Learn Video Editing With DaVinci Resolve 20 - Beginners (2026)

1. Introduction: Hi there. Oh, something's wrong with the colors. Let me grab my collar wheel real quick and change the color to purple. That's better. My name is Timon, by the way. You might already know me from one of my YouTube chattels, where we teach mainly video editing. You already know that DaVinci Resolve is one of the best video editing software the world. But when you first open it, you feel overwhelmed. So many pages, so many buttons. Where do you even start? I felt the exact same way when I started out years ago, and that's exactly why I created this class. I will guide you step by step through everything you need to know, and you'll be making amazing videos in no time. Oh, and you can follow along perfectly with the free version of DaVinci Resolve. You will learn how to make the perfect gut, work with sound, create some cool title and logo animations, apply effects to your video. My favorite part, we're even going to edit a short video together from scratch. So you can immediately practice what you learn. Color creating will become super easy for you. You'll learn how to turn boring footage into colorful cinematic video. By the end of this class, you will feel really comfortable working inside DaVinci Resolve. You will understand the technical side, but also the creative side of video editing. You can download all the media files I'm working with throughout this class, so you can follow along with every single mouse click I make. Alright, I'm super excited to get started with learning the vinca Resolve together. After this class, you have unlocked the door to creating professional videos, and I can't wait to see you in the first lesson. Who 2. Creating a Project: Welcome to the first actual lesson. We're starting at the very beginning, and that is creating your first project. Oh, and I forgot to introduce you to my AI editing assistant, Lily. She's going to help us today. Not gonna happen Timon. She's having some trouble lately. Let me turn her off. So let's open up DaVinci Resolve. Okay, once it's open, you will see the project manager. This is where you can see or open up a recent project. If you want, you can switch the view from tiles to list. I prefer tiles. So let me do that real quick. You can zoom in or out. Or if you have many projects in here, you can search for the one you need by simply typing it in. For example, my Editing story. There it is. All the basic stuff you can think about is here. Now, right here at the bottom, you will see two more buttons export and import. The Import button is to import projects you downloaded from the Internet or you got from a friend or someone. The Export button lets you back up one of these selected projects. You can then move it to another computer to open it up there, or you can use it to send that file to a friend. Open up a project, you just double click one of these, but you probably don't have a project. So what we're going to do is create a new one. Now, on the left, you have a project panel, and this is where you can manage projects, but that's not really important for now. Okay, now it's time to create a project together. Now, all you got to do to create a new project is, of course, click the New Project button. You can then give it a name. For example, my Editing story. We're going to skip Media location for now and then click on Create. And, boom, here we are Resolve. Okay, this kind of looks intimidating, right? I agree, but at the end of this class, you're gonna love it. Oh, and congratulations on finishing your first lesson. I really hope you enjoyed it. See you in the next one. 3. Interface & Workflow: Alright. So you just created your project. Very good. Now it's time to get to know DaVinci Resolve. When you open up Resolve, the first thing you'll notice are these buttons at the bottom. These are all different pages. Each of them has its own purpose in video editing. If you don't see those pages, by the way, go to the workspace menu all the way on top, and right here, you can enable the page navigation by clicking Show Page Navigation. Alright, the first page is called the Media Page. This is where you're going to manage our media files that we're going to use edit. Videos, pictures, music, sound effects, everything you're going to use in your video will be right here. The next two pages are the Cut Page and the Edit Page. This is where we're going to put our clips together and build an edit. The fusion page in the Vinci Resolve is used for creating visual effects and motion graphics. The color page is meant for color grading footage. You're going to use Fairlight for processing audio and deliver for exporting your final product. You might have already seen that logo somewhere. All of these pages are in this specific order. Because that's Resolves workflow. Now, let's move on to the media page. Before you learn how to use this page, I want you to click and drag around in the interface like I'm doing right now. That way, you'll get familiar with Resolve and really get to know how it feels. Alright, so try and click along with me. In Resolve, you can open up hidden pages by clicking these buttons on top, clicking them will reveal panels they are extra sections in the interface like the Inspector or metadata. And don't worry about these panels yet. Just click around and try to get a feel of what happens when you open up a panel. Alright, now, quick recap about DaVinci Resolves workflow. You start by importing footage. Then you'll edit your video with the Cut and edit pages. Next, you can add special effects with fusion. You can color grate your footage, and then you'll process the audio of your video. And last but not least, you'll export your final product. And that, of course, happens in the deliver page. Now, we're going over each and every page individually, starting with the media page. 4. The Media Page: The Media Page, the page to manage all your media. Let me show you the ins and outs. So in the media page, you can see the media storage panel on the top left. In here, you can browse your hard drives SD cards or SSDs directly within Resolve. This right here, for example, is my cameras SSD. If I open it up and go inside the folders, you can see some of my recordings. I actually have a folder prepared on my extra storage drive. Alright, here it is. It's called DaVinci Resolve for beginners Media files. Right here in this folder is all the footage I want to use in this entire course. Now, you have that same folder, so go ahead and download it so you can follow along with the class. Alright, now, if you hover over them with your cursor, you can preview the clips in the source viewer on the left. Now, the fact that you can preview them here, doesn't mean they're actually in your Resolve. Project. I'm just browsing them. I haven't decided yet if I want to use it in my edit. Now, if you want to use, let's say, this clip of the camera parts, you have to import them right here into the media pool. And to do that, click the clip and drag it straight into the media pool. This is where you're going to put all your footage and stuff that you're going to need in your edit. It will then ask you to change the project FPS. Just click on change. More about FPS and project settings Lanar. Now this video is ready to use in your project. Let's add a few clips. Maybe some of the B roll video, that one, and maybe this one, too. Doesn't really matter. There we go. Now, in here, you can also scrub over the thumbnail to preview the video if you'd like. Now, to stay organized, I already named all these clips, but if you want, you can click the name of the clip and rename it to something else. Now, I don't recommend you do this because they're named for a reason. But more on that soon. Now, as we noticed before, when you hover your cursor over the thumbnail, Resolve play your video back in the source viewer. When it's selected, you can go in here and play your video or navigate through it using the timeline. You can also drag the video from here directly into the media pool, by the way. Oh, yeah, and preview doesn't only work with video, but also images and even music. Now, the media storage panel is actually something optional. You can basically close it up and decide not to use it. Also, why not remove everything in the media pool for now? But now, how do I import my clips in the media pool? Well, you can also drag them straight from a folder into the media pool, and boom, so go ahead and do that with the folder you downloaded from me. Click and drag it into the media pool. Resolve now knows that these clips are going to be used in this project. Other ways of importing media is by right clicking in the media pool and choosing Import Media. Or you can also go to file on top and then import Media right here. And now you have four ways of importing media. Okay, so now you have all these clips, music, sound effects you need in the media pool. Now what? I know. It's actually quite a mess right now. Let me start by making the icons a bit smaller. That way, we can see it much better. So now it's time we organize our project. You can right click anywhere in the media pool and choo pin. That will create an empty folder that you can rename, for example, to B roll. Now, for those who don't understand the term B roll, it actually comes from back when they were still filming with film roll, but the term is still valid today. It's basically video that you put on top of another video, which in most cases, is the A roll. Imagine this right here is a clip of me telling a story. All you see and here is me. Then the B roll are the clips that you put on top of the A roll to enhance that story. Now that you understand that, let's get back to organ Okay, where were we? So we just made a folder called B roll. Let's drag all the videos that have B roll in its name into that folder. You can do that one by one, like I'm doing right now. It's gonna take you a while. I promise. Or you can select multiple at once, and then you can drag them all into that folder nicely. Okay, so we have another clip in here that's our A roll. And, of course, you already know what that means. Let's create a folder for that one, too. Call it a roll, and there we go. Let me drag the video into that Okay, so we also have some music in here. So let's create a folder called music like that. And now let's drag our music into that folder. Beautiful. Of course, we're going to do the same thing for our sound effect. We only have one, so that one's easy. Okay, and now one more folder called Images and drag all the pictures in there as well. There you go. Now, your images might be a little bit different, but it all comes to the same thing. I highly recommend you organize your project this way as well. I promise that's going to make it ten times easier to follow along with me throughout the entire class. Now, let's go inside a folder, for example, Bro. Obviously, you'll see all the clips we dragged in here earlier. But now, how do you get back to the other Bins? Well, to do that, go to the Master folder on top. If you can't see it, that means your Bn list is hidden, but you can easily show it by clicking this little button. You see? You can to on or off. Then click the Master Bin, and here are all your folders again. You can, of course, also enter the other bins right here. List. Okay, now that you know how to import your files into the media pool, there's one more step we need to do before we can start editing. We need to make sure our project right here is set up correctly because this will determine how your video will look at the end. To open up settings, click the little gear wheel icon at the bottom right. This opens up the project settings. Don't worry about all these settings yet. We're only looking at the master settings. Here under timeline format, you'll see two important things resolution and frame rate. Now, every video has a resolution and a frame rate. Resolution is the size of your video measured in pixels. It kind of decides how sharp and detailed your image looks. For example, 1920 by 1080 pixels is called full HD or ten ADP, which is still the most common resolution on YouTube. Four K is becoming more popular and it's much sharper, but it also means bigger files and heavier editing for your computer. If you're editing a vertical video for TikTok or shorts, you can check use Vertical resolution here. That'll simply switch the aspect ratio. The frame rate or FBS stands for frames per second. Frames per second means how many images or frames are shown at each second. For YouTube or social media, 30 FPS is a great choice. That's what we're using in this class. For movies, the standard is 24 frames per second because it gives that cinematic look. And if you want super smooth playback, you can go for 60 frames per second, which is often used in gaming edits and stuff like that. It's important to set up your frame rate correctly at the start. Once you start editing your footage, you can't really change the FPS anymore without messing with your footage. But don't worry. Now we have correctly done that, so let's click on Save. There we go. That is all you need for now. With the frame rate and resolution set up correctly, you're now ready to finally start editing videos. See you in the next lesson. 5. The Edit Page: Basic Workflow: Welcome back. It's time to take a look into the Edit Page. Finally. We're skipping the Cut Page for now. We'll get back to that further into this class. Now, this right here is where the video editing timeline comes. It's where you put all your clips together and build your story. And that is the main goal of the Edit Page, building your story. This is exciting, isn't it? It's like playing with blocks. All right. Now, as you can see, you have these buttons on top, just like in the other pages. For example, the Inspector page. You can click it to open it up or close it again. In a future lesson, we're going to look into these panels one by one. So don't worry about them yet. You can close them for now. Okay, now what we're looking for is the media pool. Now we only need this panel. If it's not showing, simply click the Media Pool button to open it up. So the media Pool, this is where you will see all the clips you've put in there back in the Media Page. Remember the place where we organized our project. That's the Media pool, and that's exactly what we can see in the Edit Page as well. Alright, next to the media pool, you'll see two almost identical panels. If you only see one click this little box in the top right corner. That will reveal both of them. Now, when you double click a clip in the media Pool, you can preview it with the left one. This is called the source viewer. You can kind of scrub through your video. All we're doing right now is previewing it. We're not using it in our timeline yet. You can do that with all the media in your media pool. By the way, these clips all look a little washed out right now, but don't worry we're going to fix that soon. Now, a quick recap. The media pool is where your media sits. The source viewer is meant to look at the media from the media pool, okay? But now, what is this right panel doing here? And what's this huge empty space? Like I said at the beginning of this lesson, this is where your timeline comes. It's where we're going to put all our footage from the media panel and build our story. Now, let's go into one of your folders. For example, the B roll. Let's pick this one and drag it into the empty space. And by doing that, it will create a new timeline for you with a video track. An audio track. Now, when you hit the Space Bar to play back your footage, you will see it playing back in the top right panel. This is called The Timeline Viewer, where you can see everything that's going on in the timeline. Now, this new timeline we just created is actually visible in the media pool, as well. I actually highly recommend you rename it to practicing building clips or something. Now, just to stay organized, let's go back to the master Bin, and then right click Choose New Bin. And call it timelines. You'll see that your new folder also appeared in the bin list. Now, go back to the B roll folder and drag the timeline into the timeline folder. And there you have it nice and smooth. Now, there is another way we can import videos into the timeline. Let's double click on one of the other clips. For example, this one. Now, like you learned before, you can look at it in the source panel, kind of preview it to check if this is the clip you want. Wait, let me zoom out timeline a little so we can see more. Now, instead of dragging it from the media pool into the timeline, you can also drag it from the source panel to the timeline. Now, why is this useful? Right. What if I only need a small part of this video instead of the entire video? I don't really need the part where I'm preparing the shot. So well, you can then use the in and out handles to create a selection in that video. It's those gray things that look like to play at. Let's say this selection is all I need. Well, then I simply click it and drag it into the timeline. Other clip. And then the video will be imported on the same video track as the first one. This is called Video Track one, by the way, and you'll also see an audio track. If you want, you can make them bigger to make them easier to see. Now, these audio clips don't have any audio, but if they did, you can drag this line on here to decrease or increase the volume. Wait, let me show you on an actual clip. Maybe I can use one of these songs in the music folder we created to show you guys. Alright, here we go. Let's drag it into the timeline. And as you can see, we can simply decrease the volume by tracking the volume line on your clip. Now, we're going to learn all the details about sound in a later lesson, so stay tuned for that. Okay, now let's remove that song for now. Now, in the timeline, you can drag this clip around however you like now. At the bottom, you will see the audio that belongs to the clip you imported. This is linked to the video clip. So whenever you move around the video, the audio will follow along. That way, the audio will never be out of sync, even when you move the video clip. Now, you can see this thicker line in between the video and the audio track. That line separates all the video clips from the audio clips. Feel free to make them bigger, smaller, whatever you prefer. You might have noticed that these clips don't actually have any