DaVinci Resolve 16: Crash Course for Beginners | Basics Tutorial

what's going on everybody welcome to today's video in this video we're gonna be talking about how to get started in DaVinci Resolve maybe it's your first time using resolved or maybe you're coming from another program but in this video I'm gonna show you how to create your first project in DaVinci Resolve so let's jump into the video [Music] the first thing you need to do to get started in DaVinci Resolve is to actually go and download it if you haven't already head on over to Blackmagic designs website and search for DaVinci Resolve 16 just click on the download link and that will bring you to the page where you can download the version you want now here are the two free versions on this side you have DaVinci Resolve 16 beta which is what I'll be using for this video and you have DaVinci Resolve 15 the studio versions are paid versions they cost 300 bucks which in the scheme of things isn't bad and then you own it and you get all the upgrades so I've already downloaded it installed it and now we're gonna jump over into it and get started the first thing you're gonna see when you open DaVinci Resolve is the screen here and the way Resolve works is it uses databases and to hold your information about a project here I have two different databases I have one local database on my macbook pro and then I have an external drive a Drobo 5d t that has most of my projects on it most of my youtube stuff any other projects that I'm working on so if you want to create a new database and you or you don't have one yet you're gonna click new database and you're gonna come over to create you're gonna select disk add a name in here and then location you're gonna select that and it's going to give you an opportunity to pick where you want your new database to be located as I mentioned I have one of my internal hard drive and one on my external hard drive and you would just click create I'll resolve will then create your database for you and that's where you're gonna get started with your projects in this case I'm gonna create a new file here on my Drobo all of my files my working files my video clips my graphics anything else I'm gonna use for this project I'm gonna keep on my internal hard drive on my desktop basically but I do create the project file in my database that is on my external hard drive the database file basically tells resolv'd where everything is and where to find the different parts and pieces of your project so I'm gonna use the Drobo Phi DT and I'm gonna create a new project inside my folder called YouTube I'm gonna come down and select new project down here at the bottom and I'm gonna name it whatever I want I'm gonna call mine getting started in DaVinci Resolve I'm gonna click create and it's gonna go ahead and open up resolve for us this is your first time in DaVinci Resolve I'm going to give you a quick overview on how it's set up and then we're gonna get into some settings we want to select and we're gonna create our first project the way to she resolved as setup his in two different screens or different tabs if you look along the bottom of your screen here you have several different tabs and it starts with a tab called media which is where you import your media that anything that you want to use for your project the next tab is a cut tab and this is basically for quick editing and throwing together quick videos this is a new feature that's come out in DaVinci Resolve 16 so the next tab is the Edit tab and this is similar to any other editor that you may have used and if you haven't used any oh this is what it looks like and it allows you to put together your full edit right here add in music video pictures photos anything that you would want to put in your video this is where it's done the next tab is the fusion tab and this is for all of your really cool graphics and motion graphics and tracking things and putting really cool text that tracks with things this fusion tab here is super deep just trying to get into it myself there's so much to it it's got a lot of really cool features that you can use and it can really do a lot the next tab is the color tab and this is where you do all your color grading you can apply lots you can work with your image exposure colors all kinds of stuff shadows highlights everything that you could imagine with the look of your video is done right here in the color tab in the next tab you have the Fairlight tab which is basically a full-on audio editing software and it's nice that it's built right in it's got tons of great features great tools and I've got a bunch of videos on how you can make your audio better in your videos and this is where you would do all of your audio work on your files and the last tab here is the deliver tab this tab is dedicated to exporting your video in different types of formats whether you want to bring it back to premiere whether you want to do a Vimeo a YouTube it's got some preset options for you up here as well as you can do anything that you want one thing to note with the free version which is what I'm using I don't think you can export in 4k or some of the higher resolutions but you can get 1080p which for me is good enough for YouTube at this point so this is where you would set everything that you want to set and how you would render out your video files so I'm going to come back to the media tab here as we get started to create our first project here in DaVinci Resolve and one of the important things you want to think about right when you get started is the frame rate of your timeline you want to set the frame rate before you even bring in any footage so that when you get started editing it's gonna be in the frame rate that you want once you've