The Beginner's Guide to DaVinci Resolve 16. This official Blackmagic Design Training and Certification book teaches editors, artists and students how to use DaVinci Resolve 16, the only film and video post production solution that brings editing, color correction, audio post and visual effects together in the same software application! This guide will teach you how to use the revolutionary new cut page, which is designed specifically for editors that need to work quickly and on tight deadlines. It also covers DaVinci Resolve's advanced color correction, powerful editing options on the traditional edit page, Fairlight digital audio tools and fast 2D visual effects compositing on the Fusion page. Best of all, the DaVinci Resolve 16 software is absolutely free! So you can start learning today! The free version of DaVinci Resolve actually has more features than any paid editing system. That’s because at Blackmagic Design we believe everybody should have the tools to create professional, Hollywood caliber content without having to spend thousands of dollars. What You’ll Learn:• How to edit, add effects and post to the web, fast using the new cut page. • How to setup projects, import media and use metadata to speed up your work. • Marking selections, editing clips in the timeline, and context sensitive trimming. • How to retime clips, add transitions and pan and scan photos. • Working with new title templates, creating your own titles and adding animation. • How to navigate the Fusion page, use a node based interface for visual effects compositing. • Primary and secondary corrections using DaVinci Resolve’s legendary color tools. • How to match shots, use color management, create looks, grade multiple clips. • How to use PowerWindows, track objects in a shot, use curves and add ResolveFX. • Audio sweetening and mixing using the Fairlight audio tools. • Record voice over directly into the timeline • Use new FairlightFX to improve audio quality • How to deliver projects to a variety of formats and share directly to YouTube and Vimeo. • Dozens of tips and tricks throughout the book that will transform how you work!

The Beginner's Guide to to DaVinci Resolve 16: Learn Editing, Color, Audio & Effects

Arts & Photography

Saccone, Paul

Scoppettuolo, Dion

Photography & Video

Blackmagic Design Learning Series

Color Correction with DaVinci Resolve 16. DaVinci Resolve 16 is Hollywood’s most popular color correction software and is used to grade more feature films, television shows and commercials than any other solution. This official Blackmagic Design hand-on training guide takes you through a series of practical exercises that will teach you how to use DaVinci Resolve’s color correction tools in detail. You’ll learn a wide variety of workflows, effects and tools necessary to perform Hollywood caliber grades. What You’ll Learn: • Normalization, balancing and matching footage • Primary and secondary grading tools • Enabling and using color management. • How to read video scopes to analyze and correct images. • Understanding both color balancing and creative grading. • Working with nodes to create sophisticated grades. • Managing and copying grades with stills, versions and ColorTrace. • Navigating the Fusion page to create simple composites. • Using plug-ins to repair, enhance and stylize images. • Creating groups to help streamline your worklfow.• Render cache and delivery settings for optimal quality • Dozens of tips and tricks that will transform how you work!

Color Correction with DaVinci Resolve 16

Fissoun, Daria

DaVinci Resolve 16 gives you the power of a full professional digital audio workstation, right in the Fairlight page. This official Blackmagic Design hands-on training guide is dedicated to teaching you the art of sound editing, sweetening, recording, mixing and mastering with Fairlight audio tools in DaVinciResolve 16. Beginning audio editors and assistants will find clear workflow driven lessons while seasoned audio professionals will quickly learn Fairlight's user-friendly tools to accomplish incredible sound with proficiency. As you step through the lessons you'll gain experience with Fairlight's powerful new features including ADR tools, connecting to external sound libraries, using video and audio scrollers, optional fixed playhead playback, clip normalization, built-in native audio plugins and more! Best of all, you'll discover that there is no longer a need to send a sequence out to another application, because professional with DaVinci Resolve 16, audio is simply a click away from editing.What You’ll Learn: • How to navigate and customize the Fairlight page• How to create and modify tracks • How to mark and edit source audio and connect to your sound libraries • How to set up and record voice over and ADR tracks • How to use audio track layers to stack, split and build a composite track • How to evaluate and set channel mapping for multi-channel dialogue clips • How to build, balance and normalize dialogue tracks • How to find and stitch room tone to fill the gaps between dialogue clips • How to repair and replace unwanted sounds like clicks, sibilance, noise and powerline hum • How to create original sound effects with the oscillator and Fairlight Fx plugins • How to use the Fairlight FX Foley Sampler plugin to play and record footsteps to video• How to enhance and sweeten tracks with EQ and dynamics processing • How to use side-chain compression to dynamically lower background track levels • How to create and save presets for effects, EQ and dynamics processing • How to add depth and dimension to soundtracks with time-based effects like echo and reverb • How to apply professional 2D, immersive 3D object-based panning to the mix • How to use VCA groups, auxiliary and submix buses to simplify mixing preview and on tracks and buses • How to change the Loudness meter preset and use the loudness graph in the timeline • How to finish your soundtrack, bounce tracks, and deliver a final mix and stems • Dozens of tips and real-world techniques that you can apply to your own soundtracks!

