LEARN DAVINCI RESOLVE 16 IN 40 MINUTES - Video Editor Guide for Beginners

hello everybody Chris here and today I want to take you through the steps of editing a video from beginning to completion inside of DaVinci Resolve 16 so hopefully we're gonna be able to do this in 30 minutes or less I plan to show you most of the basics so I'm going to be glossing over the more advanced tabs which would consist of fusion color and fair light and instead we're going to be mostly focused on the media tab the cut tab the edit tab and then at the end for exporting your video that deliver tab so to get started we want to import video clips into our project and the ideal tab to do that on is the media tab over on the far left so when you click on the media tab you can see the media storage section in the top left hand corner if you ever don't see one of these windows that I'm talking about you can probably open it up by clicking on the name of it on the top bar so with the media storage tab we want to add in locations on our computer where we are storing media clips by default a few folders such as your user account video folders by default a few directories such as your user account slash videos will be auto included here but if you don't see on this list then we can add in a new location on your computer or network by right-clicking and doing add new location now I want to pull in files from this 30minutes folder I created earlier but if I go ahead and select folder here what we'll see happen is that it will say that a higher level directory already exists and lists so if you run across that what that means is that on your list of locations there's already one that's higher level than that so my desktop here we can see Chris users desktop contains the 30 minutes folder so instead of adding it to the list here I need to start by clicking on the users Chris desktop and then navigate into the sub directories such as the 30 minutes folder so here we have a few video clips if we want to preview any of them we can left-click and it will pop over here on the video preview window if you hover over a clip you'll get a line that will indicate the position in the whole video clip that you're looking at and you can scrub it to get immediate thumbnails of the video footage you're looking at so that will help you identify which clips you actually mean to bring in to your project and which ones are unnecessary especially if you working with a lot of videos now note that this is in the thumbnail view here that also the ListView which looks like this so you can't see the image thumbnails of each of the videos you can still click on them to open them up and scrub through the clip on the preview window over here but the main advantage of the ListView is that obviously you can squeeze a lot more videos onto the list and then you can see more technical information about those items by the way if you want to expand a window just go to the edge of one of your windows and left click and then you should usually be able to scrub and expand one window by shrinking another so to bring these video files into our project I want them to end up in this clip pool down here so I'm simply going to take these three video clips and drag them in their full entirety into the media pool and depending on your project settings there's a good chance that you'll get this pop-up which says that the clips have a different frame rate than the current project settings so when you're creating your video you're probably going to be aiming for a certain frame rate that you want the final video to export in for YouTube that's commonly going to be 30 or 60 fps so it's up to you if you want to change the timeline frame rate to match whatever the video is in this case I'm gonna hit don't change but if you want to see what the base frame rate on these videos is a good way to do that is to open up the ListView expand it and look for the FPS category so you can see that these video clips are at 30 FPS 29.97 fps and 29.97 fps as well if you want to know what your settings for your current project are then you want to go up to the file menu do project settings and you'll be able to see your timeline resolution and the timeline frame rate now note that while you have any clips in the media pool you can no longer change the timeline frame rate so if you do ever want to change this so that in your timeline the videos playback at a different frames per second amount then we can remove these from the media pool by left-click and dragging a box around them hitting the Delete key and removing them from our media pool and now that the media pool is clear we can actually change that timeline frame rate to whatever we want whether that's 30 fps 60 fps or some other setting so for now I'm going to add these video clips back in what again I'm going to hit don't change because I want to leave the final timeline resolution at 30fps and now to start editing our video we can go over to the cut tab or the edit tab so we'll start with the cut tab because that's specifically new to DaVinci Resolve 16 so the cut tab is basically a simplified version of the Edit tab where it presents less windows to you on screen has a little bit less features in what you're able to do in the cut tab but it's more optimized for if you're working on one screen or if all you're trying to do is make a bunch of cuts to get your video out the door and you don't really need to worry too much about advanced settings such as doing keyframe animation so just to take a quick look at the edit tab one of the main things that is missing from the cut tab is the inspector here so in order to see some of the settings that pop open in the inspector if I drop a clip onto the timeline like this and I left click on it you can see that there's a lot of settings you can edit about a video clip inside of DaVinci Resolve 16 now some of these still exist on the edit tab but as I mentioned before you can't click on these little diamonds in order to animate a property