Boost your audience on social media by leveraging DaVinci Resolve 18 and share impressive micro-content with the guidance of a certified Blackmagic Design training partner Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Enhance your content with creative editing, VFX composition, color grading, and sound editing techniques Learn techniques to generate quick video content to engage and increase your audience Discover the latest features and hacks of DaVinci Resolve 18 to realize your creative ideas Book Description Micro content dominates social media marketing, but subpar editing and low-quality videos can shrink your audience. Elevate your social media game with DaVinci Resolve - the world's most trusted name in color grading that has been used to grade Hollywood films, TV shows, and commercials. Version 18 enables you to edit, compose VFX, mix sound, and deliver videos for different platforms, including social media and the web. You'll learn the basics of using DaVinci Resolve 18 to create video content, by first gaining an overview of creating a complete short video for social media distribution directly from within the “Cut” page. You'll discover advanced editing, VFX composition, color grading, and sound editing techniques to enhance your content and fix common video content issues that occur while using consumer cameras or mobile phones. By the end of this book, you'll be well-equipped to use DaVinci Resolve to edit, fix, finish, and publish short-form video content directly to social media sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Vimeo. What you will learn Explore how to edit, add effects, and post to social media using the new Cut page Deliver video projects swiftly to a variety of social media formats using the Cut page Fix problems with videos, such as stabilizing footage and syncing audio Enhance the quality of your videos through color correction and other visual effects techniques Discover how to use the Neural Engine AI in the Studio Version of DaVinci Resolve to speed up your work Add subtitles and dubbed audio to help your videos reach a wider audience Who this book is for This book is for beginner content makers looking for quick techniques to improve their skills and work. It's also useful for experienced content makers who want to begin using DaVinci Resolve for its advanced features. The book acts as a practical training manual for social media marketers, influencers, short film makers, small business owners creating their own content, vloggers, and film/media studies students at schools, colleges, or universities.

About the Book Davinci Resolve 18 is an extremely powerful professional video editing system that's been used on more than 300 feature films and is currently the post-production system of choice on dozens of network and streaming shows. But learning any professional video editor can be quite a challenge. If you've struggled trying to learn Resolve, or are completely new to video, Getting Started with DaVinci Resolve 18 will get you up and running from the very first lesson. You'll start by shooting a simple "talking head" video with your own camera and progress to more sophisticated videos using green screen and object tracking and replacement. Even if you've never made a video before, the book will show you how to shoot and edit professional-looking videos suitable for YouTube and other social media channels-or whatever you plan to do with video. After completing only a few basic-end-to-end-exercises, you'll be able to use Resolve's powerful video editing suite and stunning visual effects to create spectacular videos of your own. And since many people have difficulty running Resolve on their home computer, the book also includes advice about setting up Resolve to run on your existing hardware without expensive upgrades. DaVinci Resolve 18 is a great choice for anyone serious about video-even beginners-because it's a complete, all-in-one, video production system that will let you do about anything you can think of with video. Learn DaVinci Resolve 18, and you'll likely never need to learn another video editing system. Who this Book is For Getting Started with DaVinci Resolve 18 is designed to help new users or those struggling to learn this exceedingly powerful professional video editing system. If you've tried to learn Resolve on your own but have been frustrated by its complexity, the book will quickly help you get past Resolve's learning curve. The book is easy to follow and loaded with real-world, practical advice and examples from professional film and video editors that will help you quickly master Resolve's many intricacies. If you want to create professional-looking videos, with your existing gear and with less hassle and effort, get the book and learn how the pros do it. What's in the Book The book starts with chapters on shooting video and recording audio that will be easier to edit. You can skip these chapters if you don't need them but they are there if you do. Then... In EXERCISE UNO, you'll shoot and edit a straightforward "talking head" video. Nothing could be simpler. But in doing so, you'll learn how to import media, how the Media, Edit, Color, and Deliver pages work, creating and copying Nodes, navigating the Timeline, using text and titles, setting audio levels and EQ, as well as encoding for YouTube, Vimeo, or wherever. For EXERCISE DUE, you'll shoot a Chroma Key video (green screen) and composite it with a background plate. You'll learn the basics of grading and creating garbage mattes and compound clips. EXERCISE TRE will give you some experience grading footage and improving the look of your videos with visual effects using both Tracker and Qualifier as well as Intuitive Object Mask, which is new for Resolve 18. Once you know how to operate Qualifier and Tracker, you'll have no trouble applying hundreds of visual effects. EXERCISE QUATTRO covers tools like Object Removal and Patch Replacer. There are also exercises using smartphone video, making and using stills, as well as creating thumbnails for YouTube. Finally, there are separate chapters that cover each of Resolve's main functional areas, a chapter on backing up and archiving your work, and chapters on improving Resolve's performance.

