Intro to DaVinci Resolve on iPad: Edit Your First Video

1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to this beginner's course on Da Vinci Resolve for the iPad. My name is Ben Nelson. I'm immediate design educator with over seven years of experience teaching creative computer programs both in-person and online. This course is a beginner's introduction to Da Vinci Resolve on the iPad. And because it is a beginner's course, we're not going go into every single feature that exists in da Vinci Resolve on the iPad because there are a lot of them and I know that that can be overwhelming when you're just starting out and trying to edit videos. For this reason, we're going to focus just on the cut page individually resolve on the iPad. Even though Da Vinci Resolve on the iPad does have both the cut, the colored pages, the color page gets a lot more complicated and we're not going to focus in on it. Now, da Vinci Resolve on the desktop actually has a lot more pages, but only the cut and colored pages are officially supported on Da Vinci Resolve for the iPad as of this recording. So we'll focus in on the cup page. This is where all of the basics happened. This is where you're really going get started as a video editor. Even then we won't touch every button and feature that's on the page because there are so many of them. And I want you to feel comfortable getting started with just the basics. So we're going to cover the features that you need to know to create your first video. So what are those features? Well, of course we're going to learn how to start a new project and eventually resolve and how projects work and function because that can be confusing. So I want you to really feel comfortable and know how that works. Then we're going to cover the interface of the cut page, where different things are, where things move too, when you click different buttons and how the timeline down at the bottom functions. Then we're going to cover the basics of how you actually trim up footage. So we're going to cover how you bring footage in, how you cut it, how you trim it, and how you bring pieces of footage together into Vinci Resolve. We're also going to cover how you can add titles over your footage to do things like introduce your video or explain things. And we're also going to cover how to add music track below your footage so that you can have that nice music in the background as people watch your videos. We're also going to learn important skills on footage, like how to crop footage or resize it. And then we're going to cover how you can export your video so that you can share it in a variety of different places like YouTube or Vimeo or something like that. Now that you know what we're going to cover in this course, you might be wondering, what do you need to be able to take this course? Well, the absolute minimum you need is an iPad running iOS 600s or later. You can't run Da Vinci Resolve on any other iPad except ones that run iOS six or later. Now there are a few differences depending on iPad you're running it on. If you have an iPad with an M1 chip or higher in it, then you're going to have the full experience of DaVinci Resolve on the iPad. Whereas if you have something before that, then you'll have a little bit of a reduced experienced specifically, you can't edit in some resolutions of video like 4K60, that kind of thing. And that's really just a limitation of the hardware. But don't worry, there's nothing in this course I'm going to show you that you won't be able to do on those earlier iPads because I myself will be using an iPad Pro, using an A12 X processor, which is a couple of generations before the M1. And you'll be able to do everything that I do in this video and learn the basics of video editing. Now some things that are helpful to have but not necessary, or a keyboard and a mouse attached to your iPad. I'm going be using Apple's magic keyboard with my iPad, really, so that I can use the mouse so that you can see where I'm clicking. That will just make it easier for you to see where I'm going. But it's not necessary for you to have it. Keyboards are nice because then you can use keyboard shortcuts, which really makes video editing easier. But if it's your first time editing video, it's not really necessary that you have that. Another feature that's nice but not necessary is an Apple pencil. If you can use an Apple pencil, it just makes it easier to pinpoint precise things on the screen, but it's really not necessary for using Da Vinci resolve on the iPad. Now for this course you only need the free version of didn't Vinci Resolve, which you just download from the App Store if you want the studio version, you do that as an in-app purchase through this, but there's no reason for you to have the studio version for this course. Really, it's unlikely unless you work for a motion picture studio or a TV studio that you're going to need the studio version, Da Vinci Resolve does not push its Studio version on you at all. It's not like a lot of other apps where it's constantly asking you to upgrade or buy something. Really, it only comes up if you happen to click on a feature that you don't have like an effect or something like that. That's really the only time you'll see it. If you do see that, just click cancel and get out of it because you don't need it for this class. As part of this course, you'll be working on your very own first video project, which we will be talking about in the next video, but makes sure that you do work on the project throughout the course. So you can really internalize the things that you're learning here. So let's go ahead and talk more about that in the next video. 2. Project: Alright, now it's time to talk about your project for this course, the project is gonna be to edit a video using Da Vinci resolve on the iPad, because that's what this course is all about, is learning how to use Da Vinci Resolve on the iPad. Now I've taught a lot of people how to edit videos, and I've found that the biggest hurdle to getting to the point of editing videos is often because they don't have quote unquote, the right footage. Really. It doesn't matter what footage you use and you shouldn't feel held back by not getting the foot. You don't need to go someplace crazy to get the footage. You don't need to do something wild and awesome for the footage for this video, this course is just about learning how to edit. And really you don't want to use your best footage for that anyway. You want to have something that you can just practice on. So it doesn't matter where you get the footage from. It can just be stuff that's left over on your phone, or it can just be stuff that you film around the house or even stock footage off the Internet. I don't really care. So long as you can put it in