Learn DaVinci Resolve 20 Essentials — with real workflows

1. Essential Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve (Workflows & Retime Mastery): Hi, welcome to quick and easy video editing in DaVinci Resolve. I'm Loi. I'm a professional video editor with 12 years experience in teaching video editing. In this class, you will learn how to edit videos fast and efficiently. You will learn the actual techniques that deliver clean professional results and a clear workflow you can use on every project. We will focus on what actually matters for editing, how to set up your project, how to quickly build a timeline, how to cut, trim, and rearrange clips, and how to polish your edit with tiles, lower thirds, transitions, audio, speed controls, including retiming videos to add energy and flow where it matters. All this without overcomplicating anything. Learning and practicing is very important. You know that already. So you will download a practice pack of around 50 videos and audio so you can follow along and edit the same material step by step as we build the project together. Everything you learn here comes from my years of teaching and real editing experience. It's not ad hoc just to make a video. These are the workflows, habits, and shortcuts that will help you move faster and stay focused. Trust me, you don't need to learn all of Davinci resolve to edit great videos. You just need the right tools in the right order with a simple workflow and a clever workflow. This class is designed for beginners who want to start editing right away, work confidently and finish a complete project without getting stuck in menus or complicated settings. If your goal is quick, clean, and effective video editing in DaVinci Resolve, this class will take you there, I promise you. Go ahead, download the practice files now, open DaVinci Resolve, click in the next lesson, and let's keep this quick and easy. We start learning and we start editing. 2. Create your first project: Hi there. Again, welcome to DaVinci Resolve. In this video, I will show you how to create a new project. When you start DaVinci Resolve, you will start with the project management panel. This panel is for you to create, delete, rename, import, export, all kinds of projects. This is where you are going to manage your projects. Create a new projects, obviously, you can click on the Entitled project and it will ask you for a name or you can come over to the new project over here. But in DanciRserve, always try to right click. There is always some new commands or some new options under the right click. So I'm going to right click and United Sate we have several options, new project, new folder, and some other options that we'll use later on, of course. So let's go for new projects from here. I will click on it and please always enter a name that is very relevant to you or to your work or the project you're doing. In my case here, I'm going to enter class project because this is a class project. It's going to be about edit and we are going to start in the startup. There's a folder called startup. There is over here change location or media location. This is where the inch resolve is going to store certain files that you will create while editing. Let's keep it to the default and we click create. Here you are you created your first project and you notice the project name over here, class project Edit startup just over here on top, and you could be in the cut page, you could be in the edit page. Three doesn't matter. It depends where you quit DanciRsolve the previous time. Let's go to the edit page together, and in the edit page, we're going to come to workspace, and I, please, and reset the UI. When you reset the UI, it means the structure of this page or the UI is exactly the same for you and me. Now that we created our first project, the next step is to get some media in the media pool and we'll do that in the next video. 3. UI setup for Quick Use: Before we start importing media and working here and there, we want to adjust the UI, so you are very comfortable working. You'll notice you have several tabs over here. We are now in the media pool. You can go to FX, Index, sound library, but don't go to keyframes for now. It gets complicated. You need to put it off. So let's go to Media Pool and notice that the media pool is very long going down there. Well, that will be nice we had so many clips, but it's really heating up on the timeline. This is the timeline over here. You can shrink it. To shrink it, you come over here and you click on it and it's shrunk. Now it's smaller. But yet, you can scroll up and down. Now over here on the left and right, you have monitors. The first monitor that is black here will review the media that you have imported. You click on a media, you preview it over here. Now, this guy over here, the program monitor, will preview whatever is in the timeline when we start assembling our videos. Now, this might seem too complicated for beginners and many times I prefer to work in one monitor that will preview whatever I imported and the timeline is switch in between. I will go for the single monitor just over here, single viewer mode. Here you are. We have this line in the middle. Notice where it is. You can click on it and drag to make it big or small the way you would like. This day out now is very easy and very simple. Remember, all we did is to shrink over here and go for one monitor. Now I will go to two monitors if I click again and we can see our timeline. When this is set, we move on to import some media. Now, for real, we are going to import media. 4. How to import your media: Importing your media into the media pool. There are so many ways to do it. I'm going to show you the forward way how to import some videos. And then I will show you how to import with more structure. It's up to you to use the one that you like. We are in the edit page here. I can make this one bigger, just like this. I come on the line, click and drag and make sure you are in the media pool. Now, you have here master and another master. If you see only one master, it means you close the navigation for the bins or the fhers that you have imported. So please make sure that two masters are showing here. So first of all, you can come to file just to show you where it is. You have Import over here and you have been in media, and importing media, the shortcut is control or command I. But nevertheless, you are in DevinciRsolve. What do you do you right click. As soon as you right click, you notice you have very many options, and one of them is import media. So I'm going to go for this one. This is not my favorite, but I'm going to show you I import media. I'm now in my desktop in DevinciRsve training. I want some videos from the media files over here. And from the media files, I want to import whatever is in the startup. So when you're using Control or Command I, that is Import media, you need to select the videos or whatever files you want to import. They could be audio graphics or videos. So here I'm selecting all of them, and you'll notice I can click on open. So I will open over here, and my videos are already imported in the master over here. Now this is very fine. Let's say I want to add more. I want to bring up more media here. I can write a click and go to Import Media or command or Control I. Let's say I want to bring the slow motion ones. Of course, now the input is shaded out, so I need to select and I will open. My files are here. They are sorted by name. I think you can sort them over here by clip name. But it's a mess. They are not grouped in the same categories or in the same folders like I've done in my media storage. Let me show you a better way to import your media when your media is totally organized on your storage device, on your hard disk. I'm going to select them all. I just create Lasso and press delete or backspace and they're gun. Actually, there from the vinci resolve, they have not been deleted from the media storage. These are only dynamic links that you have here. So I'm going to open my file finder. Of course, you are on Windows, you open your file manager. I'm going to go to my desktop. Notice I'm not inside DaVinci Resolve. I am in my finder. Notice my finder over here. So I will come to DaVinci Resolve over here. I will come to media files. In media files, I want to import startup. All I have to do now is to click and drag the startup. I can drop it in Master or drop it in the navigation over here. Let's see the difference. Okay, if you don't mind. I will drop it in Master and you notice I have the same problem. They just are here. I don't know where they came from. So let's delete them again. And now go to my fender. Instead of clicking and dragging and dropping it in Master, I'm going to drop it in the navigation over here. Just drop it. This is much better because now I have a folder or a bin in Dent rest that says startup. I can now navigate to Master, navigate to startup. You notice here, I have the folder startup in Dant result or in video editing, it's a bin. Now let's say I want to import more. I will go to my file finder or the file manager here. I want to get the slow motion, I want to get I will press Control or command to get the work on the roof and more stuff, for example, I'm going to click and drag and drop them just over here. Now that's exactly what happened. I have my master, and inside my master, I have four folders. These are the folders I imported. Inside each folder, I have the videos I imported, more stuff, the videos, and so on. This is a very organized way to import your media, provided the media is well organized on your storage device. Now, I have some media that is not organized. How do I import it and put it in a folder? That's very easy. You right click, as always, you right click and you have a new bin or new folder. And you can write, for example, here, audio. I will go inside audio by double clicking and here I can use Control or Command I as simple as this and bring, for example, the music, there is only one file, is okay. I will open. Notice the file I imported now is an audio file. It's inside the audio folder or the bin because it was selected. It was open. I look at Master here. The question comes, how do I see all my clips? I want to see them all. Yes, you can see them or just select everything from here and here they are. They are all here. There are better ways also to organize that in the media page. We'll see that later. So now we have what we need over here. Maybe for you import only the startup inside this folder, so we can start editing and creating a timeline in the next video. See you then. 5. How to Quickly Preview your Media: Hi there. I want to teach you only DaVinci Resolve because you will be learning how to use a program. I want to teach you also how to video edit. And from time to time, we will have certain lectures that will talk about how to video edit. In fact, many of them. Now, the most important thing is for you to preview your media at this stage. You want to learn what's inside your clips. What is the content of all your clips? This will allow you to create a better video. So how do we preview our clips in DaVinci Resolve? I am now in the vinci resolve in the edit page, obviously in the vinci resolve. Then I'm also in the media pool here, the media pool is open, I am in the Tub Nail view. There are other views such as the metadata and the rest view. Let's go back to the Tub nail view and make the Tubnails quite big. If you point at the clip and you just wave, don't click and drag. Just wave like this, left and right, not up and down, left and right, you will be able to see in the monitor the content of the clip. You might want to go slowly. Okay, control your nerves and preview the clip. Then you can move on to the next clip and wave, and so on. You wave through all the clips. That's one way to do it. The other way is to double click. When you double click, the clip is now open in the source monitor, and you can see the clip name just over here. So I opened this clip and I can see the name over here. If I point to another clip, it's through it is going to show me the clip where I pointed. But if I move out, you will notice this is the clip I have opened, I just over here. Now from here, you can play the clip from beginning to end and watch it and it's quite slow, I understand. Or you can just grab the playhead. This is the playhead and just scrap through and decide where the action starts and where it ends. For example, it starts from here, I guess so and then the guy jumps and he runs, maybe the action will stop just over here. Top click on another one and you can do the same. You can play it or scrap through. This is one way to preview all your clips, which is a bit tedious. Let me show you a better way or a quicker way. Now, all this time, I have been on the source clip, meaning in the source monitor, I see the source clip. But I've moved a bit forward. I can see source tape. If I click on source tape, some magic will happen. Let's make them a bit smaller here. And you notice that over here in the viewer, it has aligned all your