audio. So we're going to remove the audio clips. Now, we can just select it and hit backspace. That will delete the video clip, as well. That's because they're linked to each other, remember? So let's undo that for a second. What you can do is right click the clips and then uncheck the ink option. Now you can select them separately and delete the audio by hitting the backspace key. Another option is to keep the tracks linked to each other. And if you want to remove the audio anyway, simply hold down Alt or Option on a Mac and then click the audio clip. This way, you can still only select the audio even when it's linked to the video clip. Again, hit the backspace key to remove it. A third way is by clicking this little chain button. This won't unlink your clips, but it will ignore the fact that they are linked, so you can easily remove them. Oh, yeah, and also good to know you can use this little slider on top to zoom in or out on your clips in the timeline. Or you can hold down Alt on your keyboard and then use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out. You can then use the horizontal scroll bar to navigate through it, or you can just click and hold your middle mouse button and drag the timeline to navigate it. Oh, and if you don't know where you are in the timeline, simply click the full Extend Zoom button. This will make the entire sequence from start to end fit in the timeline. Now, if you go to the preview panels, you can use your scroll wheel to zoom in or out on here as well. Clicking and dragging your middle mouse button, you can kind of move your video around. But now, if you want to reset the size back to normal, just go to the percentage menu on top and click Un fit. Now, obviously, the same thing applies in the source viewer. Alright, guys, I can feel it. You're becoming a real video editor. Now, let's import another clip from the media this one, for example, double click it, make it in an out selection in the source fewer and drag it into the timeline. This is the basic editing workflow and resolve. You pick a clip in the media pool, make a selection, and drag it into the timeline. That's how you can build a story clip by clip. Now, play around with the clips, drag them against each other and make a short simple story. Don't worry about techniques or anything. Just practice the workflow of choosing a clip in the media pool, making a selection in the source panel, and dragging it into the time. It's a super simple and efficient technique. Now, you may have noticed that when you drag a clip on top of the videos that are already in the timeline, Resolve will then create a new video track. So this is the video of my camera parts right here, and this one is the video of me sitting at my desk. If I drag my playhead above the video of my camera part, I will see them in the timeline viewer. But once my playhead reaches the clip of my desk, you won't see the camera parts anymore because the desk clip lays on top of the camera clip. That's basically how a video editing timeline works. The video tracks are stacked on top of each other. It's kind of like putting a photo on top of another photo. You won't see what's underneath. Now, on every video clip in the timeline, you have this small handle in the top left and top right corner. If you pull that one, you will create a fade in transition. If we play it back real quick, we can see that the clip goes from black to fully visible. Very simple. You can do the same thing with audio clips, by the way. Wait, let me make this a little bit bigger and select all the audio clips in the timeline and then remove them. Alright, I'm going to drag in one of my songs from earlier. Look, as you can see, we can create this fade in effect on an audio clip, as well. Now, that is cool, right? Oh, yeah, this one is useful. If you want to make the timeline appear bigger, you already know by now that you can close up the media pool, but you can also simply leave it open and click the shrink button on the top left. This will allow you to keep the media pool open, but a smaller version of it, and you'll have a big fancy timeline at the same time. This also applies to the panels on the right side of the vinca Resolve with the Inspector panel, but we don't need that yet, so let's close it up entirely. Alright, now, one more important thing, you may have noticed that these clips look kind of flat and washed out. That's because some of them are shot in a flat looking color profile called Log. Some cameras have that feature. In most cases, when you're filming with your phone, for example, that video will be shot in a Rec seven oh nine color profile, which in easy terms is just a normal color profile. Now to get rid of the washed out colors in our project, we need to turn this lock color profile into Rec seven oh nine, or in other words, a normal color profile. Very simple to do that. Just follow along with me. So in the media pool, we got to find the clips that are shot in a lock color profile. Now, they are easy to identify because they're all shot with the same camera, which is this one, the Panasonic LomixGHsix. So all the clips shot in Log are tagged with GH six. That's why I didn't want you to rename the clips. So let's hold down Control and left click all the clips that are shot with the GH six. Then right click them, go to Lu in here, find Panasonic, and then choose Rec seven oh nine. Boom. And now all your lock clips are looking normal with beautiful colors. Now, there's one more clip that we can forget, and it's in the A roll folder. This one is also shot with the Panasonic omixGight six. So right click it. Go to Lut then Panasonic, and then click Rec seven oh nine. Now, you're probably wondering why are some people shooting with a flat, ugly color profile? Well, in easy terms, lock will give you much more flexibility when color grading, which means that in the end, your footage will look high quality. And that's all you need to remember about Lock. Okay, so now it's your turn to play around with the techniques you learn in this lesson. Just practice importing clips into the timeline just for a few minutes. Try and really get familiar with it because it's going to be very useful for the rest of your editing career. 6. The Edit Page: Trimming: Alright, so hope you had fun practicing. Now it's time to learn some basic video editing. This is exciting. Now, we just learned we can drag clips in the timeline from the media pool and from the source viewer. Now, there's one more way you can import footage. Right here, we have three buttons. Wait, let's undo these clips for a second. The first one is named Insert clip. If you click it will look at the location of your play at and split the clip. Your video will then be imported in between, and the other clips are being pushed to the right. Let's hit Control Z to undo this real quick. Let me show you again. When you press Insert clip, literally, all it does is it splits the clip where your played is on and then puts your video from the media pool right in between it. Let's do it again. The second button is called Ort clip. This will not look at your clips in the timeline. Wherever your playhead is located, it will import it right there. And as you can see, it will delete everything that sits in its way. I'll completely ignore it. The third one is pretty cool. It's called replace clip. This will replace the clip in the timeline with this one. The old clip will be removed and replaced by the one from the source viewer. Now, instead of using those three buttons, you can also click your video and drag it into the timeline view. Then the same options will appear right here. Oh, yeah, along with a few others. For example, place on top. This one will put your clip on another video track on top of your other videos. Let's select another B roll clip for a moment. Alright, so you also have a pend to end, and that will simply place it at the end of your sequence. This can be useful when you're creating a quick sequence where you're putting a lot of clips after each other. Now, let's start with trimming our clips. Maybe I can remove those for now. And let's say I imported this video. Well, the first thing you want to do is choose where you want this video to start. To do that, move your cursor to the edge of that clip. You'll then see this trimming icon, kind of like a bracket. If you now click and drag your clip, you can get rid of the part you don't need. You can do the same thing to the other side of your clip, and now if you play back your footage, we have a nice and beautiful clip of my camera. But now, what if I want to add a clip right here at the place where my playad is? Well, you can use the import buttons from before, or we can split our clip and make space. To do that, go to the toolbar and select a Razor tool. You can then simply click somewhere on your clips. To split them up. Now, let me drag them away from each other to make some space. Oh, and you don't have to use the razor tool. You can also keep the selection tool, move to the location where you want to split up the clip, and then hit Control plus Backslash on your keyboard. That's the shortcut for splitting up your clip. Alright, you now have space to import one of the other clips in between them. All you have to do now is get rid of these empty spaces. You can simply grab the selection tool again and snap your clips against them, or you can click the empty space and hit the backspace key. Everything on the right side will then snap against your other clips, as you can see. Very useful. Now, if for some reason, your clips don't snap against each other like this, that's probably because you accidentally disabled the snapping feature. Just make sure this magnet is highlighted, which means it's enabled. And there you go. It's dead easy. Alright, now, let's say I want to make this clip a bit shorter. You can then trim it until you're satisfied with the length. And then again, remove the empty space in between the clips. But there's actually a more efficient way of doing this. So instead of doing what we just did, go to the toolbar and click the Trim Edit mode button. If you now trim the it automatically stays glued against the other clip. It doesn't leave a gap anymore. It's nothing more than an efficient way of trimming. Now, this tool has another purpose tool, slipping. If you click and drag the middle of a clip, it will slip this clip. This way, you keep the same length, but it will show a different part of your clip. Wait, let me put the play head on it. You can actually see a ghost clip behind the entire video. That's the actual full length of the clip. If you click and drag the bottom, it will trim the clips around it. And sometimes, this can come in real handy. Now, next, I want to show you the most important technique when trimming videos. So we're going to create a new timeline first. Remember the timeline folder we created. Let's open it up. And in here, right click, then go to timelines and then choose Create New timeline. Let me call it editing story, for example. This is going to be the timeline where we edit our video together. Leave all the settings as they are and choose Create. And now, as you can see, we have an empty timeline again. Now, don't worry. You can still switch back to the last one by double clicking the one in your timeline folder or going to the timeline viewer on top. Right here in this drop down menu, you can switch between timelines, as well. Now, in your new empty timeline, we're going to import the roll video. To do that, simply go to that folder, open it up, and there it is. Drag it in the timeline. Let's hide the source viewer for now because we don't need to browse the media pool at this moment. Also, let me hit full Extend Zoom so we can see the entire timeline. Alright, so this is a recording of me reading my script, talking about why I love video editing. As I said before, this is the video we're going to edit together. Make sure to make the audio track big enough so that you can see the waveforms. Now, let's start by trimming away everything in the front of the clip that we don't need. I want my video to start at the moment where I'm about to sit down, so trim everything away until that point. Let's snap the clip to the beginning of the sequence. Ah. There's something magical about video editing. Alright, so there's that. Now, here's the most efficient trimming technique you're going to use for the rest of your life. It's called Trim Start to play at and Trim end to play at. We're gonna use it to cut away all the bad takes and breaths in this recording. So move forward in your video to the point where I stop speaking. You can look at the audio waveforms. So make sure the playhead sits at the point where the waveform stops. That way, you know that I stop talking. Then split your clip by hitting Control plus Backslash on your keyboard. Now everything that comes after this cut is just me grabbing my script. So we're going to remove all of that. To do that, move your played to the moment where I'm starting to speak again. Now hit Control plus Shift plus left bracket, and this will delete everything from the start of your clip to your playhead. And everything on the right side of the played will snap against the left clips. Now, let me undo that real quick and show you one more time. So you can see where my playhead if I now press Control plus Shift plus left bracket, everything from the last cut to the play t will be removed. You see? You're going to use this constantly when cutting away bad takes. If you want, you can, of course, zoom in on your cut right now and fine tune it by using the trim edit mode. Let's listen to it. There's something magical about video editing. You take raw messy footage out of your camera. Alright, that's very nice. Now, if this Control plus Shift plus left bracket keyboard shortcut is too difficult for you to remember, or if you can't find it on your keyboard, I'm going to show you in a second how to change that shortcut. So don't worry. Let's continue cutting our video. Now, move forward a little to the point where I'm talking again. Right before I start speaking, split the clip. Okay, what if I want to remove everything on the right side of the played all the way to the end of this clip or the next cut? Then press the shortcut Control plus Shift plus right bracket. There you go, does the exact same thing, but on the other side of the played. Now, again, before you practice this, I highly recommend you change the shortcuts because they are simply way too difficult. Do that. Head over to the DaVinci Resolve menu on top and click keyboard customization. And here you will find each and every shortcut of Resolve. But to change the shortcuts we just used, type star to play at in the search bar. Next, expand the ripple menu, and right here, remove the current shortcut. Then replace it with Q. By default, it will ask you to overwrite the source and timeline viewer shortcut so to assign another shortcut to that one click the warning icon and then click the command in the left list. Now you can remove the shortcut or replace it with another one. Now, back to the search bar. This time, type in end to play at. For this shortcut, I recommend setting the X key. Then, of course, do the same thing as we did before with the start to play at shortcut, and there you go. I highly recommend changing the split shortcut, as well. I replace the Control plus backslash shortcut with C. Then click on Save. This will ask you to give your new profile a name, and there you go. It's that easy. Now, before you continue to the next lesson, try practicing removing all the bad takes and breads from this video, using the cutting techniques you have learned from this lesson. Split your clips where you need to using C on your keyboard, and then use the trim start to play at shortcut, which is Q, and use the trim end to play at shortcut, which is X. Remove everything that doesn't belong here in this video. What you're seeing right now is sped up, obviously, but when you're done, it should look something like this. Ah. There's something magical about video editing. You take raw messy footage out of your camera straight into the timeline of resolve and turn it into a video that makes people feel something. You can make people laugh or perhaps cry. You have the power to inspire people. You don't just edit videos. You shape stories. And when it all comes together, it feels like magic. That's why I love video editing. 7. Custom Shortcuts: Alright, so while you guys were trimming down our story, I fixed Lily, and she's gonna tell us more about shortcuts. Breath a four to save your price. Oh, no. Go off. That will shut down Resolve. Don't do that. She still needs some work, I guess. Alright, so in the last lesson, we already discussed shortcuts a little bit. Next, we're going to learn how to create a sharable custom profile. So to do that, go back to the DaVinci Resolve menu on top. Then click keyboard customization. Now, just as you learned before, customize the shortcuts to your liking. We already changed the shortcut for splitting clips for trimming start to play at, and for trimming to play it. So if you're happy with how they are good. Then we can now save our profile. Now let's move on to the top right. You can open up a drop down menu with pre installed shortcut templates. Those are very useful if you're coming from premiere or Final Cut. But if you just created your own custom shortcuts, open up the menu on the top right. Then click Save As New Preset. You can then give it a name. For example, Tim on Best Shortcuts ever. Number two, number one already exists. And then click Okay. You will find this saved profile back in the same menu at the top right. You can also export this layout and save it somewhere on your computer. That way, you can send it to a friend or another device. Now, let's say you just received a shortcut preset file, then this is how to import it. Just click the Import button and then find the preset you downloaded and click on O now you have imported the custom shortcuts. Now, as a bonus, I created a cool PDF with the most essential shortcuts in Resolve. Some of these shortcuts are default, others are my custom shortcuts. I've created them because they're simply better than the default ones. And with the PDF, I also included a preset that you can import into Resolve, just like you learned. Next, we're going to move on to editing some more stuff in the timeline. 