to Da Vinci resolve on the iPad and edit it. That's all. This course is about learning the basics of editing, not about winning the Oscar for best editing. So to get started, just makes sure that you find some footage, even if that's just turning your phone on, walking around your house for a couple of minutes. That's all you need to do. There are a couple of requirements for the project though, to make sure that you do get the purpose and point of this course. First off, we want your video to be around 60 s long. That's really a good length for your first video. And it is also really convenient because that's how long you can make short videos like TikToks, YouTube shorts, and Instagram Reels. It's a good link to start learning how to edit. Also, I want to make sure that you can combine multiple clips together. So make sure you have at least three separate clips in your video, although you can have many more than that, but make sure you have at least three. I want to make sure that you know how to bring in music, so make sure that you've added some music to the video as well. And I also want to make sure that you can add title. So make sure that you have at least one title, although you can have more if your video calls for it, make sure that you export the video as an mp4 or an MOV file so that you can upload it to someplace like YouTube or Instagram in order to share it. Once you've exported, go ahead and upload it to your video sharing platform of choice and then share the link to it in the project section for this course. Now of course, you can set it to private so that nobody else can see it, but make sure that you share it so that I can view it and then I can give you feedback on it. That's it. Don't worry about the depth of the footage or story or anything like that for this video, just make it very simple video so that you can learn how to do the basics of editing. Then you can go ahead and add in those more advanced things later. Now, I know it can be tempting to skip the project in a course because it feels kind of like homework. But this really isn't about doing homework. It's really about you learning the things that are in this class. If you don't apply the things that you've learned, then you are more likely to forget them. You can't just watch a class and then hope to be able to remember it when you need it, you really need to apply it right after learning it. So don't forget to complete the project for this course. And really you will get more benefit out of this if you share it so that you can get feedback on it. That's really where we start to improve as creators is when we start to get feedback on things. So please do share your project with me because I'm really excited to see what you're able to create into Vinci Resolve on the iPad. Now in the next video, we're going to hop onto the iPad and learn how to create a project individually resolved. 3. Starting a New Project: When you first open up da Vinci resolve, you're going to need to make a new project to work, and that's what we're going to be doing in this video. But I want to explain a little bit to you about how projects work individually resolved so that you understand them because this can be a little confusing, especially if this is your first time editing videos and you've never worked in a nonlinear editor like Da Vinci Resolve before, but it can be a little confusing. So Da Vinci Resolve on open once you've been using it, will open into your last use project. So here we are in this project, which is just vlog of going to Glacier National Park. But you can see that there's nothing here. It all says media offline and there's all of these red clips with lines going through them. Don't worry about the different parts of the interface right now we'll talk about that in another video. But right now I just want you to understand how projects work inside of a video editor. This is very different than something like a Word document or a Photoshop document, because those files are pretty much self-contained and they have all the information needed within the file in order to use it. Whereas a video project actually connects different files. So right now this is showing that all of my files are offline because of the hard drive where my footage is stored for this project is not connected to it, so it can't access those because those are not brought in. They are actually stored elsewhere. So this can be a little confusing because when you open it up, this can be really scary if this ever happens to you, don't worry, just go ahead and reconnect the device if you're coming off of a hard drive for this class, we are just going to edit straight off of the iPad's internal memory so that we don't have to worry about losing access to our files this way. But I just wanted to clarify to you that the project file itself is just a small file that contains links to all of the other files that you are editing. So we're going to go ahead and we're going create a new one. We're going to do this by hitting the home button down in the bottom right hand corner. And here we can go ahead and we can make a new project. So we're going to click New Project and then we're going to give it a name. I'm going to call mine chocolate milk because that's what I'm going to make a video about. And click Create. This is going to create the project for us. Now, you can see there's nothing going on here right now because we have no files in here. Don't worry. In the next video, we'll talk about adding some media. And, but first let's talk a little bit about how the project settings are set up. So go ahead and hit the gear down to the bottom right hand corner and you will see your project settings. This is where the timeline resolution is at. So if you need to change your resolution or your aspect ratio, this is where you're going to do that. If you were doing this for something like YouTube shorts or Instagram stories, you would go ahead and choose use vertical resolution. There's a bug right now. And Da Vinci resolve, which makes the vertical resolution do something weird. And I imagine they will fix that soon, maybe even by the time you're doing this. But that's why we're not going to use vertical resolution video this project because it doesn't seem to work correctly yet, okay, and then here you have your frames per second. So I think that I shot this footage in 30, but I can check that and change it later if I need to. But let's change that to 30 frames per second. And that's just how many images your camera was taking per second. My phone was shooting 30 pictures per second in order to make this video. So that's where your project settings are. You don't need to worry about all of the different details in here because there's a lot, but that's basically at your frames per second and your resolution. So let's go ahead and hit Save. So now that we have our project setup and we've got the settings that we want. Let's go ahead and bring in some footage so that we have something to work with before we talk about the different parts of the interface. 