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DaVinci Resolve 19 for BEGINNERS: Free and Studio Paid Version - Are you new to DaVinci Resolve and want to learn the basics so you can start editing? In this DaVinci Resolve tutorial Alli shows you everything you need to know to get started in DaVinci Resolve 19! You'll learn how to create new projects, import footage, customize your workspace, how to use effects, work on the timeline, adjust the speed of clips, adjust volume, make compound clips, how to export and render your video project and more!

If you're brand new to Da Vinci Resolve, this video is for you. I'm going to teach you how to use the free version of Resolve, but even if you have the studio paid version, you can still follow along. We're going to look at the interface, how to get nice and organized, how to import clips, how to edit on a timeline, how to export a video project, and more. My goal is to jam-pack as much information as possible into this video while not wasting your time. So remember, at any point, you can pause the video and play it back as you need to. If you want to follow along with the assets I'm using, you can download them in the link below. As we go through, if you have any questions, let me know in the comments below, and I'll do my best to answer them. Before we get started, if you need to download and install Da Vinci Resolve, check this video out first. Now let's hop in.

There, let's open up Da Vinci Resolve. This is the project manager window. If this is your first time ever opening Resolve, you'll only see this Untitled project. All these other thumbnails show previous projects I've worked on. By default, your projects will be saved on this local database on your computer. If you want to export a project onto something like an external hard drive, you can right-click on that project and choose your preferred location, export project, and press save. I'll just cancel that.

To create a new project, we can double-click on Untitled project, or we can click here on New Project. We can call this project BC since it's from a trip I took with Will to British Columbia. Here we are in Da Vinci Resolve. Before we do anything, I think this is super important. Let's turn on Autosave. Go up to Da Vinci Resolve, click on it, Preferences, go into the User tab. Here, where it says Project Save and Load, you want to make sure that you have Live Save check-marked. Live Save does exactly what it says it does; it will save every time you make a change. Let's also make sure we have Project Backups check-marked. This will save our projects in increments depending on what time limit we choose. I like Resolve to perform backups every 5 minutes. I'm okay with having hourly backups for the past two hours and daily backups for the past two days. If you want to see where your project backup location is, you can click Browse and Save.

Da Vinci Resolve has seven different workspaces that allow you to work on different aspects of your video. Since this is a beginner tutorial, we're mainly going to be focusing on working in the Edit page, which is where you would put your video project together. But I'll quickly go over what each of these pages does.

Starting on the left, we have our Media workspace. This is where you can organize any of your footage, audio, and any other different assets that you would use in your editing project. Personally, I don't use this page because you can also import and organize your assets in the Edit page, which we'll look at in a bit. Next, we have the Cut workspace. This is kind of like Adobe Rush. It's a workspace that's designed for quickly putting together a video edit.

Let's go into the Edit page. This is where I spend a lot of my time as an editor. We will get back to this page in a minute. Next, let's look at the Fusion workspace. This is where you can work on visual effects, basically like Adobe After Effects. In the Fusion page, you work with nodes. You also work with nodes in the Color page. So in the Color page, you are obviously working on color correction and color grading. The Fairlight page is where you'd edit and master your audio. Over here, we have our Deliver page, where you'd render and export your videos.

Let's import some media by going over to the Edit page. So we have Media Pool open here. If you don't see this, just click on it to open it up. You can also click on this icon here to change the view as needed. Let's make sure our Master panel is showing so that we can easily import our project assets by tapping over to your Finder window where they are. There's my project asset bin with some footage in it, so let's drag that over into our Master. Great. Now this pop-up window is going to show basically telling you that the clips you've imported have different settings than the default timeline setting. It asks you if you want to change and says you can't undo this action. They're lying. Yes, you can. I'm going to show you how to, so for now, just press Don't Change.

Just to show you, if you're not feeling the drag and drop, you can also import your footage or other assets by right-clicking in the Media Pool, choosing Import Media, finding it, and opening it up. I prefer List View. There's just tons, as I scroll to the right, tons of information about the media you've imported into Resolve. I don't want to see all that; you probably don't either. So you can right-click here where it says Clip Name, and you can uncheck all the info you don't want to see. Really, all I care about seeing is the FPS (frames per second), the format, the resolution, and the video codec. Now let's choose Create Column Layout. I'll call this Ali's Layout. Press OK.

