells and whistles. As we approach this fine editing stage, you may find that the view that you're looking at is a little bit messy. For instance, maybe you're not sure where your other clips go. I've had that question a lot like where did my sound effects go? How do I get to it? Where it, where is everything? Let me show you a quick and easy way of getting things back to normal. Just go head into the timeline, view options and the left. Okay? And under track height and video, just slide it. Dragons slide to the minimum. Click, drag it a little bit forward and slide it back to the minimum. And you should see everything they're clicking the gray to get back where you started. And you should see everything really, really nicely. The next tab that we're going to need to work with really is audio. And that tab is located here under mixer, the top right. Go ahead and click mixer and you're gonna see this like little panel open with a bunch of numbers and bizarre things that, you know what, I don't even really understand. And that's okay because we don't really need the majority of it. What we're going to do really is identify the issues in the edit that we need to address. Another thing I'd like to show you here as well. You'll notice that maybe this is a little bit zoomed in. You may find that this happens. Go ahead and locate this percentage icon here. Click the drop-down menu and just click Fit. So if things are really zoomed in or you're having difficulty seeing certain things, Something happened. Oh God, how do I get back to the original layout? Just go ahead and click here and select Fit should be back to normal. You can also again, I advise you can drag these column adjusters here. I don't know what they're called them, but you know that that's gonna be happening when your icon turns into this little Illuminati triangle symbol here, I don't know what to call it, but you can drag around some of these columns to give you a better view of what you're working with. Here's a big one down here for audio and video. So just play around with that a little bit. You'll notice here that we still have our timelines that we can look at back-and-forth. So let's have a look at the original demo. Okay, now, what you'll notice is it all sounds pretty good. But if we go back into our class project, you'll notice that these little green bars start moving. Those little green bars are your audio levels. You think about it as the volume level in your car, right? Well, different people listened to different volumes all the time. I like my music loud and my friends like it's soft. It depends, but there needs to be some kind of standard, especially for uploading videos to YouTube or Facebook or whatever have you. So what does that number? Well, the number we need to shoot for is in this range, negative ten, negative five. That's really where we need those little green bars to be hitting. And so if I go to the demo and I play it back, negative 30, okay, so it's peaking or it's hitting negative ten, which is, which is pretty good, right? It could be a little bit higher depending on how you feel. But again, people that work with audio have their different tastes. Some people that work with audio mix it, It's called mixing. Mix it a little bit higher. Some people like it a little softer, right? So what I've always done is stick to negative ten and negative five. And so if we listen to this back plate back in our demo. It's hitting it negative 15. Each conscious being every power she possesses. So one of the issues I noticed right off the bat is the voice-over is getting stepped on. It's getting muffled by the music. So one of the things we need to do is really turn the music down. How do we do that, right? And also will probably want to turn the sound effects down as well. So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to drag down on our music, our music track, right? I just selected it on the left, the divider. Then I'm pulling down, I'm clicking and pulling down on that. Basically zooming in to this. Now, if you're not seeing these little peaks and valleys, this is the graphical representation of your audio. If you're not seeing that out of your own interests, go ahead and go into Timeline View options and make sure that this third option is selected in order to see that graphical representation. You don't need it for the purposes of this demo, but it's fun to look at. And so what we're gonna do again here, I'm clicking and dragging in the ruler bar in order to get where I want to go, I'm clicking spacebar. Nature has given. Okay, So when Rosetta starts talking, we need to turn down the volume of the audio. You'll notice Command Plus Command plus to get us closer, there's this little white line here. Do you see that? Okay. When my cursor changes into these opposing triangles, that means I've activated the ability to change the volume of the clips. So watch this. If I click and hold and drag down and I play the clip back, nature has given to each the volume of the entire music track turned down. If I click and hold and drag it up, you'll notice that the volume is going up. This is what this graphical representation is telling me. If I turn it all the way up, I'm going to click and drag that line all the way up. Oh buddy. Okay, so let's get it back to 00 is the default. Right, back to baseline zero. But I don't want the whole clip to turn down. I don't want I want the music to be loud in the beginning, but then I wanted to shift down downward. When Rosetta starts talking because we want to be able to hear her clearly the same with the sound effects as well. We need to turn that down. Now, there's two ways of going about this. The first way I'm going to show you is a more precise and accurate way to do this if you have the