already imported your media and started building your timeline and making your video you can't go back and change your frame rate so you want to get that set right in the beginning there's a couple ways that you can do it I'm gonna show you the easiest way in the way that I use most of the time so I'm gonna start by navigating to my footage that I want to bring into my project and if you don't see your media storage button checked on up here just click that and it's going to show you your file paths and you can go and find your files that you'd like to bring into your project I know mine are on my desktop and I have a folder here and I call it in my footage 5d mark 4 so all my files for the project are right here now I can just drag them all over into the bottom area here which is gonna import them into my project but as I mentioned before with the framerate we want to get that set right in the beginning so the easiest way to do it is to find one of your files that's at the framerate you want to use for example I know that I want to use 23.976 as my framerate for my timeline and I do have some videos that were framed at 60 frames per second but I want to use this 29.97 6 so the easiest way to set that is to just grab one file bring it down to the area on the bottom here and resolve is gonna pop up a window that asks you if you want to change your current settings to match this video and I'm gonna click Change now our timeline is all set it's in the frame rate that we want and that's the easiest and quickest way to get your frame rate set so now I'm gonna go through and just add in the rest of my footage that I want to use I'm gonna select them all and just drag them down to the bottom here I've added all my footage down to the bottom here and one thing that I can do that will help my videos play smoother and help my editing process be easier and less taxing on my machine is to create optimized media it basically is like pre rendering the files for you so once you get into your timeline it should be a lot easier and quicker to work with them and it's super easy to do that just select all your files right click on them and then click right here generate optimized media and you can let that go it's gonna take a minute or two depending on how many files and how big they are but then once it's rendered you should be good to go and it'll be quicker when you start editing your video all right all my optimized media has been rendered the next thing I want to do is just make a few changes to some settings that will also help improve the playback once I get to the edit timeline so I'm going to come back to the playback menu up here and make sure that this is checked used optimize media if available I'm gonna make sure that that's checked I want to come down to render cachet come down here and I want to pick smart so what that'll do is render things in the background while you're not doing super intensive things on your machine the next thing I want to select eyes again under playback and proxy mode and over here you can select half resolution or quarter resolution and that just is the resolution that the video will play back in your screen while you're editing so I'm going to select half resolution and usually that's fine I never have a problem with it and you can always go back and turn this off so you see the higher resolution video files if you need to one thing to keep in mind is when you render everything out when we're done it's gonna use the full res files so you're not gonna have any loss of quality or anything like that this just helps speed up your editing in the Edit tab once we get going put in our video together the last thing that I want to do here in the media tab is look for any clips that I want to play back in slow motion so I have two Clips here that I filmed at 60 frames per second and if I look over here on the right FPS frames per second most are 23.976 but I have two that are at 59.94 o or 60 frames per second so if I added those into the timeline and I just played them they're gonna come back and look like they're playing really fast or a little jittery but what I'd like to do is have them play in slow motion in order to get your clips to play in slow motion right click on your clip come up to clip attributes and right at the top here we have video frame rate so I want to change that to 23.976 or whatever your timeline is maybe you set your timeline it's something different you want to change it to whatever your timeline is then when you bring it in your timeline it's gonna play back in slow motion now that we have our media imported we're gonna jump over to the Edit tab and start editing so here's the Edit tab I'm still using this haven't really tried out the cut tab too much yet but this is the edit tab and this is where we're gonna get started creating our video so the first thing we need to do is see our media pool where we put all our data that's associated with our project so I'm going to come up to the top left here we have media pool I'm gonna click on that and I'm gonna scroll to my videos here I've got all my clips over here now we have the ability to preview our clips and select our endpoints and out points which means you know which sections of the video do you want to bring in maybe you don't want the whole thing so in order to get two screens where we can see our video clips here as well as what we have down in our timeline you want to come over to the top right-hand side here and you have these two little window looking things you click on that and now it's gonna give me two screens so if I come over here and I double click on one of my files it's gonna show me this source file in the window here on the right hand window it's gonna show me whatever's in my