- DaVinci Resolve is a
super powerful video editor for Mac and PC. So to help you get started, this video is a complete
tutorial for beginners using the latest version,
DaVinci Resolve 17, with everything that you need to know. All the key features and a
ton of video editing tips to get you cutting like a
pro fast in DaVinci Resolve. Hey, it's Justin Brown
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I mention in this video, you can find links in the
description box below. Let's jump into it. Now I mentioned this on
our last Resolve tutorial, but this is consistently one
of our most requested videos. DaVinci Resolve has taken the
top spot in several categories of our best video editing software reviews on both Mac and PC. And if you're interested in checking out our latest roundup, all of those videos, I've included those
links in the description. But in this video, though, I'm
gonna fast-track your editing with Resolve. Whether you're brand new to it, or whether you've been
using Resolve for a while, I'll be giving you a full
tutorial for beginners, with everything you need to know. All the key features to be aware of, plus a ton of tips to help
you maximize your efficiency along the way. Now I'm gonna be taking you through this editing walkthrough, using our Primal Video method process. The most efficient way to
help you edit your videos down with minimal wasted time and rework. Now make sure that you're
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all of your future edits. Okay, so we're over here
now in DaVinci Resolve. Now I am showing you this on a Mac, but the process is going to be exactly the same on a PC as well. So the first thing we wanna
do is to create a new project. We're coming in here to a new project. You wanna give your project a name, let's call this run GB
edit, and we'll go create. So once you've created your project, the first thing I'd like to do is just to make sure all
the settings are good to go. So you wanna come down to
here to this settings button, and then in here, you're gonna
set your video resolution or your timeline resolution. So if you're gonna be
creating a 1080P HD video, then you wanna select your 1920 by 1080 or any of the other video resolutions that you're going to use. So if you want 4K that's
in here or a 720P. For this one was gonna leave
it here at 1920 by 1080. You then wanna set your
frame rate for your video. So in here you're gonna
be choosing something like 24, 25 or 30,
depending on the footage, it is that you're editing. So the footage I've got
is 25 frames per second. So I'm going to select that. I'll also wanna make sure that whatever number I've got in here, that I have the playback frame rate set to be the same as well. So I've got 25 in both in this case. Then as you can see, there
is a ton of settings in here and we are definitely not
gonna go through them all. But what you can do in here
is save out some presets. So if you've got a
specific timeline set up that you like to use for
a lot of your videos. So like here 1920 by 1080
at 25 frames per second, I could come over here to presets
and save that as a preset. So I'm gonna come down
here and go save as, and I'm gonna call this 1080P, 25 for 25 frames per second and go okay. And then next time, when we wanna create a video
with those same settings, we're just need to come
over here to presets and just hit load and we're good to go. Okay, so would that applied, I'm gonna cancel out of this now to get back to the main interface. So DaVinci Resolve is split
up into these different tabs or different workspaces along the bottom. Starting first off with media, which is where you can
import all your footage and manage all the media
that you're gonna be using in your video. The cut tab is where you
can do some basic edits and cut down your footage. Edit, is where the main editing happens. This is where you're
gonna build out your story or your video. And this is probably
where you'll be spending most of your time. Fusion is a super powerful motion, graphics and animation area. I think of this like Adobe After Effects, there's built inside of Resolve here. Color is the grading area or
the color correction area. This is where you can tweak and adjust and really dial in all the
specific colors and everything with the look and feel of
your videos in this section. Fairlight is we get access to
all your pro level audio tools and audio control. And then last one here, deliver, this is where you come to save out or to deliver your final video or the different versions, you
wanna save out of your video. Now, again, this is a beginner tutorial, we're not gonna dive into
things like Fairlight or fusion or too detail on
the color side of things, but we are gonna show you the fundamentals to get up and running and
editing inside of Resolve. So, first off, we're gonna come over here to media and we're going to import our
video files and video assets that we wanna use in our video. So we can just right
click down the bottom here and we can choose import media. We can go through them and
find the video and audio files that we wanna bring in. So I've got a folder here, video files. We can select the individual
video files in here. We can hold down control or