such as zoom over time and so once again the main difference is that on the edit tab you have more full control over everything and your video clips the changes in adjustments that you want to make to those the interface can get a little bit cluttered so you may actually prefer to do some basic editing in the cut tab and stuff another one of the key differences between the inspector tab and now jumping back over to the cut tab is that on the Edit tab you actually only have one timeline that you're working with here so if you want to make any changes you're going to need to scrub throughout the timeline and navigate with your timeline cursor to get where you want to make your edits but on the cut tab you have not one but three timelines that actually exist to YouTube that you can see on-screen so the bottom timeline works differently than in the Edit tab as well because this timeline is always going to be centered no matter what on whatever your position is in the video and then the second timeline right above it will always show the entire video project so whether your timeline is 18 seconds long or an hour long always be able to see all of the clips on this timeline the third timeline which is for making frame by frame at it shows up when you're trying to make adjustments to the edges of one of your Clips so let's start by dragging a second clip into the timeline and I'll put it on this main project timeline that shows everything so I'm going to drag this right above the video track 1 which will create the video track 2 immediately you can see it numbered over here video track 2 video track 1 main thing to know if you don't already know is that whatever is on the top video track is always going to show over whatever is on lower tracks if I go to this part where the second video clip comes in you can see that as soon as the second clip is there we can no longer see the bottom video now in most cases for the base video we'd want that to not be layered on top of each other but to be side-by-side so with this clip on the top video track I can left-click and drag that down here to the video track 1 and you can see that in the cut tab you don't have to be exactly precise about things there's a little bit of smart sensing about what you're trying to do and side of the cut tab if DaVinci Resolve 16 so it'll kind of auto snap there to the right side of the first clip now both clips are on video track 1 and in order to see the third timeline I could do something like left click on the border between these two clips so now you can see two preview windows over here and click edit mode this is another one of the differences it'll show the ending frame of the left-hand clip and the starting frame of the right-hand clip so what dragging on the border between two Clips normally does is pulls in more or less of the source material but because the source material is already fully in the timeline we'd actually have to decrease part of it so one way I could remove some of the source material from the timeline would be to hit control B to make a blade slice and then that'll separate one clip into two and I can hit delete in order to remove that part another would be that rather than clicking on the border between two video clips you can click on the right side and drag it in so this is basically the moving part of the start of the clip by a few seconds there and now you'll see that when we left click on the border between those clips we actually get green instead of red so the green represents that this extra source to pull from in making our adjustments so now if we left quick we can actually drag to the left and right and you'll notice that those two previews at the top there are immediately updated in real time so we can see what the new starting frame and ending frame is going to be between these two video clips and if we want even more control that's where the third timeline comes into play because you can see that this timeline works on a frame by frame change so you can see how it will start saying plus 1 or minus 1 or minus 2 frames so we're doing frame by frame adjustments which will allow you to get exactly the right starting point and ending point that you're looking for and once you find that spot you can just kind of left let go and then you'll have made your change to both Clips simultaneously by controlling the starting and ending point so at this point I might want to go to the start of this video clip and adjust or trim the start of this video so I can drag this in to basically pick the frame where we want the video to start at so we could do it here where in the background that guy kind of is holding his chin a little bit and let go and our change has been made so let's show a couple more quick adjustments you can make inside of the cut tab if you want to add in a video transition go to the part of the timeline where you have a edge of a clip such as the start of your video and then over here in the media pool you'll notice that this option here for dissolve so that's referring to a dissolve transition which is probably about as simple as you can get and if we click on that with a simple left-click you'll see that the dissolve transition is immediately added on here to our video clip you can see over here in the preview window it's a cross dissolve if we hit the spacebar or the play button we can actually see how that looks so let's play that back one more time and you can see that in this case because it's dissolving from black it simply fades the video in but if we go in between two video clips such as that cut we had earlier we can click dissolve again and that'll create a quick transition between these two video clips so this will have it fade from one clip into the other clip in a very smooth transition and of course we can go to the end of the video and have a fade out by clicking dissolve one more time and having the video fade-out at the end of the video so that's just a really easy way you can add in transitions to your video