4. Adding Media: Okay, so in order to make a video, we're going to need some video footage. So let's go ahead and bring that in now. Now there's two ways that you can do this. One, you can just click on Import Media up here. This is our media area. When you click that, it's going to open up the file system of the iPad. My footage is not here, so I'm not going to go ahead and do that. But if you did have something stored into your iPad file system, or if you had some external storage like a hard drive hooked up to it to bring your footage and this is where you would find that I didn't click Cancel. Now we need to do what's the equivalent of a right-click, which is just a long press to get more options here. And we're going to choose Import Media from photos because my footage is stored in my photos app and yours may be as well. If you've got something with your iPad, now I've got a whole bunch of different video clips here, but all we need are these four, so we're just going to click them and they will be checked. So it's these four that have to do with the chocolate milk. And then we're going to go ahead and click Add. Once we do that, our footage is going to appear here in this area. Now, you might wonder, what do we do with that footage once it's there? Well, we need to put it in our timeline and we'll get more into the interface in the next video. But the timeline is this lower part of the screen where all of the work is going to happen. So let's go ahead and bring our first clip and then click this and drop it in here. So that is how you bring footage in. Now there are some other things that you might want to know before you bring footage and I'm going to go ahead and tap that. And the way you get it out is you just tap it. And then you can click Delete on your keyboard if you have that, or you can just bring your mouse or your finger over here and hit the Delete icon. Let's go ahead and see what happens when we just go ahead and double-click on the footage. It appears here in our viewer and in our viewer we can then scrub through it with this little red playhead. You can do this with your finger or a mouse or the pencil. And you can choose where you want to start and where you want it to end. I want to start this one, right, as it's about to ***** right there. And there's two ways that I can set this start point. I can either hit I on my keyboard or I can click and drag this little gray bar. And that's going to be the first frame of my video when I add it now. And then I want to find my end point. I'm watching this. And right there, I can hit 0 for out on my keyboard or I can drag the gray bar from the end and put it right there. So that's how you set where you want your clip to be in that can save you some time in trimming later. Then remember you can just click and drag that down, or you can click this little button right here, which will insert your footage at the playhead. So that's a couple of ways to bring your footage in. In the next video, we're going to go ahead and talk about more of this interface and how it's laid out and what happens when you click on different buttons. 5. Cut Page Interface: So as I said in the first video, we're not going go into every single button that exists here, into Vinci Resolve even on just on the cup page because there's so much going on and it's not necessary for you to be able to edit your first video. You really want to kind of work your way up to all of the complexities that come with video editing. We're just going to highlight some of the main parts here, but I want you to be familiar with the interface and what happens when you click different things on it. You don't feel like you get lost as you go along. The reason we're doing this now is it makes more sense once you have footage in the timeline because you can see more of what's going on. Alright, the first thing that we want you to start with, it's actually at the very bottom of the page. Down here at the bottom of the page you can see this area right here is highlighted. This red line is showing that we are on the cut page. The next page over is the color page. I just want you to see this even though we're not going to use it so that you understand if you accidentally click this, everything is going change and things are going to look weird. So this is the color page and we're not going to use it just because there's a lot of complexity that goes into it and it would really hold you back from getting started in video editing. So let's go back to the cup page. To get back, all you have to do is click this icon right here on the left, and we're back to the page while we're down there in the bottom, Let's just talk about a couple of other things. We have already seen some of these buttons already, but we have an undo and redo button right here. And then we have the trash cans so we can use that if we don't have a keyboard and so we don't have a Delete key. We can use that to delete something once we've clicked on it. On the far right, we have the Home tab, which will bring up our projects so that we can choose a different project. We're making new folder or something like that. We already saw that in the last video. And then we have our settings, which we saw in the last video as well, where we can change the settings. Again, don't worry much about this except for your resolution and your frame rate to go ahead and click Cancel here. Alright, now that we know what's going on in the bottom bar, Let's work our way up. This main area at the bottom of the screen is known as the timeline. And there are actually two timelines here. Each place you see a red playhead is part of the timeline. The timeline at the top shows the entire timeline from beginning to end. And if we grab that red playhead, we can move along and we can change where we are in the timeline. Timeline that takes up most of the area at the bottom. You can see here is actually deep timeline where we will do the editing. And so this is zoomed in very close. You just click anywhere on the top of the timeline where the little time indicator bars are. And you can click and drag through on the timeline. This is where all the work happens. This is where we'll bring in clips, will assemble them. We can layer multiple clips on top of each other. So if I click on another one of these and drag it down, I can drop that on top of the other clips so we can do multiple layers. Along the bottom is where the audio is, that's the little blue bar there. And you