command to select multiples. We hit open, they're gonna be imported. Now, if you do have a folder, like I have here with everything in it, then I can actually hit cancel, and I can drag and drop that file in. So if I come over here, grab my file from my other
screen and drop it in here. And that's gonna bring in all the footage and all the audio and everything
that is in that folder, all in one go. So now that they've got our assets in, we can then move across
to the next workspace. And you'd normally be moving
here from left to right throughout these different workspaces. Now this cut area is where
we can start to cut down or trim down some of our video clips just to select the area of
the clips that we wanna use in our finished video. So I find this cut area is helpful if you've got to trim down a lot of clips, but I also find is just as easy to jump straight into the edit tab, where we can actually start
to build out our video at the same time. So, as I said earlier,
over here on this edit tab is where you're gonna be
spending most of your time. This is where the editing
really takes place. So I wanna go ahead now and I grab it our primary
camera footage here, camera one. And I'm gonna drag this
down onto our timeline. So this is the representation,
or this is out video clip. So interface wise, we've got all that clips and everything that we imported up here
and this media area, we've got a preview window here, where we can preview our video clips. This one over here is our playback window. This is where when we
hit play on our video, that's gonna play back here to where we can view
our editing masterpiece. We've got playback controls
here to control the playback of our timeline or our preview clip here. We can zoom in and out on
our editing timeline here, using the slider here
or the little arrows, so we can zoom out, zoom back in. We can use this button
here to dive into the area that we have our playback head out. So if you wanna zoom into this area here, then we would press on this one. That's gonna take us in
to a more detailed view and likewise, the one next to it, we'll zoom back out so that we're able to see our entire edit. So the first step is to bring in all of your primary footage,
the main content of your video. So you can see we've got camera one here. This is everything that I'm
gonna include in that video. Now, for me, this is all in one clip. For you, it might be in several clips. So you just wanna select those and drag them down onto your timeline. Now, just before we get into
the actual video editing, you can actually change up the layout or how your timeline looks. If we come over here to this area here and click on this button, then we get to choose some
different view options. So for example, if we wanna
hide our audio wave forms, that will turn them on or off. Now for me personally,
I like to have them on, especially for a video like this. I can see all the quiet bits
or the bits with no audio. That's gonna tell me that I
need to remove that section. So I like to have those on. We can also change up the actual view, so you can see that we're
on the left one here at the moment. We can move to the middle one, but we're only getting
one thumbnail image, one image preview of our
clip, only at the start. And this end one here is
to remove them altogether. So I like to leave it on this one here. And then in terms of the audio options, obviously you saw up here,
we can turn it on and off. We actually get to choose
what this looks like as well. So again, this is personal preference. I like to have the full wave
form, just so it's bigger, but then we can also come down here and we can adjust the video
and audio track heights. So if we wanna make the audio bigger and take up more of our screen area, then we can drag this slider
down to make it bigger. Likewise, with the video, we can make that area
bigger and smaller as well. So let's just leave it
around there somewhere. Okay, so we've got our primary
camera footage in here. Now, the next step is to
start to trim it down, to remove any of the
bad takes, any mistakes or any footage you
actually don't wanna have in your finished video. So you can see here looking
at the audio wave forms, I actually don't start
talking till about here, which means that the video is likely going to start around here. So all of this stuff at the start where I'm checking the microphone and making sure everything's all good. Obviously we can remove this. Now, as with everything, video editing, there's lots of different ways to essentially do the same thing. So I'm gonna show you a few different ways that you can start to
edit your footage down so that you've got a
full grasp on the tools that are available to you, because sometimes it would make more sense to use one method over others. So the first way then is to
grab this playback indicator or this playback head and position it where you wanna add a cut. So let's say that we wanna
add a cut in our timeline here to remove this first piece. We can then press command B
or control B on the keyboard. And that is going to blade or
cut out clip at this point. So you can see, we now have a
left clip and the right clip. So to remove this, we