timeline now I currently don't have anything in my timeline which is why we don't see anything over here but once I do put things in my timeline you'll see that over here to look at my videos and pick what I want to import I'm gonna just click on my video and when you hit the spacebar that's gonna allow your video to play in the window here so I know let's say I want to start here I want to grab it here so you have different tools down along the bottom here these little guys with these little arrows with the line that's the mark endpoint or I want the video to come in and then the other one is the mark out point so where do I want the video to stop so let's say I want to stop right there I'm gonna hit mark out now I want to add this to my time line so how do I do that one way is to just click on the video and drag it down in your timeline and you'll see it'll add a video track and it'll add an audio track that's if you want to use both your video and your audio in this case I don't care about the audio that's associated with the video I just want to grab the video so if I hover over the video clip here you see you get these two icons on the bottom here this is grab the video only this one means grab the audio only so I only want to grab the video so I'm gonna click on this and drag it down to my timeline and you see it just brought down the video clip so now when I hit spacebar and I'm clicking my timeline you can see it plays over here so this is what's in my timeline right now and that's how you would go through and add each one of your clips to your video timeline say I double click on the next clip and here we've got the ball bouncing I'm watching it and I'm gonna decide where do I want the video to start and where do I want it to stop I'm gonna hit the spacebar to play the video and I'm gonna come back here and let's just say we start here that's where I want the video to come in or the clip to start and I'm gonna stop the clip there now I just want to grab the video again so I'm gonna click on this little icon and drag it down into my timeline and it just adds it right after or wherever you dragged and let go that's where it'll add it in your timeline so if I play through you can see over here it shows me what's in the timeline on the right hand side screen and on the left hand side screen it's still showing me my source file so you're gonna go through and do that to all your clips and add them into your timeline in the order that you want in order to create your video before I get to for creating my video I want to add in a music track in the background to do that it's really easy you can either go back to your media tab here and find your music file and bring it in that way or you can just drag and drop a music file into your timeline so that's the way a lot of times I'll do it I have different things in iTunes I'm just gonna drag one bring it over and drop it into my timeline and then it just adds it into the project for you it's really easy just to bring in any kind of audio or even video clips you can just came come and drop them in if there's other things you want to add later on so now that we've added in a few things to our timeline we want to start to look at our timeline itself and there's some options on how we can view it to help make editing a little bit easier so I'm gonna close my media pool here make my windows a little bit bigger and the first thing that I want to look at in my timeline here is this icon right here it's called the Timeline view options so I'm gonna click on there and one of the things that we can do is come to video view options and I like to click on this second guy it's gonna make the video clips a little bit bigger it's gonna allow me to see a little clip of what is in that video clip or that video file so I kind of know where to go my timeline once I get a lot of stuff in there and it also gives me some other options which we'll talk about in a minute with my audio a lot of times when I'm cutting audio especially when there's talking involved you know I want to take out the dead space and everything I want to know where the waveforms are in my audio so if you click on this guy right here it'll show you the waveforms of the audio so say for example I mean this is music but if I want to cut out you know quiet section now I can see where the audio is for that particular audio track so I select that can also adjust the height of your video track or audio track to whatever you like I usually like to keep mine a little bit bigger so I can see these labels here audio 1 and video 1 okay so that's it for our timeline options I'm gonna turn that off and then what I like to do once I get going here is actually label my tracks so for video track 1 I'm gonna come in and I'm just gonna double click on it delete it and I'm gonna label it 5d mark 4 and then on the audio track I'm gonna come down and just label it music and this way it just makes it a little bit clearer on what's one especially once you get multiple tracks going so I'm gonna play through our video here we'll see how it works with our music so you can see we have our music right below our video and that's working out pretty good so far another useful thing to know about your timeline is how to get around it how to move around your timeline so there's a few different ways you can do it you have your plus and your minus here which is your zoom in and zoom out you can also use command or control + to zoom in and command or control - to zoom out and that'll help you see different parts your project maybe you want to see the whole thing at once or you want to zoom to a certain part you can just zoom in and out and move to wherever you want to go if you're editing on a laptop you can also use the trackpad