Just getting started? Here’s a comprehensive beginner’s guide.
Learning any new app can be overwhelming, especially when it has as many features as something like DaVinci Resolve.
Thankfully there’s great documentation and tutorials from Blackmagic Design and the community at large to help you get started.
In this video from Jason Yadlovski, you’ll learn about:
- 00:00 DaVinci Resolve 18 Tutorial for Beginners
- 01:18 How Resolve Stores Projects
- 01:37 Where to Keep Project Library (Database)
- 01:58 Create Project Library
- 02:43 Where to Keep Media
- 03:09 Create New Project
- 04:10 Quick Overview of Resolve
- 04:46 Tabs
- 04:53 Media Tab
- 04:58 Cut Tab
- 05:25 Edit Tab
- 05:47 Fusion Tab
- 05:58 Color Tab
- 06:15 Fairlight Tab
- 06:32 Deliver Tab
- 07:03 Bring Media Into Project
- 07:25 Edit Tab Interface
- 07:54 Media Pool
- 08:09 Effects Library
- 08:42 Index/Sound Library
- 08:48 Mixer
- 09:10 Inspector
- 09:17 Viewers
- 09:28 Single Viewer Toggle
- 09:41 Viewer Transport Controls
- 09:50 Timeline View Options
- 10:00 Editing Controls
- 10:05 Volume Control
- 10:12 import Media
- 10:41 Drag and Drop
- 11:19 Stay Organized with Bins
- 11:42 Viewing Media in Viewer
- 12:00 Set In/Out Points
- 12:17 Create Timeline
- 14:53 Add Clips to Timeline
- 15:12 Bring Just Video into Timeline
- 15:28 Add Audio Only to Timeline
- 15:42 How to Play Video in Timeline
- 16:46 How to Make Cuts
- 17:55 Delete Clip and Leave Gap
- 18:16 Ripple Delete Clips
- 18:53 Ripple Delete to Start/End
- 20:20 Timeline View Options
- 20:36 Subtitles/Waveforms Views
- 20:52 Video View Options
- 21:17 Audio View Options
- 21:25 Track Heights
- 21:30 Fade Clips In/Out Fast
- 22:35 Modify Clip Length
- 23:03 Moving a Cut
- 23:21 Resize/Transform/Rotate/etc. Clips
- 23:31 Inspector
- 23:41 Transform Controls
- 24:18 Cropping
- 24:22 Dynamic Zoom
- 24:32 Composite
- 24:38 Clip Speed
- 24:42 Stabilize Clips
- 25:05 Lens Corrections/Retime & Scaling
- 25:29 Audio Settings in Inspector
- 25:38 Voice Isolation
- 25:45 Dialogue Leveler
- 26:03 Pitch/EQ
- 26:19 Using Inspector to Edit Effects/Transitions/Etc.
- 26:30 Move Around Timeline Tips
- 27:00 Timeline Zoom Tools
- 27:31 Zoom Vertically
- 27:42 Pan Along Timeline
- 27:50 Zoom Horizontally
- 28:09 Pan Down Timeline
- 28:42 Inserting Clips Options
- 29:33 Add Tracks
- 29:54 Rename Tracks
- 30:02 Video Track Icons
- 30:28 Audio Track Icons
- 31:49 Select Everything in Timeline
- 32:07 Swap Clips
- 32:27 Snapping Clips (Magnet)
- 32:50 Linking On/Off
- 33:50 Speed Up/Slow Down Clip
- 35:00 Move Playhead 1 Second
- 36:15 FIX Slow Choppy Playback
- 36:58 Timeline Proxy Mode
- 37:45 Render Cache
- 38:31 Transitions
- 40:28 Make Transition Longer or Shorter
- 40:37 Swap Transitions
- 40:57 Transitions WON’T Work FIX!
- 42:32 Customize Transition
- 45:44 Music and SFX from Epidemic Sound
- 46:53 Import Audio Assets
- 47:21 Resizing Windows
- 47:28 Set Audio Levels
- 48:32 Set Dialogue Levels
- 50:39 Add SFX
- 51:16 Color & Exporting
- 51:31 Deliver Presets
- 53:20 Export Settings Video
Gedaly is the Founder and Lead Educator of DVResolve.com and is Blackmagic Design Certified Master Trainer. He’s edited commercials for major brands and has done color & VFX for independent films. He consults on post-production workflow and creating online education. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor, a former marketing manager for large brands, and creates original film projects with his production company Razee.