Beginners Learn How to Make 1st Video in DaVinci Resolve files included

hi in this video I want to show you how

easy it is even for beginners to make

edit and produce your first video using

DaVinci Resolve hi welcome to sharing

your passion com this is chill and let's

get it on Angie resolve is simply the

best free video editor around it even

competes with the expensive Adobe

products like Adobe Premiere or Final

Cut which cost a couple hundred dollars

a year the vinci resolved sixteen the

latest version is free there is a paid

version but you might not need it the

free version is really powerful so the

first step we need to do is go download

the Vinci result and all you have to do

is type in the Vinci resolved download

this is the link black magic design

there is the company behind the Vinci

resolved click the link you can go

through all the description of how great

this video editor is but it might take a

while but anyway if you don't have the

time just go straight down to the very

end of the page so there it is the

venture is all 16 is free but the Vince

your resolve studio 16 is $299 and this

includes more advanced features for the

most part I've been able to produce even

advanced videos using the free version

at some point in the future maybe I'll

be needing some of these advanced

features especially if I work in a team

but right now the free version is really

really really good so just click this

download now button it's it's pretty big

the file size is pretty big just install

it it's pretty straightforward and I'll

see you inside the Venturi resolved once

you've installed it okay so this is what

it looks like inside the Vinci resolve

16 and it has a few tabs here but we're

really concerned with edit and deliver

but let's just take a quick look into

the tabs here's the media tab this is

normally what you use to bring in your

files

this is the cut tab if you're doing a

lot of edits and you're cutting a lot of

footage this is where you might want to

do it this is the edit tab this is where

I do everything actually we can bring in

media and you can also do your cutting

and editing here this is the fusion tab

this is a little bit more advanced we

can get into that later on in other

tutorials it's about creating effects

here's the color tab DaVinci Resolve is

always known to be really good at color

grading or changing the colors into

cinematic almost movie grade quality but

in recent years the Vinci resolve has

gotten better into the editing side and

bringing it up to the competition and

competing with Adobe's Premiere and

final cut and filmora and all those

other ones this tab is fair light this

is where you can control your your audio

and deliver once you're done with your

editing this is where you go to export

your actual video and it will assemble

all your edits into one nice file and I

use mp4 okay so let's go back to edit

okay we are back in the Edit Page and so

we need some files to make our video

last year we went on a nice Caribbean

cruise I took some footage and I can

share it with you you can check the

description section below and I will

link to these files on my website that

way once you have these files you can

make the exact same edits I'm doing so

you can get that necessary practice okay

so now I'm going to grab my files these

are my files I have one audio of my

recording my recorded voice three images

pictures and three video clips so let's

just select these and simply drag it and

drop into this section here your media

pool section okay now it's inside the

Vinci resolve don't worry about all

these things these panels I know it can

be a little intimidating at first when I

saw this software I thought oh my gosh

this is so complicated but eventually

within like an hour or two hours of

practicing with it it all becomes second

nature and you know why this panel is

here this panel is here this panel is

here and that panel there and later on

you'll see that this panel activate so

don't be intimidated by the complexity

of the user interface after a while you

really get used to it okay so my main

file here is this video file because

this contains the background music I

want to use throughout this little video

we're going to create so what we're

going to do is create a video that has

various elements three videos a

voiceover and also three images we're

going to assemble that and create one

video file about this little island we

visited to get started I'm going to

bring down the main file the main video

file because this is the file that has

the music I want these guys were playing

a really nice Caribbean feel steel drum

music when we arrived at the port okay

so let me just play this for you

[Music]

okay so one thing about this clip I

think the recording of the audio was a

little too loud so I'm going to bring it

down a bit here you can see the Vinci

resolve separated it this is the image

of the video and this is the audio and

with this particular clip I felt that

the recording is a little too high so

I'm going to reduce the volume of this

video and it's really simple here I just

click down here until my mouse pointer

turns into this up and down arrow then I

can drag down the volume I can just

adjust the volume higher or lower but in

this case I'm gonna just a little lower

maybe something around there let's play

it again

[Music]