patience for it. It's called actually sort of animating the volume to go down. I want to tell it precisely how and when it goes down. So it's going to start at zero and then move down in volume. So in order to do that, and what we're gonna do is I'm going to hold down the Option key. And I'm going to click once on the white line. If you do this anywhere else, nothing's going to happen. You have to click option. Click on the white line. Let me zoom in a little bit. And you're going to want to zoom in as much as you can in order to see what's happening. I'm going to place two points right? At this first ball, golf ball. I'm telling Da Vinci that at this point, I want you to think about turning the volume down. Okay? So I'm going to set another point right here where Rosetta begins to talk. And I'm going to option click right there. And it's going to place another golf ball. This one is red. Now what the red and white indicate is that it is active. It can be manipulated. Now if I pull this second golf ball, the red golf ball down, I'm going to click it, hold it and drag it down. Watch what happens to the volume. Awesome, right? So let's play it back. I'm going to just click in the ruler. Nature has given to how do you see what happened there? So it's creating this little slope. It's saying that up here zero, this white line, and down here is less than zero. It actually we can view the change here if you really want. But the main point is to bring the audio level down, down, down, down, down, down. So this is actually called automation. It's really, really useful down the road, so get used to it. Now if it's something that you want to explore later, it gives you a little bit more precision in editing. I'm going to go ahead. And if you mess this up, again, just click once, click Delete. Click once on the golf ball, delete just to get back to where you started or do Command Z to undo. I can create a blade point. Create a cut here, let's say Rosetta here, she starts speaking here. I will blade my music. Right at that point, I'm going to click a for arrow because I need to be able to select that volume. I'm going to select this point here to decrease the volume of the music, right when Rosetta starts talking. So let's drag it down. Nature has given to each conscious being, okay, So if we notice the playback, nature has given to eat, the problem is it shifts from normal volume to like very, very low volumes. So what do we do about this? How do we create a transition? Well, one of the things we can do is add an automated transition. And the way we do that is we make sure that as we pull our cursor over this editing point, this editing position, our cursor changes not into this little bracket, but the one here. If I just move the cursor a little bit to the left, you can see it turns into this little bracket with a little bar inside of it. Okay, if I right-click at this point, it will allow me to add a fade. So let's use 30. Okay? And this little thing gets created, which indicates that it's going to fade into this other audio track. Let's give it a listen. Nature has given Pretty cool, huh? I've given you two ways to shift volumes in da Vinci resolve. One's a little bit more complicated maybe for a less busy person, but this is a really nice, quick and dirty way of doing it. If the audio is a little too abrupt, if that transition is too abrupt, abrupt, you can just slide it. This transition point to the left, your cursor will change into this double black, this black bar here with the arrows. And you can click drag and pull it to the left to make the transition even smoother. Let's check it out. Nature has given to eat. Wonderful. Sounds, really, really good, right? Shifts z the pullout. And we can head to the end of the video. I'm going to click in the ruler bar here. And ones like them. Okay, So after the V0, we're going to need her the music to, to go up again. So I will Command Plus again to zoom in. I will go to the playhead and let's use the quick and dirty way to get out of this. To bring the music backup to volume again, I'll hit B for Blade. I will make a cut on the music. They're separating the two clips. And we can tell that if we just move the playhead over, we see that there's a cut point there. I will automate the volume on the right hand clip, clip back up to zero by clicking and dragging it up to zero and playing it back like loud. I think I'm just going to drag it, pull it down a little bit. Because look, I'm looking at these mixers here. I don't want it to go to negative ten. So you could just bring it down just a little bit more. But the transition is too dramatic. So check it out, make new ones like that. So at this point, what I'd like you to do is pause the video and show me how you would add a transition to transition into this new volume level. Pause the video now. Okay, So there's two ways to do this, right? The quick and easiest way to do it is to move your cursor over the edit point, pop it to the left just a little bit until you see this little Tetris style cursor, right-click, add a 30 frame crossfade and playback new ones like Okay. Now, if you want to get really nitpicky to make new ones, like you might say that wow, this is like kind of aggressive. It's coming in too much over Rosita's voice. In this case, what we might want to do is just pull the entire transition by clicking and dragging to the right. That will move this whole Band-Aid edit point to the right. And maybe it'll sound a little bit better. Let's check it out. Like Okay, that sounds a little bit better. So remember you can actually pull whole elements to the left and right if you want. We'll get back to where it was. It's pretty great. Now the other way to do this is through automation points, right? If you're a little