DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals

Introduction

• Learning DaVinci Resolve
• Understanding the exercise files
• Restoring the DaVinci Resolve archive
• Restoring DaVinci Resolve projects

1. DaVinci Resolve Setup Essentials

• Common interface elements
• The grand tour of DaVinci Resolve: Part 1
• The grand tour of DaVinci Resolve: Part 2
• DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Can your computer run DaVinci Resolve?
• Essential system and user preferences
• Essential project preferences
• Creating your first project

2. Organizing Media on the Media and Cut Pages

• Importing footage
• Organizing your media into bins
• Viewing and managing bins
• Transport controls and marking clips
• Tagging clips by color and clip markers
• Creating smart bins
• Metadata management on the Media page
• Using face detection in Resolve Studio
• Modifying source clip audio settings

3. Assembling Your Story on the Cut Page

• Navigating the Cut page
• Creating, organizing, modifying timeline settings
• Editing 101
• Challenge: Building a rough cut on the Cut page
• Solution: Building a rough cut on the Cut page
• Fine-tuning edit points and adding B-roll
• Trimming audio
• Onscreen controls for transforms and dynamic zoom
• Adding transitions and graphics
• Working with music

4. Refining Your Story on the Edit Page

• Navigating Resolve’s Edit page
• Organizing audio and video track layouts
• Track targeting with the auto track selector
• Understanding the Inspector
• Adding effects on the Edit page
• Animating audio and video using keyframes

5. Color Page Tips

• Understanding and navigating the Color page
• Three-way color wheels
• Custom curves
• Using scopes to evaluate exposure
• Using scopes to evaluate colorfulness
• Color grading with scopes
• Automatic color grading tools
• Serial nodes: Part 1
• Serial nodes: Part 2
• Using the Gallery
• Copying color corrections
• Exploring Resolve's built-in looks
• Targeting fixes: Hue vs. saturation vs. curves
• Power windows 101: Isolating corrections
• Tracking power windows
• A note about LUTs (look-up tables)

6. Mixing 101 on the Fairlight Page

• Navigating the Fairlight page
• Challenge: Splitting audio tracks for mixing
• Setting clip-level audio levels
• Setting track-level audio levels

7. Rendering and Delivering on the Deliver Page

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

Conclusion

• Additional DaVinci Resolve resources
• Thank you and goodbye