DaVinci Resolve

Free (at least for what I want to do) is a hard price to beat. DaVinci Resolve

Note, some tutorials are specific to different screens/areas within DaVinci Resolve. Some people will be interested in things like the colour tab, while others won't be interested in more than the basics for their work.

There are lots of great oficial resources here:

• https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training
  • Training Videos
  • Training Books
  • Certification (See “Complete Online Exam” sections by Training Books)

The video links under “Training Videos” above include links to sample project files to follow through on and are much better. I have linked below to the same videos from Blackmagic Design on DaVinci Resolve. They published a number of tutorials for version 15, most of the core information is unchanged. Then there are some “what's new” videos which cover the big changes.

• DaVinci Resolve 15 Training - Official Playlist, some key extracts below:
  • DaVinci Resolve 15 - Introduction to Editing
  • DaVinci Resolve 15 - The Art of Color Grading
  • Fairlight Audio:
    • DaVinci Resolve 15 - Fairlight Audio Production Part 1
    • DaVinci Resolve 15 - Fairlight Audio Production Part 2
• What's New in DaVinci Resolve 16 - Key new stuff in version 16 (If you have done the 15 videos, this will be quite quick and easy to pick up)
• Introducing DaVinci Resolve 17 - Key new stuff in version 17 (If you have done the 15 videos, this will be quite quick and easy to pick up)

Have a look at my playlist of DaVinci Resolve & Video Editing, that's where I try and list the videos I think are most useful. Below is a collection of videos I think are useful either as they explore a screen/tab within resolve. Or because the tutorial itself covers the key areas of the screen/tab.

• General:
  • ToDo
• Editing:
  • Create Video Subtitles (.SRT or Burn in Video) - DaVinci Resolve 15 Tutorial - Subtitles
• Color Grading:
  • DoDo
• Fusion:
  • Few tips that could help with following fusion tutorials - JayAreTV
  • Fusion For Beginners in DaVinci Resolve 17 - JayAreTV
    • Getting Started with Fusion in DaVinci Resolve 17 - JayAreTV: Adding an animation (text) to a moving object in video.
  • Davinci Resolve 15 | Motion Graphics / Animation in Fusion
• Fairlight (audio):
  • ToDo

• DaVinci Resolve Tutorials - Billy Rybka

1. Shift-1: project manager
2. Shift-2: media page
3. Shift-3: cut page
4. Shift-4: edit page
5. Shift-5: Fusion
6. Shift-6: Colour
7. Shift-7: Fairlight
8. Shift-8: Deliver
9. Shift-9: project settings

Transitions:

• Simple Photo Slideshow Transition Presets - DaVinci Resolve 16
• FREE Seamless Movement Davinci Resolve UPDATED FOR 16.2 Transitions Pack

Text:

• Free Underwater Text Effect Presets - DaVinci Resolve 16

Effects:

• Super Easy Split Screen Templates for Davinci Resolve 16 - 5 Minute Friday #62
• plugins: Official FAQ Friday: Plugins

https://www.reddit.com/r/davinciresolve/comments/ksvl91/official_faq_friday_plugins/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

The latest way of distributing third party content is via 'packs' (requires Resolve 17.2 or later) which have a .drfx file which can be dragged into node graph the Fusion page. Then just restart Resolve and you'll be good to go.

Directories to copy .settings files to:

1. C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Transitions
2. C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Titles
3. C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Effects

If you wish to install other things, then these locations might be useful:

1. C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\LUT
   1. In Resolve 17, you select LUT locations in Resolve Preferences - System - General - LUT Locations

This is because Motion Array (and others) don't distribute Resolve content in the most accessable/usable way (.setting files or the new .drfx packages).

Some extra bits are distributed as macros, sometimes embedded in a timeline… They can be extracted https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=59989

Open a template (you might need to save as .setting from fusion if it's embedded in a timeline), change the MacroOperator to GroupOperator [Case Sensitive], save the file (under a new name), using the .setting extension. Restart Resolve and loaded my the renamed template. Ungroup it in the Fusion section and it shows the nodes.

Need to collect & colate notes from: https://www.reddit.com/user/want_to_be_a_fish/comments/

Rotoscoping is the art of cutting something out in a video, think of it as the manual version of green screen.

• using alpha channels in the Color tab (easier): Door Opening / Reveal Effect Davinci Resolve - Color.
• using fusion tab (advanced): DOOR OPEN TRANSITION - Fusion.

This changes between versions, but this is where I've found/put stuff and I use as a reference when backing up or restoring files.

Locations, thanks to [Install Titles, Transitions, Effects, and Generators DaVinci Resolve 18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8rZwq7Fnk&ab_channel=JayAreTV) - JayAreTV.

Inside the the edit folder everything should be put in one of four folders to match what the template is:

• Titles
• Transitions
• Effects
• Generators

Those locations are (user):

• On macOS: Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Templates/Edit
• On Windows: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\Templates\Edit
• On Linux: home/username/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/Fusion/Templates/Edit

All users of a machine:

• On Windows: C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit

You can group all the types in subfolders (andy for sets of titles/transitions) such as:

• System: C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Titles\Underwater Text
• User: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Titles\Underwater Text

General Base Directories:

C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\
C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Blackmagic Design

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Blackmagic Design\
C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Blackmagic Design\

User project files/customisation

C:\Users\<user>\Resolve Projects
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Blackmagic Design

PostgreSQL (If project server is installed)

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL
C:\Users\postgres

Other bits that you might have copied in/installed:

Transitions
C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Transitions

LUTs
C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\LUT

Project DB
C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database

User Files:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve Project Server
C:\Users\<user>\Resolve Projects