Video Editing with DaVinci Resolve

1. Introduction: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Skills cast. My name is Sylvan Jackie and I'll be your instructor in this course. In this course, we're going to be learning everything about adventure resolve and how to use it to share your stories and define your character as a videographer. Start your projects and do whatever it is you want to design and create within the storytelling and videography space. I believe geography is such an important skill to hone during this period of time, because it provides you with not only an avenue to share your story, your brand identity, your company, build up an organization around the scame, but it also provides you with an avenue to grow a skill which you can generally use to gain revenue in the external world at this period of time. In today's world, it's very important to also enter into this field Ally. And the beautiful thing about using the venture resolve is its free resources. The platform is not only free for download, but it's also free for use for anyone. So you can not only just edit your videos, you can also calibrate them in the same platform and provides you with an avenue to share our your story into the world. And provide a clear story that relates to you. And I'm going to be taking you through each and every step of doing that. My previous experience with Davini resolve has been in the creation space. So I've been creating content for a period of time for a long period of time with my first initial content starting out on Premier app, but I recently moved to Davi resolve, and I've loved the platform over the last two years that I've been using it. I've been mainly using it for client projects, and I think I also appreciate that you can interact or engage a lot of elements, for instance, create elements in Canva or create some in Procreate to provide an identity for your videos and on both them on the platform and easily translate them into creating a story line that works for you. I'm going to be taking you through all that and how to craft a story that works for you, and I'm going to be providing you with a lot of resources for you to use. You can take my brain through sharing questions that you may have on using the platform, and you can also try out different ways to use the platform, so you can start it out by editing a video for your Instagram reel, for your TikTok, or for a project here on Skillshare if you're a teacher, but you can also create it for your projects at home or sharing a story say for instance about your birthday. Such things, cause the platform is easy to use, and once you learn it, there's no going back in terms of creating. Welcome to this class, and I'm so welcome, and I'm so glad to have you on here. 2. Materials Required: So this is something that I want to share with you. Just work with whatever you have. Walk with whatever you have. So here I have the main materials for my class. I'm going to be using my laptop. I'm going to be using a Mc, but you can use normal laptop. Sorry. You can use any laptop that you have available for you because I started out using editing videos. On a HP laptop before, and it worked perfectly fine. So just start out with whatever you have. Other than that, see, for instance, you need to add the different decorative elements that I mentioned. You could choose to draw them out. So I have with me a pencil, and I also have my handy notebook. I'm just going to show you how to draw a little bit of elements to that. But if you have a tablet, you could also just use that. I have one here. I'm just going to be using that for the examples that I'm going to be showing you on how to use Pcate as you work on this class. So remember to start out with whatever its you have available and keep moving from there because the most important thing for you in this class is to just start. And at the end of the day, the video creative process is more of a storytelling process. When you focus on the storytelling process, the materials you use are really negligible. You can create the pictures and you can draw out something as I'll show you and just take a picture of it and edit it or remove the background of it and dit in your video to just share a story. So just focus on starting out with whatever you have, use all the materials you have. But remember, you just need to download the program for you to have a good experience. Yeah, that's it. 3. Your Class project: For your project, I want you to work on a 1 minute video. This may be for any platform that you want to use. Actually, it may also just be for your personal use. So I want you to try using the venture resolve to edit a 1 minute video of yourself or of your car, whatever it is might be and use the resources of attach below. So some of the resources that have included a little bit of scars, like per B which I've used from Proc, you may also choose to create this by yourself. You could also choose to create something on Canva and unload it as an element that you will od on. On the platform itself. But I want you to try cut the videos, click the videos, add some music to it, that. L b, something small, something unique to you that may later give you a story of your experience here. Try working on that and see how you feel about it. Also try to see what you can improve. If you have an idea of something you think you can add for instance some elements like stars or Love hearts, for instance, try download their resources online. You could try create them on your iPad if you have you could try download them from a free program like Splash, and use something with a background. And try and try to see whether you like engaging or try to see whether you like interacting with the platform itself and adding music as a background, and try to make the music go to a slow sound and the backup. That's called have the internal wave and external wave like wave it in and wave it out for music. Just that. Walk on that. Share it with me. I'm pretty sure it's going to be amazing. You could share a YouTube blink. You could share video itself within the resources below. Also let me know in case you experience any challenges, and I'm looking forward to seeing your projects. 