can just press delete and that clip is gone. We are still left with a gap here as well. To remove the gap we can
select it, press delete, and that will close up the gap. And if I undo this using
control Z or command Z. The other way that we could
do is remove this clip and close the gap by selecting this clip and pressing shift delete and is gonna remove the clip and close the gap all in one go. So that's one way. Now, if I undo this, let's go back to before I've even cut it. So I've just got one clip here. Another way that we could
remove the start of this clip, is if we move our mouse cursor
to the start of this clip, you see that it changes to trim mode. So if we click and drag here, we're able to drag that start of that clip back to where we want it to remove too. So just before I start to talk here. So if I let my mouse go now, then we have now trimmed
out clip back to that point. Now I can come over here, pick this up and move it across. And we've essentially done the same thing. We've removed the start of that clip. Now that works exactly the
same for the end of our clip. If we come over to the end, let's say that we wanna remove the end, let's just zoom in on this section. We can just come across to the end. We can grab that end
and slide it back across to where we want it to show. And you can see it snapping
to my playback head here. If you wanna turn this
on or off at any time, the toggle for that is up here, snapping, or you can press the
N key on the keyboard. So if we turn this off, then
move this back across here. You can see that we've just
got more granular control without it snapping to that playback hit. Now let's say that we
wanna remove this chunk in the middle here. We can press B to access our blade tool and wherever we click now,
it's gonna cut our timeline at that point. So we can just click, and
we've now split our clip there. We can say, click here and we now have split
off this middle clip. Now, if we press A on the keyboard or we come up here to the arrow, which is what we need to select the clips. If we then click on that clip, again, we can press shift delete, and that clip is removed
and closed up the gap. So you can see there's a couple of different ways to do things. Now there's one other really
powerful way to cut down a lot of footage really fast,
and that's using ripple edit. And what ripple edit does is essentially cut and delete the footage back to either the next clip
or back to that playback head. So for example, let's just say that our
video is going well here. We want all of it up to this point here, and we don't want the
rest of this footage here, but we want the ending. Then all I need to do is
press ripple, edit, right, which is the keyboard
shortcut command or control, shift, square bracket right. And that's gonna remove
the rest of that clip. And likewise, if we find that we want to
remove this section here from where this playback head is back to the start of this
clip where that cut is, we can do a ripple edit left, so command or control, shift,
and square bracket left to remove back to the left. So if we press that and you can see that that section is removed. So using this ripple edit, left and right, will lay to go through and
remove big chunks of footage and trim down a lot of footage to a small manageable amount
really, really quickly. So the idea here now is to go through, use those tools and those methods to trim down your videos so that you've only got
the actual video content left that you want to
use in your final edit. All right, once that's done, the next step is to bring in any overlay or any B roll footage into your project. So we can see here that we've
got some extra clips here of the switch pod with
a phone mounted on it. So we can just click on these clips and bring it down into our timeline here. And you can see that we're dropping it on the layer above our video. So if we're scrubbing through here now, and our video is playing back, at this point that clip is now shown and just like every other
clip, we can trim it down, we can adjust the start
time, adjust the end time, we can split it in half just to get the section of
the footage that we want. So let's say that we want
it to finish about here. And in this case, you can see that we've got our video file and our audio for that as well. If we don't want that audio
clip, we can either mute it by coming down here and you can see there's this little thin line. This is your volume line. If we click on this and pull
it down to minus 97.67 decibels it's gonna be silent, that's mute. So we now have no volume at that point, or we can hold down alt or
option and click on the clip. And it will only select that clip. You can see the top one's not selected and we press delete or backspace, and we can remove just the
audio piece of that clip. So let's say we wanna
bring down another one now. If we don't wanna bring that entire clip down into the timeline, we can double click on it and it's gonna open up
here in this preview area. We can actually select
out the area of the clip that we want. So in this case here, where Caleb is putting
down the switch pod, I think I didn't quite capture the shot, asked him to do it again. So let's grab the second one. Let's say that we want this
