JIFUNZE KUTUMIA DAVINCI RESOLVE 2020 (START EDITING IN DAVINCI RESOLVE )

The first time you open DaVinci Resolve, you will land on the Project Manager page. Once you are in a project, you’ll need to first ...

The first time you open DaVinci Resolve, you will land on the Project Manager page. Once you are in a project, you’ll need to first confirm a few settings before importing your media.

1. Open DaVinci Resolve.
2. From the Project Manager, select New Project.
3. Give your project a name.
4. Open Project Settings, which is the cog icon in the lower right of the interface.
5. You will need to set your Timeline Frame Rate. This defaults to 24 fps, but ideally, you will change this to match the majority of your footage (such as 23.976 or 25 fps). 
6. If you change the timeline frame rate, change the Playback Frame Rate and Video Format tabs to match.
7. If you don’t know exactly what these settings should be, don’t worry. You’ll have another chance to alter the frame rate when you import your footage.
8. In the Cut page, go to the menu bar and select File > Import > Import Media. 
9. You’ll be greeted by a Finder window. Here, you’ll navigate to where on your computer your footage is stored, to bring into your project.

Step 2: Add Your Trimmed Clips to the Timeline 

Your imported media will appear in the Master Bin. To begin editing, you will need to mark your footage. This way, you are only moving useful media onto the timeline for editing. You can mark your footage two different ways:

1. Hover your mouse over each clip’s thumbnail and scrub the footage.
2. Press “I” on the keyboard to mark an in-point, the place in the footage you would like to start with.
3. Press “O” on the keyboard to mark an out-point, the point in the footage you would like to end with.
4. Click-and-drag the thumbnail onto the timeline to make an edit.
5. Alternatively, double click a shot you would like to load into the viewer to review. The same “I” and “O” keyboard shortcuts apply, mark a clip, and click-and-drag the monitor image onto the timeline.

Step 3: Add Text & Titles

DaVinci Resolve includes two different text tools: Text and Text+. Text is for quickly generating 2D titles. You can change fonts, add a drop shadow, and even add a colorful background shape to help separate the text from the video. Text+ is a more sophisticated tool based on Blackmagic’s compositing software Fusion. 

Titles can be either 2D or 3D, can feature dynamic lighting, 3D shapes, and particle effects. Text+ titles certainly have more possibilities but can take a very long time for your computer to render, and isn’t the easiest tool to learn.

1. Open the Titles panel, found in the top-left of the interface.
2. Click-and-drag “Text” (fifth option from the top of the list) into the timeline. Be sure to place the title above your video on a new layer.
3. Select the title you want to edit. 
4. Open the Tools Belt found just underneath the video window.
5. Open the Titles sub-menu (farthest to the right), and open up the Inspector. 
6. In the Inspector, you can adjust font attributes, drop shadow, and background shading. 

Step 4: Add Transitions 

While most video production relies on simpler transitions, such as a fade-to-black, or a cross-dissolve, you’ll find quite a number of useful transitions pre-built and ready to use. The push and slide transitions can add some nice momentum to production, and the smooth cut tool morphs together neighboring frames in an attempt to hide jump cuts!

1. Move into the Edit page by clicking the word “Edit” on the ribbon toolbar.
2. Open the Effects Library panel, in the top-left of the interface.
3. Under Video Transitions, click-and-drag the Cross Dissolve transition onto the timeline, place your mouse between two pieces of video.
4. Click on the transition icon in the timeline.
5. Open the Inspector panel in the top-right of the interface.
6. In the Inspector, consider adjusting the length to 8 frames.

Step 5: Add Effects 

DaVinci Resolve comes bundled with many high-quality plugins for adding effects during video editing. This is where you will notice limitations in Resolve vs. Resolve Studio (the paid edition).

The free version of the software comes with far fewer options than that of the paid. Don’t fret though, there are still a large number of effects to learn and explore here, and perhaps after playing around, you may decide the extra ones are worth the price of admission.

1. Within the Effects Library, navigate to OpenFX.
2. Scroll down to Vignette. Click-and-drag the effect from the list and apply it to a piece of video.
3. Open the Inspector, select the video clip with the effect applied, click the “OpenFX” tab to modify the effect parameters.
4. Click the little trash-bin icon in the same menu to remove the effect
5. (Optional) Consider adding an adjustment clip to the whole timeline. Under Effects Library > Effects > Adjustment Clip, drag that effect to a new layer in the timeline. Re-add the Vignette effect, but this time, apply it to the Adjustment Clip. This way, you can apply an effect to an entire timeline at once, rather than one clip at a time.

Step 6: Add Music & Audio

For this section, return to the Cut page. You can add your own music by importing it the same way you added videos in step 1. Resolve doesn’t come with any stock music like some other popular editing applications do, so head on over to Motion Array and grab some free sample royalty free music to experiment with.

1. Import music, just like you would import video by following step 1. 
2. Drag-and-drop your desired music from the bin into the timeline.
3. To adjust the volume, click on the audio piece, open the Tools Belt, and move into the Audio tab. 

Step 7: Color Correction

Jump over to the Color tab. While it may look a little intimidating, the basic features are straightforward to use. Most of what you are looking for is in the bottom-left of the interface, the primary color corrector. 

1. Note that every shot edited in your timeline appears here as a thumbnail along the middle toolbelt. Click on the first shot you want to color.
2. The crosshair with a black box is the Black-Balance Tool. Use this and select an area in your shot that ought to be black to set the level. 
3. If your shot crushes too dark, click and drag the Lift slider (underneath the trackball) to bring back detail.
4. Similar process for the highlights, use the White-Balance Tool, found near the bottom left of the Color page, on an aspect of your image that ought to be white (usually a piece of paper). 
5. If your shot is too blown out, click and drag the Gain slider to bring back detail.
6. The Sat value (default at 50) controls how much color saturation is in your image. Click and drag the “50” value with your mouse to add and remove color globally in the image.

Step 8: Share Your Project

Head back over to the Cut page once you are happy with your edit, titles, transitions, music, and color! Here, you’ll have the option to publish right to Vimeo, YouTube, or to save a standalone movie file onto your computer.

1. Move into the Cut page. 
2. Click Quick Export found in the top right of the interface. 
3. Select H.264 > Export. 
4. Save the file to your preferred folder on your computer. 

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