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DaVinci Resolve
Free (at least for what I want to do) is a hard price to beat. DaVinci Resolve
Recommended Tutorials For Beginners
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.
Official Training Resources
There are lots of great oficial resources here:
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- Training Videos
- Training Books
- Certification (See “Complete Online Exam” sections by Training Books)
Direct Video Links
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:
- Fairlight Audio:
- 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)
Guide Videos From Around The Web
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:
- Color Grading:
- DoDo
- Fusion:
- 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.
- Fairlight (audio):
- ToDo
People/Playlists to follow
shortcuts
- Shift-1: project manager
- Shift-2: media page
- Shift-3: cut page
- Shift-4: edit page
- Shift-5: Fusion
- Shift-6: Colour
- Shift-7: Fairlight
- Shift-8: Deliver
- Shift-9: project settings
Free Stuff
Transitions:
Text:
Effects:
- plugins: Official FAQ Friday: Plugins
Installation Locations
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:
C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Transitions
C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Titles
Specific Techniques/Effects
Need to collect & colate notes from: https://www.reddit.com/user/want_to_be_a_fish/comments/
Rotoscoping & 'Door Opening' Transitions
Rotoscoping is the art of cutting something out in a video, think of it as the manual version of green screen.
Technical Install & Uninstall
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\ 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
Transitions C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Transitions 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