bit less busy on your Friday night and you can get into automation points. I don't recommend it because it's very, very time-consuming, but it can be useful when you're doing some precise level editing. Let me get back to normal here I'm going to delete. You can delete transitions by just selecting them and clicking Delete. And I will get us back to where we were. Actually, I'll just do undo. You see if I make a lot of accidents, I can just keep hitting Command Z to get me back to where I started. If you get nervous or something happened and, you know, your computer shuts down for no reason. Just hit Command Z a bunch of times to get back to where you work. So let's say I want to make automation points instead. Well, I'll have to set those golf balls on either side of the edit so I'll hit Option, hold down option, click on the white bar once, move down, maybe a second. Click again to create another automation point. And I will this time drag the second right golf ball up to where I want it to go. And that's another way of doing this. Like them. Either way works. There's 1 million different ways to skin a cat, okay, so Shift Z to pull out. Not bad. We actually have two different edits here, which is great. So we've worked on the music and let's see where we're at now from the beginning. Nature has given to eat. Okay, So the next thing we want to tackle for audio is this sea cliff atmosphere. So I'm gonna go ahead and collapse our audio for music. Now. Drag that down. I'm gonna pull this back to normal. I want to like start working with this clip. So let's do Command Plus where the playhead, make sure your play head marker is their right here where we need it to be. I'll do Command plus. And I will pull down A2. Remember you can only do it on this side, so just pull down E2. Great. So if I hit Spacebar, nature has okay, I like how loud it is here, but then it needs to get turned down. So we're gonna do the same exact thing we do with music, with the sound effects. I'm just going to hit B for blade. The blade it right when Rosetta starts talking, which is right here, I'm going to select a or click a for arrow. I will make sure my cursor looks like this. Make sure it doesn't look like these double brackets, but this one right here, right-click, add a 32nd cross-fade. I will pop it out just a little bit more. So I've added a fade, but it's fading into the same level. We don't want that. So let's pull down the audio level on the second clip down a lot. And what I'm doing is I'm watching these levels here on the right. So nature has given to each, this is awesome. This is sounding good. So we've turned down the sound effects and also the music so that it doesn't trample over Rosita's audio. So let's listen to that section. Nature has given to each conscious being every power perfect, negative ten to negative five or right where we need to be. If you wanted to adjust her audio level, I would pull down here on audio one and just drag that little white bar down if you want to turn it down just a little bit. Just a hair nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses. This is great. Okay, so she keeps talking, she talks Shift Z to pull out again. And we'll notice here we want to maybe tackle the audio at the end we have a little missing gap of sea cliff atmosphere. So I'm going to move my play head there to that position. Command plus, plus, plus. I actually just do two pluses, 23 pluses. I'd like this sea cliff atmosphere to fill in this little ocean. So I will select the clip here. And I will make sure that my cursor turns into this little handlebars, little Tetris triangle bracket. And I'll just pull it. Pull and drag. If you're having trouble, just give it a second. It's having a little bit difficulty. This is where the play head trick works really well. I'll move my play head to where I want it to end or start. And it will automatically snap to the element again if it goes a little long, oh no. Hit B for blade, blade it, a for arrow. Select the little remainder, click, Delete. Great. Done. Sounds really nice. Obviously our clips and very abruptly. So maybe we want to fade this, fade this out. Well, guess what? It's a transition away. I will add a fade out to the audio and the video, which we're gonna go to next. So you'll notice this icon pops up at the end, the tail end of the clip. You can zoom in if you want. Just move the play head to the tail of the clip. Hit Command Plus to get a little bit better view. And make sure your cursor as you go over the clip turns not into the double bracket, but into this one. Right-click 30 frame, crossfade. Do the same for the music track as well. I'm going to wait. I don't want that one. I want to look at that it's not changing, is it? So maybe what we need to do is pull it down a little bit more. I'm just going to drag down to get a little bit more real estate, to get a little bit more View High. And then it actually appears. So instead of the double bracket, I want that one right there. Right-click 30 frames. Now let's see what happens here. I'm going to move my playhead back just a few seconds, right here on the ruler bar. Great, fade out. Awesome. Well guess what? Let's add a fade up here as well. Let's fade to black. Let's zoom in a little bit. I'll pull up on the audio track a little bit right here on the left-hand side, I'm just pulling on this little subtle bar. And I am going to right-click on the end of the clip. 30 frames. Check this out. Black. Boy, my computer is struggling right now. But you can actually step through the edit, right and left arrow keys. Wu. Great. That's working out nicely. I'm scrubbing up here on the timeline. I always just get in the habit Shift, Z shifts see. We can pull out again if things are looking a little wild again