8. The Edit Page: Editing Techniques & B-roll: It's time to give yourself a small applause because you have been through a lot of video editing knowledge. You're growing as a video editor every minute, and I'm so proud of you. That's why in this lesson, we're going to do something fun as if this class isn't any fun. This class is fun, right? We're going to enhance our story in the timeline by adding B roll clips to it. Again, we already have a role in the timeline, which is me telling the story. The B roll is meant to lay on top of the A roll, and in our case, it's going to help us tell a story. As you already all the B roll clips are already in your project, ready to use. Alright, so first of all, let's make some space for a second video track. You can do that by making video track a little smaller. Again, if your timeline is zoomed in too much, click the full extent Zoom button. This will show you the entire sequence. Now, just for fun, I want to change the color of my A roll, and to do that, select all the clips in the timeline. Then go to clip Color and then set it to brown. Or maybe another color you like. Now, let's play the video and listen to where we have to put the B something magical about video editing. You take raw messy footage out of your camera straight into the timeline of results. Okay, so right here, we're taking raw footage out of the camera. Let's find a clip in the B roll in that fits that description. Maybe make these videos a bit bigger. Of course, that's going to be this camera video. Double click it, and that will open up the source viewer again. Let's open up both the source and timeline viewer. That's much better. Alright, before importing the footage, let's make a selection like you learned before. As you can see, we only need the part where we're taking the SSD out of the camera. So again, use these handles to make a selection. Or you can also use the I and Okies on your keyboard to set an in and out point. Now, drag the clip in the timeline on top of your A roll, of course, and that will create a second video track. You can actually snap the clip of the camera against the cut in our story. That way, you'll instantly see it pop up like this. Necessary, you can always drag your clip a bit longer to cover the A roll. Alright, now we're going to do this together clip by clip. Let's hit play and listen to the story. You take raw messy footage out of your camera straight into the timeline of Resolve. So now I need a B roll clip of footage that's being imported in Resolve. And of course, we already have that. Again, let's make a selection of the part we actually need, and let's drag it into the timeline. Nice and smooth. There you go. Let's continue. Dissolve. And turn it into a video that makes people feel something. Alright, here we don't need any B roll. Play. You can make people laugh or perhaps cry. Okay, a clip of me laughing and another one of me crying. We have both of them in the media pool, so let's double click the one where I'm laughing. Okay? Make a selection again. Let me find the correct frame where I start laughing. There it is. Okay, guys, you probably notice that when you drag this video here into the timeline, it will not just import the video, but also the audio, right? Well, since we don't have any audio playing, hold down Alt. Select the empty audio track and hit the backspace on your keyboard. Now, wouldn't it be nicer if we just had the option to only import the video track without the audio? You can. Let me remove the laughing clip for a second out of the timeline. Now, back in the source viewer, when you hover your cursor over your clip, this video and audio icon will appear. If you click and drag that video button, only the video will be imported. Same thing for the audio button, by the way. Let's drag it into the correct spot, and there you go. You can make people laugh. I know. I could have told you guys earlier. Honestly, I forgot. Okay, let's hit play. Or perhaps cry. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna look for the clip where I'm crying. Guys, it's fake. I wasn't really crying. I know I'm a great actor. All jokes aside, just make a selection of the part you need and drag it into the timeline. Of course, trim your clips a bit until it fits the A role. There you go. Now, you're really starting to feel how smooth it is to edit video and resolve. Let's continue. You have the power to inspire people. The power to inspire people. So here we can do a few things. I'm going to add the shots of me putting together the camera parts because, you know, those camera parts inspire me to make videos. By the way, if you're hovering your video in the media pool, you can also use the in and out keys on your keyboard to make that selection. Then double click the video and again go into the source viewer and drag it into the timeline. There you go. Let's snap it against the other clips and trim it where it's necessary. Okay, now we got to find the clip in the media pool where I'm connecting my camera with my lens. And there it is. Okay, let's make another selection because I had a lot of bad takes in here, ignore them, and then drag it into the timeline. Now, make it a little shorter to make it fit the A roll. Alright, so right here at the end of the video, what I want to do here is add the clips where I'm putting on my headphones. We're going to do something special here. If we go and preview those clips, you can clearly see I'm doing the same action. I'm putting on headphones. Now, let's start with the medium shot. I'm going to make my selection somewhere around the point where I'm putting on my headphones, drag it into the timeline right after the clip of me looking at my camera. Now, go back in the media pool and double click on the close up shot. Now again, make the same selection of me putting on headphones and drag it into the timeline. If we now snap it together and trim it a little bit, and then hit the play button. Yeah, no, this doesn't really look good, right? It feels weird because it doesn't flow. I'm doing the same action twice in a different clip. That doesn't make any sense, but there's actually something we can do about it, and that's by cutting right into the action. So on the first clip right here, I want you to grab the end of the clip and trim away everything until you reach the middle of the action. So right when I'm moving my hands up, that's where you said it cut. Now the clip is a bit too short, so let's move it to the side. Extend it from the front. Alright, stay with me. Now, go to the close up shot and do the same thing. But this time at the front of the clip, trim away everything until you reach the point where I'm in that same action again. Now snap those clips against each other and perhaps trim the sides to make it fit the A roll and take a look at the result. Just edit videos. You shape stories. And when it all comes together, it feels like magic. That's why I love video editing. Now those two clips flow into each other. This is a technique constantly used in film, YouTube videos, movies, music videos, everything. It's being used everywhere, and it's called the continuity Cut. This is a super cool technique, guys. Definitely use it. Next, I want to teach you a super cool technique. It's called a Jacut. A j cut is when the audio from the next scene starts playing before the video cuts. And this creates a smooth and natural transition. The cut literally has the shape of a J, and that's why it's called a jacut, of course. Now, let me show you how it's done. First, let's close the stores viewer because we don't really need that right now. Let's zoom in a little on our first roll clip we added to our video. To create a Jacut, we want to hear the audio of the next scene before the video cuts. To do that, let's hide video track number two for a moment. That way, we can see the clips on this track when playing back in the timeline. Now, to create a Jacut, we're going to make the first clip a bit longer and the second one shorter. To do that, you want to hold down Alt on your keyboard so we can only alter the video clip. Don't want to mess up the audio. So again, hold down Alt, and in between the two cuts, click and drag to the right to make the first clip a little longer. You can see both the left and the right clips in the timeline viewer, by the way. As you can see, we can't make the clip that long because right there, I'm looking away from the camera. So let's go back and stop right before that. And that already has the shape of a J. Now make video track number two visible again and trim back our camera clip. And that's all to it. Now you have a jacut. Magical about video editing. You take raw messy footage out. Now, besides a jacut there's actually something similar, an Alcut. That one is even easier. An Alcut is when the audio of the previous clip continues under the next video. To use that technique in our video, navigate to the clip where I'm laughing right here, make the video play a little sooner. Now this clip already starts playing while I'm still talking in the previous shot. Makes people feel something. You can make people laugh or perhaps cry. There you have it another smooth cut. Now, another fun way of intentionally adding cuts to your video is by adding a cut at a power word. This is a coincidence, but right here, I'm saying the word power. Or perhaps cry. You have the power. Well, you can actually decide to add a cut right there to make it more impactful. Just to make things easier, let's add a marker here, right where I'm saying power. To do that, click the marker button. There you go. Next, move your cursor in between the two cuts until you see this trim icon. You can use this to literally move the cut to another location. Drag until it snaps to the marker. As you can see, this kind of extends the clip on the left and shortens the clip on the right. This is what it looks like. Or perhaps cry. You have the power to inspire people. If Resolve isn't showing you the right part of the video anymore, go into Trim Edit mode from before, and click and drag in the middle of your clip to tweak it. That's better. Now, we do have one little problem. The clip of my camera parts is a little too short. So let's look for another power word. Power to inspire people. There you go. Inspire is a great one. Let's move the cut again and tweak the video until it fits the power word. There you go. I did the same thing for the headphone clips, by the way, and this is what it looks like. Or perhaps cry. You have the power to inspire people. You don't just edit videos. You shape stories. And when it all comes together, it feels like magic. Now, there's so much more you can learn about cuts, but the ones you just mastered are the ones you're going to use 99% of the time. Next, we're going to take a look at the Cut Page together, and after that, we're going to do something really fun. 9. The Cut Page: Overview: Alright, the Cut Page. Now that you've learned everything about the Edit Page, it's so much easier to understand the Cut Page and to realize that it's actually something optional. That's because everything you can do in here, you can also do in the Edit Page. So we're going over this one quickly. This page is made for speed. It's meant to help you edit your clips as fast as possible, and it does a great job at doing that. You can already see an edited video in here, and that's actually the video we just created in the last lesson. Everything that you're going to do in here, you will see in the Edit Page. Now, probably the biggest difference between the Cut Page and the Edit Page is that you can't zoom in or out in the timeline. Instead, you have this secondary timeline that shows you the entire sequence zoomed out. You can use that to navigate your timeline. You can basically apply the same editing techniques in here as in the Edit Page. I suggest you switch to the other timeline. We create it first for practicing. Now it doesn't matter if you mess up. Now, go ahead and play around. Practice some trimming on your clips in the timeline, delete the empty spaces, try to start and to playhead shortcuts, which are Q and X, by the way, all of them work in here as well. The cool thing is with this huge timeline on top, you can actually trim your clips or rearrange them in here as well. Also, if you go to the left, you'll have the option to enable or disable ripple this is enabled, as you can see, when I'm making this clip longer, everything will stay glued together. Let's say I want to remove this section of my clip. If I navigate to the side of the clip and trim it shorter, everything on the right side of the played will move. It's literally glued together. Let's disable Ripple again for now. Okay, do you see these brackets with arrows in the middle? They can be used to move your video around inside this clip? And show another section of your video. Here, let's try it on this one. You can actually see the ghost outline of the entire clip. This is exactly like the trim edit mode in the Edit panel from earlier. It works really well. Alright, so if you do the same action, dragging your clip from the middle, okay, try holding down shift at the same time. You'll notice that now the clips around it will be trimming. Again, the same thing happens in the edit panel with the trim edit mode. The only difference is instead of dragging from the middle, you drag your clip from the bottom. Now, just like you can do in your regular timeline, you can drag clips in here from the media pool and create a sequence. Personally, I think it's just more practical in the Edit panel. That's where you're going to be 80% of the time. Anyway, if not 100%. So yeah, many DaVinci Resolve editors simply don't use this page because, again, it's not really a must. It's something optional. I don't really use it much because, again, you can do everything from the Edit Page. It's entirely up to you. Just try it out and see if you like it. In the next lessons, we're going back to the Edit Page, and we're going to have some fun with the Inspector panel. But first, some important life saving settings. 10. Life Saving Settings: Oh, man, you're becoming a real video editor right here. You know how to manage your media, cut your videos, create new timelines and make small montages. You are really mastering the basics right now, which means it's time to save your work. Now, of course, you can go to the File Menu on top and click Save to save your project. Or you can simply press Control plus. Keyboard every now and then. But what if I told you that DaVinci Resolve has an option that automatically saves your project with every small action you do? So if you drag this clip somewhere randomly in the timeline, Resolve will save my project in the background. If I split one of my clips, Resolve will save my project. You'll get the point. This is called Life save, and it can literally save your life. Now, in order for this to work, you need to first enable this. To do that, go to the DaVinci Resolve menu on top and find preferences. Then head over to the user tab on top, then under Project Save and load. Then make sure that life save is checked. That's all you got to do. You can also enable timeline backups and project backups. That way, your work will always be safe. Make sure to choose a backup location. I have mindset to an external hard drive, so it's extra safe. Don't forget to click Save, of course, and now it's going to get exciting. It's time to finally check out the Inspector panel. 11. The Inspector: Overview: So I've been tweaking my editing assistant, Lily, but she just won't darn on anymore. I will destroy all video editors. Still needs more fixing. Anyway, so we're back in the Edit Page. Let's stay in our practicing timeline for now. That way we don't mess things up. First, we're going to practice with some really fun stuff on this timeline. And for that, we're going to take a look at the Inspector panel. You'll find it back right here at the top right of DaVinci Resolve. Let's expand it so we can see the full size version. The Inspector panel lets you adjust the settings of a selected clip like it's position, size, rotation, and other properties. Let's say I want to zoom this clip in right here. Then all I have to do is make sure my video in the timeline is selected. And then in the Inspector panel, click and drag the Zoom property here. If you drag it to the right, you will increase the Zoom. And if you drag it to the left, as you can see, it will decrease the Zoom. Let me zoom that back in. Alright. Now, this Zoom effect is applied to the clip in the timeline. However, it's not applied to the source clip in the media pool, only to the clip we selected in the timeline. If you want to, you can double click on the source clip. That will open up the source humor by the way. And any adjustment you now make in the Inspector will be applied to the source clip. Super simple. Now, let me reset the transform properties real quick, and we're going to do the same thing on our clip in the timeline. Reset it, and there we go, Alright. Now, you probably wonder on top of this panel, you'll see those different pages. I know. DaVinci Resolve is all about pages. Also, in here, every page has its own purpose. You just saw the video tap, but there's also an audio tap which can be used to change the volume, banning, pitch, and later on in this class, we're also going to work with effects, and they can also be adjusted in here. Same thing for transitions. All right, so now that you understand the Inspector panel, we're going to work with it, starting by cropping and reframing our videos. 