can't see the audio clips very well and they don't let you make them bigger, so you just have to know where they're at. But one thing that we can do is we can turn on this button right here that looks like a little wave form that makes your audio big while you are trimming. And we'll talk about trimming in a second, but just make sure you have that set on because that will make it easier to see the audio while you are trimming and cutting, you can see that there are different tracks. So when I brought in that other video to layer on top, we got track to the tracks sit on top of each other and each track can be turned on and off independently. So we can turn on and off the audio for this track. And we can turn on and off the video for this track, which can be really helpful when you're trying to work on specific details. So that's the timeline. That's where we are cutting in our clipping and making everything work as we move up here, there's a bunch of buttons. We're not going to worry too much about these except for the insert footage button, which we've already used. And we'll also use a little bit of this button right here, which opens up the details of a clip. We're not going get into that in this video, but that's where it's at and we'll look at it in another video. These media controls here are your forward and backward buttons. And the easiest way if you have a keyboard just start something plane is just to hit the spacebar. But if you don't have a keyboard, you'll have to use this little arrow right here. Using these arrows on the side, you can jump to the end of a clip or the beginning of a clip. And that's about all we need to deal with. Those buttons there, this area right here that takes up a big portion of the top of the screen is your viewing area. This will show you whatever spot you are on the timeline, or it'll show you what clip you've selected over in the Media Viewer, which is the next area, this left area is the media viewer. Now one thing to understand is that this area can switch. So another important area that we won't get into a lot in this course, but you'll need for more advanced things. Is the inspector. When we click that, the inspector is going to open on the right, the view window is going to shift to the left and we're going to lose our media. All we have to do is come back here to the far left side click Media, and we'll get that in. The inspector will close the interface, adjust dynamically, which is really important to understand. One thing we'll get into a little bit in this course is titled, when we open that up, we're going lose the media viewer. The view window will stay where it is, but we'll get the title options here. The same is true with transitions and effects. If we ever want to view our video at full-screen, we just click this full screen button and we can do that. Now to get out of that, we just clicked down here on the controls to exit the full-screen mode. This button here we'll talk about later. That's the Export button. Will be able to use that to export our final video. Let's go ahead and open the media tab back up here. And that's about all that we need to know for the interface here. In the next video, we're going to go ahead and talk about cutting and trimming the clips. 6. Cutting and Trimming: Alright, now that we know how this is set up a little bit, we're gonna be able to actually start making our video, which involves a lot of cutting and trimming of different clips. Now remember for your projects you need to have at least three clips and they need to add up to be around 60 s long. So let's just take a look here at this. When we come in here, we can see on our timeline that we have these two clips stacked on top of each other. Now one of the first things that we want to know how to do is move a clip around, and that's just by clicking and dragging. You can do this with your finger or you can do it with a mouse like I am. And we're just going to drag this all the way over so that we can get to the end and drop it in next to our other clip. This can be a little bit tricky sometimes, sometimes you have to drop it and then move it again. But eventually you'll get there. Now if you end up with a gap in here like this, where I just kinda went over, just click on that and hit Delete on your keyboard or on the screen. And you'll get rid of that gap. Now we can see that we have a spot here where we transition. I'm just going to hit space bar on my keyboard to make this play. And it jumps to the next one. Now, the next thing that we want to know about is cutting and trimming. Why didn't you in and out points on this clip? And so this first part, there's nothing going on, it's just the beginning. You can't see the spoon coming in. So I wouldn't want it to start until right about Here. I want to be able to cut my clip there so they can get rid of that first part. To do that, I'm just going to click on the top of the playhead and hold down. Then I get my scissors right here at the top of it, and I click that. And now you can see if you look in the main timeline that I have another clip here in the middle, I'm just going to click on that clip and then go down and hit the Delete key. And they automatically does not put a gap in there. It does what's called the magnetic timeline and it just pulls the rest of the video with it. So it eliminates that gap that we hadn't been just brings the whole video. So now we go from this shot to this shot. And as I'm looking at it, I'm like, oh, I would really like that. Even come in later so I could do the same thing where I just go ahead and cut it and then delete it, or I can do what's called a trim. So I'm going to come over here and I'm just going to hover my mouse right by the edge here. And this is a little bit easier to do with a mouse, it with your finger, but it works with your finger as well. You can see that it turns into this little razor blade icon. When I click and drag, it's going to pull that clip forward. And I just want to do it until I get the playhead right there. And now it's where I want, where the action is actually going to start here. Okay? That's much better. Now we know how to cut a clip and then delete a clip. And we also know how to trim from the edge. Let's go ahead and see that again. We're just going to use our top timeline to jump all the way to the end. And we're going to see where this clip ends. And really find where we want it to be right about there probably. So let's go ahead and grab the end of the clip and we'll just bring it in. So we're going to find that trim point right there. Click and drag it back. And you can see that it shows you in the viewer where you are at as you drag it. And so I want it to be right about there. Okay, now let's go ahead and bring in our next clip. We can do this by clicking here. And then of course, I'm going to try and find the right in and out points here. I think I want it just as the spoon is entering. