The Introduction to Editing with DaVinci Resolve 15 Studio Course

Course

In London

£ 645 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Intensive workshop

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    24h

  • Duration

    3 Days

This three-day, hands-on course teaches students to perform basic editing functions while becoming familiar with the DaVinci Resolve interface. Start with basic video editing techniques and work all the way through Resolve’s powerful advanced features.

Learn to mark and edit clips, mix sound, add titles, create transitions, apply filters, and more. Topics include basic setup, customising preferences and settings, capturing video and audio, various editing and trimming techniques, Ripple, Roll, Slip, and Slide tools, audio editing and audio creation, finishing and final output.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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69 Wells Street, W1T 3QB

Start date

On request

About this course

- Editing in Final Cut Pro
- Building the Rough Cut
- Finishing the Rough Cut
- Trimming Clip Duration
- Refining Edit Points
- Refining the Editing Process
- Customizing Final Cut Pro
- Capturing & Transferring Footage
- Applying Transitions
- Mixing Audio Tracks
- Creating Titles
- Changing Motion Properties
- Applying Filters and Grading
- Finishing and Outputting

This class is designed for anyone looking to edit professional-quality video with DaVinci Resolve 14 Studio and who prefers hands-on and interactive instruction to best explore its functionality.

Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course:

- Knowledge of Mac OS X and basic computer navigation
- Basic knowledge of editing terminology is highly recommended

All students will receive a Soho Editors Training attendance certificate.

Firstly, we are long established as part of the post-production industry, and therefore have an excellent understanding of the market, and the skills that post-production staff need to have. We are not purely a training company, with other divisions of the group having a huge presence in the industry.

Secondly, unlike a lot of our competitors that provide training to the post-production industry, many of the courses we run are fully approved and certified, and will give you a recognised qualification if you pass the exam (more on this later).

We do not do general training – our courses are all industry specific, and we are experts in this field.

Thirdly, we're situated in the heart of London's post-production district – where better place to train on post-production technology?

Fourthly, the team here is friendly, helpful, efficient, understanding, flexible and approachable, and the trainers, as well as being all of the above, are fully qualified and certified, and all have significant industry experience and kudos as editors / talent in their own right.

We offer a no quibble Satisfaction Guarantee. We are so sure that not only will you enjoy the experience, as well as learn what you need from the course, that if you are not satisfied, we will give you the same course again FREE of charge. It’s as simple as that, no argument*.

We are very proud to be recognised by so many of the world's leading post production software manufacturers for consistently high standards and customer satisfaction.

Through our manufacturer accreditation we are able to offer a full range of quality assessed certified courses, however we have also developed our own industry specific courses designed to release the creative person inside.

We can also fully bespoke and tailor any course to your liking. Take a look at our bespoke training section.

We are the preferred training provider for many leading media organisations including Viacom, ITV, BBC, Channel Five, Channel 4, BSkyB, Wall to Wall, Nomura Bank, to name but a few.

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Subjects

  • Video Editing
  • Grading
  • Colour Grading
  • Broadcast
  • TV production
  • Post Production
  • VFX
  • Compositing
  • Professor Training
  • Import
  • Project
  • Options

Teachers and trainers (1)

Bernard Lyall

Bernard Lyall

Trainer

Course programme

The Introduction to Editing with DaVinci Resolve Studio 15 Course (DVR100)

Lesson 1: Editing in DaVinci Resolve
  • Launching Resolve
  • Resolve interface
  • Following a Workflow
  • Starting a Project
  • Importing Clips
  • Navigating clips
  • Marking and Editing Clips
  • Playing and Navigating a Sequence
  • Organizing Project
  • Elements, Saving
  • Hiding and Quitting Resolve

Lesson 2: Building the Rough Cut
  • Working with Projects
  • Editing a Rough Cut
  • Making Overwrite Edits
  • Managing timeline tracks
  • Making Insert Edits
  • Editing Audio Clips
  • Moving Clips in the Timeline
  • Creating a New Version
  • Drag-and-drop Editing and changing the volume of edited clips

Lesson 3: Finishing the Rough Cut
  • Adding Cutaways
  • Editing to Narration
  • Editing to Music
  • Copying, Cutting, Pasting, and Positioning Clips
  • Screening and Sharing a Sequence

Lesson 4: Trimming Clip Duration
  • Understanding Trimming
  • Rippling Edit Points
  • Rippling in the Viewer and by Numbers
  • Trimming Clips on the V2 Track
  • Trimmming One Track of a Linked Clip

Lesson 5: Refining Edit Points
  • Trimming two Edit Points
  • Slipping One clip
  • Rolling two edit points
  • Sliding Clips to Refine Position
  • Dragging Clips to New locations and Keeping Linked clips in Sync

Lesson 6: Refining the Editing Process
  • Labelling Project Elements
  • Creating Subclips
  • Adding Markers to clips
  • Using Markers to align actions
  • Performing replace edits and Editing Multicam footage

Lesson 7: Customizing DaVinci Resolve
  • Reconnecting Media
  • Working with Mixed Format Sequences
  • Working with Master Clips
  • Logging Information in Browser Columns
  • Finding Project Items
  • Customizing Shortcut Keys
  • Optimizing User Preferences

Lesson 8: Importing & Organising Footage
  • Choosing Preset Format Settings
  • Previewing and Marking Your Source
  • Choosing Clip Settings
  • Choosing Import settings
  • Choosing Import options
  • Setting import preferences and tranferring files
  • Organising Media
  • Creating Checksum clones

Lesson 9: Applying Transitions
  • Evaluating the project
  • Understanding Transitions
  • Viewing Transition options
  • Applying Transitions
  • Modifying and copying transitions
  • Using the transition Editor
  • Changing Transition parameters
  • Previewing and Rendering Effects

Lesson 10: Mixing Audio Tracks
  • Preparting the project for Mixing
  • Organizing and Editing Audio Effects
  • Monitoring & Adjusting Audio levels
  • Applying transitions to Fade Volume
  • Setting Keyframes to change volume
  • Using the Audio mixer
  • Importing Audio Files

Lesson 11: Creating Titles
  • Working with Video Generators
  • Adding a Lower Third
  • Adding Mattes, Effects and Still images
  • Creating a credit roll and Using Master templates

Lesson 12: Changing Inspector Properties
  • Entering Speed changes
  • Using the speed tool
  • Creating a Freeze frame
  • Changing Inspector Parameters
  • Animating inspector Parameters

Lesson 13: Applying Filters and Grading
  • Applying and Viewing Video filters
  • Viewing and Modifying filter parameters
  • Applying Audio filters
  • Animating filters
  • Introduction to color grading

Lesson 14: Finishing Outputting
  • Adjusting video levels for broadcast
  • Sharing clips and seuqnces
  • Exporting a quicktime movie
  • Using other export options
  • Exporting a still frame
  • Making a Timecode Window Burn
  • Backing up Projects
  • Roundtripping

The Introduction to Editing with DaVinci Resolve 15 Studio Course

£ 645 + VAT