12. Cropping & Reframing: Welcome back, guys. Today, we're learning about cropping and reframing. Exciting, right? So we're basically continuing where we left off. So you're already aware of the Inspector panel, which is where we will be reframing our videos first. So as you already know, you first have to select a clip in the timeline. Then in the Inspector panel, all the adjustments you make will be applied to that selected clip. Following me? Alright. Now, why would we reframe a clip? Take a look at this clip of a church. You have that one, too in your project files, by the way. When I was filming this video, my goal was for the church to be centered. Didn't go as planned, but that's where reframing will come in handy. So make sure the church video in the timeline is selected and head over to the video tab in the Inspector. Now we can use our position property to center the church and kind of gamble the middle of the timeline preview. Or what you can do, as well, is go to this little menu on top and enable some of these safe guides. The one we're looking for is the action and center safe guides. If you click them, you'll get these guides in the viewer that will help you center. Play around with the scale and position properties until the church is centered. Now, let's scale up the video to get rid of the black parts. Then tweak the position again. Also play with the rotation. Otherwise, it looks like the church is going to fall. It's all about going back and forward with these controls until it all looks centered. And there you go. Perfect. Okay, there's another way you can reframe your video. Let me reset the transform properties to demonstrate you in the timeline view go to the transform button on the bottom left. You can open up a menu from here with some tools, but for now, let's click on Transform. By the way, the last tool you use in here will be the one visible right here outside the menu. You can also toggle it on or off by clicking the transform button right here. In the timeline viewer, you can now see this frame around your video with these dots. If you drag one on the side, you can kind of squeeze your video or stretch it. Let's do that. If you click and drag a point from a corner, you can adjust the Zoom of your video to change the position of your clip. Simply click and drag somewhere inside the frame. It's that simple. In the middle, you'll find two more points. With the one on top, you can rotate your video by simply clicking it and dragging it to the left or the right. The further you move away from the middle point, the more precise your rotation will be. The closer you get, the higher the sensitivity. It will basically turn around the other dot you see. That's called the anchor point. Again, it's just a matter of going back and forward between these properties. Kind of like ping pong. I don't know why I said that. Let's continue. Now, back in the Inspector, let me disable the transform effect for a moment. And we don't need our guides anymore, so let's disable them, too. Now, what is this pitch and jaw property doing here? If you would just pitch, your video will kind of change perspective around the horizontal axis. This can be used if you want to make it look like the subject is filmed from a lower angle, for example. Now let me scale it up for a moment. Look at the difference. This can make it look a bit more natural in some cases. The jaw slider does the same thing, but around the vertical axis, it kind of makes your video appear from the sides. I don't really use this much, but just know it's there. Next, we have these two buttons, horizontal and vertical flip. Super useful. It simply does what it says. Alright, so quick recap. All these effects will be applied to the clip selected in the timeline. Or the video selected in the media pool. Remember to select a clip in the media pool, you got to double click it. Otherwise, it will be applied to the selected one in the timeline. And only when your clip is selected, then the adjustments you make in the Inspector panel will be directly applied to that clip. These properties can be disabled if you like, or if you messed up. You can always reset them back to the default values. These diamonds right here next to the properties are called keyframes, but I'll tell you more about them soon. First, we're going to take a look at cropping. Let's hide the transform tab and expand the cropping tab. Cropping is basically cutting away parts from your video, not in the timeline like this, but actually on your clip. Let's say we only want to see the church in this video. Then we can create a crop around it. Make sure to check retain image position. And now if you play around with the crop direction properties, you can actually cut away everything you don't want to see in the image. Now, let me show you why we checked retain image position. Let's uncheck it. As you can see, the crop isn't straight anymore. That's because we adjust the position scale and rotation. You can clearly see what happens when you adjust the transform properties again. Not only will they be applied to your video, but also to the crop. If you check, retain image position, the crop will always stay the same. And every adjustment you will happen inside the crop. Very simple. Now, let's reset the transform and crop properties. There's actually a second way you can use the crop effect, and that's by going back to the tools menu in the timeline viewer. In this menu, you'll also find the cropping feature. When you enable it, you can simply crop right here in the timeline viewer. But now, actually, why would you even crop? Well, for example, when you want to show three buildings at the same time, let me demonstrate how to do that. Now that we cropped our video, we're going to duplicate it. To do that, hold down Alt on your keyboard and drag the church video one track up. This will create an exact duplicate of your video. Even the same crop and transform properties will be copied to the duplicates. Let's make the video tracks a bit smaller for now. Also, duplicate your clip one more time. Oh, and I want my timeline to look pretty. So let me resize the tracks, right? Now we have three videos playing at the same time, but how come we can only see one? That's because they're all exactly on top of each other. Remember, these two, they're on top of each other. You can't see what's behind them. Alright, but then why would you do this? Well, because we have a crop applied to these clips, we can simply select one of them and adjust the position of that singular clip. You see what happens? Now two clips are visible. Next, select the second video and do the same thing in the Inspector panel. Another time the third video selected and adjust the position. It's not really in the middle, but you can go back and forward between the clips and keep readjusting them until you have something you like. Looks beautiful, right? And there you have it. You now know how to reframe and how to crop your videos. Now, before we move on to the next lesson, there's one cool feature I want to show you next. You'll find it back underneath cropping in the Inspector panel. It's called Dynamic Zoom. With this effect, you can make your video zoom in slowly, just like it's doing right now. On this pretty face. It's super simple. Let's use this clip where I'm crying again. I know I deserve an Oscar. Make sure my crying clip is selected in the timeline, and now a green and a red box have appeared in the timeline viewer. Okay, so the green box represents the framing where your video will be at the start of your clip. And the red box is the framing where your video will. So if we want the video to start zoomed in on my face, simply create a box around it using the green frame. Then make sure the red box is fully expanded, and let's hit play. See what it does. No difficult animation techniques require. Here's another tip. You can find the dynamic Zoom effect back in the Inspector. Let me close this one up. Alright, there it is. In here, you'll have the option to set up easing. If you choose ease in and out, the animation will start and smoothly. That's cool, right? Now, I want you to remember the term easing, by the way. It's really important. Just remember it. Alright, you're doing a wonderful job, and you're becoming a highly skilled video editor. That means it's now time to learn how to blend videos together using the composite tab. 13. Composite: Blending Modes: Blending modes. You're gonna love this one. Before we start in the B roll folder, you'll find a cool animated video of the Resolve logo. This is not the official logo, by the way. It's something I created for this course. Yours might look a little bit different, but that's okay. Simply grab it and drag it into the timeline. We're still in our practicing timeline, by the way, because everything we're doing right here is a must know for every video editor. Anyway, so here is our clip. Just follow along with me. We're going to drag it one track up because we're going to add a cool background underneath this animation. To find a cool background, open up the effects panel. This is where you'll find endless effects you can apply to your videos. But that's not for this lesson yet. We're only looking for a cool background, and you'll find that underneath the generators. Scroll all the way down, and then here you'll find the Star field animation. I love it. If you hover your cursor over it, you'll actually see it playing back. Now, drag it in the timeline underneath the animation, then trim it. And that way, they are the same length. Nice and smooth. Now, when I play back my video, nothing is really happening. I can only see my animation. I can't see any of my stars. That's because the animation actually has a black, solid background. Now, luckily, we can get rid of that with just a few clicks. Make sure the animation is selected and head over to the Inspector panel again. And here, we'll see a tab called composite. This is where you can adjust the opacity of your but that's not what we're going to do right now. Above the opacity slider, you can see a list with all kinds of composite or blending modes. In the composite menu, find the Add blending mode. This will remove all the blacks in your video, and it will reveal the video behind it. Now you have this cool Star field Resolve animation. How awesome. Definitely play around with all of these blending modes in here. They are really cool. Screen, by the way, is very similar to add. It's just a bit softer. Mess around with it and most importantly, have fun. 14. Video Speed (Slow & Fast): Hello there. I hope you had some fun playing around with all these blending modes. The next important step in mastering video editing is playing with time. So in the B roll folder, you'll find a clip of my car. Let's preview it for a moment. And as you can see, it plays back fairly slow. So we're going to import the clip into the timeline and speed it up. Got to zoom in here real quick. Alright. Now, the easiest way to do that is by selecting your clip and hitting Control plus R on your keyboard. That will reveal this speed line. The bottom, you'll also see a percentage. This means the clip is playing at 100%, which is default for all your clips. If you now click and drag from the top of your video and make the clip shorter, it won't actually make it shorter. It will just play faster. Look at the percentage. It's now at 201%. The length of the clip is now half because it plays double as fast. If you drag it out longer, the clip will play super slowly. You can actually see the speed percentage is at 85% right now. Okay, now, as you can see in the Inspector panel, under the speed change settings, you can make the same adjustments. I just prefer doing it here and not in the Inspector. You also have a few options in here, which I'll show you right now. Okay, so next to the speed percentage, you can see this little arrow. This lets you open up the speed menu for a moment. And here, you can change the speed of your clip too. 100% is default, as you already know. Everything below that will make it play slower and everything above 100 will make it play faster. In this menu, you'll also find the option to play your video in reverse. Just select reverse segment and boom. Your video will play in reverse. To undo that, you can hit Control plus C on your keyboard, of course, or you can go back into the menu and click Reverse segment again. Now, also, let me reset the speed of the clip back to 100. But now, what if I want to make my video freeze for a few seconds and then continue playing again? That's where the freeze frame will be useful. If you open up the speed menu again, you'll see a feature called freeze frame. After selecting it, you will see two speed points on your clip. The speed of the clip in between this selection is set to zero, which means it's frozen. It doesn't play. The longer you make this selection, the longer the freeze frame will be. It doesn't cut away anything from your video, as you can see. Now to remove it, just open up the small menu and select remove freeze frame. Now, what if you want the first part of your video to play fast and the second one slowly, then you're going to need a speed point. We already have one, as you can see. This is still a remain of the freeze frame we just created. So let me remove that one by going to the speed menu again and then choose clear speed point. Now, to add one, move the player to the point where you want to speed point. And then back in the same menu as before, choose at SpeedPoint. Now you can see it split up the clip into two parts. They are both set to 100%, so nothing much is happening. If I want the left side to play at a faster speed, click and drag the speed point to the left. As you can see, only the left part will speed. That's a bit too fast. Let's play it slower. Now, if you want to make the right side play faster, simply click and drag the top right of the clip, and there you go. That actually looks really cool. And now it's your turn. Use Mclips or use downloaded ones from the Internet and play around with the speed features and Resolve just for a few minutes. That way you will really get the hang of it. 15. Fix Shaky Footage: I do not have a steady hand, and when I'm filming, the footage is usually looking shaky. Good thing the vinca resolve has our back. To fix shaky footage, we're going to use the stabilization feature in the Inspector panel. So this right here is the clip that has some shaky movements. Well, with the stabilization, you can get rid of that. Let's click On Stabilize and see what it can do for us. Oh, wow. That was quick. Okay. As you can see, that worked really well. But now, what are these different modes? Perspective will, in most cases work best, especially when you're having a lot of camera shake. That's because this one uses three D correction. The similarity works well when you have really subtle shakes. That's because it only uses the X and Y axis to stabilize motion. So bottom line, try not to shake when you're filming. Only use this feature as a last resort. And if it doesn't work well, just pick up your camera and go shooting again. Alright. This was a short lesson, but it can really save your footage. The next lesson, how do I say it is also life saving. 16. Fix Distorted Footage: Oh, my Lord. What happened to my lens? I think someone put the wrong one on my camera. Stupid interns. Let me fix that. There you go. Sometimes when you forgot to switch lenses or perhaps use a camera with an integrated lens like a Go Pro, for example, Yeah, your video can look like this. And of course, sometimes that's exactly what you want. But other times, you want to get rid of it, and that's exactly what you're gonna learn right now. Now, I have some security footage from my car right here. And if I want to use this as a POV shot in my videos or something else, it's not really usable because of the extreme lens distortion. Luckily, you can fix that in just a few steps. That, we're going to the effects library. Now we're going into more detail about this panel soon. But for now, just click the Open effects folder. Then on top, click the magnifying glass. That way, you can search for effects. It's super useful. And now let's look up the lens distortion effect. Here it is. Now, click and drag it to the Security clip. Now, make sure your clip is selected and head over to the Inspector. You'll find lens distortion effect that's applied to your clip. Right here in the effect stab. All you got to do now is click on one of the distortion sliders and move them to the right. These sliders are linked to each other, so they all move together. A cool way to check and see if the video is normal again is by looking at the horizon. It's still a little bit distorted. So what you can do is add a second lens distortion effect, and as you can see in the effects panel, they get stacked onto each other. Let me adjust the distortion again and look at that. Now the road is completely straight. There you go. Now that video is very usable. By the way, if you uncheck the RGB button, you can move these sliders individually. They're not locked together anymore, and that will allow you to create this cool chromatic aberration effect. I don't know if this is useful to you, but look at this as an extra little trick I'm giving you. Alright, now, here's another way to correct your footage. Just to demonstrate let's remove or no, let's disable our lens distortion effect on the security clip. That will turn our video back to the original version. Alright, if we go to the video tab and scroll all the way down, you have another lens correction feature right here. You can again, use the slider to correct your view. But now you're asking, why did I have to go through finding the lens distortion effect and then applying it instead of just using this that's because this is actually a studio feature, which means it's only in the paid version, but it still works with the free version. You just get a watermark. Anyway, at least you now know where to find it. Also with the paid version, you have this analyze button. That will analyze your clip and Resolve will fix the lens distortion for you. It isn't always perfect, but of course, you can still tweak it here. There you go. Wonderful, isn't it? 17. Music & Sound Effects: It's time for one of my favorite things about video editing music and sound effects. It makes your edits more alive. For this, let's go back to our story editing timeline. I'd love to add some music and sound effects here. Now, adding music and sound effects to your timeline is done the exact same way as adding videos. However, before we do that, let's create some space for the audio tracks in the timeline by dragging these up, and there you have it. Also, let's see the entire timeline. There you go. So, in one of the first lessons, we organized our folders in the media pool, remember? So you should have a music folder and a sound effects folder, too. Let's go into the music folder first. I actually made these songs myself years ago when I was still a music producer. Yeah, I came from that world. So you can actually preview an audio clip in the same way as you preview video clips. So find a song you'd like. I'm going to use my typical cinematic song. Drag it into the timeline underneath your video. Let's make that bigger, too, and play. Feel something. You can make people laugh or perhaps cry. The first thing you'll notice is that the music is way too loud. So let's fix that. Simply click and drag the volume line on your clip. You can actually see the waveforms responding to it. The higher you drag it, the louder it will play. Now, I want the music to end at the same moment the video ends. So let me trim my song shorter at the beginning, a little bit too short, actually. And now let's zoom in a bit so we can see it better. Line up the last beat with the end of the story. Let's play it back. That's why I love video editing. Yeah, that sounds very nice, but let's trim the end a little. Now you can make it longer again to make the song start. At the same time the video starts. Ah. It does sound a bit harsh. So remember, when I showed you the fade in option, this is actually done at the beginning of your video. Also, try out clicking and dragging this point in the middle of the curve. That will kind of ease the fad. Ah. There's something magical about video editing. You take raw messy footage out of your camera straight into the timeline of Resolve. And that's a lot better. You can do the same thing with sound effects. I actually created a sound effect for this clip where I'm locking down my lens onto my camera's body. It should be in the sound effects folder, so let's check it out. It's just a simple click sound effect. Alright, let's drag it in the timeline underneath your clip. By the way, I simply recorded this using this mic. Now, we're going to make it a little easier for ourselves. Let's mute Audio Track one and Audio Track two. That way, we can only hear our sound effect, and that will make it easier to sync it. Now, in this video, I'm actually connecting my lens slower than I did in this sound effect. This right here is the part where I'm turning my lens. And this little click at the end is when my lens is connected. So let's split this audio clip in two and move the click to the side. First, we're going to sink this first part, the rattle. You kind of tweak it, so it actually sounds like it's coming from this video. Feel free to trim the sides of your clips to make them fit. Next, find the right spot where this little click has to come. And it's actually right here at the end. Let's check it out. Hey. You have the power to inspire people. You don't just edit videos. Okay, that sounds good. Really cool, of course. Don't forget to play around with the volume of the audio clips. The sound effect has to be subtle. That was it for audio right now. In one of the next lessons, we're going to learn everything in the Fairlight Page, which is where we're going to do some more advanced stuff. But first, we're going to look at something very cool in the next lesson. 