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that. Click and drag my start point over. And then C, it's being stirred. And I want that dropped to happen right there. The last thing that we see. So we're going to go ahead and drag that back. So now we have our in and out point set. Let's just drag this onto the timeline. One thing to note when you are on the timeline is if you grab right in-between the clips, you can see this double-headed arrow appears when you're using a mouse and that's going to actually do a slip. So it's just going to slip the cut from one side to the other. And you can see this if you look up in the viewer at the top, that we're actually changing where one clip starts and ends, but we aren't changing the overall duration. So that's different than if you get the razor blade, which will allow you to go backwards and forwards. So if I grab the razor blade, I'm actually going to get rid of some of this clip. So I'm going to pull this closer just to where the spoon almost enters the milk. Okay, Now another thing that you might want to do is get rid of the audio on your clip. I don't know if you can hear, but there's a little click that happens when that spoon goes in. And I don't really want sound here because I'm going to add music. So in order to get rid of the sound, we're just going to hold down on our clip until we get our right-click menu. And then we're going to go ahead and hit mute. You can see that a little mute symbol appears right here in the bottom left-hand corner of the clip. Now we've put a couple of these different clips together and you can see that our video is going pretty long here. If you look down at the time, you can see that we are at 1 min, 10 s, and by the end of the clip, we're at 1 min, 24 s. And so we don't want that. So we're going to need to adjust the speed of these clips. These were shot in slow motion. So we're going to need to adjust their speed some in order to do that. In addition to adjusting the speed of a clip, there are several other things we can do to transform our clips. So we're going to talk about those in the next video. 7. Adjust Clip Attributes: This video, we're going to learn about editing the details of the clip. So if we watch through this clip here, you can see that it's very slow because it was shot in slow motion, which is great, except that we don't have enough time for that because we really wanted to get this clip down to about 60 s. So in order to do that, we're going to adjust the speed of a bunch of these clips. So the first thing that we need to do is open up our Details editor by clicking on these three lines with the dots on them. And this gives us a bunch of different options. In this course, we're only concerned with three of them. And we're going to start with this little speedometer in the middle, which allows us to adjust the speed and duration of a clip. So let's make sure that we have this clip selected by clicking on it, and then it will be highlighted in red. And now we're gonna go ahead and adjust the speed of it. So we can do that by clicking right here by the speedometer and then typing in the number that we want. In this case, we're going to try and just double the speed. So we're just going to hit two on our keyboard, or we can hit two on this little pad that comes up, then hit Enter. Now we can watch it back through. So we're just dragging back and then we're going to watch it through. You can see that it's faster now unfortunately, the lights were off sync with the camera on this one, so we are getting some flashing there, but not as much as we were on the other one. We want to watch our total duration here so that we can kind of see where we need to get to with each of these clips. Let's drag over here and see where we're at. We are at a minute for and we still have one clip left to add. So we're going to need to speed up this last clip as well. So let's just kinda watched through, see how the steering goes. Looks like it's started faster and then it slows down. So let's go ahead and click on this clip and then let's speed it up to two as well. Enter. And then let's drag to the end and see where we're at. We're at 44 s. So that's doing pretty good. We can watch through it and see how the speed looks. Okay, now, I noticed that that first part looks weird because it's going fast, so we're just going to go to where the speed resumes normal. We can back it up just a little bit here. We can go ahead and we can cut that. Remember we can cut it by holding down and using our scissors. And then this part here, we can either delete it or we could slow down its speed again. So let's try slowing its speed back to one again. Hit Enter. And then let's watch through. That's okay, but I think it'll be better to just delete it. So I'm just gonna hit the Delete, can. Then check my cut here to see how the cut looks. Now, when we get into finishing up the video, we might trim those cuts up a little bit, but now we want to know a little bit more about transforming videos. There's two ways to transform videos. One is to do what's called the transform and the other is to do what's called the crop. So let's go ahead and take a look at that. We'll jump over here to this first video and then we will learn about transforming verse by the transformed by n. And this allows you to change the height and width of your video. So you can see here that we have a width and a height. There's a couple of other things here like rotation, and we can just transform these by clicking and dragging on them. Now currently our width and height are connected. That's why there's a lock symbol here. We can unlock them and then we could skew them. This isn't something you would normally want to do, but you could stretch it out like that. If you don't like that, just double-click and it will reset to one, keep that locked on most of the time. And let's just say we want to zoom in here. We could do that, then we get a nice closer shot. Now say we didn't want that to be here on the first part of the clip before we go. And so we could cut right there. Take our first part of that clip and reset it to one so that it looks normal. And then it comes in closer when we look over the top of it. So we can see this coming along here. And then when we hit that next clip, it zooms in. Now there are things that you can do to kind of automate zooming in that kind of thing. But we're not going to enter those in this class, but just because they're a little bit more of an advanced topic. And next we're going to learn about cropping. Cropping is similar to transforming, but it's taking away part of the