and use two fingers to scroll to the right scroll to the left and also up and down I don't have enough tracks to go up and down but you can scroll like that so there's a few different ways you can move around your timeline and of course you can use the sliders on the sides if you want to do that as well a few other things to note with your timeline here if you look in your video track here this first little one turns your video on and off and this guy locks your track so that you can't edit it so you might be able to cut and trim other parts of your project but it won't affect that particular track down in your audio track you have em which means mute the track you have s which means solo the track so if I had multiple audio tracks you would click s and that would play just the track that's soloed and then you also have a lock that you can lock that track as well now we get to talk about some fun stuff in editing our video so the first thing I wanted to talk about was how to fade in your video so when you hover over your video clip here assuming you have your timeline option set to view your clip like this you're gonna see two little white icons at the end of your video clip and that's how you're gonna fade it in so you can just click and drag that little slider there so you can pick however long you want that fade to be let's say I wanted to be one second over here on the left hand side I'm gonna see our timeline video and I'm just gonna hit the spacebar to play the video and you can see what that fade looks like so let's make our window a little bit bigger here I'm gonna click on this little window icon and that's gonna get rid of my source file window so I don't need to see that because I don't care about that anymore now I just wanted a nice big window to edit the video in so fading in the video is really easy that's a cool feature that you're probably used often and now we want to talk about how do I trim the video let's say I like you know I like my audio track so I'm gonna actually lock that so I don't change it on accident and then let's say I want to clip out some parts of my video track so let's say I want to come to here and I want to trim this video track here there's a couple ways that you can do it one way is to select this blade tool and then just come down and wherever your timeline head is you click and it's gonna split your clip the way I like to do it is to use command or control B for me it helps I don't have to click around as much I'd like to use some keyboard shortcuts and command B is one that I use all the time so then let's say I come over here I want to trim it again and I want to take this middle part out and let's say I want to fade this part of the video and then I'm gonna leave this one if I wanted to move a file around the timeline I can easily just select them and drag it wherever I want it to go another useful thing to do when you're cutting and trimming your video is to use ripple delete and if you're not sure what ripple delete is I'm gonna show you if I come here let's say I want to cut out part of this clip here I'm gonna create a cut command B I'm gonna come over here move move it down a little bit more command control B and let's say I wanted to get rid of this part right here if I just hit delete it's gonna delete it now I have a space here I have a gap well maybe I want all these clips to move down to the left here once I delete that and that's called a ripple delete so in order to do a ripple delete you select the clip you want to get rid of and on a Mac you hit shift backslash and delete and you see it deletes it and then it scoots everything over to the left and brings it right to the end of the previous clip before it that's super helpful I use that all the time when you're trying to cut out little dead spaces in your video and you just want it to move along smoother and it's a lot quicker than having to click it delete it select all your files drag them over so ripple delete is a super useful feature and again it's shift back slash delete so let's say I cut a clip and I took a part out and now I want back or I think I might want to use it how can I extend this clip that I have here super easy you just click on the end of your clip and drag it to wherever you want it to be and as long as there's actual footage there you can extend the clip as long as you want let's say I wanted to overwrite this clip with this one on the left here I can just click on the end and drag it over top of that file so a lot of times I like to edit to the beat of the music a little bit or somehow add it to the music I think that helps your video look even better and have a better feel to it so I'm gonna go ahead and do that real quick and then we'll continue learning some more here in DaVinci Resolve ok so I spaced out my video clips how I want them to appear in my video and now I want to talk about the audio just a little bit so just like we faded in the video clips we can do the same for the audio clips so I'm gonna unlock my audio layer here and let's say I want my clip to end a couple seconds after my video clip ends I want the audio to end so a real quick tip here on how to jump ahead like 1 second at a time is if you hold shift and you press your arrow keys it'll jump your playhead ahead one second each time you click the arrow key so I'm gonna do two let's do three seconds here and then I'm gonna cut the audio with command or control B and in this case I'm just gonna delete the end and I can fade my audio the same way I faded my video can just grab this guy here drag it in and set it wherever I want so let's listen to how that sounds [Music] and let's say I wanted to fade the video with it so I'll pull that and then I'll pull the video with it and let's see