clip to start about here. I can press I on the keyboard
to mark an end point. Now we go across to where
we want it to finish. Let's go just before he
comes in to pick it up and we press O for out. So we mark an in and out point. Now we wanna drag this
down into our timeline. We're just gonna bring down this section. So we've already pre-cut that clip down. You can also see when I've
moved my mouse up here, we get to choose, do we want just the video piece or just the audio piece? So if you only wanted the video piece, you can just click on the
clip here and bring that down. And I'm only bringing down that section that we had marked out, but we're also only bringing
down the video piece of it. If we wanted both of them, then we can click anywhere
up here and drag that down and we'll get the video and the audio. Now with these clips, just
like all of the clips, we can pick them up. We can move them around. Same with our ones down the bottom here. If we find that we wanna
reorder some of these clips, we can pick them up, we
can select multiple clips, we can move them around. If you are gonna be moving them around, I would suggest that you turning
back on the snap feature. So they are gonna snap back into position and not leave any gaps. But you wanna go through and
add in any of your B roll or overlay footage. Once we've got that in, now is where I'd like to bring
in any of the music tracks that you wanna have in your video. So you've got two different
music tracks up here. I'm gonna grab one of these and drop it down into our
timeline in the audio section, so down the bottom. And again, just like every
other clip we can pick them up, we can move them around, we can trim off the start
of it, if we'd like to or trim off the end of it,
if it goes for too long. Now we are gonna get to volume levels, really soon in this process. But if this is too loud
for you to continue editing and making minor tweaks and adjustments, then you might wanna lower the volume here just for this audio clip. So again, if you click
on that thin little line and pull it down, then
you can make it quieter, just so it fits and
doesn't drive you crazy while you're editing. So at this point with your B roll in, with your main story in and now with your audio in there as well, you might find that you're going through, you're playing back through. You're making minor
tweaks and adjustments. You might move some of the clips around. You might even remove
some footage in there that isn't a fit for the
video as you're going. So this is an iterative process, where you're constantly going
through, you're playing, you're making minor adjustments, all to get the video
looking the way you'd like. All right, next up, we're gonna add in any titles
or text into your video. So if you come up the top
here to affects library, then you'll see this appear
down the bottom here. You wanna come down to titles. And then here, there's lots of presets that you can use to customize
up, to create your titles. There's also some animated ones down here under fusion titles, or you also have the ability
to purchase other templates from places like Video Hive, for title animations
and effects and things that you can use in your
DaVinci Resolve projects. So I'm just gonna come up here, I'm gonna grab just basic text title, and I'm gonna pick it up, And I'm gonna drop it on our timeline here towards the start. So if we just scrub across here now, we'll see we've got basic title there. So to edit this, we just wanna double
click on our title here. And we open up our title tool. In here we can type in
whatever we'd like it to say, let's go Justin Brown. We can change the fonts. So let's go with Oswald. Let's change it to a bold. We can also come down here and add things like a drop shadow, stroke, we can add a background on here as well. So let's select the title, I'm gonna have our
Primal Video blue there, let's change the height
and let's change the width and let's change the corner radius down. So it's actually a square. Can remove the opacity. And then from there, we can pick it up, we can move it around to wherever you wanna have it in your video, or if you want more granular
control over where it is, and you can come back up to the top here and you can make adjustments
to the position here, using these sliders or these numbers. So you wanna go through now and add in any titles
or text into your video. And once that's done, then we're gonna look at adding in any transitions or effects. So again, for transitions or effects, you wanna make sure that you
are on that effects library so that we can see this panel
down at the bottom here. We wanna then come over
here to video transitions and there's a lot in here to choose from. And this is one area that a
lot of people can go overboard with some crazy transitions and effects and things that can make
your videos look really cheap or really low quality. So I'd say, use these sparingly and use them only when they are adding value to your video. But some of the most popular
ones are the simplest ones, just like a cross dissolve or a fade or even a diptych color
where it goes to black or goes to white between the shots. So let's just take a look