If you want to move any of these tabs around, you can just click on them and drag them to where you'd like them to be. Now remember that annoying pop-up window that said you wouldn't be able to change your timeline settings once you set them? Well, who cares about that? Let's create a new timeline by going up to File, New Timeline. You can name it whatever you'd like and uncheck Use Project Settings. Doing this brings up a ton more options for us. So let's go over to Format, and here we can change our timeline resolution. Right now, 1920 x 1080 HD is pretty standard, so we can leave that as is. For Timeline Frame Rate, I usually work with 23.976. Choose Create.

Here we go. We now have our custom timeline set up. Let's double-click on our project assets bin, select these four clips, and drag them onto our timeline. Let's get a little more organized so our media doesn't get too cluttered. So within the project assets bin, I currently have my footage. Just tab over to my Finder window, and I also would like to use the song in my project, so I will click on it and drag it in here to the Master panel. OK, we can see that here. Let's drag it into our project assets. Double-click on Project Assets, and we can right-click and choose New Bin. Let's name it Footage and now select these four footage clips and drag them into the Footage folder (aka Bin). Right-click again, choose New Bin, call it Music, and drag that song right in there.

So on our timeline, you can scroll right or left to move right or left. To zoom in, press down on your keyboard Command or Control and the plus key. To zoom out, Command or Control and the minus key. You can also use this slider right here. If you want to create a little bit more space with any of these panels, you can just hover over them here and drag them around. I don't want to see my Media Pool right now, so I'll click on it to give us some more space.

OK, let's look at our timeline view options by clicking on this icon here. Let's go to Thumbnail View. I prefer to keep Film Strip on. Let's just turn on None for a sec. If you had None on, you wouldn't be able to see a sneak peek of what's going on within your clip. Go back in there and turn Film Strip back on. I think it shows you the most information within the clip. Zoom in a bit more, and I also find it really helpful to be able to see your waveforms. Right now, this is our audio, but we can't see anything going on. So let's choose Display Audio Waveforms. Now, these first three clips are B-roll clips. I don't have any audio recorded, but here in this dialog clip, now you can see the audio waveform.

For organization purposes, you can also rename your tracks. So this first track, click where it says Video 1. We can rename this Dialogue, so I would keep any dialogue clips on this first track. Let's select these three B-roll clips and drag them upwards, which is going to create a new track. Now, where it says Video 2, we'll click and call this B-roll. Since these three audio portions of our clip are just empty, I don't want the audio to exist on my timeline. Now, if we were to select these three audio tracks to try and delete them, because these clips are linked to the audio, we also have selected the visuals of the clip as well. So if I went and pressed Delete, they're gone. I'm just going to press Command Z to undo. To only select this audio, you can hold down Alt or Option on your keyboard and now drag, and there we go. We only have these three audio portions of the clip selected, not the clip itself. Press Delete, and they're gone.

OK, making sure that we have our Selection Tool here selected, which you can tell because it's in red, let's grab one of our B-roll clips and drag it partially over top of our talking head clip at the end here. Let's bring our playhead over top of this dialog clip, and we can press the space bar on our keyboard to play this through. As we play that back, you can see that my dialog clip is playing, so the audio would be heard as this B-roll clip is shown. OK, and I'm just going to continue to play this clip through here. I'll put it on full screen, and it will play to the end. So that's a simple way to cover up jump cuts or to show what you're talking about.

Let's bring our playhead back over top of this dialog clip, and you can select this entire clip by clicking on it. To cut this clip or make an edit to it, just press Command or Control B. That split it in two. Let's delete this left portion by pressing Delete. If we want to add transitions between these clips, go to Effects, choose Video Transitions. Let's do a Cross Dissolve transition. Drag and drop it right between these two clips here. You can change the length of your transition by grabbing the right edge and pulling it outwards or inwards. Let's play that through, and there you go.

To add a text overlay, let's go over to Titles in Effects. Choose Text, drag it right over top of our dialog clip, and here we can customize it. We can put in a title, change the font, size, and other attributes. If you want to create a lower-third, you can do that here too.

Finally, let's export our project. Go to the Deliver page. Name your project, choose your location to save, choose your format and codec (MP4 and H.264 are good options), and click Add to Render Queue. Then, click Start Render. Your video will be exported to your chosen location.

That's a basic overview of how to get started with Da Vinci Resolve. There's a lot more you can do with it, so feel free to explore and ask questions as you go along!

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