somehow. Oh no, what happened? Remember timeline options and the left. Drag video to the right and back again. Audio to the right and back again, just to get back to normal, click in the gray area just to get back to your timeline. Shift Z, Shift Z, just to see what we're looking at. It's looking pretty good actually. So let's go ahead and look at this again. Nature has given to each conscious being every PowerShell. So what I'm looking at here is the audio levels just to make sure things are negative ten, negative five S's. And one of these abilities is this. This is great. So if you're happy with this, you can add transitions wherever you'd like. You could even fade up on your, your elements here or fade up from black if you like, if that's your style. All you have to do is just really make sure you're zoomed in. So Command Plus right-clicking. But making sure that your icon turns into this little Tetris icon and adding a crossfade. And that will go up from black actually. So play around with it. You can add them for everything. I'm going to add one here. Something happens like that. Oh no, I'm in this bizarre menu. Just click away. Just click away. So here it's right where I want it at 30. 30, and now everything fades up. Nature, right? We're doing pretty good. Nature has given to each conscious being Shift Z. So in the next section, what we're gonna do is we need to add our little text element. If we look at the original demo, you can see I've just added some automation points here for the audio as a reference, but we need to work on text next, so we'll see you back here for text. 15. Adding Text Elements: Okay, so well done at this point, we've added an automated our audio. We've made some tweaks to video. We've added some fades and it's in a great, great place. Maybe you'd like to add some text. I get a lot of questions about that. How do I add maybe a title card or N credits? And we do that above up here in the effects panel. If I click this effects icon here, it will highlight white, which lets me know that it's active. And we can also see it here. And what opens up is a bunch, a bunch of different effects. There's so many effects and Da Vinci Resolve. Again. Maybe I use three of them, four or five at most. There are transitions and effects for all kinds of things. It's a little bit limited in the free version, but in the paid studio version, you obviously get a lot more to choose from. So for this demo, we want to add text. And text is actually its own effect or elements. And we need to add that. So in order to do that, we're gonna go into titles. And we can select a certain title that will fit for our edit here. So I'm gonna go ahead and select this basic title element. There's a whole lot more to choose from, but we'll just stick with the basic title text for now. I'm just going to drag it directly onto our Canvas, our timeline. It's like another type of paint. We're just adding some glitter to it, let's say. So. Let's, I'm just gonna, I'm going to click and hold down on text and drag it directly to the timeline until it pops up and appears. You'll notice that it's snapped right to my playhead. I like that. Remember that that's totally up to you can drag it anywhere you like if you mess up and let's say hit Command Z, it accidentally overlaps your video. Remember that you can only see one video at a time just being every power she possessed. Oh, we don't want that. We want it to layer on top of my videos. So I'm going to do Command Z to undo and make sure you're dragging the text element onto V2. It will create one automatically for you because it guesses that you want to place it on top. So again, in order to do that, just target your canvas and slowly, slowly drag it where you want it to be. Let go of your mouse hold and it will lay itself right in there. And you can see now in our Canvas and our painting we see some texts. Amazing. Let's say that the text is not where you want it to be. Let's say we want it to come in over the birds. Like in the demo. I'm done with this effects. So I'm going to click effects in the top left to get rid of it. Again, real estate and real estate. So where do I want the text to begin? Well, I wanted to start at the beginning of this bird clip. So I'm just going to put my play head right there in drag, click and drag the text element over until it hits where I want it to go. If you're having trouble with this, just zoom in and drag it right to that play head. And now if I play back a little bit, nature has given to each conscious being awesome. So if it's a little too long, you can make it as long as you want it to go. Just make sure that you select the clip and you can drag it to the left and right. To make it as long as you want the text to go, it's unlimited. So I'll just hit B for blade and blade it right? When this first clip ends, a for arrow, I'll select the remainder click Delete. Playback. Nature has given to. I understand that this is a little bit different than the demo file. I think in the demo file we had the V0 coming in after the birds, but nature has given, again, you get the idea. Make it yours. Make, make the edit the way you see fit. I'd actually prefer that if you want to move the clips around, that's even better. There's different text files you can use. So feel free to make your own edit based on this. I'd love to see it. Nature has given. So how do we edit this text? Well, we do that in another window and actually we can close this mixer window. Remember, you can just get real estate by just clicking off all of these. And the one that we want to have selected is called inspector. Inspector is very, very powerful. It actually allows you to edit many, many things, including audio and video elements in DaVinci Resolve. For the purposes of this