This is Ben from Life in 360. Why does it always do that. This is Ben from
Life in 360 and this is gonna be one of my best videos ever. Because, in this
video, I'm going to show you how to edit 360 videos completely for free.
Regardless of whether you've got a Mac or a PC, there's an amazing software I
use and it's called DaVinci Resolve. Hey, just a heads up. This is a free section
I'm giving you from my video course "A Beginner's Guide to 360 Video". Because I
love you guys. I want those of you out there who can't afford Adobe Premiere or
Final Cut to have some way of editing your 360 video. So if you like this video
and want to learn more, then check out my video course.
So DaVinci Resolve is a software that I used back in film school eight years ago
when I was shooting on the red one camera, which is a massive big cinema
camera. And back then, it was only a color grading software and I got really good at it.
I practiced every day, and my footage looked incredible. And over the years,
they slowly started adapting this to become an editing software. It's made by
the company Blackmagic, who offer their own series of cameras. But this software
is free. There is a Pro version, but you don't need it. It's really only for
professionals working in Hollywood. You can use this to edit your 360 videos
from beginning to end. Over the years, I also use this professionally as well
when I was working as a videographer here in Sydney. I cut several thousand-
dollar videos using this software. So this isn't no iMovie. This is
professional video editing software. So, without further ado, let's get into it. So
first you'll need to go to Blackmagic's website. I'll link it down in the
description and you'll find on their product page, you scroll right to the
bottom, and you'll see a free version and a paid version. You want to go the free
version. Next, choose your platform and it'll ask you to enter a few details
just so you can register it. You won't have to pay, so don't worry about that.
Now you hit that big old download button, and we are good to go. So once you have
DaVinci Resolve downloaded and installed, open her up, and
this is the first window you'll see, where we're going to create our first
project. So let's give it a name. Let's call it "BEN'S BIG DAY OUT", and hit create.
So here we are. Here's the software, and the first place you want to go is down
into the bottom right hand corner. We're going to set our project settings. It's
important that this is the very first place you go. Because this is going to
create the settings for the entire project going forward, and you can't
change them later on. So, make sure you do it to begin with.
So in our master settings, we're going to choose our timeline and resolution. At
the moment, you can't go beyond 4K. So if you're shooting with 5K or 6K or
8K, you probably won't be able to reuse Resolve. They may update this in
the future. But at the moment, this software is best for 4K 360 cameras. So
under timeline resolution, what we want to do is go custom. And you want to type
in the exact dimensions of your footage. I'm going to be using Insta360 One
footage where the dimensions are 3840 x 1920. And this is super important that
you get that right. Because by default, it's going to choose a 16 x 9 aspect ratio.
If you choose 4K, it'll choose 3840 x 2160. Whereas, we don't want that. We want
1920. Because the 360 video aspect ratio is skinnier than traditional 16 x 9.
Next, I'm going to change to 25 frames a second, because that's what we do here in
Australia. For America, you'll probably want to go 30 frames a second. With the
rest of these settings, you should be able to leave them as they are.
Make sure your cache files location and gallery stills location are in a place
that is safe, maybe somewhere on your hard drive. But once you set that up, you
won't have to worry about it. Now we're going to hit save, and we are
ready to get started. So the first thing to point out, are the tabs down the
bottom. We have six of them here. We have Media, Edit, Fusion, Color, Fairlight and
Deliver. I'll go through them one by one in this video. I won't go super in-depth,
but I just want to give you a really basic understanding of what this
software can do, and then leave you to explore its true potential. Because this
software does a lot of the things that a Premiere and Final Cut can do. So if you
get to know it really well, you'll be able to do really powerful
things with your 360 videos and non-360 videos. Because this software is made for
16 x 9 videos. So if you're a videographer, or if you make conventional
flat videos, this is gonna be an amazing software for you. So definitely take
advantage of it. So with that said, let's get started. Firstly, you want to go to
the media tab, and this is where we import our footage to begin with. In the
top left hand corner, you'll see we've got our hard drives
here. We can navigate to our clips that way, or you can just drag and drop them
into this window here. So here we go, I've located the folder I'm after. So I have
3 Clips here shot with the Insta360 One. You want to drag down into the
media pool, which means we're dragging them into this project. If you ever want
to add clips later on, just come back to the media tab and add them this way. Next,
we're going to move on to Edit, and you'll notice that this layout is pretty
similar to Adobe Premiere. A lot of the buttons are in the same places and I
found as a Premier editor, it was really easy to pick up Resolve. Because the
program looks pretty similar. Look there will be lots of different things, but
it's not hard to pick up if you have a basic understanding of non-linear editors.
If you're starting as a complete beginner, it will take you some time, and
I would suggest you look up some more in-depth Resolve tutorials. But I'm going
to show you the basics right now. So firstly, let's drag our 3 clips onto
our timeline. And again, you'll see this timeline looks very similar to Premiere
or Final Cut. We have our video on the top layer, and audio on the bottom. To
zoom in and out on the timeline, you want to select this slider, and there we go.
I like keeping my timeline roughly so I can see everything. That's really good.
And then if you want to go in for a really fine cut, you can zoom in really
close. The window on the left is for viewing and changing parameters within
one specific video. On the right, we have playback for our entire timeline. So if I
hit the spacebar, this is what we're going to use to preview our video
throughout the entire edit. To make a cut in our clip, you want to choose the
blade, and I want to cut this clip about there. So the bad bit at the start
will be deleted, and the way I do that, is hitting the Arrow, Select and then Delete.
You'll notice there's an icon that links selections, so this essentially links our
audio to our video. So if we just want to cut our video, we can unselect that, and
then when we go to our blade, see how it's only going to cut the top layer,
which is the video. When we select it again, there we go. It cuts both the audio
and the video. Of course your best friend is going to be command + Z, which is undo.