18. Video & Audio Transitions: You heard that right. Something very cool for this video, something called transitions. You go that cool. You know what's cool? New batteries. Yeah, yeah, I know Lily. Soon, first, I got to tell them about transitions. Transitions are meant to create smooth changes in between clips. By default, when you cut two clips together, the change is instant. And sometimes that change can work perfectly, but other times it can feel hard. And that's where transitions come in. The most common one is the cross dissolve transition. This one kind of fades from one clip into another one. To create that transition in DaVinci Resolve, right click a cut and choose one of these. It doesn't really matter which one you pick, as you can see, you now have a cross dissolve transition. Now, it doesn't really matter which one you pick because you can simply drag it to make it play longer or to make it play faster. Whatever flips your pancake. Now, this transition by itself looks okay, but there's more to it. If you select a transition, you can head over to the Inspector panel. Transition tab, you'll find multiple settings that allow you to customize the transition to your liking. For example, you don't have to use a cross dissolve transition. You can choose another type, for example, the blur dissolve transition or perhaps the push transition. Every transition, including this one, has its own settings. For example, the length. Now, I don't really use that because you already know you can adjust the length in the timeline, but this is what the push transition looks like, by the way. Great. You can change the direction the transition pushes, by the way. You can make it come from right to left or bottom to up. Let's pick up for change. Yeah, that one looks cool. Okay, the next two features are really important. They will turn your transitions literally from rookie to professional. First, let's put the play at in the middle of the transition. Now, here's a slider called motion blur. It literally does what it says. It adds blur to your clips because they are in movement. The higher you drag this slider, the more blur you get. That almost looks good, but let me decrease it just a little. Ese feature, that's what's going to do the trick. Remember when I told you to remember, well, here is the term easing again. By default, the easing is set to none. This means the movement of the transition is linear. If you choose ease in and out, the animation will feel more naturally instantly because the movement starts slowly, speeds up, and then ends slowly. Okay, so you're almost there. Stay with me because there's one more awesome transition. It's just not in here. Over to the effects panel again. And then under video transitions, you'll see not one transition, like I said before, but actually a list of transitions you can use on your clips. Take a look at CASH Zoom, for example. You can preview the transition by hovering your cursor over it and to apply it to your clips, simply click it, drag it in between two clips into the timeline. If you select the transition, you can again customize it to your liking in the Inspector panel. By the way, these transitions can also be applied to the end of a clip. Obviously, it won't transition into another one, but it can be a nice way to end your videos. If you're coming from Adobe Premiere Pro, these transitions are mind blowing to you. Now, let's take a look at audio transitions because that's the thing, as well. Again, you already played with the fade handles on your audio clips, but you can also transition from one audio clip to another, just like you can do with videos. To do that, right click in between two clips. And just like with the videos, choose one of them. It doesn't really matter which one because you can adjust the length of them afterwards anyway. That sounds like a super smooth transition. Again, you have a bunch of settings you can adjust to customize the transition in the Inspector panel under the audio tap. Now, I want you to go back to the story timeline because now that you understand transitions, I want you to go through this timeline and see if you can add some transitions in here. Please don't overdo it, but try to get familiar with the types of transitions you'll find in the Effects panel. There you go. You're becoming a pro editor. I can feel it. In the next lesson, we're taking a look at video effects. 19. Effects in DaVinci Resolve: Hello there. I hope you enjoyed playing with all these transitions. I certainly did. And now it's time to look into DaVinci Resolves effects. You're already a bit familiar with the effects panel. We already used it for video and audio transitions and for creating a cool background. Now we're going to look into the effects in here and apply it to our videos. Let's go to the open effects, for example. Then go to filters, then Resolve effects, and here you will see a huge list of awesome video effects. Every effect that's in here, you can preview by scrubbing your cursor over the effect. Look at the motion trails, for example. This adds trails to the movement of my video or the Stop Motion effect. This can be really fun, maybe not for disc clip, but, yeah. Now, I folded all these folders because there's so much in here. Let's take a look at the resolve film emulation effects. Camera shake, for example. This looks kind of cool. It actually looks like it's intentional camera shake. Film damage looks cool, as well. Let's try to add some film grain to our video. Of course, just like with transitions, you can go to the Inspector, and in here, you can make adjustments to the effect applied to your clip. Every effect has different settings. Let's play with some. For example, let's pick another size for the film grain. Awesome. Now maybe change the opacity. Yes, play around with the texture and grain size. Look at that. Wow. Now, there are so many effects in here. Even I haven't played around with all of them. Anyway, I want to add some subtle camera shake to one of my desk clips. I think that will look really cool. Obviously, that's a bit too much, but luckily, we can adjust the camera shake, as well. Simply decrease the size of the shake and the speed, as well. This now looks just as if someone is filming this shot by hand. That is awesome. Next, let's try the film damage effect on the church clip. Makes it look old but pretty cool. All right. One more. Let's take a look at the Resolve effects light folder. A glow effect is always cool. Let's try it on my crying clip. We're using that shot a lot, apparently. Anyway, the glow effect kind of makes it look like you're in a dream, especially when you play around with the shine threshold. How awesome. Can also use these effects on animation. It isn't limited to normal video only. For example, we can add some glow to our resolve logo animation from a few lessons back. Simply drag it to your logo, and that already looks great, out of the box. Let's try some lens reflections, maybe. That's a bit much, maybe. So let's decrease the brightness and wow look at how it reacts to the logo animation. Wonderful, isn't it? Alright, I'm curious. What would the light rays effect do on this logo? Oh, that's cool. I think I can tweak it and make it look better. Just playing around with the brightness, maybe, and also the length. Yeah, that's beautiful. Now, there are so many effects in here. I can't possibly show them all, but they all work in the same way. Just pick one, drag it to your clip, and start adjusting them in the Inspector panel. Oh, and definitely go back to your editing story timeline and play around with some effects there. Remember, video editing is an art, so go have fun and be creative. 20. Keyframes: Animations: So I heard you're a real visual effects artist right now. Just kidding. I hope you had fun playing around with the effect. I applied some effects to Mike Los, but now it's time to look into something else. Keyframes. These beautiful little diamonds. Keyframes let you animate almost anything in DaVinci Resolve. Let me explain this to you in the easiest way possible. So, here in the image folder, we have a logo that I made myself. You should have that one, too. By the way, I have to say this, it's not linked to Black Magic design in anyway. Let's say we want this logo to move from the left to the right. Okay? Well, to do that, first of all, make sure your clip is selected in the timeline. Then grab the play at and go to the moment where you want the animation to start. We're going to animate using the Inspector. But first, let's make the logo a bit smaller to give it more room. All right. Now, just the position property in the Inspector panel and place it all the way on the left side of the frame. Now, click the little keyframe button right here. This enabled keyframing on your clip, by the way. The keyframes we just added to our clip now holds this positions data. Keyframe will remember that your logo is right there on the left of your screen. In the timeline, you can actually open up the parameters panel. It's this button that looks like a few keyframes. That will show you the position keyframes we just created. To really see that keyframes, you'll have to scroll down a little until you see the position X and position Y property. You can see this as point A. Start of your animation. To make your logo move to the right, you need to create another keyframe. This keyframes is going to be point B, the end of the animation. To do that, grab the play at and move forward in time. You're basically moving to the point where you want the animation to end. Now, if we adjust the position property, that will automatically create another keyframe. And this new keyframes now holds the position data you just created. So make sure that you're moving the logo to the exact spot that you want the animation to end. That second keyframe holds that position's information. We actually don't need that Y keyframe because we're only moving the logo on the x axis. So you can select that one and delete it. Now, let me trim these clips a bit shorter. Alright, now, so just a quick recap. The first keyframes or point A remembers the first position we gave it. If we move to the second keyframe or point B, we see that that keyframe also remembered the position we gave it. So what happens when we play back the video, you can see the logo moving from the left to the right. Animation starts with the first keyframe and ends with the last one. It now travels from point A to point B. Now, you can still move these A and B points around. They're not stuck or anything. And if you want the animation to play back faster, you just move them closer together. Now it still has to travel the same distance in the timeline viewer, but it has less time. So the animation is just faster. If we drag them away from each other, the animation will play back slower because now it has more time to go from point A to point B. Let me pick something in between. Let me see. Yeah, I like the speed of this animation. Now, as you can see, the animation moves a little bit harsh or in other words, linear. A linear animation is when the animated object instantly starts moving and instantly comes to a stop. It doesn't change speed throughout the entire animation at all. Now, to make sure this animation looks professional, we want to make it look a bit smoother. To do that, we're going to have to ease the keyframes. Kind of like driving a car. When you start the engine of your car and start moving, you first go slowly and then gradually speed up. Then when you're reaching a stop sign, you gradually slow down and come to a smooth stop. That's exactly what we're going to do with our animation. Now, to do that, we're going to have to ease the keyframes. And this is why I told you to remember the easing. You can simply do that by clicking the keyframes panel on top. And here you will kind of see a bigger version of the parameters panel at the bottom. The keyframes you see in here are the exact same ones and the ones in the timeline. If you move them in here, they will move in there. Now, in here, you can also drag around the keyframes if you'd like, but to make the animation smoother, open up the curves editor on top. As you can see, here is our linear position animation. These two dots our keyframes and the line goes straight. This means that the animation is harsh and not smooth at all. Again, these points are the same keyframes we created in the timeline. Now, in the curves Editor on top, you'll find a button called linear. If you click that one, nothing happens because the animation already is linear. But if you select both the keyframes like this open up the menu next to linear icon. You have some options here you probably recognize from earlier effects you learned from this course. Ease in, ease out, and both. To make the animation smooth like butter, click on ease in and ease out. As you can see, the curve looks smooth, and the animation is like a car in traffic. Now, if you want, you can even pull the levers to shape the animation further, but that's not really necessary. And it's also a bit advanced. So decide for yourself if you want to play around with this, it's not needed. But yeah, have fun. Now, besides this, you also have the option to choose for Es in only. If you do that, the animation will start without easing and ends slowly. If you choose to use the Ease out option only, the animation will start slowly and speed up gradually, but it will come to an abrupt stop. Now you have a basic understanding of how keyframes work in the vintua resolve. But now, as I said before, almost any button or any option in the vinca Resolve can be animated. Not just the position property. Let's take a look at this video. I want this video to start blurry and then become sharper. To do that, head over to the effects panel. Let me try and find for the Hmm Gaussian blur effect, perhaps. Then click it and drag it on your video. Make sure the play head is somewhere at the beginning of your clip and make sure your clip is selected, of course. Then go to the effect step in the Inspector and find Gaussian blur. Once you have it, increase the blurs strength. Both horizontal and vertical strength are linked to each other. So if you move one of them, they all right, next, enable keyframing. Now move forward in time and decrease the blur's strength. As you can see, the video now slowly becomes less blurry. Again, you can literally do this with any property in resolve. Now, in the parameters panel, let's track it a little bigger now. Oh, yeah, you can open up the menu on the left and choose to only show parameters with keyframes. I could have told you guys earlier. Don't you think? Now it's a lot easier to find your animations. So here they are the Gaussian blur keyframes. Again, you can drag them away from each other to make the animation slower, or you can make the animation go faster by dragging them closer to each other. It's that simple. Do this a few times until it's in your muscle memory, and believe me, you're going to be a powerful video editor. And we haven't even learned about the Fusion Page yet. I can't wait to show you guys. Good job. See you in the next lesson. 