demo, we're just going to edit the title. So as you can see right off the bat, it opens up the basic title. Basic title. Title Card here. But if I click around at some other elements, let's say I click this video clip here. Inspector changes into this other option menu for that video clip. If I click the audio, it changes for audio including what the volume is and all of these things can be changed here more precisely, but we've already done all this. We just want to edit the text. So I'll go ahead and click the basic title element here down on your Canvas, on your timeline and just edit the text. So we want to call this maybe dreamscape, whatever you like. It will do whatever you type here. So dreamscape now appears you have a bunch of different options, like in every word processing application, you know, and what's really cool is you can actually scroll through without clicking to give you an idea of maybe I like this one. And you can just scroll through to preview all the different texts, items. You can change the color. I'll just use a little peach color here. Click Okay, you can change the size by dragging the slider is left and right, right. And you can also add transitions as well. So if I just click away now into the gray bar down here in the timeline, I can add a little fader, right? Remember this right-clicking on the side of the clip at a 30-second crossfade. Nature has an add transitions to that as well. In order to remove them, just select them right here. If you're having trouble clicking them, remember, just expand, expand the row and highlight your element. Click Delete. You can delete anything. So again, just make sure that you, that the clip is active. It's highlighted in red, like red box. So you can edit these options. That's, that's how we add texts. You can also add credits the same way. Again, Shift Z. And I'll go back into effects. And as you can see, it's shifted my timeline over too much. So if I click in this gray area, Shift Z, it will then back knee out so I can see the whole thing. And I will drag a basic text element all the way to the end. You see what I'm doing here, right? And releasing my mouse click. And now we have some credits we can add, I just select the text element, can put credits here. And we've added it just as you would this other text element as well. A quick note, I'm just going to delete this right here. You can copy and paste any element in Da Vinci Resolve. So if I want to copy and paste music, I can do that. I can just select this audio or this clip. Let's say I just want two versions of, let's say two versions of text. I will just do Command C. And maybe I want it to be at the end of the sequence for credits. I don't want to drag text over and over again. I'll do Command V. And there you go. And you would edit that exactly the same way as we did before. Just make sure it's highlighted in red and click credits. It will preserve the the properties of the last text elements. So watch out for that. You may have to change it again or just feel free to drag the text element back. So that's a quick and easy way to create texts elements. And while I'm on that note, I'd like to add that I'm going to just zoom in a little bit. You may notice as you just hover over the element, these two little knobs right here, you see that these two little white knobs, let me zoom in a little bit more. This is actually a, a quick and dirty fader, right? Great for busy people. If you're too lazy to drag in a fader or right-click to add a cross dissolve. You can just drag that. Like that. I'm just going to the corner of the clip and dragging that little bar. And what that is is a little fader. Pretty neat, right? Pretty cool. So give that give that oral shifts z. I must press Shift Z thousands of times when I'm editing. Now that I'm fully conscious of it but shifts these very shortcuts. All these shortcuts will make you faster. And there you have it. You have a basic text element in there. You have title cards. And you'll also notice that as we play it back, I'm actually going to de-select the effects panel here by clicking effects, I just need some more real estate. There's this like annoying black bar here. You may have noticed that as well. You're like, I don't like that at all. Right. So how do we fix this? It means that the clip was a little bit. Offset in terms of the resolution, the resolution, the canvas size that we chose, and the beginning of the project doesn't match the size of the video that we shot. So we need to correct that. One of the ways we can do that, if you're interested in doing this, stick with me here or feel free to skip to the next section where we will cover color correction. But it's useful to understand, I think in terms of the Inspector and how it applies to video. If we select the clip, I'm going to zoom in a little bit. Any clip you like, you can start with the first one. You'll notice that, well, I want the clip to be bigger. I want to be able to manipulate it and make it a little slightly larger. Well in the inspector. And again, if it's not selected, just make sure that the Inspector tab is turned on. You'll see under transform Zoom. And if I hover my cursor over the first number, these little double arrows appear. And if I drag to the right, watch what happens to the clip on the left? It's zooming in. Pretty cool, right? There goes our black bar. See you later. Okay. And you'll notice that the number on the right also changes as well. The y-axis up and down, it's because they're both chained together. That's what this little symbol is. That means if you change one element, other one will shift as well. So now we fix that, but the other clips are no, they're still all black bar. So what does that mean? I have to go into every single clip and