back over here at our title, if we play through this
title just appears, it will go for as long as we want it here. And then it'll just disappear. We can zoom in on that,
grab this cross dissolve and drop it on the start of that clip. You can see it's gonna let
me drop it here at the start or at the end. So I'm gonna put one on the start and let's also put one on the end so that this title now
is going to play through. You can see it's gonna fade in, and then at the end,
it's gonna fade back out. Really simple. So let's say that we
wanna add a transition to some of our B roll that appears. So instead of it just
appearing on the screen here that is going to dip it to a color, like flash up like a white flash. So I wanna grab this dip to color and this, again, drop this transition on. Now the default here for this
is for it to go to black. So you can see it fades out
to black, then comes back up. So we wanna change that black to be white. So you want to make sure that you've selected that transition. And then up in the top
here under transition, we get to customize that up. So under color here, we can choose white and you can see now our transition, instead of gonna black, it's gonna white. Now, that's pretty slow. We can come down here on our timeline and we can actually shorten that. So it's more like a little camera flash. So it's pretty quick. And we can do the same for
the other end of the clip there as well. So that's a good way that you can really easily
add a little bit of polish into your videos without going overboard with some of the transitions. Now, for pieces of the video
where you have a hard cut. So you can see here, I'm
talking, I've got a cut here, and then it's going onto the next piece. So maybe I had a mistake in here, or I finished one section
moved on to the next. In this case, I wouldn't normally use a transition between it. 'Cause the shot looks very much the same. So first off I might tighten
up this cut a little bit. And then what I would do, instead of just having it
as a hard cut or a jump cut, I would zoom in on either the
first clip or the second clip, just so that it looked
a little bit different. So we wanna select one of the clips here, first or the second one. You wanna come up the top here to video and then down here under transform is where you wanna zoom in on that clip. So we can come up here
to where it says one, and we wanna zoom in just a little bit and you can see that if
we play this back now, playing the first clip, and there's a slight zoom
in to the second one. Now in order for this to really work well, you can see that was kind of jarring. If you're able to keep the eyes, if there's a person onscreen, if you're able to keep their
eyes in the same position or as close to being the same position, it's gonna be far less jarring. So let's adjust the position
of this second clip here, so that the eyes are almost
in the same position. So that's normally what we'll do instead of adding transitions between a hard cut, just zoom in a little
bit to break it up a bit for the viewer. So you wanna go through
now adding any transitions or effects into your video. Once that's done, we're gonna
adjust our audio levels. Now the most important piece here is the spoken piece in your video or the primary audio in your video. So we wanna make sure that we're getting that volume set right first. And then from there, we can
look at adjusting the volumes on music or sound effects
or anything like that. So, first off, I'm gonna come down here
to this audio 2 layer, where we have our music and
I'm just gonna hit mute. So that we're not gonna hear this, this section isn't gonna play back as we're playing back our video. The other thing I'm gonna do
is to come up here to workspace and then down to show panel in workspace, and I'm going to choose mixer. And this is gonna bring
up our audio mixer here. Now for all the advanced audio tools and all the advanced controls, then you can jump across
to the Fairlight area here, but this is also pretty advanced in here. So we're gonna stick to the edit panel. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna come back
to the start of our clip and we are going to hit play. And we're going to just
look at our audio here and check out the volume of it. So you can see that we in
the green, into the yellow, into the red a bit, but we're not hitting the top. If our audio is hitting the top, I'm going to raise this up now, then you can see that it is distorting, which means it's too loud. It's gonna sound terrible. So you wanna make sure that
your audio isn't that loud. So this is where we're adjusting it so that your audio is down in the yellow. Maybe just touching on
the red a little bit, but definitely not getting
anywhere near that zero or the top of this area. So by using this little
volume adjustment here, this is making an adjustment
on this entire audio 1 track. So every audio clip that we
have on this entire timeline, we're adjusting the overall volume. And this is gonna be perfect, if you're in the situation
where we are here, where it's all recorded
on the same camera, same volume level, it's
not changing throughout. So we can just set our audio here once to where it's got to be. And we know that all our