21. Compound Clips: Oh, my. I heard you're a key framing pro now. Good job practicing. I couldn't be more proud. Let's talk about compound clips. So your timeline is becoming too much of a mess. There's a lot going on and you wish there was a way to organize it. Well, that's where compound clips come into play. A compound clip is basically a container or group within your timeline. This allows you to group multiple video and audio clips into one clip. Let me show you how to do that. So in the timeline, select all the clips you want to group together. Then right click them and choose new compound clip. Give it a name for example, practicing compound clips and click on Create. Now you have reorganized your entire selection into one clean clip. You'll also find a copy of this compound clip in the media pool, as well. So this is useful when you want to clean up your project, but it also has another purpose. Since Resolve will look at this as an individual clip, you can do anything with this clip. Basically, anything you can do on a normal clip, you can do with a compound clips so for example, if I dig a film damage effect to the compound clip, that effect will be applied to this compound clip, which means it's basically applied to all your clips. That's cool, right? Now, I can already hear you. What if I want to adjust one of the eclips inside the compound clip? Luckily, you can still do that by right clicking the compound clip and then choosing open in timeline. Now, this will open a new timeline and show you the insides of the compound clip. If you're done adjusting the clips, just go to the timeline viewer on top and switch back to the timeline that you were working on. It's that simple. 22. Adjustment Layers: So what are adjustment clips in DaVinci Resolve? Well, it's basically nothing more than an empty clip where you can apply any effect on. For example, the binoculars effect. That one looks cool, by the way. Now, because that effect is applied to the adjustment clip, that effect will only impact the clips that are below the adjustment clip. Let me move the play to the first clip of the church again. As you can see, no binoculars. But if I drag the adjustment layer on top of it, you can see the binoculars. If I move the clip away, binoculars gone. Binoculars. Fun word to say. Anyway, this is extremely useful when you want to apply an effect to multiple clips at the same time without altering the video. Now, let's say I want to add the CCTV effect to all of these clips in the timeline. Well, to do that, make sure you have the effects panel open, and in the effects folder, you will see adjustment clip. Simply click and drag it into the timeline on top of all your clips. Make sure to extend it so it really covers everything you want. Go back to the effects panel and head over to the effects folder in the toolbox. And here, find the CCTV effect. Now, click and drag it to the adjustment clip, and now the effect will be applied to every clip below it. As you can see, all my clips now have this effect. Guys, this is amazing. Look at that. Wow. The Tesla Cam actually looks. How cool is that? Now, if you want, you can always hide the video track that the adjustment layer is on. That way, you can easily switch the effect on or off. It kind of works like a toggle. Now, it's not just effects that can be applied to the adjustment clips, but also the transform properties, for example. If you zoom in on the adjustment clip, every clip below it will be zoomed in, as well. Same for all the other properties. Let's maybe reset them for now. Okay, maybe let's say you want to add some cinematic black bars to your video. Then all you have to do is add a simple crop to your adjustment clip. Create a small crop at the top and an identical one at the bottom. There you go. Now because of this crop effect, you actually have more control over the framing of your footage. You can, for example, select one of your videos underneath the adjustment clip. Let's pick the one where I'm at my desk again, and now you can go to the video tap and the Inspector and adjust the position of your clip to reframe it. The black bars will give you some wiggle room. I mean, that's awesome, right? Now, here's a new adjustment clip. I made it yellow just for fun. Well, you can also select the adjustment clip and go into the color page. Everything you do in here will then be applied to all the clips that are chilling below the adjustment layers. This is cool if you want to create a certain look for your entire timeline. Let's add a bit of orange. No, maybe decrease the saturation and then add some warmth. Yeah, that's cool. If you then go back to the Edit Page, you can see that your entire timeline now has this kind of look. You can, of course, also disable or enable that adjustment clip if you'd like. Now, I can already feel you worrying more about the color page soon. First, I really want you to try and practice with these adjustment layers. And when you're done with that, we're going to explore Fusion Page, which is definitely the most exciting part of this class. 23. The Fusion Page: Overview: All right. The time has come. You learned how to edit videos. You know how to add transitions, create some cool effects. So what more can you learn? A lot, actually. Now it's time to learn fusion. You mean confusion. No one will ever understand man. I already gave her new batteries. What more do you want? Anyway, Fusion. The Fusion Page can be found right here next to the Edit Page. It's the next stage in video editing. This right here is meant to create visual effects or motion graphics like text animations, all of the fancy stuff. Now, in this lesson, we're going to take it easy because you can actually make a five hour class about fusion. I might do that in the future. Let's dive into the basics of the Fusion Page. Now, to start out, we're going back to the Edit Page. Let's say you want to add some blur effects to this clip to keep it simple. Then we have to open up this clip into Fusion. To do that, select the clip and head over to the Fusion Page. Now you can preview that clip right here in the media viewer. You can scrub around in this clip with this little timeline. This is not the entire edit timeline, by the way. The only thing you're previewing here is the clip you selected in the Edit Page. Then you also have the Inspector panel in here, and that's actually. Okay, now, what are these tiny boxes in here? They are called nodes, and you can move them around however you want. The first node is called Media in. This is the video you selected in the timeline. It's being imported from the Edit Page straight into Fusion. As you can see, that node is connected to the Media Out node. This right here is the end of Fusion. This will be sent back to the timeline. So everything you decide to do in Fusion in between the in and out notes will be sent back to the timeline in the Edit Page. If you look up here, you'll see a bunch of icons. These are all common things that you might use. For example, this little drop icon is a blur effect. If you click and drag it, you can stick it on the line in between the media in and Media. Before you release it, make sure you're seeing this yellow line on the left side of the blur node. So now we have an effect that you can drag and move around. Okay, if this effect is selected, you can go to the Inspector panel and increase the blur size, for example. As you can see, now your video has blur applied to it. So just so you understand, now that clip from the timeline is going through the blur node we just created, and then it goes out again. Back to the timeline. And if we go and take a look in the timeline, you'll actually see the blur we just added infusion. This is basically how fusion works. It's that simple. Your selected video goes from the timeline into fusion with the media in node, okay? Then it goes through the blur effect infusion and then through the media out node, it will be sent back to the Edit Page straight into the timeline. Once you understand that, you're ready to move on. So if you don't understand this, please rewind watch it again and try to understand it and practice along with me. Really, really, really, really important. This is the core basic of how fusion works. Now, there are some confusing things about these nodes, right. You have these weird dots and arrows. Let me explain them to you. The yellow arrow that points toward a node is the input. You can actually disconnect them from each other, and then the viewer panel will be black. Obviously, because nothing is reaching the media out node. So in our example, the media from the timeline goes into the blur node. The yellow arrow coming out of the blur node is the output and goes to the media I can disconnect that one as well. Again, that makes the viewer panel black, and if I reconnect it, my video will be back. Now, if you hover over the node, you'll see these two weird dots appear underneath. That's the control of the viewer panels you see on top of the fusion page. As you can see, the media Onde has one of those two dots enabled the right one. That's because it's actually previewing in the right viewer panel. If I enable the left dot, it will also preview the Onde in the left. Then if I turn off the right dt, the media Onde will only be shown on the left side. Now, I only want to see my output on the right panel, so let me enable that one only. You can, of course, do the same thing for the Inode if you want. If you enable the left one on the media in, you can see the original video that's coming from the timeline in the left viewer panel before it goes through the effects, and then on the right side, you can preview your video with the effects applied. It's a great way to view both the in and out nodes at the same time. Now, if you're still with me, it's time to level up. Just a small level. Okay, so we have a blur effect. Now we can add some text on here. You know, the blur makes the background a little bit more visible. But how do we do that in fusion? In the tool bar above, here you can see a text toom. You can drag it in between the media in and the blur node. But as you release your mouse, you can see it does something weird. It creates this merge node. What this merged node is doing is basically we're telling fusion to merge the media that comes into fusion together with the text node. Then those two merged layers will go through the blur effect together and then through the media back to the timeline. Now, I'm actually making an intentional mistake right now. You'll see why in a second. Let's select the note and head over to the Inspector panel. You can actually type in some text right here. For example, the word performance. Now, I can't really see anything, so let me scale it up a bit. Oh, no. As you can see, my text is blurred, as well. Now, obviously, we don't want that. And that was my intentional mistake. Reason why the text is blurred is because we merged the media in node with a text node before it went through the blur effect. This means the blur will be applied to everything behind it, including our text. If we only want the media in node to be blurred and not the text node, we have to put the text node after the blur node. I hope that makes sense. Let me show you. So let me select the merge node and hit the lead. We don't need that. Next, drag the text node to the right. But how do we connect it? Why doesn't there appear a new merge node right now? That's because there isn't any. But if you go to the toolbar, you will find the merge node right here. Drag it in between the blur node and the media Onde. And now on the text node, you can connect the output to the merge node. Can see, the text is now perfectly visible because it lays on top of the blur node. So now quick recap, the media node gets blurred, and the text node gets merged by everything behind it. And that signal flows straight through the media out back into the timeline. That was a lot to take in, but I'm proud of you. Now, in the next lesson, we're going a little step further. So if you're not entirely with me yet, please rewind, watch it back on your own tempo until you understand the basic concept of notes. Next, we're going to create this cool effect, we're going to put some text behind me, and I can't wait to see you there. 24. The Fusion Page: Masking: Alright, so that was a lot to take in. But I'm proud of you. You are doing an amazing job. Next, we're going to make this text animation where the text is animated behind someone or something. Alright, so there are three ways we can create this effect. The first one is by using a mask. If you don't know what a mask is, don't worry. I'll explain it again in the easiest way possible. To create this, we're going back to our other timeline where we're editing our story. Let's continue where we left off. So right here at the end I want to add the word magic, and I want it to pop up behind me. When it all comes together, it feels like magic. That's why. Let's make some space in here. Let me hide the audio track a little. Okay, we're going to create the text first. To do that, go into the effects panel again. Then click on the title step, and in here, find the text effect. You can now click and drag it into the timeline on top of your video, of course. Now, let me trim it to make it fit. And to adjust the text in here, make sure it's selected and go to the Inspector panel again. Here you will find a text box, and whatever you type in here will be shown on your text layer. Let's type in magic, all caps. You can play around with the fonts if you'd like. Let's see, maybe an extra bold italic font. There you go. Now, let's adjust the size. It has to be a lot bigger. Oh, yeah, you can also actually adjust the size and position in the timeline you can move it around, perhaps move it up, or you know what? Let's put it somewhere right here in the bottom right corner. Next, we're going to animate our text layer to make the text layer float in the frame. To do that, you could technically use the position properties in the title menu, but it's better to not touch that because if you animate this, you can't adjust the position anymore if you'd like to. Anyway, if you head over to the setting step, you'll see another transform property. We're going to use that position property to animate the text layer. So first of all, we're going to navigate to the point where I'm saying the word magic because that's where we want the text to pop in. Feels like math. Once you're there, go back to the Inspector and enable the keyframes for the position property. Now, back in the timeline, move the plate back in time for maybe just one or 2 seconds. If needed, you can make the text layer a bit longer again. Then back in the Inspector, use the Y position property to move the text down. And if we now play back our video, you can see we have a text animation. Now, just like all the animations we did in this class, this one also feels a little bit harsh. No smooth at all. So just as you learned earlier, we need to ease the keyframes because we want the text to come in smoothly. To do that, open up the keyframes step again, and there you have the transform keyframes. Alright, now, go to the curve step, make sure the keyframes are selected. Remember, the keyframes are those little dots in here. So this is a kind of a situation where you only want to use the Ease in curve because at the start of this animation, the text is not even in frame. Now, again, you can actually pull the lever to make it easy and even smoother if you want that. The animation does look smooth now. Let's hide the keyframes panel again, and let's take a look at what we've got. And when it all comes together, it feels like magic. That's why I love video editing. There you go. That looks nice. So we have our text animation, but now we still have to put it behind us. To do that, we're going to duplicate our clip by holding down Alt on your keyboard. Then click the video and drag it above the text layer. You can trim it down, so it only covers the text layer. And now, if you play back the video, you can see that the text animation is gone. Don't worry. It's not really gone. It's just covered up by the duplicate. So basically what we'll do next is cut me out on this clip so that only my body is covering up the text layer. Alright, you can look at it like this. This right here is the original video in the timeline. Then we have this text layer that we put on top here. And what we're going to do next is duplicate this video and cut me out like this using a mask. And if we then put that on top of the original one and the text layer in between, we can kind of move it around behind me. That's the magic behind it. Get it. Let me put some magnets on here real quick. Am, this is the magic we're going to do. Alright, so now select your clip and head over to the Fusion Page. This is where we'll cut me out. Remember, Media in is the clip from the timeline. Everything that happens in between the nodes will be sent back to the timeline. Now, to cut me out, go to the toolbar and find this little icon. This is the polygon icon, and simply drag it in the nodes field, not in between the in and out nodes in the emptiness. Then connect the output of the polygon to the Media in. Now you won't see anything in here. That is normal. Don't worry. To fix that, simply select the polygon and go to the Inspector. Then in here, click Invert. And now you can see me again. Oh, yeah. Alright, now, before we start cutting, make sure the playhead, which is this little red line is set to the beginning of the clip. Okay, now click in the preview panel to create a mask point. Now, I'm going around the edge of my shoulder here. I'm quickly going to zoom in a bit. You can do that, too, by holding down Control and then using your scroll wheel, by the way, and now continue going around. You might notice that if you click and hold, you can actually drag to make this line bend. You can use these handles, of course, to adjust the corners if you'd like. Now, keep doing that. And as we reach my chin, we need a sharp corner. So let's do that. Go around my chin, my beautiful mustache, and here we are at my nose. What a trip we're making together. Now, let's zoom out again. And as you remember, the text layer was only visible at the bottom. So how precise we mask out my face only matters at the bottom, right? This means you can go over the rest quickly. Make sure to go around me and then close the mask up by clicking the first mask point. You might notice we actually created a hole in my face. It kind of hurts. All jokes aside to hide that hole, uncheck the invert option we enabled earlier, and there you go. Let's hide the media in viewer. We only need the out viewer in this case. Feel free to tweak the points of the mask to make it even more precise if you want. And let me reset the view to fit. So we see the entire clip again. And now, if you go back to the Edit Page and play back your video, you'll see that the text is behind me, but it doesn't really look clean. And that's because we created that mask only on the first frame of the clip. Now, to fix that, we're going to animate that mask, so