image. So let's go ahead and jump to our last clip here and click on our crop. Now when we're cropping, we have left, right, top and bottom, makes sure that you're selected on the clip that you're looking at. And then you can go ahead and you can bring that in and you can see that you get this black bar effect here like that. Now to reset it, of course we just double-click and double-click. Now we might want to do this on the top and bottom so that we have a little bit of a cinematic effect. So let's go ahead and just bring in the top a little bit. And the bottom by the same amount. That brings in that cinematic feel. We could do the same thing to our other clips. Now that we know what number we want, we can just click here and do for click here and do four. And we just want them all to go ahead and look the same. So that we have consistency across. This one is weird because of the transform that we put on it. So we'll go ahead and just bring that one in further than the others so that we get let me go ahead and make that the same for both of them. Jump back here to the last one and we'll do four again. So being able to put it in precise numbers can be really helpful with consistency. Okay, so that's how you change speed, how you transform, and how you crop. In the next video, we're going to learn how to add some music. 8. Adding Music: Now we want to add some music to our video. So in order to do this, but we need to get some music. And the music they used in all of these course videos comes from Ben sound Bend sound is not affiliated with me, but it is a place where you can get some pretty high-quality free music. And so we're just going go here and we're just going to download something that we can use in our video. Now this shows you some different options that you have here. For this, I think we might want to go for maybe an inspiring vibe. So we're going to click that when go ahead and get rid of the cookie preferences thing here. And we can listen through to hear some in here if there's something that we think would work well for our video, for the purposes this project, you don't have to worry too much about it sounding right or whatever. You can just use something so that you can show that you can add it. So let's go ahead and just look a little bit too intense for a chocolate milk video. Let's try inspire. Sounds better. So we'll go ahead and we will download that. Just click Free Download. And it's going to tell you where you can and cannot use it. So just make sure that you are following the rules here and then click Download. Now of course, you're welcome to use whatever music you have access to. Just make sure that you're following any applicable copyright laws when you do so. For this case, you're just really doing a practice video. You probably aren't going to do anything except share it as your project. And so you're going to be okay with using this kind of thing. Now, we're downloading that into our Downloads and I'll just check that insofar here. Yep, there it is. And now we can go back to Da Vinci and we can see how to add the music to our clip. Okay, so back here in da Vinci, we need to import our footage just like we did before, except this time we're not going to go from the photos app. We're going to do it from our downloads. So let's go ahead and go over here and hold down within our media bent. And we're going to choose Import media. Now this is in our downloads, so let's go there and we just need to find our Inspire track here. There it is. Let's go ahead and click Open. Now you can see that we have this audio clip here. Let's jump all the way back to the beginning of our timeline. And we're going to click and drag this down. When we do that, you can see that this is a green clip because it is audio only and so we need to put it below. We're just going to do that and we match it up there. Now you can see that this has stretched our timeline way out. If you look at the top timeline because this is way longer than what we want it to be. Now we're going to talk a lot about editing to music in this video, but basically we just need to go and clip off the end of it. So let's jump to the end. And we're just going to clip it off right here where This ends. Click on that clip and then remember to hold down on the top of your playhead to get your snip and then just click on that and hit the Delete button. Now we just have sound where we want to. Now right here at the beginning, if you look at this waveform here, you can see that there is no sound at the beginning. And so that's a little bit odd. And we'll just delete that off the end just by clipping it back. And then we'll drag our track forward. Then we'll need to go to the end. And then we can just expand that trach out. And this is just to show you nothing is lost when you delete it into Vinci Resolve. It's still in your clip. You still have access to it. As you move your clips around. You don't have to worry about if you delete something, if it's going to be gone permanently, you can always get it back again. Now one thing that we might want to do on this audio clip is actually lower the volume of it. So let's go ahead and turn on our attribute button that we did in the last video. And you can see we have this music notes selected. That's where we can adjust our audio clip level. So let's go ahead and we'll just go and drag that down to a spot that's not so loud. And then we'll just give it a listen to hear what it sounds like. That's still louder than I want it to be. So I'm going to go ahead and just bring that down a little bit more. Go back to the beginning of the clip and that's sounding pretty good. So that's how we go ahead and I add music into our timeline. In the next video, we're going to talk about how we can add titles into this video. 