hi in today's video I'm gonna be running through the bases toriel how to use DaVinci Resolve I've
got a few questions from clients and a couple people I make videos for so I thought make a
little video to help them edit their own videos in the future so pretty much to get DaVinci Resolve
just go on Google type in DaVinci Resolve black magic and it will come up with the software on
the website so there's loads of information about the software on the websites home page is really
useful when it explains a lot of the features of the web of the software you then simply click the
download button and download DaVinci Resolve 16 this is the free version if you download
the studio you have to pay for it I personally prefer the DaVinci Resolve to Adobe or Final Cut
one because I've got the windows until you does pay for it's free it's extremely powerful software
it's much more powerful than Adobe Premiere Pro the software's main purpose is for color grading
which is using the film industries you'd edit on habit and then you'd send your edit to the color
grader and here you would use DaVinci Resolve so using industry standard software so nobody in the
industry will use Adobe Premiere Pro for proper filmmaking so that's why I do mention result gives
you download the version you need for Mac Windows or Linux once you've got the software downloaded
and installed simply load up the software so once the software is loaded up here we met with the
database page this is where you can create your projects so it's starting project you simply click
on the new project tab or you can double click on the untitled project so I'm going to click on the
new project tab so I typically put the dayton's you know exactly when the project was made and
then name it so for this one I'll just do resolve test DaVinci over there and start up and it will
load up your project so once DaVinci starts up the first thing I would do which many people don't do
but this good price is going to go straight to file go to your project settings and show all
the project settings are set up for what you want so you have the timeline resolution so that's what
you've got your footage in so for example footage I'll be using today is 4k so click on for the
HD you find the frames per second you use so mine is 25 and the playback framerate is 25 frames per
sec to save that then your projects will set up and you know that it can't be messed up by the
fish that you import so at the bottom here we have multiple tabs so you've got the media tab
the cut tab the edit tab fusion tab color tab Fairlight tab and the deliver tab so the media
tab is where you can import and find all your media so this is your computer hard drives you
can then look through the folders you have and find the media you want you then have the cut
tab which is where you can again import once you import the media you can then cut and do all the
simple edits to your media the Edit tab is them again so you can add more effects titles text
you know and go a bit further the edit the fusion tab is for the effects adding bit effects like 3d
text or any higher and CGI effects to your footage that have a color tab where you'll be adding the
color grades to your footage Fairlight tab is for sound design and then the deliver tab is for when
you want to render out your video and complete it so I typically just work in the Edit tab so
what I'll do is right click to import my media or then find my media so I've already got a folder
setup for this so I've got two videos here of a ban so I've imported them into my media here if
you double click you can then see your footage and you can scrub through the footage here so
for example if I wanted to use the section of the footage I can then press I in my keyboard to the
end point of the footage and over the out point to the footage and that selects the duration the
section of footage that I want you can I simply drag this footage onto a timeline and then this
will put it straight on the timeline if your timeline zoomed out like mine you go over to
the cross here and press this into your timeline zooms in so on the timeline here we've got the
blue which is the video and then below it we've got the audio if you want to extend these tabs
simply click on this line so you see the icon and drag it up and down so you can see a bit
easier save the audio so I want to add another clip so in this with the wheel it's again I and
O for the out tabs drag that in so our two Clips together on the timeline as I go along I typically
save my project so again you can either go file save project which is up here or just ctrl s so
we've got two Clips put together now I want to add some music so again import media I've got a
song here so import Lyon and again you can pick the sections you want to drag along and see the
waveform in out drag onto the timeline so here the audios already gone automatically to the
audio track you can then drag this below the audio from your video so if you don't want the
video from your audio you can simply mute it or you can delete it so if you right click you can
unlink the clips because there's been linked to the video that came in with simply click on the
audio and press backspace on your keyboard Alita so now we've just got the video and the music
track so you can play that free says it's quite straightforward so if you wanted to cut down the
clips in the timeline and click on the clips and if you go to the edge they'll be the cut tool and
