You can drag and drop your clips into the media master bin. You don’t need to use all the tabs, and in this beginner tutorial, we’ll start at Media, move to Edit and then render at Deliver. Deliver is where you render and save your final video.Fairlight is a dedicated workspace for audio adjustments.Color is a dedicated workspace for fine-tuning the color.Fusion is for adding visual effects in the form of nodes.Edit is where you mix and match different clips, video and audio in a traditional timeline format.Cut is for trimming media and mounting clips into a timeline.You start at Media and import all the necessary clips for your project.The main interface is divided in 7 workspaces at the bottom: Media, Cut, Edit, Fusion, Color, Fairlight and Deliver.Įach of these tabs are in sequential order but you don’t necessarily have to work through them in that order. You can even have folders within a database, if you want to better organize your projects. I prefer to have my Artomedics database on a separate SSD drive on my computer, for smoother operation. The options are: New Database at the bottom to create a new one or Connect to link an existing database. Hit New project at the bottom to start a project from scratch.īy default, these are collected inside a single database called Local Database, but you can create a new one (and we encourage you do so ASAP). When you launch Davinci Resolve, the first thing you’ll see is the Project Manager page, it shows all your existing projects within a database. It’s the same basic principle: you work on a project, you import clips (audio, video, pictures) into a timeline, make cuts and then render it into a final video.ĭisclaimer: I’m not sponsored or affiliated to BlackMagic (the creators of Davinci Resolve) I just like the software. If you’ve ever used another video editor such as Sony Vegas, Premiere Pro, Final Cut or even the old Windows Movie Maker, you’ll feel at home in Davinci Resolve’s interface. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

How to get started with Davinci Resolve 18 – Full beginner’s tutorialĭavinci Resolve 17 is a powerful ( and free) video editing software, that can really come in handy for medical illustrators and scientific illustrators when it comes to editing videos for social media (such as reels, IGTV, facebook video, Youtube videos, etc), patching together 2D animation and much more.

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