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"text": "Hey guys, Casey Ferris here. Thanks for checking out this master training for DaVinci Resolve. We're going to be looking at everything that you need to know in order to do a project from end to end as far as post-production goes inside of Resolve. This is by far the most intensive course that I've ever done. And the controls that you need to know to do what I feel are the most important tasks in post-production. So grab some coffee or tea. Let's do this. So a couple notes on how to use this training. A lot of what we're going to go through you can actually follow along with because I'll include project files and media which we'll look at in a second. Some of it is just easier to show you and you won't necessarily be able to follow along with every single little bit. Some of the more specific kind of one-off lessons might be that way, but you will be able to follow along and create the main project that we're creating throughout this training. In the folder that you downloaded with the training, it should look something like this, maybe a little bit different because I'm kind of building this as I record this lesson, but a lot of the media is going to be under raw film transcoded media. This is some awesome footage provided to us by the wonderful people over at raw.film for letting us use proxies of their footage for this training. One more note, I'm going to be using DaVinci Resolve 16.2. Odds are while you're watching this, there's a later version of Resolve that's come out. Almost everything that we go over is going to translate pretty much perfectly into the newer version of the software. There might be something where a button moves or a slider looks a little bit different, but the general workflow is the same. So if things do look a little bit different, that's probably why. If there is any kind of major updates, I'll try and update this training and let you guys know, but it should work pretty much the same. When you first open up Resolve, it'll probably look something like this. You might also have this window open. So let's talk about what Resolve is and how it's laid out. This very first window here, this is called your project manager. And this is where you do exactly that. You manage your projects. So if you want to make a new project, open up an old project, this is where they all live. All of this stuff lives in a database, which if you click on this little button right here, that'll open up your databases. And without getting super into that, what you really need to know is that resolve kind of manages all of that for you and it's put in a folder and organized the way that resolve wants to organize it. You can make separate databases. If you want to, some people will make a new database every year or every quarter just so they can keep themselves organized. But for a lot of things, you could probably just work off of the same database. And really, that's just a collection of all of your projects that just live right here. If you right click, you get quite a bit of options. This is where you can make a new project, new folder. You can also import a project that somebody might have sent to you or that you might have saved a copy of. You can restore a project archive, which we'll get into in a little bit. But that's kind of where all of that happens. Generally, what you'll do is just click on a project that you have open here or hit new project. So I have this one open called training and we can take a look at the layout of resolve. So some people might think of resolve as an editor or a color correcting app and really it's both resolve is designed to take you all the way through the post production timeline, which means that everything that you need to do after you're done shooting, basically once you have footage on your computer, resolve can take care of everything from importing and organizing your media to editing to audio to compositing, color correction, as well as final delivery. And things in Resolve are kind of organized in those steps that will kind of take you all the way down from I just have a bunch of footage to I have a finished project. And you can kind of follow that post production path down here on this bottom bar. Each of these buttons has to do with kind of a specific job in post production. And whenever you click one of these buttons, it switches out your interface to tools that are specific to that job. So color correction happens in the color page, editing happens in the edit page and so on. We're going to walk through all of these in just a little bit, but it's good to kind of know that from the beginning. There are different layouts and resolve based on the task that you're working on. And you can switch with these buttons down here. Each layout here is called a page. So whenever you click a different button here, it switches the page in the app. And the coolest thing is that Resolve doesn't just do a bunch of different things, but all of these pages share the same timeline. For instance, I'll open up a project that I have here about coffee. And here in the edit page, I can see my timeline. And if I switch to color, I can see the same timeline and I can access the same shots and same for the cut page and the fairlight page and even the fusion page. So all of the pages inside of resolve share the same timeline. There's no need to export or round trip to other apps. There's no need to save out your project in a different format or anything. If you want to work on a specific shot and do a different job like color correction, you just switch over to the color page. If you want to do some compositing or graphics work, you can just select the shot and switch to the fusion page. This to me is one of the most powerful parts of Resolve. It really makes things flexible because you don't have to have an edit completely finished in order to do color correction. You don't have to have picture lock and everything to do your composites or your graphics. You can switch back and forth between the pages without losing any quality without having to take a bunch of time to export things because it all lives on the same timeline. A lot of people ask me whether you want the free version of resolve or if you want the studio version of resolve. I personally use the studio version of resolve and there aren't a whole lot of differences really. The free version lets you do just about everything that you can do in the paid version, but the studio version lets you export files that are bigger than 4k. There are some added plugins. You can control some of your computer hardware a little more, and there's kind of a few little extra bells and whistles that are really nice, but probably not essential for most people's workflow. One thing I really like in the studio is the noise reduction. So if you have noisy footage, that means footage with grain, with artifacting, the noise reduction in Resolve Studio is absolutely amazing. And in my opinion, that is completely worth it. But I always say download the free version. You can use it for commercial work. And if you keep running into features that you can't use, and maybe it asks you to upgrade, then maybe consider upgrading. But most people can use the free version from my experience.", |