clips so one more thing about the cut tab if we open up this tools window you can see that under the preview then you'll get a bunch of options that you can actually control about your video clip so so you'll be able to see the video clip that you're working on in your main project timeline here so left click on it to be sure about which one you're editing and then we can change something like the zoom here by changing the value here from 1 to 2 which is going to massively zoom in our video shot and we can hit play to see how that looks with that change made note that it only affects the video clip were working on and not the entire project so I'm going to undo that for now but note that there's other settings you can change very similarly to the inspector in the Edit tab which we'll get to in a second here such as position x position Y if we go over to the other tabs you have cropping the edges of a window so if you want to remove part of the left side or at the top at the bottom of the right you can do that on the fourth one you can increase the speed so if we wanted to make it 1.5 times speed we can increase that note that that may modify your timeline simply because it runs out of source material when it's playing back in a faster speed but if we go here and hit space here you can see that the characters are kind of moving a little bit faster than they would in real time so hit control Z in order to undo that okay so lastly before jumping to the edit tab note that you can add in other types of transitions up here in the top left hand corner you would drag these onto the border between two clips in order to change the type of transition you can also add in titles to your video timeline and you can add in special effects so this works mostly the same way as the Edit tab and as such I'll talk about that more in a minute here so going now over to the Edit tab we're working more in a full-featured interface that has more stuff going on and maybe a bit more ideal if you could pick up a second monitor so that you can spread some of these windows out but in any case you can see that you have the media pool over here on the top left that's where all of your clips are going to be the Edit index and the bottom-left in most cases I find you can just kind of turn that off but what this will show is all of your most recent edits that you've made to your video referring to the type of edit in this case adding cross dissolves or adding clips onto the timeline and you can see all of those listed chronologically I don't need that so I'm going to actually turn off the edit index you also have the effects library as I was just talking about with the cut tab you have transitions titles and effects now those are listed as separate windows on the cut tab but on the Edit tab they're all in this effects library toolbox so if you want video transitions you click you click on the video transitions menu there's also audio transitions which refers to crossfade so that will have audio from one clip fade out as another clip fades in or if you put it at the start of your video as in the first video clip or the last video clip then you can just have it fade from nothing or fade out to nothing and kind of the same way as a video dissolve just with the audio levels instead and then in the titles menu you have mini preset titles so you might notice that these are called fusion titles so fusion titles are 3d compositions that are set up in the fusion tab we won't really get into that too much in this video but you can create 3d compositions inside of DaVinci Resolve which can be things like particle effects titles creating 3d shapes or putting an image on a plane but that's a bit complicated for right now so if you're interested in that check out some of my other videos specifically on fusion nodes you can also go to the effects menu here for adding in an adjustment clip or a fusion composition so if fusion composition would be where you want to create a completely new fusion 3d composition from scratch that would be the starting block for that and there's also a justement clip so if you have multiple clips and you want to change all of them at the same time for a period of time then you can put an adjustment clip on top of that and do something like zoom times - and as long as the clips are underneath that for that period of time all of those clips will receive the zoom times - in addition to transitions and titles you also have some other options you can create such as blank fusion compositions when you want to create like a 3d title but completely from scratch you have open effects filters which will change your video but aren't meant to actually transition from one video scene into another one so for instance resolve effects blurs if you want to blur out a video clip for the entire duration then you can simply drag something like a Gaussian blur onto your video clip and you'll see that that immediately changes how that video clip looks without going into too much detail once you've added an open effects to a video clip you can open up the inspector in the top right and that will show up under the open effects category and they'll be settings you can change about that but for right now I'll just go ahead and delete that there's also audio effects here some of which are built-in which you can drag on to a audio check in order to modify things about that track such as having a noise reduction to remove some of the background noise if I scroll down here you probably won't see VST effects but you can note that you can add external plugins in the form of VST plugins to your computer which DaVinci Resolve can use such as Reaper plugins which can add some extra filters equalizers compression tools things like that that you can for the most part get from the default Fairlight effects but the external plugins usually work a little bit differently and you may find you get better results there okay so enough about all of that when you're working in your timeline and you start