4. Timeline Layout : So what you're going to do is you're just going to open da venture resolve. And then we're going to just start from opening Davente resolve fully for it to to work. So for Quick reference, I'm going to be using D venture resolve 18. And when you come to the venture resolve on the homepage, what you want to do is create a new project. So the new project, you just name it whatever name you choose to name it. So for me, I'll say skill sia class video reference because this is a video reference that we use to guide the class, creation. First, I'll just skip that. The first thing that you see that is going to happen when you expand or go to this home screen is, you have different action points at the top, which is file edit trim timeline, right at the bottom, which is the most significant part. There's the media play which helps you access all the documents or where you want the documents to be. And then there's a space where it's just like displays the media options that you have. Then there's a space for edit where you can have your information coming in as you drop in your videos, you're able to edit them from this layout, then you can adjust the movement of the video, and the graphics of the in this point, then you can change the color dynamics and the color grading here and sorry. And adjust music on this side, and finally, export on this side. This is the ender page. The name at the top is in forms is what in forms or if you have any questions, you can just refer to the name at the top corner or just use the logo. Clearly this is just like to help you manage the musical sound or the audio and volume for your pieces as you edit them. For this class, we're just going to be we're going to paste a few videos and then I'm going to be showing you how to get to edit a video, and what I'm going to be using is my art videos. To do that, you can import the videos from two different options. You could import them from here. 5. Making Video Cuts: No. Okay. Welcome back. So the next thing that I'd want for us to review is the most important thing in the second part of adding the video is to listen in to just know whether there is important audio pieces. So for this one, there's not much audio information that was in it because I just wanted to display the painting that I was using and like what I wanted, right? But just scrubbing through the video gives you an opportunity to know what to cut out and what to live in. Right? So say, for instance, as I scrap through from, like, immediately, I see that this scene is like a bit too dull, right and blurry. So I'd like to cut that out. Another part which I'd like to cut out is most likely this part where I'm holding the bag and I'm searching for brushes, right, the spatula which I use. So that's another part which I would like to cut out in the first clip. And then in the second clip which I put in. I'm not seeing a lot of things to cut out. I think I'd want to speed through the video, right? So I think I'd want to increase the speed. And then, like, I'd want things for this final part of the video. It's actually slowed down correctly. So I'd want to maintain it as ease to just have that fell. So first order of business, I think I'm just going to zoom in a little bit. And then I don't think I'll be able to move that to the back. We'll just show you the cut option. So the main things that I want for you to know is this tool is used to select. So it looks like an archy, and then this is used to cut through the videos. Da vinci, or whatever editing tool has its own features to use for you to inform whether you want to cut or select. I think cut and select are the most significant things when you're editing at this point. Once you click on select, it just gets highlighted and you can select which part you want to cut. And then elect the video and then click back space to just delete and another backspace to go back in space. It's just that easy in terms of like knowing which content to cut through. So now, initially for that part of things, I think like later on, I'd like to add, like title to just hide it through the page or like a title to just introduce what I'm doing. I quickly want to see whether I like this changing the perspective. So we're just going to try rotating, which is now something else that you're going to learn how to do, right? We're going to try to rotate the video to 180 degrees, right? Yeah. I think you can you could choose to just highlight and write 180, right, as I have right now, to just give view or the perspective of they are the ones who are actually doing the or seeing the physically. So it depends on your perspective on whether the video would be more suitable from that angle or not. Think I tend to rotate videos where I'm writing and the recording of the video is completely juxtaposed. So it's all based on perspective, and whether it looks much better. From my perspective, this actually doesn't look better, so I'll just rete and I'll revert by just doing control. Yeah, back to the initial perspective, where because I'm showing the piece to the camera directly, right, and the video, now I can cut off on clips where it's not visible, and just place it down. So for instance, in this part of the video, I think the opening part is not as essential, right? I could just like cut at this point, right, and then fast forward to placing it down, right? To such a point in time and just select the middle part and delete it. And as you can see, it's smoother. So if you want to create a clip to just show the five colors as we start, like from the spart, that shows the action already. I want to cut the spart and then fast forward to the color coming off or When the color leaves the frame as it has at that point, it's not as essential for me to put it in, but that is a good point for me to have not only the sound effect, but also the action of hey, we were unveiling a red color. This is the output, so it moves from red color to red very easily. I also want to cut out the movement at that point in time we have moved the board, right. So once we've put the red down, I think we just cut at that point. Sorry right there. And then fast forward since it's a bit darker, I also want to just st there, and then delete this middle portion. So that it's a smoother flow between drop and, and moving the piece. Drop and moving the piece that I don't move it again, I'm going to now adjust the next part, where it's in focus. It's very important to keep the parts which are in focus. Then that's in focus. The video or whoever is