clips. You can take the playhead and move. And every two white lines will determine a clip. So if I come to the beginning here, you notice this space here, it is this clip that has a red border. If I move a bit more, it is the second clip over here. It has aligned all your clips over here. What can you do? You can play. And, of course, it's going to take the exact time of the clips. If you have 3 hours of clips, it's going to take 3 hours to play. That is boring. A better way to do that is to fast review. So I'm going to come to the beginning and that's what's going to happen. If a fast preview, the long clips that have long time will pay very fast. The shorter clips will pay a bit at a lesser speed. The short clips like this one now is playing very slowly. Actually, all the clips have the same preview time, and they are fast or slow depending on the duration of each clip. Here you are, you can sit back, have some coffee, some tea, maybe a steak and chips, and watch all your clips. And try to understand what's the content. That is very useful and very important. Now, this might be going very fast for you as a beginner, but don't worry you will get used to it and you will understand everything. Now, another trick that sometimes I use when the projects are small, I select all from the master. There is a certain order here. For example, they are sorted by Ben now, interesting, maybe by clip name, not very interesting, in this case. I'm going to go to Ben and the first Ben is more stuff here. If I bring the playhead here, you notice in the bin more stuff, I'm previewing this one. If I move along, I'm previewing the second one and so I can go back to the beginning and go to fast preview. And sit back. Now I need a lot of coffee because it's going to take some time, but actually, you are previewing a certain speed for each clip. And don't worry. You will get used to that. And it's very interesting, by the way. And you notice there is a waste of time in every clip. There is preparation. There is no motion at the end. You need to cut this clip and arrange them to make a very good video. I ask you to go to DavinciRsve, import your clips and preview the clips. And most importantly, believe me, video editing can be sometimes a bit boring because you're trying to be meticulous. But this exercise is a lot of fun, play with it, get used to it, and it's very important, and I will see you in the next video. 6. Setting up your project: Sometimes it's quite important to do the settings for the project. All your timeline creation will be conformed to the setting of the projects. There are two most important settings besides the colors, and I will show you how it works. First of all, let's go to the media page. The media page is exactly to just organize your media, which we'll go through later on. Let's select a clip over here, any clip. You notice here, I have the metadata of the clip. Meaning, I can see the frame rates, that is 25 frames per second. You can read it as 25 images played in 1 second to create the motion. So 25 frames per second. And the dimension of this video is 12 80 by 720. It is 12 80 by 720 because I want you to download it fast and it's not two gigabyte of download. So we don't care about the 12 80 by 720. We want bigger dimension, but we are very interested in the 25 frames per second. So let's look at another clip. We find out it's also 25 frames per second and so on. I come to more stuff, some of them maybe 60 frames per second, but mostly they are 25 frames per second. Let's go back to the Edit page and then let's go to file and we can go to project settings. If you don't want to come over here, it's a Shift line. You can go to the gear over here, you click on it, and you are in the project settings. For now, we are interested only in the master settings and we want the resolution to be 19 2010 80 for every single timeline or final project we want to create. Also the timeline frame rate, we don't want it at 30. We want a conformity with our video clips at 25 frames per second. And the playback frame rate is 25. That's important. In fact, set it itself. The rest, we'll see later, some of them, but you are okay now, you set up your project and you go save. And the question, are you sure you want to change the project frame rate? Yes, I want to change it. Now, if I take a clip that is 25 frames per second and create a timeline with this clip, the timeline will be 25 frames per second and we have 100% conformity. You can do that, or later on, we change the timeline settings. It's the same, but conformity is nice. 7. How to create a timeline: Hi there. We have done all the preparations. Now it's time to create a timeline and start editing and creating or start creating our final videos. Let's see how we can do that. First of all, let's create a timeline. Let's go to Master because we are going to create the timeline just over here and our right click as usual, come to timelines and create a new timeline. The shortcut is Control or Command N. First of all, the start time code. Usually start by 01, you can see the 01 over here. That's not very nice. You can sometimes very useful and you can change it to zero. So it starts from zero, zero, and then the timeline name, maybe we call it Rugh cut. This is going to be our first rough cut here. A number of video tracks, audio tracks, 11 is okay, stereo is okay. You can change it later on, and we want an empty timeline. We're not going to use any clip yet, and we click Create. This timeline now is open, and you know it's open because you can see it over here as rough cut. Next, we have the timeline that has been created in the master. Now notice if I was somewhere in startup and created a timeline, it will also have been created in startup. So it's not very practical. The best way to do it is to collect your timelines into a bin. Though there is a smart bin here for timelines, but yet you don't want them all over the places with other bins. So let's create a new bin and call it project timeline. Now I'm going to take my timeline, click on it, and drag it into project timelines. I will be collecting all my timelines. I can make several videos, put timelines into timelines, and that will be always in my project timelines. Cool. Let's go to Startup. This is the timeline that is open. I can see the name here. But if you want to be more precise, you can come over to this option over here. You click on it and you say, display stacked timeline. So now it's going to display the timelines just over here. If you have another timeline, you can just open it over here. But for now, we can see we are working in the fc. We are all set up, we create our timeline and we are going to start putting our clips or dropping our clips in the timeline in the next video. 8. How to Add Clips to your Timeline: Going to start collecting our clips from the media pool, setting in and out point. Don't worry, we will explain and then dropping them in the timeline. I will show you several methods on how to do that, and every method has its own benefits and drawbacks. Let's start. If I come over here, I want to start with my clips. I'm going to make them a bit bigger even, and I'm decided to start with one of these clips. For example, this one over here. I can click and drag and drop it in the timeline. Notice now it came with this audio. But if you listen to the audio, we notice this audio is nonsense. We don't need it in the timeline. So I'm going to and when I'm over here, if I click on this clip I double click, I can come over to this where you have video and audio. You click on the arrow, and then you can insert video and audio. That's the gray, and that's the default or insert video only or insert audio only. Of course, here we want insert video only. So I'm going to take my clip and drop it in the timeline. Now, the first way to edit is to use the blade. I do not consider the blade like a magic edit, but from time to time you will need the blade. Now, we come over and decide where you want to start. So I'm going to start maybe just from over here when the guys start jumping, yes. And I have the blade. Notice my blade is here. I bring it near the playhead and click. So it has cut the clip. Notice how now I have two clips here. Now I move forward and decide where I want the clip to end. That will be the outpoint. So obviously, this guy is doing nothing here, and maybe we just drop it here. That's because I know my clips and I know the second clip I want to put here. Now, I still in the blade and just come over here and cut with the blade. Fine. So I mean my cuts, but still on the timeline. I will go now to the selection mode. This is the shortcut is A. I will select the clip, and then I could press backspace and it would delete the clip but give you the gap in the timeline. Or I'm going to undo, I can select the clip and press Delete. Delete will delete the clip and closes the gap. Here you are. The portion of the clip has been deleted and it has closed the gap. Closing the Gap meaning move everything from the right to the left. Now I will do the same here, but since this is the extreme right, I can use delete or backspace. I will go for delete. Now I have my clip in the timeline here the way I would like. Now notice zooming over here because I'm using this Zoom. It's like a full extend zoom or Zoom to fit. I can use another zoom or it zooms very small, or I can use the custom Zoom here and I can adjust it from here. Now, going on this one is very easy, the extent Zoom because it will always work on the Zoom and show you the whole timeline. My next clip is this one over here. I will double click now. I'm going to show you another method. This is the interesting one. I have here the in point. This is the start of the clip when I drop it in the timeline. On the other side, I have the outpoint. This is the end of the clip when I drop it in the timeline. I can adjust the in and out point here or I can mark in and mark out and then drop it in the timeline. I will take my red play head, move it back, back and say, Okay, where am I going to drop it? To start, there is nothing here and the guy comes in and the other guy drops. That makes sense here. Just over here, it's really moving very fast with me. I'm going to use the arrow left or right to move forward or backward. I'm going to keep it just here and set the Ipoint. How do I set the in point? Well, there is a button here. You can say mark in. That's one way to do it. If you don't do that, the shortcut is I. And that's very important. I for input. Now I want to work on the outpoint. I can go forward. Actually, I usually go backward, but now I'm going to go forward and decide where it becomes boring. That's boring enough. Then I want to set the outpoint or I want to mark out. I can use the button here. That's one, but usually we use the shortcut O. What did I do? I set the point, press I to set the point. I set the outpoint, pressing O to set the outpoint. Now my clip is ready. But unfortunately, if I click and drag to drop it in the timeline, I'd have problems here. The way to do it is to use the shortcuts now. You have to edit over here and you have the shortcuts just over here. These are meant for you to drop the clips from the source into the timeline. You have insert of right replace, and so on. The one that you want now is a pen at the end of the timeline, meaning place it at the end of the timeline and don't leave any gaps. The shortcut is Shift F 12. I'm going to come over here and press Shift F 12. Here you are. The timeline has zoomed out, and now the clip came exactly where I want it. Here you are. Fine. Now let's take another clip. For example, let's take this one. You can start now choosing the clips that you want. I double click to open it in the source monitor. And of course, I'm going to start deciding on the in point. That's the in point too far like this. Okay, from here, I like it from here. I don't know. I press I for the Ipoint and then I move out and decide where I want the outpoint. I think I will stop just over here, something like this. Okay? I'm not meticulous. I have a rough cut now. I press O to put the outpoint and then shift F 12 because I want them after the others. And here it is. It is just over here. My next one is this one because I know my clips and I'm going to take the playhead and put it somewhere where it continues from the other clip. I think it's over here. Cool. So for in point, I go forward and notice there is either time we don't care, so I'm going to press O to put the point and then Shift F 12 and it goes in the timeline. Here you are, you have put everything in the timeline and it's very fun. Last way, and it's not really meant for you to drop this in the timeline, but I'm going to show you the trimming. Let's take this clip, for example, and let's not edit it in and out in the monitor, but directly press Shift F 12. Now it's in the timeline. But of course, I need to trim it to trim it is very easy. I will just put the playhead where I want to trim. For example, just over here. Let's go from here. Then I want to trim it. I can use the blade, of course. But then if I come to the Ipoint of the clip in the timeline, I can click and drag. Notice how I'm dragging it, I'm shortening the clip from the in point. Fine. If I come over here, I can now leave him in the air and shorten the clip from the outpoint. Notice I point to the outpoint. This is the last frame here. Notice how the cursor is, and then click and drag towards the left and he's done. Now I have a space here, I can select and delete. Now, let's do the last one. I can open it in the monitor or drop it in the timeline and drop it in the timeline. Come over here, where do you start you? It comes very far. Where is it? Let's start from here. Okay, it's going too crazy with me, so I'm going to use the right cursor. Here you are or the right arrow, and then I can select it just like this and trim it like this. This is one way only and then go back and this guy is jumping and I think just over here will be fine. I will trim it. I can click and drag it, notice how it's dragging and then it snaps. Notice how it snaps and you have a white line. That's because my snapping is on. This is the snapping. Always leave it on. So now I have the timeline. What did you learn? First of all, in out point, Shift F 12. That's very easy, right? Another one is drop it in the timeline, use the razor tool to cut left and right, delete the left and right, and make sure you don't have any space by deleting the space using the delete key. And the last method is using the Trim tool, but I showed you the Trim tool just to show you the trim tool, not to tell you how you do it. It's not good to do it that way. In fact, there are better ways to do it. Thank you very much. I'll see you in the next video. 