adding a bunch of Clips you probably find that you want to increase or decrease the zoom for your timeline so there is a option here right above the timeline where you can control the zoom and you can see your video clips in a bunch more detail so anyway there is a little white box over the edges of one of our video or audio tracks that is actually a video or audio transitions so we added these over in the cut tab but if you click on them you can actually see that you can modify some of the settings about them over in the inspector just like you can click on a clip in order to modify settings in more detail just like you can left-click on a video clip in order to modify more settings than you would have been able to do otherwise on the cut tab so for instance if we zoom in here and we left-click on the cross dissolve we can add ease curve with the east drop-down menu and change that to in and out and what that will make happen is that the transitions start slow and in slope it goes fastest in the middle which will make it look like this rather than no easing which will have a consistent speed animation so that would probably be easier to tell if we actually increase the duration of this effect so you can left-click on the border of a transition and drag it to increase the duration so I'll drag it over here where it adds one second to it you can also in the inspector change that manually by typing in a duration up here so let's play that back one more time and you may be able to tell there that the fastest point is in the center so now I'll set it to East curve none and you'll see that it's a consistent speed effect using the inspector you can make all kinds of changes over time like that so let's go ahead and show some new stuff I'm going to add in a third clip by dragging from my media pool onto the video timeline here and have it snap into place right next to that other clip if you don't see it snap then you may not have snapping enabled so snapping is an option you can click on right here you'll know it's enabled when it is white instead of grayed out so on the Edit tab there's different modes for editing video clips and the timeline so by default you have the selection mode which will give you the basic operating system cursor and that'll let you drag around clips to whatever timelines you need the month note that if you need a third timeline you can just keep dragging up and the third timeline will be automatically created as well as forth and so on there's also trim mode so traumatic mode works most similar to how things do on the cut tab where if you go over to the edge of a video clip you can see that you can trim the start and end of your clip by left clicking and dragging on the side of the start or end of the clip you can also adjust which part of the source material is going to be contained in this video clip without changing the duration in the timeline by left clicking in the thumbnail area and dragging to the left and right you'll notice that as long as this extra source material it'll kind of give you this ghost white outline showing how much data there is to keep dragging to pull from the source material when you get to the edge of the source material it will give you that red line on the edge showing that there's nothing left to pull from so you can make adjustments as long as there is source material now if you want to make cuts without hitting ctrl B every time although control B works pretty nicely as a hotkey as you can see there you can also do it with the mouse if you click on blade edit mode or you hit B on your keyboard so this will change your cursor into a razor blade you can left-click anywhere you want in order to cut one clip into two clips so by doing that you can now manipulate these clips as their own individual pieces so if I just want to take this part of the source material that I've cut into its own separate clips and I want to zoom in on it I can just go over to the inspector with that new clip selected zoom and set it to times two and you'll notice that that has no effect on any of the other Clips even if they were pulled from the same source material okay so now to show something new and a bit more interesting keyframe animation is a pretty big part of DaVinci Resolve so if you want the zoom to increase or decrease over time what we can do is set keyframes and have DaVinci Resolve animate between those keyframes automatically by having the software figure out how much zoom it should be at every frame of video so if I go to the start of this clip where I want to zoom in and I click on this little white diamond next to the property I want to animate such as the zoom then that will set a keyframes so this will mean that at that point in time the first frame of this clip it's going to be 1.0 zoom so that's just the normal video not zoomed in any more than it normally is now I go to a new part in the timeline by dragging the timeline cursor and if I want to set a new keyframe I simply need to change the value now to what it should be at that point in time so if I set one point five and hit enter you can see that the second keyframe is automatically created if I go back to the first frame you can see that there it's still 1.0 and if I go forward in video you can see that the value now changes automatically over time now if you want to quickly navigate between keyframes as long as there's more than one you can left-click on these aerials that will be created in order to jump to the next and previous keyframes on your video clip and that's very very convenient if we zoom in a bit more on the timeline so I'm going to use the timeline bar for this and we go to our video clip on the bottom right you'll see two options that are related to key framing if we click on this one the one that looks like the key framing diamond we can see the key frames for each property in the timeline and if we track the timeline cursor it will automatically snap to those key frames where we can make adjustments easily we can