how that little [Music] all right so there we go so you can fade your audio the same way so let's say I wanted to look at some specifics of a clip maybe I wanted to scale it maybe I wanted to rotate it or do something with it how do I see those kind of tools to do that you can just click on a clip and we want to come to the top of our window here and click on the inspector it's good the inspector is gonna give you all the information about your video as far as like what kind of mode you want it to do if you want it to appear on top of another video clip how does it add almost like layers in Photoshop or something you have your transform tools so you can zoom it in zoom it out you can rotate it move it left move it right all kinds of different features that you can do here and if you mess something up you can just hit the reset button and it puts everything right back to how it was originally you have different options like cropping dynamic zoom stabilization scaling lens Corrections a whole bunch of different tools here that you can use to tweak your video if you need to so let's say maybe you want to have your video zoom in as it goes along you can either use this dynamic zoom and just turn that on and it'll do it automatically for you or if you wanted to set the zoom by yourself and a mute or audio track here for now if you wanted to set the zoom by yourself you have these little diamond icons over here those are keyframes and if you're not sure what a keyframe is or you're brand-new to video editing a keyframe basically tells say you want to zoom it tells the zoom when to start when to stop and how far to go in order to be able to set those keyframes and work with it you want to select your clip and I'm gonna click the keyframe button here and that's gonna set keyframes for any adjustment that I make it'll set it automatically when you look back at your clip here now you see this little s-curve looking thing and you click on that it brings you down to where your keyframes are so let's say I have this video here and I come in to there and then I want it to zoom in so I'm gonna click another keyframe I'm gonna zoom it in and then I want it to be focused on the basketball so I'm gonna move move my window up here and then I'm gonna let it go forward a little bit and then as it goes in let's say I want to add a keyframe and drop and follow the ball down actually one add the keyframe here for my position I'm gonna move forward a little I'm gonna add another keyframe and I'm gonna drop it down and follow the ball so let's see if that worked there it seems in and drops down with the ball so that's how you would use keyframes and it just takes playing with it to get used to it and how it works and everything but that's basically how how keyframes work and how you can change things to move dynamically in your video if you just wanted things to be static and you just wanted to say zoom in on your video you can come back to you know this is just another clip here you can just zoom in and leave it you don't have to change anything else it'll just stay there the whole clip and just like we can see properties for our video clips in the inspector we can see properties for our audio clips in the inspector so you click on your audio clip and you're gonna have a few different options here that you can use to adjust your audio clip although typically I will adjust my audio clip in the Fairlight tab down here there's a lot more options and things you can do in there more audio processing to help your audio sound awesome which I've got some videos on and I'll put a link up around here somewhere you can check that out later after you finish this video but a lot of cool things you can do with audio in DaVinci Resolve so one thing I do like to do with my audio right when I bring it into my timeline is to normalize the audio levels and to do that just click on your audio track I'm gonna unmute it here click on your audio track right click and come up to normalize audio levels there's different options here and the one I usually use is true Peak normalizing your audio is basically going to set the highest point of your audio track the volume isn't too loud or too quiet in parts of your track here so I always normalize the audio and then I'll leave it like that so let's see our video so far and see how it's looking Oh another tip real quick before we get going here to watch the video to zoom in and out of this screen up here you can just use your mouse wheel to zoom in and zoom out if you want to get close to see something or if you want to see more your screen here you can zoom in and out using your mouse wheel so let's check out this video see how it's looking [Music] all right so not too bad for just a little sequence here that we're testing out so let's say maybe you got some transitions that you want to add into your video clips you can find all your transitions and effects in your effects library so if you come along the top left hand of your screen click effects library you have all kinds of really cool things in here that you can use you have video transitions cross dissolves there's tons of different things in here that you can try out and to use them it's really easy I'll just show you here real quick you would just grab one of your transitions here anything you want I'm gonna use cross dissolve I grab it drag it down and you just drop it right in between your videos and it'll just pop it right in there for you if you want to adjust your transition you can click on the end of it drag it in drag it out and that will adjust it for you and if I just play through it real quick let's see if it works here okay so yeah that works and if you want to delete it you can just click it and hit delete so you can do