The Editor’s Guide to DaVinci Resolve 18 is a step by step training guide tailored to the art and craft of editing. Using a project based approach, focusing on the edit page, the hands on lessons demonstrate how to cut interviews, dramatic scenes, documentary material and music videos. Specific lessons also show how you can build eye catching effects using the new 3D keyer and video collage plug-ins, create variable speed effects, simplify complex audio mixes, and deliver your final film, whether for online distribution, broadcast television or streaming services. This book is designed for both beginners and professionals. Beginners will find clear and concise lessons to get you up and running quickly. If you’re a professional switching from another system, you’ll find lessons that cover everything from basic editing and trimming to working with audio, adding text, effects and more. Plus, you’ll discover dozens of pro tips and tricks that will help make you a master at editing with DaVinci Resolve! --

Create, edit, and produce professional-grade videos with practical tips, step-by-step guides, and illustrations Key Features Enhance project structure, manage media, and use the inspector effectively for consistent pacing Take your video projects to the next level by mastering features such as keyframe animation and advanced color correction Foster collaboration and troubleshoot common issues for a smooth editing process Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionEdit Without Tears with Final Cut Pro is your essential guide to overcoming challenges in video editing using Final Cut Pro, simplifying complex procedures and workflows and providing a structured approach for efficient and impressive video editing. This book will change how you approach editing, guiding you to create professional-grade videos with ease and confidence. Throughout the book, you'll enhance your efficiency and speed, while also learning unique workflows for common tasks. The comprehensive coverage spans planning video narratives, crafting preliminary edits and refining them, improving audio quality, setting up and editing multicam sequences, leveraging the inspector's controls, and working with both built-in and third-party plugins. You’ll then advance to animating objects using keyframes, utilizing color scopes for advanced color correction, and troubleshooting common issues confidently. By the end of this Final Cut Pro book, you’ll have developed an efficient editing style, unlocking the full power of this video editing software for your creative endeavors.What you will learn Organize Final Cut Pro files efficiently in designated locations Set yourself up for success by planning your edits Fine-tune the editing pace to achieve the desired flow and timing Utilize the inspector for color and audio adjustments Initiate various projects, including the Countdown project Enhance effects and animations through plugins Collaborate effectively with multiple users and leverage multicam Ensure all necessary requirements are met after completing the edit Who this book is for If you’re an intermediate-level Final Cut Pro editor, creative professional, freelancer, YouTuber, part of a production team, or anyone creating high-quality content on macOS using Final Cut Pro, this book is for you. A basic understanding of video editing principles and familiarity with media formats and macOS file storage is needed to get started with this book.

This book covers GarageBand 10.0. The content and/or media files do not work with subsequent releases of the software. In the only Apple-certified guide to GarageBand 10.0.0, readers will be creating original works within the first few chapters. Using real-life material and practical lessons that they can apply immediately to their own projects, this book/media combo offers a complete, self-paced course in all aspects of GarageBand. Focused lessons take you step-by-step through fun, real-world projects, and GarageBand 10.0.0 features. Exclusively for this book, author/musician Mary Plummer works with a host of talented artists ranging from a student songwriter to a professional touring guitarist, an award-winning poet, an independent hip hop recording artist, and award winning dancers to create all new, real-world projects that readers will step-through. Along the way readers will get to mix a songwriter’s demo, test amp simulators and stomp boxes with an electric guitar solo, edit spoken dialog for an audio book, lay down original hip-hop beats using a drum machine patch and dynamic tempo changes, and add percussion and effects to a dance video to enhance the sound. For mobile users, the book includes an overview of GarageBand for iOS and sharing GarageBand songs via iCloud between iOS devices and your Mac. This self-paced learning tool pairs an easy, accessible style with ample illustrations and keyboard shortcuts to guarantee that readers become proficient with GarageBand 10.0.0 in no time.

Video editing software has been around for many years and for many years only people who were in the movie business or had a large budget could afford to use such software. Even when your average home videographer was able to afford their own video camera, they still had no reasonable way to edit their movies. Now that everyone has a smartphone and considers themselves a professional movie maker, the need to edit their own footage has dramatically increased. Thankfully, Adobe has released a reasonably priced, yet powerful version of their professional video editing software called Premiere Elements that allows anyone with a camera and a computer to make some great looking movies. If you have some basic computer skills and a little creativity, it's not too difficult to create your own movies that look like they were produced by a pro. You can even use the footage from your smartphone to create custom videos and add all kinds of fun effects, text and music to your movies. The goal of this book is to get you up and running with Premiere Elements and cover all the things you need to know to get you started on making professional looking videos without confusing you at the same time. It sticks with the basics yet covers a wide variety of topics to help you achieve some great looking results without needing to be a movie editing expert. The chapters in the book cover the following topics: Chapter 1 - What is Adobe Premiere Elements? Chapter 2 - The Premiere Elements Interface Chapter 3 - Starting the Editing Process Chapter 4 - Basic Premiere Tasks Chapter 5 - Enhancing Your Videos Chapter 6 - Exporting and Sharing Your Video About the Author James Bernstein has been working with various companies in the IT field since 2000, managing technologies such as SAN and NAS storage, VMware, backups, Windows Servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Networking, Microsoft Office, Exchange, and more. He has obtained certifications from Microsoft, VMware, CompTIA, ShoreTel, and SNIA, and continues to strive to learn new technologies to further his knowledge on a variety of subjects. He is also the founder of the website OnlineComputerTips.com, which offers its readers valuable information on topics such as Windows, networking, hardware, software, and troubleshooting. Jim writes much of the content himself and adds new content on a regular basis. The site was started in 2005 and is still going strong today.

The 'Color Correction Handbook' covers a wide variety of techniques that can be used by colourists, no matter what system they're using. From the most basic methods for evaluating and correcting an overall image, to the most advanced targeted corrections and creative stylizations typically employed, this book covers it all.