9. Adding Titles: Alright, now that we know how to add our Eclipse and add music in and how to transform our clips. We're going to want to finish this off by adding a title to it. So let's go ahead and jump to the beginning again. I'm going go ahead and I'm going to mute the audio track right now, just so that we don't have to hear it while we're trying to learn about titles, but we'll turn that back on before we're done. Now, we're going get our titles by going up to the title button again. And now we can choose from a number of different titles. Now these titles up here, our basic titles, they don't really do anything. They just are in different parts of the screen except for this scroll title, which will scroll up. Here are what are called fusion titles. And these have some kind of animation associated with them. These are pre-made so you don't have to worry about adjusting them too much. Nice thing is if you have your mouse, you can scroll over the top of these and see what they're gonna do here. See some of how the animation works. I like this, fade on one here. So let's click and drag that and we'll see how it looks when we put it on. Now you might be like, I don't want it to say sample texts, I wanted to say something else. And the way that we edit that is with that inspector that we talked about earlier. So go ahead and click on this clip so that we have it selected and then open the inspector. Here in the inspector we can edit the details. So let's go ahead and turn off our attributes just so that we can see this a little bit bigger and better. And click here where it says sample text in the inspector. And do make sure that you're on this title button. If you're on the Settings button, things will look different, but we want to be on the title button and we can type in what texts we want it to say. In this case, I'm just going put chocolate. Ok. Now let's go ahead and let's watch it through and see how this title looks. And that's how you add a title. Now there's a bunch of different attributes that you can change in the inspectors, such as your font, the boldness, and the size. I want my size to be a little bit bigger. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that dial and just drag it up. Now, watch through it and just see what it looks like. A lot of video editing is making a change in watching it through to see what it looks like. So let's go ahead and let's add another one of these titles just so we can get more familiar with it. Right here, we're going go ahead and add a thing that says step one. Let's do something that's not going to be as intrusive as that one. Let's do one that's going to fall into the bottom left-hand corner here. So we're going to drag this one down. And this one's a little bit more complicated in that it has two parts of texts. So their sample texts there and it says clean and simple. Let's go ahead and edit that. Open up our inspector right here where it says clean and simple, that's the top part. We're going to put step one. Then we're going to scroll down to our big text here. You can see where it says big text and we're going to put poor milk. And I'm just using my keyboard to type. If you aren't using a keyboard, you'll have the on-screen keyboard pop up when you do this. And we can adjust the size of any of those and the color. All right. Here in the Inspector, but let's just go ahead and watch it. Come through. Sometimes it will glitch a little bit as it's processing it, That's normal, especially if you have one the lower end processors, you have a little bit of glitching that won't happen when it exports though, so you don't have to worry about it. So pouring the milk. Now let's go ahead and add in another one. Now I just want the same thing, so I'm just going to copy and paste it. So making sure I'm clicked on this and we're holding down and click Copy. And then we're going to jump forward to where we're adding in the powder. Come down here and hold down and click Paste. Let's just go and drop that same title on there. And now I don't have to change it all over again. I can just change the text. So step two. And again, it's glitching a little bit, but that's just because it's processing the graphics. Don't worry that will not happen on Export. Now let's just do one more. We're just going to go ahead and hold down and hit paste. All right, now let's watch through that. See how it looks. Good. So now we've got our title is added, we know how to modify the text on them. You can also modify a lot of different things such as the font and the position as well. So you can make all those adjustments as needed. Now that we know how to do that, we're ready to go ahead and finish up the edit on this video. So in the next video, we're just going to be doing the editing process to trim this down to exactly what we want it to be. Again, we're not going to be Oscar winning editors here. We're just going to kind of recap the entire process to finish off this video. And in our last clip before we go ahead and export it. 10. Finishing the Edit: Alright, so now it's time for us to go ahead and finish up the edit, meaning we want to trim it up to make it really clean and crisp and be the right time that we want it to be. We'll go ahead and at the end we'll turn our audio back on, make sure that everything is working with our titles. And we're going to go ahead and add in our last clip so that we can review everything and see how it works. So first let's jump to the end of our timeline so we can add in our last clip, remember to open up your media bin and then I'm going to grab this clip of me drinking it. So let's go ahead and find our in and out points. Right about here is a good point for us as the cup is coming up and drinking. And I think that's a good spot for it to end. So we're going to go ahead and drag this clip back. We're just going to go ahead and grab our clip and drag it onto the timeline. And you can see that we're sitting at right about 46 s here. So much better than we were before when we were at like a minute 46. And that's because we've trimmed it up, but there's still more that we can do to fix some of this. So let's go ahead and just make it a little bit cleaner as we watch through again, I'm just seeing the space bar, but if you're just using the iPad with no keyboard, you have to go up and hit this little arrow here to go forward. We're just going to watch it through. Okay, we've got step one, pour the milk. And I really feel like we probably don't need the rest of this pouring. Really. We could probably get rid of that and not worry too much about it. So let's go ahead and just edit this a little bit. I'm going to scrub back here on the timeline. And I think the way that we can kind of sink this up is we can add this, Hide All to just this second part, and then we can trim up this. And this might end up being quite a bit shorter than a minute. That's okay. You really just want to be in that shorts range of 15 to 60 s. So let's go ahead and in order to trim this, we're going to come over here and get our little razor blade tool when we hover over the edge and trim it back just about there. Now as we watched through, see that fade and then we immediately get into the close-up, the pouring of the milk. And that last part, it looks a little funny, so I think it's speeding up there, so let's just trim that off. Let's just scrub back a little and watch through. Okay, Now this is a little bit too much where it just jumps and it just hangs there for a second. We really want to get to the action. And again, this isn't really about how we edit it, but I just want to show you how I would do a little bit more editing on these clips here. So I think we want to get right here to where it's pouring. So let's go ahead and trim