watching the video really knows trying to get the color, that part is out of focus, for instance, but also we can't see the paint as we put it down. So it there's no need for me to put this whole part of the video in, because there's no communication. So just make sure that as you're cutting through clips or scrubbing through the information to find what's important, you move to communicate. And sometimes 33 action is three time three different action strikes a charm. So you've already noted that term in colors, which is fully communicated. At this point, it is entirely fine to move to a different scene if we had that. But in this scenario, the main point was the main point of this is to just go through the learning process of how to edit the video. You just need to scrap through to find another relevant point, which you want to integrate, which could be like this point of like realizing like I like that whole bit of having no like maybe you'd see like from this different scene, which we've removed. We had the black, right? Black, which we had cut in. Black. So that's moved too. The next scene, which has dropped the colors, then that already has fully communicated the different options we have. At this point, like everything is the viewer can understand that at this point, I'm peeling the paint off. We can also cut off that part and just revert to this part where the like a new lime green color, which is really beautiful to see. Now Since my hand though the hand is actually a character, but there is this point where there is a little bit of over exposure, right there. That's like a point which I want to I'd like to trim out right there. Actually, I think it's fairly balanced. Yeah. Yeah. Right there. So you can just yes, as you can see, this shifting the camera happens around this point, and then there's a move back to to color, and now we, fully done, right? I don't think this part is really communicating much, right? So it might not be relevant at all. And like we are fully done with a completed piece other than the covers of the back. But a quick scrap through the video at this point has moved us from a video which was 5 minutes long to 1 minute, which is sufficient and has communication. Um, and just through cutting and checking whether the video is like well rotated or like whether you'd like whether a different angle would be sufficient. I think another thing I still want to try is whether for this 180 degrees would make sense. And I don't think so Yeah, I still don't think it works, right. So just try different things to see whether cutting through a video is something you're able to do. But cutting is such an important and integral element for you to just know where to have the information that's relevant or where to remove some points. I think now that we have the content in full, right? It's just like a video to see different colors. We can now just quickly see whether we want to keep having the audio or we want to add a title. I think the next step would be adding the title. Yeah. 6. Adding Titles: No. So welcome to P four. In this part, we're going to be adding a bit of titles. We're going to try and reduce the video size to be the longest we can do to be 1 minute, right now, it's going it's currently at 2 minutes. Something I wanted to add with the last being the. So the bro is a steel image taken or a steel video taken of the of the video to act as an insert. In this video clip, I'm going to be removing the audio files so that we can effectively edit the videos. The audio sound is not since there's no abage in the audio, we're going to be removing it. How you do that, you click on the clip, and then link. Just the right click where it's written Link clips, that's where you're going to turn it off, and then do the same for all the clips. I like to do this when I'm trying to add audio file for the video so that I can have all the audio files to be in sync and then once that's done, I normally just remove them. Videos and then suddenly now, you just have the video without the audio, which is noisy. Then we can add a title ahead at the start. On your left lower bottom, there is a toolbox with title generators, and as you hover over it, you'll see that it displays to you how the video or the title will show up. Some titles have some action in them like this one, and others previous the ones I've previously shown you don't Sorry, don't display any action because this is just a simple video to display how to edit. I'm going to use this dark box text. What you want to do is to drag it to be an adjustment layer. A adjustment layer is the layer above where your video file is and use it to create additional clips or additional information. When you click on the text layer, it will show you sample text. What you're going to do is fast plate, just as a video. As you can see, it's showing up on top of the video and closing upright. The first order of business is to just remove the information and see me, gosh, Let's see how that goes. That looks. So immediately, I just don't like how high it is, Let's see whether Yeah, I like that better. Another thing I don't like is I don't like the blue color. When you swipe down, you'll see that the line color here is blue. I think we'll change that to white. G, g and then s that to the left so that it's fully on right and then click k for the changes to apply and immediately the changes are applicable. Yeah. Now it looks much better. Another thing is because I want to create because I want it to be with a black background. I am t to add a solid color background to the back. I'm going to move the adjustment layer up and add titles the generators, a solid color on top. The main reason I want to add this is so that it pops out better that way, which provides a better look for the video, at which point the video can start. Then I think at this point, it is important to note that now that is a complete video, it's just going to show me video colors like the different color options. And that I can add them or delete them as I go along. Let's just see how it looks now. Then at this point, I think it's comfortable for me to add an audio file to the piece. We're going to be doing that next. 7. Editing & Exporting: We're back, and we created the title for the video in the previous slim. Now just going to be a adding some music to the piece so that we can scrap the video, and it would sound