DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals

Course details

Are you new to DaVinci Resolve? Are you intrigued by the power of this digital video media creation tool? Do you find the power of this tool intimidating or confusing? Then this title is for you. Join instructor and professional colorist Patrick Inhofer in this course designed to get you up to speed in as little time as possible. This course includes a 60-second commercial for you to work with so you can get comfortable with the layout and workflow as you follow along. Patrick starts with the process of importing your media, using both manual and automated tools, before showing how to start building a rough cut in Resolve. He then explains how to refine your rough cut using trim tools and adding titles and transitions, details the important aspects of color correction, and shows how to organize and mix sound clips. Patrick finishes the course covering the export process, showing how to use preset templates as well as how to create your own reusable custom templates.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learning DaVinci Resolve
02 - Understanding the exercise files
03 - Restoring the DaVinci Resolve archive
04 - Restoring DaVinci Resolve projects

1. DaVinci Resolve Setup Essentials

05 - Common interface elements
06 - The grand tour of DaVinci Resolve - Part 1
07 - The grand tour of DaVinci Resolve - Part 2
08 - DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
09 - Can your computer run DaVinci Resolve
10 - Essential system and user preferences
11 - Essential project preferences
12 - Creating your first project

2. Organizing Media on the Media and Cut Pages

13 - Importing footage
14 - Organizing your media into bins
15 - Viewing and managing bins
16 - Transport controls and marking clips
17 - Tagging clips by color and clip markers
18 - Creating smart bins
19 - Metadata management on the Media page
20 - Using face detection in Resolve Studio
21 - Modifying source clip audio settings

3. Assembling Your Story on the Cut Page

22 - Navigating the Cut page
23 - Creating, organizing, modifying timeline settings
24 - Editing 101
25 - Challenge - Building a rough cut on the Cut page
26 - Solution - Building a rough cut on the Cut page
27 - Fine-tuning edit points and adding B-roll
28 - Trimming audio
29 - Onscreen controls for transforms and dynamic zoom
30 - Adding transitions and graphics
31 - Working with music

4. Refining Your Story on the Edit Page

32 - Navigating Resolve s Edit page
33 - Organizing audio and video track layouts
34 - Track targeting with the auto track selector
35 - Understanding the Inspector
36 - Adding effects on the Edit page
37 - Animating audio and video using keyframes

5. Color Page Tips

38 - Understanding and navigating the Color page
39 - Three-way color wheels
40 - Custom curves
41 - Using scopes to evaluate exposure
42 - Using scopes to evaluate colorfulness
43 - Color grading with scopes
44 - Automatic color grading tools
45 - Serial nodes - Part 1
46 - Serial nodes - Part 2
47 - Using the Gallery
48 - Copying color corrections
49 - Exploring Resolve's built-in looks
50 - Targeting fixes - Hue vs. saturation vs. curves
51 - Power windows 101 - Isolating corrections
52 - Tracking power windows
53 - A note about LUTs (look-up tables)

6. Mixing 101 on the Fairlight Page

54 - Navigating the Fairlight page
55 - Challenge - Splitting audio tracks for mixing
56 - Setting clip-level audio levels
57 - Setting track-level audio levels

7. Rendering and Delivering on the Deliver Page

58 - Navigating the Deliver page
59 - Rendering to online streaming platforms and data burn-in
60 - Rendering overview for FCP, Premiere Pro, Avid, Pro Tools
61 - Managing the Render Queue
62 - Presets and individual-clip vs. single-clip exports
63 - Tip - Digital Cinema Package (DCP) export and playback

Conclusion

64 - Additional DaVinci Resolve resources
65 - Thank you and goodbye