that back. You can see that we've moved our title a little bit there, so we might need to adjust that. Let's watch it. It's a lot of just watching it again and again. It's a little bit glitchy because there's a title on it so we can watch through it a couple times, see if it gets any better. Yeah, I think that's looking pretty good. And then we go into the str. Str is honestly it's pretty long, so we might want to speed that up. The hard thing with the str is you really want to see that color change happen there. And so we made this need to get rid of the part where we get that drop coming off. But we have plenty of time. It's just a little bit boring there in the middle. So we may just try to cut it out a little bit here, right when we're about to pull that out. We'll go ahead and we will cut that. Then we'll just trim it back to where it's stirring. Well, maybe we'll just speed that up actually. Let's try that. So we'll just clip it. We have this other piece here where we can just speed it up. So let's open up our attributes and go to our speedometer. And let's change that from two to, let's say four. That will make it significantly quicker. Let's just see what happens there. Stir it. We still get the color change. That's a little bit too slow there. So let's go ahead and trim that back. There. Comes out. And then that's a little bit too quick. So again, remember we don't lose anything when we trim it so we can push this out a little bit further. We've got the time and it's a lot of just the process of figuring it out. And I think we need to add a title in there, but let's push this out a little right there. Let's go ahead and copy and paste our title again. We'll just grab this hold down copy, which empirically with the end, paste it. And it might be too long, so we'll need to trim it back a little bit. We can do that just by coming over here. You can trim titles just like any other clip. Let's bring that back to the end. And then we'll edit our title by opening up our inspector and make sure you have it selected. This will be step four. Then let's watch that through glitching just a little bit because the title is being processed. So it can be a little bit hard. You might have to watch it through a couple of times to get to process correctly. And there we have it. So we've edited just about everything you can see our music is now too long, so let's go ahead and turn our music track back on. We'll go ahead and click that and delete it. Alright, now let's go through and watch it and see if everything is looking the way we want it to you again, we're not going for anything amazing care. We're just practicing our editing skills. And so that's looking pretty good, pretty much. That's exactly what we need. We've added a title, we've added music. We've got more than three clips in there, and we've edited everything. So that's looking pretty succinct and nice. It's going for just 36 s volume 15-60, which is generally what short-form video is these days. So that's pretty much our edit. And the last thing that we need to do is in the next video, we need to learn about exporting. 11. Exporting: All right, Congratulations, you have created your first video individually resolve on the iPad now and it's time to export. So exporting is a fairly simple process here you just have to go up to the top right and hit the Export button and you're going to have some presets there. Now, I will normally go with YouTube. You can, if you want to go directly to YouTube, sign into your YouTube account and do it that way. But we're just going to export it with these settings. This is a HD video, 1920 by 1080. And if you are on an iPad like mine with the A12 chip, that's all you can do is an HD video you can't do for k out of this, but I never do for k because most people don't watch him for k. Anyways, you can see the settings here. There are a number of different options you can do, such as H.264 master and hybrid deck and H.265 master Perez. But really, YouTube's going to give you the most shareable one. So that's what we're going to go with. Then we just hit Export. This is going to take us back to the file system. We're just going go to on my iPad and I'm just going to save it here with the name chocolate milk. So now we have that. We'll go ahead and hit Save. It's going to export it. It can export a video like this fairly quickly. So generally faster than in real time. You can see it's going along as it hits the titles. That will take a little bit longer because it needs to process through those, of course, but this is a fairly quick thing, So it's just about done here and then we can actually go and see it in our file system. So at that dentists now disappeared. Let's go ahead and check it out in the files I went to on my iPad, I have all of these different folders for my creative programs. But here is the chocolate milk one, and this is where we can watch it. And that's it. That's all you have to do. Now, this can just go ahead and be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo or some other sharing site and then you can share your projects so that I can see it now that you've edited your first video. In our next video, we're going to talk about the next steps you can take to continue to progress. 12. Next Steps: Alright, I hope that you've enjoyed taking this class on Da Vinci Resolve for the iPad and have really learned the basics. Please feel free to ask me any questions that you have so that I can help you to learn further. Now, what are your next steps from here? Well, if you haven't completed the project yet, That's your first step. Go ahead and complete your project and make sure that you share it with me so that I can give you feedback on it. Remember to go to the project section for this course and share the link to your video there. Now, you might be wondering, well how you can learn more about Da Vinci Resolve, DaVinci Resolve for the iPad is pretty new as of the time of this recording, but it's very similar to Da Vinci Resolve for the desktop. So there's still a lot of content out there that you can learn if you're able to interpret it. I have two YouTube channels that I really loved to watch to learn more about tips and tricks and DaVinci Resolve. And that is Casey Ferris and Mr. Alex tech. If you really want to dive in and learn a lot about the advanced features individually resolved, then those are great places to start. If you're interested in other types of media design on the iPad, I have lots of other courses on those as well, including courses on Affinity Publisher for the iPad if designer for the iPad and Affinity Photo for the iPad. So make sure you go ahead and check those out if you want to become an iPad procreate. Thanks so much for watching and I will see you in the next course.