more cohessive. How you do that. L just stick a pose right here is import media. Now you're going to use piece of music. You can have downloaded music pieces beforehand, which you want to use or You can download copyrighted music for you to use in the videos. I'm going to go into this music folder, which has a music, I think, I tend to like this clock one. Yeah. I think that's one we're going to use drag and drop it to the timeline and to start at the start. Then I want you to expand this to just see the volume of the video. Yeah, I a quick play, it sounds pretty nice. I just think from the start, I feel like it's a bit loud. We're going to slide to the music side of things and expand the viewing point for this. I'm going to drag down the music slightly so that it's softer without necessarily adding any key points. Key how you add keypoints in in Marks, you press option Yeah, you press option and the key itself. You can just press that way and drag a bit down when you're playing this from the start, it feeds out, which is more of the music effect you want to have and it's so to listen to. Now we're going to go back after adding the key frames. Yes, they are called key frames act. We're going to go back after adding the key frames. I think I'm also just going to reduce the size of this video slightly. Then there's one video which I wanted to increase the speed for, which is the second one. I'm going to click on it and change click clip speed. I'm going to change it to two. I'm going to double the speed so that it just goes by faster. This will just change the video speed itself rather than the a rather than the audio file. Additionally, it should reduce the size of the clip, but I so that they all fit into the music. And then we're going to see how the video turns out. Yeah. I think what I'd like to do is at the end ad thank you for viewing the video. I'm just going to highlight the two adjustment layers and copy and slide this to where I wanted in piece actually. I want it to be right there. Thank you and then make an edit to the content. I think for this one, We won't have a black background. We'll have a clear background. So I'm just going to remove the adjustment layer two of the background color. And then now the video has some sound. And it's a simple easy video which communicates or shows the audience different colors. I think we can adjust it to go up. Yeah. I like that. That looks very light hearted, and I like it. Yeah. Then now that the video is done for us to review and has the music and the music is also not too loud. One thing you can do is drag this adjustment to the bottom because there's nothing under it is I am going to ex the video. When you want to exp, you're going to the video a color review. And then I'm going to select P four. Yes, h2264 resolution. I think we'll just go with auditors, the standard 1080 frame rate 24 and then click add to Render Q file destinations. I'm going to choose documents in and now I'm going to click Render to have the video export. As you see, it's currently exporting. Literally once that's done, you'll have the video of the file ready for upload on whatever channel that you want to upload. Based on the file size it might take a bit longer or shorter, and now it's fully done and ready for review. Just go back into documents. Such for the file. Yeah. And as you can see, it's now fully ready to view, and the audio is also very balanced and clearly communicates what the intention is through the titles. You can just have a final run through of the piece. And once you feel confident about it, you can export it. Yeah, and upload it wherever you need to. That's the generally how to edit, the lighter version of editing. Once you learned how to manage that whole side of things, it'd be fairly easy for you to in essence, make sure things are easy to come from ideation to implementation, and you can take charge of any social media endeavor you have in the future. Yeah. I'm excited to have you do that and share your content in the students resources and results below. Yeah. Thank you. 8. Conclusion: So that's it for today. We come to the end of this video on learning D venture resolve. I know this is just an introduction video like you just initially getting used to the platform and experiencing it. But I'm so sure that it's provided you with a lot of learning keypoints and provides you with an avenue to start on this new interest that you may have. You may have experienced some challenges with your laptop or machine, but if you did, try downloading the previous fashion, as I mentioned before in the class, which may work with your system better. Other than that, if you experience a good time, I hope that you keep on trying new projects, you can record anything. For instance, for I, when I started out, I initially used to record videos of myself in the house and edit them and just edit them for myself to see and test out ideas. I believe that's a good way to start out to start out on using the platform because it provides you with an avenue to just experience it and start on a key interest that you may have in the future, which is video editing. It may not be something that you may intend to pick up as a skills that you may provide for a source of revenue at this point in time, but it can be something that piqus your interest. Say, for instance, you have a surprise bath day for your niece or nephew. You can create a video for all the cute moments they've had since they were young. So that would be something that you could try out for the future. I've really loved sharing all my experiences and knowledge that I've had in working on this platform. I believe it's something that you can try in the same way that I experienced a learning curve initially. I believe you're in that phase. But once you get a grasp of it, there's no going back in terms of learning. You can only get better, you only get more experience and want to try out even more stuff and get more equipped and gain more confidence. So I urge you to keep going while you're on this journey because you can only go better and so higher from here. Really love sharing with you my lessons and learnings on using this platform. I hope you come again and experience the classes that I've posted before. I look forward to seeing your project and interacting with you in the comment section and also one other external platforms. Bye bye.