let's try it with that level okay so

this area is our timeline and these are

our tracks and because we dropped one

video file here we have two sections

here the video part the image part and

the audio part we can add multiple

tracks so if we have other items like

pictures or other videos we can drop

them here also and the higher you are on

this video track is what's going to show

up on the on the screen you can have

multiple tracks here or multiple layers

and whatever is higher than the other

one is the one that takes precedence the

one that will show up on the screen so

let me just show you an example let's

drag an image over here okay so this is

just an image it doesn't have a audio

part to it that's why it didn't create

an audio section this is our playhead

and wherever you are in the timeline and

that's what's going to be showing so

because this video track is higher than

this video track this one will show

that's why this picture is showing no

when we get over here that image ended

and now it's showing the next lower

level of video track which is our

original one in video one okay so that's

how that works Kate let's just go from

here to here play that

okay so it quickly went from showing

this image and then now showing the get

the guys playing the drums okay so we

can make adjustments to these photos

when you bring in an image it comes in

with the duration of whatever is in your

preferences right now my preference say

five seconds so you can see here this is

the timer so when it hits four seconds

and twenty nine frames because I'm using

twenty nine frames per second so each

second has twenty nine frames and when I

got to them and when I got to the end of

this file it's four seconds and this is

twenty nine frames so so that's pretty

much five seconds right there so

whenever I pull in an image down here

it's going to play for five seconds but

we can adjust that we can grab the end

here until it turns into this this icon

and we can make it shorter down to four

seconds you can see it says four or you

can expand it longer make make this

image show for eight seconds nine

seconds okay so the next thing I want to

do is add a second video clip here and

I'm going to add it onto a third layer a

third track so we have video 1 video 2

so just right click over here add track

and now we have video 3 ok so I added a

video 3 layer this is where I want to

put my second video clip but I don't

have an audio 3 down here so what I'll

do is right click here add track stereo

so now I have two audio tracks but I

need a third one right click add track

stereo ok so now I have three audio

tracks down here now I'm ready to drag

down the second video clip which is the

video of the port I'll grab it here

video 3 and position it somewhere here

I'll shorten it up

I don't want to take too much time okay

and you can see down here in the audio

the audio 3 this is the audio of that

clip and it's just wind noise I don't

want that wind noise in my video so I'm

going to hit M here to mute it so now it

has no wind noises it's only playing the

steel drums music okay so now we have

two videos and let me show you how it

transitions from showing the drummer's

play it now it shows that port

[Music]

and it goes back to the drummers so okay

now I have a my main video with the

music I have a picture or photo to start

the video I have my second video over

here by the way I'm using the the scroll

button on the mouse to go navigate

through these tracks here when I'm in

the video track I go up and down with

the mouse wheel it goes up and down and

when I'm in the audio section if I go up

and down with the scrolling button on

the mouse it also goes up and down

that's how I'm able to do that okay so

we have our main video with music

initial photo and a second video okay

and the next element I'm going to add to

this video is my third video clip which

is a clip of the beach let's drag that

to the same video three track and

position it but there and shorten it up

a little bit

and it'll look like this if we start it

right back here play

[Music]

okay so clip of the beach and then let's

add some more pictures down here okay so

we have two more unused pictures so let

me drag this to the video - this is

where I have my pictures on the on track

to video track - and the last image I

haven't used is this one I'll bring that

to the very end let me zoom out so you

can see all these elements I'm going to

click this minus sign here okay so now

we have the main video with music and we

have the first image into image to

videos over here and two more images

over here and as you notice because this

video these two videos are on video

track 3 that means there are audios on

audio track 3 and since I've muted that

we won't hear the the wind or wave

noises over here next I'm going to drag

my audio where I say welcome to this

island and I'm going to drag it to the

very beginning in the audio to position

which is right below audio 1 remember in

the video section whatever is higher up

in the track level track layers is going

to take precedence and will show over

the ones below it but on the bottom on

the audio section if all of these are

activated the audio will be heard so

watch this I'll start this video now

[Music]

kids

so you could hear the music and you

could hear my voice running at the same

time so it operates a little bit

different from the top or the videos

that images are so what I want to do is

lower the music so you can hear me do

the intro one easy way to lower the

audio of the the music is to go to this

upper left corner see that white thing

you can just drag that this is like a

fader and it's going to fade the music

in it'll be low here and the the volume

will start increasing of the music until

it reaches the full full level here so

let's try that again

welcome to the beautiful island of st.

Kitts

okay the music came in a little too

early so let's drag that over instead of

a linear increase of the volume of the

music I can do it on a curve which is

better in this situation so it's going

to come in lower and then increase on a

curve like that okay let's try that

again back to start play welcome to the

beautiful island of st. Kitts in the

Caribbean

[Music]

okay so that's pretty good okay we can

add a title on the video three track a

title means you know text let's go to

the beginning click here and over here

it says titles see that there's other

things here effects generators

transitions here is title so let's add a

title highlight that titles and over

here text drag this text over here so

now we have a text area here and now

look over here in the under the

inspector

it says rich text and this is where we

can add our title and in this case let's

just say st. kitts Island let's change

the font to open sans Extra Bold you can

see that it's kind of hard to read

because the white font is mixing in with

some of the white buildings over here so

what we can do is scroll down here and

we can add a stroke to our font it's

black size is zero so let's just drag

this okay so now you can read that

because it added a black border that's

fine and let's play this welcome to the

beautiful island of st. Kitts in the

Caribbean

[Music]

okay I didn't like how the font just

quickly disappeared here

that's add another transition and

another easy way to do it is just using

that upper right corner drag it to the

left and you'll see the font fade out

welcome to the beautiful island of st.