9. How to Insert clips between other clips: Now we have been creating our timelines. Very nice. We have been adding clips at the end of the timeline. So we'll just put in one clip after the other. Hopefully, we get a nice project. But of course, it's not going to happen. You cannot be that optimist. You might notice that in between two clips, you need to add another clip from the media pool. So I'll show you now how to insert a clip from the pool into the timeline and in between two clips. Let's see how it works. Well, over here, I have two scenes. Notice this is a scene, and this is another scene. You can consider this a whole scene and then another scene here. And in between, I want to add another scene, meaning I want to add a few clips, maybe two, maybe three. How do I do that? Well, first of all, let's notice few things, please. If you click on the right of a clip or at the end of a clip in the timeline, you are selecting the outpoint. If you click on the left of a clip in the timeline, you are selecting the in point. And if you click in between, you are selecting the cut. So from now on, I'm going to call it a cut. So let's say you want to insert a clip on this cut here. I don't have to select the cut, not at all. Let's open the clip that I want to insert and already said the in and outpoint. We can play from in to outpoint by pressing Option or and forward slash, and now it's playing. I have my looping on, so it is a continuous repeat play. And sometimes it's good, so you notice everything you need. I will stop it. And I want to insert this clip in between these two clips and make sure that my playhead is in the right place. So in this case, it's on the cut, and the shortcut is F nine. Where is this? Well, if you come to edit, you remember we used a pen to end of timeline, Shift F 12. Now on top here, you have F nine. That is insert. Insert a clip in the timeline. So my clip being selected, this is my clip, make sure you select the right clip, and you press F nine as simple as this. And here you are. It has inserted the clip. It has inserted the clip. It didn't overwrite any clip. It just made space for this clip and put it over there. That is important. This is what we call ripple insert. It has many other applications. So now my clip is over here. Now coming over here, I want to add another clip which is this one. This is my clip over here. I open in the monitor, I press Option forward slash to play between in and out. Okay, that's the one I want, and then I press F nine. Here you are. Now you have inserted two clips in the timeline. Now, obviously, I have been selecting the cut. But if you select in the middle of a clip, for example, just to show you how it works, I will right click and change the color. So it's very obvious for us. I'm going to make it yellow. So now this clip has a color yellow, don't worry. I didn't become yellow, just the color on the timeline. And let's see, I press F nine. So I'm going to select this clip and press F nine. You notice that it has cut the yellow clip into two, and it has inserted the clip from the source monitor in between. It has made space and put it inside. And that's sometimes very useful. Okay, I'm going to undo this because I wanted, even the color I don't want to see. But now we have inserted two clips in the timeline in between other clips. Of course, you can do that anywhere you like. Let's move on and see other timeline editing techniques. 10. Timeline editing: Swapping and rearranging Clips: Line editing techniques. You might have already noticed that timeline editing techniques is about working on your clips in the timeline. You might be trimming them, moving them left and right, and organizing them so you can get a beautiful video the way you would like. Here we are going to learn how to swap clips in the timeline. Also, this is called the Lift and insert, if you want the technical words. Let's see how we can do this. Well, I have two clips in the timeline here. I'm going to write a click on one of them and make the color, for example, green or lime. Take the other one and color, I'm going to make it apricot. The clips are still the same, only the color that's showing here has changed. So let's say I want to take the green clip and put it before the orange clip. How do I do that? Well, obviously, if I move it like this, I'm going to overwrite. Notice I overwrite the orange clip. That's not the right way to do it. I can also lift it up like this, like a baby and then move it to the right, trying to not overwrite any clips and then move this one here and drop it here. Yeah, that works. Let me take you time. There is a right way to do that is to select the clip and press Shift and control or shift and command on the and then you just drag it. What you can do is to lift it. That's the lift, and then drag it where you want to insert it, and now I'm going to insert it just after the cut, I'm going to drop it. That's what we call lift and insert. Lift drop while inserting. Let's do it again. I'm selecting this clip, pressing Shift and control or command, lifting it up and I can go anywhere. Notice when I get to the cut here is going to give me the arrows. Is this is where you are going to drop it. I can leave it where it is, but that's not what I want. I want to drop it here. And notice nothing has been overwritten on the timeline. So actually, it made the space and drop your clip. That is called lift and insert or swapping clips on the timeline. Now, of course, you can do that everywhere. Let's say now we want to take this clip over here. I will double click to open it and shift afterl to drop it in the timeline. That is appended to the end of the timeline. Now I don't like its position. I don't want it at the end. I want to move, for example, to the beginning of the timeline. I can select it, press Shift and command. Be careful. I want to insert it. I don't want it to overwrite any other and then I can go like this. It's a lot of fun or I can move it up and just come back and drop it here. That's what's happening. I'm not going fast. It's very easy. Here you are. Now it is in the beginning of the timeline. If I want, I can just undo. There is a trick, a nice trick that you can use as a beginner, but don't use it anymore when you get used to lift and insert. You select your clip and simply you cut it. That is Control or Command X. You know that from the word processor. Then you come over and let's say you want to insert it just over here on this cut. Let's go to edit and in edit, you have paste and you have paste insert. The shortcut is Shift Control V or Shift Command V. Let's come over here and shift and command and V. Here you are, I paste it with insert. Nothing changed on my timeline. Just admit the space and drop it in. That is the lift and insert or swapping clips on the timeline. Mind you, you can do more than that. You can select all of them, for example, the shift and command and let's say, these pieces I want them to be in the beginning, just like this in the beginning. Actually, I swapped a group of clips from the end to the beginning or to the middle wherever you like. That's a shift and insert and please get used to it because you need it. Thank you. 11. Timeline editing: The Trim Edit Mode Magic: We want to upgrade a bit. Instead of using always the selection tool, we are going to use the Trim Edit tool. I can assure you when you learn about the trim edit tool, you will always use the trim edit tool, except when you want to move clips around. It's a very practical tool. Let me show you how it works. Here we have been using the selection tool. The selection tool, of course, we select the clips and you can move them around, lift them whenever you like. If you come over, the shortcut is A, and it is a selection mode. Actually, it's not a tool, but you are in the selection mode. Now we can move on and go to the trim mode. This is the Trim Edit mode. If you select it, now you cannot select a clip and move it. It's moving in a different way. I'll show you that data. But what is very interesting about the trim mode, among other things is that while you're trimming the input or the output, it will also ripple. Remember, when we used to trim here, it will leave a gap, and that's very annoying, we have to delete the gap. Also, when we trim on the outpoint, it will also leave the gap, and that's very annoying you have to delete the gap. But with the trim edit mode, you can trim and at the same time, it will ripple, meaning it will bring everything from the right towards the left, and that's very important in video editing. That is the trim edit mode and is very useful. And from the outpoint also, you can do the same and is trimming the clip and also rippling and closing the gap. Rippling means do not leave a gap as simple as this. That is the ripple edit mode, and I'm showing you this because in the next video, we are going to use it intensively to do some awesome cuts to adjust our cuts. I'll see you then. 12. Timeline Editing: Refining your Cuts: One of the most important techniques in video editing in general is to make your cuts seem wonderful or be wonderful. They are exact the way you would like them. So adjusting and refining your cuts is actually an art. And this is what you want to specialize in. If your cuts are not so good, you're jumping from one clip to another and it's abrupt or something like this, then the viewer will not like your video. So you need to make your cut very refined. Let me show you the best way to refine your cuts in DavinciRsolve. And please train as much as possible on this one. Now I have two clips here, right? So you notice the cut here is abominals very bad because I played with it. I want to refine my cuts. Remember, I don't want to use the selection mode because I want to start it spaces, I want to have a ripple. So I'm going to use the trim mode here or the trim edit mode. Now, what can I do? I can come over to the Ipoint and start adjusting the input. Notice, I can take it to the left and decide which is my input over here. I can do the same for the outpoint here, come nearer, and just decide where I want the outpoint. That is very nice and very, very tedious, as you notice. A better way is to come over and double click on the cut. I'm going to double click. That's what happened here. Let's make it a bit bigger, as much as we can. Let's take the audio down. Okay. Now on the left, I have the left clip, and what I'm looking at is the outpoint, the last frame of the left clip. Then on the right, I have the right clip, and what I'm looking at is the leftmost or the inpoint of the left clip. I want to adjust them and not to see you have all the manipulation that you need. If, for example, I click on the top one, I am adjusting the left clip here. I'm deciding on the outpoint. If I want to be very meticulous, I can come over. I can go plus one, one frame at a time, or I can go minus one as simple as this. I'm going to go plus one up to here. Now I need to adjust the inpot of the right clip. The cut is very smooth. I will come over here and click and start dragging. I'm going to drag it up to here, for example. I'm going to be very meticulous and you have to be very meticulous here to get a very good video, I'm going to go up just like this. Now that I work with the right clip, this plus and minus will work for the right clip. You notice how. If I move the top clip or the left clip, then these guys will work for the left clip. Let's