that between any clip that you want and that's how you use transitions and just pop them right into your video if you want to put text in your video that's also very easy it's right here under the same effects library you click on titles and then you have a lot of different text options so these top couple here are just straight text a little lightning bolt means that the text with the lightning bolt was created in fusion or gives you the option to go into fusion and create different things adjust different things with that text so let's just say I want to find something here to use let's say lower thirds I'm just gonna pick this one so I want to add a title you just click it and drag it down into your timeline and drop it on a video track now in order to edit and add the text I'm going to come back I'm gonna put my playhead over top of the text I'm gonna click on my text and then I want to edit it so I'm going to come over to my inspector which is going to bring up all the details of that title so I'm gonna come over here we're gonna put they're gonna call whatever they're gonna say nothing but let's see nothing but but net nothing but net you can adjust your fonts your type your sizes and each one of these has different kinds of things that you can adjust in it I can adjust the colors I can just pretty much anything and if I can't adjust it here in the inspector you can come over here into the fusion tab and you can make the adjustments over there so let's just say I want to leave that as it is sometimes it takes a moment for the text to render see how that looks nothing but net so one of the next steps that we're gonna get into is color grading our footage what if we want it to look a certain way how do we adjust colors or exposure or give it a you know film look how do we do that so there's a lot of different ways to do it and the way that I'm going to show you here is a way that's new in DaVinci Resolve 16 and that's to use an adjustment layer and that's to use an adjustment clip the adjustment clips are really cool it's basically a layer that you would put on top of your video clips that allows you to make one adjustment that will apply to all your clips instead of having to adjust every single clip individually so to do that super easy first thing I wanted to do was move my title text up because I want this adjustment clip layer to be directly above my video clips so I'm gonna come into my effects library come down to effects and we have adjustment clip just click it and drag it down on to your timeline I'm going to rename this track just so it's easy for me to find I'm gonna call this color grade click on my clip I'm gonna extend it out for the length of my video clips I want it to affect now that I have that there I can select it and I'm gonna jump over into the color tab where I can make all my adjustments on color exposure Luntz all that kind of stuff that's where you would do all that in the color tab so let's jump over to color tab and get going over there okay we're in the color tab and there's a lot going on here there's a lot of things you can do I'm just gonna show you some of the basics to get started in it but there's a ton of stuff that you can do in here and I'm learning new stuff every time I use it different tools different features and how to make different adjustments so I'm gonna just show you quickly here how do you how to use it so the way color grading works is with nodes a node is basically like a layer I'm more familiar with Photoshop and I came from photography before I got into video editing in this program so I'm familiar with layers so a note is basically like a layer there's different kinds of nodes different ways they go together but for now I'm just gonna talk about basics with the nodes so on a node you can make any number of adjustments one thing that I like to do is kind of use one node per adjustment in case I want to change anything later on so the way this tabs laid out is we have our video here from our timeline right below that we have our individual Clips below that we have all of our adjustments that we can make on each node and when you click on these it gives you a different set of tools that you can use in that node to make your adjustments and then over here on the right hand side you've got different options you can see different scopes and waveforms and parades and different information and keyframes that's where you would see all that kind of information over here and then at the top we have our node tree they call it so here we have one node where we can get started making changes a lot of times I like to leave one node with nothing on it so to make a new node you can either right-click and do add a node and add a serial node which is just another node right in line with the one before it and there's all different kinds here but we're gonna just stick with serial node for now maybe I want to label that so I know what it is I'm gonna say label node and I'm gonna say white balance and if I want to set the white balance on my picture here I can find something that looks kind of white let's say that's white and I'm doing all these adjustments on my adjustment clip what that's gonna do is just apply everything that I do on this one adjustment clip to all my video clips because in the timeline but the adjustment clip was above all my video clips prior to DaVinci Resolve 16 beta here used to have to go through and every single clip you had to make your changes you could copy them from one to the other which was pretty easy but it still took time to do it so it's nice that now I can use one adjustment clip it'll apply to all my video files that I have in my timeline and I just think that's a lot easier and quicker so I made my timeline here