also drag the keyframes across time if we want the starting and ending points for those animations to be closer together or further away thus increasing or decreasing the length of an animation we can also click on the east curves button over here which is right to the left there and then if you want to have easing in and out for any animation we can click on a keyframe point here so in order to add easing between these two points I'm gonna click on this option over here the second from the left which will add in a Bezier curve handle which we can use to control the curve between the first and second keyframes but I'm actually going to leave that as defaults there and in this curve editor we can edit the value at each keyframe so we could change the zoom to be 2.0 here or 3.0 if we wanted to we can click on the Bezier curve handle in order to adjust the rate of change over time of the animation between these two points I'm not going to do that right now I'm just gonna undo and leave it at its defaults and of course we could change the starting value because that's just another keyframe point that we can adjust likewise with the simpler keyframe editor over there to the right we can drag these points in terms of their duration or starting and end times as well by dragging it to the left and right so for now just to show how we were able to animate a property over time I'm gonna hit space here and play back the video you'll notice that zooms in over a period of time rather than jumping to its full zoomed in value immediately so if you keep playing that back you can notice that in the inspector that the value animates over time without us doing any more work whatsoever and what's great about keyframe animation is you can use it on many many different things so you could animate the position of a video as well so for instance you can have a video clip start way off center like so and then I can and have that animate back to the centered position of 0 over time just by setting up or keep a couple keyframes setting the values at those keyframes and now if I hit space here you can see that the position also animates over time in addition to the zoom also animating so you can get pretty fancy and complicated with that really quickly if you're interested in that ok so at this point let's show off one more video transition and add a title to our sequence so what I'll do here is I'll move some of my Clips around in another way rather than just left clicking and dragging them where I want them I'm going to hit control X to cut the video clip I want and I'm going to go to where I want it to be and hit control V to paste it in notice how it pops into the timeline we did leave a gap in between our earlier Clips so one way we can get rid of that gap and you can also use this to delete a video clip while pushing everything to the right over to the left is to right-click it and do a ripple delete so when I do that you see that the rest of the timeline moves over to the left immediately if I do that with a video clip it will remove the video clip while pushing every other video clip to the right over to the left so if I right-click this and do ripple delete it pushes everything over to the left so that is really really handy when you're editing your videos you can also do it by hitting Delete on your keyboard if you'd rather use hotkeys and sets so like that just select it with left click and hit delete ok so now that I have these two different Clips it probably makes sense to have a video transition between them so in the tool box I'm going to choose video transitions you can see the cross dissolves which are added by default you can see the cross dissolves which we added in early but we want to grab a different kind of transition so I'm just going to go down here and maybe grab something silly like a heart shape transition so I'll left-click and I'll drag this over on the edge of where I want the transition to be so that can be on the edge here between these two video clips I just drag it on there and if I hit play I can have that simple transition playback in our timeline if I need to make any adjustments to it I can zoom in a little bit so that's easier to click on left click on the transition increase the duration or maybe if I want to border for this heart I can add that on there change the color just kind of these simple menu settings that you can do to change your video transitions by a little bit so now we can play it back and you can see how that changes things a little bit by having that extra color there and pretty much with all these other transitions it's kind of the same story you just drag them on where you want them you can left-click on them modify the settings just like in the cut timeline by the way you can actually adjust the length of the duration by left clicking on the border inside of the timeline and dragging it as you can see here so you don't necessarily need to use the inspector and just one real quick last way to quickly add transitions if you left click on a clip and you look at the top left or top right hand corner of those Clips you'll see a little notch here so if you want to do a simple fade in or fade out you can drag these to the left to have it fade out over time so note that this is always going to be a fade to black so you're basically getting rid of the opacity of the video so a real simple transition you can do it with the audio as well so this will fade the audio out over time or fade it in which will make it more quiet as you approach the end of the clip or your soundtrack we can also do that at the start of a video we can also remove video transition by left clicking on it and hitting delete and now if we wanted to replace that with one of those knotch fades we can drag it out over to the right and we can drag the one on the Left clip over to the left and play it back and you'll see that it fades to black and then fades in from black so that's just a really quick way you can add transitions as well and while