do this one again. I'm going to move it just over here. Middle one will take both left or right. So you are increasing and decreasing the inpoint and the outpoint. Here you are if you want to do that. That's very useful. By the way, sometimes. I'm going to go just like this. Now, I would like to play around my cut. So to see exactly how is my cut. If my cut is very good, then my video should be good. Of course, all my cuts have to be very good. So I will come over to playback and play around, and you notice play around selection. That is the forward stash. You might ask, what is the selection? Well, I'm going to select the cut over here, and I will play. Of course, they disappear, and here you are. Is my cut good? Do I like it. I play a game. I think it's quite good. No. Now, let's select, I'm going to select the clip and then come over here and decide where you want this guy to finish. Okay? Not so much. Let's take the outpoint and move it to the right. So the guy runs a bit. Now after that, I have a scene where the same guy will jump over, but it's so wrong. I don't want to edit the cut here. I want to edit the in point. So I'm going to come over and drag the in point. Of course, I'm looking at this guy here. Yes, fine. Now I want to edit as much as I can the outpoint. So I'm going to click here and edit its outpoint. I'm going to leave him in the air, okay? Now let's go to this clip over here. I want to edit the Ipoint I want it in the air so the guy is in the air. Notice how I can see them in the left and right monitor. On the left here, I am seeing the outpoint of the clip on the left. On the right, I'm seeing the inpoint of the clip on the right. This is where it's going to start. I'm going to put it just over here. Actually, I'm going to do it like this. Now I'm going to select my cut and play around my cut forward slash. Here you are. Let's say, I did a good job. Not bad. It's very nice. I can come back and be very meticulous on this one. Let's drop it here and we go for the top one here, I'm going to go plus one. In fact, they're going both together, so I'm going to take this one back, and then this one I can go plus one or minus one. From here, no, I want to go plus one. And yes, you do that job. You go frame by frame. Make your cuts to be awesome. And here I want this guy over here. No, I want it back, so I'm going to go back with it. Yeah. So I have some momentum here. Let's move it here. I find it very nice. So I'm going to go out. I can just close this from here and then select the cut and play around the cut. Here you are. Very nice. Very beautiful. Let's go to these guys. So from here, I'm okay. The guy is running, it comes up, then he's trying to jump over. Wow, where is it? Okay, so I think that's okay. I can start doing the cut here. I will double click here and that is where his leg is. I'm going to take him out back. Okay, something like this. So his leg is down. And then when it comes to the other one here, his leg is up here, so I'm going to go from here. Actually, I can do also to take the cut just like this. Okay? And then this other guy, let's not make it, you know, over here. No, I'm going to take it down, so I get some momentum, and I think this is good. I can do one by one if I like, but I think it's good. Let's try it. I'll select the cut and play around the cut. Nice. The problem here, it's not going to look marvelous because one clip is fast, one clip is slow. Actually, the people are moving fast and people are moving slow. But it is okay if you look at it. Cool. Not by that tone. This cat is very long. Let's go and select this one and play around the cat. Let's stop it, play around the cat. Yes, I like it. Not bad. Now, let's take this guy here and let's add a new clip. This guy is climbing up. I think we put this clip and then I removed it somehow. It is just over here and I'm going to put the in point, actually, double click and then try the in point. Also, just put it hanging in the air, and then we move forward and it jumps one, two, three, flips, we stop it over here. That is both Shift F 12. Now immediately I come back to adjust the cut. I will double click here. Notice I want them similar. I'm going to take this guy in front a bit, in front. That's the front like this. Then this guy into the back a bit. Yes. I get this momentum, he's moving in and then he's moving in again. Let's select the cut here and play around the cut. Nice, very nice. Of course, can be made much better. So this is refining your cut. It's very easy, very simple. By the way, let me show you if you are in the edit mode here and you double click, you have the same thing. But if I trim left or right, I have a space. Now I'm seeing nothing there is black here. Doesn't work, so you need to be in the trig mode. So I'm going to undo here. Cool, guys. Now is your time to do your training. You need to train on everything you have learned the dropping the clips in the timeline, timeline editing, and refining your cuts. It is time for you to practice now. Try to create a timeline. 13. How to optimize for faster preview: At this stage, I'm sure I can show you how to optimize your media, your videos for a very smooth playback, a playback in time in real time. If I play my timeline here, you will notice there is a number that will appear. I will appear with you also. Mine is 25 and there is a green dot. It means that it's running in real time and it's 25 frames per second. The green meaning it's compliant to the frame rate of the project settings and of course, of the timeline settings. Remember, we set them to 25 frames per second. Here with the red and the 25, I'm playing in real time. But if you don't have the green dot, you have a red dot and the number is not 25, is 24, 19, whatever, then you are not playing in read time. It might be skipping frames just to keep up playing. How do you optimize the playback? So you can get always read time playback. Well, I'm going to stop here. Now the first optimization that you can do to come to playback and say render cache and set it to smart. You can set it to none or user, what you care? Leave it to smart and let the vinci resolve do all the job. Now we have a certain cache that the vinci resolve will generate and put aside, and then it plays from this cache. Don't worry, if you change your clips or so on, it will re render this cache. Then if you play over here and you have the green dot and 25, you're okay. But you can go a step further. You can select your clips in the timeline and right click and go to generate optimized media. This is a media that generated by DavinciRsolve, so the playback is very smooth and there is no skipping frames. I personally do not generate optimized media from the timeline because if you add another clip, you have to regenerate the optimized media for this clip. The best way to do it is to come to media, select all your beans, start up shift work on the roof, select all your clips here and right click and say generate optimized media. Now you might say, Oh, it's taking time. Well, it's taking time, yes. For me, it's not going to take very long. It might take 10 minutes, 1 hour depending on the media, mainly working two K and four K. But this is much less time than the frustration that you get while jumping frames and you wonder what's happening to your transition, what's happening to your cut. Let it generate. It's going to do it once for all. Look, it already finished for me, and then you can come back to the Edit page, go to playback in the playback here, you said use optimized media if available. You just click on it. If you go back to playback, you'll notice is checked. Now DaVinci Resolve is going to use your optimized media or the optimized media it has created, and sure enough, you are going to be playing in real time. If all fails, you can come to the media page here and you can right click and create Pxymedia. Proxymdia means it's going to create video files for you at a lower resolution and some tricks and tips that DavinciRsolve will play to be able to play them in real time. No jumping frames and no delay in the playback. When you generate proxy media here, it might take longer a bit or more, but I always advise you if you're working with two K, four K, eight K, make sure you're working with proxy. Do not overload your computer and you will have problems even previewing the timeline. It's better to generate proxies. After it has completed the generation of the proxies, for me, it has finished. I will come back to the edit and you come to plag Back and you have proxy handling. Here you can disable all the proxies. I don't want to use any proxies, or you prefer to use proxies. For me for now, it said prefer camera original. The files are not very big for my machine to enable the proxies, but you have to set it to preferred proxies so it can run on the proxies. Now notice what happened over here. I'm going to make them very big. You notice there is PXY. PXY means I'm not playing the real video, I'm playing a proxy. But when at the end of the project, you generate your final video through the deliver page, then it will disregard all the proxies. Don't worry about it. It will not use low resolution to generate your final video. And these are three methods or one after the other for you to speed up your playback and your preview, including your work. For me over here, I'm going to come to Playback and Proxy handling, I would say, use camera original. I can handle it. There are very small caps here. Thank you very much. I hope this was very useful for you and go ahead and try to use it as much as you can. See you. 14. Transitions - How to preview and add transitions: In video editing, transitions are very important. They can make or break your video. Where and what kind of transition to put on your cuts is very important and you need to take the right decisions. In this video, we are going to cover how to preview and add transitions to your timeline. You are most probably in the media pool. Click on the effects here. Now in the effect toolbox here, you have video transitions, audio transitions, titles, and so on. We'll work on most of them. In video transitions here, you have all kinds of transitions that you can use or some of them are very old, maybe you don't use. The top six transitions here are very common transitions that you can use freely. The smooth cut is a special transition. I'll show you how it works in the next video. To preview your transitions, first of all, you point and you just wave. I like waving and here you are you can see the transition happening. You can go backward if you like, and this is your transition. You can move to another one, and so on, you can preview all your transitions. Now we cannot double click to preview your transition in the monitor. You will install it in the timeline. How to add a transition in the timeline? Well, first of all, you decide where you want to add your transition and it's very important where you add. For example, if I come over here, I have a cut. This is a very nice cut that we worked on and obviously, I don't want to distort this cut, put a transition here so people don't see the cut. That will not be nice. And also over here, we have a very nice cut. I play the cut. I really don't want to destroy this cut, so I will not put a transition over here. But when there is a change of scene, I can put a transition. I can also simulate a long time or a short time. Always try to put your transitions when there is a change of scene. Unless you have something very special, you want to show. We are going to take the change of scene and add a transition. The best way to add the transition is to place your playhead on the transition or very near the transition and simply come over to the transition that you want to add, for example, pentagon or triangle here, you double click. When you double click, the transition is set on the cut and it is in the middle of the cut, meaning half of it is on the left and half of it is on the right. You can select your cut and pray your transition. Here you are, very nice. Another way to add the transition, for example, just over here, you can click and drag the transition. Now, this one has a benefit because you can put it in the middle, you can put it on the left, you can put it on the right. Let's put it on the middle for now because I need time to explain to you what is the difference between left and right and middle. Or you have added a transition here, I select the cut, play around. There is another transition here. You can also select a transition and just remove it, and then I remove this one. Now over here, I want to add another transition which is, for example, the cross dissolve. This is very common. I'll just double click because my playhead is nearby, and I can make the transition longer or shorter. If you point at one side of the transition, you notice the mouse pointer we change double arrows and a line, you can click and drag. Read the figure that's not bright white, that is in gray. That is the duration of the transition. If I make it, for example, less than 1 second or something like 17 frames only