and let's say I want adjust the white balance so if I come to this color wheels tab right here click on that this little dry eyedropper down here is my white balance I'm gonna come up click on that guy zoom out see how that looks all right we're gonna play through the video a little bit okay I think that looks all right now let's say I want to set white points and black points for my video clip I'm gonna come down here and I to turn my clips off see if I can zoom in make this a little bit bigger here so we've got a little more screen to view and I actually want to create a new node to adjust my white points and black points to do that a keyboard shortcut is option S and that's gonna add a new serial node for me I'm gonna come in and label it now I can adjust my white and black points so if I come to my color wheel and in here we have different tabs we have this is the primary wheels you've got your bars another way to look at it and this view you have your shadows mid-tones highlights and an offset there so we're gonna come back to the first tab here to set my white points you can click on this little guy find something that's white let's say right there okay and then if I want to set my black points I'm gonna click on the little icon next to lift and let's click on something that's black so it added more contrast that actually pushed the colors a little bit too different a different direction but I'm gonna I'm okay with that I'm just gonna leave that how it is right now so let's say I want to turn and node off so I can see what it looks like without that node if you hold shift and click on the number it'll turn that node off and if you want to turn all your changes off all your adjustments and see your original video file come up here and click on this little circle with the Stars icon and that's gonna turn everything off and show you the original clip the other tools that are helpful are the curves right here you can make curves adjustments if you want to add more contrast or maybe let's say you want to brighten it up a little bit it's a little dark or you want to see that tree over there you can make your adjustments here you can also select whatever color you want the red green or blue channels and make those adjustments make your own color curve here your own color grade for your video and there's a lot of different things you can do here with your tone curves just like you would in photography or using any other kind of photo editing software so curves is really powerful and then as you click through these different little tabs here there's different things that you can adjust in your images whether it's the different hues the saturations the luminance of different colors and it's all a lot of different stuff so for example if I click on the green here hue versus the saturation it'll put a point where that color is where I clicked in the grass there and I can drop it down I can raise it up and it's a really great way to make specific adjustments to your images and this is just all stuff you'd have to play with figure out how to use it what works good for you and works good for your video that you're working on the next little eyedropper tool here comes in handy this is the qualifier so this will select only certain parts of your images whatever you click on basically so if I clicked on the asphalt it's gonna select the colors that are only that asphalt you can see the little preview here in the window of my node it's only got certain things selected the next icon that I use often here is the window icon and what this does is creates a window on your screen they call them power windows and you can create adjustments within the window or on the outside of the window you can adjust your feathering of the window let's say I wanted the ball to be super dark for some reason set my window to the ball I can come over here to my curves and drop it down make make it real dark not that I'd want do that but that's kind of how it works so you have all different shapes you can use your pen tool draw your own shape a lot of different ways that you can adjust your image you can also have it so that this will track with the ball as it bounces or track different things that's a little more involved I'm not going to get into that right now but you have the ability to do that moving on to the next tab here is a good feature that I use pretty often and it's the stabilizer and I want to stabilize my clips so that they're not as shaky in order to do that I can show my clips I'll click on the clip I want to use and all you have to do is come to this little target looking tab here you click on this area and you select stabilizer and then it's as easy as hitting stabilize it'll analyze your video and then it's gonna stabilize it the best that it can so let's look at that a little smoother now let's play it without the stabilization there's without let's try this clip here now sometimes it's oom Xin a little too much and we might not want that but let's try and to see how it looks this time and sometimes you get funky little jumps in the in the footage there so one thing you can try is changing some of these settings down here to see if it affects anything let's say I'm going to say this this options similarity instead of perspective I'm gonna click it again it's gonna run it again and then I'm gonna see how that looks so it still looks a little bit jumpy but you get the idea some clips it works better than others and sometimes you have to stabilize part of it but not all of it so you kind of get the idea you just play with it and see what works best for your video clip let's say I want to add a LUT that's gonna color the whole video for me to a certain color whatever the LUT is that I picked so I want to