change it. I don't want to do that. So what's a quick and easy way to do this? Well, one of the quickest, easiest ways to do this is if I hit Shift z to pull out, we need to apply that change to all of the clips. In the way that I'm going to do that is very simply, I'm going to select the clip that I edited, the one that I zoomed in on. I'm going to right-click on that clip. I'm gonna zoom in. I'm going to right-click on that clip. And I'm going to copy. Okay, just click Copy. I'm going to zoom out Shift Z. And I'm going to drag and select just my video clips. And I'm gonna do that by positioning my cursor to the right here. I'm going to hold down the mouse and drag to the left to select them. All right. So I've selected all my clips. These are the clips that I want to have the same properties applied to. I can click anywhere now on these clips, I can right-click anywhere. And I'll say Paste Attributes. And what this means is now I can paste the attributes of the former clip to all of these clips than the ones we want our video attributes. So I'll just click that. Select OK, apply, which you'll notice now is all the clips that we selected are now zoomed in just like that first clip. Very, very handy. You can do this with a bunch of different elements. Obviously, when you cut and paste, elements, can copy and paste many different attributes. So let's say you adjusted the color or the x-axis, whatever have you the rotation in the Inspector. You can apply that to many different clips at once. You'll notice I just saw this, that there's this little tiny black bar observed. Now what happened here? Well, what happened was we actually copied the timing of this clip. We trimmed this clip a little bit and it actually pasted that to all the clips. So if you mess up like I just did, I'll just do undo Command Z, but this time I'm going to just paste the Zoom, the Zoom only. So are an original clip. I will right-click on it. Click Copy. I will select all my clips. I will right-click anywhere. You could click anywhere, but just make sure you're right-clicking on the clip itself, not anywhere else or else that will all disappear, right? So I'll select all the clips that I want. Just make sure it's video not audio as well. I'll right-click one of the clips, Paste Attributes, but this time, I'll uncheck, I'll make sure this is not selected. I just want to do Zoom. Just zoom. So let's just do Zoom x and y. Okay? Click Apply. And now it has just applied the one property which is Zoom, and that's exactly what we wanted. So well done. We've done a lot of fine tuning here. We've shortcut it. Our way to victory is what I like to say and we will see you back here for some quick color correction. 16. Color Correction Basics: Well done on completing your edit. At this point we're done with the editing process, which we actually call picture lock. And we can move on to color correction and delivery. It's a very easy process. So let's have a look. You ready for color correction. So I'm, I don't be intimidated. It's actually very simple. The first thing that you actually want to make sure that it's turned off is your night shift. If you have any kind of application open, that is turning the color of your screen orange, right, to protect you from the blue cast, I believe they call it from computer screens. You're gonna want to make sure that's turned off. In the Mac, what you do is you go into the System Preferences. You go into the displays. And what you're gonna go into is night shift. You're going to want to make sure that this is turned off. If it's turned on, your screen, may be orange cast. If you'd look at it for 5 min or 10 min, it may, may actually look normal to you. So you want to make sure that this is turned off. Why is this important? Well, when we go into color, we don't want to be color correcting an image that we think is canceling out certain colors on our screen. So just make sure whether using a Mac or Windows, that, that option is turned off. Especially if you're working late at night, you may forget it's actually happened to me before. I'm like, Oh my gosh, I just edited 75 clips and it's all wrong because I had the the night shift mode on. So make sure that that is off before you begin this process. So the tab we're going to enter now will be the color tab, which is right down here. It's this little color. We all click that. Here we go. Let's color correct. Davinci Resolve is a super duper, duper powerful color correction software. Most Hollywood films are color corrected into Vinci resolve because it is an extremely powerful tool for many different reasons that we're too busy to care about right now. All we care about is doing a light rough color pass on this to get us in and out as quickly as possible. Boy, it does look intimidating at first. I mean, there's a lot of different other windows. It's almost like learning a new a new layout. You don't have to worry about this. I rarely use the majority of items here. There are obviously 7 million color correction courses you can take that vary in length, can just cover this. But for the purposes of this course where we want to get in and out as quickly as possible. And what we're gonna do is explore this page a little bit. And you'll notice that some options are up here to trigger on an off. I'm going to turn off the nodes and leave clips turned on. I'm also going to turn off gallery up here on the left, and that's basically all you need. So what you'll notice here is you have a preview of the clip that you want to color, correct? Right here. And the purposes of this demo is to what what are we trying to do here, what we're trying to correct? Or it maybe brighten up the photo much like you might do in your photo on your phone, your photo editor, you might need