Kitts in the Caribbean

okay so how that faded out so that's

that's good

another thing is transitions go over

here video transitions and one of the

most popular ones here that I use is

cross dissolve okay so let's look at

this without a transition how it goes

from from this image to this image with

no transition he'll go from the

drummer's to the port with no transition

it just jumps in see that it was just a

hard cut in and let's go back let's add

a cross dissolve let's just drag this

over here in this corner the front

corner now let's take a look at it okay

you saw how it dissolved into the

picture so that's just one of the video

transitions okay let's just take a look

at our ending here

[Music]

okay so what I'll do is put a fade on

the very end like that and I also have

to fade the drummer's okay and I'll put

a another dissolve over here to start

that last photo let's look at it now my

only problem with that was that I could

see the drummer's still show up as the

photo was dissolving so what I'm going

to do is cut I'm going to cut the last

part of that image so highlight the

video clip

the drummer's and then I'm going to put

my timeline here I'm going to press

control B to to cut it with the blade so

now you can see that there's a cut here

and I need to separate the music and the

image so let me right click this section

see this link clips I'm going to click

that and now this image and the music

can be separated let me click away first

now I can highlight the image of that

video and I do a ctrl X to remove that

so now this section of the drummer's

will not show at the end so let's try to

play that again

[Music]

okay see it it nicely faded out with

just the that graphic with the island

Tings so I think I'm good with this it's

just so you know it's just a test run to

quickly create a video with some clips

here you can see how things can get

quite complicated after a while but it's

not that hard right there's three video

tracks and it's a mixture of images and

videos and the title and down here we

have the main music which I faded in

fade it out and my voice over and down

here are the muted audio of the those

extra video clips now I'm pretty happy

with this so I'm ready to export this

I'm ready to produce this so before you

do anything else just save your your

changes because you don't want to spend

too much time you haven't saved anything

and for some reason your computer

crashes so it's smart to keep saving

your work just say save project okay now

I'm ready for export or to deliver let's

go to the deliver tab so here's a

deliver tab the different formats you

can select since I do a lot on YouTube

I'll click YouTube 1080 that's full

definition

I'll give it a file name I'll say st.

kitts location I'll bring it to my

DaVinci resolution is 1920 by 1080

that's good and the format I like mp4

it's a little bit more compact smaller

file sizes compared to QuickTime and

then click this button add to render

queue and this appears and you're ready

to go so just click this start render

here we go and it's rendering it's it's

assembling all the changes you made with

all those files and putting it all

together it's producing it so he'll take

about a minute okay it's done rendering

it's finished okay so let's open up the

file

view the video we just created welcome

to the beautiful island of st. Kitts in

the Caribbean

[Music]

so that turned out pretty well I mean it

could be better it could have more

transitions and and maybe other elements

added but for a first video that's

pretty good right and just to think that

the Vinci resolve is free it has all the

features the power to create that kind

of a video although it was kind of

simple you could even go a lot more

complex and a lot more cinematic if you

wanted it's just incredible how great a

software this DaVinci Resolve 16 is with

these tools and the tutorials it's

really not that hard to create these

videos and I just want people to

understand that they can be very

creative they can take the ideas they

have in their mind the photos they have

the videos they have the the music they

create put it all together and it can

make wonderful amazing videos that other

people will will love and appreciate and

will want to watch or even if it's

tutorials or entertainment or or just

vlogging I just really want people to

understand that they they have the power

to create it's really exciting for me to

create things and I think people will

love creating things especially to

create things that with their point of

view and really interpret the things

they see and and and mold it into a

video that is really you know

captivating for for people like them I

just want to help people take their

creativity and make it real make a video

that other people will enjoy that other

people can learn from so we created a

pretty basic video of of combining

several video clips and several photos

and an audio clip but da Vinci resolve

is really powerful there's a lot of

other features you can do there's green

screen there's other techniques of video

making there's other effects you can do

so this is just scratching the surface

of what you can do with DaVinci Resolve

I'm going to make other tutorials where

I teach you the more advanced techniques

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video and so that you can practice on

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