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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

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Product type Book

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801075251

Pages 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Lance Phillips

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Resolve – Publishing Your First Cut

3. Chapter 2: Adding Titles and Motion Graphics

4. Chapter 3: Polishing the Camera Audio – Getting It in Sync

5. Chapter 4: Adding Narration, Voice Dubbing, and Subtitles

6. Chapter 5: Creating Additional Sound

7. Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video

8. Chapter 6: Working with Archive Footage

9. Chapter 7: Stabilizing Shaky Footage

10. Chapter 8: Hiding the Cut – Making Our Edits Invisible

11. Part 3: Advanced Techniques

12. Chapter 9: Adding Special Effects

13. Chapter 10: Split Screens and Picture-in-Picture

14. Chapter 11: Enhancing Color for Mood or Style

15. Chapter 12: Studio-Only Techniques

16. Glossary

Artificial intelligence (AI)

17. Answers to Questions

18. Index

Why subscribe?

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

To get the most out of this book

For this book, you do not need to have any previous technical knowledge, apart from a basic understanding of how to upload content to social media and how to organize files on your own computer.

You will need at least the latest version of DaVinci Resolve 18.1 installed on your computer. The exercises in this book should also work with future releases of DaVinci Resolve.

Software/hardware covered in the book	Operating system requirements
DaVinci Resolve 18.1	Windows, macOS, or Linux

You will need the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve 18 for some of the features explained in this book, particularly Chapters 4, 6, 11, and 12.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to source videos yourself or download the practice video files from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section).

Feel free to post your video creations on social media and use the hashtag #ResolveEasyEdits to share them with us.

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Authors (1)

Lance Phillips

Lance Phillips (B.Hort, Dip. Drama, GTP (Secondary Education: Drama), Cert. Public Health Practice, Certified DaVinci Resolve Trainer). He founded Physical Folk, a Blackmagic Design Training Partner, to train diverse talent for the U.K. film industry. Lance has 30 years of experience training people from all backgrounds (including young people, prisoners, and people with disabilities) to develop their creative skills. After completing a Horticulture Degree, Lance studied Drama and worked as a Professional Actor on Television and Radio. He also freelanced in Lighting for Live Events, which started his love for all things technical. Lance is currently teaching a Color Grading module in the MA in Editing & Post Production at London Southbank University.

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