Fairlight Audio Post with DaVinci Resolve 16

Engineering & Transportation

Plummer. Mary

Engineering

This official Blackmagic Design Training and Certification book teaches editors, artists, filmmakers and students how to use DaVinci Resolve 17, the only film and video post production solution that brings editing, color correction, audio post and visual effects together in the same software application! This guide will teach you how to use the revolutionary new cut page, which is designed specifically for editors that need to work quickly and on tight deadlines. It also covers DaVinci Resolve's advanced color correction, powerful editing options on the traditional edit page, Fairlight digital audio tools and fast visual effects compositing on the Fusion page.\nBest of all, the DaVinci Resolve 17 software is absolutely free! So you can start learning today! The free version of DaVinci Resolve actually has more features than any paid editing system. That’s because at Blackmagic Design we believe everybody should have the tools to create professional, Hollywood caliber content without having to spend thousands of dollars. Once you complete the book, you are welcome to test your knowledge by taking our BMD official online certification exam.\nWhat you will learn: 
- High speed editing with the Cut page 
- Edit page quickstart 
- Organizing a new project 
- Assembling a rough cut 
- Moving clips in the timeline 
- Refining a timeline 
- Applying transitions and effects 
- Working with audio on the edit page 
- Performing primary color corrections 
- Making secondary adjustments 
- Designing creative looks 
- Mixing sound on the Fairlight page 
- Creating effects in Fusion 
- Delivering a final program 
- Managing media and databases

Beginner's Guide to DaVinci Resolve 17: Edit, Color, Audio & Effects

DaVinci Resolve 17 is Hollywood’s most popular color correction software and is used to color grade more feature films, television shows, and commercials than any other solution. This official Blackmagic Design hands-on training guide takes you through a series of practical exercises that teach you how to use DaVinci Resolve’s color correction tools in detail. You’ll learn a wide variety of workflows, effects, and tools necessary to perform Hollywood-caliber grades. 
What You’ll Learn 
Launching Resolve project files and restoring archives 
Normalizing,balancing,andmatchingfootage 
Analyzing and color correcting images with the help of scopes 
Primaryandsecondarygradingtooloperations 
Migrating XML timelines and roundtrip workflows 
Remapping video color gamuts with color management 
Working with nodes to create sophisticated grades 
Managing and copying grades with stills, versions, and ColorTrace 
Creating groups to streamline your workflow 
Color grading high dynamic range footage 
Render cache and delivery settings for optimal quality 
Dozens of tips and tricks that will transform how you work! 
Who This Book Is For 
This book is designed for video editors and colorists. It contains clear and concise lessons, along with dozens of tips and tricks from professional colorists to help you create cinematic images that stand out! You’ll learn about the primary grading tools used for balancing images, fundamental color theory, secondary tools for isolating specific parts of an image, how to read scopes, create unique looks, and more!

The Colorist Guide to DaVinci Resolve 17

DaVinci Resolve 17 features a dedicated Fairlight audio page built right in! This official Blackmagic Design hands-on training guide will teach you the art of sound editing, sweetening, recording, mixing, and delivering. Beginning audio editors and assistants will find clear, workflow-driven lessons, while seasoned audio professionals will quickly learn Fairlight’s user-friendly tools to create incredible soundtracks. Best of all, you never need to send projects out to another application, because Fairlight is just a click away from your editing timeline!\nWhat You’ll Learn 
• Navigating and customizing the Fairlight page 
• Creating and modifying tracks 
• Marking and editing source audio 
• Connecting to external sound libraries 
• Setting up and recording voiceover and ADR tracks 
• Working with audio track layers to stack, split, and build a composite 
• Evaluating and setting channel mapping for multichannel clips 
• Balancing and normalizing dialogue tracks 
• Finding and fixing common issues with the Edit Selection tool 
• Repairing and replacing unwanted sounds like clicks, pops, and hums 
• Creating your own sound effects using the oscillator and FairlightFX 
• Enhancing and sweetening tracks with EQ and dynamics 
• Adding depth and dimension with time-based effects 
• Automating track changes over time 
• Working buses to simplify mixing 
• Finishing your soundtrack, bouncing tracks, and delivering a final mix 
• Exploring Dolby Atmos integration 
• Dozens of tips and real-world techniques!\nWho This Book Is For 
This book is designed for both beginners and professionals. Beginners will find clearand 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 recording and editing tracks, toadvanced dialogue repair, routing to aux and submix buses, and linking mono track groupsfor multichannel finishing. You’ll also find dozens of pro tips and tricks that will helpyouwork faster!

The Fairlight Audio Guide to DaVinci Resolve 17

The Colorist Guide to DaVinci Resolve 18

Education & Teaching

Druss, Jason

Hover, David

Schools & Teaching

The Beginner's Guide to DaVinci Resolve 18

Hall, Simon

Roberts, Chris

Ditner, Arthur

The Fairlight Audio Guide to DaVinci Resolve 18

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