we're at it another way is to right click on the border between two video clips and do something like add a 15 frame cross dissolve which will give you that simple cross dissolve look we were going for earlier which usually looks really nice and that's probably why it's the default transition okay so next let's add in a title real quick so in the effects library titles you have a lot of default options you can choose from and for beginners I would probably recommend you just stick to a default fusion titles template and then you make small edits to it to fit your project needs such as changing the title text so if we want to add a title to our timeline you simply left click it and drag it in make sure it is above your main video tracks because we want titles templates to show on top of our video not to overwrite it or not to completely remove the underlying track so that'll usually mean putting it on video track 2 or above so we can kind of scrub through this title and see how it will look when it's fully rendered depending on your computer if you try to play it back in the timeline because it's a 3d fusion composition it may not render at full speed the first time you can note that the pre rendering bar there above the timeline will show how much of it is already pre-rendered if it's blue that means it's rendered if it's red that means that isn't so you can just wait a minute if you want it to be able to play back in full speed or if you don't need it to play back in the timeline you can just wait until your final video export and when it's exported it will play back in full speed now note that when you go to export your video regardless of if everything on your timeline is pre-rendered or not when you do the final vendor everything will play back in full speed so you don't have to worry about that blue bar being there that's only for your in editor purposes to be able to view it while you're editing your project and every time you make a change to the template its gonna need the pre vendor anyway just don't worry too much about that unless you need to see it back in full speed while you're editing ok so let's go ahead and change a few settings on this title now so when you left-click on your title if you have the inspector open in the top right you can see that most of these default out-of-the-box fusion titles will expose some settings that you edit in the inspector so for instance if I go over to main text and I expand that you can see that we can change the main text it which is the actual characters that are showing up inside of that title we can change the font which I'll go ahead and change here to something I like more baby snowing you can always install more fonts on your computer if you want more to show up there and you can change the color of your font now note that because these are 3d titles that the text itself is a 3d object and depending on how those 3d scenes are set up there may be light that shows on the text so that would be why you have multiple text colors here so the text face color here is more of the base color so I can make that a little darker to make it more obvious and then the specular color is going to be the color where the light is showing on so in this case we're making it white which is basically going to take the base color and writing it up a lot emphasizing that those are the parts that are being lit you can also see that the surrounding 3d box kind of has that same thing going on there with a specular white color and then the base color for that box is more of a teal so just like with the text you can actually edit the box material the specular color the base color for that and all other kinds of things you can it looks like they've even exposed some light colors so there's a lot of options you can change here but just to keep things simple usually you would stick to what font you want to use what you want to show in the box so I'll call this tutorial on titles here to show us the text in the box and maybe the font size as well as something you can play around with but once you have your settings as you want it you can hit play in the timeline and see how that looks obviously once it free vendors a little bit more you'll get a better idea of how it will look in the final result so every time you play it back it should have a little bit more pre vendored and that should basically show you how your title is going to look in the final result so really quickly I want to show a little bit about the fusion tab so we're going to jump over to the fusion tab with our 3d title selected and the fusion tab allows you to create or edit 3d composition such as the 3d titles we can see here that we reading the title clip and it has a group here that says 3d title long something or another if you double click on that you can see the nodes group for the titles you can see that it's quite complicated it's got things like main text and four different box shapes and these all need to merge together before creating a final video output so just know that in the fusion tab you create 3d compositions by combining nodes linking them together and then that will be able to generate a 3d output so that is something you can do in DaVinci Resolve if you get a little bit more into it ok so just really quickly as well with the color tab the color tab is where you can color grade your video so you can either try to target areas of your video by qualifying them you can use 3d power windows so that only a corner or a section of your video will receive any color changes or you can apply a lookup table to an entire video clip in order to change its look so the idea is that there's a lot of tools that you can use for controlling the look of your video and tools for targeting which areas you want to change but up here in the top left hand corner we have look-up tables so if we want to take a video clip and we want to apply a specific look to it we can go over to lookup tables such as film looks and you can hover over them in order to