you can simply drag to cut the clip if the clip is snapping as well as it's snapped of each section
sort of snap to the clip next to it you don't want that to happen you simply go up to this magnetic
tool up here and they'll turn on snapping so then it won't do this and you'll overlay the
other clips so you've got this white outline here and that show you where the original length the
Clippers I tend to work with the snapping tool Long's and make things a lot quicker
so cut I click down I can move this clip up to it so it's just made the duration of the video
a bit shorter so if I wanted to add some text to this now for example for it to say Oh they've an
video so click on titles a simple text this one here again drag it on to the video double click
on the text it will come up the text details I can type in van and then here you can change the
font stony front you one go change the font you can change the size and then again you can change
the duration of the text by dragging it so now if you wanted to fade some music so you want to fade
the music in on the timeline you can zoom into the start the music and simply this is tool here
it will let you fade in the music so this line represents the volume of the music so it'll fade
it's a very basic overview I'm not getting too much detail whatever it's called because I don't
want to ever confuse people in their first time just using a visual aid so we're simply added
some texture for two clips to go and added some music so the next tab which beats go into the
color grade so you can have a little color great to this one this is a little bit more advanced so
for this example I'm just gonna go up to the top here and click timelines this will apply a color
grade to the whole timeline instead of individual clips so you can add a node which is called a
corrector so this allows you to crack the footage for this example be overlaying that on the whole
timeline not just individual clips as I mentioned earlier and then essentially drag a nut on top so
I choose this one for example and you can see here if I click on and off it's made difference
and you can see it on this video this adds a bit style to the footage so to finish off the video
if you want to render out come over to the deliver tab and then you've got all these settings up here
so these are all the preset renders which I never touch because I don't think they're very good the
first thing you want to do is name your footage so again I'd start with a date and then the name you
want so I'm doing test draft one and then you can choose browse choose the location you're going to
save it in so I normally save it in the same file I've got my footage in so if you scroll
down you then have the video settings so if I normally for YouTube Facebook you know website
the quickest render and the smallest file size but it's gonna hold the quality is the only mp4 and h2
h.264 you then you can see the resolution your framerate and then down here at the quality and
this what really matters is how many megabytes per second the footage is so if you found in 4k
100 megabytes per second to get the best quality out of this render you would put it 100 megabyte
second obvious if you can upload to Facebook or YouTube it's going to downgrade the quality anyway
so for this example I'll just put 30 megabytes a second but this is in kilobytes so you have to add
obviously times by 10 so be 30,000 to go up to the top you've then got the audio so again you've got
your audio settings here you'd have to change much this normally I go over linear a 24-bit
but wouldn't go that I'm more detailed another video you then have a file and this chooses how
quickly your computer render app I tend to get 75% because it will render slowly but then it
it's got less like you have any glitches so once that's all set up you've got all the settings
correct you then have your timeline so this bit is highlighted with this grave hour on top is the
bits to be rendered so if I drag this bar down so then you're gonna render the first clip here
if I drag it all the way to the end you can see how it's highlighted and highlight so that's the
section that's going to get highlighted and this is the clips then your edit they're going to get
rendered so to speed things up again I don't return off the clip so your computer doesn't
have to render the previews as it's rendering double check that's all good to go you click add
to render queue and then you simply click start render and your computer will render through the
setting you got so the moment it's rendering this video 4k resolution and it's including the audio
and the color grade that I've done as well the render time will be determined by the quality
of your computer how good your computer is if you've got high spec completely quicker the low
spec computer will be slower if you've got a lower spec computer wouldn't recommend working
with 4k because this can damage your Peter over time if it's working hard all the time one side
is complete you will then have your video it'll be saved in the location that you told it to go
into so I've got the render here in the location a target go so I can simply play the video now
so there you can check through the video make sure to write and you can upload it or share it
so ever you like so that's the end of this video a very quick overview of DaVinci Resolve I hope that
helps if you want to see anything else let me know in the comments please like and subscribe thanks