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A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO DAVINCI RESOLVE

By Jobert Monteras
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December 13, 2018

Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve has long been the industry-standard software
for color correction and grading, and for the past few years, its video editing
features have also been improving exponentially. Today, DaVinci Resolve 15 is
currently the only software that allows you to edit, create motion graphics and
visual FX, mix audio, and, of course, color grade from start to finish. Even
better, the basic version is available for free.

DaVinci Resolve’s interface is arranged into workspaces called Pages. There are
six of them, arranged logically following the standard video-production
workflow. They are: the Media Page, Edit Page, Fusion Page, Color Page,
Fairlight Page, and Deliver Page. Read on for more info on how each one works.
 


THE MEDIA PAGE



The Media Page is your go-to place for importing and organizing all your media
in DaVinci Resolve. It’s the most efficient place to organize all your videos,
audio, sync files, add metadata, and even clone your original files. The Media
Page itself is divided into five areas: The Library Browser is where you
navigate and search files you need for your project. The Media Pool is where you
can organize all your files into bins, rename files, arrange them based on
metadata, and create Smart Bins, which organize your files based on metadata
that you define. The Viewer, as the name implies, is where you preview your
files before you import them or when they’re imported. The other panels in the
Edit Page also include the Meters, Waveform, and Metadata Panel.
 


THE EDIT PAGE



The Edit Page is where you manipulate your clips, edit them, and turn them into
one cohesive piece. The editing capabilities of DaVinci Resolve really have
improved a lot since it was introduced a few years ago. Today, it contains
nearly every editorial tool you need. The Edit page is divided into three
sections: The Media Pool to browse all your files, the Viewers to preview your
media, and the Timeline to trim and edit your clips. All of these work together
so that you can create your next cinematic masterpiece fast and easy.

There are tons of features in DaVinci Resolve, but what I like best is the Trim
Edit mode, because it lessens the keyboard shortcuts you need to memorize,
especially when you’re new to the software. For example, if you’re in the
selection mode, using the period or the comma key allows you to nudge your clip
one frame at a time or trim either your heads and tails one frame at a time.
When you switch to the Trim Edit mode, those same two keys change functionality
depending on where you place your cursor. Put it on top of a clip and it becomes
a slip tool; put it on the lower part, and it becomes a slide tool. Selecting
either the head or tail of a clip allows you to do a ripple edit. With other
NLEs, this would be a different keyboard shortcut for every command.



Another feature that I like is the Zoomed Audio Waveform feature. DaVinci
Resolve allows you to view the embedded audio of your clip overlaid on the
Source Viewer. It’s a simple feature, but it helps a lot, especially when you’re
working on clips that have dialogues on them, because you can add in and out
points to a clip more accurately when you can see the audio waveform.
 


THE FUSION PAGE



The Fusion Page is the latest addition to DaVinci Resolve. The integration of
Fusion is really a big thing, because it puts DaVinci Resolve way ahead of the
competition and sets a new standard for motion graphics and visual-effects
workflow for non-linear editing software. Fusion is a high-end node-based visual
FX interface that works in true 3D space and is used in big Hollywood projects
like Avengers, Maleficent, and Thor.



It has built-in advanced keyers, 3D titling, particle generators, and tracking
and stabilization. If you’re an Adobe user, you might be familiar with Dynamic
Linking, by which you can send your clips to After Effects for creating visual
effects, and send them back to Premiere Pro without the need to export or
render. But the problem with that is you’re still using two separate programs to
do your tasks. Not to mention that these two programs are also using more of
your computer’s memory. Plus, a lot of times, the connection between them is
unstable and doesn’t really work. With Fusion right inside DaVinci Resolve,
everything is a click away. Just park your playhead on any clip in your
timeline, click on the Fusion Page, and you’re ready to go.
 


THE COLOR PAGE



Color grading is synonymous with DaVinci Resolve, and its biggest strength is
still the Color Page. Within the Color Page, you have all the controls and tools
you need for adjusting and manipulating colors, creating secondary corrections,
reducing noise, and creating looks. It also comes with a built-in color
management system, allowing you to process images at full 32-bit float quality
with GPU acceleration. No other NLE comes close to Resolve’s color grading
toolset.
 


THE FAIRLIGHT PAGE



When it comes to film, the visuals and the sound are equally important. People
might forgive you for having grainy or overexposed footage, but they will never
finish watching your video if you have lousy and noisy audio. Fairlight is a
full professional digital audio workstation integrated in Davinci Resolve,
meaning it can do far more than simple volume level adjustments and audio
effects.

Fairlight is equipped with a set of professional audio tools that allow you to
create cinematic audio with no additional crew or budget required, so you don’t
have to send your audio work to another facility or hire another person to do
the work for you — it can all be done within DaVinci Resolve. You can also plug
in an external Fairlight professional console, which can make audio mixing
faster and more intuitive.

Related Post 5 Basic Audio-Mixing Techniques for Editing Video


THE DELIVER PAGE



After everything is ready, it’s time to export your finished work. The Deliver
Page is Resolve’s dedicated interface, created just for outputting your work.
It’s very flexible, and allows you to export from proxies to high-quality files.
You can output to the most commonly used web codecs, like h264, or to
professional codecs like ProRes or MXF. DaVinci Resolve allows you to output
timelines, a portion of a timeline, individual clips, or even batch process
different outputs. The output presets available also make it easier to output
for the web, streaming services, or cinema.



DaVinci Resolve has gone a long way from being just a color-grading application.
It has grown into a fully mature and powerful non-linear editing application
that lets you do offline and online editing, color correction and grading,
visual FX, and audio mixing, while collaborating seamlessly with other team
members (collaboration features are available on the paid version of the
software). There’s nothing to lose by trying the free version, and it might just
be the NLE you’ve been looking for.

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