a photo to be a little bit brighter. So you sort of manipulate some of the properties of the clip to make it seem brighter or more colorful. Let me show you some basic ways to do that. Right down here is a list of all the total clips that you have in your timeline on your canvas. This represents all of the clips that are available to you in order to color, correct? So what we're gonna do is we're going to select the first clip. And I'm going to toggle off the clips to give us a little bit more room to work with here. And again, if it's very, very tiny, like, Oh no, what happened here? Just go to the top left. And you'll see this percentage thing here, this menu. And just click Fit, and you'll get right back to where you started. So what do we do? What are we supposed to do? Well, the number one thing that I do is I adjust what we call the curves, which if you're not seeing you're in some other menu here, just make sure you're clicking on this little curves icon. What I'm gonna do is look at this information. Don't worry about what it means. All you need to worry about is the mountain itself. And what I mean by that is this is all the color information of your clip. I want to make sure that this line that you see here is meeting points at either end of the curve. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to drag. This golf ball to the right side of this mountain. I'm basically telling Da Vinci that I want the color information of this clip to exist within this range. And that's all I want you to do. With that. We want to make sure each ball here is capturing all of the information in-between the two points. The next thing I'm going to add is something called an S curve, a basic curve for contrast. And the way I'm gonna do that is I'm going to select a point about halfway down from the midpoint. Okay, so here's our midpoint in our line. I'm going to select about halfway down and click once to create a, another little golf ball that can be manipulated. If we drag it. I'm going to select a clip about halfway up from the halfway point on the line here. This is about halfway. And then halfway there. And I'm gonna drag it up and I'm going to create what's called a little baby S curve. And that's all I'm going do. If you want to shift some of the color of this clip, we're going to head over to this little target wheel. I'm going to go into offset. This is the only thing I really play with a lot. What you do is you can offset a lot of the different little colors that are in the clip. So if I drag this little golf ball in the middle on offset, left and right, you'll notice some cool little changes happening. Maybe you want it a little bit warmer. And that's all you need to do to get in and out. So if you mess up and hopefully it's maybe it's really, really wrong or messed up to get out of that. Just hit this little recycle wheel here on the top right. And it'll get you back to normal clip. Looks great to me. So I'm just going to leave this one and head to the next clip. How do we do that? Well, let's head to the next clip here. I'll go to the menu and hit clips, will go to this one here. We'll select this clip. We're going to head to the curves and check this out. So the line is extending all the way through the mountain, right? We don't need to move this to the left because then we'd be cutting off some of this color information. So I may add just a little bit of an S curve. So midpoint, one here, one here, drag this one down, drag this one up and you can see the changes reflected in the clip itself. And I'll move on to the next one. Okay, so I've clicked the next clip, and this is actually what I do. I go through clips and make sure that the mountain is meeting the points. I'm making sure that these golf balls are falling to the beginning and ends of the mountain. So I'm going to drag this one to the right. And I'm going to move this one to the left. That's it. I'm going to add two points for the S. Just a little baby push. Don't do it too extremely. If you do it too extremely, it might be a little wild looking, but it's up to your taste. That's actually kinda cool. Manipulate this the way you like. Basic S curve points to the mountain. Keep moving. Next clip, I'm going to click, click this little dark, right? It's, it's a little dark. But remember if we adjust the mountain, the golf balls on the mountain, maybe we'll call it that, right. You should have no problems with the color. So I'm gonna move this golf ball to a point that I feel like it's brightening up. You see that? And maybe we move this one here. It's cutting off a little bit of that color information, so I'll bring it back. You can see some baby color here. I mean, you can move it a little bit to the left if you want, if you feel comfortable, and then add a little bit of an S curve. Great. Next clip. Same thing. Can you tell what's going on with this clip? I want you to pause the video at this stage and try to color correct. This. Clinton will see you back here when you've completed it, just hit the play button and I'll show you how it's done. Okay, so we are back in. If you've done this correctly, you've noticed that the color information is smashed to the right. And all of this area is essentially not what we need, right, to be analyzing or using. So I will push this golf ball. So, right. Maybe we'll go right about here. It looks like there's some color information here, so I don't want to cut too far into it. And maybe I push this a little bit to the left or right. I don't want to I do not want to cut off too much of the mountains, so we have golf balls on either side of the mountain. I'll add a little S curve. Great. Okay, One final note here. If you end up making some mistakes, let's say you're just using points and everything's just a disaster. You can reset all of these elements here by clicking this little plus reset recycle item here. And it will get you back to normal. So don't worry at all. If you're like messing this up, you're like, Oh no, what have I done? Oh my gosh. Just hit this little reset icon and you're good to go. So if you've made it this far, congrats, You're almost all the way through. We're going to talk about delivery in the next section, which is probably the easiest thing that you're going to need to do. And good luck with the final color correction. And we'll see you back here for delivery. 