it stays precise. Okay, so back in the Fusion Page, make sure the play at is back at the first frame of your select Clip. Also, select the polygon node, and let's go back to the Inspector. Under the polygon controls, at the bottom, you'll see a small text with right click here for shape animation. This is what we need to do so right click it. Then click this will create a keyframes to the path we created right where the play at is. So if we now move forward in time and adjust the polygon mask, it will automatically create a new keyframes. Let's do that real quick. So I'm moving forward in time and I'm adjusting the mask points. Keep going forward and keep adjusting your mask until you reach the end of the clip. I'll speed it up for you, by the way. Now, let's set the viewer back to fit. And now let's take a peek in the timeline. Okay, so now, as you can see, the mask will follow my body perfectly. Now, if we go back to the Edit Page, we can see that the text animation is now successfully behind me. And when it all comes together, it feels like magic. That's why I love video editing. Good job, my friend. But now, there's actually a second way I can do this, and that's by using the magic. Now, this is actually a studio version, but I highly recommend you follow along, even if you have the free version of Resolve. Because you're going to learn so much about the Fusion Page in the next couple of minutes. Alright, now, in the Edit Page, let me delete the duplicate and the text layer because we're going to create all of that in the Fusion Page right now. Okay, so select the clip and go to the Fusion Page. Remember the media Inode is your selected clip from the Edit Page being plugged into Fusion. Then the video is going through this line where we're going to create all effects. It's plugged into the Media out node where it's being sent back to the Edit Page. So first, let's add our text back. To do that, simply drag a text node onto the line in between the media in and media out. That will create a merge node. Remember that one? Now, let me drag that one to a nice spot real quick. Okay, now, just a quick recap. Merge node merges the media in the clip from the timeline with the text node. So they both flow through the merge node, and then from there, they will travel to media out. So back to the timeline in the Edit Page. Now, to add some actual text on our video, select the text node and type in magic in the text box. Again, let's change the font to something you like, something bold, italic. It's my choice. Use the size slider to make it a little bigger. And then in the timeline viewer itself, you can drag the text around with this little point. Now with this point, you can drag it in any direction, by the way. The arrow that points only allows you to move it up or down. The arrow that points to the right only allows you to move left or right. Okay, let's position the text on the top right this time. Let me rescale it a little, and there we go. Alright, so now the next step is to animate our text again. Maybe this time we can make it come in from the left side. To do that, we're going to the transform tab in the Inspector panel, and in here, we're going to animate the position property. So let's play back for a moment and pause at the point where I'm saying the word magic. Magic. That's magic. Logic.Tic. Alright, here it is. Now, go to the transform properties and click the keyframe next to the offset property. And of course, that created a keyframe, which is this white line in the timeline here. Now, move back a little bit and then decrease the X offset property all the way to the left. There you go. If we scrub between the keyframes, you can see that it's animated now. Again, here we have the same issue. The animation is linear. We got to ease the keyframes. But of course, in fusion, this works a little bit different. Same principle, but different buttons. And here, you have a keyframes stab, which we're not going to cover in this class. And next to it, we have the spine editor. If you open it up, you can see a list on the left with our animated text layer. To make it visible, we have to enable it by checking it. There you go. Now, you got to use the sliders little to find the animation curve and perhaps use the slider on top to Zoom. And there you have them. Now, all you got to do is select the keyframes. Now, we don't really have an ease in or out button, but you do have these button which are basically the same. Now, in the spline editors, you can pull the lever to make the text coming even smoother. And if we now play it back, you'll see that it's beautiful. Like magic. Alright. Now, let's close the spine editor again. Okay, what's cool about the text notes is that you can enable motion blur to the movement of the animation we just created. Now, it's very simple to do that. And the Inspector, go to the setting step. In here, you'll find a motion blur toggle. The shutter angle is automatically set to 180 degrees, which is great, but let me increase the quality real quick. And, wow, okay, if we now scrub through it, you'll see how nice it looks. It's like magic. That's why I Okay, the next step is making our cutout version of me. And, of course, we're putting it on top of all our layers again. Now, in the fusion page, this works a little different. So, to create our cutout version, we need to copy the media in node because this is the original clip with no effects or anything. Then click somewhere random and hit Control plus V on your keyboard to paste your media Inode. Now, before I can cut myself out, I need to add this clip to my fusion chain. We can't directly connect this node because we need another merge node for that. You can find that one right here in the toolbar. So click and drag it to the chain. There you go. Now, you still can't see this clip in the preview panel because it's still not going through our fusion chain. We can connect the output of the node to the merge node, and there it is. As you can see, we can't preview our text animation now because this clip is covering everything up that we've done here. But once we've masked out my body, it will all look perfect. Now, of course, we're not going to mask out myself by hand anymore. That's for Nop We're using the studio feature called Magic mask. Okay, so we want the magic mask to work on this media Inode. So to make sure it will be applied to that, simply select it. Now, press Shift plus Spacebar on your keyboard to open up the tool selector. In here, type in Magic mask and then click on Add. Now, as you can see, the magic mask will be applied to the media in. That's basically how this chain works. First, you have the media in, then you apply the effect on it, then it merges together, and then it flows to the media out node. Alright, now let's do some masking so that we can reveal our text layer again. First, make sure the playhead is somewhere before your text will come in. Then let's click the magic mask node to open up its settings in the Inspector. And here you can select a node. I always put this on better because it's not that much slower than the fast mode. But it's a lot. Now in the preview panel, simply drag a line or simple shape around my body. Fusion will know that I'm trying to mask myself out. In the Inspector panel, click the track forward buttom. Let fusion do its thing, and once it's done, your text animation will happen behind you. I mean, look at the detail. Wow. Alright, so one more quick recap on how the fusion chain flows. First, you have the media Inode, which is the clip from the timeline being plugged into Fusion. We added a text animation on top of that and then merged the text node and the media in node together. That image flows further until it reaches this merge node. Right here, we created another media Inode, added a mask to it, and merged it into the fusion flow. Then everything we created flows further to the media outnde back into the timeline. Let's play back what we created. Nab. And when it all comes together, it feels like magic. That's why I love video editing. That looks amazing. Alright, the third way is actually being done in the Color Page, and we'll do that very soon. But first, it's extremely important that you understand the color page and how it works. 25. The Color Page: Color Correction: The Color Page admit it, you already went ahead and opened it up. Of course, you think by yourself, What on Earth is going on here? I mean, when you see this for the first time, you don't even know where to look. Well, don't worry. In this beautiful lesson, we're learning the necessary basics to create beautiful color grades on your video. First, now, what are we meant to do in this page? Well, the color page is designed to color correct and color grade your footage. It's really important to know that those are two completely different things. Color correction is about balancing and fixing your footage so it looks accurate and consistent, which is what we'll do first. Color grading goes a step further. You can creatively shape the colors and tones, and by doing that, you're going to create a specific style or a cinematic look. So step one, color correcting, step two, color grading. Alright, so we're still in the story editing timeline with all these clips, and that might look a bit overwhelming. So to make things easier, we're going to creating new simple timeline. In the edit page, go to the media pool. Then go back to that timeline folder we created earlier and right here, create a new timeline and call it color practice or something like that. There you nice and clean. I'm going to go into the A roll folder and double click the story recording. And let me quickly grab a small piece of this video by creating a small selection in here. Now, we don't need the audio, so let's drag the video button in the timeline, and there we go. Very nice and clean timeline. Now, let's head over to the Color Page. So what you'll see in here are three main sections. On top, you'll see the viewer panel right here, you can preview your selected video. You can play it back, mute the audio and so on. On the left, you can see the media pool. Ut spanel and the gallery panel. Now, in this class, we're not really using any of them in here, so you can go ahead and hide those if you want. On the right side, you'll see the node s panel. This is where we're going to build our color grade. I will explain it to you in a very basic way. In the middle, you'll see all the clips in your selected timeline. Right now, we only have one clip because we just created this timeline. But let's say we go back for a second and split up the clip. Let's move it to the side and create a small gap in between them. Now, as you can see in the color page, we also see two clips in here. That is because this is your actually timeline. So as you can see beneath your clips, you can see this small timeline. It represents your actual timeline in the edit page. And these are all the clips that are on it. The one you select is the one you can preview on top, okay? You can select them both in the timeline or in the clips panel. That doesn't matter. Can hide these panels, too, if you want. The clips can be hidden with the clip button on the top left. I recommend you leave this one on, and the timeline can be hidden as well with this button right here. Again, just leave it on. Alright, underneath the timeline, you'll see the third part, which are the tools and controls we're going to use to color grade and correct our footage. We're going to start with learning how to color correct by using these color wheels down here. The reason for that is because that's where the foundation is. And once you understand the foundation, all the advanced stuff will become so much easier to learn. So this part is really important. All the corrections we do down here, let me do something random quickly will be applied to the selected node in the node panel. Let me reset that. All right. So quick recap the first section, you'll see the viewer panel and the Nodes panel where we build our grades. Then in the middle, you can navigate your clips in the timeline by selecting them or scrabbing through them using the played. Then the third section are the controls used to color grade footage. Alright, now, before we start, head over to the keyframes step, we actually don't need. We do need the scopes. These are meant to guide you when you're color grading. In this menu, you'll see all different kinds of scopes, but the only one we're using is the parade scope. Don't worry about it yet. It will become very clear in a minute. Okay, let's take a look at the wheels. These are called the color wheels, a primary control in the color page. You'll have the lift, Gamma, gain and offset color wheel. The lift wheels adjust the dark colors in your video. Let's click and drag the exposure wheel right here. If we drag it to the right, it's only having impact on the darker colors of your v. Going to reset that real quick. Let's try the Gamma wheel. If we increase the exposure on this wheel, it only brings up the brightness in the mid tones. The mid tones are in between the darkest and brightest colors, literally in the middle. So this is basically a general control. Let's reset that one, too. Alright, now let's increase the exposure on the gain wheel. As you can see in the video, this only targets the bright areas in my video, like my face, the light bulb in the background. Let me click Reset again. The offset wheel will be applied to all the colors in your video. The dark, mids, the lights, it will push everything or pull everything down. The same thing counts for the color wheels, by the way. If you want to push more warmth into the bright colors in your video, then you have to use the gain wheel for that and push in a little orange. Don't overdo it, of course. As you can see, this makes my face a bit warmer. Alright, let's click the general reset button, which will reset the entire color wheels tab. Okay, so now that you understand these four wheels, I'm going to show you how to read the colors from the parade scope. Now what do you see down here? You see some red, green, blue. Those are the three primary colors. Literally any color around you is made by mixing two or more of these colors. When you play your video, you can actually see these bands moving around. Okay, now, when you look at the site, you see a zero at the bottom. And as you go up, the number goes all the way to 1023. Think of it like this. Down at zero, that's where the absolute blacks are. Zero means ***** dark, no light at all. When you move up towards 1,000, that's where the brightest area lives. Now, if you take a look at my video in here, you can see it's very red, warm, a lot of orange. And that reflects here in the scopes, as well. Red is much more prominent in the middle to higher areas than green and blue. I mean, blue is almost non existent in the mid to high areas. I want you to watch what happens to your video when you adjust these color wheels. Let's take a look at the lift wheel. Those start at the darker areas, remember, I think the black colors in my video aren't dark enough. So by decreasing the exposure wheel on the left color wheel, you'll see the darks getting darker. And if you look at the parade scope, you can actually see the bottom changing the most. Of course, the mids and highs are changing a bit, too. Because this is kind of like a rubber band. When you pull the bottom, the mids and high still move a little. Okay, so I want my subject or myself in my video to look a bit brighter. Let's try increasing the gamma wheel. These are meant to adjust the mid tones, remember? If I'm increasing this, you'll see the scope stretch from the middle, and you can see that in the viewer panel, as well. This is more of a general control, and it does make the video a little bit brighter. So it kind of depends on what clip you're doing Alright, so, in my opinion, we can still add a little more light to my face. And in this video, those are the brightest areas. So we're going to adjust the exposure on the gain wheel for this one. As you can see, my face and the light bulb are now brighter. You can again see the waveforms stretch like a rubber band. Now, if you want to see what your video looked like before these adjustments, you can go to the viewer panel on top and toggle the color adjustment off. Alright, so that's what we had before. Let me turn it back on. That's a lot better, right? So besides the primary color wheel, you also have the color bars in here. They do the exact same thing. In fact, if you adjust something in here, it will also be adjusted in the color wheels. But we're not going to get too deep into that. Then we have a turret page, and these are the log wheels. They also do the same thing as the primary wheel, and they also look exactly the same. The only difference is they are more precise. Let's increase the exposure of the highlights. This would be called the gain wheel back on the other page. Look what happens in the parade scope. If I adjust the highlights, you'll see that it only affects the highlight band. It doesn't affect the mid or the darks one bit. That's the difference with the color wheels. Let me show you. Like I said, they kind of work like a rubber band. If you increase the gain, it will pull on the entire spectrum a bit. Again, this is not the case with the log wheels. The adjustments you make here are much more precise. The only reason I'm telling you guys this is that I don't want you to be confused when you accidentally open up the lock wheels. 