Ripple Training – DaVinci Resolve 17 Core Training

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1. Exploring Resolve 17

Exploring Resolve
The Media Page
The Cut Page
The Edit Page
Focus Indicators
The Fusion Page
The Color Page
Timeline
Palette Area
The Fairlight Page
The Deliver Page

2. Editing in the Cut Page

Before Getting Started
Creating a Project
Exploring the UI
Importing and Organizing Media
Creating a Timeline
Creating Your First Cut
Using Scratch Trim
Performing an Append Edit
Navigating the Timelines
Using Source Tape Mode
Performing a Smart Insert Edit
Splitting a Clip
Performing a Ripple Overwrite Edit
Performing Ripple & Roll Trims
Timeline Waveform Trims
Swapping Clips
Syncing Clips
Multicam Editing with the Sync Bin

3. Refining the Cut

Adding Cutaways
3-Point Edits
Close-up Edits
Adding Transitions
Adding Dynamic Zooms
Stabilizing a Shot
Adding Effects
Adding a Title
Overlapping Clips
Removing the “Boring” Stuff
Adding Music
Quick Color Correction
Quick Export

4. Essential Settings

Creating a Project
Project Settings
System Preferences
External Hardware
User Preferences
Auto Save
Editing
Keyboard Customization
Creating Keyboard Shortcuts

5. Importing & Organizing Media

Media Page Overview
Favoriting Media Locations
Previewing Media
Importing Media and Folders
Sorting Media & Editing metadata
Setting the Poster frame
Viewing Bins
Searching with metadata
Custom metadata Sets
Creating Custom Column Layouts
Adding Custom metadata
Adding New Bins
Creating Smart Bins
Modifying Clip Names

6. Preparing for the Edit

Synchronizing Audio and Video
Auto Syncing
Marking Clip Ranges
Setting In and Out Points
Setting Duration Markers
Color Coding Bins

7. Assembling a Rough Cut

Introduction to the Edit Page
Creating a Timeline
Making the First Edit
Source Viewer Options Menu
Editing with Overlays
Drag and Drop Editing
J, K and L Shuttling
Append Edits
Editing with Timecode
Zooming and Navigating Clips
Editing with Offsets
Performing an Insert Edit
Performing a Video-Only  Insert Edit
Editing at the Playhead
Performing a Video-Only Overwrite Edit
Making a V2 Cutaway
Change Scaling in the Inspector
Replacing a Shot

8. Moving Clips in the Timeline

Exporting & Importing Projects
Relinking Media
Color Coding Clips
Swapping Clips
Deleting Clips
Unlinking Clips
Deleting a Clip Range
Creating an Audio 2 Track
Using Auto-Select
Splitting Clips

9. Refining the Edit

Customizing the Layout for Trimming
Trimming to the Playhead
Ripple Trimming
Creating a Split Edit
Roll Trimming
Slip Editing
Selection Tool Trimming

10. Applying Transitions & Effects

Confirming Handle Media
Adding Cross Dissolves
Changing Transition Duration
Customizing Transitions
Saving a Transition Preset
Applying Transitions & Effects from the Effects Library
Smooth Cut Transitions
Applying Filter Effects
Copying & Pasting Effects
Reframing a Clip
Animating Transforms
Refining the Animation
Adding Opacity Fades
Rendering & Background Caching
Constant Speed Changes
Change Retiming Processing
Retiming Clips
Reversing Clip Speed

11. Working with Titles

Hard Unlinking a Clip
Applying Titles from the Toolbox
Changing Text Parameters
Animating the Text Plus Title
Adding a Fusion Lower Third
Altering the Lower Third in Fusion

12. Editing Sound in the Edit Page

Configure the UI for Sound Editing
Adding & Naming Markers
Using Duration Markers
Adding Annotation Markers
Scrubbing & Marking a Sound Clip
Patching & Adding Tracks
Naming & Color Coding Audio Tracks
Synching Wild Effects
Linking Clips
Copying & Pasting Audio Clips

13. Monitoring & Adjusting Volume Levels

Monitoring, Soloing & Muting Audio
Reading Audio Meters
Normalizing Audio
Clip Level Adjustments
Adding Fades
Controlling Volume Over Time

14. Building Effects in Fusion

Exploring the UI
Viewing Images
Naming Nodes
Navigating the Time Ruler
Adding the First Effect
Node Inputs and Outputs
Adding a Tracker
Adding a Second Tracker
Stabilizing a Shot
Improving Playback Performance
Adding a Paint Node
Cloning Out an object

15. Creating Motion Graphics in Fusion

Working with Connections
The Anatomy of a Merge Node
Styling the Text
Creating Text Sequence Animation
Animating the Text Opacity
Changing the Animation Timing
Tracking the Text
Adding a Transform Node

16. Introduction to Color Correction

Navigating the Color Page
Unmixing Clips
Modifying Lift, Gamma & Gain
Boosting Color and Detail
Analyzing Video with Scopes
Expanding the Image Latitude
Correcting a Color Cast
Understanding Nodes
Using Nodes and Curves
Creating a Look

17. Color Grading Workflows

Color Correction or Color Grading?
DaVinci Color Management
Black and White Point Corrections
Adding a Power Window
Creating a Look using the Offset Control
Copying Grades to Other Clips
Saving and Applying Stills
Comparing Shots

18. Primary Corrections using Curves

Restoring a Project Archive
Understanding the Curve Graph
Creating an S-Curve
Using the Primaries Bars to Color Balance
Stabilizing a Shot
Unganging Custom Curves
Tracking a Power Window

19. Secondary Corrections with Qualifiers

Using an HSL Qualifier
Viewing the Matte
Isolating Color Components
Cleaning up the Key
Using a Window with a Qualifier
Qualifying a Face
Using the Vectorscope to Judge Skin Tones

20. The Color Warper

Locating the Color Warper
Switching Modes
Sampling the Image
Adjusting Saturation & Hue
Resetting a Control Point
Selecting a Range of Hues
Changing the Mesh Resolution
Using the Pencil Tool
Applying Smoothing

21. Grading with LUTS

Using Color to Evoke Emotion
Using a Lookup Table
Reading a Histogram
Browsing and Applying a LUT
Loading Third-Party LUTs
Grading with a LUT
Saving a LUT

22. Editing Sound in the Fairlight Page

Exploring the Fairlight UI
Previewing Video
Viewing the Mixer
Navigating the Timeline
Renaming and Color Coding Tracks
Viewing a Spotting List
Changing Track Formats
Selecting Clips
Selection Tool Trimming
Range Selection Edits
Fairlight Copy and Paste
Editing Music & Sound Effects

23. Audio Effects & Mixing in Fairlight

Recording Voice Over
Choosing an Audio Input Device
Choosing a Mixer Input
Arming a Track for Recording
Locating Fairlight Effects
Using a De-Esser
Targeting the Frequency Range
Saving an Effect Preset
Applying an Effect to a Track
Organizing Tracks into Submixes
Creating Buses
Assigning Tracks
Setting Track Levels
Automating Track Volume

24. Delivering a Final Program

Exploring the UI
Choosing a Web Preset
Customizing a Web Preset
Customizing Video Settings
Customizing  Audio Settings
Customizing the File Name
Adding a Watermark
Choosing a Render Range
Sending Jobs to the Render Queue

25. Database & Media Management

Database Types
Backing up a Database
Creating a Database
Disconnecting a Database
Exporting Projects & Archives
Restoring a Project Archive
Sharing a DRT File
Media Management
Media Management Operations
Consolidating Media via Copy & Trim
Wrap Up