clips then are gonna be right. So let's say that we
wanted to make adjustments to this clip specifically. I've already shown you
how we can come over here to this little white
line across the top here. And we can either drag
it up, to make it louder. You can actually see on the wave forms that it's louder or lower it down again. Again, we're gonna see it shrink. So this is one way that we can do it. And you can see the volume number there. We've dropped it by 1.29 decibels. Or with this clip selected,
we can come up at the top here and we can make adjustments
to this here as well. Now I'm gonna hit this
button here to reset that now back to zero. Now, let's say that we just
wanted this little section here of our clip to be louder or quieter. We could go back to our blade tool and we could make a cut in
our timeline here and here. And then we could switch back
to our arrow tool, using A, and we could just increase or lower just that section of audio. So again, there's lots of
different ways to do things. Or if I undo that again, another way that we could
do it is using key frames. So I'm gonna zoom in on this section. It was this area here that
we wanted to make louder. We're gonna bring our
playback head, orange bar, back towards this section. And we're gonna come up the top here with that clip selected. And we're going to add a
volume under the volume area, we're going to hit this button here, which will add in a key frame. You can see we've got a red dot there now. Let's come across a little bit further. Let's add in another one. Now let's come across to the end of it. So about here, add in another one and then we want one more. You need four of them in here. So now what we can do is if
we click in the midpoint here, on this line, we can
now adjust up and down just that section that we have marked out with those key frames and you can actually see what's happening. So we have our volume going
through at this level, constant level, hundred percent, it's gonna hit that key frame, and then it's gonna gradually lower until it gets to our next key frame, where we've told it that
we want our volume at whatever this level here is, until it gets to the end of that key frame and then increase in volume
back to where it was before. So we can really dial in
specific areas of our audio just by using key frames. So now that we've got the audio for our primary content piece, the voiceover or the spoken bit done, Next up, we're going to
adjust the volume levels for out music or any additional
sounds in there as well. So we're gonna unmute this track, so that when we play it
back, we can hear it. And the idea here again is,
as we're playing this back, we, again, don't wanna be
up to the top of that red. So we could adjust here the audio across this entire audio track 2, by pulling this down and
lowering down the music. And you also wanna make
sure that you can still hear the primary piece of content as well. So this is where there
is no perfect volume. Each individual music track
is going to be different. And it's also your
personal preference as well as to where you're setting this. But really the key here is, is if you've got music in the background, make sure that it's not
overpowering the content piece and that it's still easy for your viewers to hear the piece that they need to hear. So usually for us, with
our YouTube videos, we're normally having
this down around minus 25 to maybe minus 35, depending
on the music track. And again, you can go through and you can use those key frames or add cuts into this section to adjust the volumes of specific pieces in your music tracks as well. Now that your audio levels are set, we're now going to look at color grading or color correcting your videos. So I'm gonna go back to the
start, to the first clip. And we are going to jump
across to this color area. Now in here, this is an
absolute beast of an area. This is what DaVinci
Resolve is really known for, color grading, professional
grade calibrating. We're not gonna dive into
this in great detail. I'm gonna show you the main
tools that you need to focus on, but this could literally be a
whole course just on its own. So I definitely don't want
you to be overwhelmed in here. The first thing I like to do is make sure that I am seeing the scopes here. So again, this is the
visual representation of what's going on in our shot. Now we have our first clip selected here. So this is the one that we're going to be tweaking and adjusting first. You can see that if I click
on some of these other ones that we're actually changing
and adjusting those clips. So let's just do the first one first. Let's do our primary footage and then whatever adjustments we make, we can apply to all the rest of the clips from that same camera. And then afterwards, we're gonna go back through and you can make adjustments
to the rest of your clips too. Okay, so the first thing
you wanna understand here is that this bar along
the bottom here, zero, that is your absolute black level. Anything that drops below that means that you're gonna be
losing data or information or it's too black in your videos. Likewise, across the top
here on this top line, anything that is going outside