17. Exporting: Okay, so once you're done color correcting to your heart's content, it's time to deliver. We gotta get this footage out into the world. So what we're gonna do is head into the last tab here. That's that little rocket ship. I always loved that little, little rocket ship tab to deliver, to export our projects. So let's head to deliver page. And you'll see another bunch of menu items and all kinds of different stuff. The only panel you need to worry about is the one on the left, the one on the right, this little baby one here. So as you can see, you might see some familiar options up here, YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, and a whole bunch of other things you may or may not need in your lifetime. I know that I don't the only ones that I use or YouTube, Vimeo and custom. So for our purposes, we need to understand a little bit about what's happening here, but not too much. If we're trying to export our project to YouTube, we just use the YouTube preset. And if I use this little arrow button, this pull-down menu, you can see some different options for the resolution. We want to keep it at 1080. A lot of the projects that I deliver our 1080, so keep it there. The filename is whatever you'd like. We'll call it ice cream Sunday. But we need to choose where it's saving. So let's browse and I'll do it to my desktop. Here we go. I'll click Save. So now what I'm telling Da Vinci is the name of the file that I'd like to create is called ice cream sundae, and it's going to save to my desktop. So make sure you do both of those items. If you've set up your timeline and Canvas correctly, you will not need to touch any of this. So these settings are pretty awesome for uploading to any different platform you may think of. So I'm going to go ahead and click Add to Render Queue down here. Then what would we do? Well, we just hit Render all. It's just an extra step that you need to do. I'll hit render all. And it'll show you a progress of what's happening. And give you a little bit of a, a countdown meter, an estimation of how long it takes to render your video. Meaning renderer is just a fancy word for saying cooking, like it's baking your pi. Essentially. It's just consolidating all of the edits you've made into a file that you can watch. So just give it some time depending on the speed of your computer, minds, a little bit slower than super, super-duper powerful computers. So it's going to take about 3 min. It's a good time to discuss what we've done here. I'd just like to make a note and say that Da Vinci is a super-duper, powerful piece of software. And I really just don't use the majority of it to do what I need to do. And if you're a busy person, if you are an individual that works in a very high paced, demanding atmosphere, maybe you're a marketing manager or an officer and you need to turn videos around quickly. I know I worked in a bunch of those in LA and there's just no time to do a lot of detailed oriented work when you're in those atmospheres, you just gotta get the footage in and out. Your boss might say, Hey, we need to shoot this video on Monday and deliver on Wednesday or Thursday, I had a two-day turnaround on a 10-minute documentary for Hollywood Reporter. And That's it. There's no ifs, ands or buts, so we don't have really time to do a lot of this detail oriented work that you see on tutorials on YouTube, for instance, where you're going into in depth color correction and analysis of audio. There's just, there's just no time for it in the real-world. So this system that I've developed a really good way for busy people, busy workers to just get in and out quickly without really understanding or needing to understand too much more about the process. So this is about as quick as I can make it. Hopefully you've understood a little bit of the mechanics of how this works. The most difficult stages I think for me are getting footage in and getting footage out. The editing to me isn't that complicated? If you know some basic rules. And really the last thing I'll say about editing and editing itself is just, just keep it simple. There's that an acronym, kiss KSS, keep it simple. Stupid. You don't have to do anything fancy. You don't have to do advanced color corrections and advanced titles at this stage, you just want to get in and out. Maybe you're trying to edit a little blog or a video for your friends and family. This is a great system to follow if that's what you want to do. So now you'll see that the your edit is completed. It'll say completed. If it fails, it'll say so. But if you've done your job the right way, it should say completed. And what we're going to go do is locate that. I'm just going to go to where I saved it. The file should have saved exactly where you put it. So here we go, ice cream sundae, just as we named it. Double-click that. And that's our footage. 18. Final Words: At this point, I want to congratulate you on making those first steps to improve and hopefully cut down the time it takes to edit your project. Don't forget to post your edit in the class projects section. I can give you some feedback there. If you do. 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