and I play on the cut, you will notice it's very fast. But now, if I make it longer, for example, now 3 minutes, 3 seconds, sorry. If I play on the cut here, you will see it simulates it's a long time until it came back here. Something like this, it's quite nice. Okay, so that's how to add the transition and decide on the length or the duration of the transition. Now, transitions of half second and 1 second are very common. Transitions of 3 seconds and more, it has to have a purpose like this one is simulated like it has been very long time here. You know, I took him long time to come over here. So we have seen how to preview and add transitions to your cuts. In the next video, I'm going to show you, explain to you what is very important for a transition to work well. 15. Transitions: How to customize transitions: We have seen how to preview and add a transition to your cuts, A how to extend or shorten the duration of the transition. But there is a way where you can customize a bit your transition. Let's see how it can be done. If you select a transition here and you come to the famous inspector, it's famous because you are going to use it all over the place. If you open the inspector, it will directly jump to transition because the transition has been selected. In the inspector, you have a lot of properties that you can change depending on what is selected for a video, audio effXs or image or even the metadata here. I will explain everything about the inspector, but in terms of context, if you are on video, I will explain about video, audio, explain about audio. Now we are only in transitions, and that's what I want to explain. You know, you have the transition type. If you click, you can change into any other transition, but not the fusion transitions. They are not listed here. You also have the duration of the transition. Of course, it's easier to change it from here. For example, you can double click and say, I want my transition for 3 seconds. If you don't like this, you can double click and then it will reset. You can say also I want 75 frames, which means 3 seconds we are 25 frames per second. You have the alignment here, which is very important in some transitions. I will explain this data on, I said, and then you have the transition in the middle and then on the left. You have the style. Some of them have the style here where you can change the transition. Let's sit in the middle. And come in the middle here. This is additive. It was video just like this, additive highlights, whatever you like. Going to return it to video. You have the start ratio and end ratio. This will speed up and slow down the start and the end of the transitions. Usually, I never use them. You have the easy in, you can ease it in and out. Unless it's very long, it will not make much of a difference, and you have the transition curve that had the diamond here, it means it can be animated. We will see that when we study animations. Let's take a different kind of transition. I'm going to go down here and take, for example, the heart. Don't use this transition just for example. And if I come to the middle here, you notice there is a heart. You notice how the heart will open just like this. I'm going to make it only 1 second because this one doesn't mean much. And of course, it's in the middle. Now you notice for the heart, you have different properties. In fact, for each transition, it has its own properties. For example, if you go to the cross Iris here, you will notice you have the center and something else. Let's go back to something easy like the box. The box is very easy. You can come over and change it from the center to the upper left. So the transition is going from upper left, opening as a box. Nice one, by the way. And you can add a border if you want to, you can feather that border. You can change its colors, and you can put it in and out. So if you change transition, for example, bend wipe, it has its own parameters, horizontal vertical, and so on. So each transition in the spector has certain properties that you can change and play with, and that will give you lots of creativity to play around with transition. Now I'm going to take a transition that's very difficult. For example, the edge, for example, this one, I'm going to click the edge is over here, and you notice this is a fusion transition. Here you have the video like the previous one and just there is middle left, right. But then infusion here, this is diffusion part, you have a lot of controls. Now these controls really depend on the transition and how it's done and what you want to do here, if you like it or not. For example, things like this will change. I will take down the brightness. I will add the gamma and make it easy, something like this, pray my transition. So in short, you have the regular transitions and you have the fusion transitions. And you can modify them in the inspector to get exactly what you want. It's going to take a lot of practice from you to find the most beautiful transitions according to you. 16. The Imperative Handles for transitions: From time to time, you might try to add a transition on a cut and you notice it's not working, it's even refusing to get on the cut. Why is that and how to fix it? Well, I'm going to take some clips here. I will double click. You notice that this clip has not been trimmed. I'm going to use shift attempt to put it in the timeline. And then I select another clip totally different, for example, this one and you notice this one also was not trimmed. There is no in and out point. There are the original in and out point. I press Shift attempt to add it to the timeline. So now I have two clips over here. Now notice something. If I come over here nearby, I go to FX and double click to add the cross dissolve. You'll notice is not adding, I promise you, I'm double clicking. If you click and drag, like, it's impossible to add this transition. What's happening here? Well, let's look at the in and out point of the cut here. If you click on the outpoint, you will notice the color is red. We haven't seen red until now because we have been trimming our clips in the monitor. And if you click on the outpoint, it's also red. It's red because you haven't trimmed the clip on the in or out point yet. B trimming the clip, you create handles, and these handles are used by the transitions. Let's create some handles by trimming the clip. I'm going to take the out point and trim it. Notice how it's going to change directly to green. Okay, here you are. Now we created handles by trimming the clip. You can see the handles by this white rectangle or the white border here. These are the handles or the unused clips or the clips that will not appear. In short, it is how much you have trimmed. Now I come to the outpoint here, click and not is red. As soon as I start trimming, it becomes green, show me the white rectangle or border, and these are the trims that I will trim or I will not use and they are called the hinders, as simple as this. I can now join my clips and come over on the outpoint. Wow, it's green. I can put a transition. I come on the right, it's green. I can add a transition. Let's come nearby here, double click, and I promise you, I double click and here you are, you have the transition. If you play it's playing perfect. In short, you need to trim your clips on the in and out points to have the transition working perfectly. Now, what's the difference here? If I select the transition and I can make it bigger just to see it even more. Now it is in the middle. If I put it on the left, it has moved to the left clip and come over and start scrubbing through, you will notice that this transition is using whatever is trimmed from the right clip. In short, in professional words, it's using the handles of the right clip. So when the transition is on the left, you need to have trimmed your right clip and you need to have enough handles. If I put it on the right, when come over to the transition, you notice that I can see now the handles or the trimmed frames of the left clip. When it's on the right, it will use the left clip handles or the unused frames. Handers is equal to unused frames. I'm going to say only handers from now on. Well I put in the middle now it is obvious, is going to use half of the right and half of the left clips and the transition is perfect. In short, to have the transition working perfectly, you need to have trimmed your clips on the left and right from the input and outpoint and you have enough henders. I remember the word henderss very important in video editing. Are the left and right frames that do not appear in the timeline or they are the unused frames, handles equal to unused frames. Thank you very much. I hope the explanation is quite good and I hope you get fantastic transitions. 17. How to add Titles: An animated left Lower third: It's time to add text, lower thirds, titles to your timeline. I will show you now how to create an animated lower third in DavencyRsolve 20. Let's start. Most probably you are in video transitions. Go to titles. You have a lot of titles here preset for you. They are all good, most of them, and you have the subtitles. Skip the subtitles and the animated and the other subtitles if you don't have the paid version. Of course, we are not going to work on them now. But you can try any of these titles after you have finished this lesson. Here we have the standard ones. These are very useful. Don't rush to do the other ones before you understand these and each one of them will give you a certain practical methods and parameters for you to change it the way you would like. I'm going to start with lower third because we want to add a lower third and animated. Now we notice this lower third is not animated. The scroll is animated, that's fine, but the lower third is not animated. I'm going to drop it in the timeline. I'll click and drag and drop it wherever I want in the timeline. Now notice here. I didn't drop it on the same track. So this is Track one, this is Track two. I dropped it on Track two. Of course, I wanted to override the video. You can also come over here if you like, and you have video, you can reduce it, reduce the size, something that will fit your screen and you're happy with. I'll select the text, and I come over to video. Notice the text is a video and I have title, and I have settings. The settings are the center settings for the inspector that is the transform from here, the cropping, and whatever you have. And then you have the title. In the title, let's close them all. You have rich text. This is the upper one, rich text, the second line, and you have dropshadow and background. Very easy. Let's start with rich text. The first one. There is the word title. I'm going to highlight it and paste from outside video editing essentials. Of course, feel free to put what you want. And then over here you have the font open sun is okay for now. You have the color, you have the size. I want the size to be bigger. Now, if you take up the size like this, this is very good. It's working. I'm going to put it at 65. That's fine. But then I don't want any tracking here. I'm going to reset the track into zero. That's fine. For now, it's okay. I'm going to come to Rich Text two just over here, and then I will type here DavinciRsolve. Here you are. Over here, I will select this one, click on it, DavinciRsolve. I've done nothing just pasting the text. From the size, the other one was 65, this one, maybe I'll make it 55, it's smaller. Then the top one, the rich text one, I'm going to make it bold. Nice. I like that. Now, I'll close this and close this and come to the background because I want to add the background. By the way, the background is always there, but its height is zero. You notice the height here. All you have to do is to make the height bigger, just like this. That's fine. Then the corner radius, I don't like it like this, I want to make it very little just to break the, the sharp corners. Maybe I'll adjust the X and Y, so I notice how I'm adjusting it on the Y here. I think -12 will do well, -12. I double click and type the figure I want. Then on the opacity, maybe I make it a bit more opaque, something like this will do. Now I have my lower third, of course, is not animated. I want to add some animation. The best way to add animation is not to use the keyframes and so on, is to use the transitions. This is a very valuable tip. You come to transitions here, and you notice you have this slide, you have the push that can do some animation. Of course, when you are waving here, it will not show you on the text, it's showing you on the video. It doesn't matter. I'm going to take the push, click on it and drag. Don't dab a click. I will go on the video. Click and Drag and just put it on the text. Notice how it is now on the text. That is my push animation. I have some nice animation over here. I'm going to select the push itself and come to transition in the famous inspector. The push is correct. 