see how you can drastically change the look of a video just by adding in one of these film looks to it so as you hover over them you'll be able to see the clips immediately get updated with how it would look if we apply the lookup table and of course there are many look-up tables that you can find online in order to play around with how your video looks so for instance I had previously downloaded a pack of 35 free look-up tables so I can kind of go through these and see how it effects the appearance of my video so if I was looking for something a little bit more grungy like a music video kind of look I could use this one chemical 189 I guess and if I want to apply it to the current clip I simply have it selected from this clips window down here which can be enabled or disabled in the top right and then right click and do you apply to current note and just by doing that it changes the look of that video clip so over in the Edit tab we can see that that has immediately applied a drastic look to how our video looks we can compare that to the other shots which do not have that lookup table enabled and that's just a quick example of one of many ways we can edit how our video looks in the color tab so next up is the Fairlight tab if we click on that you'll notice that there's a bunch of audio mixers here because the Fairlight tab is where you generally edit the audio of your video notice that in the timeline that there's no reference to video clips here because Fairlight is all about audio well glass over this tab - but one cool Fairlight effects that they added in with DaVinci Resolve 16 is the dialog processor so we can apply this to any audio clip which is where people are speaking to process the dialogue hence the name drag that on to the clip and in one audio effect you actually be given six audio processors that tie together theoretically in order to improve the sound of the people speaking in your video so you'll have some so you'll have some dials to play around with here you can try it out see if the dialogue processor makes your audio sound a little bit better note that any of these that you don't want you can click off at any time in order to disable them and if you want to see once again how it sounds without the dialog processor which turns off all of these as well you can toggle that on and off as well noise reduction is also pretty useful if you're just trying to remove some of the background noise from your recorded video so one useful thing to know about the Fairlight tab is that by adding in an input device in the mixer here bottom right so you can add in your microphones and use that in conjunction with tools like automatic dialogue replacement up here if you want to record in some voice over narration or character lines so that brings us to the deliver tab so on the deliver tab we can export our videos as you can see here you can export with default settings for YouTube or Vimeo if you want to upload directly to those services you can log in to your accounts by going up to DaVinci Resolve trances and then choosing internet accounts but aside from that you can either use these defaults over here or you can create your own custom settings so if you want to create custom settings for your project then you can click on these dropdowns and find the settings you like if you're curious about what I like to use it's usually either mp4 video files or a QuickTime QuickTime is the dot move format with h.264 video codec for the compression the resolution and the frame rate is going to depend on whatever you are editing your timeline in and what you want the final output resolution to be so this is one ATP right here which is really common 720p which is 1280 by 720 is also really common you may want to leave the Equality automatically restricted to 10000 KB's per second or you can just have it set to automatic if you prefer which will let DaVinci Resolve figure out what bitrate you want to use for your project so you can give it a final name up here at the top so I can call this learn DaVinci Resolve 16 there's also some less you use settings over an audio and file that you can play around with probably more relevant to most people is do you want to render the entire timeline out to a file or do you want to output only part of the timeline so if you want to render part of the timeline you can navigate with the cursor hit AI in order to set your starting point and go over to the ending of your video or wherever you want it to be wherever you want the export to end that and hit o so in this case if we vendor the in/out range it would only be from here to here otherwise we can change vendor to entire timeline which will automatically select everything in our timeline which is usually what you want so I can add to render queue if you are going to have multiple timelines in your project you can do multiple vendor jobs all at once if you want to save some time and just let your computer render for a while when you're done with one or multiple projects so I'll go ahead and hit that now and this will export to the publish location on your computer by the way you can change that over here where it says location so I'm exporting to D Drive videos publish you can browse your location on your computer and this should be pretty easy to get a custom publish setting so once your video is done you can go ahead find it open it up upload it to YouTube whatever you want to do with it but that's the general gist of how you edit a video inside of DaVinci Resolve 16 so this was obviously a really condensed video primarily targeted at beginners but I hope that if this is your first time taking a look at the Vinci resolve 16 or future versions that this has helped you to get a better understanding of the workflow in the application and what you can do with it I've been Chris thanks for watching and I will see you guys in my future video content

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Length: 40min 51sec (2451 seconds)

Published: Sat May 18 2019