or is touching this top line, that means that it's overexposed or we're losing that data in our video. So the first thing I
wanna do is just make sure that we are within the
boundaries of these lines. So first off, I'm gonna
come across here to lift, and I'm going to adjust this
slider along the bottom here. And you can see that as I move this, I'm able to pull this down or lift it up. But I wanna make sure
that where I'm setting it is so that it really
isn't touching the bottom. So somewhere around there. Then I'm gonna come across to gain and is gonna do the same
thing, but on the top of it. So I'm going to bring down the highlights. You can see that is darkening
our shot down at this point, but we're also not losing
any or much of that data. So let's just say around here. And then from there, I'm gonna come across to the gamma one here, the mid tones, and I'm going to adjust this one. So we can see we're able to
now brighten the shot overall or darken it off, but we're not hitting those max limits. Now down the bottom here, you've then got your
saturation adjustment. So if we click on this and slide it, you can see that we're able
to boost the colors in there. Or if we go back the other way, it's gonna make it black and white. And if you wanna make minor adjustments to the actual colors
on each of these areas, the dark areas of your shot, the light areas of your
shot or the mid-tones, then inside of these color wheels, you can actually come and grab this little circle in the middle and let's say wanna adjust
the colors for the midtones. We can come in and grab this
and just move it towards the color that you wanna add more of. So you see if we wanna add more blue, I'm gonna pull this down towards the blue and it adds more blue. Likewise, back towards
the orange or the yellow, we're able to make
adjustments like this as well. Now, obviously this is
barely scratching the surface of what you can do in here, but as a beginner tutorial,
these are the things that you can adjust to
make your shot look the way that you'd like. Now, once you're happy with that and you wanna apply it to all
of the other clips as well, we can right click on this preview here and choose grab still. And you'll see, we've got a still that shows up on here. Once we get that created, we can select the clip that
we want it to apply to. And we can come up here, right click on it and choose apply grade. And that's gonna apply it
to this next clip as well. Now, the other way that we can do it, if we just wanna copy and paste, we can come over here to our node, which has all of those settings
and everything applied. We can select that. We can press command C or
control C to copy that. We can then go to the clips
that we want to paste it on, and then use the keyboard
shortcuts for paste. So command V or control V. And we're able to paste that
onto those remaining clips. And you can even select multiples and paste them all at once. So from here, you wanna
go through and color grade or color correct your clips, including any of your B roll
or overlay footage as well. And once you're done with that, the next step is to export your video. So you wanna come down here
to the deliver workspace. And then we have all
of our export settings that show up on the side here. And then you do have built
in presets here for YouTube. If we hit this little
drop down here for it, we can choose a 720P YouTube
video, 1080P or 4K 2160P. So our video here was 1080. So we're gonna leave this here as 1080. We can give it a name. We can make any adjustments
we need to here, but these are the right
settings for YouTube based on our project that we had created. Now, if you select this box, then you can set it so it
will automatically upload to YouTube as well after
it's done exporting. For me personally, I'd rather just have the
file saved out on my computer that I can check and I'll
upload it myself manually. Now the trick here then
to get this saving out, is you need to click down
here on add to render queue, and that's gonna pop up and
ask us where we wanna save it. So let's just save it
in the movies folder. Let's go save. And that's gonna show up
here in the render queue. Now, it's not actually saving out yet, and it won't save until we
hit this render all button. So the idea here is that
you can actually go through and you can queue up multiple renders. And then when you get to
go to save them all out, you can hit render roll and
that will start saving them out. So what we need to do now is
hit this render all button, and we can see our
rendering progress here. And this is actually going really quick. Now, once that's done, I would strongly recommend that you are playing back
your video on your computer, but also ideally on a phone or an iPad or some sort of device
so that you can make sure that it looks good and sounds
the way that you want it before you're releasing it on YouTube. So that is a complete
end to end walkthrough, in DaVinci Resolve for beginners. Make sure that you are
grabbing your free copy of the Primal Video method, your step-by-step process
to now edit your videos down with minimal wasted time and rework. There is a link onscreen
and below in the description for you to download that. And I will see you in the next video.