1 second is fine. You can change it the way you would like. It's pushing left. I don't want a border. I don't want it to feather. What I want is motion blur and I want it to is in. Is in meaning into the animation, so it's animated, then it is in at the end. Let's play here and I have it coming out. Very nice. Motion blur is beautiful. Now it has to be removed from the screen. One way to do it, the lazy way and the very good way, you select your transition, and you press Control or Command C, you're just copying. So I will go ahead, command C or Control C. Then select the outpoint. Don't go anywhere and start pasting. Select the outpoint and paste. And here you are I have the animation, which is coming out on the right side. That's very good. This is why we have opened in the inspector. This is push left, so we are going to change it to push right. It's going to push it right. Not this. This is push left, it comes to the right and push right, it comes to the left. Actually, you're pushing it. I don't know. That's the logic. Let's play it. Here you are. You have an animated lower third. The same concept. You could have added the text in the middle over here and use the transition to animate the text. Don't go very far. Don't start using keyframes and so on. It's very easy. Just use the transitions mainly the push, the slide, and the box, of course, not the heart. This will do very well. The center wipe it will open, the text just like this. You can just bring in the text just like this and other transitions that you can use. It's sort now, build a nice timeline, add the lower third, and actually you can add a title also. I will see you in the next video. 18. How to add Audio in the Edit page: It's time now to start adding audio, some music to your videos and you change everything you will notice. I will explain to you about tracks a bit and then we'll add some audio. We'll learn how to trim it and stories like this is very nice. If you are in the media pool, make sure you are not in effect. You are in the media pool here, you come over to audio. Now, please feel free to use any music you like, any audio you would like. Now I have my Parkour here and if I double click, I open it in the source monitor. In the source monitor, I can see the whole audio here. Actually, I'm seeing it. I can scrap through and decide which part I want. I can see the total duration. Here is 3 minutes, 20 seconds and 20 frames. That's for the audio. I have my playhead over here. If I play or move it left and right, you will notice it's telling me where my playhead is. Now he's saying the playhead is at 20 seconds, zero, four frames. This is the time code. Now there is a spot on here called dim and I've seen a lot of mistakes here. If you dim, the audio that you hear while working while editing will be lower. It's dimmed. But for your audio, the volume did not go down, you might render your file and find out that the audio is very high because you have the dim on. I'm going to undimt for me. I prefer not to dim it and lower the volume the way I would like and no guessing here. Then I can come over with the playhead and decide where I want the input. For example, I can put it all over here. So I press I for the input. Now my timeline here is almost 24 seconds, so I'm going to go to 24 seconds, something like this, a bit more and I put the outpoint. Oh, I created an input and output. Now, if you are in insert video only, you cannot insert it. You need to be in insert video and audio or insert audio only, but this is safer and you click drag to drop it in the timeline as simple as this, and you can drop it wherever you like. Now though I took 24 seconds, it came out short, just like a video clip, I can click Under and go just like this overhead. I have the audio all over. Now we see these waves here. Well, you can change the way you see them. For example, you have display non rectified wavefroms they are just like this. This how I like working, and you have display full or something, and you have the other one which obviously I don't care less. I like this setting here is very good for me. So now you have your audio and obviously the audio is very high. All music you get, the audio is always very high. How to reduce the audio. You can select it from here, and then you have a line. Can you see this very thin white line? This is the audio line. You can click on it and take it down and up. This is the most unrecommended way of working. You select your clip and go to the inspector. It's already open in the audio, and this is where you reduce the volume the way you like. Don't mind the waves here. Even if the waves are non visible, you can still have a lots of audio depending on how the audio was recorded. The pan here is like you want to listen on the left or on the right, pan left, pen right. Now, these options here are for the paid version. If you have the free version, most probably you can see them and you can change the pitch, you can play with it, and also the AI music here is for the paid version. The equalizer, we can use it later, but usually you don't use this equalizer for music. You will use it for voice. We have reduced the volume, we can start playing. Okay, I think it's fine. According to me, it's fine. Now, this is very nice. You might want to add a transition. If you come to transitions, so I'm going to FX audio transitions, these are mixed transition. Notice one volume is coming down and the other is coming up. They are about mixing music. You have two music tracks, different ones, and you mix, one goes up and one goes down. At three decibel at minus three or at zero, depends. In our case, that's not what you want. What we want is to start the audio at a low volume and then it increases. You want the guy listing as suddenly there is a very high volume. How to do that? Well, in your track here, you have this white dot here or white like a flag. You click on it and you drag it. This is what I'm hearing. The volume is low, then it goes up. You have an adjuster in the middle if you like, it's a keyframe. You can adjust it, to make it just like this or like this the way you think it's good. Now, it's important that you listen to it. At the end here, I'm going to do the same and just make it just like this. Maybe I will do this just for fun. Nothing much. I think it's too much. I'm going to go just like this. Come on. Yes. I like that. I have to listen to it. You play, and you listen. That's it for audio. Please add your audio, find some nice audio, not only man music here, and create your timeline, add the lower third and add the audio. 19. Speed: How to change the speed of a clip: Speed and slow motion are very interesting to work with in Da vinci Resolve 20. It gives you the possibility to create variable speeds on the same clip from slow motion to fast motion to freeze frames and a lot of other stories that will make your clips, look awesome. You can use that mainly on TikTok. It's very nice and in all your videos, note that our clips within this project are very good to work on these variable speeds. Let's see how we can do it in DavinciRsolve. Let's create a new timeline to work on our speed. I will come to project timelines here, right click, go to timelines, create new timeline. Of course, the start time code, I'm going to put it at zero. I know you like zero. And in the timeline name, we are going to call it speed. One track for video and one track for audio will work very fine. It's an empty timeline, and I click Create. Let's go to our slow motion now. I will select this clip over here and already added the in and out points. If you play it, you will notice it is a slow motion clip. I'm not slowing down. This video is a slow motion clip. It takes a long time to play. Now, let's click and drag and drop it in the timeline. I can simply do like this is the only clip and zoom to extend. That's very nice. If I play it, still it slow motion clip. I didn't change. Now, how do you change the speed? You right click and you have three options over here. Change clip duration, change clip speed and read time controls. Now, there is always a confusion about change clip duration because people think that if I change the duration, the clip is going to be faster or slower. It doesn't happen that way. Change clip duration is simply change the clip duration on the timeline. For example, I said it to 15 seconds now, change it's only 15 seconds. If I come to the end of this clip, you will not see you have it at 15 seconds being the only clip in the timeline. Now to undo that, you can come back here and clip duration unless you know the original dination. The best way is to undo control or command Z. Here you are. Now there is the next option, which is change clip speed, and that's interesting now. In the change clip speed panel, you can change the speed, you can change the frames per second, and you can do other things over here. Now, you notice my Ripper timeline is checked. I always prefer to have it checked because if I change the clip speed and it has a longer duration now on the timeline, I want to ripple and push the other clips on its right. If it is shorter, I want to bring them in. So I don't want to start overwriting or having gaps. Ripple timeline is always feasible. Now let's start changing the speed. Of course, you can change the speed or frames per second. Let's go for speed now. I'm going to change it to 50%. So now I will be playing at half the speed. So it's a slow slow motion now. The frames per second is 12.5, meaning you were at 25 frames per second. Now, the same 25 frames per second would be played in 2 seconds. You will have half of them in every second. And if I change over here, you will notice now it became a slow slow motion one. You can sit back and enjoy it for a couple of hours. But it's very nice how you can create slow motion. And actually, if you look at it, it's very well done. It's not jumping, it's not doing some artifacts or something. Cool. Let's go back now to change clip speed. And instead of half of the speed, let's make it 200. That is double the speed. If I click out over here, now I will be playing 50 frames per second. You take 2 seconds, 25 frames per second and you compress them into 1 second. There will be 50 frames per second. You notice here, the duration has changed to 14 seconds and 18 frames. I will change, and let's play it. Now it became a bit of fast motion. That's very interesting. Okay, let's play it again. I think you want to see it. I think so. Do you want to see it? Okay. I'll right click here and go back to clip speed. I'm going to put it at 400%. That means four times the speed, and it's playing at 100 frames per second, which I have. Then I'm going to change and here you are if you play it, it has become a fast motion clip. Very nice. Notice how it's going to go with these legs here. They're going to show 1 million leg. It's very nice. Now, let's write a click and go to clip duration and double click on the speed to reset everything. You can double click on frames per second, or it will reset. I'm going to click change. Now, the most interesting here is re time controls. The shortcut is Control or Command R. Since you understood the concept in the next video, we are going to play a lot with the retime controls. I see you then. 20. Speed: Creating Variable Speed (Retime) Effects: In this lesson, we are going to start working with the speech controls. We're going to see how to add speed points, how to create speed segments, and create some awesome clip with very many variable speeds. Let's start. We have our clip in the timeline and let's enable the retiming controls by pressing Control or command R. Now, what do we see here? We see some blue arrows and if they are in this format, quite spaced, it means we are at 100%. If they are very squeezed, it means we increase the speed and sometimes they go yellow, it means you have decreased the speed. And then we have this small arrow over here. You click on it. This is where all the action is. You have here at speed point, change speed, and so on. So what's the concept here? The concept is for you to create speed segments by adding speed points and then changing the speed in these segments is very easy. For example, let's come over here and decide that from the first frame to just over here when he is in the air, Okay, something like this, you want to have a speed segment over here so you can change the speed. You want it very fast. So you come over to the arrow, you click and you add a speed point. So now you added a speed point where the playhead is, and this is the speed point. Now you move on, let's say from here to here, you want it to be quite slow, the same speed at 100%. Let's add a speed segment. After that, until it hits the floor, maybe you want it to be very fast, so you add a speed segment by adding a speed point as simple as this. Let's move on and let's say from here up to here, Okay. We want it at a different speed. So I'm going to add the speed. I'm not going accurate. I don't know what I'm doing very, very well, but it will work later on. I will show you. So up to here until it comes over here, I can add another speed point, and here is very fast. That's what I'm thinking until it comes here, we're going to add another speed