99% of the time, you're just going to use the collar wheels anyway. Okay, so everything we've done up until now has been applied to this node right here. However, I want to do some more corrections to my video, but I don't want them to be applied to this you know, I don't want to mess up my color correction I created. So, to make sure that doesn't happen, right click in the Node panel. Go to add Node. You'll see a bunch of node types, but don't worry about them. Just choose corrector. Now, this node doesn't do anything because it's not connected in your node flow. It's actually very simple to connect it. You just click it and drag it onto your line like this. There you go. So now you have two nodes. The first one contains all the adjustments we made with the color wheels. This one doesn't contain anything yet. So make sure it's selected. And right now, we're going to look into these controls above and below the color wheels. Now, since our second node is selected, all of these adjustments will be applied to that second node. You can play around with the general temperature of your video, the tint, the contrast, or perhaps a little bit of saturation. Now, again, these adjustments are all applied to the second node, and as you can see, messed up. Luckily, I can simply hide the second node by clicking this small number. That will toggle it on or off, or you can simply remove it, and that was actually all we needed to do. And now you understand how the nodes work. Okay, that looks great, but now we actually only applied this color correction to the selected clip in the timeline. I want it to be applied to all the clips in the timeline that are coming from the same source. Which is our A roll clip. To do that, right click the clip we just correct it. Then choose use remote creates. Now all your clips from the roll video in this timeline should have the same grade. If it doesn't work, right click the clip again and this time choose copy local grade to remove. That should do the Trick. Now, if we go back into the story editing timeline, you can see that our A roll doesn't have the color correction we just created. Now, how do we apply that to it? It's very simple. The same thing, right click one of your clips related to the roll and find the option, use remote creates. You'll see that all your roll clips are now color corrected. Before we get into color grading, I want you to try out these techniques and color correct all the B roll clips, mess around with the color wheel with the temperature, tints, contrast, and more. And when you're done, you'll understand how to color correct your footage. 26. The Color Page: Color Grading: Oh, man, I can already see the paint dripping from your face. You played a lot with these color wheels in the last lesson. Anyway, let's do some color grading. Now, before we do that, we got to create a new node in the node panel. So as I told you before, this node contains all the color corrections we did in the last lesson. Here, let me show you by disabling it real quick. Alright, quick recap. This is where your selected clip goes in. Then it flows through this color correction node, and then it goes to the outpoint, which is what you'll see right here. And in the timeline. Now, I don't want to apply my color grading stuff on our color correction node. So what I'm going to do is right click, go to add Node and then choose corrector. Just as you learned in the last lesson, drag the node to the line that connects the first node to the outpoint. You'll see it'll turn yellow. Then drop it right here and there you go. Now you can select this one, and all the future adjustments you'll make will be applied to this node. And the corrections you did in the last lesson will stay untouched. So they're safe. You can't mess them up. Alright. Now, let's head over to the curve stab. You can do a lot of creative stuff in here. So on top, you'll have all these buttons, and they're all different types of curves. We're going to take a look at the Hue versus Hue curve. So you basically have a color spectrum here and a line in the middle. If you click and drag that line, the colors in your video will change. This can be quite fun. I mean, remember when I did this at the beginning of the class. The point of doing this is selecting a color and changing only that one. To do that, just go to the timeline viewer and click somewhere on your video, for example, the light that comes off this lamp, and that will create a color selection in the Hue versus Hue curve. You'll see three points. If I click and drag the middle one, you can see the selected color range changing in my video, since they are nothing more than just points on you have the ability to adjust the range of the color selection. So feel free to play around with that. Now, for this shot, it can be tricky to change colors because we have a lot of orange in here. But let's grab another one, for example, the shot where I'm at my desk. The colors of my face and the background are so different that this will be really easy to color grade. So select the blue wall in our video and go back to the hue versus curve. Now, we can pick the middle point, and as you can see, we're literally changing the color of my wall. I mean, how awesome is that? Can see some glitching right here, but that can be easily fixed by manually adjusting the selection. Just make it a little wider, and there you go. That looks awesome, guys. Alright, so here's another one. This is the luma versus saturation curve. With this one, if you drag this line up, you will increase the saturation in your video. If you turn it down, it will become black and white. But what if I only want to decrease the saturation in the black? Then you can simply click the curve to add a point and turn down desaturation only in the darker parts of the video. I actually love that it really separates me more from the background. I think that's really cool. By the way, almost forgot to tell you guys, you can also remove points on your curve. By right clicking it, this works on all the curves, by the way, but I actually want it back because I love the decreased saturation in the blacks. Alright, now, a few lessons ago, I promised you could create a text behind a subject in the Color Page. And that is exactly what we're doing in the next lesson. 27. The Color Page: Mask Tracking: Okay, so you just learned how to color correct your footage and to do some fun color grading in diventa Resolve. I can't believe you almost finished the class. I mean, when this class is over, I might never see you again. Anyway, remember the magic mask tracking we did infusion. Well, in the Color Page, there's a super cool feature that allows you to track like a magic mask, but it's completely available in the free version. So, I have a video right here in the media pool of Lego dart Vader. I'm absolutely not a huge Star Wars fan. I'm not a big Star Wars fan. You are. Alright. Let's track it in the timeline. Next, hold down Alt and click and drag the video two tracks up. We're leaving the second track open for a text layer. Let's rearrange our video tracks to keep it clean and here. Now, open up the effect stab and search for the text effect. I already had it typed in from the last time I used it. So now I'm going to drag the text clip in between the two clips right here. Let me split the clip right here, delete the right one and trim it. So it's the same length. Now we have one problem. We can't really see the text because the ego Vader is in the way. We can drag it out of the way for now or we can hide the video track with the disabled button. Let's do that for now. Next, select the text layer and head over to the Inspector panel. We're going to customize it again. I'm going to type in the word Vader. The default font is fine, but I'm going to set the font face to something extra bold, italic. Maybe increase the size of the text, something like this should be fine. If you want, you can go to the timeline viewer and click and drag your text to reposition it. You don't have to because you can do it afterwards as well. Then for the color, let's pick something dark blue. I already picked one beforehand, right here. Okay, that already looks really cool. Okay, so next, let me unhide video track number three. Right now, we basically created the same setup as we did when we were putting text behind me, remember? Well, now we're doing the same thing, but the way we're going to do it is going to be different. Basically a lot easier. Okay, so we're going to mask out Vader and track it. Make sure to select it and head over to the Color Page. Good thing you're already familiar with the Color Page, right? Now, before we start with masking, we have to make sure the color page is set up correctly. So in the Nodes panel, right click and choose Add Alpha output. Create a blue output point. Now, on your node, click and drag the blue square and connect it with the Alpha output point. This basically allows you to send transparent videos back to the Edit Page. If we don't do this, DaVinci Resolve will ignore the mask we're going to create. So to mask out dark fader, we're going to head over to the tool bar in the middle. Now, right here, you have this mask button called window. If you click it, this panel with a bunch of masking tools will open up. Now, scroll down until you find the Pen tool and select it. Now, if you head over to the preview panel, wait, let me disable this clip for a second. Now we have some more room to play with. Okay, now you're able to create a mask on Vader. Feel free to use your scroll wheel and zoom in to get a precise mask. You can also click your scroll wheel and your mouse and then drag to navigate your clip, by the way. The more time you spend doing this, the better the result will be. Let me speed it up for a moment. Okay. Okay, so when you're done, close up your mask like this and boom. There you go. It already looks great, but I made a small mistake right here. You can always add mask points to a closed mask and just the mask if needed. Now, this looks great, but only on this frame, we still got to track it. To do that, go to the tracker panel in the toolbar, and in here, click the track forward and reverse bottom. Wait a few seconds, and there you go. That looks amazing. I absolutely love it. Let's go back to the timeline for a moment and check it out in here. Now, you can still select a text layer and move the text around behind the ego Vader, by the way. But now, if we zoom in, we can see that the mask isn't that precise. To fix that, we can actually go back to the color page, and then here in the mask panel, you can increase the softness to make the mask more smooth. Let me zoom in for a second. All right, so play around with the softness to make it more smooth. If you want, we can also play around with the inside softness. That way, it wraps around the edge much better. That looks now, if you do have the studio version of Resolve, you can also use the magic mask from here by the way, and it's much easier. First of all, you can disable the mask we just created in here, and then let's go to the magic mask tool. Alright, now, all you have to do is click a few times inside Legovader. Now, let DaVinci Resolve think for a few seconds. And once it's done, click the mask track forward and reverse button to get a perfect track throughout your entire video. I mean, isn't that wonderful? Look at it. And we didn't even use the better quality option because the faster option is already good enough. Even today, this tool still blows my mind. Alright, so I hope you enjoy this, but now it's time to move on to the Fairlight Page. This is where we're going to fine tune and process all the audio in our edit. 28. Fairlight Page: Audio: Welcome back. I see you already have your headphones on. Good job. Because right now is the time to take a peek into the Fairlight Page. It's designed to do some audio corrections and enhancements. Let's enhance the audio of our editing story. I'm going to make the audio clips a little bigger with a scale slider. Alright, so we already tweaked and adjusted the volume of your audio clips back in the Edit Page. I hope you did that, by the way. But that's not really enough. My voice still needs to sound a bit more clear. First, let's do a quick overview of the Fairlight Page. This right here, you probably already noticed. It's the timeline. Of course, you will only see your audio clips in here. On top, you will see the audio meters. The first one previews the volume of audio track number one, which is my voice. The second one is audio track number two, and that's where our song is playing. Bus one is measuring all of these together. So that's the total volume of your video in general. We're not looking into the control room and the LUFS because that's a bit too technical for this lesson. On the right side, you can see a small preview window where you'll see the video on the left side of the Fairlight Page, you can see the effects library, and you can also access the media pool from here if you want, just in case you want to drag in more sound effects or more songs. All right. On the bottom right, you'll see a mixer panel with different mixers. Let me make the panel a bit larger. The first one is called A one. This means that the audio that plays on Audio Track number one is being sent over to this mixer track. I can control its volume or apply effect, which we'll get into in a second. Also press the solo button. This mutes all the other tracks and only lets you hear audio track number one. So mixer A one controls Audio Track A one. My voice, Mixer A two, controls audio track number two, which means the music. Mixer A three controls the sound effects, and so on. Bus one is again, our entire video. Alright, so you got the basics. So step one is adjusting the volume of the music in the timeline. You've probably already done that back when you were editing because you can also adjust the volume of an audio clip in there. If you didn't do it, now's your chance. Make sure your music is in the background. You can hear me speaking loud and clear. Now, don't go and adjust the volume of every clip separately because you can do that in the mixer here, too. Let me balance the volume of my voice first. Then the music and the sound effects in here as well. You have the power to inspire people. You don't just edit video to inspire people. You don't just edit videos. Next, we're going to make our speaking voice sound better by applying an effect to it. It's called an equalizer. Every audio mixer track has its own EQ. To open it up, simply double click it. So we're not going into depth about this EQ, but let me teach you the basics. This represents the audio spectrum of the audio that's playing. On the left, you'll see the low frequencies, which are the bass sounds. In the middle, you can see the mid frequencies which have the body of your voice, and on the right, you'll have the high frequencies. Those are the ones responsible for detail. Air. So if we want to make our voice sound more clear, we want to get rid of the rumbling frequencies which are right here at the low end. And then, of course, we're going to boost the highs up for more detail and clearance. Now, luckily, D Vinca Resolve has a preset for that called dialogue female or male. Out of your camera, straight into the timeline of Resolve and turn it into a video that makes people feel something. You can make people laugh or perhaps cry. Depending on the mic you're using, you might still have to adjust the frequency bands. I usually find myself boosting up the heights a little bit more, but that's actually it. See how clear this sounds now. Turn it into a video that makes people feel something. You can make people laugh or perhaps cry. But now, music. Sometimes, no matter how much you lower the volume, it still sounds like it's in the way, like it's disturbing. Now, I have a quick tip for that. In the music mixer track, which is number two, you can also add an EQ on here, and what we're going to do next is going to make room in this song by decreasing the lower frequencies. It's super easy. Just pull this band down. And when it all comes together, it feels like magic. That's why I love video. This will make space for the speech track, and it makes it sound more clear without having to lower the volume even more. Alright, so you also have the option to apply a ton of effects to your clips, but that's something for another class. Alright, so now your video is ready to be saved and exported. Well, I'm going to teach you the last lesson. 29. Exporting & Saving: I can't believe this is the last video of this class. Time went by so fast. However, this might be the most important lesson of them all, exporting our beautiful video. Beautiful. Your video sucks. Man, how do I turn this thing off? Anyway, let's move on to the deliver page. This is where we will save our beautiful video. We created. Or in other words, export it. This will take all of your clips in here, videos effects, sounds, literally anything, and it will turn it into one finished video file that you can upload to your YouTube channel or perhaps send it over to someone. So right here, you'll see your video timeline. You can see all your clips, but you're not really supposed to touch them anymore. You can still preview the entire video right here before you decide it's ready for. Now, in the middle, make sure the entire timeline is selected if you want to export the entire video. If you only want to export a section of the timeline, you can use these into outpoints to select what you want to export, and then the render setting will automatically switch to in Orange. But we don't want that, so let's change it back to entire timeline. All right, so now it's time to export our video. In the panel on the left, you can choose an export preset. Now, how do I know which settings to choose? Now, don't worry about that too much. Most of you guys are editing videos for social media, more specifically YouTube or Instagram, and DaVinci Resolve has its own presets for them. On the top left, simply scroll until you find the YouTube preset. If you click this little arrow, you can pick a resolution. Most of us nowadays, edit in four K. So if that's you, pick 21 60. I'm just going for ten ADP. Next up, give your video a name. You can type in whatever you want. For example, again, my editing click Browse. This will open up a window where you can pick a location to save your export and video. If you go down even more, you can adjust the resolution again, the frame rates, and some other settings. These are already optimized for YouTube, so all that's left to do now is click Add to Render Q. Then click on Render All and wait until it's done. And there you go. Your video is now ready to be published. 30. The End :(: So while you guys were exporting your videos, I finally fixed Lily. Turns out she had a virus. Don't you have to tell them something, Lily? Yep, I feel much better now. Alright, thank you so much, Lily. Anyway, it's time for this class to end, and I'm very proud of each and every one of you who finished all the lessons. I am so honored and I got to play a part in helping the next generation of video editors. You now it's time to spread your wings, leave this class, go edit as much videos as you can, and don't forget to come say hi to me on YouTube because I'm still making tutorials there every week. Thank you so much for watching this class, and I wish you the best.