DaVinci Resolve

Lesson 1: Getting started

• Intro to DaVinci Resolve
• Exploring the DaVinci Resolve interface
• Configuring essential settings
• Organize & select footage
• Making new bins
• Creating smart bins
• Create proxies video
• Changing clip names

Lesson 2: Assembling a Rough Cut

• Configuring project settings
• Creating a timeline
• Making the first edit
• Inserting clips into a timeline
• Appending a clip to the end
• Editing from a bin
• Replacing a shot

Lesson 3: Refining a Timeline

• Customizing the layout for trimming
• Trimming to the playhead
• Ripple trimming
• Slipping a clip
• Opening gaps using the selection tool
• Adding marks and comments

Lesson 4: Applying Transitions and Effects

• Fading clips in and out
• Adding Cross dissolves
• Customizing transitions
• Saving custom presets
• Applying transitions and filters from the Effects Library
• Reframing shots
• Rendering and background caching
• Creating a constant speed change

Lesson 5: Working with audio on the Edit page

• Working with markers
• Marking a range of frames
• Annotating on clips
• Customizing the interface for audio

• Viewing markers in a bin
• Linking clips
• Monitoring, soloing, and muting audio
• Reading meters and setting targets
• Changing a level within a clip
• Adding audio fades

Lesson 6: Performing Colour Correction

• Learning the colour page layout
• Modifying lift, gamma, and gain
• Using other primary corrector controls
• Understanding nodes
• Making secondary colour corrections
• Applying DaVinci Resolve FX
• Making Automatic Corrections
• Balancing Colour and brightness using the Colour Wheels
• Checking adjustments on scopes
• Making a neutral Colour grade with the primaries bars
• Creating a style using the main primary controls
• Enhancing styles with the additional primary controls
• Using curves for primary color corrections
• Copying corrections between similar shots

Lesson 7: Making Secondary Adjustments

• Using Qualifiers
• Using outside nodes
• Combining Qualifiers and Power Windows

Lesson 8: Designing Creative Looks

• Mixing a black-and-white shot
• Using a look up table for quick looks
• Creating a bleach bypass
• Saving grades across projects

Lesson 9: Delivering a Final Program

• Creating a output video

• Creating a custom preset