point. And over here, it goes in the air. We want to be very slow. And then when he's upside down, we want to change the speed after that. So actually, what have I done? I have created speed segment. This is a segment, there's another segment, another segment, another segment, and so on. And speed segments are defined between two speed points. Now, how do I work? Speed point has two controls. There is the lower control over here, the red one now. It decides where the speed point is. So you're going to change the speed within this speed point on his left and right. The top one here, it will change the speed on the left segment. So if I move it to the left, notice the speed is increasing. It's 162 now. It's increasing the speed on the left segment. For example, I want to make it 300, so I'm going to dig it to 300. So these are the controls of the speed points. You can also change the speed on a segment. For example, come to this segment, I want to change the speed to 400%. Let's see now the effect here is playing at 310. It's going to go slow more at 100, go very fast. It's falling on the floor. Now over here, I want to maybe at 200, so I'm going to change the speed to 200. And over here, I wanted, for example, also at 200. Doesn't make sense to have this point now, but I'm going to come over here and make it faster. So notice. Here you are then faster, then slower. And then when it goes down the ground to make it very fast. Actually this speed point should be yes, here. So over here, I want like 400%. So I change the speed to 400%. Let's play it 315, faster, slower, very fast, nice. It goes in the air, and I need another speed point when it's in the air. What happened to it? That's we put it. So we'm going to add the speed point. And over here, for example, we are going to change the speed to 400% as easy as this. So you create your segments, add the speed points, and then change the speed within each segment, as simple as this. Now let's say you put a speed point but you don't want the speed point. You want to remove it. That's very simple. Let's say you want to remove this speed point here. You come on his right and you say clear speed point and it has been removed, of course, you're going to adjust the speed over here. I'm going to undo that. Of course, you can add more speed points, for example, here, if you want to make it very fast until it is here, I'm going to add the speed point where the playhead is and put this speed at 400. Here we are. Let's see what you have done. So it goes fast, faster, slow and very fast. So now it's going fast and here it's going faster. So maybe here we should make it 200% or 250% only. I'm going to take it to 250, something like this. Good. And here you are. As simple as this, and you have created something amazing. In the next video, I will show you how to create freeze frames. 21. Speed: Creating Freeze Frame Segments: We are still in playing with speed, and we are going to learn now how to add a freeze frame, how to freeze for a certain duration on the timeline. It's extremely nice when combined with hiking the speed or slowing down. Let's show you how it works. For the freeze frame, I'm going to add another clip on the timeline just like this and open the time controls. And then, first of all, of course, you want to decide where you want to freeze. For example, I want to freeze when the guy is in the air just over here. All I have to do is to come to 100% where all the action happens and click down and add a freeze frame. There is no need to add a speed point because when you add a freeze frame, you will get two speed points. So we freeze for that duration. I think default duration is 2 seconds. Nevertheless, the top controller of the speed point is just over here. You can click and drag, make it longer, make it shorter. What's exactly happening, you can see here you have 0%. In between these two speed points, you have the speed at zero as simple as this. We are going to make them shorter and see if this is long and short enough. Cool. Now, what's very interesting is to add freeze frames while you're doing some ramping or exaggerating the speed on the left side. For example, I'm going to go to change speed and put it up 400% and notice now the effect it plays goes fast and it stops. If that's needed, that is awesome. Now, also, I want to add a freeze frame when the guy put his legs here, he freezes. How do I do that? Simply, I will come to the 100% arrow and freeze frame. I'm going to have two speed points. That's excellent. I will reduce the time for the freeze, for example, something like this. Since I have two speed points now, I can use the left one to increase the speed on the left. I want it very high because I don't want to watch much. So let's play now and see. I will have the first freeze continues very fast and abruptly the second speed, that's not bad. It's too fast, in fact. Something like this will do better. Then I want another freeze, one is in the air, very nice. I'm going to come over and freeze frame, reduce the duration of the freeze. At the end here, you can change the speed to, for example, 400%, doesn't matter. Okay, here we are. So it stops, continues very fast, and the freeze frames are working fine. They make a bit of sense. And the guy in the air comes in. This guy in the air, maybe we increase the speed here, change speed to 200%, something like this, that's right. You understand the concept of freeze frame here and remember it's going to add two speed points and you can manipulate the speed points to reduce the duration of the freeze, and of course, the left one will change the speed on the left segment. Cool, guys, let's move on and the next video, I'm going to show you how to rewind. Imagine combining all these freeze speed and rewind. What kind of video you'll get? 22. Speed: Creating Rewind Speed Effects: There is the option to rewind a segment. You create a segment and you rewind it. That's very interesting because you can create some awesome effects using also the speed variation and the freeze frame, you can have some awesome videos and very interesting to watch. Let's see how we can do it in the inch resolve. I'm going to select this clip over here. I already set the in and out point, you click and drag and drop it over here. By the way, when you're training, you can select any clip, even the one that you have done yourself. And of course, I'm going to open the retime controls, control or command ar. Now, we have to decide on the segment you want to rewind. Of course, you create a segment by creating two speed points. Let's say I want to rewound the segment here when his leg is going off the ground. So I'm going to add a speed point. Then deciding where is going to end, for example, when his foot comes on the ground here, I will add another speed point. So what I'm thinking is this segment that I've created over here, I'm going to rewind it and then play it back. I will come to the 100% arrow. And go to rewind. Please use rewind, not reverse segments. Reverse segment is a bit funny. So I can rewind it and select the speed of the rewind. I'm going to go for 100%. Now, that's what's happening here. We have to zoom in a bit, that cool. And then we have our segment. It plays the segment that we have segmented, and then it will reverse that segment you have selected, not how it's going backward, then play it again. So you did a segment and created two segments, one that we reverse and the other one that we play back your segment. So here we are, it plays in front. Then plays reverse and then plays again, which is very interesting. Now, of course, you need to change the speeds, make it interesting. For example, let's go for change speed here at 200% over here also at 200%. Let's not exaggerate and then here at 200% if you want to because you're seeing this three times front and back, we start, then goes back and then it goes in. That's not bad at all. L et's move on and let's say we want to create a segment where he's in the air. He goes in the air. Let's say here, I will add a speed point and move forward over here before he forces add another speed point, and this is the segment from here to here that I would like to play back. I'm going to select it and let's say rewind at 100% or. Let's play now he's in the air. He goes back and he goes back again. That's very nice. Let's look at all our clip. The guy comes in. Maybe this one should be 400% even. You play forward, backward, play forward, and then go continue, and then plays backward. Come on, and then it continues backward and then here you are. Cool. That's how to work with the rewind. By the way, guys, come over here and change the speed just like this and you can change the speed of the rewind. We can change the position of the rewind don't worry it will not mess up. Notice, it's coming over here. You rewind it. And it plays it back again, so there is no cuts at all. You can select the way you would like and change the speed and change the speed points position and it will work very fine. This is about rewind. I hope it is very nice and you need now to start practicing all these techniques. 23. Speed: Using Speed Curves for Smooth Motion: Remember when we did variable speeds on a single clip, we changed the speed 400-100 and it's abruptly changing. Just in less than a frame, it changes completely. And then when we took up the speed, we also went 100-200, just abruptly. This kind of motion is nice, is okay, but you can make it much better by using the keyframe tray and the curves to make it very smooth. Let's see how we can do this. If you select a clip here, you come over to the keyframe tray. That's the keyframe tray, and you click on it, you'll notice that you can see your keyframes. Now, it will open and show you all the keyframes. If you had other keyframes also that will show. You might be asking, what's a keyframe? I don't do motion graphics. Well, a keyframe is a point in time where it says, change the values. You're going to go 100-200. The key frame will say, this is where you are going to change the value as simple as this. It's a point in time where you take the previous value and change it into another value. This is exactly what's happening here. If you notice I have here a speed point. This speed point is changing 310-100 and the key frame contains these two values, 310 to 100, something like this. Now, if you try to do something with the keyframes here, you cannot do anything because they are linked to the speed points. But there is something very interesting you can do. If you come over to just next to the keyframe lanes, you see parameters, keyframe lanes, you have the keyframe curves. If you select it, you can see now the curves. Now most probably you are seeing both curves like this for retime speed and retime frame. We have learned that when you change the speed, you also change the frames per second. So let's disable the retime frame because retime speed graph is very nice and we notice the change. You will notice that we are at 310, it drops directly to 100. That's fine. But how about if you can drop it smoothly 310-38 to I don't know, 250 up to 100. Let's do that. Going to select this keyframe, notice I'm putting a. I like the lazos. Then I come over here, I have three choices. I can turn it in linear, but this is linear now. I can ease in or ease out or in and out. That's the option here. That's the only one that works with speed. So we can right click here and select is in and out. Now, what's happening? If I come over, my speed is 310. Notice how it's dropping to 263, 270, so it's smoothly changing the value. I have the hander Ear, these two dots on the left and right. I can click on them and make the curve, the change curve much smoother. If I play now, you will notice that the change of speed it's much nicer and notice the abrupt change that is now obvious. I have to make the curve so much, this will do. Now I can select all my key frames as simple as this and I can we click on one or come over here and is in and out. Now I have all my key frames in and out, so I'm going to adjust them, maybe this curve like this, maybe this curve like this. Of course, don't go random. You want to see it, how it's happening, and so on and then adjust it. For now, I'm just showing you how you can adjust. This one doesn't move anymore because this one is too flat or too expanded. I'm going to do this. This one we have smoothness like this and so on and so forth. You can make everything very smooth. The change of speed is smooth. Yes, it's going to make a lot of difference in your video. I'm going to work on this one because it's too hash, I think. Yeah, I managed, very nice. Let's play and you're not snow. The change of speed is smoother. You might not even notice the change of speed, but it's going from slow to fast slowly. It's a curve. Let's take the second clip now. Now I have a clip here with freeze. The freeze is a bit tricky. If I come over and is in and out the keyframe here expanded. That's what's going to happen. The guy is going to stop slowly, one, two, and stop. It is not nice for the freeze when you are getting into the freeze. I'm going to undo. But when you're coming out of the freeze, now you can ease in and out and do something like this and notice is going to give you a better freeze. It freezes, but when it starts, it's not abruptly starting. No, it's going to take time. I'm going to do the same for all the key frames for the freeze, something like this, and something like this. I'm going to use in and out here. So now, if you play the clip, you will notice quite a difference. Of course, you can work on it much better than I did. I'm trying to explain. I'm going fast. Look, you see the movement is a starting slow and go ahead. Let's take the last clip here and let's bring it in. Here I have the reverse. I'm going to select all the keyframes. I'll go from under so the player doesn't move is all of them. While they are all selected, for example, going to select this one and do like this and something like this, the way you would like, of course, you have to test. But usually, easing just like this is very fine. Here you are. If you play it now, you will notice you have very nice in movement and out of movement, mainly for the reverse, reversing, jerking, is really going very smooth. Now, you can see it on my screen. That's very nice, but really trying it yourself is much better. Cool, guys, we completed all our work about speed and move on for something else and something much higher level. 