I'm going to undo all those very silly cuts. So now I'm going to trim the top
and tail of these 3 clips, so it gets the good bit straightaway. Something
that's really cool, is if you just hover over the clip in the timeline, it will
play it back in the viewer up the top right without you having to hit play. So
if you want to scrub through it really quick, you can do that. So what a cool
shot of me on a boat. And I want to make it cut just as I've set the camera about
there. So I don't actually have to play it back to see where to cut. That's
really handy. So now I'm gonna hit the blade, and cut. And then delete these two
clips. Now to get rid of this gap I've just created, you'll want to choose the
cursor, and we just simply select it, and hit delete. Alright, that's looking good.
On a side note, coming from Adobe Premiere, I've noticed a lot of the keyboard
shortcuts are the same. which means, I'm editing almost as fast as I was in
Premiere, in DaVinci Resolve. So, now that I have a basic edit of these 3 Clips,
I'm pretty happy with that. Now let's move on to the Fusion tab and know this
isn't to do with the GoPro Fusion. This is our Effects tab. So if we want to add
text, animations, graphics. If we want to add a blur, anything like that, you'll
find that in the Fusion tab. I won't go too in-depth in this video. I just want
to keep this one super basic. But here, you'll find all the various effects.
If you just hover over, it'll tell you what each of them do. I'll just make a
quick note that you'll need to go back to the Edit tab to choose which clip you
want to add effects to. So, I want to add an effect to this first clip here. So I'm
going to make sure the timeline is at the point of the clip I want to use. I'm
gonna go back to the Fusion tab, and you'll see our clip is right there. So
now I'm going to drag my text over to here. It's important that you make sure
the text is connected between media in and media out. If it's not connected, it's
not going to show up. So when I click on text one, the left hand side, I can now
add in my message. So I want to say, "BEN'S BIG DAY OUT". You can obviously change the
font, color, size. If you want to change the text location, you want to choose
merge just there. And now in the top right, we have parameters that will allow
us to move the text around. I know this seems kind of complicated, but it
actually gives you a lot of control over your graphics. I'm gonna keep things
really simple in this tutorial, so I'm just gonna stick with my really simple
text. On a side note, it's important to mention that these effects aren't yet
adapted to 360. Which means, yes, they will show up in your 360 video. However, if you
put them too close to the top or bottom, they're going to be warped. So if you add
anything like text or photos, try to keep them in the middle third of your image.
That way, they'll look much more natural later on. If you go up to the top right,
you'll see a button that says Keyframes. If you click that, we can adjust how long
this text shows up. So if we only want this to show up, for say, 3 seconds, we
can adjust that here in the Keyframes tab. So now we've edited, we've added some
really basic graphics. The next tab is Color, and this is DaVinci Resolve's famous
color correction. This is basically the best color grading software available
right now. I could make a tutorial that goes for 12 hours on this, but I'm
not going to. So, you'll want to probably explore this yourself. There's heaps of
tutorials on YouTube, but you can do amazing, amazing things with the color
grading of DaVinci Resolve. Next, we have the Fairlight tab and this is to do with
audio, making last-minute changes to your audio. If you recorded it cleanly, then
you probably won't need to use this tab. And you can also do audio adjustments in
the actual edit tab. Because you have the audio track down there, and you can play
the levels and what-not right here in the Edit tab. So the final tab to mention is
Deliver, and this is where we're going to export our video. In the top left, we have
a whole bunch of options we can choose. It keeps it pretty simple, and there are
lots of cool presets here. And just remember that while working with 360
videos, a lot of these presets aren't going to be optimized for 360, which is
why we're going to export at custom. And it still remembers we're editing in 360,
3840 x 1920, that's correct. Under your video codec, by default, it goes to Apple
ProRes 422. But this is massive, and it's just going to make life really
difficult. You don't need it for a 360 video that you're uploading to YouTube
or Facebook. So we're going to scroll down, and search for H.264, which is the
codec I use for all of my 360 videos when uploading to YouTube. Also, before
you export, you want to make sure you go back to the Edit tab and set in and
out point. This essentially tells Resolve exactly where we want to start, and where
we want to end. So to set an end point, go to the start of your very first clip
and press "I". And likewise, for out point go to the end of your last clip
press "O". Now back to the Delivery tab. So I'm going to choose a place to save this,
press ok. And once all of this is set up, you want to press "Add to Render Queue"
and the render queue is over here on the right hand side. So you could add several
videos to this render queue, and it would render them one at a time. And now, we are
good to go. Let's render this, which means export. So now, I'm going to go to Insta
360 studio, which is my go to 360 video viewing app. And we want to just make
sure that this is exported correctly, and that it displays properly as a 360 video.
Alright, I've dragged it in, and there is my beautiful face.
Ben's Big Day Out, and there we go. It's working as a 360 video. Now you
can just go ahead and upload to YouTube, Facebook, or wherever else you want to
put your 360 video. So there is DaVinci Resolve. It's an amazing software. I would
suggest you spend time and just learn how it works. Because you'll be able to
produce professional 360 videos quite quickly. Just as quickly as using Adobe
Premiere or Final Cut Pro, once you get the hang of it. So now that I've saved
you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars from buying Premiere or Final Cut, you
should definitely check out my video course. It's called A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO
360 VIDEO. It gives all my best information from years of practice and
research in just a few hours. So I put a link to it down there in the description
feel, free to check it out. Also, don't forget to hit that subscribe button if
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content. Alright guys, until next time, be sure to capture your world in 360. You
have no excuse now. Now that the software is free, just get out there, shoot some
awesome 360 video content, and start editing. Because it's free, lit all the
links you need are down there, and I will see you in the next video.