come back to my adjustment clip and I'm gonna actually let's delete this node here cuz I don't want to use that one so I'm gonna say delete node I'm gonna add a new one usually an option s and I'm gonna put the LUT on here let's label this as luck go to find your let's come over to the top left hand part of your screen and click on Luntz and there's some preset ones in here and you can download ones I'm sure but let's say I want to put a nut on here I want to use this one so all you have to do is drag it click it drag it over into your nodes and drop it on the node that you want to use I'm gonna close my clips here make this a little bit bigger so if we turn it on and off we can see the difference there adds a little more contrast makes it a little more green so let's play through that see how that looks so let's say I think that that lot is a little too strong it's a little too much so you can back that off by selecting your node and if you come over to this guy right here it looks like a picture with a little person on it you click on that and if you come to a key output and there's gain here so if you boost it up that's gonna add more and if you drop it down it's actually gonna lower the amount of the LUT almost like an opacity lower the amount of the LUT that's applied to your video clip if I turn it on and off now you can see a little bit of a difference but not as much as if it was at let's just boost it way up so now if I turn it on and off now the difference is fairly noticeable but let's say and drop it down maybe it's a little much so you can drop that down and adjust the opacity or the amount of your LUT if you want so that's kind of a real quick overview of the color tab here and how you use it there's a lot here it would take a long time to go through it all I don't even know at all there's tons here a lot of great stuff but that's the basics of how you get started color grading your footage here and DaVinci Resolve next we'll make a quick pit stop in the audio tab before heading to our delivery tab to show how we render out our project all right here's the Fairlight audio tab and there's a ton of stuff that you can do in here there's a lot of awesome things that you can do that you can improve the quality of your audio especially you've got talking and vocals so I'm not gonna run through too much here I've already got videos on that stuff and you can check those out how to EQ in different things you can add to to improve the audio quality of your video but the basics are you got your audio tracks you can adjust your volume with your faders here if you scroll down here there's different options your EQ your dynamics different kind of things you can adjust you can create buses all different kinds of mixes it's really cool there's a ton here check out some of my other videos and in the future I'll get do another one that gets a little more into the Fairlight tap here so next let's jump on over into the deliver tab so I've got my video all set I want to export it out and deliver it so looking at the window here on the left hand side you have presets at the top where you can just one-click preset and export your video you've got custom settings here if you want to set your own settings in the middle here you have your video your clips your timeline and this little gray bar here shows you your inputs and out points of what will be rendered and over here on the right hand side you have job cue once you set your settings you add it to the job queue and then you can render it out so in this case let's say we're making this video for YouTube but you can also just use the preset they have right here in resolve so I've set up a preset for myself from my youtube videos and let's say I want to put this on YouTube I'm gonna click on my custom settings all I have to do is add in a name here I'm gonna call it sample video select a file path of where you want it to go just a couple options here that I usually use this should be set to what your timeline is it should do that automatically a lot of these I don't touch one thing you can double-check is under Advanced Settings you have an option here that says use optimized media you want to make sure that that is not checked so that way when it renders out your video it's gonna use the full res footage that you have it's not going to use the optimized media that we created in the beginning that helps speed up our editing once all your settings look good to you or if you use one of these others that's fine too you click add to render queue you'll see it'll pop the job up over here and now this is always gonna stay within your project so you can always go back you can make multiple different ways of rendering out your video you can have a lot of different things here and select and render which one you want at anytime you want so I've got my job here the next step is just to click render and it's gonna go ahead and render it out in our video will be complete pair video is complete and let's see how it looks I'm gonna hit play [Music] alright guys so there you go that's getting started in DaVinci Resolve hope this helps you out get going in resolve it's an awesome program and the more you're in it the more you'll figure things out and really I enjoy using it and I think you will too so if you have any questions leave a comment below and I'll answer it as best I can and if you're into photography Photoshop Lightroom and even a little bit of video video editing including DaVinci Resolve consider subscribing to my channel thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video [Music]

Channel: Jason Yadlovski

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Length: 40min 25sec (2425 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2019