24. Creating and Finalizing Your Complete Edit: Trust me, you have learned almost 60% of what's required for you to become top notch in video editing. There is more to learn, of course. You learned how to drop your clips in the timeline, how to insert clips, how to trim them the way you would like, and how to add transitions, how to play with speed, and also how to create a timeline. Now, you have a mission. This is the class project, and please make sure that you achieve this project. It's very easy, very simple. But yet it will require your creativity and your talent in video editing. What are you going to do? First of all, you are going to create a new timeline. Here I created a timeline. I called it final cut. We had the rough cut, if you remember. Now we have speed, and then we have the final cut here. This is the final cut. This is your final video. What are you going to do? First of all, you are going to try to use all the clips that I provided for you. There are many and you can have a timeline of almost 1 minute on 1 minute and a half, which is excellent for beginners video editing. The timeline, make sure the clips one after the other make sense a bit if you want to, but they attract the viewer to continue watching. After completing your timeline, you need to pay special attention. First to the cuts. Your cuts have to be perfect, not jumping around, not something moving from here to there. So make sure all your cuts are perfect. This is perfect somehow, and this is perfect, at least according to me, and all the others. Now, after the cuts, you have the transitions. You don't want to use all kinds of transition here, B, here, IRS, I don't know what. No. You want to have two main transitions that you use all over your project. Of course, practice and see all the transitions and then select the two that you like most. These transitions will go, of course, when there is a change of scene, not in your perfect cuts. For me, I use only one single type of transition, which is the effect stretch blur. So if you come over here to effect and you go and you search for blur, you have the stretch blur here. You can use this one, or you can use many others that are very nice by the way. Of course, you can open scenes with a certain transition, then move to another scene with another transition. So the transitions have to be pleasant to the viewer and also, artistically quite nice, maybe surprising a bit. After the transitions, you want to work on speed. Notice here, I have several clips that I use speed variation and stop motion and so just to show you. Here you are. Many of them, in fact, even this one here, this little one here, I even changed the speed over here. If you notice they are yellow, I slowed it down because I thought it's too fast compared to the previous clip. If you notice here, this guy seems slow, so I slowed down this one, so it looks like Norman. Now after speed, you want to add your text or your lower thirds or title, maybe try to start with a title and then put the clips, something like this. At the end here, I added another title. This is a title. Very humble. I used, I think the Tex plus, I think, something like this or multitex I created something very simple. Here you are. Just not to show you something very difficult. Something very simple. You can do more, you can train. Now, the sequence on your timeline, the clips one after the other is also very important. So try to mix them and match them, see how we're going to work. After that, of course, you want to add some beautiful music. You can use the one I provided for you or you add your own music. You're going to create this timeline, you make it awesome. Then in the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to render, how to create a video from your timeline that you can upload to YouTube and then create your class project and it will be a thumbs up. I hope you work on it and I see you in the next video with how to render your timeline and create a full video. 25. Reviewing the Sample Project (Cinema Viewer Example): Take a minute to watch a sample project, a sample timeline. I created this one, but you are going to create much better. Also, I will show you how to use the cinema viewer. Okay, so I have my timeline here. I generated Optimized media because I've completed now. I will come to workspace and I want to view it in this cinema viewer. You come to viewer mode over here and you have the cinema viewer. I will enable it and it opens in full screen, and you can start playing just from here. So now in the full view, you can see exactly your cuts, your transitions, and your speed ramps here if you like. And this is a nice cut. Well, it's perfect. I like it. You notice the stretch blower here. The transition is very nice. Here we have some stop motion. Look what I've done here. The swinging. Well, after that, you come over here and then you close it. Now, if you play back again, it's not going to go to Cinnamon viewer. Like cinnama viewer is just one shot. So you preview this sample, now go create something even better and much nicer. 26. Exporting Your Video Using Quick Export: Now it's time to create a video from your timeline and you want a very good video, and the mini resolve will give you the results that you want. I'm going to show you the quick and easy way to export your video. I assure you, it's going to give you a very good video, and I recommend this method. First of all, what you do is to select the right timeline. So don't select the timeline that you do not want to render. Select and make sure it's in red, the timeline that you want to create a video from. You come over to Quick Export. It's just over here. It's everywhere now. You click on it. Now, the Quick Export has very nice buttons here. You can see them in line if you like, or icons. The 64 is the one recommended for you to create a video. It's very good for the social media and lots of work, in fact. 64 is for Black Magic design. This is for their hyperdeck and also for the 265. The protests are very good videos, but they are not meant to be uploaded to social media. They are meant, for example, we will send them to the colorist. Actually, we will always send the timeline or to the sound engineer. You can also directly upload to YouTube, Vmeo and TikTok. But of course, you need to be logged into all of them or one of them to be able to directly upload. I'm going to show you how to log in to YouTube Vimeo and TikTok and Dropbox. Our cancel from here, please remember that you come to Davinc, you go to preferences. In preferences, you don't use user, not user system, and in system, you go to Internet accounts. So preferences system, Internet accounts. Did you write it down? You will see now all the providers here, Black Magic Cloud and you notice I am signed in to Black Magic Cloud. I am signed in to YouTube, but I'm not signed in to Vimeo, TikTok or Dropbox or Frame IO. To sign in, of course, you click on the Sign In and you put your credential whatever is required, and remember to save. Don't go cancer. Don't go click out. Remember to save. I'm going to save in fact. I'll go back to Quick Expo. If you are directly upload to YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok or Dropbox, don't worry, there is a copy on your hard drive. So it's not going to render an upload and you have nothing on your hard drive. There will be a copy saved on your storage devices. Usually, I'd never upload directly to YouTube. I prefer to use 64. And to avoid any complications now, I'm going to use 64 and render on my SSD. Now, there is nothing that you need to change here. The resolution is cool. That's what we said. The video codec is h264. H264 is a deck. It's not MP four. It is a codec that will allow good compression and good colors and good speed to play back. You have 25 frames per second. That's what we said. And the audio is stereo, fine. We didn't say it to mono and the audio coodec is AAC, it works almost everywhere, and the duration is 1 minute and 3 seconds. Now, if you take the duration of the whole timeline. If your timeline is 10 seconds, please pay attention here, I should say ten second. I've seen mistakes like this. They're trying to put an input here on the timeline. Notice I put an input on the timeline and I put an output on the timeline. So now I have an in and output on the timeline. It is the same kind of in outpoint you will put in the source monitor. But this is on the timeline. If you come to Quick export, notice now the duration is only 15 seconds, and you're wondering, it is 1 minute and something. Why is giving me 15 seconds? You have the 15 seconds because you set an in point and outpoint by mistake on the timeline. How to cancel this? You are over here and you press Option X or RX and it will go by. Then you come back to quick export and you make sure the duration is correct. Now, simply, you click on Export and it will ask you where do you want to export? This is on your storage device. I'm going here on export tests and I will save. Immediately start working and notice what is given to us. Final Cut dot MOV. It didn't give you an MP four. Dot MOV are a bit better in terms of compression and colors, and it's nicer nicer. Now, it's going to render. It's taking a lot of time with me. Render speed 19 frames per second is rendering only at 19 frames per second. You can sit back, wait, have some coffee, cheeseburgers, or anything that you like, and you wait for it to complete. I'm going to speed up the video and get back to you. So the rendering is complete and now I remember why it's going slow because I scaled up the videos and I did some tricks to make them perfect. So I'm going to close. After closing, you will have to find your video on your storage devices, wherever you put it. So I'm going to come back to my finder here, and I know I put it on my SSD and it's on top here and final cut. I play it. Here you are. I rendered my video and it's perfect. Now you can upload it to YouTube. After uploading it to YouTube, you can simply put it as unlisted. Do not want people to see it all over, and you are going to post it as your class project. I will show you how in the next lecture. 27. Posting and Sharing Your Class Project: It is very satisfying to upload your video as a class project, and you get a badge that you uploaded now your project, and you have completed the project, it's a very nice badge, by the way. So how do you do that? Well, let me show you. When you are in the Sudo in YouTube, you have here the link for the latest uploaded video. You can copy that link and make sure it is the right link. Nothing personal, don't show personal videos. I make sure it's always unlisted, so you can do that. Then after copying the link, you come back to Skillshare and you go to Project Resources, make sure you are in my course and not somebody's else's course, and you submit the project. You click on that. And then it will open now project name. You write the name here. For example, Lucas Final Project. You can add and upload an image. If you have a tab nail for your video, it's nice to upload it first. And then over here, you have embedded link. You click on it and you paste the link from the YouTube channel. You click on AD. It doesn't take long. Here it is. You can even preview it here. DaVincisol 20 video editing, you can do whatever you like. This is the title of my video on YouTube. Then remember to click On Publish. When you click On publish, I'm going to stop this. When you click On Publish, now it goes in and becomes a project where I can look at it and give you some comments, many comments, and critics, but positive ones. So go ahead, finalize your class project. I'll be very happy to see your video and give you some good comments.